Film News Briefs

Tarsem has just joined an elite club that until now consisted of only Kevin Smith. This club is reserved for directors that so completely squander the [...]

Last week I mentioned my feud with HBO and coming as a complete surprise to me, I’m not the only one. Today I discovered a website called “ [...]

Last time out, I mentioned my love of all things Peter Dinklage and promised to return to the topic. But if your own Dinklage experience is limited to [...]

Been gone a while, so let’s get nerdy! I am a comic book junkie. Like so many other nerds, my distaste (and sometimes outrage) over the incredibly l [...]

[...] has staked its claim as, perhaps, the most interesting professional organization in the entertainment industry. Their annual conference offers two days of intimate discourse among professionals. One [...]

[...] We pride ourselves in these parts on the fact that we cover many different aspects of the entertainment industry, not just the film business. In fact, we think we do as much TV coverage as we do its [...]

[...] changed hands. The trade paper of record for more than a century – the stalwart of the entertainment industry – is moving into the 21st century with a new owner and a new direction. That being the [...]

[...] For more than 100 years, Variety has been the official newspaper of the entertainment industry. It has undergone numerous transfers of ownership, most recently purchased by Penske [...]

[...] weeks, what with it being the doldrums of August and all, when nothing happens in the entertainment world and everyone’s on vacation, like it’s Europe or something. So, because “Breaking Bad” [...]

[...] Oscars are over, there’s kind of a dearth of anything interesting going on in the entertainment world until the summer movie season starts around the Ides of March. It’s ironic, because [...]

[...] If you paid any attention to what was going on in the entertainment world the second half of last week, there won’t be much mystery as to today’s subject. The fact [...]

[...] Well, it was bound to happen. After almost five years of covering the entertainment world, we’re ending publication of Film News Briefs today as we join forces with Studio System [...]

[...] storytellers we have to be where the viewers are.” Working in the new media space offers content creators an opportunity to have a closer, more direct relationship with their viewers. That is the [...]

[...] needs and goals. Research findings pinpoint specific details in a way that will enable content creators to design and market meaningful products with greater expectations of success. The biggest [...]

[...] , it enables the networks to sell format rights overseas. Sometimes – but not often – content creators with very successful track records can retain all or some ownership in the ancillary rights [...]