Gregg Kilday
Peter Chernin Launches Media Firm in Asia
Convergent TV
Peter Chernin’s The Chernin Group is setting its sights on Asia with the announcement Sunday that it is launching CA Media to build and manage media, entertainment and technology businesses [...]
New Site Offers 12,000 Film Clips
Performance Marketing
Movieclips.com has signed licensing agreements with six major studios so that it can offer more than 12,000 two-minute clips culled from a diverse collection of movies. The newly launched, free, [...]
New Site Offers 12,000 Film Clips
Performance Marketing
Movieclips.com, which launched Wednesday, has signed licensing agreements with six of the major studios so that it can offer more than 12,000 two-minute clips culled from a diverse collection of [...]
Betty White to Receive SAG Lifetime Award
Convergent TV
Betty White, who has spent six decades as a familiar television presence, will be honored with the SAG Life Achievement Award at the 15th annual SAG Awards on Jan. 23. [...]
SAG Approves Cable Live Action Deal
Convergent TV
SAG members have overwhelmingly approved a new two-year Basic Cable Live Action contract, which includes a 3 percent wage increase retroactive to June 10 and a 3.5 percent bump next [...]
Studios, Nets Play to Comic-Con
Convergent TV
Hard-core geeks, Twilight-swooning tweens, Star Wars nostalgists, pale-skinned comic book collectors, SpongeBob SquarePants, costumed zombies, Oscar winners including Denzel Washington, Peter Jackson and James Cameron and perennial attendee Kevin Smith [...]
Academy to Allow Film Ads on Oscars
Convergent TV
LOS ANGELES For the first time since the Oscars moved to TV in the early 1950s, studios will be able to advertise movies during the telecast of the 81st annual [...]
Academy to Allow Film Ads on Oscars
Brand Marketing
For the first time since the Oscars moved to TV in the early 1950s, studios will be able to advertise movies during the telecast of the 81st Annual Academy Awards. [...]
Princess of Nebraska Goes YouTube Route
Performance Marketing
Wayne Wang’s new film “The Princess of Nebraska,” from Magnolia Pictures, will make its world premiere on YouTube on Oct. 17. It will be released for free on the recently [...]
Warren Cowan Dies at 87
Convergent TV
CANNES, FRANCE Warren Cowan, one of Hollywood’s most influential press agents who represented a who’s who of A-list stars during a seven-decade career, has died of heart failure and cancer [...]