Tennis star Rafael Nadal and his wife Mery “Xisca” Perello are reportedly expecting their first child together!
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Lionsgate CEO Jon Feltheimer said the company is planning to unveil its plans for Starz by the late summer and close a deal by next spring as the process to monetize the premium channel and streamer moves forward.
“We are targeting an announcement of our plan by the end of the summer and expect a transaction could close as early as our fiscal fourth quarter,” the chief executive said on a conference call to discuss the company’s latest earnings. Lionsgate’s fiscal year ends in March.
Feltheimer said the company is engaged in conversations with bankers and “a number of potential strategic partners.”
Canal+, a division of French conglomerate Vivendi, has been in the mix as potential suitor as have Roku and Apollo Global management bidding jointly for a minority stake. DirecTV is also interested.
Lionsgate, acquired Starz for $4.4 billion in 2016. It announced last fall it was exploring strategic options for the cable network and streamer that has been growing fast in streaming under Jeff Hirsch but failed to provide a bump for its parent, which calculated that selling all or a part of the asset could unlock value.
The company exceeded analysts’ consensus in streaming last quarter, adding subs to reach a total of 35.8 million. The bulk is Starz — up 47% year on year — with 12.8 million from the StarzPlay International consortium, up by almost double that.
“Although streaming is not an end in itself, it is a very efficient way to bring content to our customers worldwide,” Feltheimer said.
Asked during a Q&A to clarify plans for Starz, he affirmed that the plan is for Starz to be separated from Lionsgate barring anything unforeseen.
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Tennis star Rafael Nadal and his wife Mery “Xisca” Perello are reportedly expecting their first child together!
Rafael Nadal and María Francisca Perelló are expecting their first child. The alarms went off at the Roland Garros tournament, where Nadal was able to win his 14th French Open title and 22nd Grand Slam - he becomes the oldest champ of the clay-court tournament history.
Lindsey Buckingham has confirmed his rescheduled UK and European shows.The former Fleetwood Mac guitarist and singer was in May forced to postpone the tour after he and members of his live band and crew contracted COVID.A statement at the time read: “This is heartbreaking for Lindsey, he was so excited to come to Europe for the first time as a solo artist this spring.”Buckingham will now play shows in Dublin, Glasgow, Liverpool and London between October 3 and October 6, 2022.The UK run follows rearranged gigs in France, the Netherlands, Belgium, Sweden, Norway and Germany. Original tickets are valid for all the corresponding new dates.Lindsey Buckingham’s UK and European tour dates 2022:OCTOBERSaturday 01 – London, London PalladiumMonday 03 – Glasgow, SEC ArmadilloTuesday 04 – Liverpool, Philharmonic HallThursday 06 – Dublin, HelixSpeaking in an interview with Clash last year Buckingham shared his view that Fleetwood Mac “were the kind of group who didn’t – on paper – belong in the same group together”.He added, however: “But yet that was the very thing that made us so effective.
Ryanair passengers could face further disruption this summer as cabin crew threaten to strike amid a dispute over pay.
This has been building since before Toby Emmerich exited and Michael De Luca and Pam Abdy took the reins at Warner Bros. Joaquin Phoenix hasn’t quite signed a deal to reprise his role as the disturbed murderous anarchist Arthur Fleck in a sequel to the billion dollar grossing Joker,. but the film is a go. Director Todd Phillips revealed on Instagram that there’s a Joker sequel script he just wrote with Scott Silver and that Joaquin Phoenix, who won an Oscar for playing the title role, is reading it. That isn’t quite true; Phoenix read it awhile ago, and it has come down to making a rich deal for him to star in the genre-jumping sequel.
Phoenix have released the music video for their new single ‘Alpha Zulu‘ alongside news of North American and European tour dates.The Pascal Teixeira-directed video, the concept of which came from the band and also saw contributions from Emma Besson and Louis Bes, was shared today (June 7). Watch below.It comes as the French band announce a new tour with some dates supported by Porches.
Patrick Frater Asia Bureau ChiefThe Taipei Film Festival has named prolific writer-director-producer Kevin Chu (aka Chu Yen-ping) as the recipient of its Outstanding Contribution Award. During the 1980s and the 1990s, Chu made many popular memorable commercial films and discovered several promising new actors — Chu wrote the script of “Never Too Late to Repent” and won the best screenplay award at the Asia Pacific Film Festival. After that, Chu made this directorial debut, “The Clown and the Swan,” which was a critically-acclaimed box office success in which comedy actor Hsu Pu-liao established his name.
After nearly two weeks of amazing fashion on the red carpet at the 2012 Cannes Film Festival, the festival has finally come to an end.
Refresh for latest…: The 75th Cannes Film Festival draws to a close tonight as the main awards, including the Palme d’Or, are soon to be handed out in the Palais. Scroll down for the list of winners which is being updated as prizes are announced.
Joe Alwyn and Margaret Qualley pose together at the photo call for their film Stars At Noon in Cannes, France on Thursday (May 26).
Rochelle Humes has floored her followers as she showed off a brand new look. Last week the presenter made an exciting trip to Cannes last week as part of her brand ambassador role with L'Oréal Paris.
Bruce Springsteen will hit the road joined by the full E Street Band for the first time since 2017 on a 2023 world tour.The Boss will reunite with Gary Tallent, Roy Bittan, Max Weinberg, Steven Van Zandt, Nils Lofgren, Patti Scialfa and more with North American arena dates in February. He’ll head to stadiums in Europe from late April and then back to the States in August.At this time, only European dates have been revealed with details for North American, UK and Belgium dates yet to be revealed. The European tour will include shows in Spain, Ireland, France, Italy, the Netherlands, Switzerland, Germany, Sweden, Norway, Denmark and Austria.
Cannes Film Festival that the pace of deals was almost as glacial as the amount of time it takes to get your check at a restaurant in the south of France.But then, sacré bleu, Netflix struck, shelling out more than $50 million for the rights to “Pain Hustlers,” a conspiracy thriller that unites Emily Blunt with Harry Potter director David Yates, and the move has started to accelerate deal-making up and down the Croisette.This year’s market has been a litmus test for film sales as the U.S. and key international markets emerge from the worst of the pandemic.
exciting and neeeeew than that old show.There are two concurrent plots here, both of which play like rudimentary fan fiction. The Dowager Countess (Maggie Smith), who’s in poor health, is shocked when she learns she’s inherited a villa in the south of France from a summer fling decades earlier.
The International Film Festival Rotterdam has appointed its new team line up and structure as the festival revamps.
Bob Iger has become an investor in and advisor to Gopuff, a nine-year old commerce platform first started by two Philadelphia college students to deliver late-night snacks, hookahs and tobacco products.