Several new companies launch, studios and networks do some hiring, Jeff Robinov’s new studio makes some hires, and a whole bunch of digital positions are filled.
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Toy Story 4 will hit theaters June 16th, 2017 and, another big bit of news, director of the original
Toy Story and overlord of all things Disney animated John Lasseter is returning to direct the film.
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A federal judge granted the studio’s wish for a subpoena against Google to investigate how and who leaked the
Avengers: Age of Ultron trailer on October 22nd, ordering Google to bring all identifying information for the user “John Gazelle” to court November 18th in San Francisco.
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Firm puts $3.5 million into Encoding.com, essentially betting that the future of its services will rely more heavily on cloud-based transcoding farms to convert video for clients so that’s it’s watchable on smartphones, tablets, smart TVs, set top boxes and websites.
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The Emmy award-winning creator says in an interview that he is intrigued by “exploring the era before the show began,” more specifically the late ‘60s and early ‘70s in Newark.
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HBO announces that both shows, as well as the Duplass Brothers’ new comedy,
Togetherness, will all reappear on your televisions Sunday, January 11th, 2015.
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Two of the producers on
The Real Housewives of Orange County claim that the series' credited creator developed and sold the series with them, then conspired with Bravo to remove them from
Housewives' production and take it over for himself. Complaint claims $5 million in damages.
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The first trailer from the highly anticipated, fact-based drama focusing on the intense three month period in 1965 when Martin Luther King, Jr., led the controversial campaign for voter rights. David Oyelowo stars in the film, in limited release Christmas Day.
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Here is a list of 14 movies to watch after sitting through Christopher Nolan’s latest, including Ken Burns’
Dust Bowl doc, Phil Alden Robinson’s
Field of Dreams and, of course, Philip Kaufman’s
The Right Stuff.
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Undated, 125-page script by Leigh Brackett and Lawrence Kasdan, story by George Lucas.
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