With Lucasfilm gearing up for a new era of active production of Star Wars films and TV series, the company has upped John Knoll to chief creative officer of Industrial Light & Magic. Knoll joins ILM p…
Looking to boost its reach beyond legacy pay TV, Discovery Communications has launched TestTube, an ad-supported, free-to-consumer network aimed at young males, stocked with 15 original series. TestTu…
Shazam, the content-recognition app developer, has finally added a critical feature that media companies and advertisers have been seeking for years -- the ability to ID songs, TV shows and ads withou…
Samsung's mobile division is fronting part of the production budget for a CGI short film under a deal with Vice Media's Motherboard tech-culture website, based on a winning sci-fi story entry picked b…
SAG-AFTRA is praising a federal appellate court decision on Tuesday that may bolster performers' ability to control the use of their likenesses and images. The 3rd Circuit Court of Appeals said that R…
Microsoft has scored a touchdown. The company announced a deal with the NFL, worth around $400 million over the next five years, to develop technology that will make watching football more interactive…
By the time Alex Gibney started chronicling the story of Julian Assange and Wikileaks in "We Steal Secrets" -- which debuts May 24 via Focus World -- the charismatic hacker's personality had already…
With a show based on its popular videogame franchise “Halo” in the works from Steven Spielberg, Nancy Tellem is starting to put her first slate of shows together that she wants to launch on Microsoft'…
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