SUNDANCE FILMMAKERS TO GET HELP FROM INSTITUTE
July 28, 2011 by admin · Leave a Comment
Hoping to provide a wider release for the films that are screened at the Sundance Film Festival, the Sundance Institute on Wednesday unveiled a new program that will help filmmakers sell and/or rent their movies via the major video websites, including iTunes, YouTube, Hulu, Amazon.com and its own SundanceNow. Sundance will act as the agent [...]
CASEY ANTHONY APP A HIT ON APPLE’S ITUNES
A 99-cent Casey Anthony trial app developed by an NBC affiliate in Orlando, FL, where the trial is being held, became the No. 1 news app on Apple’s iTunes store last weekend and now resides at No. 2, according to a report by Harvard’s Nieman Journalism Lab. The success is particularly remarkable given the fact [...]
DISNEY PLANNING TO EXPAND DISNEY.COM
June 3, 2011 by admin · Leave a Comment
The Walt Disney Co. may be having second thoughts about offering shows from its TV sites like ABC, Disney Channel, and ESPN and movies from its film studios on super sites such as Hulu and Apple’s iTunes Store. The Los Angeles Times reported today (Friday) that Disney CEO Robert Iger wants to transform Disney.com into [...]
NBC NEWS LAUNCHES IPAD APP
May 30, 2011 by admin · Leave a Comment
CBS News may have been first when it came to developing an app for the iPad that allows users to watch its news coverage on demand, but NBC, which boasts nearly twice the number of viewers for its nightly newscast, has now developed a similar app that anchor Brian Williams describes this way: “This app [...]
TSUNAMI SWEEPS OVER TV
March 11, 2011 by admin · Leave a Comment
Japan’s NHK network has provided gripping coverage of the earthquake and tsunami that struck the country early on (Friday). Throughout the day, NHK tracked the devastating progress of the deluge, showing the massive tidal wave carrying boats onto farmlands, sweeping up homes and cars — and people — and carrying them away. The television network [...]
U.K. CHANNEL REFUSES TO CENSOR GARY GLITTER SONG ON GLEE
March 11, 2011 by admin · Leave a Comment
Britain’s Channel 4 Network has refused to censor a scene in an upcoming episode of Glee in which Gwyneth Paltrow performs the 1973 Gary Glitter hit Do You Want to Touch Me? The episode has already aired in the U.S. and a CD of Paltrow’s rendition has hit iTunes’s Top 30 chart. Some child advocacy [...]
SAG REMINDS MEMBERS TO TURN IN BALLOTS
January 26, 2011 by admin · Leave a Comment
The Screen Actors Guild on Tuesday emailed reminders to its members that the voting deadline for its SAG Awards presentations is Friday, Jan. 28 at 12:00 noon. This year SAG members are able to watch videos of all the nominated films online by entering a special code that identifies them on Apple’s iTunes store, which, [...]
JACKASS TO RETURN IN MARCH — BUT NOT IN THEATERS
December 1, 2010 by admin · Leave a Comment
Following the theatrical release of Jackass 3D in October, chief jackass Johnny Knoxville told interviewers as he promoted the movie that he had shot enough footage to make another one. Details about the new production were disclosed by Paramount on Tuesday: First of all, it won’t be released theatrically; second of all, it won’t be [...]
COMCAST SEES 275,000 SUBSCRIBERS FLEE
October 28, 2010 by admin · Leave a Comment
Comcast, the nation’s largest cable operator, laid out an array of reasons Wednesday for a third-quarter, 8.2-percent plunge in earnings. First of all there were all of the legal and administrative costs associated with its efforts to merge with NBC Universal. Then there was a drop in fees paid by subscribers for pay-TV programming as [...]
THE END OF THE VIDEO STORE?
If Netflix, Redbox, iTunes, and video-on-demand have taken a heavy toll on Blockbuster, they are taking an even heavier one on small mom-and-pop video stores, the Wall Street Journal observed today. “Technology,” it observed, “is killing the video-rental store — and a piece of American culture with it.” The newspaper cited a survey by SNL [...]