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...Microsoft, which has spent huge sums on acquisitions of game studios such as the $75bn purchase of Activision, is facing similar issues with its hardware economics....
...Like other cinema groups, NAI suffered through the Covid-19 pandemic, and its finances took a hit....
...Just over three years later, he has landed back in finance with a splash....
...The deal, which won approval from Indian regulators in August, would have created an entertainment conglomerate with more than 70 Indian TV channels, popular Bollywood studios and an extensive film library...
...The deal won approval from Indian regulators in August, clearing the way for Sony and Zee to create an entertainment conglomerate with more than 70 Indian TV channels, popular Bollywood studios and an extensive...
...But one significant shift in Chinese corporate finance has made the mainland licence more desirable....
...Hollywood studios have long looked to the country’s enormous, cinema-loving population for growth, only to face fierce competition from local media barons and low user revenues that leave them struggling...
...One good read An artist’s studio....
...This year, it plans to roll out the car racing GranTurismo movie, while action-adventure hits Horizon Zero Dawn and God of War are being produced by Netflix and Amazon Studios, respectively....
...But that was before he left the world of corporate finance and committed to a full-time career in design....
...The merged business will have more than 70 Indian TV channels, as well as film studios and extensive movie catalogues....
...Here is another example: I am gonna be long DJT, Trump Media and Technology Group Corp....
...Victor Lazarte, the co-founder and chief of gaming start-up Wildlife Studios, has joined venture capital firm Benchmark as a general partner....
...In the past few weeks alone, Cardinale has emerged as frontrunner to buy Fleabag producer All3Media via RedBird IMI and helped lead a potential deal to sell Paramount Global to Skydance, the studio behind...
...Her remit, instead, is “all business operations”, including HR, partnerships, legal, sales and finance....
...The Last of Us was first launched as a 2013 PlayStation game from one of the company’s in-house studios, around the time the campaign to reinvent Sony began....
...Sony’s film and television studio is not up for sale and will remain as an independent player despite a wave of consolidation in the global entertainment industry, according to the Japanese group’s chief...
...Vice had spent heavily to launch its television channels, pressuring its finances, just as online advertising was slowing....
...Regulator to look at Apple’s BNPL pushThe top US consumer finance regulator has warned that Big Tech’s entry into the buy now, pay later lending business risks undermining competition in the nascent sector...
...Ministers claim that Channel 4 is being held back under public ownership and that its finances should “no longer be underwritten by a granny in Southend or Stockport”....
...Interestingly, though, Thoma Bravo is relying on private debt to finance increasingly large deals....
...Sony, which has long owned a Hollywood studio, a significant music business and the massive PlayStation games empire, is clearly bidding for more dominant leadership....
...On Wednesday, the studio of Wang Junkai, lead singer of one of China’s biggest boy bands, announced that it would cut all ties with the US chipmaker, adding that it had repeatedly urged the company to publicly...
...The deal will consolidate around 30 game studios, sending the $200bn global industry on a mad dash for M&A....
...Unity, the video game engine company, has acquired Peter Jackson’s Lord of the Rings effects studio Weta Digital in a $1.6bn deal, and said the long-term goal is to use the acquisition to help create a metaverse...
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