Film/TV
Cinema Trade Group Bristles over Netflix Movie Theater Deal (L.A. Times)
Long-simmering tensions between Netflix Inc. and the traditional movie theater industry may be coming to a boil once again. The National Assn. of Theatre Owners on Wednesday expres... More
Netflix Inks Deal With 15-Theater Chain iPic for Original Movies (Variety)
Netflix has inched its foot further through the movie-biz door: The streaming giant has reached a deal with iPic Entertainment, a luxury-theater chain with 15 U.S. locations, to sc... More
Tim Burton and Technicolor Create A Magical World for ‘Peculiar Children’ (MESA)
Based on Ransom Riggs’ best-selling novel, and directed by Tim Burton, Miss Peregrine’s Home for Peculiar Children follows a young boy as he uncovers a secret refuge for magica... More
Apple TV Gets First Ticketing App With Launch of StubHub (Variety)
Users of the fourth-generation Apple TV can now purchase tickets to thousands of concerts and sporting events available on StubHub, marking the launch of the first ticketing servic... More
Man Who Leaked ‘The Revenant’ Online Fined $1.1m (TorrentFreak)
Following an FBI investigation, former studio worker William Kyle Morarity was discovered as the culprit. Known online by the username “clutchit,” the 31-year-old had uploaded ... More
Ad Buyers Are Bullish on Possible Viacom-CBS Reunion (WSJ)
As Viacom Inc. and CBS Corp. explore a merger that would reunite the two media companies after more than a decade, media buyers who control a large portion of their ad revenues are... More
Laurene Jobs Goes Hollywood, Buys Minority Stake in ‘Spotlight’ Producer Anonymous Content (THR)
The widow of Apple co-founder Steve Jobs is taking a big jump into Hollywood. Laurene Powell Jobs, via her Emerson Collective, is taking a significant minority stake in Anonymous C... More
Legendary is Branching Out with a Subscription App (Digiday)
Legendary Entertainment, the movie studio behind big films like Christopher Nolan’s “Dark Knight” trilogy and “Jurassic World,” is getting into the subscription streaming... More
SyncOnSet Wins a Primetime Engineering Emmy (MESA)
This week, the Academy of Television Arts & Sciences announced SyncOnSet Co-Founders Brett Beaulieu-Jones, Jeffrey Impey, and Alexander LoVerde as recipients of the 68th Primet... More
PwC: Global TV Market Revenues to Reach $325bn in 2020 (Digital TV Europe)
The global TV market will be worth US$325 billion in revenues by 2020, according to research by PwC and the Institute of Chartered Accountants in England and Wales (ICAEW). The ‘... More
Cord-Cutting Could Cost Pay TV Industry $1 Billion in a Year, Study Says (WSJ)
Pay-TV providers could lose nearly $1 billion in revenue as 800,000 customers cut the cord during the next 12 months, according to a new study from the firm cg42. The results, whic... More
Actors Can Get Their Age Removed from IMDb Under New Law (CNET)
If an actor doesn't want to reveal their age, they can now keep it off the internet, too. Under a new California law signed by Gov. Jerry Brown on Saturday, entertainment database ... More
Dolby Honored at Cinematographers Guild Awards (THR)
The International Cinematographers Guild honored 10 of its members with Emerging Cinematographer Awards during its 20th annual event, Sunday at the DGA Theater Complex in Los Angel... More
BBC Experiments with Holographic TVs (TVB Europe)
The BBC has continued to experiment with emerging broadcast technologies after creating a holographic TV device for future audiences. The ‘low-fi and low-cost’ device was desig... More
Where Does The Apple TV Go From Here? (FastCompany)
It’s fair to say that the Apple TV is the device that’s had the hardest time finding a place as a "must-have" in Apple’s ecosystem. It’s always seemed to be more of an acce... More
Sony and Wanda Team Up to Market Films in China (Wall Street Journal)
Sony Pictures Entertainment Inc. is teaming up with Dalian Wanda Group to help market its films in China, a deal that could boost Sony ’s box-office returns—and strengthen Wand... More
AT&T Said to Plan Web Streaming as Primary TV Platform by 2020 (Bloomberg)
AT&T Inc.’s online streaming TV service, DirecTV Now, will become the company’s primary video platform in three to five years, according to people familiar with the plans. The ... More
comScore, DEG Partner on Movie Data (MESA)
DEG: The Digital Entertainment Group (DEG) and comScore have joined forces to offer a combined movie and TV measurement service, covering home entertainment sellthrough, internet V... More
Tata Readies Sky for UHD F1 (Advanced Television)
Tata Communications, Formula One Management and Sky have tested in action live Ultra HD broadcasting at the 2016 F1 Singapore Grand Prix. Following this first ever end-to-end broad... More
Technicolor Wins Emmy for Sound Mixing (MESA)
Technicolor Sound artists Doug Andham, CAS (Re-Recording Mixer), Joe Earle, CAS (Re-Recording Mixer), and Judah Getz (Re-Recording Mixer) received an Emmy® for Outstanding Sound M... More
