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Bureau: Los Angeles
Netflix's first post-Hastings quarter, Paramount Skydance's $31-a-share WBD bid, and Disney's thousand-person D'Amaro cut converged into one story about who owns American television.
Madonna returned to Coachella twenty years after her Sahara Tent debut while Scorpions cancelled India, and the cameo is now the substitute product for the tour.
The $64 billion UMG proposal needs two-thirds approval and Bolloré controls roughly 32% directly and through Vivendi — fifteen days of his silence is the market's read.
Scorpions scrapped their four-city India tour Saturday citing medical reasons, the fifth tour cancellation in the 72-hour window the paper flagged Monday.
The Super Mario Galaxy Movie cleared $355M domestic in 19 days and is the first film to lead three straight weekends since Avatar Fire and Ash.
Take-Two cut its full AI division April 3 while Strauss Zelnick publicly called AI-generated hits a laughable notion.