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The Empty Bottle is looking for you… especially if you are looking for an internship. We would like to bring two interns on board to work with us here in the Bottle office. Internships run 5-20 hours per week, and cover a wide array of tasks and responsibilities. That said, we do need responsible and industrious folks who are interested in learning more about the concert industry. Internships are unpaid, but man alive, you want to talk about perks? Free shows are just the tip of the iceberg. School credit is preferred, but certainly not necessary. If you are interested, please send a resume to morgan@emptybottle.com or fax it to 773.276.3607.
Friday, November 30, 2007
Tuesday, November 27, 2007
Behind the scenes on the Hollywood picket lines
From yesterday's New York Times: When the 12,000 members of the Writers Guild of America decided on Nov. 4 to strike, Hollywood wondered how hard the white-collar group would fight. The guild addressed the worry before the first pickets hit the streets.
"In years past, our picketing schedule has gone, 'Picket on Mondays for two hours and then meet at a bar until the following Monday,'" said David Young, the union's director, early this month. "That's not how we're going to do it this time."
Read the whole article HERE
"In years past, our picketing schedule has gone, 'Picket on Mondays for two hours and then meet at a bar until the following Monday,'" said David Young, the union's director, early this month. "That's not how we're going to do it this time."
Read the whole article HERE
Deadline Hollywood Daily: Alternative news source or Hollywood power broker?
From yesterday's New York Times: When some striking members of the Writers Guild of America created a series of videos depicting speechless actors in support of the writers' cause, they did not post them on the guild's Web site or on YouTube. Instead, the videos made their premiere exclusively on Deadline Hollywood Daily, a Web site owned and operated by Nikki Finke, a columnist for the alternative newspaper LA Weekly.
Since she began the site in 2006, Ms. Finke's Web site has become a critical forum for Hollywood news and gossip, known for analyzing (in sometimes insulting terms) the behind-the-scenes maneuvering of moguls.
But it has been the screenwriters' strike that may have finally solidified her position as a Hollywood power broker. For this article, more than a dozen executive producers, writers and agents offered to attest to her influence. But with those plaudits also come complaints -- only anonymous ones -- that Ms. Finke plays favorites.
"Like it or not, everyone in Hollywood reads her," said Brad Grey, the chief executive of Paramount and, like many executives, an occasional target of Ms. Finke's scathing reports. "You must respect her reach."
For many of her readers, Ms. Finke's Web site has supplanted traditional media as a primary source of strike news. Before the strike, Ms. Finke said Deadline Hollywood Daily averaged 350,000 page views a day. Since the beginning of the strike, she said the daily average had soared to about a million.
Read the whole NYT article HERE
Bloomberg News also covered Deadline Hollywood Daily. You can read the article HERE, but note that Ms. Finke has commented that there are some errors in this (although she doesn't provide details).
Since she began the site in 2006, Ms. Finke's Web site has become a critical forum for Hollywood news and gossip, known for analyzing (in sometimes insulting terms) the behind-the-scenes maneuvering of moguls.
But it has been the screenwriters' strike that may have finally solidified her position as a Hollywood power broker. For this article, more than a dozen executive producers, writers and agents offered to attest to her influence. But with those plaudits also come complaints -- only anonymous ones -- that Ms. Finke plays favorites.
"Like it or not, everyone in Hollywood reads her," said Brad Grey, the chief executive of Paramount and, like many executives, an occasional target of Ms. Finke's scathing reports. "You must respect her reach."
For many of her readers, Ms. Finke's Web site has supplanted traditional media as a primary source of strike news. Before the strike, Ms. Finke said Deadline Hollywood Daily averaged 350,000 page views a day. Since the beginning of the strike, she said the daily average had soared to about a million.
Read the whole NYT article HERE
Bloomberg News also covered Deadline Hollywood Daily. You can read the article HERE, but note that Ms. Finke has commented that there are some errors in this (although she doesn't provide details).
Tuesday, November 20, 2007
A new model for online entertainment sales
From today's New York Times: LOS ANGELES, Nov. 19 — Amway, the door-to-door peddler of vitamins and soap, wants to reinvent how Hollywood sells entertainment. The owners of the multilevel marketing company are pouring millions of dollars into a new online store called Fanista (pronounced fa-NEE-sta). The Web site, set to make its public debut this week, will initially sell DVDs and CDs...In the coming months it plans to add video games, digital downloads and books.
People can simply use Fanista as a place to shop. But the company hopes most consumers will join as members — signing up is free — and then recruit their friends.
The carrot: If your friend joins and buys something, identifying you as the reason for joining, you get 5 percent of the sale in cash or credit.
Read the whole article HERE
People can simply use Fanista as a place to shop. But the company hopes most consumers will join as members — signing up is free — and then recruit their friends.
The carrot: If your friend joins and buys something, identifying you as the reason for joining, you get 5 percent of the sale in cash or credit.
Read the whole article HERE
Stagehands and writers: What are the differences between their strikes?
From yesterday's New York Times: It was a good weekend for the labor that is organized around the creative arts.
Yesterday, Local 1, which represents the striking stagehands of Broadway, was in the midst of intensive talks with theater owners that seem destined to get the "Grinch" and other Broadway productions back in time for the holidays.
Meanwhile, the Writers Guild of America, which has been on strike since Nov. 5, agreed to go back to the bargaining table with the Alliance of Motion Picture & Television Producers, although not until Nov. 26.
On the surface, the writers would seem to have all the cards, and the stagehands few. Hollywood writers fuel a much larger enterprise owned by publicly traded companies, have creative expertise and they even had Ron Howard walking a picket in front of Viacom in New York last Thursday. (When you're riding with Opie, your cause must be just.)
But the stagehands, who began striking almost a week after the writers, are most likely the ones who will be heading back to work first. The writers still confront the stalemate over distribution of revenues from digital content. So how will 400 or so (mostly) beefy guys in Manhattan accomplish what currently seems beyond the reach of the 12,000 members of the writers' guild?...
Read the whole article HERE
Yesterday, Local 1, which represents the striking stagehands of Broadway, was in the midst of intensive talks with theater owners that seem destined to get the "Grinch" and other Broadway productions back in time for the holidays.
Meanwhile, the Writers Guild of America, which has been on strike since Nov. 5, agreed to go back to the bargaining table with the Alliance of Motion Picture & Television Producers, although not until Nov. 26.
On the surface, the writers would seem to have all the cards, and the stagehands few. Hollywood writers fuel a much larger enterprise owned by publicly traded companies, have creative expertise and they even had Ron Howard walking a picket in front of Viacom in New York last Thursday. (When you're riding with Opie, your cause must be just.)
But the stagehands, who began striking almost a week after the writers, are most likely the ones who will be heading back to work first. The writers still confront the stalemate over distribution of revenues from digital content. So how will 400 or so (mostly) beefy guys in Manhattan accomplish what currently seems beyond the reach of the 12,000 members of the writers' guild?...
Read the whole article HERE
Behind the scenes look at producer Brian Grazer
From yesterday's New York Times: Brian Grazer, one of the most successful producers in Hollywood, would seem to be a memorable guest, with his energetic manner and elaborately spiked hair. But to make sure he is not forgotten, he will often leave behind a small photo of himself in an inexpensive heart-shaped frame after attending a dinner or party, hiding it among his host's family photographs...There is another level to the joke: despite Mr. Grazer's enormous success in the movie business, his public profile remains relatively slight when compared with his Hollywood peers. Imagine Entertainment, founded 20 years ago by Mr. Grazer and the director Ron Howard, has produced a strong slate of films, including "Liar Liar," "Eight Mile," "Inside Man," "A Beautiful Mind" and "The Da Vinci Code." His latest, "American Gangster," opened two weeks ago as the top film in the country, taking in more than $43 million at the box office its first weekend.
Read the whole article HERE
Tuesday, November 06, 2007
The strike is on!
Hollywood screenwriters have officially gone on strike. What will this mean for network TV shows and the viewing audience? Networks and advertisers are paying close attention.
Read the New York Times' coverage from today HERE
Read the New York Times' coverage from today HERE
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