Film/TV

 

Nicolas Winding Refn Unveils New Streaming Platform byNWR (Variety)

Director Nicolas Winding Refn on Monday announced an ambitious new online project at the Lumière Film Festival in Lyon that will showcase restored films and other content with the... More

‘The Power Center Has Always Been in LA’: Video Goes Full Hollywood (Digiday)

Since before the first talkie, LA has been the hub for movies and TV. It’s Hollywood, after all. In the past couple of years, some of the attention in digital video shifted to Ne... More

Source Digital Platform Powers dotstudioPRO’s Digital Brand Integration Experience for New Lifetime Series (MESA)

dotstudioPRO announces the launch of a digital video e-commerce platform, a fully brand integrated web and mobile responsive experience, for Lifetime Network's newest show American... More

Pai: Goal Is to Cut as Much Telecom Regulation as Possible (MCN)

FCC chair Ajit Pai may have been stating the obvious given his conservative, deregulatory history, but he did so with gusto at a speech at the Reagan Library in Simi Valley, Calif.... More

Google Pitches TV-Like Quality for Online Ads (Light Reading)

Although navigating the online video ecosystem is complex, Google can help, according to Google's Strategic Partner Manager Michal Stefanski. Speaking in Budapest Wednesday, Stefan... More

Movies Anywhere App Launches with Joint Studio Backing (Variety)

Five of the six major Hollywood studios have joined forces to make digital movie collecting easier than ever. Movies Anywhere, a free app and website digital locker service, launch... More

BTI Studios Provides AD, Subtitles for ‘Loving Vincent’ (MESA)

BTI Studios has provided audio description (AD) for the visually impaired and subtitles for the hard of hearing on behalf of Altitude Film Distribution for an extraordinary new fil... More

Is Steven Soderbergh’s New App the Future of TV? (Wired)

Director Steven Soderbergh—the man behind Magic Mike, The Knick, and this summer’s Logan Lucky—just released the trailer for his latest project. He made it with the help of H... More

Avid Powers the Invictus Games Toronto 2017 with Dome Productions (MESA)

Avid today announced that production mobile facilities company, Dome Productions, relied on Avid solutions to deliver the Invictus Games Toronto 2017. Avid’s comprehensive tools ... More

Inside Twitter’s TV Push: Morning Shows, Live Sports, News-Driven Fare (THR)

Does Twitter want to be a TV network? A new crop of live programming on the social network certainly seems to indicate that it does. Over the past several months, the platform b... More

Apple Nears Pickup of Steven Spielberg’s ‘Amazing Stories’ Reboot (Deadline)

Apple is zeroing in on a reboot of Steven Spielberg’s Amazing Stories as one of its first series in its foray into original programming under Jamie Erlicht & Zack Van Amburg, hea... More

Report: Half of TV Viewing Will be Mobile by 2020 (TVBEurope)

Fifty per cent of TV and video viewing will be via mobile devices (smart phones, laptops and tablets) in 2020, according to Ericsson’s latest report. The smart phone alone will a... More

Oscars: Warner Bros Taking Revolutionary Approach For ‘Dunkirk’ Academy DVD Screeners, Offers Members 4K Ultra HD Blu-Ray Format (Deadline)

Deadline has learned that a letter is going out to the 8,427 members of the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences offering them a specially made screener in 4K Ultra HD Blu-r... More

MPAA: 6% of North American Households Have Piracy Software (HMM)

Piracy of movies and TV shows is moving away from disc to digital. About 6% of North American households have a device with open-source Kodi software to access pirated content, acc... More

YouTube Seeks Web-TV Boost via World Series Sponsorship (Bloomberg)

Google’s YouTube has signed on as the presenting sponsor for the 2017 World Series, the first national advertising campaign for the company’s cable-like video offering since it... More

HBO CEO Says ‘More is Not Better’ as Netflix Plans to Spend $7 Billion on Content (CNBC)

With Netflix planning to spend up to $7 billion next year on content, HBO CEO Richard Plepler is in no hurry to match the company dollar for dollar. "More is not better, only be... More

Avid Graphics Solutions Selected by Glasgow 2018 European Championships to Deliver Captivating Viewer Experience (MESA)

Avid today announced that it has been appointed as the broadcast graphics platform supplier for the Glasgow 2018 European Championships. As an Official Supporter of the major new m... More

Netflix’s Ted Sarandos: Peak TV is ‘an Analog Idea’ (Deadline)

Peak TV is an “analog idea,” Netflix’s head of content Ted Sarandos said at the Vanity Fair Summit in Beverly Hills on Tuesday. “It’s like saying you’d eat too much at ... More

FCC Chair Ajit Pai Confirmed to New Term (B&C)

FCC chair Ajit Pai Monday got Senate confirmation to a new, five-year, term on the commission, retroactive to the June 2016 expiration of his previous term. The vote was a relat... More

Apple May Have a Surprisingly Steep Learning Curve as It Enters TV (THR)

Apple does buy companies (primarily tech-related, of course) at a fairly regular clip — trying to keep those as quiet as possible. Not only does that history suggest that Apple w... More

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