Film/TV

At the IABM breakfast event the base for discussion was set by CEO Peter White, caretaker of the broadcast industry’s vital organs. The first indicator of his usual stats attack ... More

This year’s Monday night movie is The Revenant, directed by Alejandro González Iñárritu and starring Leonardo DiCaprio. IBC offers screenings of recent movies that represent t... More

We know an awful lot about Netflix customers and what makes them tick. Many things will come as no surprise. They are younger than average, more device savvy, better connected, and... More

Amazon.com Inc. is pursuing video rights to a wide range of sports, including the French Open tennis championship and professional rugby, as the company looks for ways to draw new ... More

Sky Store’s innovative “Buy & Keep” digital transactional movie service is attracting former home entertainment consumers, Luke Bradley-Jones, director of TV and content prod... More

The Copyright Alliance and CreativeFuture, two anti-piracy groups whose members include major film studios, record labels and media conglomerates, have joined forces for an open le... More

A new white paper by Parks Associates concludes that connected device apps have become the new battleground for video services, with Pay TV operators, OTT service providers, broadc... More

Movie trailers are more "craft" than "art," but here 20th Century Fox and IBM have served up a prime example of creative craft made by artificial intelligence. For the upcoming thr... More

Amazon.com has discovered a new use for Twitch Interactive, which it purchased two years ago for about $1 billion. Seeking feedback from Twitch's highly engaged audience of 10 mill... More

Andy Hurt and Robin Melhuish, Wazee Digital: A media archive, as we’ve always known it, is passive by nature, just sitting at the end of the linear distribution chain. Programmin... More

Marketers are always one of the biggest audiences drooling over the latest technologies. Any new communications technology is an opportunity to reach an audience more efficiently, ... More

a big shift is happening, one that NBC is acutely aware of now that the Olympics have passed. "We’re still learning and experimenting," Mark Lazarus, chairman of NBC Sports Group... More

I was lucky enough to see “Kubo” in Dolby Cinema. This combines Dolby Vision, which gives better contrast, color and clarity to the image, and Dolby Atmos, which uses speakers ... More

Just 30 days after Select TV’s official state-side launch, FreeCast is already prepping the service for international markets, starting with a trial promotion in Australia throug... More

After a four-year absence from theaters, Ang Lee will return this fall with a searing film about young American war heroes that may land him in the Oscar race. But the movie, bille... More

U.S. pay TV customers will have more chances this fall to catch up on shows in mid-season as networks increase video-on-demand offerings in their battle to keep audiences from jump... More

Technicolor PostWorks New York completed the finishing on Café Society, Woody Allen’s first digital motion picture as a director, which was captured by legendary cinematographer... More

TV viewers, generally speaking, hate ads. Now Turner Broadcasting — hoping to deter audiences from skipping or tuning out commercials — has ripped a page from the online-video ... More

This is a big time of the year for sports lovers, with all-day coverage of the Olympics the norm in most regions. But in Norway live subtitling of television is only legally requir... More

Four years ago, FreeCast brought the 2012 Olympic Games to the masses via the web, which both made a name for the company in the streaming space and laid the ground work for the co... More