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...As Richard Langlois shows in his illuminating history, The Corporation and the Twentieth Century, many of those once-admired corporates have not survived the gale of creative destruction which has swept...
...Critics of Fox Corporation have long railed at the editorial standards of its popular US broadcasting operations....
...corporation....
...“We appreciate Viet’s many contributions and service to Fox as both a board member of 21st Century Fox and in his role over the last five years as a valued member of Fox’s leadership team,” Lachlan Murdoch...
...He was named to the Time Inc board in 1988 and took a lead role in its $14bn deal to acquire Warner Communications, uniting the magazine company founded by Henry Luce with the film studio once led by Jack...
...From late 19th-century Britain to early 20th-century China, and more detective work, via Yangsze Choo’s The Fox Wife (Quercus £20)....
...Murdoch’s $71bn sale of most of 21st Century Fox to Disney at the peak of the media market in 2017 was a financial masterstroke but left his holdings smaller....
...“One in, one out,” reflects the disconsolate Rick in that matchless scene in the film Casablanca, mistaking his lost love Ilsa’s predicament....
...Historically, the notion of the silver fox is a story of powder and wigs....
...As if to prove their enthusiasm for reorganisation, the Murdochs have since considered putting News Corp back together with Fox Corporation, the US television broadcaster left behind by the 21st Century...
...The film is about a young stockbroker named Bud Fox (Charlie Sheen) who insinuates himself into the inner circle of crooked alpha investor Gordon Gekko (Michael Douglas) — a man “rich enough not to waste...
...Julia Fox may have just discovered the power of bum-exposing cut-outs, but Ono did them first. “She’s interested in democratising art,” says Obrist....
...Nearly 30 centuries later, we’re still arguing....
...When Walt Disney acquired 21st Century Fox from Rupert Murdoch for $71bn in 2019, one of the most promising long-term businesses it took control of was Star India....
...In fact, Star Wars and Avatar only went to Disney in 2019, with the acquisition of Rupert Murdoch’s 21st Century Fox....
...The blue light of a half moon illuminated the karakat tracks, and pawprints of a fox who trotted off in search of discarded fish....
...Shadows at Noon: The South Asian Twentieth Century by Joya Chatterji Bodley Head £30, 864 pages Rana Mitter is ST Lee chair in US-Asia relations at Harvard Kennedy School Join our online book group on...
...Trian had called Disney’s succession planning process “broken”, attacked cost inefficiencies in the streaming business, and criticised the group’s 2018 acquisition of 21st Century Fox....
...By the end of the 20th century, time and the ravages of the climate were taking their toll on the concrete....
...Hulu’s future has been in limbo since 2019, when Disney lifted its stake in the company to 67 per cent through its blockbuster acquisition of 21st Century Fox....
...August 8 and 10; further information and tickets here Festival Melbourne International Film Festival (MIFF) One of the world’s oldest film festivals, with an innovative and wide-reaching programme featuring...
...One would have thought that its restoration, a century later, would be welcomed. But no....
...The second instalment of the Avatar franchise became the sixth-highest grossing film of all time this week and three more movies are in the works....
...This is clear when corporations succumb to social pressures by firing employees to protect their brands, or when they use the Pride flag in their social media avatars but not in the Middle East....
...By July, the SAG-Aftra union representing 160,000 actors had joined the writers, and tensions between the unions and studio leaders soon boiled over, with work on films and TV shows grinding to a halt....
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