Andrew Lloyd Webber’s Really Useful Group has hired former MGM TV executive Charles Farmer to the newly created role of CEO.
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EA CEO Andrew Wilson has reportedly claimed that the company has been “impeded” by the FIFA brand.During an internal company meeting in November, Wilson stated that the FIFA license had been “an impediment” to EA’s plans for the series. That’s according to anonymous comments provided to VGC. Supposedly, Wilson claimed that FIFA had prevented EA from expanding its games into modes away from traditional 11vs11.Wilson went as far to say that the only value EA got from the license in a non-World Cup year was “four letters on the front of the box”.
While Wilson said that “we’ve had a great relationship with FIFA over the past 30-odd years,” it could be coming to a close. Wilson added he believes “the FIFA brand has more meaning as a video game than it does a governing body of soccer”.Elsewhere in the meeting, the CEO also added that players “want more cultural and commercial brands relevant to them”. He suggested they wanted such brands to be “more deeply embedded in the games”.
Nike was cited as an example, but Wilson pointed out that “because FIFA has a relationship with Adidas, we are not able to do that”.In recent times, it has been suggested by some sources that EA would end its relationship with FIFA. In October, the company said it was “exploring the idea of renaming our global EA SPORTS football games”. Following the news, FIFA suggested it was open to working with new games companies.
Andrew Lloyd Webber’s Really Useful Group has hired former MGM TV executive Charles Farmer to the newly created role of CEO.
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Netflix’s decision to cancel Cowboy Bebop after one season.The live-action adaptation of the 1998 anime series was released last November but was abruptly cancelled by Netflix three weeks later following negative reviews.Cho, who played lead character Spike Spiegel, has since addressed the show’s end to The Hollywood Reporter where he recalled how production shut down for months after he tore his ACL while on set in New Zealand.“I put a lot of my life into it,” Cho said. “I’d gotten injured shooting that show and so I took a year off because of the surgery and devoted myself to rehab, came back and finished the show.“It was this huge mountain for me to climb, healing from that injury. I felt good about myself as a result.
Netflix is notorious for cancelling some of their original programming after only one season on the streaming service.
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Todd Spangler NY Digital EditorBill Livek plans to retire as CEO of Comscore, capping a career in media measurement spanning more than 40 years.Comscore said its board of directors will consider external and internal candidates to succeed Livek as CEO and has engaged headhunting firm Spencer Stuart for the search. Once a replacement is named, Livek plans to transition to non-executive vice chairman and serve on Comscore’s board through the end of his term in mid-2024.Livek previously served as CEO of Rentrak and helped facilitate the 2016 merger of the company with Comscore, which combined Rentrak’s movie and TV measurement business with Comscore’s internet measurement — and has emerged as a credible rival to Nielsen.
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