Film/TV

 

How to be a TV Hero in the Digital Denouement (NAGRA Blog)

Digital transformation is likely the critical innovation vector for operators. 84 percent of pay-TV executives expect competition for paid-for video services to increase dramatical... More

Apple May Enlist UK Telecom Giant BT to Jumpstart its TV Strategy (Engadget)

Apple has been laying the groundwork for its entry into TV services for a while. Now, however, it might recruit one of the UK's largest telecoms to help out. The Daily Telegraph so... More

Labeling Content: Q&A with EIDR’s Will Kreth (MediaPost)

Kreth: "Today we see labeling happening in a variety of ways, often with proprietary methods that are designed for specific purposes. Moving towards a single standard identifier, w... More

TV Advertising Isn’t Dead – It’s Evolving (CMO)

The back-to-school season this year was also the back-to-TV season for department stores. The top brands in the category spent $247.8 million from July 1 to Aug. 31, according to i... More

How Amazon is Forging a New Global TV Strategy (ScreenDaily)

Amazon’s entertainment ambitions are now being steered by a seasoned Hollywood executive who has brought hit shows such as Glee, Modern Family and This Is Us to the small screen,... More

Convergent Risks Reaches its 75th Studio Vendor Engagement for the TPN Security Assessment Program (MESA)

Convergent Risks has reached its 75th confirmed engagement for studio vendor security assessments since the start of the Trusted Partner Network, “TPN”, program reinforcing the... More

The Mill, MPC Add Seven 2018 Clio Awards to Their Roster of Trophies (MESA)

Technicolor creative studios The Mill and MPC are once again honored with multiple Clio Awards for their achievements across creative categories, ranging from Animation and Visual ... More

SDI Media CEO Howorth on How Streaming Services Reset the Bar in Media Localization (Slator)

Los Angeles headquartered SDI Media is the largest media localization company globally and is the highest ranking non-generalist language service provider in the index. According t... More

Avid to Receive Engineering Emmy Award for Pioneering Technology, Contributions to the TV Industry (MESA)

Avid today announced it has been named the recipient of the prestigious Philo T. Farnsworth Award by the Television Academy. The award will be presented to Avid at the 70th Emmy® ... More

Amazon’s IMDb Will Announce This Week a New Free Video Service to Compete for TV Ad Dollars (CNBC)

Amazon subsidiary IMDb is expected to announce this week a free, ad-supported video service for Amazon Fire TV users, according to several people with knowledge about the matter. T... More

Encore Hollywood Welcomes New Colorist, Director of Production (MESA)

Encore, a Deluxe company, has added Colorist Andrea Chlebak to its roster of talent, and promoted veteran post producer Genevieve Fontaine to Director of Production. Chlebak brings... More

Adobe Hooks Into More TV Inventory as Addressability Slowly Coalesces (AdExchanger)

Despite the massive steps the ad industry has made in figuring out addressable TV just this year, advancement comes not from stunning breakthroughs, but simply from attaching a few... More

How to Make a Successful Independent Feature on Your Own Terms (CreativeFuture Blog)

Made for just $80,000, The Midnighters looks like it was made for a million, but as polished as the final product is, the journey to it was rife with struggle, and even disaster. T... More

NBC Sports Adds Atmos Audio to Notre Dame 4K HDR Series (SVG)

An ongoing test of 4K HDR video has been joined by its audio counterpart. This year, NBC Sports Group’s broadcasts of Notre Dame home games in the next-generation format, which h... More

Technicolor, MPC, The Mill Talent Receives Five HPA Nominations for 2018 (MESA)

Technicolor, MPC, and The Mill talent have been nominated for a total of five HPA Awards this year. Technicolor’s Senior Colorist Maxine Gervais exclaims, “it is so exciting to... More

Interactive Video: The Most Powerful Megatrend for Marketers (Prime Focus Technologies Blog)

The writing’s on the wall - users are increasingly looking for engaging experiences, and the more personal, the better. A ‘one size fits all’ approach to video is passé. Thi... More

Double Screening: How Hollywood Embraced Instagram (The Guardian)

In an expanding set of films, characters are posting, following and tapping as the industry recognises the undeniable importance of the ’gram. Assassination Nation is just the la... More

Orson Welles’ Last Feature ‘The Other Side of the Wind’ Color Finished by Technicolor Team (MESA)

With "The Other Side of the Wind", Welles set out to create a multi-layered ‘film within a film’ – a roman à clef of sorts – his somber meditation on the perils of Hollywo... More

Sixty Adds Sports Special Features Via Gracenote Integration (Rapid TV News)

The partnership will allow Sixty's broadcast customers to merge the components of traditional broadcasting with personalised, interactive clickable graphics technology, within Sixt... More

Technicolor Returns for More Adventures in Season Two of ‘Anne with an E’ (MESA)

Anne with an E is the eloquent re-tooling of the Canadian classic “Anne of Green Gables” by Lucy Maud Montgomery. Technicolor Toronto has been providing complete post-productio... More

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