Trump Wants to Kill Quarterly Earnings. Here's What It Would Mean for Hollywood

With his public push for companies to shift earnings disclosures from quarterly to biannual, President Donald Trump is re-igniting a decades-long debate around the long-held practice - a move that could have significant ramifications for public companies, including those in Hollywood. Since 1970, the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission has required public companies to report their financial statements every 90 days in what's known as a 10-Q filing. But Trump is looking to shift from a quarterly to a semi-annual disclosure schedule in the hopes of saving money, allowing managers to . . .