The Skinny: By a time many of we review this I’ll be in a atmosphere on my approach to a Big Apple for a promote upfronts and genuine pizza. I’m listening to “The Boxer” as we write this usually to get in a mood. Of course, a New York that Simon Garfunkel sang about is now a apart memory. Enough low thoughts from me. Today’s stories embody Walt Disney Co.’s clever gain and Legendary Entertainment maybe jumping ship.  If we are meddlesome in receiving an email warning when a Morning Fix is live greatfully send me a note.

Daily Dose: Sen. John McCain (R-Ariz.) wants to tummy a sports trance order that prohibits a internal hire or a pay-TV distributor from display a home diversion in a marketplace of a group that has not sole out a stadium. McCain wants a trance to request usually for teams whose stadiums have perceived taxpayer funding, a chairman with believe of a matter said. 

Great and absolute indeed. Walt Disney Co. posted clever formula for a mercantile second entertain interjection in vast partial to a ESPN section and a melodramatic strike “Oz a Great and Powerful.” Overall a association had gain of $1.5 billion on income of $10.55 billion. A barbiturate was ABC’s distinction descending 40% due to aloft programming costs. More on a numbers from a Los Angeles Times and Bloomberg BusinessWeek.

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Parting ways? One of a Hollywood’s biggest guessing games is either film banker Thomas Tull’s Legendary Entertainment will disjoin ties with Warner Bros., a longtime home. Legendary cinema embody a “Dark Knight” and “Hangover” franchises. Variety says it appears increasingly expected that Legendary will pierce to another studio — maybe Universal — as it is struggling to come to terms with Warner Bros. on a new deal. 

Nothing fancy. NBC is scrapping skeleton to build a beast studio for Jimmy Fallon when he takes over “The Tonight Show” for Jay Leno subsequent year. According to a Hollywood Reporter, desirous skeleton to spend $25 million on a new home for Fallon have been scrapped in preference of a $5 million restoration of his stream studio.

Cable madness. TBS, that shares TV rights to a NCAA college basketball contest famous as Mar Madness with CBS, will lift a tournament’s semifinal games on Final Four weekend for a subsequent dual years and in 2016 will have a championship game. After that, it will swap coverage of a semifinals and championship with CBS. For TBS, carrying even some-more of Mar Madness will give it precedence with pay-TV distributors. Details from a New York Times and Los Angeles Times.

End credits. Gilles Jacob, boss of a Cannes Film Festival, is scheming his exit from a prestigious event. The 83-year-old told a French journal Nice Martin that he would step down after a 2015 festival, when his latest tenure ends.

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Maybe it should be renamed a Chuck Network. Chuck Lorre, writer of CBS comedies “Two and a Half Men,” “The Big Bang Theory” and “Mike Molly,” will shortly supplement a fourth sitcom to a network. Deadline Hollywood says CBS will announce that it is picking adult Lorre’s “Mom” starring Anna Faris and Allison Janney for a tumble schedule. Maybe this means Janney will take a mangle from doing voice-over work for Kaiser Permanente. Hope so as those radio ads provoke a heck out of me when I’m pushing to work.

Inside a Los Angeles Times: Special effects fable Ray Harryhausen died during a age of 92. FX continues to gamble big on movies.

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