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  • WILL COWELL EARN MORE THAN FOX?,
  • JACKSON'S FINAL REHEARSAL TO AIR,
  • DEPP TAKES AIM AT TRANSFORMERS,
  • GOSSIP COLUMNIST SUES FOX NEWS FOR $5 MILLION,
  • A SURPRISE WEDNESDAY WINNER AT BOX OFFICE,
  • STRAIGHT-TO-DVD MOVIE WINDS UP AT NO. 1 IN RENTAL STORES,
  • JACKSON HAD FILMED A 3D MOVIE BEFORE HIS DEATH,
  • NBC UNIVERSAL CFO WANTS TO KNOW WHY STUDIO LACKS HITS,
  • CELEBRITY WEBSITE TMZ GOT SCOOP ON JACKSON DEATH,
  • WHY DID MICHAEL JACKSON DIE?,
  • WEINSTEIN SAYS PUBLIC ENEMIES IS THE FILM TO BEAT,
  • THE FALLEN RISES,
  • SUCCESS IS REVENGE'S REVENGE AGAINST CRITICS,
  • PINK SLIPS RAIN OVER PARAMOUNT,
  • HULU TO PLAYSTATION OWNERS: NO VIDEO FOR YOU,
  • NBC RISES TO THE TOP AGAIN,
  • HELEN THOMAS ACCUSES OBAMA OF TRYING TO MANAGE THE PRESS,
  • L.A. SCHOOL CHIEF INADVERTENTLY ADDS TO BRÜNO'S PUBLICITY BONANZA,
  • AMID CUTBACKS AT FOX, CAREY TO EARN MILLIONS,
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    Friday, Jul 3, 2009
    THE DIFFICULTIES PRODUCING MICHAEL JACKSON'S FUNERAL
    Friday, July 3 2009
    It remains unclear whether the planned funeral for Michael Jackson next Tuesday at Staples Center in Los Angeles will be broadcast by the major networks, streamed over the Internet, or beamed by satellite to theaters. Hulu, the video site operated by NBC, Fox, and Disney, put up a "placeholder" on Thursday saying that it would offer a live Internet broadcast of the funeral as a "web exclusive." However, by this morning, the notice had (more)

    NEW ICE AGE EXPECTED TO BE HOT
    Friday, July 3 2009
    Global warming will take a holiday at the box office this holiday weekend as a new Ice Age dawns with an expected five-day take of about $60-70 million, according to industry forecasters. Last year, Will Smith's Hancock rook first place with $62.6 million. In a surprise, Ice Age: Dawn of the Dinosaurs leaped ahead of Transformers: Revenge of the Fallen out of the holiday starting gate on Wednesday with an official take of $13,791,157 (more)

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    NIGHTLINE BEATS TONIGHT & LATE NIGHT AGAIN
    03-Jul-09
    A year ago at this time, there was much speculation about the possibility that ABC would make a play to land Jay Leno after he left the Tonight show to compete against Conan O'Brien and David Letterman. According to the rumors, the network was preparing to spend big bucks for (more)

    HDTV PICTURES DEGRADING
    03-Jul-09
    The desire of many television stations to use their new digital broadcast spectrum to offer subchannels alongside their primary high-definition ones is resulting in a significant degradation of their HD picture quality, Broadcasting & Cable reported today (Friday). Until now, local broadcasters have put little effort into the subchannels, but (more)

    RERUN-HEAVY CBS WINS THURSDAY NIGHT
    03-Jul-09
    Reruns of CBS's crime dramas kept it in first place among total viewers during every half hour of primetime Thursday night. Fox led among adults 18-49, however, while NBC and ABC were virtually no where in sight. CBS averaged a little more than 8 million viewers for the night as (more)

    THE CREATURE TO MAKE STAGE DEBUT
    03-Jul-09
    Universal has brought the classic horror flick Creature From the Black Lagoon to the stage -- not the Broadway stage, mind you. Not even one of the out-of-town tryout venues. No, it has brought it to its Universal Studios Hollywood theme park, although with production values, as Variety puts it, (more)

    TALENT CONTESTS COMPETE AGAINST EACH OTHER
    02-Jul-09
    The reality contests America's Got Talent on NBC and So You Think You Can Dance of Fox ran neck-and-neck races Wednesday night with Talent winning by a nose among overall viewers in the ratings and Dance, among adults 18-49. Unfortunately for NBC, its The Philanthropist, which drew solid ratings last (more)

    ONE COMPANY SENDS JACKSON REPORTS TO THE WORLD
    02-Jul-09
    On Call Communications, a satellite communications service that charges television stations only $150 for a 15-minute live remote, was able to allow stations from around the world to cover the death of Michael Jackson, it said Wednesday. The company said that it assisted news organizations from such countries as Brazil, (more)

    HELEN THOMAS ACCUSES OBAMA OF TRYING TO MANAGE THE PRESS
    02-Jul-09
    Veteran White House correspondent Helen Thomas, 88, who was ignored by President Bush and relegated to the rear of the White House briefing room during his administration, lashed out at the Obama administration for what she called "a pattern of controlling the press." During a briefing on Wednesday with White (more)

    AMID CUTBACKS AT FOX, CAREY TO EARN MILLIONS
    02-Jul-09
    Chase Carey,who officially replaced Peter Chernin as president and COO of News Corp Wednesday, could earn up to $43.1 million in salary and bonuses during his first year with the company, the Wall Street Journal reported today (Thursday). According to the newspaper, which cited an SEC filing, Carey will receive (more)

    OSCAR-WINNER KARL MALDEN DEAD AT 97
    02-Jul-09
    Karl Malden, best known for his co-starring role (with Michael Douglas) in the 1970s series Streets of San Francisco but who appeared in more than 50 motion pictures as well has died in Los Angeles at age 97. He won the best supporting actor Oscar in 1951 for his performance (more)

    A SURPRISE WEDNESDAY WINNER AT BOX OFFICE
    02-Jul-09
    The first day of the long Independence Day weekend began at the box-office with a victory not for Transformers 2 and not for Public Enemies, the two films that were expected to be the primary contenders for first place. Instead, the hands-down winner was the 20th Century Fox animated 3D (more)

    WEINSTEIN SAYS PUBLIC ENEMIES IS THE FILM TO BEAT
    02-Jul-09
    Producer Harvey Weinstein, generally regarded in the movie business as a genius when it comes to flogging his own films in the race for Oscar nominations, has already identified the movie to beat in 2009. It's Public Enemies, according to Weinstein. And the actor to beat is Johnny Depp. And (more)

    TRUE HI-DEF STREAMING LIKELY YEARS AWAY, SAYS REPORT
    02-Jul-09
    It is likely to be at least five years years before high-definition movies can be streamed to home theaters with the same resolution as Blu-ray discs, according to a study by PriceWaterhouseCoopers and reported on the Video Business magazine's website. Although millions of homes are already connected to video services (more)

    STRAIGHT-TO-DVD MOVIE WINDS UP AT NO. 1 IN RENTAL STORES
    02-Jul-09
    Ordinarily a movie that goes straight to video is regarded as being among the dregs of a studio's output, but last week, The Code, starring Morgan Freeman and Antonio Banderas, debuted at No. 1 on Home Media magazine's rental chart without ever seeing the light of a theater screen. In (more)

    SHAWSHANK COMING TO THE STAGE
    02-Jul-09
    Another movie is about to make the transition to the stage, published reports indicated on Wednesday. The Shawshank Redemption, which received seven Oscar nominations in 1994, is scheduled to premiere in London's West End in September, with Kevin Anderson in the role Tim Robbins played in the movie and Reg (more)

    GOSSIP COLUMNIST SUES FOX NEWS FOR $5 MILLION
    01-Jul-09
    Former FoxNews.com entertainment columnist Roger Friedman is claiming in a $5-million lawsuit against News Corp that the copy of Wolverine that he viewed online had previously been in the possession of of News Corp chairman Rupert Murdoch. He maintains that the principal reason for his dismissal was that News Corp (more)

    In Other News
    WILL COWELL EARN MORE THAN FOX?
    01-Jul-09
    If Simon Cowell leaves American Idol this year as he has contemplated doing in interviews, he could be walking away from an offered salary of $108-144 million, according to Britain's Guardian newspaper. The figure represents three to four times his current fee of $35 million, the newspaper said, citing a (more)

    NBC RISES TO THE TOP AGAIN
    01-Jul-09
    NBC, whose peacock seems to rise like a phoenix out of the ashes of the regular season each summer, had the top-rated show on the air last week, the Tuesday edition of America's Got Talent. The Wednesday edition of the talent contest placed third on the Nielsen list. The network (more)

    BRITISH TV EXEC SAYS U.K. NETWORKS SHOULD EMULATE HULU
    01-Jul-09
    Dawn Airey, the head of Britain's Channel 5, has urged fellow broadcast executives in the U.K. to build online partnerships and "then return to stabbing each other in the back over the broadcast schedules." She cited the success of Hulu in the U.S., which she said, resulted "because three ferociously (more)

    DEPP TAKES AIM AT TRANSFORMERS
    01-Jul-09
    Will Johnny Depp and his cohorts in Public Enemies be able to shoot down the rampaging Transformers: Revenge of the Fallen over the July 4 holiday? The film, along with Fox's 3D cartoon Ice Age: Dawn of the Dinosaurs, opens in theaters today (Wednesday), and it's anybody's guess which one (more)

    PINK SLIPS RAIN OVER PARAMOUNT
    01-Jul-09
    Even as Paramount's top executives were cheering the rise of Transformers: Revenge of the Fallen to the top of the box office on Tuesday, other executives at the studio were receiving notices that they were no longer needed at the studio. Some 31 pink slips were delivered to executives and (more)

    L.A. SCHOOL CHIEF INADVERTENTLY ADDS TO BRÜNO'S PUBLICITY BONANZA
    01-Jul-09
    In an action that is certain to draw further media attention to Sacha Baron-Cohen's upcoming Brüno feature, the superintendent of the Los Angeles Unified School District has announced that he intends to take "appropriate personnel action" against the principal and athletic director of Birmingham High School for allowing a GQ (more)

    BET BEATS BROADCAST NETS WITH AWARDS SPECIAL
    30-Jun-09
    Sunday night's BET awards, which became a de facto Michael Jackson tribute special, attracted 10.2 million viewers. It was the most who have ever tuned in to the Viacom-owned network, which targets the African-American audience. The numbers overshadowed those of the broadcast networks, whose highest-rated program on Sunday, CBS's 60 (more)

    BROADCASTERS DOMINATE VIDEO AD SALES ONLINE
    30-Jun-09
    When it comes to selling advertising on web video, the traditional broadcasters have YouTube beat by a mile. According to media researchers Screen Digest, more than half the ad revenue from online video was produced by CBS, NBC, Fox and Hulu (the joint venture between News Corp's Fox, ABC Disney (more)

    HULU TO PLAYSTATION OWNERS: NO VIDEO FOR YOU
    30-Jun-09
    In the latest effort to keep Hulu content off TV sets and on computer monitors only, users of PlayStation 3 consoles, who have been using the device to bring online video to their TV sets, discovered on Monday that they were blocked from doing so with Hulu. Instead, according to (more)

    CABLE COMPANY EXPECTS TO ROLL OUT "REMOTE RECORDING" SLOWLY
    30-Jun-09
    Cablevision on Tuesday hailed a decision by the Supreme Court not to review a federal appeals court ruling that permitted "remote-storage" -- that is, allowing its cable customers, who reside mostly in the New York City area, to record programs onto the cable company's servers rather than on settop digital (more)

    JACKSON HAD FILMED A 3D MOVIE BEFORE HIS DEATH
    30-Jun-09
    Details were still sketchy, but the Associated Press reported Monday that two weeks before his death, Michael Jackson wrapped up production on a 3D film titled The Dome Project, which he had expected to be included in his London performances. The project hearkened back to his Thriller 3D movie that (more)

    SUCCESS IS REVENGE'S REVENGE AGAINST CRITICS
    30-Jun-09
    Ticket sales for Transformers: Revenge of the Fallen on Sunday fell a whopping $3 million below Paramount's estimate. Nevertheless, the studio claimed that the movie earned $200.1 million over its first five days, only about 1 million below the original estimate. BoxOfficeMojo.com said that Paramount explained the apparent discrepancy by (more)


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