Reuters - Tensions within the Screen Actors
Guild mounted on Monday as the union's Hollywood-based leaders
rejected a call by SAG's New York branch to bring in a federal
mediator to break a deadlock in contract talks with major
studios.
Reuters - Leaders of the Screen
Actors Guild and its smaller sister union, the American
Federation of Television and Radio Artists, are finally on the
same page.
Reuters - Video game publisher Electronic Arts
Inc said it will let its $2 billion buyout offer for smaller
rival Take-Two Interactive Software Inc expire on Monday as it
does not believe they can complete a deal before the holiday
shopping season.
Reuters - Electronic Arts Inc will drop its
hostile $2 billion bid for rival video game publisher Take-Two
Interactive Software Inc on Monday and instead pursue private
talks with the company.
Reuters - The New York regional
board of the Screen Actors Guild demanded on Sunday that the
Hollywood union take meaningful steps toward negotiating a new
contract by August 25 or bring in a federal mediator.
Reuters - Day nine of the Summer Olympics in
Beijing, featuring swimmer Michael Phelps' historic gold-medal
triumph, gave NBC its most watched Saturday prime-time
broadcast in 18 years, the network said on Sunday.
Reuters - Bidding for the trade-magazines unit
being sold by Anglo-Dutch publisher Reed Elsevier Plc/NV is
moving into the second round, with a slew of private equity
firms keen on the asset. -- read full article
Mon, 18 Aug 2008 02:51:40 GMT - Yahoo! News: Entertainment Industry News
Reuters - Independent distributor
Variance Films is launching with the theatrical release of the
dark comedy "Smother," starring Diane Keaton, Dax Shepard and
Liv Tyler, and the Hurricane Katrina football documentary
"Walking on Dead Fish." -- read full article
Mon, 18 Aug 2008 03:38:24 GMT - Yahoo! News: Entertainment Industry News
Reuters - The New York regional
board of the Screen Actors Guild demanded Sunday that the
Hollywood union make meaningful steps toward negotiating a new
contract by August 25 or bring in a federal mediator.
Reuters - Former "Nightline"
executive producer Leroy Sievers, who connected with a wide
audience through his National Public Radio commentary and blog
on his struggle with cancer, died Saturday at his home in
Maryland. He was 53. -- read full article
Mon, 18 Aug 2008 06:21:30 GMT - Yahoo! News: Entertainment Industry News
Reuters - Tribune Co has appointed the
former chief executive of satellite television provider DirecTV
as publisher of the Los Angeles Times, the paper said in its
Saturday edition. -- read full article
Sat, 16 Aug 2008 18:22:59 GMT - Yahoo! News: Entertainment Industry News
