- Guilds Appear Screened Out of MPAA Screeners
The filmmaking guilds—more specifically, the Screen Actors Guild (SAG), the Directors Guild of America (DGA), and the Writers Guild of America (WGA)—apparently are being screened out of a new screener policy being developed by the Motion Picture Association of America (MPAA).
- Look who's no. 1: Sony Pictures leads major
studios in '97 box office.
SONY PICTURES LEADS MAJOR STUDIOS IN '97 BOX OFFICE Alan Levine and Mark Canton of Sony Pictures Entertainment are having their best year ever at the box office. There's just one small hitch: Both men were fired last fall. Levine, former president of Sony Pictures, and Canton, former chairman of ......
- Movies and manipulation: how studios punish
critics.
Do movie studios manipulate critics? Of course they do. And the effort goes well beyond the recently publicized, decades-old practice of finding nominal critics willing to put their names to any prepackaged rave ("Funny, funny, funny!") sent to them by the studios. In a ten-month survey underwritten by the National ......
- Actor strike boosts OC filming
In the battle between striking actors and ad producers in Los Angeles, ad agencies and their clients are fleeing to this side of the proverbial Orange Curtain to find a haven. While Screen Actors Guild protesters try to disrupt onlocation filming in LA and its City Council is considering a ......
- FINAL CUT?
HEADNOTE The Orange County Film Commission Hopes Cities Step Up to Fix Funding Woes The Orange County Film Commission sells film producers on the county. Now it'll have to sell itself if it wants to stick around. The agency, which gets all of its funding from the county, had its ......
- Columbia TriStar in joint bid for KirchMedia
assets.
TV MEETS THE WEB-(C)2002 Van Dusseldorp & Partners - http://www.vandusseldorp.com/ Hollywood film studio Columbia TriStar is understood to be in discussions with the German bank Commerzbank and publisher WAZ Gruppe to possibly jointly bid on the assets of KirchMedia, according to the Financial Times. KirchMedia, the free-to-air television arm of ......
- Columbia TriStar in joint bid for KirchMedia
assets.
EUROPEMEDIA-(C)2002 Van Dusseldorp & Partners - http://www.vandusseldorp.com/ Hollywood film studio Columbia TriStar is understood to be in discussions with the German bank Commerzbank and publisher WAZ Gruppe to possibly jointly bid on the assets of KirchMedia, according to the Financial Times. KirchMedia, the free-to-air television arm of KirchGruppe, filed for ......