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...Bros’ David Zaslav....
...Warner Bros has delayed the release of Dune: Part 2 starring Timothée Chalamet and Zendaya until next spring....
...It also does not have the burden of legacy cable television networks that Paramount, Disney, Warner Bros and Universal do....
...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....
...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....
...“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...
...Clips courtesy of Warner Bros Pictures. Read a transcript of this episode on FT.com...
...Disney, Warner Bros Discovery and other studios are seeking to control spending on content following the excesses of the streaming wars....
...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 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....
...The studio points to recent deals with George Clooney’s Smokehouse Pictures, M....
...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.”...
...Disney and Warner Bros did not immediately respond to requests for comment. The Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences declined to comment....
...So, tempting as it is to laugh as tech-bros floundering in the mud, I felt for the performers, attendees and families stuck there with limited provisions....
...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....
...Disney’s ESPN, Fox and Warner Bros Discovery plan to launch a sports streaming service later this year that will aggregate the games offered by the media groups’ traditional television networks....
...No one expected Barbie to be Warner Bros’ biggest film of all time. No one predicted Oppenheimer’s huge success....
...“Employment as a writer has almost nothing in common with standard ‘gigs’ jobs,” said the Alliance of Motion Picture and Television Producers, a group that includes major studios such as Disney, Warner Bros...
...They also propelled Emanuel into the ranks of Hollywood’s ruling executives along with Disney’s Bob Iger and Warner Bros Discovery’s David Zaslav....
...“The DC movies and the Harry Potter movies provided a lot of profits to Warner Bros motion pictures over the last 25 years.”...
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