Film/TV

 

TiVo Signs Deal to Provide Horizon Media TV Viewership Data

TiVo’s data provides a foundational ingredient to Horizon’s data stack to support client investments, driving improved outcomes in cross-platform media planning, buying, digita... More

AVOD Needs to Unlock the Mainstream Consumer (Fierce Video)

AVOD has been steadily gaining momentum among a TV industry keen to look beyond SVOD as the primary streaming future of TV. The industry rationale for AVOD enthusiasm is straightfo... More

Sohonet FileRunner Keeps the Engine Running at Ignition Creative (Sohonet Blog)

Sohonet FileRunner was already used for part of Ignition’s business catering to in-house content creation for clients. Sohonet’s internet connectivity is core to workflows at i... More

Film Festival Flix CEO Interviews Acting Legend Elliot Gould

From child actor to 1970's icon to sitcom dad and more, Elliott Gould has had a full iconic career. Still working, still planning, still hungry for more, Gould sat down for an inte... More

Deluxe, EchoStar Launch Expanded Digital Distribution Solution for Movie Theaters in the U.S.

The enhanced offering adds high-speed, terrestrial broadband and a new content management portal to the companies’ existing satellite distribution solution, which currently serve... More

Movie Business Expects U.S. Box-Office Recovery (Media Post)

Although recovery in the movie business has been witnessed midway through the 2021 theatrical movie season -- yielding $1.14 billion in U.S. box-office revenue -- it is still 37% b... More

Will the Cannes Film Festival Kick Off a Global Comeback Post-Lockdown? (THR)

From shorter theatrical windows to streaming giants with more buying power than ever, the industry landscape has changed radically in the past year.... More

MPC Film Deliver Bold and Rebellious VFX for Cruella

In the preliminary stages, Technicolor’s MPC Film team developed their approach through copious amounts of research: from watching Disney’s classic 101 Dalmatians animated feat... More

Eight Cannes Film Festival Selections Feature the Work of Mikros

The diversity of films Mikros worked on spans major festival categories including Directors’ Fortnight and la Semaine de la Critique.... More

Studios, Guilds Agree to Extend Return-to-Work Safety Protocols Again (THR)

The current contract was scheduled to expire June 30, after getting a three month extension from the original April date. But the Alliance of Motion Picture and Television Producer... More

Avid’s Pro Tools Ultimate Now Includes New Hybrid Engine for HDX Systems, Expanding Performance, Capabilities

Part of Pro Tools | Ultimate 2021.6, the HDX Hybrid Engine unlocks unprecedented power for HDX Systems, giving engineers, producers, and audio post-production professionals the abi... More

Warner Bros Opens New Virtual Production Stage at Leavesden (TVB)

Warner Bros UK is launching three new sound stages at its complex in Leavesden, just outside of London. The new stages provide the complex with 83,000 square foot of additional pro... More

Baltimore Audiences Can Now Enjoy Advanced HDR by Technicolor on WNUV the CW Baltimore

Advanced HDR by Technicolor will continue to provide its HDR technology to Sinclair Broadcast Group operated stations, with WNUV the CW Baltimore the latest station to incorporate ... More

Spherex Debuts New Technology to Culture-Fit Movies, TV Shows for Global Audiences

SpherexGreenlight is a revolutionary new technology solution that combines machine learning and human curation to capture societal and cultural cues from more than 120 countries ar... More

Streaming Fuels Demand for Film, TV Restoration (THR)

“Some will need more help than others, but preservation of their assets is key and scanning is relatively easy and, for lack of a better word, cheap, compared to restoration and ... More

Content’s Cultural Conundrum (Spherex Blog)

Rather than relying on traditional “subs and dubs” to export foreign content to consumers worldwide, production companies are starting to create local and culturalised versions... More

Avid CEO on 2021 Trade Shows, Urging Editors to Use Latest Editing System Interface (THR)

"We're never going to go back to the way it was," Jeff Rosica says of how the pandemic moved Hollywood toward remote production and what he says is a need for more flexible ways of... More

Sohonet Chats With The Mill’s Head of Technology

Bringing The Mill’s world-class finishing and color team into a remote workflow and utilizing ClearView Flex for critical live streaming sessions with both clients and teams, wit... More

Azure, Howie Mandel to Showcase New Movie Tech at Cinema Week

On June 21 during Cinema Week in Los Angeles, actor, comedian and producer Howie Mandel will show off new technology that reimagines the moviegoing experience, while also reintrodu... More

Mikros Animation Enters New Production Partnership for ‘The Coop Troop’

New animated series will be co-produced by Sixteen South, France TV, Tencent and Technicolor Creative Studio Mikros Animation. (more…)... More

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