Month: April 2010

Bizzers air more concerns about futures

Industry fears trading could create negative publicity

With federal regulators poised to decide whether to approve a film futures exchange, Hollywood studios, exhibitors and unions spelled out a new set of arguments against it, including fears that trading on potential box office receipts would create negative publicity in the weeks before a film’s release with “false, unreliable, and non-economic valuations” of its performance…

https://www.variety.com/article/VR1118017472.html?categoryid=13&cs=1

Comcast Strikes a Blow Against Net Neutrality

WASHINGTON: A federal court today said the FCC did not have the authority to regulate network management. The U.S. Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia ruled 3-0 in favor of Comcast’s challenge of an FCC order prohibiting it from blocking high bitrate traffic. Comcast was discovered throttling BitTorrent peer-to-peer traffic in 2007. Two consumer lobbies in D.C. filed complaints with the FCC, which ultimately forced Comcast to open its tubes.

Does this mean we’ll all likely have to indirectly pay for streaming video in the future?

https://www.televisionbroadcast.com/article/97888

Groups battle to lure filming to California

Two new groups are vying for the industry’s support as they mount campaigns to keep filming in California — though one of them is meeting strong resistance to its attempts to raise money.

These initiatives to stem the exodus of film and TV production jobs — along with plans being formulated by the Los Angeles City Council and the L.A. regional film permitting agency FilmL.A. — are being launched at the grassroots level and in political quarters as the state’s unemployment rate remains stuck at about 12%…

https://www.variety.com/article/VR1118017207.html?categoryid=13&cs=1