'Gone Baby Gone' keeps you guessing

When a little girl vanishes from her bedroom in one of Boston’s poorest neighbourhoods, her distraught mother (Amy Ryan) makes a television appeal for her safe return.

Live Earth back with solar aim

INDIA is to host a Live Earth concert later this year, featuring stars from the world of music, film and television, to raise funds for solar energy.

NATAS circles grow

Film News: Donahue, Bergen, Williams honored -- The National Academy of Television Arts & Sciences, Pacific Southwest chapter, has inducted six new members into its prestigious gold and silver circles.

TVNZ VOD pacts for ABC shows

Business News: Disney-owned channel pacts with Ondemand -- The Asia Pacific arm of Disney-ABC Intl. Television has inked a deal with Kiwi pubcaster TVNZ to provide its skeins on its fledgling online delivery service TVNZ Ondemand.

Canadian unions seek strike mandate

Business News: Current deal expired on June 30 -- After 17 months of negotiations with reps of the ad business, the Alliance of Canadian Cinema, Television and Radio Artists (ACTRA) is seeking a strike mandate from its membership.

Candian unions seek strike mandate

Business News: Current deal expired on June 30 -- After 17 months of negotiations with reps of the ad business, the Alliance of Canadian Cinema, Television and Radio Artists (ACTRA) is seeking a strike mandate from its membership.

Tiger Wishes Team Well, But Won't Attend Ryder Cup

The closest Tiger Woods will get to the Ryder Cup is in front of his television.

Hansen unhappy with alleged filming incident

New Zealand assistant coach Steve Hansen has accused an Australian television station of supplying footage to the Wallabies ahead of the Tri-Nations decider last Saturday.

Weather disrupts Ryder preparations

A television tower and a number of trees were sent crashing by 60mph gusts at Valhalla yesterday on the eve of the European and American teams’ arrival for the Ryder Cup starting on Friday.

Football fans 'being turned off by costs'

Premier League clubs may be courting Arab trillionaires but it is a different story for their supporters, the majority of whom are being priced out of watching live football on television, according to a new survey.

Casting directors pact with AMPTP

Business News: Tentative labor deal reached for new contract -- Casting directors have reached a tentative deal for a new contract with the Alliance of Motion Picture & Television Producers. The AMPTP made the announcement Friday morning, following three days of negotiations with reps for Intl.  Brotherhood of Teamsters.
 

'Watchmen' fate goes to federal judge

Business News: Fox, WB forego jury trial on legal tussle -- Fox and Warner Bros. have decided to forgo a jury trial in their legal tussle over which studio has distribution rights to "Watchmen" and agreed instead to let a federal judge decide in two weeks whether Fox can block release of the pic.

ATAS pacts with Alan Perris

Business News: COO signs new multi-year deal with org -- Academy of Television Arts and Sciences chief operating officer Alan Perris has sealed a new multi-year deal with the org.

Journalists' woes trickle down to PR

Business News: Economic crisis hits both writers and praisers -- Misery love company, and if journalism plays a significant role in your professional orbit, there’s going to be plenty of it to go around.

Brad Grey stays put at Paramount

Business News: CEO to remain with studio through 2014 -- Despite a bleak economy and an uncertain media landscape, Viacom is very certain that Brad Grey is the man to run Paramount Pictures.

Family fare does well in down market

Business News: In tough economy, original DVD titles chug along -- As the DVD market plateaus and ever more releases vie for space on store shelves, the direct-to-video kidvid sector is proving resilient in tough economic times.

Home Entertainment Leader Report

Business News: The execs who guide the studios' made-for-DVD units -- Home Entertainment Leader Report: The execs who guide the studios' made-for-DVD units

Vidgames enter brave new open world

Business News: Wii, online gaming, sandbox games point to future -- Eight-year-old Rafael Solano can see the future -- or at least his future. Not content with the ease of use of his Nintendo Wii, he imagines a game system that features "controllers you could actually interact with that could go, like, on your knees or something, and on your arms.

RDF USA boosts Gellert to VP

Business News: Executive to report to Chris Coelen -- RDF USA continues to expand its ranks, tapping Lauren Gellert to serve as senior VP.

Homevid biz weathering the storm

Business News: Stability is the new growth in nontheatrical sector -- Contrary to claims made by some pundits back in the downturn of 2001, the homevid business isn't necessarily recession-proof.
But with numerous estimates for 2008 revenues down only 3%-6% from the nearly $23 billion generated in 2007, peddling discs has gone a lot better than, say, selling Detroit-made SUVs or condos in Miami.

Marketing the end of the world

Business News: Creatively marketing 'Day the Earth Stood Still' -- How do you promote the end of the world? That was the question facing 20th Century Fox as the studio pondered the marketing plan for "The Day the Earth Stood Still."