NFL wants to take percentage of private equity investment profits

NFL wants to take percentage of private equity investment profits

Brock Purdy, #13 of the San Francisco 49ers, prepares to take a snap in the first quarter against the Kansas City Chiefs during Super Bowl LVIII at Allegiant Stadium in Las Vegas on Feb. 11, 2024. Michael Reaves | Getty Images The National Football League has informed owners and investment firms that it intends to … Read more

Mavericks, Pelicans games leave local networks amid Diamond bankruptcy

Mavericks, Pelicans games leave local networks amid Diamond bankruptcy

The NBA logo before the game between the Detroit Pistons and Charlotte Hornets at Little Caesars Arena on March 11, 2024 in Detroit, Michigan.  Nic Antaya | Getty Images Dallas Mavericks and New Orleans Pelicans fans are waiting for a new way to watch local games in the upcoming NBA season. Both teams are exiting … Read more

Second season of ‘Pachinko’ explores challenges for ethnic Koreans in Japan

Second season of ‘Pachinko’ explores challenges for ethnic Koreans in Japan

SEOUL, South Korea — The second season of “Pachinko,” opening Friday, delicately captures the plight of ethnic Koreans brought to Japan during colonial rule and their descendants, exploring themes of home and identity through several generations. The award-winning series, based on the New York Times bestselling novel, returns to Apple TV+ with eight episodes that … Read more

2 reasons why Disney’s stock is worth buying despite a theme-park slowdown

2 reasons why Disney’s stock is worth buying despite a theme-park slowdown

People are increasingly skipping out on trips to Disney’s iconic theme parks, but that’s not holding back the company’s plans of enormous spending to expand the business. Disney offered encouraging updates earlier this month on what’s ahead at its parks and on its cruises as part of its 10-year, $60-billion investment in its experiences businesses. … Read more

Edgar Bronfman’s Paramount bid could keep Shari Redstone involved

Edgar Bronfman’s Paramount bid could keep Shari Redstone involved

Edgar Bronfman, Jr. Cameron Costa | CNBC Edgar Bronfman Jr.’s offer for a controlling stake in Paramount Global could keep Shari Redstone close to the company, if his bid is successful. Bronfman is open to having Redstone, currently non-executive chairman at Paramount, remain involved with the company if the Paramount special committee accepts his consortium’s … Read more

Trailer for Francis Ford Coppola’s ‘Megalopolis’ recalled over fabricated critics’ quotes

Trailer for Francis Ford Coppola’s ‘Megalopolis’ recalled over fabricated critics’ quotes

Lionsgate recalled its new trailer for Francis Ford Coppola’s “ Megalopolis ” Wednesday amid revelations that critics’ quotes were fabricated. “Lionsgate is immediately recalling our trailer for Megalopolis,” a Lionsgate spokesperson said in a statement to The Associated Press. “We offer our sincere apologies to the critics involved and to Francis Ford Coppola and American … Read more

Snowflake stock down on decelerating product revenue growth

Snowflake stock down on decelerating product revenue growth

Sridhar Ramaswamy, CEO of Snowflake and formerly co-founder and CEO of startup Neeva, speaks at the Collision conference in Toronto on June 21, 2022. Eóin Noonan | Sportsfile | Collision | Getty Images Shares of Snowflake fell 13% on Thursday after the data cloud analytics company released fiscal second-quarter 2025 earnings that beat Wall Street’s … Read more

Taylor Swift calls cancellation of Vienna shows ‘devastating’ and explains her silence

Taylor Swift calls cancellation of Vienna shows ‘devastating’ and explains her silence

LONDON — Two weeks after organizers scrubbed Taylor Swift’s concerts in Vienna amid a foiled terror plot, the singer issued her first statement on the cancellations. “Having our Vienna shows cancelled was devastating,” she wrote in a statement posted to Instagram on Wednesday. “The reason for the cancellations filled me with a new sense of … Read more

Movie Review: Style triumphs over logic in Zoë Kravitz’s great-looking but vexing ‘Blink Twice’

Movie Review: Style triumphs over logic in Zoë Kravitz’s great-looking but vexing ‘Blink Twice’

“Love means never having to say you’re sorry,” somebody once famously said in the movies. It made utterly no sense in 1970, but even less so now. In recent decades, the apology has become all the rage. So at the beginning of Zoë Kravitz’s “Blink Twice,” when her tech-mogul protagonist, Slater King, sits on a … Read more

Paramount-Skydance ‘go shop’ period extended to review Bronfman offer

Edgar Bronfman’s Paramount bid could keep Shari Redstone involved

Edgar Bronfman, Jr. Cameron Costa | CNBC The future of Paramount Global is still uncertain. Paramount’s special committee on Wednesday said it would extend by 15 days an agreed-upon “go shop” period of its merger agreement with Skydance as it reviews a competing offer from Edgar Bronfman Jr. Bronfman initially offered $4.3 billion for Shari … Read more