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...The Warner Bros movie studio created a music division in the 1950s. In 2004 parent company Time Warner sold the music division, but the group retained its copyrights to a trove of songs....
...Warner Bros Discovery is to launch its Max streaming service across Europe, bringing together popular TV shows such as The White Lotus with movies like Barbie to challenge market leaders Netflix and Disney...
...After leaving the company that further deals would turn into Warner Bros Discovery, Levin married his third wife, Laurie Ann Levin, who ran a holistic healing institute in Los Angeles....
...Warner Bros Discovery and Paramount Global are in early talks to merge, in a media deal that would combine the owner of HBO and CNN with the studio behind the Mission Impossible films and CBS News....
...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....
...Like other legacy entertainment companies, Warner is facing a sharp decline in its traditional television business....
...The company behind HBO, CNN and the Warner Bros movie studio has been focused on cutting costs and trimming its debt following the $40bn merger of Warner with Discovery last year and against the backdrop...
...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...
...Under Zaslav, Warner Bros Discovery has been focused on austerity over the past year, a strategy it says is paying off. Warner says Max will be profitable in the US this year....
...The deal is a big win for Warner Bros and Liberty, which acquired All3Media in 2014 for £550mn....
...Warner Bros Discovery is spending $22bn on television and film this year....
...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....
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...This summer, Warner Bros Discovery’s HBO network began licensing a handful of older shows to Netflix, including Insecure, Six Feet Under, Ballers and Band of Brothers....
...Like other US studios, Warner Bros Discovery is facing the rapid decline of the linear television networks that generate most of its cash flow....
...Bros, and John Malone, the cable billionaire and Warner board member....
...Licht had been handpicked by Warner Bros Discovery chief executive David Zaslav to steer CNN after the departure of its longtime chief Jeff Zucker....
...Bros Discovery had sold All3Media — the London-based television and film production company behind Fleabag and Squid Game: The Challenge — to RedBird IMI for £1.15bn....
...Thompson, who started out as an editorial trainee at the BBC more than four decades ago, will lead CNN’s business and also act as “editor-in-chief” for the news network, parent company Warner Bros Discovery...
...Nolan later announced that after two decades making Warner Bros movies, his relationship with the studio was over....
...Warner Bros Discovery, the Hollywood conglomerate that owns CNN, HBO and other media and entertainment businesses, has been searching for a leader for the news channel since ousting Chris Licht in June....
...Sky, TNT Sports (BT Group with Warner Bros Discovery) and Amazon control these rights currently....
...No one expected Barbie to be Warner Bros’ biggest film of all time. No one predicted Oppenheimer’s huge success....
...But the Warner Bros deal shows Asia’s richest man Ambani is aiming to target customers willing to shell out for international entertainment....
...In the second week of March, Warner Bros Discovery chief David Zaslav flew from his perch in Los Angeles to New York, where he spent the day trying to rally the troops at CNN....
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