WB bows classic animation site
Warner Bros. Online has launched LooneyTunes.com, a new destination solely dedicated to the studio's library of classic animated characters, including Bugs Bunny, Wile E. Coyote and Daffy Duck.
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Report: 70% will have consoles by ’05
A new study released by the Interactive Digital Software Assn. reports that vidgames may be increasingly competitive with homevid: 70% of all U.S. households are forecast to have at least one…
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Vid fete set for Capitan
The historic El Capitan Theatre and Entertainment Centre will be home to the first Video Business Video Premiere Awards show in October.
Alloy, Evolution deal real TV
Popular teen entertainment venture Alloy Online has pacted with "Big Brother" co-producer Evolution Film & Tape to develop and produce a slate of original reality television programs for the youth…
NCTA’s high-tech rollback
Jittery over the economy, several tech giants have canceled plans to peddle their wares at the cable industry's premier confab in Chicago next month.
Buena Vista spies fall video date for ‘Kids’
Buena Vista Home Entertainment has quietly started informing major retailers that surprise hit "Spy Kids" from Disney's Miramax/Dimension will be released on video in September.
Cieply slipping from Inside.com
Weeks after Brill Media Holdings merged with Powerful Media, top staffers continue to ankle the new conglom. The latest to exit is Inside.com West Coast editor Michael Cieply, who resigned Thursday.
Ambience inks Hannum Monkey, Corona
Ambience Entertainment, a newly formed management and production company, has inked Hannum Monkey Prods., the makers of iFilm.com and Neurotrash.com short "Jar Jar Binks: The E! True Hollywood…
Showtime ups Gore
Cabler Showtime Networks has upped Loiett Gore to director, marketing and business development, Showtime Digital Media Group. Gore will oversee the development and implementation of marketing and…
Neurotrash, MVD merge
Entertainment Netcaster Neurotrash.com has merged with publicly traded MVD Holdings to form NT Media Corp. and has bowed a strategy consulting group, to be called NT Consulting.
Vivendi has an eye on Scoot.com
Vivendi Universal said Friday it's in talks to buy U.K. Internet directory service Scoot.com for up to $147 million pending the appropriate due diligence.
