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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....
...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....
...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....
...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....
...David Zaslav, the chief executive of Warner Brothers Discovery, said on Thursday that the US media company was “in the business of storytelling”....
...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....
...The deal is a big win for Warner Bros and Liberty, which acquired All3Media in 2014 for £550mn....
...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....
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...Whenever questions about CNN’s declining ratings have come up over the past year, Warner Bros Discovery chief executive David Zaslav has urged patience....
...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...
...The company behind HBO, the Warner Bros movie studio and CNN has been in the midst of a bruising restructuring over the past year as it sought to slash costs following the $40bn merger of Warner with Discovery...
...The other shadow hanging over Warner Bros Discovery is uncertainty about Zaslav’s endgame....
...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....
...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, and John Malone, the cable billionaire and Warner board member....
...ITV has pulled out of talks to buy All3Media, the TV and film production business behind Gogglebox and Call the Midwife owned by Warner Bros Discovery and Liberty Global....
...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....
...It could have been an oversight, but I doubt it: both Mattel and Barbie’s studio Warner Bros want to please Chinese consumers. Film creativity is not dead, though....
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