MipTV: 'House of Cards' Travels Well Overseas
Rep. Francis Underwood is on quite the worldwide whirlwind tour.
Robert Marich
MipTV Celebrates 50th Birthday With No Midlife Crisis
As Mip TV celebrates its 50th birthday, the venerable program market shows few signs of middle-aged meltdown.
Will Windows Winnow?: Path to Platforms Offer Risk of Pratfalls
Licensing theatrical movies to TV goes back more than a half century, but it's suddenly a hotbed of change requiring strategic thinking.
TV Distribs Caught in Sports Vise
While griping continues over the spiraling cost of sports networks -- largely from the multichannel operators who pay the carriage fees -- consumers appear to be willing to pick up the tab. Yet a…
Berklee issues report card on music pay, prospects
Salaries certainly run a wide gamut in the tune biz, according to Berklee College of Music survey.
Opportunity knocks
As some lament physical DVD declines, others foresee digital goldmine
Nancy Bruington, partner, entertainment, sports & media, O'Melveny &…
When Lionsgate gobbled up an $800 million revolving credit facility in September, outside attorney Bruington worked on behalf of Lionsgate but focused on the lending banks.
Darren Throop, president, CEO & Patrice Theroux, president, filmed…
When Entertainment One agreed to buy Canadian rival Alliance Film for US$225 million in September, it certainly knew the property because Theroux--eOne president of filmed entertainment--had worked…
Kenneth Deutsch, partner, entertainment, sports & media, O'Melveny &…
Attorney Deutsch worked for client DreamWorks Animation over the summer on its $155 million acquisition of character house Classic Media and multi-picture output distribution deal with Fox, and also…
David Anderman, general counsel, head of business affairs, Lucasfilm
For an in-house attorney, Anderman does highly varied deal work such as contracts for "Star Wars" licensed merchandise, movie production, special effects business and the supreme transaction: selling…
