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‘Transformers: The Last Knight’ Opens To $123.4M In China, $265M Globallyby Nancy Tartaglione

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Facebook To Stream UEFA Champions League Matches In Fox Sports Deal

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Facebook has made a deal with Fox Sports to stream UEFA Champions League soccer matches via Facebook Live during upcoming 2017-18 season. The annual competition featuring Europe’s top club teams kicks off group stage play in September and comes after Spain’s Real Madrid won this year’s title June 3 in Wales. Fox broadcast the final live. Under the terms of the deal, Fox Sports will stream games in the U.S. on the Fox Sports Facebook page, and in Spanish on the Fox… Read

Russell Brand To Speak At Edinburgh TV Fest; Discovery & Atari Launch New Game Show – Global Briefs

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Russell Brand is set to appear in the Edinburgh International Television Festival's "Alternative MacTaggart" slot this year. The comedian, writer, actor and broadcaster will be interviewed by comedy writer Matt Morgan, addressing Brand's lifelong devotion to comedy, his extensive portfolio of work on and off the screen and how his call for revolution has been realized in a personal way, in love and fatherhood. Brand is best known as a prolific stand-up comic and has… Read

Netflix’s ‘Bojack Horseman’ Bucked Off China’s iQiyi Streaming Service – Report

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In April, Netflix finally found a gateway into China, via a licensing deal with streaming service iQiyi. At the time, it was unclear what process shows would have to go through to pass the notorious censors. Now, Bloomberg reports that all episodes of Bojack Horseman, the Will Arnett-voiced animated comedy/drama, have been pulled from the iQiyi platform after airing for just two days. The Netflix original was yanked because "Adjustments need to be made to the content,”… Read

Donald Trump Celebrates Resignation Of CNN Journalists Over Retracted Russia Report

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President Donald Trump took to Twitter this morning to celebrate the resignations of three CNN journalists over a retracted online report about a Russia investment fund and to wish same on broadcast network news operations and NYT and WaPo: Wow, CNN had to retract big story on "Russia," with 3 employees forced to resign. What about all the other phony stories they do? FAKE NEWS! — Donald J. Trump (@realDonaldTrump) June 27, 2017 Fake News CNN is looking at big… Read

Fox’s Sky Acquisition Receives Blessing Of Ireland’s Communications Minister

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In one of the final steps towards 21st Century Fox’s £11.7B ($14.7B) takeover of European pay-TV giant Sky, the Republic of Ireland's Minister for Communications, Climate Action and Environment has cleared the transaction, saying it will not result in insufficient plurality for any audience there. Fox is looking to buy the 61% of Sky which it does not already own and the deal has already been okayed on public interest grounds by authorities in all of the markets in which… Read

Google Hit With Record-Breaking $2.7B Antitrust Fine From EU

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Google has been fined a record-breaking 2.4 billion Euros ($2.7 billion) by the European Commission after a seven-year investigation deemed the tech giant has been illegally favoring its own shopping service on search results. The penalty marks the biggest ever competition fine from the EC against a company accused of abusing the internet market. It doubles the previous record which was dished out to Intel in 2009 for $1.2 billion. In the ruling, the EC said the… Read

Hollywood Auditing China Box Office In First Look At Middle Kingdom Books

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While box office manipulation has long been a major issue in China, the vast market has increasingly vowed to crack down on cheats. Now, the MPAA has hired an accounting firm to audit Middle Kingdom ticket sales on a select number of films. This is the first time the Hollywood studios are availing themselves of a clause in the longform agreement with China which gives them the ability to take their own close look at the books. I understand that the decision to trigger… Read

‘Transformers: The Last Knight’ Rises To $199M Overseas, $267M+ Global Bow – International Box Office

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UPDATE, TUESDAY AM, with actuals…: Paramount's Transformers: The Last Knight came in with a $3M bump in the actuals compared to Sunday's estimates. That puts the fivequel at $199.2M in 41 markets at the international box office. The result is closer to the high end of the pre-weekend range. The opening is also 2% ahead of Transformers: Age Of Extinction's 2014 launch on a like-for-like basis and at restated rates. The global haul is now looking at $267.7M for the debut… Read

Donald Trump Demands Apology For Russian Probes, Blaming Obama

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President Donald Trump, in this week’s Monday Morning Tweet Storm, demanded an apology for being subjected to the investigation into Russia’s election meddling and whether any Trump campaign members colluded with the Kremlin. Trump previously had declined to acknowledge Russia’s election tampering, suggesting it might have been perpetrated by a 400-pound man working from his bed. More recently, he blasted it as a “witch hunt” against him. Now he’s accusing former POTUS… Read

‘Transformers: The Last Knight’ Rises To $93M In China – International Box Office

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2ND UPDATE, SATURDAY AM: Contrary to domestic, Paramount’s Transformers: The Last Knight is on track to top the opening of Transformers: Age Of Extinction at the international box office. Although the studio is not providing an update today, as Friday estimates came in late yesterday (see below), the unofficial Saturday in China puts the Michael Bay pic at about $93M there so far. That sets it up for an FSS Middle Kingdom bow of around $130M (including previews)… Read

Bradley Cooper Films ‘A Star Is Born’ Scene At Glastonbury; Johnny Depp Makes Encore Appearance

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You might have heard an A-list Hollywood actor who moonlights as a guitarist got in some hot water onstage at England’s Glastonbury Festival on Thursday. Well, another hit the boards tonight, though there was no apology necessary for Bradley Cooper’s onstage appearance. The Oscar nominee was there to film a scene for A Star Is Born, the Warner Bros remake he’s doing with Lady Gaga that’s out in September 2018. Cooper strapped on an electric guitar and “performed” — no… Read

China 3D Fantasy Pic ‘Once Upon A Time’ To Hit U.S. Via Well Go USA

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Well Go USA Entertainment has acquired North American rights to Once Upon A Time, the 3D fantasy romance from China’s Alibaba Pictures that IM Global acquired to handle worldwide sales at Cannes this year. The film will get an August 11 U.S. theatrical bow this summer in the original 3D format, in Mandarin with English and Chinese subtitles. A digital and home video release will follow. Co-directed by Anthony Molinara and House Of Flying Daggers' cinematographer Zhao… Read

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