Film/TV

 

GrayMeta Releases Iris 6.0 with Major Enhancements (MESA)

GrayMeta today announced the release of the Iris 6.0 and DHQC for Iris QC Pro. Users of Iris QC Pro DHQC can ingest HDR packages, display metadata – empowering users with subject... More

Pixelogic Announces Digital Cinema Services (MESA)

Pixelogic has unveiled plans to deliver global digital cinema services this summer. The company will launch these services with a total of 12 projector-lit screening rooms within i... More

MPAA Chief Talks Piracy, Trade, Global Box Office Growth at CinemaCon (Variety)

Newly appointed Motion Picture Association of America chief Charles Rivkin had a message for theater owners at CinemaCon on Tuesday: I’m one of you. Before he was a top State ... More

NBCU’s Burke Sees Dollars Swinging from Digital to TV (B&C)

Steve Burke, CEO of NBCUniversal says he’s expecting a robust upfront because of signs he sees that advertisers might be deciding to shift dollars from digital to TV as the upfro... More

Pay-TV Innovation Forum Reveals 2018 Priorities for European Providers (MESA)

NAGRA, in partnership with MTM, today revealed the European findings of the Pay-TV Innovation Forum 2018. The research programme, currently in its third year, seeks to explore and ... More

FilmTrack Unveils New Features, Functionality That Define the Next Generation in Rights Management (MESA)

FilmTrack unveiled all-new platform features at NAB Show in Las Vegas last week. This announcement comes on the heels of $5.5 million Series C funding that the company announced la... More

TiVo’s Walt Horstman Talks TV Advertising (MTS)

Horstman: "In 2018, TV executives are becoming smarter with the ways they use linear TV data. In an environment where there are so many measurement challenges, the industry is incr... More

‘Avengers: Infinity War,’ ‘Solo: A Star Wars Story’ to Get Dolby Cinema Treatment (THR)

Avengers: Infinity War and Solo: A Star Wars Story are among a string of upcoming Disney titles that will be offered in Dolby Cinema — meaning with both Dolby Vision HDR images a... More

Technicolor Takes on Colorist Brian Krijgsman (Broadcast)

Technicolor London has recruited colourist Brian Krijgsman for its DI team. He joins from Amsterdam-based commercials-focused post house The Ambassadors, where he was based for nin... More

Dolby, Jinyi Partner to Extend Dolby Experiences to More Moviegoers in China (MESA)

Guangzhou Jinyi Media, owner of Jinyi Cinemas, one of the largest cinema circuits in China, and Dolby today announced a partnership to extend spectacular Dolby experiences to more ... More

How ABC Has Used Social Video to Help Build Buzz Around Its ‘Roseanne’ Reboot (B&C)

Roseanne is not only a hit on television, it’s a hit on Facebook and YouTube. Although there are a number of grass-roots fan pages and channels focused on the show (both its curr... More

New Tech Helps Editors Work Creatively Far From Set (Variety)

As we move closer to a world of telecommuting and online collaboration, film editors are jumping on the bandwagon. As a group they’ve been traditionally somewhat removed from the... More

Do Advertisers Want More ‘Premium’ TV? (MediaPost)

Escalating TV production -- for premium TV entertainment in particular -- will not slow down. Take Fox Searchlight, a medium-sized movie studio focused on big adult-skewing, award-... More

MoviePass Bundles Subscription With iHeartRadio Streaming Service (THR)

MoviePass, the controversial movie theater subscription service, is adding music to the mix. The company on Friday will announce that new subscribers can access both MoviePass and ... More

Publishers are Treating Instagram Stories Like Episodic TV (Digiday)

If Instagram ever adds its version of Facebook Watch, Bustle will be prepared. The publisher is among the media companies independently producing episodic series for their own Inst... More

NAGRA Announces myCinema, a Digital Transformation of the Cinema Experience (MESA)

NAGRA, a Kudelski Group company, unveiled myCinema, a ground-breaking service designed to transform the cinema experience. NAGRA will introduce myCinema at CinemaCon 2018 in Las Ve... More

NAB Show: FCC Chairman Recommits to Modernizing Media Rules (THR)

FCC chairman Ajit Pai on Tuesday emphasized his aim to "modernize" the nation's media rules during an address at NAB Show in Las Vegas. “That’s required a lot of work,” he sa... More

ESPN+ Launches With a Ton of Live Sports — and Limited Ads (Variety)

ESPN is stuffing its ESPN+ subscription service with thousands of live sporting events and other programming — which won’t be available on its cable TV channels. And it’s als... More

TiVo, Mediacom Sign Expanded Licensing Deal (CED)

Mediacom has renewed its licensing agreement with TiVo that expands the relationship to include TiVo’s user interface, analytics and intellectual property, the companies announce... More

TiVo Sunsetting the Standalone Fan TV App (MCN)

TiVo is sunsetting the standalone Fan TV app for mobile devices and the web, as many of the search and recommendation capabilities housed there have been integrated into the new Ti... More

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