entertainment industry

Those same companies are adapting to an entertainment industry in which athletes, actors and other celebrities are embarking on various business endeavors, which span social media videos, sports, music, TV and film.

"I am hoping to raise the PlayStation IP outside of just the gaming category and elevate it so it sits comfortably within the larger entertainment industry," he said.

“Amazon is among the six or seven media conglomerates that control the entertainment industry … so we weren’t surprised,” Maing says.

South Korea has a notoriously high-pressure entertainment industry, with celebrities often held to inordinately high social standards and placed under extreme scrutiny.

The talks took place in a climate of increasing angst among entertainment industry workers who are contending with the studio cost-cutting, consolidation and the outsourcing of production.