Copyright © 2022, Los Angeles Times | | | | Advertisement Kevin Mayer, who led the rise of Walt Disney Co.'s streaming business and served as the architect of blockbuster deals, is leaving the company to run the fast-growing mobile video app TikTok, the company said Monday. Mayer will become chief executive of TikTok as well as chief operating officer of its Chinese parent company ByteDance. Mayer’s departure comes shortly after to succeed Bob Iger as its CEO in late February. Iger, who’d been CEO for 15 years, took on the role of executive chairman. AdvertisementMany industry insiders...…Copyright © 2022, Los Angeles Times | | | | Advertisement Kevin Mayer, who led the rise of Walt Disney Co.'s streaming business and served as the architect of blockbuster deals, is leaving the company to run the fast-growing mobile video app TikTok, the company said Monday. Mayer will become chief executive of TikTok as well as chief operating officer of its Chinese parent company ByteDance. Mayer’s departure comes shortly after to succeed Bob Iger as its CEO in late February. Iger, who’d been CEO for 15 years, took on the role of executive chairman. AdvertisementMany industry insiders...WW…

Copyright © 2022, Los Angeles Times | | | | Advertisement Movie and TV studio Warner Bros. has backed away from a proposal to build an aerial tramway to improve access to the Hollywood sign, the company said Thursday. Warner Bros. in 2018 told Los Angeles city officials it would fund an aerial tramway to take visitors to and from the Hollywood sign, starting from a parking structure next to its Burbank lot.The effort, , would have cost the studio an estimated $100 million. The tramway would have taken visitors on a six-minute ride more than 1 mile up the back of Mt. Lee to a new visitors...…Copyright © 2022, Los Angeles Times | | | | Advertisement Movie and TV studio Warner Bros. has backed away from a proposal to build an aerial tramway to improve access to the Hollywood sign, the company said Thursday. Warner Bros. in 2018 told Los Angeles city officials it would fund an aerial tramway to take visitors to and from the Hollywood sign, starting from a parking structure next to its Burbank lot.The effort, , would have cost the studio an estimated $100 million. The tramway would have taken visitors on a six-minute ride more than 1 mile up the back of Mt. Lee to a new visitors...WW…

Copyright © 2021, Los Angeles Times | | | |AdvertisementSay you sign up for HBO Max to watch “.” The eight-episode season concludes, and you browse for your next binge-viewing fix. Maybe you turn on “Wonder Woman 1984" or rewatch “The Sopranos.” How long before you go to your Apple device’s subscriptions tab and drop the $15-a-month app? A month? A week? A day?That’s the issue facing media and entertainment companies as the battle for streaming audiences settles into a new phase. During 2019 and 2020, studios launched Disney+, HBO Max, Peacock (which has both paid and free tiers), Apple...…Copyright © 2021, Los Angeles Times | | | |AdvertisementSay you sign up for HBO Max to watch “.” The eight-episode season concludes, and you browse for your next binge-viewing fix. Maybe you turn on “Wonder Woman 1984" or rewatch “The Sopranos.” How long before you go to your Apple device’s subscriptions tab and drop the $15-a-month app? A month? A week? A day?That’s the issue facing media and entertainment companies as the battle for streaming audiences settles into a new phase. During 2019 and 2020, studios launched Disney+, HBO Max, Peacock (which has both paid and free tiers), Apple...WW…