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Warner Bros. Discovery CEO Finding A Lot Of Skeletons In The Financial Closet
Photo by Frederick M. Brown/Getty Images. Getty Images Warner Bros. Discovery just announced a much larger than previously reported write-down on its library content, putting some investors on edge. I...
Competing Against Netflix In Streaming Video Becoming Increasingly Expensive
Photo by Phil Barker/Future Publishing via Getty Images. Future Publishing via Getty Images Launching an online streaming video service to compete with NetflixNFLX was once thought of by investors as ...
Netflix is losing the streaming war amid Disney+’s rapid growth
Over the past 25 years, Netflix has changed the film and television landscape. The company has amassed nearly 221 million subscribers across 190 countries, billions of hours watched for popular series...
How Bryan Lourd became one of the most powerful people in Hollywood
Bryan Lourd speaks onstage during the Lincoln Center American Songbook Gala honoring Bonnie Hammer at Broadway Theatre on January 29, 2020 in New York City. Slaven Vlasic | Getty Images Entertainment ...
Dan Lin won’t take DC film and TV boss role at Warner Bros. Discovery
Producer Dan Lin attends the premiere Of Warner Bros. Pictures’ “The LEGO Batman Movie” at Regency Village Theatre on February 4, 2017 in Westwood, California. Todd Williamson | Gett...
HBO Max cuts 14% of staff mainly in casting, acquisitions and reality TV
David Zaslav, President and CEO of Warner Bros. Discovery talks to the media as he arrives at the Sun Valley Resort for the Allen & Company Sun Valley Conference on July 05, 2022 in Sun Valley, Id...
HBO Max And Discovery+ Will Combine Into One Streaming Service
Topline HBO Max and Discovery+ will become one combined streaming service next year, Warner Bros. Discovery CEO David Zaslav announced Thursday, months after the merger of WarnerMedia and Discovery br...
Discovery+ And HBO Max Swap Content As Warner Bros. Discovery Reportedly Plans To Restructure
Topline Warner Bros. Discovery announced major swaps between streaming services Discovery+ and HBO Max on Thursday, as the company reportedly mulls a major restructuring that could end with the two st...
Warner Bros. Discovery CEO Zaslav embraces linear TV as he plans a streaming future
David Zaslav, President and CEO of Warner Bros. Discovery talks to the media as he arrives at the Sun Valley Resort for the Allen & Company Sun Valley Conference on July 05, 2022 in Sun Valley, Id...
Bad Film Reviews Sink BatGirl Even Before It Opens
Leslie Grace (Photo by Axelle/Bauer-Griffin/FilmMagic) FilmMagic Just as the film was in post-production, management at Warner Bros Discovery decided to pull the plug on the DC Comics film BatGirl, de...
Luis Silberwasser Leaves TelevisaUnivision To Lead Warner Bros. Discovery Sports
Luis Silberbasser. Univision Warner Bros. Discovery has named Luis Silberwasser Chairman and CEO of Warner Bros. Discovery Sports, where he’ll lead the company’s domestic sports portfolio and ov...
‘Fantastic Beasts 3’ Becomes Warner Bros.’ Fourth Covid-Era Movie To Top $400 Million
‘Fantastic Beasts: The Secrets of Dumbledore’ Jaap Buitendijk Vudu is reporting that the biggest-grossing film on their VOD platform last weekend was the newly released Fantastic Beasts: T...
Warner Bros.’ Recommitment To Theatres Hints At Return To Normalcy
Robert Pattinson in ‘The Batman’ Warner Bros. David Zaslav made a bunch of news yesterday during the press rounds for Warner Bros. Discovery’s annual television upfront presentation. He go...
‘Uncharted’ Tops ‘The Batman’ On VOD And Nears $400 Million Worldwide
Mark Wahlberg and Tom Holland in ‘Uncharted’ Sony Vudu is reporting that Sony’s Uncharted was tops on its sales charts over the weekend as it “finally” arrived on EST (priced-to-own) digit...
Warner Bros. Discovery Won’t Overspend On Content As Last Discovery Quarter Tops 24M Streaming Subscribers
Warner Bros. Discovery CEO David Zaslav (Photo by Roy Rochlin/Getty Images) Getty Images In its last quarter before merging with WarnerMedia, Discovery Communications streaming services led by Discove...
Warner Bros. Discovery (WBD) Q1 2022 earnings
David Zaslav Anjali Sundaram | CNBC Warner Bros. Discovery shares fell Tuesday after the company warned its 2022 profit would be lower than expected in light of a “messy” combination of as...
What went wrong and why it was canceled
Executive producer Chris Licht of the television show Our Cartoon President speaks onstage during the CBS/Showtime portion of the 2018 Winter Television Critics Association Press Tour at The Langham H...
CNN+ The Latest Roadkill In Streaming Video Wars
Photo by John Greim/LightRocket via Getty Images. LightRocket via Getty Images Netfli NFLX x losing 200K subscribers was the big news in tech on Wall Street yesterday, but today’s shocking news is tha...
HBO Max And HBO Rise To 76.8M Global Subscribers
BURBANK, CALIFORNIA – OCTOBER 29: Tony Goncalves peaks onstage at HBO Max WarnerMedia Investor Day … [+] Presentation at Warner Bros. Studios on October 29, 2019 in Burbank, California. (P...