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Back to news homeThey Resurrected MGM. Amazon Bought the Studio. Now What?
The producer Matt Tolmach, who has two projects in the works at MGM, including the horror film “Dark Harvest,” set for release on Sept. 23, said Mr. De Luca’s passion […]
How David Ellison Built Skydance Into Hollywood’s Smart Bet
The equity deal with RedBird and CJ Entertainment valued Skydance at about $2.3 billion. At its current pace of growth — revenue is expected to increase more than 40 percent […]
Netflix Online Shop to Sell Products Tied to Shows Like ‘Lupin’
There will be “Lupin” pillows and Netflix-branded boxer shorts.There will be caps, necklaces, charms and hoodies, all of it for sale at Netflix.shop, a site that goes live on Thursday, […]
James Bond, Meet Jeff Bezos: Amazon Makes $8.45 Billion Deal for MGM
Amazon’s appetite for movies became ravenous during the pandemic. It paid $125 million for the rights to “Coming 2 America,” $80 million for “Borat Subsequent Moviefilm” and $200 million for […]
Scrounging for Hits, Hollywood Goes Back to the Video Game Well
LOS ANGELES — For 28 years, ever since “Super Mario Bros.” arrived in cinemas with the tagline “This Ain’t No Game,” Hollywood has been trying and mostly failing — epically, […]
‘It’s Magic What We Do.’ Movie Theaters Get Starry-Eyed Once More.
Cinemark, for instance, lost $208 million in the first quarter of 2021. Yet, “Today I am pleased to report that we are now actively on the road to recovery,” the […]
An Old-School Media Titan Pushes Aside an Upstart
Mr. Kilar fashioned himself as a disrupter inclined to break with the status quo in the pursuit of innovation. He became the chief executive of WarnerMedia in April 2020. He […]
AT&T’s WarnerMedia Group to Merge With Discovery
It’s as if Logan Roy, the fictional patriarch of the Waystar Royco media empire on HBO’s popular series “Succession,” masterminded the deal himself: AT&T has thrown in the towel on […]
How the Golden Globes Went From Laughingstock to Power Player
The H.F.P.A. took advantage of its new prominence, too, polishing its reputation by hiring the savvy public relations firm Sunshine Sachs a decade ago. It has also increased its philanthropic […]