A group of YouTube TV subscribers has filed an antitrust lawsuit against Disney, claiming that the company’s business deals with competitors have inflated the amount consumers pay for streaming live TV services.
The plaintiffs from four states claim that, because Disney requires streamers including YouTube TV to include ESPN in base packages, they are paying extra more for their subscriptions than they should.
The 82-page class-action complaint filed this week in U.S. District Court in San Francisco (read it here) alleges that Disney’s control of both ESPN and Hulu has allowed the conglomerate to “inflate prices marketwise by raising the prices of its own products” and also “set a price floor.”
According to the suit: “Together, these carriage agreement mandates — which now cover all of Disney’s leading competitors in the Slptv Market — allow Disney to use ESPN and Hulu to set a price floor in the...
The plaintiffs from four states claim that, because Disney requires streamers including YouTube TV to include ESPN in base packages, they are paying extra more for their subscriptions than they should.
The 82-page class-action complaint filed this week in U.S. District Court in San Francisco (read it here) alleges that Disney’s control of both ESPN and Hulu has allowed the conglomerate to “inflate prices marketwise by raising the prices of its own products” and also “set a price floor.”
According to the suit: “Together, these carriage agreement mandates — which now cover all of Disney’s leading competitors in the Slptv Market — allow Disney to use ESPN and Hulu to set a price floor in the...
- 11/23/2022
- by Erik Pedersen
- Deadline Film + TV
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Jeff Kaplan and Ian Springer, who earlier this year nabbed the writing gig for Marvel Studios’ Fantastic Four reboot, have signed with CAA.
The duo wrote the 2013 indie comedy Bert and Arnie’s Guide to Friendship, which Kaplan directed, and have set up several projects around town, all in the comedy sphere. They have Disaster Wedding, with End Cue and Jon Watts producing and Palm Springs filmmaker Max Barbakow directing at Warner Bros. as well as K-Pop: Lost in America, with Charles Melton and Rebel Wilson attached to star, Jk Youn directing and Cj Entertainment producing.
The young scribes first met at a Boston University high school summer program and then later reconnected at New York University’s Tisch School of the Arts. They have been friends and collaborators now for over a decade.
Matt Shakman is directing the Fantastic Four project, which has a Feb.
Jeff Kaplan and Ian Springer, who earlier this year nabbed the writing gig for Marvel Studios’ Fantastic Four reboot, have signed with CAA.
The duo wrote the 2013 indie comedy Bert and Arnie’s Guide to Friendship, which Kaplan directed, and have set up several projects around town, all in the comedy sphere. They have Disaster Wedding, with End Cue and Jon Watts producing and Palm Springs filmmaker Max Barbakow directing at Warner Bros. as well as K-Pop: Lost in America, with Charles Melton and Rebel Wilson attached to star, Jk Youn directing and Cj Entertainment producing.
The young scribes first met at a Boston University high school summer program and then later reconnected at New York University’s Tisch School of the Arts. They have been friends and collaborators now for over a decade.
Matt Shakman is directing the Fantastic Four project, which has a Feb.
- 10/27/2022
- by Borys Kit
- The Hollywood Reporter - Movie News
A renowned estate with an illustrious pedigree in what is arguably the plummiest pocket of Los Angeles’s tony Bel Air community, owned for the last 25-plus years by Bill Bell, scion of the Bell family soap opera dynasty, and his former soap opera writer/producer wife Maria Arena Bell, has come up for sale with an asking price of $37.5 million. Designed in the early 1930s by esteemed high-society architect Wallace Neff for film producer and studio mogul Sol Wurtzel, the elegant Spanish Colonial mansion, represented by Kurt Rappaport at Westside Estate Agency, measures in at 13,361-square feet with five bedrooms and 7.5 bathrooms.
According to Michael Gross’s 2011 real estate page-turner Unreal Estate, the property was purchased in 1953 for a reported $125,000 by celebrity psychic and astrologer-to-the-stars Anthony Norvell, who claimed to have sublet it at various times to Howard Hughes, Prince Ranier of Monaco and, “The King” himself, Elvis Presley.
According to Michael Gross’s 2011 real estate page-turner Unreal Estate, the property was purchased in 1953 for a reported $125,000 by celebrity psychic and astrologer-to-the-stars Anthony Norvell, who claimed to have sublet it at various times to Howard Hughes, Prince Ranier of Monaco and, “The King” himself, Elvis Presley.
- 4/28/2018
- by Mark David
- Variety Film + TV
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