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...Disney had to get a login for ESPN tennis analyst John McEnroe, who tested positive for Covid-19 last week and was forced to miss some early-round matches in person....
...Warner Bros Discovery shares fell 19 per cent on Wednesday for their biggest daily drop since March 2021 after the entertainment group warned investors it was “unlikely” to meet its goals for paying off...
...Apple is expected to unveil the new iPhones at its first in-person event since the onset of Covid-19, in Cupertino, California....
...“TV advertising is falling far short, cord-cutting is continuing to accelerate, sports costs are going up and the movie business is not performing,” he said....
...After NBCUniversal licensed its show Suits — which aired from 2011-19 and starred Meghan Markle — to Netflix in June, the show experienced a revival....
...Like other cinema groups, NAI suffered through the Covid-19 pandemic, and its finances took a hit....
...Discovery warned on Wednesday that the lingering effects of the strikes, combined with a weak ad market, would hurt the company’s ability to achieve its debt reduction targets, sending its share price down 19...
...It emerged stronger from the Covid-19 pandemic and notched up the two best annual results in its history....
...It reminded me of our first meeting, in February 2022, when Riswold welcomed me into his high-rise condominium with a bit of gallows humour about how contracting Covid-19 could only improve the state of...
...In a repeat of the shutdowns that occurred during Covid-19 lockdowns, the Hollywood writers’ strike has stopped production of films and TV shows. That means Netflix will spend less on content....
...In the current fiscal year it has spent almost $23bn, up from $19.5bn the previous year. This is equal to nearly 8 per cent of revenue, compared with 5 per cent in 2018....
...As for haircare, I didn’t have high expectations for TV presenter Jonathan Van Ness’s potions, but the JVN Embody Volumizing Foam (£25, cultbeauty.co.uk) really thickens well....
...A version of this article was first published by Nikkei Asia on April 19 2023. ©2023 Nikkei Inc. All rights reserved....
...The Flash was set into motion well before the arrival of Gunn and Safran, who are planning to launch five new DC films and TV series, including new Batman and Superman movies by 2025, to revitalise the group...
...the $400mn-plus Emily Fisher Laudau collection at Sotheby’s — with a 1932 Picasso painting of Marie-Thérèse Walter estimated at $120mn — and, at Christie’s, a large Monet water lily painting from c1917-19...
...Discovery, where he was CEO, had agreed in May 2021 to purchase Warner Bros’ parent company from AT&T for $43bn in a climate when the movie business was suffering from the one-two punch of the Covid-19 pandemic...
...That’s all thanks to Welcome to Wrexham, the Disney TV show fronted by the two actors. Alpine hasn’t won an F1 championship since 2006....
...But in January, McMahon channelled his inner Logan Roy (the patriarch of HBO’s TV show Succession) and made an unexpected comeback....
...The subsidiary of Sinclair Broadcast Group owns 19 local sports channels, under the banner Bally Sports, with agreements to air dozens of NBA, Major League Baseball, and National Hockey League games....
...The corollary of that is the danger of a future of unbridled gerontocratic populism — which, if the UK is an instructive example, means endless TV reboots and discussion of premium bonds....
...Dentsu marks an escalation in authorities’ efforts to unravel a complex web of suspected impropriety ahead of the Games, which were held a year behind schedule and without spectators because of the Covid-19...
...This continued even after the Covid-19 pandemic hit....
...“In the old days, it was all about TV networks and TV stations,” said Teh. “Digital players are becoming right up there in the game.”...
...In the prior month, Beijing’s strict Covid-19 policies had led thousands of workers to flee the Zhengzhou megafactory known as “iPhone City” run by Foxconn, Apple’s manufacturing ally for a quarter of a...
...“The heyday of great advertising creativity — where there were iconic TV ads that everybody would talk about — that has gone.” Industry leaders dispute this characterisation....
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