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The world's first ever film poster is up for auction at London's Sotheby's and is expected to fetch around $75,000. The poster (left), which was designed by French artist Henri Brispot, was used to promote the first public screening of a selection of the Lumière brothers' short films. The poster was posted and pasted…

We’ll see whether this slows the company’s plan to split into separate entertainment and sports entities. But there’s not much Madison Square Garden can do about that: CEO Tad Smith announced this morning that he’ll leave at the end of the month to take the top job at Sotheby’s auction house. MSG Chairman James Dolan…

BSkyB is now James Murdoch‘s lone remaining board membership after auction house Sotheby’s revealed in an SEC filing that News Corp‘s deputy COO won’t seek re-election to its board of directors. The filing, which said Murdoch will “focus on his core responsibilities” at News Corp, is the latest fall-out from the phone…