This year, less than half of the screeners Hollywood professionals receive to help them vote on the year's best movies were illegally uploaded -- but what's the cause?…
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Crowdsourcing creative content: a case study
Over the past few years, a lot has been made of “crowdsourcing” trends. It seem like everything — from graphic design and logos to funding — can be made better, faster, or cheaper thanks to crowd. But can crowdsourcing work for creative content?…
Read MoreElfQuest Fan Trailer Premieres, With Help From SAG
With over $7,000 raised through crowd-sourcing and three days of shooting in the coastal mountains near Malibu, two women were able to do in seven months what Warner Bros hasn't for almost a decade: Make an ElfQuest movie. Well, okay, not a movie, exactly -- a trailer.…
Read MoreSAG Overwhelmingly Approves Contract
Our long, national nightmare is over — the actors have a contract! Was that too dramatic? Well, melodrama is fitting given how…
Read MoreVid-Biz: SAG, SafeTube, Kindle
SAG Contract Fight Heads to YouTube; Tom Hanks and other celebs urge actors to vote yes on the contract offered by the…
Read MoreSAG Board Approves New Contract (with New Media Details)
The board of the Screen Actors Guild (SAG) narrowly approved a tentative new deal with the Alliance of Motion Picture and Television…
Read MoreSAG Board Approves ‘Tentative’ Deal, Tells Members To Say Yea
The national board of the Screen Actors Guild is sending a contract to its members for a vote after more than a year of oscillating between……
Read MoreNegotiators For SAG, Producers Reach Tentative Two-Year Agreement
Maybe, just maybe the end is in sight for the contentious contract negotiations between the Screen Actors Guild and the major studios. SAG a……
Read MoreVid-Biz: YouTube, MOVR, MLB
Report: YouTube in Talks to Get Sony Movies; details are slim, but deal would make sense as YouTube tries to position itself…
Read MoreVid-Biz: Cord-Cutting, IAB, Kyte
Report: Video Cord-Cutting a Myth; Sanford Bernstein analyst Craig Moffett says television subscriber additions grew by 441,000 in the fourth quarter of…
Read MoreSAG Board Rejects Producers' 'Last, Best, Final' Offer; Now What?
The Screen Actors Guild spent Oscar weekend fine tuning its performance for most confused union in negotiations. SAG, which recently fired i……
Read MoreVid-Biz: Netflix, YouTube, CBS
Netflix Pushes Streaming; CEO Reed Hastings says there may be a streaming-only level of the subscription service as early as this year.…
Read MoreVid-Biz: DTV, Veoh, Super Ads
DTV Delay-related News; according to Nielsen, more than 5.8 million U.S. homes (5.1 percent) are unprepared for the DTV switch (Nielsen Wire);…
Read MoreVid-Biz: Prop 8, SAG, Recycling
Prop 8 — The Musical Heading to Broadway; one-night only performance will be part of the Defying Inequality: The Broadway Concert benefit.…
Read MoreAs SAG Turns: Board Forces Strike Proponent Allen To Resign As Exec Director — And Chief Negotiator
Less than a day after its televised awards gala, the Screen Actors Guild board forced Doug Allen to resign as executive director of the grou……
Read MoreVid-Biz: Funny or Die, ESPN, VHS
Funny or Die Raises $3 Million(?); cash comes from undisclosed investor, though news reports unsure of whether this is a new round…
Read MoreReport: SAG Delays Strike Vote Until At Least Mid-January
The Screen Actors Guild (SAG) has delayed voting on a potential strike until at least January 14, THR says. The actors' union had planned to……
Read MoreVid-Biz: Bebo, Netflix, NBA 3D
Bebo Relaunches With New Media Recommendations; new features include a tool that will suggest TV shows and web videos based on user…
Read MoreProducers And Studios Stick To Their Guns, Reiterate Final Offer To Actors Guild
As expected, studios and producers aren…
Read MoreHollywood Clashes Over New Media Money
Hollywood is in a bit of a mess right now as the major studios are clashing with not one, but two labor guilds over new media payments. Talks between the Screen Actors Guild (SAG) and the studios broke down last month over Internet shows, and the Writers Guild of America (WGA) says the studios have yet to pay the online residual owed to the writers.…
Read MoreVid-Biz: Sezmi, KickApps, SAG
Sezmi Secures $28 Million; influx of cash comes on the heels of the set-top box company laying off 20 percent of its…
Read MoreActors Union Seeks Strike Vote After Federal Mediation Fails
After two days of mediated talks failed, the Screen Actors Guild (SAG) is asking members to approve a strike authorization. The Alliance of……
Read MoreActors Union Board Holds Off On Strike Authorization; Requests Mediation
Three-and-a-half months after talks ended following an impasse, the actors union has inched one step closer into uncomfortable territory for……
Read MoreVid-Biz: PPS.tv, DVDs, SAG
PPS.tv Gets $20 Million; Chinese video site gets third round, led by LB Investment. (paidContent) DVD Biz Had Modest Drop in Q3;…
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