Executive Turntable: Sphere’s Top Accountant Resigns, Plus Big Hassle Acquires Tiny Human

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Sphere

An exterior presumption shows an activation featuring 50-foot-long legs and 22-foot-tall ruby slippers of the Wicked Witch of the East quality up of the premiere of "The Wizard of Oz astatine Sphere" amusement connected August 28, 2025 successful Las Vegas, Nevada. Ethan Miller/Getty Images

Sphere Entertainment Co. precocious announced the resignation of Gregory Brunner, its elder vice president, controller and main accounting officer, effectual Oct. 17. The company, valued astatine $2.3 cardinal with shares presently trading astatine $65, stressed successful a Securities and Exchange Commission filing that Brunner’s departure is not related to immoderate disputes implicit accounting practices oregon interior controls. Robert Langer, the company’s enforcement vp, main fiscal serviceman and treasurer, volition service arsenic interim main accounting serviceman until Brunner’s replacement tin beryllium found. 

Brunner, who joined Sphere successful June of 2023 aft astir 18 years astatine accounting elephantine KPMG, brought extended acquisition successful planetary audits and fiscal strategy, and has been progressive successful nonprofit work, having served connected the NYC enforcement enactment squad of the American Heart Association. He has not signaled his adjacent move.

Brunner’s exit comes amid Sphere’s efforts to stabilize show pursuing mixed 2025 earnings. Q2 gross roseate 3.4% year-over-year to $282.7 million, exceeding expectations and reversing a Q1 decline. Sphere’s venue operations saw a 16% gross increase, portion MSG Networks dropped 12%.

A large contributor to caller momentum is Sphere’s signature immersive events, including performance residencies by The Backstreet Boys and Eagles, but peculiarly its ongoing production of The Wizard of Oz. This reimagined acquisition transforms the 1939 classical into a 4D spectacle utilizing Sphere’s 160,000 sq. ft. 16K-resolution wraparound screen, 167,000 programmable speakers and multi-sensory effects including upwind arrays, fog, occurrence bursts, bubbles and thing called haptic seating. The archetypal people has been re-recorded for enhanced clarity, and AI has been utilized to grow scenes and make dynamic visuals. As of mid-September, Sphere had sold more than 500,000 tickets for The Wizard of Oz, generating implicit $65 cardinal successful sales.

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