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Despite the wonders of Blu Ray and Imax there’s still nothing to beat the experience of a live concert. Watching your idol on the screen is one thing but to see them live on stage is usually an experience few fans can forget. Of course, the big snag is the cost [...]
Is it me or are you also having trouble believing the year is nearly over? There’s all the spooky joys of Halloween on Friday, soon after that the clocks ‘fall back,’ then it’s a brisk downhill slide to the Holidays…Already! For a few hardy souls, this page of [...] It sounds like Governor Patterson’s splendid idea for growing his city’s economy may have started a trend?? . The much-criticized ‘Bailout Bill’ recently signed into law by the President includes some remarkable bonuses for those in the entertainment sphere: A mixture of tax benefits and favorable financial returns for home-made productions will keep over $400 [...] Hollywood is filled with grown men [and women] who seem to share one common weakness; An inadequate supply of toys during childhood. Stories of Directors demanding bigger, better and costlier toys for their next creative indulgence are legion. And next on their wishlist appears to be Imax. “Batman, TDK” includes six scenes that were created [...] Some days are good. Some are disasters from the moment your feet meet the floor. But once in a while the dawn heralds a day which brings news that just makes you want to stand on a roof-top and sing. This article from the New York Times relates the joyous news that, while all its [...] Enjoy your Thursday, folks – For those of us who find sports less than irresistibly transfixing, this is the last day of freedom we’ll see for two weeks. NBC’s coverage of the Olympics begins tomorrow and will continue at levels akin to saturation-bombing until we’re finally free of the whole gargantuan yawn-fest on August 24th. [...] Picture the scene: You’re an executive in an Ad Agency. Your uber-famous client with the beaucoup bucks wants a flashy new campaign for their latest over-priced cat-pee that makes you smell like every other perfume in history, and you’ve got to achieve world domination while staying way under budget or he may stand really close [...] Product placement and over-staffing are hurdles for TV Producers and creators as they work on creating extensions of the original shows. So says Tim Kring, the EP and boss of NBC’s “Heroes” who was chatting on Wednesday at the NATPE jaw-fest in Hollywood. “At NBC you have this giant corporate, vertically integrated company….The [...] The BBC has just been fined over $750,000 for lying to their audiences in phone-in competitions. The programs in which viewers were misled included ‘Comic Relief’, and ‘Children in Need.’ Two of the BBC’s shining jewels, trusted by millions who hand over their hard-earned cash in the [apparently] misguided notion that it was given [...] After the AMPTP’s petulant withdrawl from last week’s talks there comes the disconcerting news that NBC’s ratings are being so affected by the [even poorer than normal] programming they are using to fill the gaps, they’ve been driven to refunding the Advertisers for low-rated commercials. They’re paying an average of $500,000 each for missing the [...] |
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