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...There would also be the potential for consolidation of some marketing and distribution capabilities between the studios. Paramount, Sony and Apollo declined to comment....
...Live content remains king in the entertainment industry....
...Wall Street to Hollywood Despite being an entertainment outsider, Mike Cavanagh’s years spent steering JPMorgan through the financial crisis made good practice for his latest role turning round NBCUniversal...
...By far the most important is The Worldwide Production Services LLC (WWPS), a Toronto-based film company that holds digital distribution rights to the ILBE-produced Puffins and Arctic Friends series....
...The PR mogul is set to bag £70m of a £140m cash distribution to Brunswick’s 200 partners. Brunswick’s more junior spinners will also enjoy a bumper payday, sharing an £18m pool....
...Since each serves as a gatekeeper over a particular distribution channel, they can “pick winners and losers” throughout the economy....
...Liberty Media’s interest in a representation powerhouse points to a convergence between rights holders, distribution channels and talent and is indicative of other shifts in the media sector....
...As the distribution model for entertainment is remade, a revolutionary ardour has seized the industry: the choice is to win the streaming battle against the likes of Netflix, or face commercial oblivion....
...Endeavor, the entertainment empire that fired the starting gun on an initial public offering on Thursday, is one of the world’s biggest talent agencies, representing top performers from Rihanna to Charlize...
...Endeavor, the entertainment group headed by Ari Emanuel, which owns another agency, WME, has taken that idea even further....
...It is now present across a wide range of sectors, including insurance, retail, healthcare, finance, entertainment, education and more. Capitalism is literally shifting under our gaze....
...As part of a reorganisation at Sony Pictures Television, Mr Hopkins will lead its TV production, distribution and marketing operations globally, reporting to Sony Pictures Entertainment chairman and chief...
...Like a gladiatorial duel, the spectacle may offer ephemeral entertainment value....
...The company is also hiring Scott Ehrlich, a former Fox News executive who worked with Ailes on the network’s launch 20 years ago, to work on Sinclair’s digital entertainment channels....
...Spotify incurred a net loss of €173m in 2015, despite revenues growing to €1.95bn, as royalty and distribution fees jumped to €1.63bn....
...According to Doug Creutz, senior media and entertainment analyst at Cowen, viewers in Europe are also switching more rapidly to web streaming....
...commissioning original series for its YouTube Red subscription service, while Apple is having ongoing discussions with Hollywood executives about original film and TV productions: it recently sounded out Imagine Entertainment...
...He wants to transform the online music video streaming service owned by Universal and Sony, the two biggest music labels in the world, into a “youth lifestyle entertainment brand”....
...But a small group of executives saw digital distribution as a possible cure to the industry’s woes....
...“The combination of Lionsgate and Starz brings significant scale to our portfolio of content and distribution assets and will enable us to compete successfully in today’s rapidly evolving global entertainment...
...The combination “brings significant scale to our portfolio of content and distribution assets” and will help the company compete in “today’s rapidly evolving global entertainment marketplace”, said Mark...
...Adding PMC helped us with the entertainment part of the equation. What’s left from there is news and sports,” Mr Oringer said....
..., cutting a production and distribution deal with The Weinstein Company....
...For it is the fact that Indian consumers really do like their entertainment home grown and… unique: (That’s a near 9mins of Bollywood-homage-dancing that takes place in a film which tries to take ironic...
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