Movie biz on the ‘Bubble’
The future of moviegoing (if you're Mark Cuban) or its end (if you're John Fithian) arrived Friday with the release of Steven Soderbergh's "Bubble" simultaneously in theaters, on DVD and on cable TV.
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Cops bust bootleggers
Police have arrested three men they say were hawking bootlegged DVDs and CDs in the heart of Gotham. Officers of the NYPD's organized crime unit executed a search warrant Thursday at 1225 Broadway…
‘Think Tank’ discusses new media
The NATPE panel "Think Tank: The Change Agents" discussed bringing "new media" and "old media" together to create new business opportunities for their content providers.
PBS ponders podcast
Technology may finally help PBS do what all the partisan wrangling couldn't: ease it from its dependence on Congress for funding. In its halting, PBS-esque way, the pubcaster has been pushing ahead…
Will biz’s Berrys get plucked?
Is Hollywood ready to break its crackberry habit? With the Supreme Court declining to hear an appeal by Blackberry maker Research in Motion (RIM) last week, the famously addictive wireless e-mail…
Brit comic’s on top
Downloads for "The Ricky Gervais Show" podcast, available free from the Guardian Unlimited Web site, have topped 2 million.
Overdue for a toon-up
Disney may have acquired Pixar last week, but the Mouse House's storied animation house is now, for all intents and purposes, a subsidiary of Pixar.
C4 pacts for ‘Lost,’ ‘Wives’ clips
Buena Vista Intl. Television has signed an exclusive deal with U.K. terrestrial web Channel 4 for mobile and online clips of "Lost" and "Desperate Housewives."
Oxygen has toon ‘tude
Jennifer Love Hewitt is teaming with women's cabler Oxygen to exec produce "Angry Little Girls." Cabler has greenlit production on the pilot based on the eponymous book and Web site. Site's weekly…
L.A. sez game over
Los Angeles is jumping on the anti-"Grand Theft Auto" bandwagon. City Attorney Rocky Delgadillo Thursday filed a civil lawsuit against Take Two Games and its subsid Rockstar, publisher of "Grand…
Amazon plans to wed downloads, DVD
Amazon.com is preparing to enter the digital download space this spring with a service that will likely marry downloads to DVD sales. A number of studios are circling the end of April on their…
