Politics
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DEG: Home Entertainment Spending Posts 7% Gain in First Half of 2019
Consumers spent nearly $6 billion on home entertainment in the second quarter of 2019, a 7% gain from the same period last year. The gain came despite a nearly 10% year-over-year decline in the box office value of movies that became available for in-home viewing during the quarter, according to DEG: The Digital Entertainment Group. … Continue reading “DEG: Home Entertainment Spending Posts 7% Gain in First Half of 2019”
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L.A. Retailers Roll Back Prices in Amazon ‘Mrs. Maisel’ Emmy Push
An Amazon promotion for the original series “The Marvelous Mrs. Maisel” was too marvelous for its own good. Police shut down a promotion in which a Chevron gas station in Santa Monica, Calif., offered gasoline for 30 cents a gallon, the same price gas sold for in 1959, the year in which “Mrs. Maisel” is … Continue reading “L.A. Retailers Roll Back Prices in Amazon ‘Mrs. Maisel’ Emmy Push”
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Digital Media Companies, Trump Unite Against New French Tax
Digital media companies, including Amazon, Apple, Google and Facebook, are getting an unlikely assist from President Trump against a proposed 3% tax in France on revenue derived from digital ad services and user-to-user transactions. Specifically, the tax targets revenue derived in part off of French consumer online activities, including ecommerce, streaming video and audio. Trump … Continue reading “Digital Media Companies, Trump Unite Against New French Tax”
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Best Buy, Roku, Apple Shares Rebound Following Tariff Delay
Shares of Best Buy, Roku, Apple and other consumer electronics retailers/manufactures rebounded after President Trump delayed until Dec. 15 a proposed new 10% tariff on cellphones, laptop computers, video game consoles and other goods manufactured in China. The tariff on $300 billion worth of products, which Trump announced Aug. 1 as part of ongoing trade … Continue reading “Best Buy, Roku, Apple Shares Rebound Following Tariff Delay”
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Trade Group Pushes Back Against Trump’s Claim Video Games Incite Violence in Society
In the aftermath of separate mass shootings over the weekend that left 31 people dead and scores wounded, the Entertainment Software Association is pushing back against claims by President Trump and some lawmakers that violence in video games fuels violence in society. Trump Aug. 5 condemned the attacks carried out by two shooters in their … Continue reading “Trade Group Pushes Back Against Trump’s Claim Video Games Incite Violence in Society”
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SAG-AFTRA Approves Historic Deal with Netflix
Netflix is one of the world’s largest producers of movies and TV shows. As a subscription streaming video distributor, how the service’s productions fit into the traditional Hollywood labor equation sometimes left more questions than answers. Now, SAG-AFTRA, the union representing film and television actors, journalists, radio personalities, recording artists, singers, voice actors and other … Continue reading “SAG-AFTRA Approves Historic Deal with Netflix”
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Spain Lawmakers Seeking 8% Tax on Foreign OTT Video Services
Lawmakers in Spain are looking to impose an 8% tax on over-the-top video services operating in the country, including Netflix, HBO, Amazon Prime Video, Sky Now and DAZN. The so-called RTVE (Radio Television Espanola) tax is aimed at funding Spain’s ad-free public broadcaster, which has been undermined in recent years by plummeting advertising sales among … Continue reading “Spain Lawmakers Seeking 8% Tax on Foreign OTT Video Services”
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NRATV Ceasing Live Programming
The National Rifle Association is reportedly ceasing streaming live video on its branded online TV service, NRATV, which launched in 2016. The New York Times reported the decision, made June 25, might not impact catalog programming. However, live content produced by media firm Ackerman McQueen and featuring spokesperson Dana Loesch, among others, would end. At issue … Continue reading “NRATV Ceasing Live Programming”
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Sony, Viacom, CBS, Showtime, NBC Universal, AMC Network Join Growing Studio Sentiment Not to Work in Georgia Should Anti-Abortion Law Go Into Effect
Then the dam broke. Sony Pictures, Viacom, CBS, Showtime, NBC Universal and AMC Networks, which has produced “The Walking Dead” in Georgia for more than 10 years, May 30 joined a bandwagon of Hollywood studios, producers and actors who have said they would cease doing business should the state’s new anti-abortion law go into effect … Continue reading “Sony, Viacom, CBS, Showtime, NBC Universal, AMC Network Join Growing Studio Sentiment Not to Work in Georgia Should Anti-Abortion Law Go Into Effect”
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WarnerMedia Entertainment to Boycott Georgia Should Anti-Abortion Ban Become Law
WarnerMedia Entertainment May 30 joined Disney and Netflix in pledging to withdraw movie and TV show productions from Georgia should the state’s new anti-abortion law go into effect Jan. 1, 2020. Gov. Brian Kemp May 8 signed legislation outlawing women from terminating their pregnancy six weeks after becoming pregnant. Georgia currently bans abortions after 20 … Continue reading “WarnerMedia Entertainment to Boycott Georgia Should Anti-Abortion Ban Become Law”
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Disney to Join Growing Hollywood Bandwagon Ceasing Operations in Georgia Should Anti-Abortion Ban Take Effect
The Walt Disney Co. could join Netflix and other Hollywood actors and production companies who say they would stop working in Georgia should a recently signed anti-abortion law take effect on Jan. 1, 2020. Speaking to Reuters, Disney CEO Bob Iger was asked if Disney would continue to make movies (Black Panther) and TV shows … Continue reading “Disney to Join Growing Hollywood Bandwagon Ceasing Operations in Georgia Should Anti-Abortion Ban Take Effect”
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Netflix Reconsidering Georgia Film, TV Productions
Netflix reportedly is reconsidering its massive investment in movie and TV show productions in the state of Georgia after Gov. Brian Kemp signed an anti-abortion law there on May 8. The action by the SVOD behemoth, which has more than 150 million subscribers globally and spends tens of millions on productions in Georgia, could be … Continue reading “Netflix Reconsidering Georgia Film, TV Productions”