Hints and tips:
...There’s not much precedent to support the idea that Shina et al can walk away based on a MAC clause: WPP was forced against its will to buy Tempus in 2001, Guy Hands couldn’t scrap a bid for East Surrey...
...Many French cinema owners, who are putting pressure on Cannes to resist Netflix et al, see the streamers’ disruptive attitude as an incursion into their territory....
...Kevin Tsujihara, chief executive of Warner Bros Entertainment, tries to assuage the fears of cinema owners: “I assure you,” he says, “we are not going to let a third party or middleman come between us.”...
...In the Netflix world, Comcast et al still deliver the content, but they need to find a new way of getting paid....
...The “back end” of the network – the part where Netflix connects to Comcast et al – would be a tightly-regulated telecoms service....
...Pictures Corporation, Sony Pictures Entertainment Inc, Twentieth Century Fox Film Corporation, Universal City Studios LLLP, Walt Disney Studios Motion Pictures, and Warner Bros....
...Even more worrying is that Sir Fred et al are willing to pay 70 per cent for a new and untested model: the complex break-up of a bank across several countries RBS argues that it is an unrepeatable deal...
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