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27.10.2022 - 14:25 / deadline.com
Comcast narrowly beat Wall Street estimates in the third quarter despite volatility in the UK and Europe, tough comparisons with the year-ago Tokyo Olympics quarter and ongoing cord-cutting.
Earnings per share came in at 96 cents, six cents better than analysts’ consensus estimate. Total revenue also cleared the bar at $29.8 billion, though it was down 1.5% from the year-ago period.
At NBCUniversal, adjusted EBITDA rose almost 25% to $1.7 billion despite losses at streaming service Peacock. Revenue slid 4% to $9.6 billion.
The highlight within NBCU was the studios division, where revenue shot up 31% to $3.2 billion, on rising theatrical and licensing fortunes. The successful releases of Jurassic World: Dominion and Minions:The Rise of Gru came during the quarter.
Sky encountered turbulence, recording noncash impairment charges of $8.6 billion related to an increased discount rate and what the earnings release called “reduced estimated future cash flows as a result of macroeconomic conditions in Sky’s territories.”
The cable division shed 540,000 residential video customers in the quarter to land at a shade less than 16 million overall.
In an interview with CNBC earlier this month, NBCUniversal CEO Jeff Shell said Peacock had reached 15 million paying subscribers, a number affirmed in the official earnings release. Peacock has gotten off to a slower start than many of its streaming rivals, partly due to Covid launch conditions and an initial strategic emphasis on its free, ad-supported tier. NBCU and Comcast have been trying to goose its growth in a number of ways, from price discounts to pay-1 movie windows to re-routing titles there from Hulu.
Peacock losses widened to $614 million in the period from $520 million a
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Bloods star Jane Horrocks is joining the cast of another Sky original in the UK.
EXCLUSIVE: Sky is developing a drama series on beloved composer Mozart’s time in Vienna from Giri/Haji writer Joe Barton and produced by Patrick Melrose indie Two Cities Television.
Paying it forward. Julia Roberts confirmed that Martin Luther King Jr. and Coretta Scott King paid the hospital bill for her birth to help her parents.
No bad blood! Yung Gravy and Addison Rae’s mom, Sheri Easterling, may have called it quits on their brief romance — but the two remain good pals.
EXCLUSIVE: Austin Crute (Honk for Jesus. Save Your Soul.) has been tapped to star alongside Lucy Boynton and Justin H. Min in the romance The Greatest Hits, which Ned Benson (The Disappearance of Eleanor Rigby) is directing for Searchlight Pictures from his own script.
UPDATE: A Russian court has upheld the nine-year prison sentence of American basketball star Brittney Griner, drawing a rebuke from President Biden’s national security adviser Jake Sullivan, who called for Griner’s immediate release and decried the “sham judicial proceeding.”
Creed III, starring Michael B. Jordan and Jonathan Majors.
Michael B. Jordan's Adonis Creed is back in the ring for the third time, and this round is even more personal than the last.On Tuesday, the highly anticipated trailer for the Jordan-led boxing drama was released, and fans finally got a proper introduction to Jonathan Majors' Damian. The film picks up four years after the events of finding Adonis and his wife, Bianca (Tessa Thompson), comfortably successful in their life as they happily raise their daughter, Amara (Mila Davis-Kent) — who was born in the previous installment — in Los Angeles.
Michael B. Jordan versus Jonathan Majors in the first trailer for “Creed III,” and who will win this brawl is anybody’s guess. MGM and United Artists Releasing debuted footage from the upcoming boxing sequel on Tuesday morning. Jordan returns as Adonis “Donnie” Creed, son of Rocky Balboa’s fiercest opponent, Apollo Creed. But the actor isn’t just throwing punches at Majors’ antagonist Damian “Dame” Anderson in the film, “Creed III” also marks Jordan’s directorial debut. Just as “Rocky” star Sylvester Stallone went on to helm four of the franchise’s films, Jordan stakes his own claim behind the camera with an ambitious take on the material.
“There’s no enemy like the past,” and the past is certainly catching up with Adonis Creed in “Creed III.” And star Michael B. Jordan is doing triple duty on this film with all of it on his shoulders.
New Chancellor Jeremy Hunt has said he believes Liz Truss will still be Prime Minister at Christmas - despite five Tory MPs already publicly calling for her to step down.
EXCLUSIVE: Oscar winner Julianne Moore is set to lead Sky and AMC period-drama series Mary & George, about powerful royal family favourites Mary Villiers and her son George.
Todd Spangler NY Digital Editor G4 is shutting down — again. Comcast Spectacor, the cable and entertainment giant’s sports and esports division, told G4 TV employees Sunday that the gaming network was shutting down effective immediately. The decision has resulted in 45 staff members of G4 TV losing their jobs. In a memo, obtained by Variety, Comcast Spectacor chairman and CEO Dave Scott cited low viewership and said the network had not achieved “sustainable financial results.” “Over the past several months, we worked hard to generate that interest in G4, but viewership is low and the network has not achieved sustainable financial results,” Scott wrote. “This is certainly not what we hoped for, and, as a result, we have made the very difficult decision to discontinue G4’s operations, effective immediately.”
Tim Roth-starring Australian drama Last King of the Cross has been picked up by Sky in Europe, marking the first major sale of the Paramount+ series as it heads to Mipcom Cannes.
The Masked Dancer's Sea Slug has been unveiled as none other than Olympic gold medalist Denise Lewis. In the semi-final show, the panel, which consists of Jonathan Ross, Oti Mabuse, Davina McCall, Peter Crouch and guest panellist John Bishop, put their heads together to try and figure out who was behind the mask.
With the clocks going back a the end of this month, colder days and darker nights are well within touching distance. And while the season may signal the fun of bonfires, roasted marshmallows and autumnal walks, the changing weather has many of us wishing for warmer days. So what better way to pass the gloomy, chilly evenings than to book your next sunny break? Inspired by David and Victoria Beckham’s lavish trip earlier this year, Croatia is at the top of our bucket list thanks to its beautiful pebbled beaches, crystal-clear waters and magnificent mountains.