“Barbie” arrived as a full-blown cultural event, with thousands of moviegoers draping themselves in pink for screenings, doll memes flooding social media and marketers scrambling (sometimes awkwardly) to glom onto […]
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With theatrical releases way down, the streaming giants have been pumping out multigenerational fare, including a number of live-action films. Read More
New Era Begins at Warner Bros., Back Toward Its Entertainment Roots
“Success is about creative talent, in front of the screen, and behind the screen, and fighting and fighting to create a culture that supports that creative vision,” Mr. Zaslav said […]
Streaming Companies Eye Britain for Studios to Meet Demand
LIVERPOOL, England — For two decades, the Littlewoods building in Liverpool, a long, low-slung and cavernous space built to house a betting and mail-order company in the 1930s, sat abandoned. […]
Discovery and AT&T: How a Huge Media Deal Was Done
Deals are rarely smooth, and an anomaly with Discovery’s share price dovetailed with the negotiations. Discovery’s stock began to inexplicably rocket in February and March to $75 from $45 because […]
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 […]
AT&T-Discovery Deal Would Create a Media Juggernaut
“AT&T didn’t know what they were buying,” said Brian Wieser, a longtime Wall Street analyst. “The strategy underpinning” the acquisition “was probably flawed.”Mr. Wieser said AT&T deserved credit for slimming […]
Ellen DeGeneres Loses 1 Million Viewers After Apologies for Toxic Workplace
Public perception of Ms. DeGeneres started to change in July when BuzzFeed reported that several of the show’s former and current staff members said they had confronted “racism, fear and […]
Warner Bros. Trades Box Office for HBO Max, but Stars Still Want Their Money
The 97-year-old studio, the ancestral home of Humphrey Bogart (“Casablanca”) and Bette Davis (“Now, Voyager”), suddenly finds itself at the uncomfortable center of a Hollywood that is changing at light […]
Warner Bros. Says All 2021 Films Will Stream on HBO Max Right Away
It was a framed as a singular event, and theater owners, desperate to fill screens with appealing content, happily agreed to it. “Given that atypical circumstances call for atypical economic […]