It also kind of bought a movie studio last month.
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Disney's movie studio turned out three blockbusters in the quarter.
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Netflix is already a television network and a movie studio.
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The company also acquired movie studio Legendary Entertainment earlier this year.
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And then Mickey Mouse killed Fox as an independent movie studio.
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A few years ago, every movie studio wanted the next Bridesmaids.
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"" But the movie studio hesitated before lending out the famous cape.
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Comcast has purchased movie studio DreamWorks Animation (DWA) for $3.8 billion.
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He was fired from the movie studio that bears his name.
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That could make movie studio MGM appealing at the right price.
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Viacom owns MTV, Nickelodeon, Comedy Central and the Paramount movie studio.
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He's selling ... He is selling his movie studio first and foremost.
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Media networks and the movie studio will remain separate units, Disney said.
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It looks more like a miniature movie studio than a residential property.
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Last month, Comcast bought DreamWorks Animation, a movie studio, for $3.8 billion.
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You don't have to be a filmmaker to build a movie studio.
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Britain raised its terror alert to critical and movie studio Warner Bros.
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Barclays pegs Disney's core business (movie studio, parks, etc) at $213 billion.
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Warner BrosThe Making of an American Movie Studio By David Thomson Illustrated.
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WARNER BROS: The Making of an American Movie Studio, by David Thomson.
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Today, Cinespace Chicago is the biggest independent movie studio outside of Hollywood.
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Weinstein and his brother Bob formed independent movie studio Miramax in 1979.
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So, does the fact that we're moving toward a world that Netflix is now a channel, and Netflix is a movie studio, and Amazon is a movie studio, does that fundamentally change the business these guys are in?
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The movie studio Blumhouse Productions has become known for doing less with more.
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The owners reportedly reconsidered the value of the movie studio to the company.
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Movie studio 20th Century Fox, a unit of Twenty-First Century Fox Inc.
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In one scene, Vic's team has to pitch a movie studio ad account.
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Every big movie studio has a skeleton or three in its film closet.
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William Holden reads T. S. Eliot's "Gerontion" atop a movie studio in Queens.
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Revenue also beat forecasts, boosted by a turnaround at Viacom's Paramount movie studio.
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He also cofounded movie studio DreamWorks SKG with Steven Spielberg and Jeffrey Katzenberg.
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Viacom owns Nickelodeon, Comedy Central and other networks as well as movie studio Paramount.
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Media giant Disney (DIS) impressed investors with solid results from its movie studio business.
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Its movie studio, however, now trails rivals in box office share and hit films.
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In 1994, Geffen cofounded movie studio DreamWorks SKG with Steven Spielberg and Jeffrey Katzenberg.
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In the opening scene, the author gets a tour of a Bombay movie studio.
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For example, say a movie studio puts out a trailer for a summer blockbuster.
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Revenue also missed forecasts, with results falling at Disney's TV networks and movie studio.
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ViacomCBS also plans to release more Star Trek films at its movie studio, Paramount.
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NBC Universal included the Universal movie studio as well as NBC and other assets.
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Folding in Fox's film assets would reduce six large movie-studio players to five.
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Disney's movie studio also reported weaker results, as did the company's consumer products business.
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The board of the bankrupt movie studio said it didn't consider Inclusion's bid credible.
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Her connections at the track led to a contract with the Paramount movie studio.
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As DNAInfo reported, the warehouse will become a movie studio when B&H vacates.
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Wall Street has been skeptical of Disney despite blowout numbers for its movie studio business.
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When they came to film, they transformed my office to look like a movie studio.
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Aged 16 she walked into the largest movie studio in Vienna and launched her career.
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Rosselli being Rosselli, he got a job as an associate producer at a movie studio.
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Last year, Fox and Disney collectively brought in roughly one third of movie studio revenue.
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The media conglomerate Time Warner, which owns HBO, CNN and the movie studio Warner Bros.
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She is the only woman to run both a broadcast network and a movie studio.
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Screenland A title card reads ''Dubai Presents,'' as if the city were a movie studio.
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In recent Hollywood history, rarely has a major movie studio been in such a shambles.
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That meeting included discussion about the possible sale of a stake in movie studio Paramount Pictures.
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N); 21th Century Fox, which is selling its movie studio to rival Walt Disney Co (DIS.
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Paramount is the only major movie studio that isn't developing its own animation arm, said Bock.
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But while Sony was building a movie studio, Apple and Samsung and Lenovo started making gadgets.
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In April 2015, it looked like the movie studio might have a win on its hands.
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Revenue also fell short of forecasts, with results falling at Disney's TV networks and movie studio.
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Decades ago, actresses attending film premières and award ceremonies were outfitted by movie-studio costume designers.
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The NBCUniversal parent is also eyeing Fox's movie studio, cable networks and its regional sports network.
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And the network's logo has the same iconic mountain and stars as the Paramount movie studio.
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Disney's movie studio had operating income of $829 million, down 2 percent from a year earlier.
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"I got the idea while walking through an empty lot of a movie studio," Serling said.
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Unlike Rooney and Garland, the couple's meet-cute was not facilitated by a controlling movie studio.
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BuzzFeed's movie studio division has been working on a slew of programs associated with the brand.
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In 22015, Lois Weber became the first woman to own her own movie studio, Lois Weber Productions.
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After that purchase goes through, Disney will own Fox's movie studio as well as its TV studio.
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Multi-channel networks are basically the YouTube equivalent of going from indie filmmaker to movie studio contract.
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Puttnam's public comments as the head of a major American movie studio are astonishing for their candor.
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Disney's streak began in 24.9, but in 2406, Universal was the top movie studio of the year.
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Tableau, co-founded by Stanford University professor Pat Hanrahan, developed animation software that powered movie studio Pixar.
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Jonah Hill is a lawyer who will do just about anything to keep the movie studio afloat.
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Wanda, a Chinese real estate conglomerate, bought movie studio Legendary Entertainment earlier this year for $3.5 billion.
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The company shed its final stake in the television network and movie studio to Comcast in 22.
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Wanda and Sunac are still negotiating over whether that movie studio will be included in the deal.
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Two of the judges were movie-studio scouts, and she was soon under contract to Warner Bros.
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But the company's movie studio usually does not return to classic characters in a willy-nilly manner.
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In 1948, the Paramount Consent Decree established that no movie studio could own a movie theater chain.
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There may be smaller deals for Viacom to pursue, however, that could boost its Paramount movie studio.
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The company, which also owns the Warner Bros movie studio, is paying $583 million for the Hulu stake.
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Paramount reached out to his team back in February, but the movie studio has since gone radio silent.
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Some of this is likely a result of being overburdened by working for a movie studio — Warner Bros.
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Viacom said ratings at its networks are stabilizing and that movie studio Paramount is developing successful new films.
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Lionsgate – The movie studio reported adjusted quarterly profit of 25 cents per share, compared to an anticipated loss.
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This is where the argument for the sale of Viacom's Paramount movie studio is likely to come in.
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Geffen founded music label Geffen Records and cofounded movie studio DreamWorks SKG with Steven Spielberg and Jeffrey Katzenberg.
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Movie studio MGM and cable programmer AMC Networks have also been floated in news reports as possible targets.
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The deal will also make the world's largest movie studio even bigger by merging with 20th Century Fox.
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It also owns movie studio Universal Pictures, home to "Minions" and "Jason Bourne" movies and some theme parks.
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Disney is buying most of 21st Century Fox, including cable channels like FX and the company's movie studio.
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In February, Viacom said it was considering selling a "significant" minority stake in its Paramount Pictures movie studio.
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Movie studio should be a tremendously valuable thing, the kind of thing you don't want to give up.
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Many actors and actresses come from the American heartland; they aren't born and raised on a movie studio lot.
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In addition to sports, its holdings also include the cinema chain AMC Entertainment Holdings and movie studio Legendary Entertainment.
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This is the first major partnership between a movie studio and a tech company working on autonomous driving technology.
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The chief of its movie studio was among the first men to go after the #MeToo movement took off.
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This isn't the first time Netflix has picked up a film from a major movie studio for streaming distribution.
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Lions Gate — Bernstein named the movie studio its "best pick" in the media space, while reiterating an outperform rating.
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She wouldn't have been the ideal feminist hero dreamed up by a movie studio; she would've been a human.
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After establishing himself in the community, he was approached about a unique real estate opportunity — building a movie studio.
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And Mr. Moonves has the chops to fix struggling cable networks like MTV and the movie studio Paramount Pictures.
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Directors also shelved Mr. Dauman's swan-song plan to sell a minority stake in the movie studio Paramount Pictures.
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Revenue also beat forecasts, with strong results for the media and networks, parks and resorts, and movie studio units.
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Many of Qatar's assets are overseas and include a Hollywood movie studio, landmark skyscrapers and an Italian luxury designer.
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For Comcast, Sky gets them the most strategically, while Disney has to have the movie studio and Star India.
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The company didn't name specific properties to be included in the service, but it owns movie studio Warner Bros.
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I feel like I don't have to Google to confirm if a major movie studio is optioning Slender Man.
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"I've always wanted to run a movie studio," he told The New York Times when his appointment was announced.
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Two of the judges happened to be movie studio scouts, and Reynolds was quickly under contract with Warner Brothers.
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Lions Gate — The movie studio closed its acquisition of cable network operator Starz for $4.4 billion in cash and stock.
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The props were created by Makinarium, a Roman visual effects company with an atelier inside the famed movie studio Cinecittà.
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It also showed interest in buying a stake in Paramount, the movie studio owned by Viacom Inc, earlier this year.
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Movie studio Warner Bros did not comment on the news and has not given any further details on the sequel.
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The same can't be said of Viacom, the owner of the cable network MTV and the movie studio Paramount Pictures.
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The bundles are sorted by movie studio, and Lionsgate, Sony, Paramount, Warner Bros and Universal Studios all have a bundle.
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Walmart – The retailer is partnering with movie studio Metro Goldwyn Mayer to produce content for Vudu a video streaming service.
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The company hasn't said which properties will be included in its service, but it owns the movie studio Warner Bros.
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Samsung is expanding its foray into virtual reality with the promise of a VR movie studio in New York City.
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Sony is the only movie studio besides Disney that owns film rights to Marvel characters, and it's taking a stand.
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The two are in agreement on a $52.4 billion bid for Disney to buy Fox's movie studio and other assets.
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And when a book provokes this kind of negative backlash from readers, maybe a movie studio should take it seriously.
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"We're kind of leaning into the 100 years of the movie studio," said Keith Cox, the network's president for development.
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In 73 came Disney's $71.3 billion purchase of 21st Century Fox assets, including National Geographic and the Fox movie studio.
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The purchase included the 20th Century Fox movie studio (yes, that's a little confusing) and its prestige arm, Fox Searchlight.
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Disney removed the word "Fox" from the name of the famed 20th Century Fox movie studio, Variety magazine reported Friday.
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They want to work at a morning show, or a movie studio, or a jewelry store, or a start-up.
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Weinstein touted the actor Gwyneth Paltrow as an example of his gendered altruism whilst he headed the movie studio Miramax.
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What would the world be like if a movie studio concluded a film's theatrical release by burning all the copies?
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It's aimed more at creators with a need for precise aerial photographer but without the funding of a major movie studio.
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It's easier to be president of the United States as a black person than be head of a (movie) studio. Honest.
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Redstone's attorneys released a statement on Sunday saying Redstone opposed Dauman's plan to sell a stake in Viacom's movie studio, Paramount.
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Its businesses include CBS' broadcast network, the movie studio Paramount and cable networks like Showtime, MTV, Nickelodeon, BET and Comedy Central.
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I'm not an Egyptologist, but it seems just as likely that those words were lifted from a movie-studio strategy memo.
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The company's movie studio is widely regarded as the strongest in Hollywood and the Disney theme parks are delivering record profits.
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Go deeper: The Justice Department is currently looking to relax rules that bar a traditional movie studio from buying a theater.
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Perhaps most notably, none of the above films were based on properties owned by a major movie studio or media company.
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But there's a kind of liability in broadening out a movie to make it palatable by big movie studio executive standards.
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Fox, the movie studio behind the "X-Men" franchise, has changed the release date for "Dark Phoenix" for the second time.
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It also announced a partnership with U.S. movie studio Metro Goldwyn Mayer to create content with its video-on-demand service Vudu.
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Back in December, Disney offered up $52.4 billion for assets, including the 20th Century Fox movie studio, the FX network and more.
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DreamWorks Animation — The movie studio is reported in talks to be acquired by Comcast for more than $3 billion, according to sources.
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Comcast this morning announced plans to launch its own bid for the movie studio, offering a vague outline for a planned bid.
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I could also see Netflix becoming a movie studio in 2016, as the traditional film studios continue to withhold their prime content.
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So a movie studio could run a campaign where potential moviegoers could tap on an emoji, revealing a trailer and local showtimes.
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Bloom compared it to a movie studio like A24, where the mere association with a film lends it an air of credibility.
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They'll explore the set and check out the working movie studio, including extensive stops at the scenery, props and visual effects departments.
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"The Jungle Book" and "Captain America: Civil War" fueled gains at the movie studio, with revenue increasing 39.6 percent to $2.85 billion.
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Disney wants Fox's movie studio and owned content properties to boost a digital streaming service that Iger plans to launch in 2019.
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On Thursday, Lionsgate, the movie studio behind "The Hunger Games," agreed to buy Starz, the premium cable channel, for about $4.4 billion.
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It raised its offer for chunks of Fox -- the movie studio, regional sports networks and cable channels, like FX -- to $71.3 billion.
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"We're going to create the movie studio of the 21st century," he said, in a documentary (slash promo tape) available on YouTube.
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The stakes in Russia hacking an American election are obviously incalculably higher than those in North Korea attacking a US movie studio.
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Comcast only makes 9% of its revenue internationally, as of now, and most of that presumably comes from NBCUniversal's movie studio business.
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From a movie studio in China to a revered tree in West Africa: Baobabs have endured for centuries as essential cultural symbols.
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Walt Disney extended the contract of its movie studio chairman, Alan Horn, and gave him the additional title of chief creative officer.
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It owns a movie studio, a soccer club and a Hong Kong newspaper, plus stakes in a variety of tech start-ups.
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It's no coincidence that the first highly-publicized Hollywood offer to work with Bong came from HBO, and not a movie studio.
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He served as president of distribution for the company's movie studio, president of its home entertainment business, and president of consumer products.
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The movie studio already has six billion dollar box office smashes, with "Star Wars: The Rise of Skywalker" potentially becoming the seventh.
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A beefed-up service Walmart announced it partnered with movie studio MGM to create shows to beef up its streaming service, Vudu.
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Disney spent $71.3 billion to acquire most of the company, including the Fox movie studio, after a prolonged bidding war with Comcast.
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Starz — The movie channel operator agreed to be acquired by movie studio Lionsgate in a cash and stock deal valued at $4.4 billion.
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But the superhero movie studio doesn't force their stars into restrictive diets and exhausting workout schedules, something Elizabeth Olsen (aka Scarlet Witch) appreciates.
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And no other movie studio has managed to summon a level of nostalgia comparable to Disney's live-action remakes and Star Wars films.
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In 2015, President Obama sanctioned the country for hacking Sony Entertainment when the movie studio planned to release a comedy about killing Kim.
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It also doesn't hurt that Sony owns a movie studio and could quickly and easily license popular titles like Spider-Man and Ghostbusters.
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The top line at NBC Universal, home to the Peacock Network, MSNBC and a giant movie studio, jumped 28 percent to $9.2 billion.
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The paper said the cuts would come primarily through buyouts, with workers in the TV and movie studio groups notified on Monday. Questions?
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Washington blacklisted the bureau after North Korean hackers were accused of wreaking havoc on the computer network of Sony's movie studio in 2014.
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For Disney, it is an opportunity to add movie studio and television production assets as it readies its own direct-to-consumer offering.
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For those couple of weeks, the Metropolitan Museum of Art was a museum by day, as usual, and a movie studio by night.
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The directing pair, Philip Lord and Christopher Miller, were let go from the production because of artistic differences with the movie studio Lucasfilm.
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The company's movie studio had a strong quarter with $3.7 billion in revenue, which was up more than 100% over the year prior.
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Either way, 21st Century Fox's movie studio, its share in Hulu and cable networks, and stakes in overseas television providers will be sold.
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The company will need to continue integrating the 21st Century Fox movie studio and TV assets it acquired from Rupert Murdoch's Fox Corp.
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The storied movie studio and theme park operator is scrambling to keep viewers who are abandoning its current top money maker, cable networks.
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Toymaker Mattel and movie studio Warner Bros on Tuesday announced they were partnering to make the film, which will star the Oscar-nominated actress.
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It acquired assets from 21st Century Fox for $71 billion to shore up its content trove, including National Geographic and the Fox movie studio.
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He added that they intend to continue with plans to "explore strategic options that might include a minority investment in Paramount," Viacom's movie studio.
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When TheWrap's Matt Donnelly scooped the news Thursday, the headline read: Fox Movie Studio Pulls Out of Comic-Con Main Event Over Piracy Fears.
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Doctor Strange, Marvel's latest journey into its ever-expanding cinematic universe, exemplifies both the best and the worst of the comic book movie studio.
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Sony's movie studio has recently lagged behind competitors in box office share and big hits, and underperformed its rivals in the global box office.
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Take Me is the directorial debut of actor Pat Healy, and the latest evidence that Netflix is operating as a classic Hollywood movie studio.
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After getting a taste of show business with the AMC purchase, Dalian Wanda bought a movie studio to go with its theaters in 2016.
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Disney is getting the company's movie studio, which includes franchises like "Avatar" and "X-Men," along with cable channels like FX and National Geographic.
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Overall, Disney's adjusted earnings-per-share declined 3 percent for the quarter from a year earlier as profit fell at the company's movie studio.
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The company, which also owns the Warner Bros movie studio, is paying $583 million for the Hulu stake, executives said on a conference call.
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Ms. Haidar said a movie studio, which she did not want to identify, had bought the rights to make her book into a film.
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Investors should buy Disney because its movie studio will report back-to-back record earnings in the next two years, according to Goldman Sachs.
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Many would argue the advent of Netflix, HBO and Amazon in relation sort of make up for the decline of the movie studio. Yes.
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Separately, Harvey Weinstein sued the movie studio he helped found for access to records he said he needed to defend himself against harassment allegations.
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In December, Disney agreed to buy most of Fox, including its Sky stake, the movie studio 20th Century Fox and the Indian broadcaster Star.
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Highlight reels produced by its movie studio, NFL Films, are full of vérité touches — players miked up during games, glimpses of locker-room celebrations.
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Donald Trump is mocking the historic Oscars wins for "Parasite" ... and the movie studio is clapping back in epic fashion, calling the President illiterate!!!
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That sale included Fox's movie studio, some cable channels and stakes in Sky, Endemol Shine Group and Hulu, as well as regional sports networks.
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The issue has thwarted efforts to promote the film, which movie studio Fox Searchlight in January bought for a Sundance record of $17.5 million.
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Why it matters: It's ViacomCBS's first post-merger deal, and it will strengthen the library and resources of the company's movie studio, Paramount Pictures.
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At this point, you're still working at a movie studio in Hollywood by day and sewing individual looks and outfits for Hollywood women by night.
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Though Marvel is most famous for them, they're something that fans look forward to every time a major movie studio — Marvel, Fox, Sony, Warner Bros.
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Details: The tiers... Entry level package: This package will provide only movies from AT&T's content database, including films from WarnerMedia's movie studio, Warner Bros.
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Disney, the owner of ESPN, a movie studio and theme parks around the world, is investing in digital media platforms to compete with Netflix Inc.
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Disney, the owner of ESPN, a movie studio and theme parks, is investing heavily in digital media platforms to challenge the dominance of Netflix Inc.
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Kim, a noted film aficionado who was running the country's movie studio at the time, hoped to use the pair to revamp North Korean cinema.
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Comcast's NBCUniversal unit will buy DreamWorks Animation, the movie studio behind the "Kung Fu Panda" and "How to Train Your Dragon" franchises, for $3.55 billion.
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Breakingviews The movie studio Lionsgate's $4.4 billion deal to acquire the pay-TV company Starz has media mogul John C. Malone's fingerprints all over it.
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Other studios could give Disney a run for its moneyThe last movie studio to beat Disney at the domestic box office was Universal in 2015.
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A movie studio was interested in bankrolling the film, but only if they could attach Johansson, who's rate alone would exceed Blum's $5 million ceiling.
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NBCUniversal announced today that its movie studio Universal Pictures and specialty label Focus Features will be releasing their films in theaters and on-demand, simultaneously.
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THR convened all seven major movie studio chiefs to talk about the evolving entertainment industry and how their businesses are adapting to what audiences want.
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Disney would reportedly buy up Fox's movie studio and some of its TV assets, but not its news and sports offerings or its broadcast channel.
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Walmart is partnering with movie studio Metro Goldwyn Mayer (MGM) to create original programming for Vudu, Walmart's video-on-demand service, the retailer said Monday.
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The commission alleged the administrator prepared and approved offering documents in association with the construction of a movie studio, despite knowing of negative, undisclosed information.
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David Thomson is the author of Warner Bros: The Making of an American Movie Studio, and The New Biographical Dictionary of Film, among other books.
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Twenty-first Century Fox sold movie studio and television assets to Disney last year, and the new Fox, run by Lachlan Murdoch, is focused on news.
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In 5003, it flexed its financial arm to spend $71.3 billion to buy assets from 21st Century Fox, including National Geographic and the Fox movie studio.
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The big-box retailer had said it will partner with U.S. movie studio Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer to make content for its video-on-demand service, Vudu.
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The studio then threatened lawsuits against everyone involved, including the fledgling video game company's home-console partner Coleco, if they didn't pay the movie studio royalties.
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Now safe at a movie studio-lot-turned-shelter their worries weren't over, as they tried to get medication for Robert, who suffers from lung cancer.
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The hedge fund believes that Sony's movie studio has garnered takeover interest from the likes of Amazon and Netflix, sources familiar with the situation told Reuters.
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Internet creators don't have to rely on a buyer, publishing house, record label or movie studio in order to sell a product, story, song, or film.
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Under the agreement, Disney's ABC broadcast network, the Disney Channels, Freeform and the company's movie studio also will produce live programming for Twitter, the statement said.
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But over the past decade and a half, as foreign box office returns have become increasingly important to movie studio bottom lines, that's started to change.
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When I find something I think the movie studio might find interesting, like a historic building, I research it on the computer and include the information.
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The top line at NBCUniversal, home to the Peacock Network, MSNBC and a giant movie studio, jumped 28 percent in the third quarter, to $9.2 billion.
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The likelihood of a potential competing offer by Comcast for Twenty-First Century Fox's movie studio and other assets has diminished, CNBC's David Faber reported Wednesday.
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Harvey Weinstein has been fired from the movie studio he co-founded, after the NYT's investigation last week unearthed decades of sexual harassment accusations and settlements.
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Now that The NYT has reported on decades' worth of sexual harassment allegations against the movie mogul, what will happen at the Weinstein Company movie studio?
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It is paying $52.4 billion in stock to own a slimmed-down 21st Century Fox, including the movie studio and a 39 percent stake in Sky.
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Those brands include CBS' broadcast network, the streaming service CBS All Access, movie studio Paramount and cable networks like Showtime, MTV, Nickelodeon, BET and Comedy Central.
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Disney grossed over $11 billion worldwide in 2019 and accounted for more than 20213% of the domestic box office, an unprecedented accomplishment for a movie studio.
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It even built a movie studio there, drawing stars like Nicole Kidman, John Travolta, Leonardo DiCaprio, Zhang Ziyi and others to its opening four years ago.
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He was frustrated with the troubled movie studio Relativity earlier this year over its handling of his movie "Before I Wake," which he made in 2013.
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Investors, including Mario Gabelli, the second-largest owner of voting shares of Viacom, have welcomed Dauman's plans to sell a minority stake in movie studio, Paramount.
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While Penn delved progressively inward, seeking some primal essence of photography, Avedon treated the magazines as his personal movie studio, breathlessly dialing through genre after genre.
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Acquisition of a movie studio and cable channels would be a departure for Verizon, which has focused its media deals around advertising technology and internet properties.
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Use the Force to find the bronze Yoda fountain (he's life-size) in the Presidio at the Letterman Digital Arts Center, headquarters of the movie studio Lucasfilm.
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Fox, the movie studio, would probably just tell you to go buy another ticket and see it again, since the plot ends up being different every time.
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Combining that clout with Time Warner, which owns HBO, CNN and the movie studio Warner Brothers, would make AT&T even more powerful, the seven groups warned.
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The 50-year-old filmmaker told Essence magazine he was determined to build a legacy while laying the groundwork for future generations with his new movie studio.
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It physically resembles a science fiction thriller from a movie studio (albeit a cheap one), and it has a star and character actors in the right places.
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Ever since the original "Star Wars" came along in 1977, every major movie studio has hoped that their next movie is the first in a successful franchise.
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A deal with Scripps would create a $24.9 billion cable network that brings together non-scripted programming and scripted programming, including children's shows and a movie studio.
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The movie studio could certainly do a lot more with the app in future, but right now it's just a holding pen for its various VR experiments.
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He goes to all the awards ceremonies, including the Golden Globes—above and beyond what even movie-studio bosses feel obliged to, remarks a former studio executive.
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The plan was to reach a settlement that would cover all of the suits pending against the former Hollywood mogul, his now-defunct movie studio and associates.
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But it persists, not just in the expectations that movie studio executives set for "black films," but also in what they're willing to invest in those films.
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The goal was to reach a settlement that would cover all of the suits pending against the former Hollywood mogul, his now-defunct movie studio and associates.
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VIACOM is a collection of several prominent cable channels — including BET, CMT and VH22015 in addition to MTV and Comedy Central — and a movie studio, Paramount Pictures.
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The pioneering filmmaker, writer and actor just opened a brand new movie studio in Atlanta, making him the first African-American to own a major studio outright.
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A traditional movie studio might be quaking in its boots this weekend, waiting for the box-office figures to roll in after such a terrible critical reception.
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The announcement ends one of the biggest battles in the media industry this year, as Comcast fought with Disney to acquire Fox's movie studio and television assets.
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It thrust movie studio Walt Disney Co into a dilemma over the fate of her iconic character, Princess Leia, as it moves forward with the blockbuster film franchise.
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The movie studio posted fiscal fourth-quarter earnings per share of 7 cents on Wednesday, while analysts polled by Reuters expected a loss of 2 cents a share.
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Donaldson has been one of Kjellberg's most vocal supporters in his mostly facetious battle with T-Series, an extremely popular Bollywood music and movie studio based in India.
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But as the two major comic-book brands engage in an arms race migrating characters to the screen -- backed by their movie studio owners, Disney and Warner Bros.
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You can be sure advertisers will be keen to exploit the opportunity, with movie studio Fox even creating a VR tie-in for its recent film, The Martian.
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Dalian Wanda Group also agreed to acquire a majority stake in Legendary Entertainment earlier this year, valuing the U.S. movie studio company at $3 billion to $4 billion.
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ISS also recommended investors cast advisory votes against the pay of top executives of Fox, the owner of the Fox broadcast network, cable channels and a movie studio.
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In addition to the movie studio, TV production and international assets such as Star and Sky, Disney would also add entertainment networks such as FX and National Geographic.
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Deal Professor Viacom is trying to ignore amended bylaws that limit the sale of its Paramount movie studio, but it will not be able to succeed much longer.
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Disney is interested in Fox's movie studio, TV production and international assets such as Star and Sky, as well as entertainment networks such as FX and National Geographic.
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The movie studio system as we know it was built largely by Jewish men who had direct family memories of fleeing persecution in Europe for somewhere more welcoming.
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Movie studio Fox Searchlight said it stands by the movie, despite speculation in Hollywood that the rape case will affect the film's marketing and jeopardize its Oscar chances.
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The emergency academy meeting took place after employees and several board members fled the boutique movie studio Mr. Weinstein helped found as talk of bankruptcy swirled around it.
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The deal would include a vast TV distribution business overseas, the Fox movie studio and the FX cable network, but not Fox News or the Fox broadcast network.
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In 1935, when Garland was 13, she was signed on the spot by Louis B. Meyer of MGM, the head of Hollywood's largest and most prestigious movie studio.
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Third Point wants Sony to explore options for some of its business units, including its movie studio, which the fund believes has attracted takeover interest, the sources said.
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LOS ANGELES (Reuters) - Movie studio Sony Pictures apologized on Monday for a scene in its "Peter Rabbit" children's film after an online outcry from sufferers of food allergies.
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Instead, it seems to have generated common knowledge only that perpetrators should be kept out of extremely high-status roles, like movie studio chief or United States senator.
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Tyrod Taylor dropping 40 on Tom Brady in Foxboro would be the Lucas/Karate Kid mashup Bill Simmons wishes he sold to a movie studio ten years ago.
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Movie studio Lionsgate on Thursday announced that the vampire book and movie romance that had millions of hearts swooning is being adapted for an international live to film event.
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DreamWorks Animation — FBR upgraded the movie studio to "outperform" from "market perform," citing the potential of larger payments from Netflix for movie rights, as well as expanded TV production.
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CNBC previously reported that Disney approached Fox about a deal to buy its entertainment assets, which would include its movie studio, and entertainment channels like FX and National Geographic.
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The emergency academy meeting took place after employees and several board members are fleeing the boutique movie studio Mr. Weinstein helped found as talk of bankruptcy swirled around it.
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In 2018, Dalian Wanda Group, which bought iconic American movie theater chain AMC in 2012, opened the world's biggest movie studio, which was touted as China's answer to Hollywood.
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Disney won't be content walking away only with Fox's movie studio, entertainment cable channels, regional sports networks and a handful of other assets, said BTIG media analyst Rich Greenfield.
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LOS ANGELES — A leadership change at the 20th Century Fox movie studio will happen sooner than expected, with Jim Gianopulos stepping down as chairman and chief executive on Sept.
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She was expected to create a tourist attraction such as a theme park or movie studio, but she instead declared bankruptcy in 1993 and had to sell the property.
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Last year, the toymaker also held talks to acquire U.S. movie studio and entertainment company Lions Gate, but those negotiations broke down over price, sources said at the time.
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In the finale, that included Ray committing a cold-blooded murder of a movie studio chief in order to secure a favor from the executive's corporate rival (Susan Sarandon).
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In addition to Fox's movie studio, TV production and international assets such as Star and Sky, Disney would likely buy entertainment network FX and National Geographic, the report added.
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Dalian Wanda Group also agreed to acquire a majority stake in Legendary Entertainment earlier this year, valuing the U.S. movie studio company at between $3 billion and $4 billion.
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PJT has been hired in recent months to advise on high-profile transactions such as Viacom Inc's potential sale of a minority stake in the Paramount Pictures movie studio.
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The PIF had been eyeing up to a $700 million stake in U.S. movie studio Legendary Entertainment but is facing resistance from executives at Legendary, Reuters had reported earlier.
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Disney could try again, hoping that Fox's movie studio and cable networks could bolster its video-on-demand offerings to counter Netflix, according to Brooks Barnes of the NYT.
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George S. Kaufman, a real estate magnate whose transformation of a derelict movie studio in Astoria, Queens, helped revive film and television production in New York, died on Feb.
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Comcast is in talks to buy assets like the Fox movie studio and the group's stakes in the British broadcaster Sky and the Star India TV and digital businesses.
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That's the message from media giant NBCUniversal, whose movie studio is going to start letting customers rent a selection of movies that are supposed to be in theaters now.
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Jeff Bezos, Amazon's chief executive, recently told at least one industry executive that it is business as usual at the movie studio, a person familiar with the matter said.
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Actor and presenter Ed Petrie raised a good point on Twitter: Why are YouTube and these creators not held to the same standard as a TV channel or movie studio.
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He claimed that he has hit hard financial times and spent most of his money repairing his movie studio in Louisiana after it was destroyed in a March 2016 flood.
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A24 Candles Everyone's favorite independent movie studio (which brought you the likes of Lady Bird, Eighth Grade and Moonlight over the past few years) has their own line of candles!
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The "First Lady of Miramax" – the earlier Weinstein movie studio that produced "Shakespeare in Love" and "Pulp Fiction" – worked her network behind the scenes to get others to come forward.
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At Cidade do Samba (Samba City), an enormous complex like a movie-studio back lot, União da Ilha and its rivals scrambled to complete their floats and thousands of costumes.
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The owner of Fox News and 20th Century Fox movie studio said revenue increased to $6.75 billion in the fourth quarter ended June 30 from $6.65 billion a year earlier.
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The movie studio or television network that figures out how to speak more clearly and appealingly to Latinos stands to earn rich rewards at the box office and during sweeps.
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Nowhere are those ambitions better reflected than at Wanda's Qingdao Oriental Movie Metropolis, an $8 billion movie studio, theme park and real estate development scheduled to launch in April 2018.
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One New York prison on Staten Island, which closed in 2011, will reopen as a movie studio that is expected to generate 85033 new jobs in its first two years.
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Warner Bros movie studio on Tuesday announced details of a proposal to build a tramway from its Burbank film lot up the steep sides of Mount Lee to the sign.
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Digital adversaries such as China, Russia, Iran and North Korea have also swooped in unexpectedly, plundering health insurers, airlines, nuclear plants, government agencies and, most memorably, a major movie studio.
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IN ADDITION TO THE MOVIE STUDIO, TV PRODUCTION AND INTERNATIONAL ASSETS SUCH AS STAR AND B SKY B DISNEY WOULD ALSO ADD ENTERTAINMENT NETWORKS SUCH AS FX AND NAT GEO.
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Disney broke its own record, which it set in 2016, for the highest-grossing year ever for a movie studio — and there's still five more months left in the year.
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This is the first time that a major movie studio has teamed up with Snapchat to offer the option to purchase tickets, and we're guessing it won't be the last.
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In a letter from Fred Salerno to Redstone, made public by the company, Salerno also defended Viacom management's handling of the possible sale of a stake in movie studio Paramount.
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Why it matters: Comcast has been batting Disney in a fierce bidding war over Fox's entertainment assets, like its movie studio and cable channels National Geographic and FX, for months.
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Harvey Weinstein's former movie studio is seeking to liquidate in bankruptcy, a final blow to a prestigious Hollywood institution that imploded when Mr. Weinstein was accused of abusing multiple women.
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And it was so popular that a sequel and other "edgy" standalone origin stories like it are likely on the way — the ultimate vote of confidence from a movie studio.
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Bringing the companies together would add strength to a global company that has a movie studio (Paramount), live sports (NFL, Premiere League), and non-fiction programming (HGTV, Discovery, Food Network).
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On Thursday, the board of Viacom Inc, the company that owns the Paramount movie studio, MTV and other assets, gave his chairmanship to Philippe Dauman and made Redstone chairman emeritus.
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Nearly three-quarters of that has come from headline-grabbing deals by the parent group to buy assets like Hollywood movie studio Legendary Entertainment and the firm behind Ironman Triathlons.
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You once famously said that it's easier as a black man to become the president of the United States than it is to become the head of a movie studio.
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The actor claims that he has hit hard financial times and spent most of his money repairing his movie studio in Louisiana after it was destroyed in a March 2016 flood.
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Icahn has made bets on the debt of bankrupt or near-bankrupt companies in the past, including auto parts maker Federal Mogul, movie studio Metro Goldwyn Mayer, Tropicana Entertainment and Blockbuster.
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Sciorra, who is best known for her work on "The Sopranos," says Weinstein raped her inside her Manhattan apartment after she starred in a film for his movie studio in 1993.
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"Only boys were used to deliver drugs across town," she reasons, and these trips sometimes take her to the Essanay movie studio where Chaplin and other silent-era titans are filming.
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Third Point wants Sony to explore options for some of its business units, including its movie studio, which the hedge fund believes has attracted takeover interest from the likes of Amazon.
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Walmart said on Monday it would partner with U.S. movie studio Metro Goldwyn Mayer to create content for its video-on-demand service, Vudu, which the retailer bought eight years ago.
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Viacom (VIAB) controlling shareholder Sumner Redstone opposes a plan by CEO Philippe Dauman to sell a minority stake in the company's Paramount Pictures movie studio, according to the Wall Street Journal.
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Viacom — Viacom controlling shareholder Sumner Redstone opposes a plan by CEO Philippe Dauman to sell a minority stake in the company's Paramount Pictures movie studio, according to The Wall Street Journal.
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Which explains why two of AT&T's top TV executives — most notably, HBO CEO Richard Plepler — are leaving their jobs, and why the head of AT&T's movie studio is staying.
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Meanwhile for Disney, acquiring another major movie studio, with exposure to international markets, and its TV production assets could be advantageous as Disney gears up to launch its own streaming services.
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LeEco, the Chinese company that recently purchased Vizio and whose movie studio LeVision is producing the Matt Damon film The Great Wall, will be distributing Ozo content through its LeVR division.
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The agreement marks the first major move by Grey since Viacom's former CEO, Philippe Dauman, tried to sell a 49 percent stake in the movie studio to Dalian Wanda last year.
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The movie studio Lionsgate agreed on Thursday to buy Starz, the premium cable channel home to hit shows like "Outlander," for about $4.4 billion in the latest round of media consolidation.
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The company, which also owns the Twentieth Century Fox movie studio, said total revenue rose to $7.56 billion in the third quarter ended March 31, from $7.23 billion a year earlier.
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The combination of the two companies has created a media and telecommunications giant with television stations, a movie studio, nearly 160 million wireless customers and a nationwide satellite television service, DirecTV.
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Think about this: If Disney already owned Fox's movie studio, the combined company would have had the top three films this past weekend, which together reaped $243 million in ticket sales.
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The headquarters of the world's leading water design firm, Water Entertainment Technologies, or WET, is best described as a cross between a machine shop, a research laboratory, and a movie studio.
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" And if you're getting excited for the big fall movies, you might want to dive into some Hollywood history with David Thomson's "Warner Bros: The Making of an American Movie Studio.
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She visits a hillside house not far from Harry's, a porn movie studio, an encampment for the homeless, a hotel in Little Tokyo, a sinister used car dealership — on and on.
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The only Christmas movies the movie studio system seem to produce lately are this kind, and strictly for adults: Bad Moms Christmas, Bad Santa 2, Office Christmas Party, and Why Him?
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Beyond "A Quiet Place," the movie studio has had only moderate successes like "Book Club" and "Annihilation" (which doesn't earn it any foreign gross because it sold those rights to Netflix).
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Movie studio Lionsgate declined to comment but a source familiar with the matter said that a red carpet, where movie stars pose for photos and speak with reporters, would be inappropriate.
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While Disney transitions to something that looks more like Netflix, its properties -- ESPN and ABC and the movie studio and the theme parks and the merchandise business -- will keep chugging out cash.
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The investors' mission had been to build a movie studio led by a board of directors made up of a majority of women, save jobs, and protect vendors who are owed money.
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Third Point wants Sony to explore options for some of its business units, including its movie studio, which the fund believes has attracted takeover interest, according to sources familiar with the matter.
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The Murdoch family owns about 39 percent of the class B voting shares, according to a proxy from the company, which owns the Fox broadcast network, cable channels and a movie studio.
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The Universal Filmed Entertainment Group is the first major movie studio not only to acknowledge, but highlight and commit to the project, all with the goal of diversifying Hollywood's filmmakers and gatekeepers.
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Covering an area equivalent to more than 200 football pitches, the 400-acre Qingdao Oriental Movie Metropolis boasts the world's biggest movie studio and has been touted as China's answer to Hollywood.
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One is the problems in a movie studio and an executive getting fired is not exactly akin to the American economy almost collapsing, and it was so over-covered at the time.
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In an e-mail to Reuters, Gabelli said he hoped that once the contract is renewed, Viacom's management would turn its attention to selling a minority stake in its Paramount movie studio.
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Covering an area equivalent to more than 200 soccer pitches, the 400-acre Qingdao Oriental Movie Metropolis boasts the world's biggest movie studio and has been touted as China's answer to Hollywood.
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Third Point wants Sony to explore options for some of its business units, including its movie studio, which the fund believes has attracted takeover interest, people familiar with the matter previously said.
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On Wednesday he attended a fan event alongside his co-star Marion Cotillard and director Robert Zemeckis, answering a few questions during a Facebook live stream hosted by movie studio Paramount Pictures.
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CNBC had reported earlier on Tuesday that a deal for Disney to buy Fox's movie studio and television production assets for more than $60 billion could come as early as next week.
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But Weibo then took the app offline after a microblogger said the logo was nearly identical to one designed by a Korean movie studio for the Ulju Mountain Film Festival in 2015.
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"We are deeply saddened by the accident that occurred on the set of 'Deadpool 2' this morning," Dan Berger, a spokesman for the movie studio 20th Century Fox, said in a statement.
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This uncertainty would extend to Disney's proposed acquisition of $52.4 billion worth of assets from 693st Century Fox, which, though not vertical, will test the Trump administration's attitude toward movie studio combinations.
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This year's news that Disney would acquire assets from 21st Century Fox, including its movie studio, likely caused other entertainment CEOs with existing studios salivating at the idea of nabbing a second.
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And then at some point Lionsgate, the movie studio, and we were just talking about how slow movie studios are, ended up owning a big chunk of what was then Break. Yup.
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If you're a movie studio today and you're going to put $103 million to work in two-and-a-half weeks — which they do on TV — in the old days you could.
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A lawyer by training, he transformed his family's movie theater business through savvy and daring into an entertainment empire that runs from the Paramount movie studio to CBS to Comedy Central and Showtime.
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Calderon was also charged with accepting money from undercover FBI agents, who he thought worked for an independent Hollywood movie studio, in exchange for supporting an expansion of film tax credits in California.
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Calderon was also charged with accepting money from undercover FBI agents who he thought worked for an independent Hollywood movie studio in exchange for supporting an expansion of film tax credits in California.
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Instead of a large variety of projects, at a number of budgetary levels, TV networks, like their movie studio cousins, would begin chasing the big numbers and big budgets of blockbuster popcorn projects.
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As just one example, China recently opened the world's largest movie studio, the 400-acre, $7.9 billion Qingdao Movie Metropolis, that China hopes will compete with the scale and popularity of Hollywood's output.
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Just a month after its release, "The Force Awakens" has taken $1.76 billion at the world box-office, according to movie studio Walt Disney, which brought the franchise in 2012 for $4 billion.
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Disney, the world's largest entertainment company and owner of sports network ESPN, a movie studio and theme parks around the world, is still searching for a capable hand to step into Iger's shoes.
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Walt Disney Company announced Thursday that it has agreed to acquire the entertainment assets of 4.453st Century Fox, including Fox's movie studio and entertainment television networks, as well as Fox's international TV assets.
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Walt Disney Company announced Thursday that it has agreed to acquire the entertainment assets of 21st Century Fox, including Fox's movie studio and entertainment television networks, as well as Fox's international TV assets.
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There is no point in this described process where the next logical step for a movie studio to make would be to cherry-pick specifically Jared Leto and give him his own movie.
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But a movie studio doesn't function based on good vibes, so it will take a real sense that there's a financial return coming from the Comic-Con investment for trends to reverse themselves.
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The school's proximity to a movie studio allows Mr. Yang to comment both on his film and his characters as historical actors, not least when the duplicitous Ming is given a screen test.
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That change has cast uncertainty over Viacom CEO Philippe Dauman's plan to sell a 49-percent stake in the movie studio that Redstone was quoted as calling his "baby" in recent court filings.
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The bid comes after the movie studio secured a $20 million cash infusion from the sale of the children's movie "Paddington 2" last week to Warner Brothers Pictures, a unit of Time Warner.
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At the movie studio, "Rogue One: A Star Wars Story" took in more than $1 billion at global box offices but could not match the $2 billion from "Force Awakens" a year earlier.
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From Tribeca to trial Weinstein used to spend his days in the Tribeca offices of The Weinstein Company, the movie studio he co-founded in 2005 with his now estranged brother, Bob Weinstein.
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WET WOMAN IN THE WIND Needing cash in the 1970s, the Japanese movie studio Nikkatsu reinvented itself as a haven for soft-core pornography; the genre that emerged became known as roman porno.
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The graves of the blacks were left where they were as the land was given over to a beer garden, a movie studio and, eventually, a block-square depot for streetcars and buses.
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It made history as the first fully computer-animated movie: It was nominated for three Oscars and grossed over $373 million at the box office worldwide, catapulting Pixar into a major movie studio.
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The conventional wisdom is that the deal, which would give Disney control of Fox's movie studio and TV studio but not its broadcast network or Fox News, is aimed at competing with Netflix.
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Milchan or New Regency Productions, a Hollywood movie studio he founded and chairs, have produced more than 100 films, including recent Oscar best picture winners "12 Years a Slave", "Birdman", and "The Revenant".
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The No. 2 U.S. wireless carrier is trying to buy Time Warner, which also owns the premium channel HBO and movie studio Warner Bros, so it can bundle video entertainment on its mobile service.
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The history of Star Wars and the history of 20th Century Fox, the movie studio that Rupert Murdoch just sold to Disney as one part of a massive $52 billion deal, are intimately intertwined.
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Negotiations are reportedly ongoing between producers Larry Gordon and Lloyd Levin, who own the rights to the films, and movie studio Millennium, but the end product is set to be an R-rated refresh.
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Set in Hollywood in 1958, the movie focuses on the budding romance between Hughes' young driver (Alden Ehrenreich) and a naive young actress (Lily Collins) who is under contract at the mogul's movie studio.
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Posner was not able to confirm if the lease for the warehouse B&H leases in Bushwick was also set to expire; according to DNAInfo, the Navy Yard warehouse will become a movie studio.
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In 2016, Tencent invested in movie studio start-up STX Entertainment, while Alibaba announced a minority stake in Hollywood director Steven Spielberg's Amblin Partners to produce, distribute and finance films globally and in China.
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And if he would surely be disqualified from running a movie studio, a newsroom, or a medium-sized insurance firm, how is it that he presides over the most important office in the land?
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The two companies reportedly held talks in recent weeks about a potential sale of Fox's FX and National Geographic channels, its movie studio and some other international assets to Disney, according to media reports.
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In 1919, Griffith, the pioneering and controversial American director, bought land from Henry Flagler at the tip of Orienta and built a sprawling movie studio that employed village residents as technicians, assistants and extras.
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With cities going on lockdown and movie theaters closing, NBCUniversal announced that its movie studio Universal Pictures and specialty label Focus Features will be releasing their films in theaters and on-demand, simultaneously. 5.
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One of his rituals upon coming home from his movie studio was feeding his poodle, Duchess, a cold frankfurter, or "wienie," by leading her from room to room while throwing pieces on the floor.
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Trump during his campaign had said AT&T's proposal to buy the owner of CNN and the Warner Bros movie studio was an example of a "power structure" that was rigged against him and voters.
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The Twilight and Hunger Games film franchises may have come to a close, but movie studio Lionsgate will soon offer fans a new way to engage with both thanks to new theme park expansion lands.
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Wang Jianlin's Dalian Wanda is set to add Legendary Entertainment, the American movie studio behind "Jurassic World," to a leisure and lifestyle portfolio that includes a Spanish soccer team and the operator of Ironman races.
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Jaffe, a former lawyer at the movie studio behind "The Hunger Games," says a powerful boss she once viewed as a father figure demanded she be his slave and subjected her to nonconsensual sexual contact.
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Redstone told Spar he felt Dauman had "done a bad job running Viacom" and he was upset with Dauman's decision to sell part of movie studio Paramount Pictures, according to the statement from Redstone's spokesman.
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Check out which companies are making headlines before the bell: Starz — The movie channel operator was informed by Lions Gate that the movie studio intends to explore a "mutually beneficial" combination of the two companies.
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The movie studio reported profit of $534 million, lifted by "Captain Marvel," which was a global hit but did not reach the level of "Black Panther" and "Star Wars: The Last Jedi" a year earlier.
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The late North Korean leader was a noted film aficionado, and oversaw the country's movie studio at the time of Choi's abduction, in his role as head of the country's ministry for culture and propaganda.
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Australian-born Murdoch inherited his father's newspaper business in 1952 and transformed it over many years, acquiring premiere properties such as The Wall Street Journal, the London Times, and the 20th Century Fox movie studio.
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After completing the acquisition of two non-production film companies - each worth above $26.6533 billion - Dalian Wanda's next target would be a so-called "Big Six" movie studio, Wang told Reuters in an exclusive interview.
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Disney and Comcast have been most interested in only part of the constellation of Fox businesses, notably the 20th Century Fox movie studio; cable channels like FX; Sky, the British broadcaster; Star, an Indian broadcaster.
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"It used to be, when there was one movie studio or three TV stations or something, you kind of had to take whatever you get," he told CNBC at the Credit Suisse Asian Investment Conference.
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The company, which owns TV networks, theme parks and a movie studio did not give a reason for Staggs' exit but said on Monday that he would remain a special adviser to Iger through September.
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And consequently, their relevance in the world ... In other words, it used to be if you could get your hands on a movie studio, you were sitting at a table with only five other people.
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While both CBS and Viacom face challenges in a changing industry, Viacom's businesses — including the cable networks Nickelodeon and Comedy Central, and the Paramount movie studio — have had the more difficult path over the last year.
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Hasbro, which is trying to diversify its revenue stream, also sought to buy U.S. movie studio and entertainment company Lions Gate Entertainment Corp this year, but those talks ended without a deal, Reuters reported in August.
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Today, we know that on top of Fox's movie studio and regional sports networks, Disney is buying cable channels FX and National Geographic, as well as the networks stakes in Hulu and European TV provider Sky.
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Image: ShutterstockYou can find almost anything on Reddit, including free, pirated movies, which is why one movie studio has started to not just go after the sources of these videos, but the places that aggregate them.
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Moments later Cruise, who was attached to a harness, limped off the set Representatives for Cruise and movie studio Paramount Pictures did not respond to queries about the incident or the nature of the actor's injury.
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Now they think of themselves far more as a movie studio like HBO that creates original programming, albeit one with a vast and unique understanding of viewing behavior derived from the analytics of its subscriber base.
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Despite the success of movie studio 20th Century Fox's "Deadpool," which garnered more than $621 million globally since its early February release, Disney CEO Bob Iger said his company will not venture into R-rated territory.
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The newcomers include Black Panther (Chadwick Boseman), whose first solo adventure is prophesied during the final credits, and a very young Spider-Man (Tom Holland), whose solo adventures are the property of a different movie studio.
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At an investor conference, Mr. Dauman said Viacom, the American media company, is moving ahead with plans to sell 49 percent of its movie studio, Paramount Pictures, over the objections of Viacom's controlling shareholder, Sumner Redstone.
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CBS stands to gain the movie studio Paramount Pictures, cable networks including Comedy Central, MTV, Nickelodeon and BET, as well as the streaming service Pluto TV and South Park Studios as a result of the merger.
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Twenty-first Century Fox sold its movie studio and television assets to Disney last year, and the new Fox said in a regulatory filing last month it had "no intention" of bidding for the sports networks.
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"A movie studio has to answer to a marketing department, and to shareholders, to ensure the broadest audience possible for its product; it tends to err on the side of caution as a result," he said.
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The $52.4 billion Disney-Fox deal, in which Disney is acquiring Fox's venerable movie studio and the bulk of its other entertainment assets, poses the opposite problem: 21st Century Fox is controlled by the Murdoch family.
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As CEO, Bakish engineered a turnaround plan for the company's struggling movie studio and TV networks and boosted badly sagging staff morale, keeping Redstone in the loop through it all, people familiar with the situation said.
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But if you were believe a funny spoof video — exclusive to PEOPLE — they just released where they try and pitch the idea to a movie studio, the dark comic thriller would have been a totally different movie.
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Even though its parent company was running low on cash and its stock price has hit new lows, the film subscription company has announced plans to buy a prolific production company and launch its own movie studio.
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LOS ANGELES (Reuters) - Movie studio Disney on Monday revealed that the next "Star Wars" movie will be called "Star Wars: The Last Jedi," setting off rampant speculation from fans about what the title implied for the plot.
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Disney wouldn't have spent $71 billion on 21st Century Fox assets including National Geographic, "The Simpsons" and its movie studio if it didn't have plans to launch its own streaming service, according to the company's top executive.
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Scream Queens is a delicious invention – a hothouse of creativity," says Curtis, who is having a ball shooting the show on the Paramount lot in Los Angeles, a movie studio experience she describes as wonderfully "old-school.
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Amazon is also the host of a giant online bazaar, a movie studio, a book publisher, a cloud computing giant, a leading developer of artificial intelligence tech, a grocery store chain ... and on and on and on.
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Prior to the executive action, the White House did slap North Korea with a round of economic sanctions after blaming the reclusive East Asian country for orchestrating a digital assault on the movie studio Sony Pictures Entertainment.
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The deal brings together CBS' broadcast, sports, and news networks, Showtime, and streaming services like CBS All Access, with Viacom's movie studio Paramount Pictures and array of international TV networks like Nickelodeon, Comedy Central, MTV, and BET.
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Time Warner's chief executive, Jeffrey L. Bewkes, punted the division into a separately traded company in June 2014 in an effort to focus on the faster-paced cable networks, movie studio and HBO businesses he still runs.
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Just once, I wish that a movie studio would put its thirst for the almighty dollar aside and listen to the very same teenagers' voices it's pretending are omnipotent in series like The Hunger Games and Divergent.
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Disney, which has a market value of around $166 billion, would acquire Fox's FX and National Geographic cable channels, its movie studio, the Star network in India and stake in European pay-TV provider Sky PLC SKYB.
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Twentieth Century Fox pulled a scene from its forthcoming movie "The Predator" after learning that Steven Wilder Striegel, an actor with a minor role in the picture, is a registered sex offender, the movie studio said Thursday.
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Iger capped that streak with the biggest prize of all, hammering out a deal with Rupert Murdoch for most Fox entertainment assets — including its movie studio and cable networks like FX and National Geographic — for $71 billion.
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For the first quarter of its fiscal 2016, the owner of MTV, Comedy Central, Nickelodeon and movie studio Paramount reported a steeper-than-expected drop in quarterly revenue, hurt by lower advertising sales in the United States.
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Yes, but: While its studio strength was evaluated as part of its deal to acquire most of 21st Century Fox last year, its acquisition of Fox's movie studio hasn't been what has led to its theater dominance.
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On this week's podcast, Hansen discusses "Notes on a Foreign Country"; David Thomson talks about "Warner Bros: The Making of an American Movie Studio"; and Gregory Cowles, Jennifer Szalai and John Williams on what people are reading.
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The company's movie studio is widely regarded as the strongest in Hollywood — "Beauty and the Beast," released last week, has already taken in more than $425 million worldwide — and the Disney theme parks are delivering record profits.
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This film is about a boy with extraordinary powers on the run across the South with his dad, with special effects and car chases and a real live marketing budget from a real live movie studio—Warner Bros.
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In 2013, the business split its assets into two companies with U.K. newspapers the Times, Sunday Times and Sun under News Corp, and Fox's assets including its news channel and movie studio being part of 21st Century Fox.
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The deal, which could be announced as early as Monday, will reunite CBS and Viacom, bringing together the CBS television networks, cable network Showtime, and book publisher Simon & Schuster with MTV networks, Nickelodeon and the Paramount movie studio.
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Movie studio Sony Pictures said on Wednesday that the film was called "Once Upon a Time in Hollywood" and will feature DiCaprio as the former star of a Western TV series, and Pitt as his longtime stunt double.
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"You have seen how it has been arranged here," he told Reuters at the Oxenford venue, where organizers have built the courts and all-glass main show court on a massive sound stage at a local movie studio.
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Cuban, whose media properties include a movie studio and cable channel, was a key sounding board to help refocus the renamed AllScreen into a site that syndicated content from major media companies to Twitter, Facebook and other sites.
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Refinery29, the digital media company catering to millennial women, announced Tuesday that it will begin to identify, purchase and co-distribute films with NEON, the movie studio responsible for the release of I, Tonya and Ingrid Goes West.
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Movies have seen their release dates pushed before because of tragic news events, but a major movie studio putting the kibosh on a high-profile release right after the president seemingly tweeted about it is something new altogether.
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If Comcast doesn't bid again for Fox, it's surrendering in its quest to acquire the other Fox assets, such as Star India, a 30 percent stake in Hulu, Fox's movie studio, and cable channels FX and National Geographic.
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But this is first time a movie studio has used the game to share footage that can&apost be seen anywhere else, and considering how many people logged on to watch, it likely won&apost be the last.
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Everything in neat arrangement, amorous couples in the bright apparel of spring, penniless ancients stood in awe of the king, the awfully rich young American in the armor of prosperity, anthropomorphic deities, movie studio apparatchiks, aficionados of the bullfight.
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However, it would be "icing on the cake" to bigger-picture developments like a deal with Dish Network to avoid an outage of Viacom channels and a bid to sell a minority stake in its movie studio, Paramount Pictures.
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A story that should have never been published in a high school zine, let alone by a major movie studio, suddenly achieved some level of recognition and one or two thumbs up from critics whose thumbs we actually respected.
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Owners of copyrighted content — like a record label or a movie studio — will now have to say exactly where in a video their copyrighted material appears, which they didn't have to do in the past when manually reporting infringement.
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The former Paramount Studios CEO, and the first woman to ever be president of a major movie studio, is telling all in a new book about her life, Leading Lady: Sherry Lansing and the Making of a Hollywood Groundbreaker.
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Dorfman's a Brooklyn kid who moves to Hollywood in the 1930s to beg his movie studio executive Uncle Phil (Steve Carell) for a job, only to end up falling in love with his assistant Vonnie, played by Kristen Stewart.
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Goldman Sachs on Tuesday upgraded Disney to buy from hold, predicting a 20 percent-plus rally over the next 12 months amid the release of several potential blockbusters from its movie studio beginning at the end of this year.
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During his campaign for the White House, Trump said AT&T's proposal to buy Time Warner, owner of CNN and the Warner Bros movie studio, was an example of a "power structure" that was rigged against him and voters.
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Montreuil Journal MONTREUIL, France — In a darkened makeshift theater in a former movie studio, dozens of 26-somethings recently sipped beer from plastic cups as they watched a film about their shared passion: the rise of suburban dance parties.
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With the right star, this sort of "stuck out here all alone" thriller is a gift from movie studio heaven: Man, I hope Sandra Bullock figures out that Russian space-shuttle manual so she can get back to Earth.
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The ministry said it had launched the investigation into the takeover following unspecified complaints that the combination of Comcast, one of the largest U.S. cable and broadcasting groups, with the movie studio could hurt competition in the Chinese market.
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Chief Executive Mark Thompson previously told Reuters that the company was "leery" about consumers reading its journalism on other platforms and warned publishers of how Netflix disrupted the movie studio business and gained leverage by taking control of distribution.
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He also runs Dreadhead Films, a indie movie studio he started with his 15-year-old brother, Justen, that has landed choice slots at the 2015 White House Student Film Festival and the Pan African Film and Art Festival.
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If you're the kind of person who gets frustrated by the selective release of streaming numbers — say, you work at a movie studio or TV network that competes with Netflix — you're going to have to get used to it.
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I do, because, I mean, one of the things Jeff Bewkes has done over the last 10 years is winnow, is shed everything from Time Warner that wasn't the movie studio, that wasn't cable TV and that wasn't HBO.
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The merger went through at 12:83 am ET, giving Disney full control over a number of 21st Century Fox entities including the company's entire movie studio division, its 30 percent stake in streaming service Hulu, and the Fox Television Group.
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Viacom said in a statement its board has tried to meet with Sumner Redstone many times, adding that he was silent during a recent call about the company's strategy, including its planned sale of a stake in movie studio Paramount.
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The African burial ground was simply plowed under and pushed aside, supplanted by a pleasure and amusement ground known as Sulzer's Harlem River Park and Casino, then by William Randolph Hearst's Cosmopolitan movie studio, and then by the bus depot.
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My hope is to create something that is so strong that people at the movie studio will call up and say we'd be foolish not to connect these two things … but I also know they're different waters to swim in.
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LONDON (Thomson Reuters Foundation) - Thousands of fans have petitioned the movie studio Warner Bros to "Make Wonder Woman Bisexual" in a 2019 sequel to this year's hit movie and create the first major lesbian, gay, bisexual or transgender (LGBT) superhero.
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Amazon's movie studio has acquired the rights to former New York Times columnist Nick Bilton's "The Bunker," an original screenplay about tech billionaires who take shelter in a luxurious underground bunker after an attack on the U.S., according to Deadline.
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The lawsuit, filed in federal court in Los Angeles, alleged that director Guillermo del Toro, producer Daniel Kraus and movie studio Fox Searchlight "brazenly copies the story, elements, characters and themes" from a 1969 play by the late Paul Zindel.
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Former MGM Holdings Chief Executive Officer Gary Barber, who was ousted earlier this year, is speaking to investment banks about financing an offer to acquire the privately held U.S. movie studio, five people familiar with the matter said on Monday.
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BEIJING (Reuters) - Flanked by models in white sequin dresses, amid booming music and dazzling lights, China's richest man savored his latest entertainment triumph this week, the announcement of a $2772.71 billion deal to take over a Hollywood blockbuster movie studio.
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Sources told Reuters last week that Disney was in the lead to acquire the assets, which include Fox's FX and National Geographic cable channels, its movie studio, the Star network in India and stake in European pay-TV provider Sky.
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In a feat of artistic derring-do, while Mr. Pacino was acting in a Los Angeles theater production of the play directed by Ms. Parsons, he was himself directing a film version of the play on a nearby movie-studio soundstage.
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The deal combines a big cable programmer — whose networks like MTV and Comedy Central used to be powerful financial and cultural engines and which also owns the Paramount movie studio — with the dominant broadcast TV network, which also owns Showtime.
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While almost every movie studio passed on the project, Mr. Wang, Ms. Tan and the screenwriter Ronald Bass struck pay dirt with Jeffrey Katzenberg at Walt Disney Studios, who granted the team a $10 million budget and full creative control.
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CHINA-HEALTH-MISSION-IMPOSSIBLE/ 'Mission: Impossible' Italy movie shoot delayed by coronavirus A planned three-week shoot in Italy for Tom Cruise's new "Mission: Impossible" film has been postponed due to the coronavirus outbreak, movie studio Paramount Pictures said on Monday.
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"It's got some incredible assets, my favorite being the movie studio Paramount, a premier asset – yes, of Mission Impossible fame – and its brand new management team is cutting the fat, putting out superior entertainment product but nobody's paying attention," he said.
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The popularity of MoviePass has given a boost to movie ticket subscription plans ( whether or not that company stays in business), and Disney buying 20th Century Fox proves that the movie studio system as we've known it for decades is disappearing.
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Sources told Reuters last week that Disney was in the lead to acquire the assets, which include Fox's FX and National Geographic cable channels, its movie studio, the Star network in India and stake in European pay-TV provider Sky PLC.
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Earlier this month Dalian Wanda extended its push into the film business, agreeing to buy a majority stake in Legendary Entertainment that valued the U.S. movie studio company at between $3 billion and $4 billion, according to a person familiar with the matter.
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Viacom has narrowed the number of bidders for a minority stake in its Paramount Pictures movie studio from more than 213 to a handful and expects to begin negotiations late next month, Chief Executive Officer Philippe Dauman told analysts on Thursday morning.
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A new bid from Comcast for the Fox assets, which include its movie studio and several TV networks, would stretch the cable operator's finances, given that it has also offered $34 billion to acquire 61 percent of European broadcaster Sky Plc SKYB.
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Short videos show the members shining their flashlights on the prison gates of a colonial political prison, a pile of dusty movie reels and posters in an empty movie studio, or the walls of a former World War Two air raid tunnel.
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AT&T, the No. 2 U.S. wireless carrier, struck a deal in October 2016 to buy Time Warner, which owns the premium channel HBO, movie studio Warner Bros and news channel CNN, in order to compete by bundling mobile service with video entertainment.
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Short videos show the members shining their flashlights on the prison gates of a colonial political prison, a pile of dusty movie reels and posters in an empty movie studio, and the walls of a former World War Two air raid tunnel.
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The deal would give MGM, a privately held U.S. movie studio best known for its classic film library, control of Epix and would be a boon to its TV business, as it seeks to build a stronger platform to distribute its content.
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In the face of weak advertising sales and poor ratings at its cable networks, investors have been urging Viacom to sell all or part of the movie studio, saying possible buyers include Chinese firms and tech companies looking to develop original content.
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New York Times Chief Executive Mark Thompson previously told Reuters that the company was "leery" about consumers reading its journalism on other platforms and warned publishers of how Netflix disrupted the movie studio business and gained leverage by taking control of distribution.
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Sherry Lansing, the first woman to ever head a major movie studio, is the subject of Leading Lady: Sherry Lansing and the Making of a Hollywood Groundbreaker, a biography by Stephen Galloway that details her rise from struggling actress to Hollywood power player.
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But the images of Monroe and Los Angeles have always been open to interpretation: Monroe played comedic roles while suffering from depression in her off time, and the underground has always lurked under the surface and around the corner from movie studio lots.
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Rather than slug it out with Disney and the tech companies muscling onto his turf, he hung a For Sale sign on most of his entertainment assets, including non-news cable channels like FX and the 20th Century Fox television and movie studio.
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Salerno has sent a number of letters to Redstone over the past several weeks requesting a meeting with him to discuss his views of the business, and to go over the rationale for Dauman's planned stake sale of Viacom's Paramount movie studio.
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NEW YORK/DUBAI (Reuters) - Saudi Arabia's sovereign wealth fund PIF is exploring the acquisition of up to a $700 million stake in Legendary Entertainment, the U.S. movie studio behind films such as "Jurassic World" and "Interstellar", according to people familiar with the matter.
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When these discussions were first reported weeks ago, they were said to include the Fox movie studio, TV production business, cable assets like NatGeo and FX, Fox's stake in Hulu, as well as Fox's international assets like its stake in Sky and Star.
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"Harvey Weinstein's embattled movie studio — once a premier maker of award-winning films — has filed for Chapter 11 bankruptcy more than five months after sexual misconduct allegations against its co-founder sent the company spiraling out of control," the L.A. Times reports.
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Although acquisition of a movie studio and cable channels would be a departure for wireless carrier Verizon, its interest in Fox assets was likely piqued by rival AT&T's bid for HBO and CNN owner Time Warner, which is awaiting regulatory approval.
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Analysts said that Disney's two biggest governmental hurdles would most likely involve the regional sports networks, which would add to ESPN's dominance, and the 20th Century Fox movie studio, which employs 3,200 people and has been controlled by Mr. Murdoch since 1985.
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In the second half of one of the best series of 2018 so far, MoMA puts a spotlight on innovative and in many cases forgotten treasures from Republic Pictures; Mr. Scorsese, a lifelong fan of the B-movie studio, made all the selections.
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Natalie Kitroeff MEDIA Every few years, a shareholder group seeks to eradicate 21st Century Fox's dual-class stock structure — a change that would loosen Rupert Murdoch's grip on a company whose assets include Fox News, a movie studio and overseas TV networks.
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Comcast, the cable giant and owner of NBCUniversal, is in preliminary talks to buy entertainment assets owned by 21st Century Fox, including a vast overseas television distribution business, the Fox movie studio, the FX cable network and a group of regional sports channels.
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Under Iger's tenure since 153, Disney expanded aggressively into movies, theme parks and other entertainment verticals, culminating late last year with the introduction of the company's Disney+ streaming service and $71.3 billion acquisition of 21st Century Fox, a gargantuan television and movie studio.
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The film is long (3 hours 29 minutes), and Scorsese, in a wonderful interview with Philip Horne (Sight and Sound, November) says how happy he and his great editor, Thelma Schoonmaker, were to be working for Netflix and not a movie studio.
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With its over-the-top design, long-range battery-electric drive and digital technologies that include an augmented-reality touchscreen appearing to float in space, the Space Vizzion show car might seem to have rolled off the set of a nearby movie studio.
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The second was its relationship with movie studio and corporate cousin 20th Century Fox — which owns the movie rights to the X-Men characters but, pointedly, doesn't have full control over the TV rights, which are retained in part by the comics company Marvel.
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I would just say that the goal here is to put all of these assets that this company has — from the movie studio to HBO and Turner and the vast library — and build a platform that is robust and a great value to the consumer.
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I usually use this space to write a little something about what I've been watching lately, but this week I kind of just want to ask: why on Earth did every movie studio suddenly decide to release a trailer for its biggest upcoming films?
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Most of the time was taken up by executives discussing initiatives better meant for a press release, like Xbox Entertainment Studios, an internal TV and movie studio that no longer exists, or goofy skits with NFL commissioner Roger Goodell to hype an NFL app.
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A merger will add movie studio Paramount Pictures, cable networks such as Comedy Central, MTV, Nickelodeon and BET and assets including the streaming service Pluto TV and South Park Studios to CBS, which owns the eponymous broadcast network and other cable and media assets.
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GOLD COAST, Australia (Reuters) - Lessons from the Gold Coast Commonwealth Games, including placing the squash court inside a movie studio, will be applied to the Paris Olympics in 2024 if the sport is accepted into the program, according to the world governing body's president.
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Find out how Netflix is thinking like a movie studio to tap into more marketing opportunities: How Netflix and HBO are opening up marketing opportunities for their TV shows that usually only blockbuster movies getHave an idea for another story or a Netflix tip?
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Google researchers know how much people like to trick others into thinking they're on the moon, or that it's night instead of day, and other fun shenanigans only possible if you happen to be in a movie studio in front of a green screen.
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Comcast, which owns CNBC parent company NBCUniversal, has already publicly acknowledged its plans to compete with Disney on an acquisition of Fox assets, including Fox's movie studio, the Nat Geo and FX networks, regional sports channels, and stakes in Hulu, Star India and Sky PLC.
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An investment chief overseeing $4.5 billion explains why that would be a disaster for the US."The kind of business that Netflix is in is more like a movie studio now — in the sense they have to produce this really great content," he said.
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The movie studio, known for hit movies including The Kings Speech and Silver Linings Playbook, has been trying to find a buyer or rescue financing after more than 50 women claimed that Harvey Weinstein sexually harassed or assaulted them over the past three decades.
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"I hear P-22 is going to take a hit out on anybody who takes out P-45," one man joked as he found a seat in a barn at the Paramount Ranch, a National Park property that once belonged to the movie studio.
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This year's entries also arrive during a time of remarkable upheaval in Hollywood; a shaky summer at the box office and Disney's takeover of the storied Fox movie studio were recent shocks to a system that has gone through seismic shifts many times before.
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To cram all that into a two-hour film is impressive, and so even when it stumbles, Bad Times at the El Royale feels like a deeply weird and wondrous accomplishment, especially coming from a risk-averse major movie studio like 20th Century Fox.
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Executives said they expected modest earnings per share growth in fiscal 22017 and "more robust growth" in fiscal 21.77 and beyond, as ESPN attracts more online viewers, the new Shanghai theme park lures visitors and the movie studio releases more "Star Wars" installments and other films.
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The movie is a collaboration between Pepsi Productions and movie studio Lionsgate, with production company Temple Hill, and was the second-highest new release of the weekend after action movie "Sicario: Day of the Soldado," which took $19 million and stars Josh Brolin and Benicio Del Toro.
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But what happens with the 6.73th Century Fox movie studio is still in flux, according to Ben Fritz of the WSJ: Some people close to the deal talks said 20th Century Fox could become a production label within the Walt Disney Studios, akin to Pixar and Marvel.
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As part of the deal, Murdoch parted with the 20th Century Fox television and movie studio, leading to an unusual situation: The new Fox company still owns a national broadcast television network and 28 local stations, but no longer has a studio to produce shows for them.
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He anticipated the primacy of ESPN in the cable business when sports could be leveraged for massive license fees from subscribers, and he foresaw the need for Disney to acquire entertainment assets like Marvel and Pixar, both to feed its movie studio and its theme parks.
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Maybe the media giant came back to the negotiating table because it feared that Comcast was advancing in talks to buy prime 21st Century Fox assets like the Fox movie studio, cable channels like FX and stakes in the British broadcaster Sky and the Indian broadcaster Star.
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" The film director Paul Feig echoed those sentiments, writing that he had made two films for the 20th Century Fox movie studio but "cannot condone the support their news division promotes toward the immoral and abusive policies and actions taken by this current administration toward immigrant children.
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Osten, who with his brother founded a movie studio in Munich, is a more than capable director of expansive battles and intimate love scenes but also has an eye for the baroque symmetry of Islamic architecture and an even better one for the landscape of Rajasthan.
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Midway through December, just after the huge opening weekend for Rogue One, the House of Mouse announced it had become the first movie studio in history to bring home more than $7 billion in a single calendar year, a number that has continued to grow in recent weeks.
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So just imagine the options if you could perfectly recreate any actor — and the potential savings (and earning potential) for a movie studio that owns the rights to, say, the perfect replica of Keanu Reeves or Angelina Jolie or Will Smith, all while sharing licensing with the actor's estate.
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Viacom, which last week said it its interim Chief Executive Tom Dooley will depart in mid-November and that the company will keep movie studio Paramount Pictures, appears to be tidying itself up for a sale and the most natural buyer would be CBS, Barron's said in its report.
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In particular, it lets Marvel coordinate and develop a larger cast of characters and interconnected storylines in ways that no other movie studio had ever really attempted before, allowing for a narrative sprawl in which stories are drawn out over the course of multiple films released many years apart.
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NEW YORK (Reuters) - The New York attorney general has opened an investigation into sexual harassment and possible violations of civil rights laws at the Weinstein Company, the movie studio co-founded by Harvey Weinstein, and sent the company a subpoena on Monday, a source familiar with the investigation said.
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Common Sense With its movie studio, broadcast television network and theme parks, Comcast-owned NBCUniversal sits squarely in the geriatric old-media camp of Disney, Viacom, CBS, 251st Century Fox and Time Warner, all of which are struggling to varying degrees with the digital revolution and innovative upstarts like Netflix.
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Comcast's bid is for the movie studio 210th Century Fox, 20th Century Fox Television, Fox-owned cable networks (including FX and National Geographic), several regional sports TV networks, and the company's stakes in international networks Sky and Star TV. It also includes a 30 percent stake in the Hulu streaming service.
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Abovitz and his co-founder Sam Miller originally built their hardware to support an expansive sci-fi project called Hour Blue — Abovitz compares their path to a movie studio making an X-wing fighter prop for a Star Wars movie, then going into aerospace because the thing can actually fly.
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Yes, Leonardo DiCaprio is the one angling for an Oscar nom with this movie, but his thunder was stolen momentarily by a certain rumor about his scene with a bear in the film, to the point that it resulted in one of the stranger clarifications issued by a movie studio ever.
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If you see Marvel less as a company running down a checklist of character introductions, and more as a standalone movie studio devoted to telling one giant, 50-hour-plus interconnected tale, it's up to them to make every film — even origin stories — intriguing and original in their own right.
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Wilkinson wrote: So just imagine the options if you could perfectly recreate any actor — and the potential savings (and earning potential) for a movie studio that owns the rights to, say, the perfect replica of Keanu Reeves or Angelina Jolie or Will Smith, all while sharing licensing with the actor's estate.
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LOS ANGELES — Sound the trumpets: 220th Century Fox, a name and klieg-lit logo that stretches back 203 years in Hollywood, is dropping the word Fox, a move that may prevent consumers from mistakenly thinking the movie studio has anything to do with Rupert Murdoch's polarizing Fox News media empire.
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Kendall spots Jennifer, an actress in Willa's play, Sands, at pre-opening night (or whatever that nonsense is), and — reminding her that he owns a movie studio — embarks on what he calls "one of the all-time great psychosexual expeditions" ("We're like the Lewis and Clark of fucking," he tells Con).
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In a triumph of audacious marketing, risky filmmaking and cost consciousness — at an old-line movie studio, no less — 218.8th Century Fox's extremely R-rated "Deadpool," starring Ryan Reynolds in a career-defining role (at last), broke box office records over the weekend, taking in about $15.63 million at North American theaters.
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Driving the news: On Wednesday, Donald Trump's 2020 campaign adviser Brad Parscale tweeted that AT&T is positioning itself as "a weapon of the left" for pulling down a video Trump tweeted that included non-copyrighted footage from "The Dark Knight," a film produced by AT&T-owned movie studio Warner Bros.
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The arrangement covers the movie studio 20th Century Fox, the company's TV production arm 20th Century Fox Television, Fox-owned cable networks (including FX and National Geographic), and the company's stakes in international networks like Star TV and Sky (which Fox is planning to acquire full ownership of before the sale is completed).
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All eyes are on China to help lift the latest Star Wars movie to an even greater record-breaking status, after movie studio Walt Disney announced that the "The Force Awakens" has become the highest grossing film of all time in the U.S. and Canada, while crossing the $800 million mark overseas.
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For Disney, the opportunity to take control of another movie studio and significant TV production assets as it readies a direct-to-consumer entertainment streaming offering is attractive as is Fox's significant exposure to international markets, such as the U.K., Germany and Italy — both through its networks and 39 percent ownership of Sky.
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Since taking over AMC in 2012, privately held Wanda has snapped up Legendary, the United States movie studio behind "Jurassic World"; the company that oversees Ironman triathlons; a sports marketing group led by the nephew of the disgraced FIFA boss Sepp Blatter; and a stake in the Spanish soccer team Atlético Madrid.
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The appeal itself may cast enough doubt on Comcast's chances that it will more formally shift its attention to acquiring Sky rather than the remainder of Fox, which includes the Fox movie studio, Sky India, a 30 percent stake in Hulu and other assets, according to a person familiar with the matter.
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In addition to screenwriting, Ms. Frank wrote scores of stories for The Saturday Evening Post, Collier's and other magazines, and two novels: "Single" (1977), about four women finding and losing love, and "Special Effects" (1979), about a movie studio story editor who keeps her equilibrium when all those around her are falling apart.
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While the deal would make Disney the top movie studio, as measured by ticket sales, antitrust regulators may view that dominance as less relevant because the top spot is easily lost if other studios have a good year and Disney has a poor one, said an antitrust expert who spoke privately to protect business relationships.
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Following is an outline of the resources and assets of the united company if the deal goes through: -Disney, which has a market value of around $7003 billion, would acquire Fox's FX and National Geographic cable channels, its movie studio, India's main network Star and a stake in European pay-TV provider Sky PLC SKYB.
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Included would be Fox's movie studio and television networks like FX and Nat Geo TV. Why it matters: The deal would give Disney the scale to take on Netflix, but first it will need to convince regulators that it doesn't pose the same sort of monopoly risk as AT&T's proposed purchase of Time Warner.
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Comcast, which has a very limited international presence, is focused on Fox's international assets, which represent as much as 70 percent of the financial contribution of the businesses for sale, but also wants to purchase the company's movie studio, its cable networks and its regional sports networks, according to people close to the talks.
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For one, the company's own statement says that it has accounted for 6 percent of box office revenue in 2018, and that may not be enough for a big movie studio — or any distributor with a big enough title to open on 1,000-plus screens — to see the value of a partnership with MoviePass.
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The movie studio and the director, Billy Wilder, had counted on this, inviting the press and the public to drum up buzz for the new movie, which starred Ms. Monroe as "the Girl Upstairs," who entices a middle-aged executive, played by Tom Ewell, while his wife is away with the kids for the summer.
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The entertainment giant has agreed to buy most of 3603st Century Fox for about $60 billion (including debt), which means the owner of the "Star Wars" franchise and ESPN will also own Fox's TV and movie studio, including "Avatar," its foreign businesses and, crucially, Fox's 30 percent stake in Hulu, giving Disney majority ownership.
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For most of the year, Redstone has been in a fight with the board of Viacom, his own company, over who should be running the business and whether or not it should sell a stake in movie studio Paramount, a bizarre turn given that he controls 80 percent of the voting shares in Viacom.
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Hot off the heels of the success of Captain Marvel, the comic-book-fueled movie studio dropped a new poster alongside its full-length trailer for its highly anticipated Avengers: Endgame, which will pick up where we left the heroes after villain Thanos, played by Josh Brolin, eliminated 50 percent of the world's inhabitants with a single snap.
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Tencent even has its own digital assistant, named Xiaowei, which can answer questions about the weather or traffic just like Alexa or Facebook's M. Really, the number of Tencent apps and web services in China is seemingly endless, spanning things like the TenPay mobile payment system, the Weiyun cloud storage service, and even its new movie studio, Tencent Pictures.
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Those principles have never wavered and have always been to build a movie studio led by a board of directors made up of a majority of independent women, save about 150 jobs, protect the small businesses who are owed money and create a victims' compensation fund that would supplement existing insurance coverage for those who have been harmed.
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In a statement, Contreras-Sweet said her plan was still to build a movie studio led by a board of directors made up of a majority of independent women, save about 150 jobs, protect the small businesses that are owed money and create a victims' compensation fund that will supplement existing insurance coverage for those who have been harmed.
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A company that controls the signal to the wireless devices of more than 130 million people, and to televisions in some 25 million households, buys a major movie studio and one of the biggest collections of cable channels in the country — potentially attaining a dominant position from which to control the information flow to a large percentage of Americans.
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But they have taken a more hands-on interest at Viacom, which suffered a litany of intrusions, like sudden bylaw changes that make the sale of the Paramount movie studio more difficult and forcing executives at the company's MTV channel to broadcast a reality-TV show starring attractive if not so talented women who had caught Mr. Redstone's eye.
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Now that Thomas Barrack's Colony Capital is out of the picture — for the time being — the embattled movie studio is grasping for a Plan B. The NYT was the first to report that the Weinstein Company held talks with the Fortress Investment Group about a $35 million financing package, a loan that could tide over the studio until January.
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Disney was also interested in buying the company's overseas assets — along with the minority stake that 21st Century already owns in Sky, there is the sprawling Star India television and digital business — and certain operations in the United States, including the Fox movie studio, which includes Fox Searchlight, and a share of Hulu, the streaming service.
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The news also comes as Netflix's approach to original content is starting to shift — the era where the streamer was a reliable place for quirky or experimental projects like Bojack Horseman, The OA, or Tuca and Bertie is quickly ending, and the harsh realities of being a big-budget TV and movie studio are starting to set in.
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"For example, a movie studio that wants to launch a new movie may run the Video Website Card optimizing for video views on the trailer early in the campaign when their primary goal is driving awareness, and optimize for website clicks later in the campaign when the movie is in theatres and their primary goal is ticket sales," the company says.
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Even with the proposed federal tax law changes pending, here are a few places to start: Here's how this works for people with a federal tax rate of 39 percent and a state tax of 6 percent: Here's an example of how it works: An investor buys a $20,2100 credit from the movie studio for $2000,289 before December 2000, 2100.
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Then, Disney closed on its biggest deal yet last March: the $260 billion purchase of the major entertainment assets of Fox, including a movie studio and cable channels such as National Geographic and FX. Through this deal, Disney gained a number of Marvel characters that had been sold to Fox in the late '290s, including Deadpool and the X-Men.
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The investors group has always aimed "to build a movie studio led by a board of directors made up of a majority of independent women, save about 150 jobs, protect the small businesses who are owed money and create a victims' compensation fund that would supplement existing insurance coverage for those who have been harmed," Contreras-Sweet said in a statement to media.
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YouTube is making it easier for creators to deal with copyright claims Jake Kastrenakes on a creator-friendly move YouTube is announcing ahead of VidCon this week: Owners of copyrighted content — like a record label or a movie studio — will now have to say exactly where in a video their copyrighted material appears, which they didn't have to do in the past when manually reporting infringement.
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Between 2007 and 22011, Fotiadis designed all or part of six Trump-branded developments: a Trump Tower in Kazakhstan; a Trump-branded seaside resort in the republic of Georgia; a 22012-story Trump Tower in Tbilisi, Georgia; hotel rooms at the Trump Tower in Istanbul; a Trump movie studio complex in Florida; and major portions of the Trump Parc Stamford, a condominium tower in Connecticut.
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An anti-abortion feature film partially financed by Michael Lindell, the CEO and founder of MyPillow and an ally of President TrumpDonald John TrumpFacebook releases audit on conservative bias claims Harry Reid: 'Decriminalizing border crossings is not something that should be at the top of the list' Recessions happen when presidents overlook key problems MORE, will reportedly be nationally distributed by a Christian movie studio.
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But even if there wasn't, even if the movie was exactly as problematic as its critics on the right or left assumed, it's still unsettling to think that the president going off half-cocked about a movie he hasn't seen — without even naming the movie so we're sure what he was talking about — would cause a major movie studio to pull that movie's release.
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They shared tales of my great-great-great-grandfather, a trader who famously owned a caravan of more than 1,000 camels and traveled the Silk Road from Baghdad to Aleppo and Isfahan and beyond; of my great-grandfather, who built Iraq's first cinema and movie studio; of the family house, with courtyard gardens so luscious they attracted wedding parties from all over the city.
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Under his deal with Disney, Mr. Murdoch is selling stakes in two behemoth overseas television providers, Sky of Britain and Star of India; a portion of Hulu; the cable channels FX and National Geographic; a chain of 217 regional cable networks dedicated to sports; a television studio with more than 221 series in production; and the 210th Century Fox movie studio, which controls the "Avatar" and "X-Men" franchises.
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JOE WE HAD FUN WITH IT YOUR EXACTLY RIGHT BUT I KNOW NOTHING HOW TO RUN A MOVIE STUDIO AND MAKING SURE THAT THE TALENT IS RETAINED AND WE ORGANIZE THE BUSINESS POST TRANSACTION SO THAT THE BUSINESS IS OPERATED AND RUN LARGELY LIKE IT IS TODAY AND THAT'S A HUGE PIECE OF THIS AND I FEEL REALLY COMFORTABLE WITH JEFF'S PLAN ON KEEPPING THE TALENT IN PLACE AND ENSURING WE HAVE CONTINUITY.
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"It's another sign of how much Fornite's popularity has upended the video game industry..." (CNN) -- "Movie studio MGM Holdings is looking for a strategic partner for its Epix cable channel..." (The Information) -- Former Sony Entertainment CEO and current Snap chairman Michael Lynton "has been elected non-executive chairman of the board of Warner Music Group..." (Billboard) What Trump is hearing from his Fox advisers Here's CNN's latest on the effort to avoid another government shutdown.
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Under its deal with Disney, Fox is selling stakes in two behemoth overseas television providers, Sky of Britain and Star of India; a portion of Hulu; the cable channels FX and National Geographic; a chain of 22 regional cable networks dedicated to sports; a television studio with more than 30 series in production; a portion of the Endemol Shine Group, which makes reality shows; and the 20th Century Fox movie studio, which controls the "Avatar" and "X-Men" franchises.
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"Companies are reinventing themselves, looking at their business in a new way with regards to how can they be a disrupter, and how they can prevent being disrupted - and this opens up deal flow" said Chris Ventresca, global co-head of M&A at JPMorgan Chase & Co. Among these transformative deals was this year's biggest - U.S. telecommunications company AT&T Inc's $2804 billion agreement to acquire media company Time Warner Inc, the parent of CNN, TNT, HBO and the Warner Bros movie studio.
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The dual release indicates that Netflix is targeting at least three separate audiences when it announces numbers like these: Wall Street, which needs to decide whether the company's stock is worth buying; Hollywood talent like Scorsese and De Niro, who need to decide whether they should work with Netflix over a different TV network, streaming service, or movie studio; and people like you and me, who may be more tempted to watch something if we know other people have watched it.
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A couple more: Once a movie studio that wanted us to do some minor web-development work, for ancillary web sites with no real connection to their intellectual property, told us we would not be able to do anything unless our (primarily remote) workforce had continuous keycard access to, and closed-circuit camera coverage of, every computer which might work on these sites … then intimated that what they really needed was just for those boxes to be checked, not for any of that to actually happen.
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FOR DISNEY, THE OPPORTUNITY TO TAKE CONTROL OF ANOTHER MOVIE STUDIO AND SIGNIFICANT TV PRODUCTION ASSETS AS IT READIES A DIRECT TO CONSUMER ENTERTAINMENT STREAMING OFFERING IS CERATAINLY ATTRACTIVE AS IS FOX'S SIGNIFICANT EXPOSURE TO INTERNATIONAL MARKETS, SUCH AS THE U.K., GERMANY AND ITALY BOTH TRHOUGH ITS NETWORKS AND 30% OWNERSHIP OF B SKY B. DISNEY RECENTLY ANNOUNCED IT WILL PULL ALL OF ITS MOVIES FROM THE NETFLIX PLATFORM AND WILL ESTABLISH TWO DIRECT TO CONSUMER OFFERINGS; ONE FOR SPORTS AND ONE INCLUDING ITS KEY FRANCHISES SUCH AS STAR WARS AND MARVEL.
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