Mr. Scheimer’s company, Filmation, produced “Fat Albert and the Cosby Kids,” “The Archie Show” and “He-Man and the Masters of the Universe,” among other cartoon series.
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Julian Assange of WikiLeaks is having a moment on the big screen.
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The “Hunger Games” director Gary Ross plans to make two movies based on the John Steinbeck novel.
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The event, to be held on Tuesday, is expected to bring together about 35 marketers and a dozen content creators.
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The musical biography film has faltered in recent years, but that did not stop John Ridley from making “All Is by My Side,” about a pivotal juncture in the career of Jimi Hendrix.
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After emerging from bankruptcy and cutting costs, the venerable studio is generating cash and has a number of movies and TV shows in the works.
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Ticket revenue in North America totaled $4.71 billion, up 10.2 percent from last summer, but a competition glut hurt films that could have been hits in a thinner field.
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For actors like Daniel Brühl, the new globalism in film has brought opportunities that were almost unimaginable in the middle of the last decade.
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The agreement makes Netflix the exclusive subscription TV outlet for Weinstein Company films, and begins in 2016.
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The company reported net income of $22.2 million, or 26 cents a share, up from $12.8 million a year ago and better than analysts’ forecasts of 20 cents a share.
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Bill Damaschke, the chief creative officer of the film studio, is increasingly calling the artistic shots as the head of DreamWorks, Jeffrey Katzenberg, focuses on other areas.
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DreamWorks Animation will supply Netflix with a flood of new episodic TV programs inspired by characters from past DreamWorks franchises, which include “Shrek” and “The Croods.”
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Major media companies, including Condé Nast, Yahoo and Hulu, are promoting online video programming on a large scale, but it is not clear whether advertising dollars will follow.
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CBS Interactive and Univision Communications are among the companies seeking advertising dollars from Madison Avenue.
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The deal with Sands Cotai Central in China is to introduce the “DreamWorks Experience” beginning in late 2013.
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“The Croods” and “Olympus Has Fallen” led the weekend’s movies, rare commercial triumphs in a slow season.
Feld Entertainment, which produces Disney on Ice and other touring shows, will introduce a road show featuring Spider-Man and other Marvel superheroes in summer 2014.
Amazon’s production arm said Wednesday that it had ordered a children’s pilot called “Sara Solves It,” which was co-developed by WGBH in Boston and Out of the Blue Enterprises.
Warner Brothers and a financing partner spent about $190 million, and $80 million in marketing costs, for a film that made $28 million.
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