Walt Disney Co (DIS.N) has struck a deal to buy film, television and international businesses from Rupert Murdoch’s Twenty-First Century Fox Inc (FOXA.O) for $52.4 billion in stock, giving the world’s largest...
Disney deal set to value Fox Inc at more than $75 billion: Source
Walt Disney Co’s deal to buy film, television and international businesses from Rupert Murdoch’s Twenty-First Century Fox Inc will value the latter at over $40 per share, or $75 billion, a person familiar...
DTH arm stake sale to help Bharti fight Reliance Jio
Bharti Group’s decision to sell a 20% stake in DTH arm Bharti Telemedia to Warburg Pincus for $350 million (Rs 2,258 crore) will enable flagship Bharti AirtelBSE 0.04 % fund its capital expenditure plan aimed at...
KKR scouts buyers for 49% stake in producer of Big Boss show
The US private equity fund KKR is scouting for buyers for its 49% stake in Endemol Shine India, which produces popular reality television shows such as Bigg Boss, Khatron Ke Khiladi and MasterChef India, people directly...
Adlabs in talks with PE firms to raise Rs 650 crore
Amusement park operator Adlabs Entertainment is in talks to raise about Rs 650 crore from financial investors as part of a two-pronged transaction that will comprise a sale of fresh shares by the company and a partial...
Cineworld in talks to acquire Regal Entertainment for $3.6 billion
Cineworld Group Plc, a British operator of movie theaters, is in talks to acquire U.S. peer Regal Entertainment Group for approximately $3.6 billion in cash, the companies said on Tuesday. A deal between the two would...
Former Obama administration official in bid for The Weinstein Co
Maria Contreras-Sweet, the former head of the U.S. Small Business Administration (SBA), has submitted an offer to acquire the Weinstein Co, a spokeswoman for the U.S. film and TV studio said on Sunday. Contreras-Sweet...
Spotify buys online recording studio Soundtrap
Music streaming company Spotify has bought online music and audio recording studio Soundtrap, it said on Friday, declining to give financial details of the deal. Stockholm-based Soundtrap allows its subscribers to have...
PVR to acquire minority stake in US-based theatre firm iPic
PVR LtdBSE 0.56 %, the country’s largest film exhibition company, is set to invest $4 million to pick up a minority stake in American luxury restaurant-and-theatre company iPic -Gold Class Entertainment, a company...
PVR partners with BookMyShow to scale up on-demand movie service Vkaao
PVR Pictures, the film distribution company of the largest Indian multiplex player PVR, has entered into a partnership with leading online ticketing company BookMyShow for Vkaao. Launched in January this year, Vkaao is...
Rcom to sell DTH business to Veecon Media and Television to pare debt
Reliance CommunicationsBSE 0.63 % (Rcom) has inked a pact with Veecon Media and Television Limited, for sale of its subsidiary Reliance BIG TV Limited (RBTV), which is in direct to home (DTH) services across India...
Reliance Entertainment’s OTT platform partners with Atrium TV for original programming
Anil Ambani-led Reliance Entertainment’s video-on-demand platform BIGFLIX has entered into a content partnership agreement with Atrium TV. With the deal in place, BIGFLIX will exclusively stream Atrium’s drama...
