Stay informed with free updates Simply sign up to the Media myFT Digest — delivered directly to your inbox. Movie fans flocked to see Disney’s Lilo and Stitch and the eighth instalment of Paramount’s Mission: Impossible franchise, giving Hollywood hope […]
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After Donald Trump’s upset election victory in 2016, Hollywood got angry. Then it got organised. “It was a total shock, and then it released a huge burst of energy,” a longtime Hollywood executive says of Trump’s first election win. “People talked
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Disney’s $15mn defamation payout to Donald Trump has set a dangerous precedent for media freedom, said legal experts and news executives, as the incoming president threatens to “straighten out” the “corrupt” press. Disney-owned ABC News last week agreed to pay
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Stay informed with free updates Simply sign up to the Media myFT Digest — delivered directly to your inbox. Wicked and Gladiator II jolted a sagging global box office back to life, with the two films taking in $385mn worldwide
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Unlock the Editor’s Digest for free Roula Khalaf, Editor of the FT, selects her favourite stories in this weekly newsletter. Netflix’s push into streaming live events will be put to its biggest test on Friday with the boxing match-up between
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Unlock the US Election Countdown newsletter for free The stories that matter on money and politics in the race for the White House Jeff Bezos sought to tamp down controversy over his ownership of the Washington Post on Monday, saying
Connor Gentry, a student at Arizona State University, has been distracted from his studies in recent weeks as he immersed himself in Kamala Harris’s presidential campaign. “I’ve been working 10 hours a day, knocking on doors, calling voters, telling my
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Netflix’s leadership team looked shaken. The blistering 10-year growth streak that had made it a Wall Street darling came to an abrupt end in the spring of 2022 with the revelation that it was losing hundreds of thousands of subscribers.
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Unlock the Editor’s Digest for free Roula Khalaf, Editor of the FT, selects her favourite stories in this weekly newsletter. Media scion Shari Redstone is set to receive more than half a billion dollars in severance, stock and benefits from
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