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David Zaslav's $886 Million Warner Sale Pay Day Under Fire From Proxy Advisor Suggesting Shareholders Vote "No
23+ hour, 20+ min ago (314+ words) The influential shareholder proxy advisory firm Institutional Shareholder Services recommended that Warner Bros. Discovery shareholders reject the golden parachute pay packages for CEO David Zaslav and other top executives at the company, noting the "extraordinary" nature of the agreements. But…...
The Most Powerful People in the World Are Obsessed With Media Again
1+ week, 4+ hour ago (610+ words) Sam Altman is buying his favorite show, Larry Ellison is buying CNN to merge it with CBS News, Jamie Dimon is toying with launching a venture. It may mark a new era of vanity media owners. It's a tale as…...
David Zaslav Gets the Last Laugh
4+ week, 1+ day ago (1786+ words) The Warner Bros. mogul's $111 billion deal with David Ellison reveals the next stage of the business: The rich get richer, the big get bigger and everybody else is left in the dust. On March 5, a week after inking a $111 billion…...
Inside Josh D'Amaro's Rise at Disney: How a Theme Park Veteran Became CEO
2+ mon, 6+ day ago (1087+ words) The exec is said to have strong relationships with Disney's creative team, an appetite for risk-taking, and a desire to understand what the entertainment giant's loyal fans want. If there was a moment in Josh'D'Amaro's'nearly'30-year'career at The Walt Disney…...
Movie Theaters Go Public With New Effort to Stop Warner Bros. Sale
3+ mon, 2+ day ago (225+ words) The major exhibitors' top lobbying group, Cinema United, reiterated its opposition to Congress ahead of a Washington D. C. hearing on the Netflix acquisition. " Movie theater chains are bringing their opposition to any sale of Warner Bros. to Capitol Hill. "Such an…...
Warner Bros. Discovery Officially Rejects Paramount's Revised Offer, Stands by Netflix Deal
3+ mon, 3+ day ago (479+ words) Paramount released a revised tender offer last month, with Larry Ellison agreeing to personally backstop the deal. WBD says the offer would be 'the largest LBO in history.' Warner Bros. Discovery is still sticking with Netflix. Even after David Ellison's…...
The Billionaires" Brawl: Hollywood"s Top Dealmakers of 2025
3+ mon, 3+ week ago (417+ words) David Zaslav sparks a bidding war to sell Warner Bros. , Lachlan Murdoch is rebuilding the Fox empire and Bob Iger is getting Disney into the AI gold rush. Inside the year that reshaped the industry. What happened to a quiet…...
David Ellison's High Wire Act
8+ mon, 4+ day ago (643+ words) The ambitious Oracle heir, who once counted Steve Jobs as a mentor, hopes to turn Paramount Skydance into a tech-era media monolith. But does he have the'team " or the vision " to scale that mountain? The emphasis spoke volumes about where…...
That's It, The F-Word Is Officially Boring
9+ mon, 2+ week ago (228+ words) And just like that, Donald Trump ruined something else. To be fair, Democrats also played a role in spoiling it. And if we're being totally honest, the whole thing was on the verge of collapse anyway. We're talking about the…...
The Liver King Gets Out of Jail and Doubles Down: "The Videos Will Never Stop
9+ mon, 2+ week ago (392+ words) Brian Johnson posted a new video discussing his arrest for making a terroristic threat against Joe Rogan and continued to hint that he wanted to fight the podcaster despite now being under a restraining order. Brian "The Liver King" Johnson…...