{"id":1259,"date":"2009-06-15T12:07:52","date_gmt":"2009-06-15T16:07:52","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs-devl.bu.edu\/bunow\/?p=1259"},"modified":"2009-06-15T12:41:56","modified_gmt":"2009-06-15T16:41:56","slug":"tinseltown-merger-wave","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs-devl.bu.edu\/bunow\/2009\/06\/15\/tinseltown-merger-wave\/","title":{"rendered":"Tinseltown merger wave?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: left\"><img loading=\"lazy\" class=\"alignleft size-full wp-image-1285\" src=\"http:\/\/blogs-devl.bu.edu\/bunow\/files\/2009\/06\/312614_hollywood_sign_2_2004.jpg\" alt=\"312614_hollywood_sign_2_2004\" width=\"100\" height=\"74\" \/>A new round of\u00a0consolidation among Hollywood studios\u00a0soon could be a coming attraction, <a title=\"according to media reports\" href=\"http:\/\/www.reuters.com\/article\/innovationNews\/idUSTRE55D21720090614\" target=\"_blank\">according to\u00a0media reports<\/a>.\u00a0 Big investor Mario Gabelli speculates that Paramount Pictures could merge with Sony Pictures, Universal Studios or another studio before long.\u00a0 Professor <a title=\"Bill Linsman\" href=\"http:\/\/www.bu.edu\/com\/about\/faculty\/william_linsman.shtml\" target=\"_blank\">Bill Linsman<\/a>, who directs the BU in Los Angeles Program, can offer some insight into where the industry is headed.<\/p>\n<p>Contact Bill Linsman, 323-571-4535, <a href=\"mailto:linsman@bu.edu\">linsman@bu.edu<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A new round of\u00a0consolidation among Hollywood studios\u00a0soon could be a coming attraction, according to\u00a0media reports.\u00a0 Big investor Mario Gabelli speculates that Paramount Pictures could merge with Sony Pictures, Universal Studios or another studio before long.\u00a0 Professor Bill Linsman, who directs the BU in Los Angeles Program, can offer some insight into where the industry is [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":114,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[1],"tags":[1254,1255,1256,1257],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs-devl.bu.edu\/bunow\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1259"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs-devl.bu.edu\/bunow\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs-devl.bu.edu\/bunow\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs-devl.bu.edu\/bunow\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/114"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs-devl.bu.edu\/bunow\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1259"}],"version-history":[{"count":16,"href":"https:\/\/blogs-devl.bu.edu\/bunow\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1259\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1277,"href":"https:\/\/blogs-devl.bu.edu\/bunow\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1259\/revisions\/1277"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs-devl.bu.edu\/bunow\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1259"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs-devl.bu.edu\/bunow\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1259"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs-devl.bu.edu\/bunow\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1259"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}