Variety's top 500, first Robert Iger (Disney)

(ANSA) - ROME, DECEMBER 19 - Robert Iger, the CEO of WaltDisney, the leader of the operation that integrated Fox into Mickey Mouse's major and launched the Disney + platform, is the most powerful man of the 2.2 trillion entertainment industry . It is at the top of the Variety500 ranking which, at the third edition, selected the most influential people. In second place is a woman, Shari Redstone, president of Viacom Cbs, the second Redston generation leading the imperomediatic. Tyler Perry, founder of the company of the same name in 2019, built a giant production studio in the former army base in Atlanta. Among the Italians in the Variety500 Andrea Scrosati, former head of Sky Italia, is unclassified for the third consecutive year: he is COO (chief operating engineer) of Fremantle from the end of 2018. Since he is inFremantle, writes Variety, he is tightening collaborations as that signed in June with the producer of "Catch 22" and "TrueDetective", Richard Brown. The second series set in Sorrentino by "The New Pope", produced by TheApartment Pictures and Wildside (both part of the Fremantle group), will be broadcast in Italy on Sky Atlantic on 10 January and in the US on HBO on 13 January. In the standings MarcoBassetti, Riccardo Tozzi, Raffaella Leone, Alberto Barbera, Paolo Del Brocco, Guglielmo Marchetti (new entry with Notorius), Carlo Chatrian, Pier Silvio Berlusconi, Paolo Vasile (ceoMediaset Spain). (HANDLE).