Harry Sloan to Obama: Tax Me
September, 20, 2011 8:44 am | Comments On #Buffett Rule, Harry Sloan, Media, Obama, people, taxes, terry semel, TheGrill
Harry Sloan is a Republican, but you wouldn’t know it from his remarks at TheWrap's media leadership conference, TheGrill, on Monday night.
The former Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer chief and the head of the media fund Global Eagle said not only can he live with higher taxes, but he's even told Republican politicians to stop fighting to keep the tax rates on the country’s wealthiest citizens low.
Also run: Terry Semel at TheGrill: Value of Hollywood Content Is on the Rise
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Read MoreTerry Semel at TheGrill: Value of Hollywood Content Is on the Rise
September, 19, 2011 10:46 pm | Comments On #Harry Sloan, Movies, people, terry semel, TheGrillContent companies are about to see a rise in the value of content because Internet companies need what they sell, Terry Semel said at the opening of TheGrill conference on Monday.
Semel, the former chairman of Warner Brothers and CEO of Yahoo, said that companies like Google, Apple, Netflix and others are realizing that they need what Hollywood creates to drive advertising revenue.
(Semel, at left, and Sloan; photographs by Jonathan Alcorn)
“Silly little Internet things are cute for a minute, but it’s not what big advertisers were looking for,” Semel said, at the kick-off panel discussion, "Hollywood's Future: Between Wall...
Read MoreMeet TheGrill's Speakers, Session by Session (slideshow)
September, 21, 2010 7:03 pm | Comments On #Ben Silverman, Brian Terkelson, Comcast, Electus, Harvey Levin, howard schultz, Media, Michael Kassan, Movies, MSN, NBC Universal, Netflix, Ryan Kavanaugh, starbucks, Ted Sarandos, Television, TheGrill, thewrap, tmz, Victoria Espinel, YahooMeet the speakers at TheWrap's conference on media and the entertainment industry, Sept. 20-21 at the SLS Hotel in Beverly Hills. (Photographs by Jonathan Alcorn)
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TheGrill: TheWrap's Media Conference, Session by Session
September, 21, 2010 6:45 pm | Comments On #Media, Movies
TheGrill, the inaugural media and entertainment industry conference hosted by TheWrap, concluded Tuesday night after two full days of sessions. TheWrap's reporters were there, of course, for each and every one.
So in case you missed it ...
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Read MoreHarvey Levin: TMZ Made Kim Kardashian -- and May Remake Mel Gibson
September, 21, 2010 6:36 pm | Comments On #Harvey Levin, Kim Kardashian, Media, Mel Gibson, Oksana Grigorieva, tmzbrightcove.createExperiences();
Love to keep up with the Kardashians? You’ve got Harvey Levin to thank.
Though popular lore has it that Kim Kardashian’s fame is...
Read MoreHey, Hollywood, Meet Your New Intellectual-Property Czar
September, 21, 2010 6:13 pm | Comments On #content czar, Joe Biden, Media, Obama, online, piracy, U.S. intellectual property enforcement coordinator, Victoria EspinelTheGrill: Sarandos Says Netflix Won't Replace Basic Cable
September, 21, 2010 5:10 pm | Comments On #CBS Evening News with Katie Couric, Media, Netflix, Ted Sarandos, TheGrillbrightcove.createExperiences();
Good news, major cable and satellite service providers: Netflix isn't coming for your lunch.
As for entrenched pay-cable networks? Well,...
Read MoreIpsos OTX President Bruce Friend (Video)
September, 21, 2010 4:24 pm | Comments On #Bruce Friend, company, grill video, Ipsos OTX, Media, media video, news, people, study, videoBruce Friend, president of Ipsos OTX Media CT: "Media Consumption Study"
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Read MoreRyan Kavanaugh: Relativity's Revenue Over $2B; Netflix Deal 'Historic'
September, 21, 2010 4:23 pm | Comments On #Movies, Netflix, news, Relativity Media, Rogue Pictures, Ryan Kavanaugh, TheGrillbrightcove.createExperiences();
Ryan Kavanaugh’s Relativity Media is a newborn when compared with the big studios that preceded it, and maybe that’s to their advantage.
Boasting a “record-breaking year” on a jaw-dropping $2 billion in revenue, Kavanaugh told the crowd assembled at TheWrap’s conference on media and the...
Read MoreStudy: The 'Twitter Effect' Does Not Exist
September, 21, 2010 4:06 pm | Comments On #Ipsos, Media, Movies, OTX, research study, TheGrill, twitter effect, Vincent Bruzzese
The Twitter effect never was.
The wrong kinds of movies are being made in 3D.
Closing the release window isn’t going to bring back the glory days of theatrical releases.
These are just a few examples of conventional wisdom that have little basis in reality, according to a new study of 24,000 moviegoers by research firm Ipsos OTX MediaCT released at TheGrill conference on Tuesday.
“In this business we spin ourselves into perceptions that aren’t real,” Vincent Bruzzese, president of the worldwide motion picture group, told TheWrap. “They echo through the hallways of this industry, but the facts don’t support the claims.”
In a blow to Twitter fans, the...
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At a time of unprecedented change and shifting business models, the entertainment industry is hungry for thought leadership. TheWrap believes that the conversation about where and how entertainment will meet the challenge of the digital age needs to be centered in Hollywood.
Conceived in an effort to create a high level forum for discussing the transformational forces in our changing entertainment industry, TheGrill has brought together a community of leaders from across the entertainment economy from disciplines including media, entertainment, finance and technology.
