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Viacom cuts its earnings view Friday, blaming in part the high-stakes battle over control over the entertainment huge.

One day after the girl of Viacom's elderly major shareholder Sumner Redstone shifted to oust key members of the board associated with directors, the company stated it now expects income per share in the current quarter to come within at just $1. 00-$1. 05, far shy from the average analyst estimate of $1. 38.

Viacom mentioned the company suffered bokep pilot in the quarter from poor box-office sales of the "Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles: Out of the Shadows" film.

Viacom said this now expects earnings per share in the current quarter to come in at just $1. 00-$1. 05, far shy associated with the average analyst estimate of $1. 38 ?Chris Hondros (Getty/Getty Images/File)
But it also said that an important agreement on streaming video on demand, 1 of the fastest-growing segments of the entertainment industry, had been delayed because of to the fight among a group led by chairman and chief professional Phillipe Dauman and vice chair Shari Redstone more than that will control the team when her 93-year-old dad dies.

The company said in a statement it had expected to complete a "significant" SVOD agreement in the current quarter. Nevertheless, it said, "the latest and highly public governance controversy negatively impacted the particular timing and its capability to achieve an optimal outcome with partners. "
The announcement came hours right after Sumner Redstone's National R�cr�ation Inc, which has eighty percent control of Viacom, announced the removal of Dauman and four of his allies on the board associated with directors.

Their replacements, allies of Shari Redstone, would strengthen her hand on the board.
Viacom shares, which jumped on Thursday on the particular move to shuffle the board, fell 1. 4 percent to $44. forty-four in late trade Friday.
But the board move remains pending the quality of a lawsuit submitted in a Delaware court by one of the dismissed directors, Frederic Salerno, seeking to obstruct it.
Salerno branded the latest move a "brazen and demonstrably invalid attempt" by Shari Redstone to take over the $40 billion entertainment business, which usually controls hit names such as MTV, Nickelodeon, and Comedy Central, as well because Hollywood giant Paramount Images.

Salerno alleged that Sumner Redstone had always meant that independent professionals instead than family members operate the company after he passes away.
Nevertheless , he said, Redstone "is being manipulated and utilized by his daughter in an attempt to achieve her long-held goal of gaining complete control of Viacom. "
On Friday Dauman pressed a Ma court to quickly order a medical examination associated with Sumner Redstone to show he is not mentally competent to make the particular decisions related to him by his daughter and lawyers.

In an earlier filing, Dauman characterized Redstone because "a 93-year-old man struggling from overwhelming physical illnesses, including an inability in order to speak, stand, walk, consume, write or read. "
Questions are ongoing over whether the 93-year-old Sumner Redstone is mentally competent to sign off upon major corporate moves ?Robyn Beck (AFP/File)
There offers been an ongoing inner struggle at Viacom in between a group led simply by chairman and chief professional Phillipe Dauman (pictured) plus vice chair Shari Redstone over that will control the group when the 93-year-old Sumner Redstone dies ?Sajjad Hussain (AFP/File)