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...Warner Bros and Liberty acquired the company in 2014 for £550mn. The deal could enter exclusive negotiations before Christmas, one of these people added....
...Warner Bros has delayed the release of Dune: Part 2 starring Timothée Chalamet and Zendaya until next spring....
...Meanwhile, Warner is still digesting the acquisition of Warner Brothers from two years ago. This has disappointed on savings and profits. Warner’s shares are since down more than half....
...It also does not have the burden of legacy cable television networks that Paramount, Disney, Warner Bros and Universal do....
...On Tuesday, Zaslav did not have much good news on the big picture in Hollywood. The best tale the former mentee to GE’s “Neutron” Jack Welch could drum up involved bean counting....
...Warner, home to HBO and the Warner Bros movie studio, has made a small profit at its US streaming services this year, in part by raising prices, aggressively culling some series and licensing others to Netflix...
...Warner Bros goes on rolling out new “activations”, including a Making of Harry Potter studio tour in Tokyo last year....
...Paramount has the highest net debt-to-ebitda ratio among its peers, which include Warner Bros Discovery, Disney, Comcast and Netflix, Yoon notes....
...Financiers Warner Bros declined to fund this second episode until the first proved a hit, despite them being designed as two halves....
...Clips courtesy of Warner Bros Pictures. Read a transcript of this episode on FT.com...
...“Willy’s Chocolate Experience”, run by the ominous-sounding House of Illuminati and not Warner Bros, which owns the Willy Wonka franchise, promised a “magical realm”, an enchanted garden and a lemonade gallery...
...Disney, Warner Bros Discovery and other studios are seeking to control spending on content following the excesses of the streaming wars....
...ITV has pulled out of talks to buy All3Media, the TV and film production business behind Gogglebox and Call the Midwife owned by Warner Bros Discovery and Liberty Global....
...Shortly after Vladimir Putin’s full-scale invasion of Ukraine last year, the movie’s producer Warner Bros announced it would be pulling out of Russia....
...The studio points to recent deals with George Clooney’s Smokehouse Pictures, M....
...The actual date being honoured is April 4 1923, when Jack, Harry, Sam and Albert Warner formally incorporated Warner Bros Pictures. In fact, the brothers were already established producers by then....
...Shares in Warner Bros Discovery slumped earlier this month after the entertainment group warned it was “unlikely” to meet its goals for paying off debt, against the backdrop of rising interest rates....
...Instead, Mirren said, the bottom line remained the same as it ever was: “What is fantastic is that Barbie was the highest grossing film Warner Bros have had in their lives.”...
...Some studios had already delayed releases, with Warner Bros pushing back Dune: Part 2. Sony pushed several films, including a sequel to Ghostbusters: Afterlife, into next year....
...(To add industry intrigue, Barbie was backed by Warner Bros, whose long relationship with Nolan ended badly; the director made Oppenheimer for Universal.)...
...Sky, TNT Sports (BT Group with Warner Bros Discovery) and Amazon control these rights currently....
...Disney and Warner Bros did not immediately respond to requests for comment. The Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences declined to comment....
...No one expected Barbie to be Warner Bros’ biggest film of all time. No one predicted Oppenheimer’s huge success....
...Earlier this year, ITV pulled out of talks to buy All3Media, the TV and film production business behind Gogglebox and Call the Midwife and which is owned by Warner Bros Discovery and Liberty Global....
...Bros Discovery and Liberty Global for £1.15bn....
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