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But the biggest names attached to the project are its executives: entertainment industry heavyweight Jeffrey Katzenberg and former Hewlett-Packard CEO Meg Whitman. In the 1980s, Katzenberg revived the Walt Disney Co.’s movie studio and its animation division with hits including “The Little Mermaid,” and in 1994 co-founded DreamWorks SGK with Steven Spielberg and David Geffen. Quibi is Katzenberg’s brainchild, and he picked Whitman, also a onetime Disney executive, as the new platform’s CEO. … [Read more...] about New phone-only Quibi aims for bite of digital entertainment

ELMONT, N.Y. (CBSNewYork) – There has been a major development that is bringing the Islanders one step closer to a return to Long Island. New York’s state development board has unanimously adopted a plan to bring the New York Islanders back to Nassau County. … [Read more...] about New York Approves New Entertainment Complex Near Belmont Park, Bringing Islanders Back To Long Island

Ma admitted that he can be a bit removed, distant. Sometimes, he said, clients think his silence means he’s angry with them. This is the blessing and the curse of the dreamer, floating, lost in thought, far above the concerns and messiness of the happenings below. While he’s obsessively detailed about design, his looser approach to other areas of the business requires the supreme trust of his associates and the technical members of his building teams, which by all accounts he has in spades. … [Read more...] about Ma Yansong takes L.A.: How the quiet force behind George Lucas’ museum makes his mark

Griffin, who collaborated with Oliveros while she was alive, and directed the performance “Gifts of the Spirit” with Athey at the Cathedral of St. Vibiana in 2018, says it’s a production that has come together in record time. … [Read more...] about This opera will be sung by more than 250 global performers for coronavirus relief

When George Lucas selected Ma Yansong and his architecture firm MAD to design the Lucas Museum of Narrative Art, Ma was a star in his native China but largely unknown to most Americans. That’s still the case — even as Ma’s striking building has begun rising next to the Coliseum in Exposition Park. Here’s a quick visual guide to his work. For more on Ma, read our profile of the quiet film and nature lover who lets his buildings do most of the talking. … [Read more...] about 11 buildings by Ma Yansong, the architect behind George Lucas’ L.A. museum