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 […]
YANKED CHANNELS RESTORED TO TWC’S IPAD APPS
April 18, 2011 by admin · Leave a Comment
Two weeks after Time Warner Cable yanked its Fox, Viacom and Discovery iPad apps that allow its subscribers to receive real-time programming from them at home, the Fox and Discovery apps were again up and running on Friday, leaving Viacom as the only cable programmer still balking at TWC’s iPad service. The return of such […]
“CYRUS” CONTINUES TO SELL OUT THEATERS
June 28, 2010 by admin · Leave a Comment
In limited release, Fox Searchlight’s Cyrus expanded from 4 to 17 screens and remained the top draw on a per-theater basis, averaging $17,600, for a total of about $300,000, bringing its ten-day total to $565,000. (By contrast, Toy Story, which led the overall box office and had the highest average ticket price, averaged $4,475 per […]