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09 Apr

Posted at 10:10h in Blog, Member News

For the entirety of its history, watchable content has been confined. Boxed in the borders of a television, walled off behind a subscription fee, and tethered to the wall. Now, content is truly borderless. [caption id="attachment_4020" align="alignright" width="195"] Morgan Fiumi | Deluxe[/caption] Today, content fits every screen, travels to every region, and is available at any time. And there are no signs...

01 Apr

Posted at 12:49h in Blog, Latest News, Member News

(Above, Danny Kaye accepts Fox Innovation Lab's induction into the Variety Home Entertainment & Digital Hall of Fame, with Ericsson's Mark Russell. Photo credit: Chelsea Lauren/Variety/REX/Shutterstock)   BY GREG TARR SPECIAL TO DEG Danny Kaye, executive VP and managing director for Fox Innovation Lab, is on a mission to help content creators put their work in front of consumers on as many screens as possible,...

31 Mar

Posted at 13:45h in Member News

By Anita Busch [caption id="attachment_3978" align="alignleft" width="131"] Kathleen Gallagher[/caption] March 30, 2018 | Kathleen Gallagher has been upped to exec VP & managing director of North American for Universal Pictures Home Entertainment (UPHE). She will now lead UPHE’s physical home entertainment business, including sales, operations, finance, customer marketing and distribution partnerships in the U.S. and Canada. Gallagher replaces longtime UPHE executive Dick Longwell who...

27 Mar

Posted at 15:09h in Member News

By Anita Busch March 26, 2018 | Vincent Marçais has been named exec VP, worldwide marketing for Paramount Home Media Distribution to oversee the creative advertising, media, brand and market research for all of the studio’s home entertainment releases across physical and digital platforms. Marçais will report to Buchi, President, Worldwide Home Media Distribution, Paramount Pictures...

19 Mar

Posted at 19:08h in Latest News, Member News

By Mike Snider March 18, 2018 | AT&T's fight to buy Time Warner — home to DC Comics heroes Batman, Superman and Wonder Woman, as well as HBO's Game of Thrones and CNN — heads to a high-stakes throw-down with the Trump administration in the quieter confines of a Washington, D.C., courtroom Monday. The stakes are high for AT&T and could change how viewers watch...

15 Mar

Posted at 15:01h in Latest News, Member News

By DANIEL MILLER and JACLYN COSGROVE March 14,  2018 | Walt Disney Co. announced Wednesday a sweeping restructuring aimed at accelerating its global expansion during a period of upheaval for Hollywood. The Burbank-based entertainment giant said it would combine its international media business and its content streaming operation into one unit and create another division to house its consumer products business along with Walt Disney Parks...

13 Mar

Posted at 15:18h in Industry News, Member News

By Todd Spangler March 12, 2018 | Fandango’s FandangoNow video-on-demand service is the fifth online retailer to throw in with Movies Anywhere, the digital movie-collection service owned by Disney. Under the deal, FandangoNow customers can use the Movies Anywhere app and website to access eligible purchases of movies from Walt Disney Studios — encompassing Disney, Pixar, Marvel Studios and Lucasfilm — 20th Century Fox Film, Sony Pictures Entertainment, Universal Pictures (including DreamWorks...

12 Mar

Posted at 18:58h in Industry News, Member News

By Dade Hayes March 12, 2018 | In a 47-page report out today, influential Wall Street analyst Craig Mofett deems the presumed bid for Comcast by pay-TV giant Sky TV as a gambit with “tremendous risks” that nonetheless could yield an OTT service with Netflix-style advantages.  The near-term upside of Comcast’s overture for Sky has been nil, notes Moffett, a partner in MoffettNathanson...