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Archives for: November 20085
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SAG, majors meet for contract talks
Friday November 21st 2008SAG’s bitter contract stalemate with the majors looks like it will stay that way. Negotiators met face-to-face Thursday in the first official meeting in over four months but progress appears to have been negligible. Neither side had any comment about the confab orchestrated by federal mediator Juan Carlos Gonzalez at AMPTP headquarters. But people familiar with the meeting disclosed that it consisted of little more than each side re-stating its positions.
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Lionsgate drops digital downloads
Friday November 21st 2008Another studio has exited the digital download biz. Digital software firm Sonic Solutions has acquired CinemaNow, a 9-year-old video download store partially owned by Lionsgate, for a paltry $3 million. Minimajor’s exit from the download biz comes a year after five studios sold Movielink to Blockbuster for $6.6 million. Since[…]
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IATSE pacts with congloms
Friday November 21st 2008IATSE and the majors have reached a tentative three-year contract agreement after nine negotiating sessions — making for the sixth such accord reached by the congloms this year. The deal closed one day before the congloms and the Screen Actors Guild today hold a face-to-face meeting, their first on SAG’s[…]
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‘Christmas’ for Disney, Imax
Thursday November 20th 2008Disney and Imax are back in business together, inking a five-picture deal that commences a year from now with Robert Zemeckis’ 3-D holiday release “A Christmas Carol.” The Mouse House — the market leader in 3-D — has been noticeably absent when it comes to exploiting Imax screens, choosing instead to play its digital 3-D titles in conventional theaters only. Relations between Disney and Imax grew strained after the two partnered on “Fantasia 2000,” which celebrated the 40th anniversary of the acclaimed animated feature.
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Counter suit filed over “Project Runway” rights
Thursday November 20th 2008The Lifetime cable TV network has counter-sued NBC Universal, Bravo and The Weinstein Company over the rights to the TV program “Project Runway” in the latest legal action that has left the hit show in limbo. The suit, filed in federal court in Manhattan late on Tuesday, seeks exclusive rights over the fashion design contest starring model Heidi Klum that had been scheduled to jump to the Lifetime Network from its cable TV rival Bravo.
ARCHIVES
Archives for: November 20085
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SAG, majors meet for contract talks
Friday November 21st 2008SAG’s bitter contract stalemate with the majors looks like it will stay that way. Negotiators met face-to-face Thursday in the first official meeting in over four months but progress appears to have been negligible. Neither side had any comment about the confab orchestrated by federal mediator Juan Carlos Gonzalez at AMPTP headquarters. But people familiar with the meeting disclosed that it consisted of little more than each side re-stating its positions.
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Lionsgate drops digital downloads
Friday November 21st 2008Another studio has exited the digital download biz. Digital software firm Sonic Solutions has acquired CinemaNow, a 9-year-old video download store partially owned by Lionsgate, for a paltry $3 million. Minimajor’s exit from the download biz comes a year after five studios sold Movielink to Blockbuster for $6.6 million. Since[…]
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IATSE pacts with congloms
Friday November 21st 2008IATSE and the majors have reached a tentative three-year contract agreement after nine negotiating sessions — making for the sixth such accord reached by the congloms this year. The deal closed one day before the congloms and the Screen Actors Guild today hold a face-to-face meeting, their first on SAG’s[…]
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‘Christmas’ for Disney, Imax
Thursday November 20th 2008Disney and Imax are back in business together, inking a five-picture deal that commences a year from now with Robert Zemeckis’ 3-D holiday release “A Christmas Carol.” The Mouse House — the market leader in 3-D — has been noticeably absent when it comes to exploiting Imax screens, choosing instead to play its digital 3-D titles in conventional theaters only. Relations between Disney and Imax grew strained after the two partnered on “Fantasia 2000,” which celebrated the 40th anniversary of the acclaimed animated feature.
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Counter suit filed over “Project Runway” rights
Thursday November 20th 2008The Lifetime cable TV network has counter-sued NBC Universal, Bravo and The Weinstein Company over the rights to the TV program “Project Runway” in the latest legal action that has left the hit show in limbo. The suit, filed in federal court in Manhattan late on Tuesday, seeks exclusive rights over the fashion design contest starring model Heidi Klum that had been scheduled to jump to the Lifetime Network from its cable TV rival Bravo.
ARCHIVES
Archives for: November 20085
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SAG, majors meet for contract talks
Friday November 21st 2008SAG’s bitter contract stalemate with the majors looks like it will stay that way. Negotiators met face-to-face Thursday in the first official meeting in over four months but progress appears to have been negligible. Neither side had any comment about the confab orchestrated by federal mediator Juan Carlos Gonzalez at AMPTP headquarters. But people familiar with the meeting disclosed that it consisted of little more than each side re-stating its positions.
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Lionsgate drops digital downloads
Friday November 21st 2008Another studio has exited the digital download biz. Digital software firm Sonic Solutions has acquired CinemaNow, a 9-year-old video download store partially owned by Lionsgate, for a paltry $3 million. Minimajor’s exit from the download biz comes a year after five studios sold Movielink to Blockbuster for $6.6 million. Since[…]
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IATSE pacts with congloms
Friday November 21st 2008IATSE and the majors have reached a tentative three-year contract agreement after nine negotiating sessions — making for the sixth such accord reached by the congloms this year. The deal closed one day before the congloms and the Screen Actors Guild today hold a face-to-face meeting, their first on SAG’s[…]
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‘Christmas’ for Disney, Imax
Thursday November 20th 2008Disney and Imax are back in business together, inking a five-picture deal that commences a year from now with Robert Zemeckis’ 3-D holiday release “A Christmas Carol.” The Mouse House — the market leader in 3-D — has been noticeably absent when it comes to exploiting Imax screens, choosing instead to play its digital 3-D titles in conventional theaters only. Relations between Disney and Imax grew strained after the two partnered on “Fantasia 2000,” which celebrated the 40th anniversary of the acclaimed animated feature.
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Counter suit filed over “Project Runway” rights
Thursday November 20th 2008The Lifetime cable TV network has counter-sued NBC Universal, Bravo and The Weinstein Company over the rights to the TV program “Project Runway” in the latest legal action that has left the hit show in limbo. The suit, filed in federal court in Manhattan late on Tuesday, seeks exclusive rights over the fashion design contest starring model Heidi Klum that had been scheduled to jump to the Lifetime Network from its cable TV rival Bravo.
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