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The Life And Death Of The American Comic Book Shop: How A Distributor Monopoly Is Killing It
Tuesday, June 20, 2017 - 10:36am | 1134Some people wouldn't be caught dead inside a comic book shop. If that describes you, Curtis Sullivan totally invites you into any one of his three. “How can you know you don’t like lobster if you never tried it?” he says, incredulity incarnate. “Don’t close doors....
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'Lego Batman' Could Beat Opening Weekend Estimates
Tuesday, February 7, 2017 - 10:43am | 316Wunderlich believes the opening weekend estimate of Time Warner Inc (NYSE: TWX) movie "The LEGO Batman" is conservative, while the brokerage maintained its Buy rating on the shares ahead of the company’s February 8 earnings print. Is The Estimate Conservative? “We actually think the H$...
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CinemaCon 2016: Warner Bros. Betting On Comedy, Animation And Connected Universes
Sunday, April 17, 2016 - 5:27pm | 601Over the last few days, Hollywood took a trip to Las Vegas for the annual CinemaCon event. It was there that exhibitors from all around the country came to see what movies are going to be burning up their screens through the rest of the year and beyond. This is a studio-by-studio recap of the...
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Time Warner's 'Batman V. Superman' Takes Steep Box Office Drop In Second Weekend
Monday, April 4, 2016 - 7:36am | 361Last weekend's record-breaking debut of Warner Bros. (Time Warner Inc (NYSE: TWX)) "Batman V. Superman: Dawn Of Justice" was not without controversy. Analysts wondered if the film's abysmal reaction from critics would eventually impact the movie's future earnings, despite a strong start. This...
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'Batman V. Superman': Investors Prepare For Highly Anticipated, Poorly Reviewed Film
Friday, March 25, 2016 - 8:45am | 404Investors in Time Warner Inc (NYSE: TWX) have been preparing for this weekend for a long time. Since 2013, the studio's main film division has been on a constant a up and down ride with a number of hits, but even more misses. The debut of "Batman V. Superman: Dawn of Justice" is...
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Batman V. Superman: Buy The Hype With This Stock?
Tuesday, March 22, 2016 - 2:38pm | 358After a soft 2015 for Time Warner Inc (NYSE: TWX)'s Warner films, "Batman V. Superman" is finally debuting on Friday, kicking off a series of 10 DC Comics films the next five years. Given the importance of BvS for the DC franchise, the UBS Evidence Lab undertook and shared an...
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GameStop CFO: Xbox 360, PlayStation 3 Sales Headed For Drop-Off; Xbox One, PlayStation 4 Might Grow
Friday, March 27, 2015 - 2:55pm | 312GameStop Corp. (NYSE: GME) declared worse-than-expected Q4 results Thursday. Revenue of the company declined 6 percent year-over-year to $3.48 billion, while profits rose about 13 percent to $2.15 per share. Robert Lloyd, GameStop CFO, was on CNBC to provide an outlook on games and...
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'Gotham' To Hit Netflix
Friday, September 5, 2014 - 1:40pm | 311The folks on CNBC's Squawk Alley recently reported Netflix's deal to stream "Gotham" after it airs its first season on Twenty-First Century Fox Inc's (NASDAQ: FOX) Fox network. “Pretty unique because Netflix, Inc. (NASDAQ: NFLX) is buying rights to air a series that...
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6 Companies That Could Acquire AMC Networks
Wednesday, July 16, 2014 - 3:39pm | 1036Twenty-First Century Fox (NASDAQ: FOXA) stunned investors Wednesday when it was revealed that the company offered to acquire Time Warner (NYSE: TWX) for $80 billion. The deal (which valued Time Warner at $85 per share) was ultimately rejected, but that didn't stop investors from buying the...
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Warner And DC Comics' Six Dynamite Moves Leading Up To 'Batman Vs. Superman'
Monday, December 16, 2013 - 2:25pm | 704While Warner Brothers' (NYSE: TWX) Man of Steel cost around $225 million to make, made $291 million domestically, and pulled in just under $663 million globally, it wasn't bulletproof when it came to the polarizing attitudes it stirred in critics (holding a 56 percent approval rating on Rotten...
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Warner Bros. Inks $450 Million Deal With Ratner Consortium
Tuesday, October 1, 2013 - 11:38am | 330The top grossing studio of 2013 entered a financing deal with a three-person consortium that includes one familiar face. According to The Wall Street Journal, Warner Bros. (NYSE: TWX) has finalized a $450-million funding deal with RatPac-Dune Entertainment LLC. The group includes noted producer-...
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After Dark Knight Trilogy, What's Next?
Monday, August 13, 2012 - 1:51pm | 1258On July 29, 2012, USA Today's Scott Bowles reported that the Warner Bros. (NYSE: TWX) film "The Dark Knight Rises is sinking." From the article: "Despite an easy No. 1 over weak competition ... the third chapter of Christopher Nolan's Batman trilogy is fading faster than analysts expected."...
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The Dark Knight Rises to Bank $170 Million Opening Weekend
Thursday, July 19, 2012 - 7:39am | 689Time Warner's (NYSE: TWX) The Dark Knight Rises is expected to bank millions this weekend, potentially awarding it the second biggest domestic opening of all time. Disney (NYSE: DIS) scored the number-one spot this summer with The Avengers, which earned $207 million. Harry Potter and the Deathly...
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It's A Bird, It's A Plane, It's Ben Bernanke?
Tuesday, August 9, 2011 - 10:13am | 701Everyone knows growth is slowing, it is pretty obvious to see. Unemployment is stagnant, economic numbers such as ISM, PMI, and the rest of the alphabet soup have slowed drastically, and the stock market is dropping like a rock falling from the Empire State building. The Federal Open Market...
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The Green Lantern: Destined To Flop? (TWX)
Tuesday, May 3, 2011 - 2:32pm | 686There has been a lot of hype for this summer's “blockbuster” comic book movie. But all signs point to a flop for what is sure to be hailed as a blasphemous attempt at mainstream filmmaking. While the trailers and ridiculous movie posters have received a ton of buzz, curious critics and excited...