Reuters - The New York Times Co plans to
merge the International Herald Tribune website and non-U.S.
coverage from The New York Times into a joint "international
edition," according to an internal memo. -- read full article
Tue, 24 Jun 2008 00:31:19 GMT - Yahoo! News: Entertainment Industry News
Reuters - Washington Post Co's Leonard Downie,
Jr. will retire after 17 years as the top editor at the
newspaper, as the paper grapples with preserving its legacy
while courting new readers online. -- read full article
Tue, 24 Jun 2008 01:48:58 GMT - Yahoo! News: Entertainment Industry News
AP - Tom Hanks has thrown his support behind a contract deal reached by the smaller of two actors unions, putting his high-profile name against plans by the larger union to wring more concessions from the major Hollywood studios. -- read full article
Tue, 24 Jun 2008 02:49:08 GMT - Yahoo! News: Entertainment Industry News
AP - India's Reliance Entertainment and other investors are in talks with Hollywood's DreamWorks SKG to raise as much as US$2 to create a new movie venture, two people familiar with negotiations said Tuesday. -- read full article
Tue, 24 Jun 2008 07:34:28 GMT - Yahoo! News: Entertainment Industry News
Reuters - U.S. regulators are expected to take
the first step this week that could rein in advertisers'
growing use of product placements on television shows, two
sources close to the agency told Reuters on Monday. -- read full article
Tue, 24 Jun 2008 08:05:02 GMT - Yahoo! News: Entertainment Industry News
Reuters - Paramount Pictures said on Monday
it had topped $1 billion in sales at U.S. and Canadian box
offices, boosted by hit films "Iron Man" and the latest
"Indiana Jones" saga, and become the first studio to pass that
benchmark this year.
Reuters - Entertainment site Fandango.com said
on Monday it bought Movies.com from the Walt Disney Co to
expand its offering of movies reviews and celebrity news.
Reuters - A newly independent Ticketmaster will
likely take on about $750 million in debt and have $450 million
in cash as it is spun off from parent IAC/InterActiveCorp, a
top IAC executive said on Monday. -- read full article
Mon, 23 Jun 2008 17:38:48 GMT - Yahoo! News: Entertainment Industry News
Reuters - The Screen Actors Guild
celebrated its 75th anniversary this weekend in the face of a
grim reality: There are only eight days left to negotiate a
deal with the major producers and studios before its
TV/theatrical contract expires. -- read full article
Mon, 23 Jun 2008 03:06:33 GMT - Yahoo! News: Entertainment Industry News
Reuters - Walt Disney Co is waging a campaign
to convince investors that its product range and brand make it
more valuable than media peers and more like a consumer goods
company -- but so far that has proved a hard sell on Wall
Street.
