That the studios and networks have been twisting the truth about the WGA strike to suit their own purposes looks to be standard operating procedure during this strike. That happens on the other side of this labor dispute, too. But no company seems to be doing this more than Disney/ABC. For instance, all comments (not just some) that are even mildly friendly to the WGA are quickly deleted from ABC.com. Here is one striking writer's experience on Tuesday: "I was on ABC.com today when I saw the Leno story and that there were ... lire la suite
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That the studios and networks have been twisting the truth about the WGA strike to suit their own purposes looks to be standard operating procedure during this strike. That happens on the other side of this labor dispute, too. But no company seems to be doing this more than Disney/ABC.
At its chief executive Bill Gates' final CES keynote, Microsoft tonight made a pair of significant expansions of its Xbox and Zune handhelds. The company's Xbox Video Marketplace has now signed on content from Disney-ABC as well as MGM. This places.
Teri Hatcher at Disney and ABC’s TCA - All Star Party at The Beverly Hilton Hotel.
Les producteurs de télévision du monde entier ont une tradition bien installée de s'emprunter des concepts d'émissions ou de séries TV pour les adapter dans leur marché local. Bien que les idées en elles-mêmes ne puissent pas être protégées au titre du droit d'auteur, ces emprunts font toujours l'objet de négociations financières, pour avoir le droit de reprendre, au delà d'une idée, la façon dont les plans sont montés, le décor ou des éléments du scénario.
At an advertising conference, Disney-ABC’s Anne Sweeney said that video on ABC. com is driving younger viewers to the network on TV. And in a survey very similar to NBC. com’s below, ABC. com said it found that its streaming video users remember ads 87% of the time.
Le groupe Canal+ a annoncé jeudi le renouvellement de son accord avec Disney/ABC et la signature d'un accord pluri-annuel portant sur les films NewLine. Le groupe enrichit ainsi son offre cinéma» a précisé [.
Le Groupe Canal+ a renouvelé ses accords avec Disney-ABC International Television et signé un accord pluri-annuel portant sur les films NewLine. Un nouvel accord Disney-ABC International Television permettra au Groupe CANAL+ de diffuser sur ses antennes les prochaines productions de Walt Disney Studios, Touchstone Pictures et Miramax Films, dont “There Will Be Blood”, “Enchanted” et “Pirates [.
EXCLUSIVE: Expect an announcement in the next days that Morgan Wandell, the SVP of drama development at ABC Studios, is going to run Brothers & Sisters and Eli Stone and Dirty Sexy Money producer Greg Berlanti's hot company under a new multi-million dollar and multi-year development deal there.
I’ve said it before, I’ll say it again. There is something at the water at Disney that makes their teen stars freak out and nearly ruin their careers. Miley Cyrus is running all over town taking raunchy photos of herself on her camera phone, now one of the virginal Jonas Brothers is about to come out of the closet.
As part of Disney-ABC’s new “Open ABC” initiative, developers will be able to build on the network’s video player to “innovate and give access to our shows (in ways) we haven’t even thought of yet,” such as new forms of 3D visual search and other applications for blogs, fan sites, and social networks.
What an incredible list of petty, mean-spirited and just spiteful behavior the Hollywood CEOs are compiling for themselves. Really, they're never going to be able to explain away this stuff when the strike eventually ends and they're held accountable by everyone else. I've been confirming episode after episode of the AMPTP's giant multimedia members retaliating in every way possible against anyone in Hollywood helping the WGA's side in this strike dragging on and on.
Of course, we all know that in the long history of Disney, the company has made much of its money by taking the content of others and repurposing it in cute animated stories. Yet, when it comes to anyone else doing things with Disney's stories or characters, its lawyers are rather vicious in response.
Tonight at the opening of the Consumer Electronics Show in Las Vegas, Bill Gates announced a bunch of Hollywood movie, TV and other content deals with Disney-ABC, NBC Universal, MGM and Showtime. Most of the pacts are meant to strengthen Microsoft's Xbox and MSN online services in the marketplace to keep pace with rivals like Apple's iTunes.
La réalisateur de “Spider-Man”, Sam Raimi, va produire une série intitulée Wizard’s First Rule (”La première leçon du sorcier” en français), adapté du premier tome de ”The Sword of Truth” (”L’épée de vérité”), la série de livres a succès de Terry Goodkind (débutée en 1994), destinée au marché de la syndication (les droits seront revendus a des chaînes locales).
I've spent all morning talking to sources on all sides of the WGA-mogul talks, and here is the latest news. I'll open comments once I'm done posting. Keep refreshing. I'm told that Patric Verrone, Dave Young and John Bowman -- the WGA leadership involved in Friday's breakthrough session of the writer-mogul talks with Peter Chernin and Bob Iger -- are recommending the deal hashed out Friday and briefed the guild's negotiating committee today.
About a year and a half ago, an executive at Disney-owned ABC-TV talked about how the network was experimenting with ways to block people from fast forwarding through commercials. The exec in question even claimed that commercial-skipping wasn't even a very important feature for most DVR-owners.
Le groupe Canal+ a renouvelé ses accords avec Disney-ABC International Télévision et signé un accord pluri-annuel portant sur les films NewLine. L'ac.
All these events and deals in entertainment media technology were made since January 2008 when the DGA-AMPTP deal tried to set “the template” for all the guild negotiations: February 4, 2008—Cablevision offers Universal and Warner Bros. movies on demand the same day they debut on DVD, as long as viewers purchase the movies on disc.
Over at Cliff Schecter's blog there is a great post about who opposes a John Edwards presidency and why. Here's the meat of the post: Ask corporate lobbyists which presidential contender is most feared by their clients and the answer is almost always the same -- Democrat John Edwards.
SUNDAY 3 PM Pacific Time: Above is a celebrity stand-in during Red Carpet rehearsals for the 80th Academy Awards telecast Sunday (photo by Jonathan Alcorn) followed by the real George Clooney arriving on the real Red Carpet. My preview of the Oscars is here. I hear that ABC dramatically lowered expectations about tonight's TV ratings to advertisers.