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...The details emerge as Hollywood remains shut down due to strikes by the unions representing screenwriters and actors, many of whom have highlighted the pay packages of studio chief executives such as Disney...
...This has left Sony with a relatively healthy balance sheet, although it lacks the scale of the other studios....
...Among them is a proposal to “right-size” legacy divisions, such as Disney’s studio business and its linear TV networks, by spinning them out and finding strategic partners....
...But the company’s stock has halved in recent years as revenue shrank at its movie studio, which has struggled to produce hits....
...They say the earlier extensions may have cost Disney good potential CEO candidates, including Tom Staggs and Kevin Mayer, who left the company when it became clear they wouldn’t get the top job....
...In the decades that followed, Hotel Georgia became a hotspot for music, with British Columbia’s most popular radio station being broadcast from its penthouse studio, and for its role as the local industry...
...He has also acknowledged that some of Disney’s movie studios need to regain their creative spark. Disney and Comcast declined to comment....
...Well-regarded executives including Tom Staggs and Kevin Mayer left the company as Iger’s tenure continued, these people said....
...She is a board member of or adviser to a dazzling range of the UK’s cultural institutions and businesses, including choreographer Wayne McGregor’s studio, the Design Museum, the British Library, Sadler’s...
...A number of box office disappointments, including the recent Haunted Mansion, have prompted analysts to conclude that Disney’s vaunted movie studios have lost their creative spark....
...Inbox: The Securities and Exchange Commission today charged Stoner Cats 2 LLC (SC2) with conducting an unregistered offering of crypto asset securities in the form of purported non-fungible tokens (NFTs...
...Mindbody, Stollmeyer’s software business that powered the systems of gyms and fitness studios, announced just before Christmas 2018 that it had a deal to sell itself to Vista Equity Partners....
...The bill will also give state-owned Channel 4 the right to produce some of its own content, instead of licensing it from other studios after the government scrapped plans to privatise the broadcaster....
...Private equity groups have been active in Hollywood in recent years, with Blackstone backing Candle Media, led by former Disney executives Tom Staggs and Kevin Mayer....
...People talked about Tom Staggs, Kevin Mayer - who are both seen as natural heirs apparent. Bob Chapek, a guy who ran Disney's parks division, was eventually picked by Iger....
...“People are worried across the board,” said Steve Kram, chief executive of investment group Content Partners, LLC, and former chief operating officer of William Morris Agency....
...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....
...Barely a year after launching Stadia, Google shut down the games studio that it had formed at the same time to create exclusive games, leaving the platform entirely dependent on support from games developers...
...Boosted by its acquisition of film director Peter Jackson’s Weta Digital visual effects studio last year, Unity also has a growing presence in TV and movies....
...Candle has also acquired Moonbug Entertainment, the studio behind the hit children’s show Cocomelon, for $3bn, and bought a $60mn minority stake in Westbrook, Will Smith’s studio....
...Candle has since acquired Reese Witherspoon’s production company, Hello Sunshine, and it bought a $60mn minority stake in Westbrook, Will Smith’s studio....
...“When you leave this studio,” the Hollywood movie star Mark Wahlberg said after a recent pre-dawn session, “you feel like you can accomplish anything.”...
...Its foray is led by entertainment industry insiders Kevin Mayer and Tom Staggs....
...“The synergies are quite limited in terms of cost savings,” he told the FT, adding that he believes “it’s not that difficult” to manage a complex and growing web of 112 entertainment studios across Europe...
...It also has a deal with Caesars, ESPN’s exclusive sports book odds data provider and the owner of the Las Vegas studio where the channel films much of its betting programmes....
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