Big Media Targets Original Web Hits (TV Week)
Traditional media companies are chasing Web hits just like the digital studios that have pioneered the genre. With ad dollars continuing to pour into online video, Hollywood is eager for a chunk of that market. Most estimates say consumers watch 10 billion videos online each month....more...CinemaNow Selects Widevine(R) to Enable Multiplatform Content Distribution to Consumer Electronics Devices and PCs (Marketwire via Yahoo! Finance)
Widevine Technologies, the only provider of multiformat, multiplatform DRM and digital copy protection solutions, today announced it has been selected by CinemaNow, an innovator in digital entertainment technology that delivers high-quality Hollywood movies, TV shows and music videos, to secure multiplatform distribution of CinemaNow content to major consumer electronics devices and PCs....more... Top Media Executive Alan Citron Joins Buzznet Inc. (PR Newswire via Yahoo! Finance)
Buzznet Inc., the media company focused on building active, engaged online communities around pop culture, today announced that Alan Citron has joined the company to spearhead Special Projects....more... Selling sex and corruption to your kids (WorldNet Daily)
Editor's note: This is the first part of a groundbreaking, two-part series on today's youth culture, by WND Vice President and Managing Editor David Kupelian. It is a frank and in-depth exploration of an often-shocking subject, and may not be suitable reading for children....more... Ring report (Miami Herald)
D1PW is 7:30 p.m. Saturday, Aug. 16 at the Fred Lippman Multipurpose Center,(South Florida) Hollywood. D1PW title: Billy Fives vs. Kenny King vs. Bruce Santee with special guest referee Norman Smiley. Caribbean title: Brother vs. Brother: Tommy Vandal vs. Johnny Vandal....more... California seeks to stay in the film industry picture (The Sacramento Bee)
HBO has been filming for a week in the foothills near Coloma and in the farmland and rolling hills of Yolo and Solano counties. In Sacramento, cable's Style Network is lensing an upcoming episode of popular reality show "Split Ends."...more... What's new in entertainment (Centre Daily Times)
A look at what's new in movies, books, music, television, video games and DVDs for the weekend. ...more... Holy Cash Cow, Batman! Content Is Back (The Florence Times-Daily)
As Jeff Bewkes whittles away at the Time Warner empire, its become clear that the company will have unraveled the two great megamergers that created its current shape....more... Ben Lyons to Host Nickelodeon?s New Extreme Sports Competition Series, My Family?s Got GUTS, Premiering in Prime Time ... (Broadcast Newsroom)
NEW YORK , Aug. 11 /PRNewswire/ -- Ben Lyons , the E! Network's resident film critic and an entertainment correspondent, has been tapped to host Nickelodeon's new extreme sports competition series, My Family's Got GUTS. My Family's Got GUTS celebrates sports and fun, healthy competition and lifestyle and is being recreated for a new generation of families....more... |