IATSE Strikes New 3-Year Deal With Commercial Producers
May, 23, 2013 7:28 pm | Comments On #Media, MoviesThe International Alliance of Theatrical Stage Employees have reached a new three-year agreement with the Association of Independent Commercial Producers that covers commercial artists and below the line technicians.
The new agreement comes into effect Oct. 1 and expires Sept. 30 2016. No details of the agreement were immediately available.
“We recognized the value of early negotiations when both sides are willing to address the important issues and provide stability to the members of the IA and the commercial producers,” IATSE President Matthew Loeb said in a statement.
IATSE is a labor union representing artists and...
Read MoreListen to Snoop Lion's 'One Life to Live' Theme, 'Brand New Start'
May, 23, 2013 6:58 pm | Comments On #ABC, All My Children, One Life to Live, Prospect Park, Snoop Dogg, snoop lion, Television, The Online NetworkSnoop Dogg has made several cameo appearances on "One Life to Live," but the musician will make his first as Snoop Lion on Tuesday's episode. The guest spot will coincide with Snoop's debut of the theme song he recorded for the recently revived online soap opera.
Prospect Park-The Online Network released the brand new title track, aptly titled "Brand New Start," on Friday.
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Snoop has reinvented himself as a reggae artist since last appearing on the soap when it was broadcast on ABC. He documented his reinvention journey in the music doc "Reincarnated," which Snoop will be promoting during multiple cameo...
Read MoreJennifer Hudson in Negotiations to Judge 'American Idol'
May, 23, 2013 5:19 pm | Comments On #American Idol, Fox, FremantleMedia North America, Jennifer Hudson, TelevisionFox's "American Idol" wants to remind you of the good times.
Jennifer Hudson, season 3 finalist-turned-Oscar-winning actress and Grammy-winning recording artist, is negotiating her deal to join "American Idol" as a Season 13 judge, an individual with knowledge told TheWrap.
Hudson, who appeared on last week's finale results show, is interested in joining the show. "She got the offer and her reps are currently negotiating with [the show's production company] Fremantle," the insider said of the process that could take as long as six months to complete.
Fox declined to comment on Hudson's negotiations. Kelly Clarkson was also said to be considering an offer to judge the show.
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Read MoreVH1 Meets Richard Attenborough in Discovery's New Network
May, 23, 2013 4:52 pm | Comments On #MediaWhen MTV parent company Warner Communications launched VH1 in 1985, it used MTV's huge library of music videos to create a compelling channel that still resides on everyone's cable dial. MTV was both a resource and a marketing tool.
Fast-forward three decades and Discovery Communications is using Discovery Network in the same way, save one thing -- it's putting VH1 online.
Discovery and its online video subsidiary Revision3 on Thursday launched Testube, a new online video network that mixes Discovery's vast archives with Revision3’s younger, digital-savvy audience.
Discovery bought Revision3 last May to jump firmly into the burgeoning industry of online video, acquiring the expertise and reach of one of the bigger networks around. Those ambitions are manifest in this channel, which the two parties have been talking about since the...
Read MoreSteven Soderbergh Is Looking to Direct Clive Owen in Cinemax Series
May, 23, 2013 3:52 pm | Comments On #Behind the Candelabra, cinemax, HBO, Steven Soderbergh, TelevisionSo much for taking it easy after directing "Behind the Candelabra" for HBO.
Stephen Soderbergh is in talks to team up with Clive Owen on a 10-episode period medical drama for Cinemax, an HBO spokeswoman told TheWrap.
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"The Knick" is set in downtown New York at the beginning of the 20th century and focuses on the groundbreaking medical staff at Knickerbocker Hospital, where the boundaries of medicine are being pushed in a time of astonishingly high mortality rates and zero antibiotics.
Soderbergh, who declared his intent to retire...
Read MoreFX Sets Premiere Date for 'The Bridge'
May, 23, 2013 3:07 pm | Comments On #Diane Kruger, FX, Television, The BridgeFX's border-cop drama "The Bridge" will premiere on July 10, the cable network said on Thursday.
After its debut, the new 13-episode series will continue to air on Wednesdays during the 10 p.m. timeslot.
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Oscar-nominee Demián Bichir ("A Better Life") and Diane Kruger ("National Treasure") star as two detectives, one from each side of the U.S.-Mexican border, trying to solve serial murders.
Executive Producers Meredith Stiehm and novelist and writer Elwood Reid adapted "The Bridge" for American television from the international hit series "Bron," which was set on the border of Denmark and Sweden.
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Read MoreStudios Drool Over Sci-Fi Drama - but Will Spielberg Take It to TV? (Exclusive)
May, 23, 2013 2:41 pm | Comments On #Amblin Entertainment, Mickey Fisher, Movies, Steven SpielbergMickey Fisher, an unknown and unsigned writer until recently, has film studios drooling over his script “Extant” for weeks. There’s just one twist: it’s not a film script.
Fisher wrote “Extant” as a TV pilot. It's a one-hour sci-fi drama about John and Molly Watts and their son, a human-like robot named Ethan. Molly, the space-traveling wife, is also pregnant with a baby that is part human and part alien. The family intrigue deepens in subsequent episodes.
Multiple agencies sought to sign the writer after reading the script, and WME won out. WME and manager Brooklyn Weaver, who discovered Fisher, sent the script around to the studios who are hot to trot for a...
YouTube Sensation Charles Ramsey to Be Honored With Statue
May, 23, 2013 2:22 pm | Comments On #autotune, charles ramsey, cleveland, Hero, internet sensation, Media, ohio, rescueCharles Ramsey, the Celevand, Ohio man who helped rescue three women from a decade of captivity earlier this month, is joining the likes of Batman, Rocky and John McClane with a statue erected in honor of his heroism.
The statue will be unveiled to the public on Friday in Stanville, Kentucky at the Eric C. Conn Law Office.
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"I can't think of a better way to commend my friend Charles than having a statue made in his honor," Conn, a self-professed lover of statues, said.
Ramsey became a...
Read MoreWill 'Star Trek' Success Heal the Hurt Between Paramount and J.J. Abrams? (Video)
May, 23, 2013 1:36 pm | Comments On #Brad Grey, J.J. Abrams, JJ Abrams, Movies, Paramount, Star Trek Into Darkness, star wars honey boo booJ.J. Abrams earned the envy and adoration of fanboys everywhere when the "Star Trek" director opted to take the helm of that other interstellar cultural touchstone, "Star Wars." Yet the multi-hyphenate Hollywood maven ran afoul of one party, his "family" at Paramount.
While anyone can understand the allure of what is probably the most famous movie franchise of all-time, it still robs Paramount of Abrams’ directing duties for the foreseeable future.
That left Paramount “disappointed." Here's an inside look at the aftermath of Abrams' Star Wars' decision:
Video by Rebecca Rosenberg
Read MoreABC Family Orders New Spelling Bee Game Show
May, 23, 2013 1:24 pm | Comments On #ABC Family, TelevisionABC Family is getting into the game show business.
The cable network has greenlit "Spell-Mageddon" for a summer premiere.
The show basically takes the traditional spelling bee and introduces "hilarious distractions" as the contenders try to spell difficult words (while simultaneously bringing back horrible childhood memories of the spelling competition).
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Executive produced by Thinkfactory Media's Adam Reed, Adam Freeman and Leslie Greif ("Hatfields & McCoys," "Preachers' Daughters") with executive producers Jeff Krask...
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