5 d. ago How Warner Bros Discovery’s David Zaslav defied Hollywood — again

The Netflix-Paramount bidding war puts the much-criticised CEO in line for a bumper payday

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7 d. ago BrewDog AXES controversial beer ads after they were branded ‘shameful’ amid furious backlash

BREWDOG has axed a controversial advert for their revamped beer that included the word "suicide". The brewers announced they had refreshed their Punk IPA beer in a bid to boost slowing sales of the flagship product. The new recipe had been advertised in a digital outdoor campaign with the strapline 'Tastes like commercial suicide'. But...

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9 d. ago Paramount chief reportedly promised Trump ‘sweeping changes’ at CNN as part of Warner Bros. takeover

David Ellison’s father has also brought up with White House officials which CNN anchors they’d like to get rid of if Paramount were to purchase Warner Bros. Discovery.

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1 week ago Warner Bros Disaster? Netflix deal for Hollywood giant follows string of flops

David Zaslav, CEO of Warner Bros Discovery, promised ‘everyone’ would win by combining the storied Hollywood studios with his reality TV giant. Instead, many lostIt’s less than five years since David Zaslav, CEO of Warner Bros Discovery, negotiated what looked like the deal of his career. Now as Netflix plans a landscape-changing takeover of Warner Bros, he’s in the middle of an even bigger one.Zaslav, or Zaz, is a hard-charging, well-connected executive who cut his teeth inside NBC, and ascended into New York’s media elite as he transformed Discovery Inc from a nature- and science-focused cable broadcaster into a reality TV giant. Continue reading...

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1 week ago Warner Bros Disaster? Netflix inks deal for troubled Hollywood giant

David Zaslav, CEO of Warner Bros Discovery, promised ‘everyone’ would win by combining the storied Hollywood studios with his reality TV giant. Instead, many lostIt’s less than five years since David Zaslav, CEO of Warner Bros Discovery, negotiated what looked like the deal of his career. Now as Netflix plans a landscape-changing takeover of Warner Bros, he’s in the middle of an even bigger one.Zaslav, or Zaz, is a hard-charging, well-connected executive who cut his teeth inside NBC, and ascended into New York’s media elite as he transformed Discovery Inc from a nature- and science-focused cable broadcaster into a reality TV giant. Continue reading...

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1 week ago ‘Ready to execute’: how Netflix stole Warner Bros from David Ellison

Old-guard Hollywood underestimated streaming pioneer that has upended the industry over two decades

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3 w. ago David Warner's wife contemplated suicide after backlash to Sonny Bill Williams tryst

David Warner's wife Candice was photographed in a public toilet with rugby star Sonny Bill Williams in 2007

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3 w. ago David Warner's ironwoman wife contemplated suicide after toilet tryst with rugby star

David Warner's wife Candice had a highly-publicised intimate moment with a former rugby player that led to her contemplating taking her own life

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