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...Warner Bros and Liberty acquired the company in 2014 for £550mn. The deal could enter exclusive negotiations before Christmas, one of these people added....
...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...
...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....
...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....
...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 Bros Discovery, which produced the $190mn film alongside Legendary Entertainment, needs Dune: Part Two to perform well....
...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....
...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....
...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...
...It also does not have the burden of legacy cable television networks that Paramount, Disney, Warner Bros and Universal do....
...The company, which owns HBO, the Warner Bros movie studio and CNN, reported a quarterly loss of $1.2bn, down from $3.4bn a year ago....
...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....
...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....
...Whenever questions about CNN’s declining ratings have come up over the past year, Warner Bros Discovery chief executive David Zaslav has urged patience....
...Financiers Warner Bros declined to fund this second episode until the first proved a hit, despite them being designed as two halves....
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...Clips courtesy of Warner Bros Pictures. Read a transcript of this episode on FT.com...
...“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...
...An advertiser exodus from Elon Musk’s X gathered pace on Friday, with Apple, Walt Disney, Comcast, Paramount and Warner Bros all pausing spending on the social media platform amid concerns about antisemitic...
...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....
...Disney, Warner Bros Discovery and other studios are seeking to control spending on content following the excesses of the streaming wars....
...The studio points to recent deals with George Clooney’s Smokehouse Pictures, M....
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