from: David Lieberman, Deadline.com — Bond analysis firm Fitch Ratings offers its bracing analysis of the movie exhibition industry a week ahead of theater owners’ annual CinemaCon trade show in Las Vegas. The company forecasts a “modest” decline in 2013 ticket sales and long term challenges that should “cause concern” for lenders. Studios will find it...
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from: Alex Ben Block, HollywoodReporter.com — Government reps discuss the Film Commission’s upcoming reorganization at the agency’s annual breakfast, which also includes a panel with the team behind L.A.-shot “The Call” moderated by THR’s Kim Masters. On June 3 the California State Film Commission will once again accept applications...
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from: Joe Flint, Los Angeles Times — A statistic generating a lot of headlines in the last few days came from Netflix Chief Executive Reed Hastings, who posted on the company’s Facebook page that over the last three months, the company’s customers watched more than 4 billion hours of programming on Netflix. Media analyst Rich Greenfield then crunched...
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from: Santa Monica Daily Press — Congratulations to FilmLA! Film This aims to help in any way we can to facilitate our clients working in the City of Santa Monica If the city of Santa Monica had a page on the Internet Movie Database — better known as IMDB.com — its credentials would be longer than most working actors, many of whom live or work in the city...
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from: TMZ.com — A deadly serious deputy made an urgent radio call to his dispatcher, sounding the alarm that 20 shots were fired near an elementary school. The incident went down in Wilmington, N.C. last week, when a TV production crew — working on a Stephen King show, “Under the Dome” — staged a shootout scene in a park near the school....
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from: Gordon Meyer, P3update.com — Over the past few years, countless panelists at industry conferences have observed that the online world is now where basic cable was in the 1980s. “Online is definitely the future,” they proclaimed. On one end of the economic scale, this has led to the creation of independently produced Web series, such as the post-apocalyptic...
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