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Total amounts of capitalized film cost for film predominantly monetized on its own and capitalized cost for rights acquired by broadcaster under license agreement for program material, including sports rights advances.

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Amounts of capitalized film cost incurred in production and in development of film predominantly monetized on its own

No definition available.

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Amount of capitalized film cost for film predominantly monetized on its own.

Reference 1: http://www.xbrl.org/2003/role/disclosureRef
-Topic 926
-SubTopic 20
-Name Accounting Standards Codification
-Section 50
-Paragraph 2
-Publisher FASB
-URI https://asc.fasb.org//1943274/2147483154/926-20-50-2

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Amount of capitalized film cost for completed and not released film predominantly monetized on its own.

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Amount of capitalized film cost for released film predominantly monetized on its own.