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2023: Disney buys entire Hulu streaming service

In early November 2023, The Walt Disney Company announced a buyout from NBC Universal (a subsidiary of Comcast Corp.) of the remaining 33% of the share capital of the streaming service Hulu. According to Disney, she will have to pay at least $8.61 billion for the remaining 33% of Hulu shares.

2019: AT&T sells stake in Hulu for $1.43 billion

Fulfilling regulatory obligations as part of a merger with media giant WarnerMedia, telecom giant AT&T sold a minority stake in Hulu OTT, which it received through its acquisition of WarnerMedia, another co-owner of Hulu, RapidTVNews reported. This is about Disney.

Taking into account AT&T's 9.5% stake worth $1.43 billion, Hulu is worth $15 billion. AT&T noted that the deal did not require any government or other third-party approvals and was both signed and closed.

Launched in 2008 as a syndecation service for Disney, 21st Century Fox and TimeWarner, Hulu grew to more than 25 million subscribers. At the same time, the increase in the subscriber base in 2018 alone amounted to 8 million.

AT&T's sale of about 9.5% of Hulu means the service is now 70% owned by Disney and 30% owned by Comcast.

2016

In the summer of 2016, the American cable TV provider Time Warner acquired a 10% stake in the Hulu video service for $583 million. Thus, Hulu's entire business was valued at $5.8 billion.

2015

As of June 2015, Fox Broadcasting Company, affiliated with Rupert Murdoch, owns 36% of Hulu's video service. 32% of the project is owned by NBCUniversal Television Group, and Disney-ABC Television Group.

Hulu removes Russian cinema

In June 2015, during the confrontation between Russia and the United States over the conflict in Ukraine, it became known that 9 Russian rental films of 2008-2012 release and the film "Walk" by Alexei Uchitel in 2003 disappeared from the American video service Hulu. Kinopoisk published an explanation of the situation by the head of Roskino Ekaterina Mtsituridze:

"Hulu is a subsidiary of Rupert Murdoch's Fox media corporation, and the official position of all its media structures is far-right."

The full list of films removed from Hulu: "Atomic Ivan," "Bedouin," "Paper Soldier," "Other Sky," "For Marx...," "Captive," "Walk," "Exercises in Beauty," "^[1].

Roscino sold the distribution rights to these works to the distributor Gravitas Ventures (serves Hulu, Netflix, iTunes, Amazon Instant Video and many other cinemas). Gravitas Ventures broke the contract with Roskino a year earlier than originally stipulated, citing poor financial returns from the films.

As of June 2015, Hulu remained classics of Russian-language cinema and popular films shot in both the USSR and Russia. The editors of Kinopoisk highlighted the series: D'Artagnan and the Three Musketeers, Molodezhka, Kitchen, Ranetki, films Andrei Rublev, Inhabited Island, Solaris, All Inclusive and others. That is, the video ranges from a very lightweight series to a complex, festival film.

Ekaterina Mtsituridze told Kinopoisk that Roskino will comprehend new realities and find a new mutually beneficial format for cooperation:

"We have a proposal: you need to show the Americans a movie that has found recognition in Russia (and in the world). For with all due respect it is difficult for us to imagine how average Americans will understand some of the selected paintings. "

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