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
Joshua Grode, partner and head of corporate department, Liner Grode Stein…
Grode repped Summit Entertainment in its January sale to Lionsgate. "It was tricky because they were in the same business and literally around the corner from each other," says Grode.
Steve Condiotti, VP finance, CFO, Lucasfilm
Condiotti recalls "eight long months working with a dedicated team here" on making presentations and responding to due-diligence inquiries that culminated in the sale of his employer Lucasfilm to…
Alan Hergott, partner, Bloom Hergott Diemer Rosenthal LaViolette Feldman…
Hergott repped Kathleen Kennedy when she was named co-chair and of Lucasfilm in June and Rich Ross when was hired in October as CEO by TV production house Shine America, which is owned by News Corp.
Kevin Mayer, executive VP, corporate strategy and business development, Walt…
Acquisitions maven Mayer says that Walt Disney has three criteria for major buys, which the $4.05 billion purchase of Lucasfilm in October certainly met: must have creative capabilities, assets with…
