Film/TV
Senate Takes Hard Look at Video Marketplace (MCN)
For the second time in as many days Congress dove into the video marketplace, in this case its change from appointment content on TV sets, to "how, where and when" content on a var... More
Technicolor Ups the Intensity with Color, Sound in National Geographic’s ‘The Hot Zone’ (MESA)
Technicolor teams in Hollywood and Toronto provided start-to-finish post-production services for the chilling series based on the 1989 Ebola outbreak.... More
Avid Graphics Engine Propels Catalonia’s TV3 to High Ratings for European Elections 2019 Coverage (MESA)
Millions of citizens turned to TV3 “E19: Special Elections” broadcast on May 26 to learn the results from the 2019 European Parliamentary and municipal elections—and stayed t... More
Fox Sports Will Stream Every Women’s World Cup Game in 4K (Engadget)
Fox Sports offered 4K streams for the 2018 FIFA World Cup last year, but in order to watch them, you had to own a HiSense TV. For the Women's World Cup that begins Friday in France... More
People Spend More Time on Mobile Devices than TV, Firm Says (L.A. Times)
It’s finally happened: Americans now spend more time on their phones and tablets than they do watching TV.... More
Hollywood is Quietly Using AI to Help Decide Which Movies to Make (The Verge)
Cinelytic is one of the many companies promising that AI will be a wise producer. Its software lets customers play fantasy football with their movie, inputting a cast, then swappin... More
Five Studios Launch ‘Ultimate Movie Weekend’ Rental Sale Across U.S. Digital Services (Variety)
A group of Hollywood studios wants to remind consumers that they can rent movies — including recent releases not available on Netflix — from a wide array of digital providers, ... More
Technicolor Delivers Other-Worldly Color, Sound, VFX on NOS4A2 (MESA)
Technicolor global teams seamlessly create a supernatural world where epic battles are fought between the real and imagined.... More
Of Course There’s Going to be Another Game of Thrones-Size Hit (Vox)
There is an argument that Sunday night’s show means the end of an era, because we now live in an on-demand, streaming world where everyone watches different things at different t... More
Deluxe Names Jamie Haggarty President of Post Production (MESA)
Deluxe Entertainment Services announced that James "Jamie" Haggarty is joining the company as the new President, Post Production at Deluxe Creative Services Inc. Haggarty will repl... More
Technicolor Plays Role in the Stunning Visuals That Add Detail, Drama to Chernobyl (Technicolor Blog)
Technicolor provided Picture Post with color finishing by Jean-Clément Soret for the new five-part miniseries event from Sister Pictures, part of a co-production with Sky and HBO.... More
AMC Entertainment CFO: Stubs A-List Metrics All ‘Moving in the Right Direction’ (MESA)
As AMC Stubs A-List nears its one-year anniversary, AMC Entertainment continues to be upbeat about the results of its movie theater subscription program, according to company CFO C... More
How COPA90 Scaled Coverage of the World Cup in Russia (Signiant Blog)
Throughout the World Cup, Signiant's Media Shuttle was used to quickly and securely transfer massive amounts of footage from COPA90 producers and creator fans around the world back... More
Exactuals Celebrates SAG-AFTRA Success, Entertainment Partners Partnership
Los Angeles-based industry payments specialist Exactuals is celebrating sign-ups for its direct deposit service by many of the 160,000-plus union members with SAG-AFTRA, the compan... More
SnapStream Adds Direct Integration With Sony’s Ci Media Cloud (MESA)
Sony Electronics, through its Intelligent Media Services business, and SnapStream announced direct integration between Sony’s Ci Media Cloud platform and SnapStream’s flagship ... More
Color, VFX by Technicolor Support the Story of Gentleman Jack (Technicolor Blog)
Technicolor teams enable filmmakers to recreate an earlier time while filming in locations that have since experienced two centuries of modernization.... More
AWS Elemental MediaPackage Adds On-Demand Capability (TV Technology)
Users can now package, encrypt on-demand video the same way they would live video via the AWS Elemental MediaPackage. Using MediaPackage’s just-in-time feature, users can package... More
Sony Interactive Launches Unit to Adapt Games for Film, TV (THR)
Sony Interactive Entertainment has launched PlayStation Productions, a production studio that will mine the company's extensive catalog of video game titles for film and television... More
‘Game of Thrones’ Hits Record 19.3M Viewers in Series Finale (CNBC)
The final episode of “Game of Thrones” shattered single-night viewing records Sunday, with 19.3 million tuning in to watch the finale. Each episode, save for one, toppled viewe... More
First Dolby Cinema Opens in Germany with Kinopolis Gruppe in Munich (MESA)
Dolby and Kinopolis Gruppe announced the opening of the first Dolby Cinema in Germany at the renowned Mathäser Palast in Munich. Film fans can now enjoy the very best cinema prese... More
