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Frank Rose |
Vivendi's High Wireless Act CEO Jean-Marie Messier's deals with Vodafone and Seagram were a star turn on the European stage. As information becomes truly portable, a global media company paired with continent-wide distribution may prove an unbeatable combination....   |
Salon.com
July 17, 2002
Kathleen Sharp |
Death of the last tycoon At a star-studded memorial, Hollywood bids farewell to legendary Universal head Lew Wasserman, a Mob-reared patriarch who makes today's show-biz honchos look like midgets. |
AskMen.com
July 29, 2002
Ash Karbasfrooshan |
Business Survival: Culture Is Key Jean-Marie Messier's downfall is a great lesson for young professionals, because the world around us is changing and we are expected to lead that metamorphosis. |
BusinessWeek
June 7, 2004
Grover, Thornton & Lowry |
Mining for Gold in Tinseltown Flush with cash, private-equity funds are swarming over Tinseltown. In the process, the firms, which raise money from well-heeled investors looking to make large gains, could change the economics of Hollywood. |
CFO
December 1, 2003
Roy Harris |
Lights! Camera! Action! Buying Universal puts GE in the movie business. Its plan for synergies might make a good screenplay. |
BusinessWeek
April 17, 2006 |
The Director's Cut Steven Spielberg discusses the breakup with Universal, his new pals at Paramount, and Indiana Jones 4. |
Wired
April 2003
Frank Rose |
Barry Diller Has No Vision for the Future of the Internet. That's why the no-nonsense honcho of Home Shopping Network, Match.com, and Universal is poised to rule the interactive world. |
BusinessWeek
September 19, 2005
Matlack & Grover |
Vivendi's New Vitality Three years after Messier, it's cashing in on his media vision. The Paris company is now in pole position to capitalize on the rapid spread of digitized entertainment. But if Vivendi is admired for its creativity, investors remain perplexed by its overall corporate vision. |
BusinessWeek
July 11, 2005
Ronald Grover |
What's Driving The Box Office Batty Hollywood is pushing movies to DVD and video faster -- and theaters are feeling squeezed. And with the price of cinema tickets skyrocketing, this gives movie fans new clout. Clearly, some big script changes are in store. |
Wired
June 2000
Frank Rose |
You Oughtta Be in HTML Every week, another Hollywood exec bails to a startup. Is anyone going to stick around to build the future of the movie business? |
The Motley Fool
May 24, 2010
David Lee Smith |
Will Studios Nix Cable's Quick Trips for Flicks? Once again, operators want to shrink the time between movies' theatrical and home distribution. |
BusinessWeek
May 5, 2011
Michael White |
This Summer, Hollywood Could Use a Hero Hollywood will roll out big-budget movies almost weekly this summer in an effort to erase a $500 million box-office deficit so far in 2011. |
The Motley Fool
September 4, 2008
Tim Beyers |
Marvel's New Superpower: Lobbying Hollywood studios want tax breaks to keep them from moving film and TV productions to tax-friendlier locales. |
BusinessWeek
January 12, 2004 |
Second Acts A $2.6 billion purchase of Warner Music Group by Bronfman and a group of investors may give him a shot at redemption. |
The Motley Fool
May 12, 2004
Nathan Slaughter |
Say Hello to NBC Universal NBC officially completed its merger today with Vivendi's VUE. |
| Knowledge@Wharton |
Challenges Ahead for Vivendi's New CEO A water utility that tried to transform itself into a global media powerhouse, Vivendi and new CEO Jean-Rene Fourtou are in a life-threatening struggle for survival. |
BusinessWeek
September 4, 2006
Ronald Grover |
Duds In The Water The "smart money" sees slim returns from films. |
CFO
May 1, 2009
Kate Plourd |
Lights, Camera, Finance! For movie studios, a boom in ticket sales is not translating to easy access to financing. |
The Motley Fool
August 18, 2005
Tarek Sultani |
Hollywood's New Dream Team? DreamWorks SKG and Universal Studios consider merging -- and DreamWorks Animation could benefit. Investors, take note. |
BusinessWeek
December 20, 2004 |
More Trouble For Vivendi's Ex-CEO France's stock market regulator fined Vivendi Universal and its former chief executive officer, Jean-Marie Messier, $1.3 million each for misleading shareholders from 2000 to 2002. |
Macworld
March 30, 2007
Peter Cohen |
The Movies Fun strategy game allows you to go Hollywood. |
BusinessWeek
October 14, 2010
Grover & White |
Hollywood Looks to China for Movie Money China hopes its investments in Hollywood will help build its own entertainment industry. |
BusinessWeek
February 28, 2005
Grover & Edwards |
Game Wars Who will win your entertainment dollar, Hollywood or Silicon Valley? Last year the worldwide video game industry overtook movie box-office receipts, and some in Hollywood are racing to forge alliances with the techies. |
BusinessWeek
May 22, 2006 |
Facing The Digital Music Warner Music Group's Edgar Bronfman talks about what's ahead for the music industry. |
CRM
December 2011
Eric Barkin |
The Monday Morning Numbers on Movie Marketing How international growth, social media, and a decline in DVD sales are changing the film industry's marketing strategies. |
Salon.com
May 26, 2000
Gregg Kilday |
The long hot summer Hollywood raises the curtain on its annual money-spinning event, but this year's model looks awfully thin. |
The Motley Fool
September 29, 2011
Tim Beyers |
3 Stocks for the Coming Content War Go with the ones most likely to get great bids. Before we get to the details, it may be worth looking at how Hollywood studios/networks compare at the highest level. |
Fast Company
December 2005
Alan Deutschman |
Building a Better Movie Business It's the iconic American industry. But audiences are vanishing, piracy is soaring, and new technology is treacherous. Can Tinseltown innovate its way out of trouble? |
BusinessWeek
December 8, 2003
Grover & Lowry |
Will Bronfman Have The Last Laugh? If piracy keeps falling and Web sales keep climbing, Warner Music has a chance. |
BusinessWeek
November 24, 2010
Michael White |
After Harry Potter, Warner Seeks a New Hero With the teen sorcerer's saga ending, the studio taps its DC comic book stable |
BusinessWeek
August 8, 2005 |
Edgar Bronfman, on the Record Warner Music Group's CEO discusses why it was the right time to go public, the myth of his search for redemption, and Vivendi under Messier. |
The Motley Fool
October 6, 2009
Rick Aristotle Munarriz |
Casting Changes for Hollywood Execs Disney and Universal swap out their movie-studio top brass. |
Home Theater
October 5, 2009
Mark Fleischmann |
Will Comcast Merge with NBC? Cable operator's acquisition of venerable broadcast network would make waves. |
Salon.com
June 22, 2000
Mark Hunter |
Letter from France Le Grand Fromage: What the French think of Jean-Marie Messier, France's new king of content. |
The Motley Fool
June 22, 2004
Tim Beyers |
Two of Hearts Broken Former Vivendi CEO Jean-Marie Messier spends the night in a French jail. Messier is notorious for trying to transform a staid, 150-year-old French water utility into a global media giant. |
Fast Company
December 2005
Mark N. Vamos |
Editor's Letter: Hooray for Hollywood There is a revolution taking place in the film industry. |
BusinessWeek
July 8, 2010
Jesse Kornbluth |
Bronfman's Redemption Song Fortune's Fool: Edgar Bronfman Jr., Warner Music, and an Industry in Crisis, by Fred Goodman, discusses what Edgar Bronfman Jr., scion of the Seagram liquor empire, doing as the CEO of Warner Music Group. |
The Motley Fool
September 14, 2004
Seth Jayson |
Vivendi Flashes V for Victory Operating income was up 6.6% for the quarter and 8.8% for the first half of the year, which is not too bad given the recent operating unit divestitures, including Universal. |
BusinessWeek
January 12, 2004 |
Bob Wright The merger of NBC and Vivendi Universal, expected to close in the first half of 2004, is a defining event in Wright's 17 years as NBC chief. |
The Motley Fool
February 29, 2008
Anders Bylund |
End of the Line, New Line Time Warner's absorption of New Line studio could signal other big changes ahead. |
InternetNews
February 20, 2008 |
Amazon, Universal to Support Blu-ray Format Retailers, film studios switch allegiances following demise of HD DVD. |
BusinessWeek
July 14, 2003
Grover & Green |
Hollywood Heist Will tinseltown let techies steal the show? The ripping and burning of movies to DVDs is growing into a global underground industry that last year cost film studios an estimated $3 billion in lost DVD sales. It's prodding the guys in Guccis into action. |
BusinessWeek
July 8, 2010
Grover & Shields |
Why Hollywood Loves the White House Again In contrast to the last Bush White House, the Obama Administration has been responsive to Hollywood's policy agenda. |
The Motley Fool
March 2, 2004
Dave Marino-Nachison |
Warner Music Prepares for Cuts A published report confirms suspicions that many music jobs are at risk. |
The Motley Fool
October 1, 2004
Steven Mallas |
Cheaper Movies Paramount for Viacom Management might favor lower-budget films. Shareholders should hope so. |
The Motley Fool
June 1, 2007
Steven Mallas |
NBC Needs Managerial Heroes The network is in trouble -- can new management save the day? |
The Motley Fool
March 5, 2010
Cathy Applefeld Olson |
EMI's Bittersweet Symphony Industry consolidation may lie ahead. |
Investment Advisor
March 2009
Lewis Schiff |
Risky Business Advanced planning groups help create the outline for an orderly preparation and transition of a family business from one generation to the next. |
