All posts tagged ‘Hollywood’
by Jon Healey, Editorial Writer, Los Angeles Times
Like David going 15 rounds with Goliath, StreamCast Networks Inc. battled the biggest companies in the entertainment industry for nearly six and a half years before finally dropping the slingshot and hitting the dirt. The file-sharing company filed a Chapter 7 bankruptcy petition last week, sending it down the road to liquidation. But the company’s demise wasn’t triggered by Hollywood studios or the major record labels, as much as they would have liked to have done so.
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by Mike Masnick, Blogger, TechDirt
While Marvel’s lawyers have been doing plenty of work on their own to hurt interest in the new movie “Iron Man,” some are suggesting an even more interesting scenario: that the release this week of the videogame Grand Theft Auto IV (to excellent reviews) will have an impact on how many people are willing to buy tickets to “Iron Man”’s opening weekend.
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by Laura M. Holson, Reporter, New York Times
Only 350 miles separate [Silicon Valley and Hollywood], and technology and entertainment executives are worlds apart. But they are circling each other once again, trying to figure how best to combine forces to get movies, videos and other programming to homes and cellphones. Of course, media moguls and Silicon Valley entrepreneurs working together again has all the familiarity of a late-night rerun.
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by Laura M. Holson, Reporter, New York Times
Hollywood and Silicon Valley have something of a Mars/Venus problem: The two sides are talking but they don’t speak each other’s language. A new venture involving a phone company may just add Pluto into the mix.
On Monday, the William Morris Agency, the Hollywood talent shop, will announce that it is teaming up with the Silicon Valley venture capital firms Accel Partners and Venrock to invest in digital media start-up companies based in Southern California. What makes the combination unusual, though, is the addition of AT&T as a limited partner.
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by Liz Gannes, Blogger, NewTeeVee
Now that professional writers are done protesting the Web, will they flock to it? In this quick video interview, Patric Verrone, president of the Writers Guild of America West, tells us which parts of the new WGA contract the Guild is happy about, what new Web ventures are coming down the pike (and whether they’ll stick around) and makes a case for the continuing value of writers.
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by Liz Gannes, Blogger, NewTeeVee
Out of work and newly wise to the state of content being distributed online, a group of professional writers is looking to start their own production and distribution company. Aaron Mendelsohn, writer of the Disney film “Air Bud” and an active Writers Guild of America member, is captaining the efforts, and says he has gotten a group of “A-list” film and TV writers on the team. He’s also partnering with online community experts from Silicon Valley and raising “north of $30 million” in venture capital, with the idea of launching a company called Virtual Artists later this year.
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by Staci D. Kramer, Executive Editor, paidContent.org
Back in the Hilton Theater Monday afternoon for a session with execs from Hollywood–Albert Cheng, EVP-digital media, Disney-ABC Television Group; Dan Fawcett, president, Fox Digital; Tom Lesinski, president, Paramount Pictures Digital Entertainment; and four days into the job, Thomas Gewecke, president of Warner Bros. Digital Distribution.
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