LOS ANGELES (Hollywood Reporter) – Even before HBO officially unveiled its new broadband strategy Wednesday, the buzz had been building for HBO Go.
“Spending 30 seconds with HBO Go makes you want to throw out your cable box,” Pali Capital analyst Richard Greenfield wrote last month, when the site was in ...
LOS ANGELES – Warner Bros has struck a deal with Redbox to let the rental-kiosk chain purchase and rent out its new motion picture titles 28 days after their DVD release, settling a lawsuit the fledgling company filed against the Hollywood studio last year.
The deal grants Redbox access to ...
LOS ANGELES (Hollywood Reporter) – This year’s Oscar winners will not have to put up with delayed gratification.
Breaking with tradition, the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences plans to attach the winners’ engraved nameplates to their statuettes at the Governors Ball immediately after the ceremony, which will be broadcast ...
LOS ANGELES – Lions Gate Entertainment Corp and the Weinstein brothers are among the potential buyers of Walt Disney Co’s Miramax film unit, sources familiar with the situation stated on Monday.
Independent studio Summit Entertainment, which is behind the popular “Twilight” franchise, could also be interested in Miramax, stated the ...
NEW YORK – Sidestepping the usual slapstick comedy and animal tricks, a number of advertisers tried to score during Sunday’s Super Bowl with commercials that tapped into men’s ambivalence with their each day lives.
In the battle among advertisers, Unilever’s Dove, Chrysler LLC’s Dodge and Flo TV created early buzz ...
WASHINGTON – Changes that Google Inc and the Authors Guild made to an ambitious plan to create a big on-line library were inadequate because they fail to address antitrust and copyright concerns, the U.S. Justice Department stated on Thursday.
Google’s plan to put millions of books on-line has been praised ...
WASHINGTON – Changes that Google Inc and the Authors Guild made to an ambitious plan to create a massive online library were inadequate because they fail to address antitrust and copyright concerns, the U.S.
NEW YORK – Even the most creative media executives would have been hard pressed a year ago to conjure up a world of solid profits, soaring stock prices and cash stockpiles big enough to support higher dividend payouts.
WASHINGTON – Comcast Corp, the top U.S.
POTSDAM, Germany – The Babelsberg film studio was bursting with pride Wednesday after American director Quentin Tarantino’s anti-Nazi farce “Inglourious Basterds” filmed here last year got eight Oscar nominations.