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Roger Ebert: Movie Maven, Digital Immigrant, Unconquerable Spirit

April 5, 2013 By Sharon Waxman 7 weeks ago

Ebert's last act -- reinventing himself as a digital ninja at a time when his peers were retiring, getting fired and relegated to the past  -- was his most extraordinary

  

VFX House Pixomondo Shuts Shanghai Office, Will Move Away From Film (Exclusive)

April 1, 2013 By Sharon Waxman 7 weeks ago

CEO and founder Thilo Kuther said Pixomondo, which just completed work on the Tom Cruise thriller “Oblivion,” has laid off about 20 animators and artists in the Shanghai office

  

Variety Makes a Necessary Change – Here Are the Risks

February 26, 2013 By Sharon Waxman 12 weeks ago

Variety's new owner has picked a strategy, and it is one fraught with risk

  

Mindy McCready, Country Singer, Dead of Apparent Suicide at 37

February 17, 2013 By Sharon Waxman 13 weeks ago

 

Country singer Mindy McCready has died at 37 of an apparent suicide
  

What’s the Future for Entertainment Weekly Under a Time Inc. Spin-Off?

February 15, 2013 By Sharon Waxman 14 weeks ago

Entertainment Weekly is expected to be part of a deal to spin off Time Inc.'s package of female-oriented titles to the Meredith Corporation

  

Insiders Ask: Can Jeff Zucker Change the Cheapskate Culture of CNN?

February 6, 2013 By Sharon Waxman 15 weeks ago

A budgeting issue is symptomatic of what insiders say is a cheapskate culture at CNN that Zucker will have to change if he is to succeed at turning the news network around

  

Disney Confirms: J.J. Abrams to Direct New 'Star Wars'

January 25, 2013 By Sharon Waxman 16 weeks ago

The Walt Disney Company confirmed on Friday evening that director J.J. Abrams would direct the new "Star Wars" movie

  

Washington Post to Add Paywall, Joining New York Times Model

December 7, 2012 By Sharon Waxman 24 weeks ago

Washington Post, facing flat revenue and struggling print sales, is “close” to adding a paywall to its online edition

  

Top News, Reality TV Talent Agency N.S. Bienstock Adds Adam Block

November 28, 2012 By Lucas Shaw 25 weeks ago

N.S. Bienstock, which represents news heavyweights like Anderson Cooper and Bill O’Reilly, has added Adam Block as a packaging agent

  

Vox Media, Owner of The Verge, Launches Polygon Video Game Site

October 24, 2012 By Alexander C. Kaufman 30 weeks ago

Vox Media poached editors from Kotaku, Joystiq and IGN to build Polygon

  

Tina Brown on Newsweek Print End, Digital Future: ‘An Inevitable Outcome’ (Video)

October 19, 2012 By Sharon Waxman 31 weeks ago

Editor Tina Brown says of the end of Newsweek's print edition: "There was always a feeling and a knowledge we would be a digital company"

  

'Walking Dead' Delivers AMC Its Biggest Ever Series-Premiere Audience

October 15, 2012 By Tim Molloy 31 weeks ago

Frank Darabont's zombie series averaged 5.3M viewers on Halloween night; by comparison, season 4 of "Mad Men" debuted to 2.9M

  

About That Stacey Snider Universal Rumor ...

August 1, 2012 By Sharon Waxman 42 weeks ago

Hollywood’s phone lines are burning up over the rumor that Stacey Snider might replace Ron Meyer at the head of Universal. The problem is there are zero facts to back it up.

  

Financial Times' Digital Subscribers Eclipse Print

July 27, 2012 By Alexander C. Kaufman 42 weeks ago

The financial newspaper has garnered more subscribers to its site than its global print edition

  

MSNBC Names Lauren Skowronski VP of Media Relations

July 23, 2012 By Alexander C. Kaufman 43 weeks ago

She will serve as the company's chief spokeswoman

  

News Corp. Promotes Peter Rice, David Hill

July 23, 2012 By Alexander C. Kaufman 43 weeks ago

Rice will take on the CEO role of Fox Networks Group, Hill will take a News Corp.-wide role as a senior VP after years in Fox Sports

  

Rupert Murdoch Resigns From Boards of News Corp. Subsidiaries

July 21, 2012 By Alexander C. Kaufman 43 weeks ago

Rupert Murdoch has resigned from several subsidiary boards ahead of a News Corp. split of entertainment and news properties

  

Microsoft Unveils the Surface, a Tablet to Rival Apple's iPad

June 18, 2012 By Alexander C. Kaufman 48 weeks ago

Microsoft unveiled the Surface, a tablet to rival the iPad, at a conference in Los Angeles Monday

  

By the Numbers: Television Trounces Film (Slideshow)

June 7, 2012 By Alexander C. Kaufman 50 weeks ago

Television is the new cash cow at major media companies

  

ABC News, Univision Launch English-Language News Venture

May 7, 2012 By Tim Molloy 1 year ago

Website and other content planned for summer; TV station to launch next year

  

Steve Burke Tells CAA Retreat: ‘Movie Business Is In Steady Decline’ (Exclusive)

April 27, 2012 By Sharon Waxman 1 year ago

Steve Burke, CEO and president of NBC Universal, laid out a portrait of a movie business in “steady decline" at the CAA retreat at the La Costa Resort last weekend 

  

What’s Variety Worth and Who Will Buy It?

March 23, 2012 By Sharon Waxman 1 year ago

My insiders say the trade makes about $45 million a year and is profitable. Who still likes content?

  

Matt Drudge Gives It Up to Andrew Breitbart

March 1, 2012 By Sharon Waxman 1 year ago

Drudge Report founder leads his site with tribute to his former colleague Breitbart, who died at 43

  

Univision, ABC Seek to Launch Hispanic News Network by Election 2012

February 8, 2012 By Sharon Waxman & Lucas Shaw 1 year ago

ABC News and the fast-growing Univision both "feel very good" about closing a deal for the 24-hour new news network

  

George Clooney to Direct, Star in 'Monuments Men' About Stolen Nazi Art (Exclusive)

January 8, 2012 By Sharon Waxman 1 year ago

Clooney tells TheWrap he will direct and star in the movie, which has been set up at Sony

  

Report Card 2011: Disney Chopped Costs With Fewer Films

December 19, 2011 By Kurt Orzeck 1 year ago

The studio reduced its output by 20 percent and had another big "Pirates" hit, but "Mars Needs Moms" stuck out like a big, sore motion-capture thumb

  
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