China has set up a new Internet information office that will bring together various government agencies to monitor the world’s largest online market.
The State Council Internet Information Office will work to direct the development of online gaming, TV, video and audio businesses and online publication industries, the government said in a statement. It will also be responsible for investigating websites and punishing them if they violate laws or regulations…
…this morning Warner Bros. confirmed that it was buying the social-media site Flixster, which also happens to be the parent company of Rotten Tomatoes, the most widely known aggregator of movie reviews on the web…
20th Century Fox TV and film divisions have partnered to produce GLEE LIVE! 3D!, a feature film based on the upcoming Glee Live! In Concert! North American tour…
https://www.deadline.com/2011/05/fox-plans-3d-glee-film-with-original-cast/
…TV set ownership will drop for the first time in nearly 20 years, if Nielsen’s preliminary 2012 count is on the nose. Nielsen is projecting there will be a total of 114.7 million U.S. TV households next year, down from 115.9 million this year. The figure represents the first integration of 2010 U.S. census numbers…
https://tvtechnology.com/article/120102
AT&T to Impose Limits and Overage Fees on DSL Customers Starting May 2
With AT&T set to implement usage caps and overage charges for all high-speed Internet customers next Monday, May 2, more than 42 million broadband subscribers in the U.S. will be subject to explicit pre-set limits on how much bandwidth they can use on a monthly basis.
All told, approximately 56% of the country’s 75 million broadband subscribers will have some form of caps, according to a Multichannel News analysis based on Leichtman Research Group’s subscriber estimates for the fourth quarter of 2010.
Other major U.S. broadband providers that already have usage ceilings in place include Comcast, Cox Communications and Charter Communications, although they currently warn users who exceed the limits rather than charge them for the extra usage. Internet service providers that do not have specific usage limits including Time Warner Cable, Verizon Communications and Cablevision Systems — although every ISP reserves the right to disconnect a user who violates their terms of service…
…Congress had granted no PTFP funding for FY 2011 in the final budget negotiations that occurred in Washington. The program has long been a source of capital expense money for public TV and radio stations…
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A divide has opened among Hollywood’s major studios over whether to join YouTube’s initiative to rent movies on demand – which is holding up the launch of the service,…
…I’m sick and tired. After a week of nonstop talking at NAB I have realized that there are some incredibly talented independent filmmakers out there, and they are by far in the minority. There are those people out there finding legitimate uses for the tools at hand and really using them to tell some incredible stories. However, there are far more posers than anything else. I’m fed up with Vimeo, shallow DOF, slider driven. montage sequences with credits on them masquerading as films. I’m sick of lazy, careless, pre-production, masquerading as cinema verite or so called art films. I’m completely over the pretentious arrogance put out by some co-called “filmmakers” in our industry. Now before you hang me from a tree as a warning to all who dare trespass this sacred ground, hear me out. I’m not saying these pieces don’t have warrant. I’m saying they aren’t films, get over yourself. Don’t even get me started on music videos…
https://www.freshdv.com/2011/04/a-camera-does-not-a-filmmaker-make.html
A pioneering 3-D erotic comedy has taken the Hong Kong box office by storm, beating the first-day record set by “Avatar” and drawing viewers from mainland China as it eyes a global rollout.
Dish’s $320 million purchase of Blockbuster received approval from a U.S. Bankruptcy Court Judge on Thursday,..
https://www.thewrap.com/movies/article/court-approves-dishs-blockbuster-purchase-26241