China: Hollywood Studios Still Face Headaches
With more and more foreign films now being allowed into China, and potential revenues that can be earned having risen to 25% (from as little as 13%), one might think that doing business in China is…
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Even Hollywood Studios That Churn Out Hits Use Pre-Sales to Minimize Downside
When DreamWorks Studios decided to start pre-selling international territories one year ago, some observers took it as a sign that its main financier, India's Reliance Entertainment, was scaling back.
China’s Overdue Payments to Hollywood Could Happen This Week (EXCLUSIVE)
China Film Group seems set to pay Hollywood studios the $200 million revenues it has withheld for months
LGBT Organization Calls on Hollywood Studios to Take Stand Against Russia’s Anti-Gay Laws
The Human Rights Campaign has called on Hollywood studios to use the high profile platform of film premieres to take a stand against Russia’s anti-gay propaganda laws. In a letter to the major studio…
Why Studios Must End Their Mega-Budget Obsession
Dire predictions swirled around this year's slate of pricey pics. Now, after a number of colossal flops, Hollywood is left to wonder if its swing-for-the-fences paradigm has struck out.
Hollywood Stymied as Europe Sticks With Its Limits on Film and TV
ANNECY – The more things change, as they say in France… Twenty years after France fought a near-lone battle to preserve limitations on American pop culture, Gaul has done it again. During 13 hours of…
Twickenham Studios: Home to the Beatles, Silent Stars, Hollywood Elite
Based about 9 miles southwest of central London, Twickenham Studios was built on the site of an old ice-skating rink that was acquired in 1912 by Dr. Ralph Jupp. One of the U.K.'s oldest surviving…
Cannes: Ariel Veneziano Launches Sales Company International Film Trust
Benaroya Pictures and Miscellaneous Entertainment have formed a joint venture to launch sales company International Film Trust at Cannes. The new banner — headed by Ariel Veneziano as president — has…
Major Film Studios Prosper on the Margins
Shrinking release slates, a focus on tentpoles and the emergence of a 'new normal' in the homevid market has allowed the largest media congloms to boost the financial performance of their movie…
Paramount Channel on a High in Spain
Hollywood studios continue to exploit digital TV opportunities in Europe.
BAFTA and Oscars: Separate and almost equal
No escaping U.S. presence in Blighty's big races
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