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If Mark Wattles pulls off a deal to acquire Circuit City, by looking at his last two companies -- Hollywood Entertainment and Ultimate Electronics -- we can garner some strong clues how the company might right itself. by Lisa Everitt
Hollywood has indisputably the most sophisticated and technologically advanced film industry in the world. However, it was found that Hollywood was losing its hold on the film industry market, to Canada. There are many contributing factors to Hollywood's decline, such as tax incentives offered by Canada and Canada's cultural preservation...
By Steve Gorman LOS ANGELES (Reuters) - Hollywood actors and studios held a final day of labor talks on Monday before their contract was due to expire, but the midnight deadline was expected to pass with neither a settlement nor a strike. Barring...
The Find: A Hollywood producer who's heard thousands of pitches offers advice on how business leaders can present themselves and their ideas effectively. The Source: An interview with Stephanie Palmer, former Director of Creative Affairs at MGM and current author of "Good in a Room: How to...
Joel Wright, Vice President of Interactive Media for Paradigm, collaborates with clients to build internet businesses around entertainment. Wright sheds light on the web entertainment business and where it’s headed in the next year.
Co-created by Jak Severson, Big Shot Live is a reality show-style talent competition that airs on the Web. It gives regular people an opportunity to promote showbiz talents through one-minute videos, and gives the most popular contestants a chance to try and make it in Hollywood. Severson discusses...
Though it's possible you've never whispered David Unger's name in a movie theater, he is responsible for many of the names you've seen on the silver screen. As a Talent Agent at International Creative Management, one of the world's largest literary and talent agencies, Unger takes credit for furthering...
In recent years, Hollywood has brought comics back to the forefront of pop culture from near-obscurity. Businessman Jonah Weiland created a website which caters to fans of both. Since its launch in the mid 90's, ComicBookResources.com has grown into the biggest comic book site on world wide web. ...
Hollywood's cutthroat gamesmanship and backstabbing are legendary. Variety editor in chief Peter Bart has successfully navigated those treacherous waters for decades, as a journalist and also as a studio executive responsible for such films as "The Godfather," "Rosemary's Baby" and "Harold and Maude." Here Bart offers advice to young go-getters,...
This paper examines the representations of CCTV in contemporary popular culture, namely Hollywood film from the perspective of culture and film studies. It starts from the observation that a growing number of Hollywood films are not only using fake CCTV images within their narrative, but are actually developing rhetoric's of...
If market-based health-care reform were a Hollywood movie, it would be a horror flick called Mediscare in which heartless Republicans threaten senior citizens by attempting reform of the Medicare program. But Washington beats Hollywood to the punch by creating its own theatre. A sequel to Mediscare has now arrived, but...
This paper briefly examines the debate on industrial organization in Hollywood that has gone on in the literature since the mid-1980s, and the paper concludes that the debate has become unnecessarily polarized. The paper then attempts to show how an approach that invokes both flexible specialization and systems-house forms of...
From DeSantis This DeSantis Gunhide exclusive package is a fitting tribute to one of the film industry's most beloved icons. In five decades of Hollywood classics, John Wayne mastered the role of Western hero like no other actor in cinema history. Now, celebrate his long and extraordinary career...
LOS ANGELES -- Hollywood's modern man of a thousand faces, Ron Perlman, never minded hiding behind rubber masks and mounds of makeup early in his career. Perlman, who reprises his title role as a wisecracking demon turned superhero in "Hellboy II: The Golden Army," says he was...
Rain Man Hollywood star Josh Hartnett makes his West End debut as Charlie Babbitt in Dan Gordon's adaptation of Barry Levinson's 1988 film Rain Man. The Black Hawk Down star is joined on stage by the Olivier- nominated Adam Godley as his autistic savant brother, Raymond. David...
MochiMedia today announced that it has been chosen by AlwaysOn as one of theAO Global 250 Winners. Inclusion in the AO Global 250 signifies majordevelopments in the creation of new business opportunities in the globaltechnology industries. Mochi Media was selected by the AlwaysOn editorialteam and other industry experts spanning...
As Deutsche Bank closes its film financing unit and walks away from a $450m investment in Paramount,Wall Street is wondering whether movies have lost their magic. By Stephen Foley Business Analysis Think of it as the same sort of alchemy that briefly turned...
The Australian actor's death deprived Hollywood of one of its brightest young stars. But his performance asThe Joker in the new Batman film suggests he was saving his best for last. David Usborne reports on an unlikely candidate for success at the Oscars The Dark Knight...
Video and Entertainment Events Drive Traffic Milestone NORTH HOLLYWOOD, Calif. -- Disney.com, the No. 1 kids' entertainment and family community destination on the Web, broke its all-time traffic record in June. Last month, more than 30 million unique users visited the Disney Online network of sites, according to...
IRVINE, Calif., July 15 /PRNewswire/ -- SectorWatch.biz announces the availability of MarketStats for advertising companies in the news and driving markets today. MarketStats offers a perspective on the aforementioned equities and the opportunity for investors to respond with articles and opinions on the subject and sector, creating a confluence...
