From today's NYT: No one would mistake the Ask a Jew guy for Lonelygirl15, but these days YouTube contributor Shmuel Tennenhaus is feeling like a hot commodity.
Mr. Tennenhaus, an aspiring comedy writer who gained a modest following on YouTube for his droll question-and-answer clips and other spots featuring his grandmother “Bubby,” is being wooed by the site’s competitors, including Metacafe, ManiaTV and others, with promises of guaranteed exposure, a share of advertising money, or both.
Read the whole article HERE
Monday, February 26, 2007
Monday, February 12, 2007
Battle for production credits continues
Exclusive Oscar festivities raise the stakes for getting your producer credits acknowledged...From today's NYT:
In Hollywood, a town full of prerogatives, there remains one significant privilege: collecting an Oscar and attending the elite Governor's Ball for the winners, guests and Tinseltown royalty. And as long as the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences has its way, it will remain a privilege.
But everyone in Hollywood has the right to sue. And that's just what Robert Yari, an independent film producer who worked on last year's best picture, "Crash," but was disallowed from receiving an Oscar, has done. His suit was viewed as both a challenge to the primacy of the academy to bestow recognition where it sees fit and a breach of show business manners.
Read the whole article HERE
In Hollywood, a town full of prerogatives, there remains one significant privilege: collecting an Oscar and attending the elite Governor's Ball for the winners, guests and Tinseltown royalty. And as long as the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences has its way, it will remain a privilege.
But everyone in Hollywood has the right to sue. And that's just what Robert Yari, an independent film producer who worked on last year's best picture, "Crash," but was disallowed from receiving an Oscar, has done. His suit was viewed as both a challenge to the primacy of the academy to bestow recognition where it sees fit and a breach of show business manners.
Read the whole article HERE
Tuesday, February 06, 2007
New NBC Universal CEO faces challenges
From today's NYT: When Jeff Zucker is named the new chief executive of NBC Universal today, succeeding Bob Wright, he will be completing one of the most spectacular ascents of any recent media executive: from part-time sports researcher in 1986 to corporate C.E.O two decades later. And now for the hard part.
According to NBC executives, Hollywood producers and agents, and many of the financial analysts who follow NBC, Mr. Zucker, 41, faces many pressing issues. Foremost among them: how he will deal with the rapid technological and financial changes that are throwing many traditional media businesses into upheaval. He will also have to choose a team of executives to back his efforts as he sets a new direction for the company.
Read the whole article HERE
According to NBC executives, Hollywood producers and agents, and many of the financial analysts who follow NBC, Mr. Zucker, 41, faces many pressing issues. Foremost among them: how he will deal with the rapid technological and financial changes that are throwing many traditional media businesses into upheaval. He will also have to choose a team of executives to back his efforts as he sets a new direction for the company.
Read the whole article HERE
Walmart poised for big video deal
From today's NYT: Wal-Mart Stores may have lost the online DVD rental battle, but it has no plans to lose the higher-stakes video downloading war. Today the company will introduce a partnership with all of the six major Hollywood studios -- Walt Disney, Warner Brothers, Paramount, Sony, 20th Century Fox and Universal -- to sell digital movies and television shows on its Web site(www.walmart.com/videodownloads), becoming the first traditional retailer to do so. Read the whole article HERE
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