During a three-year term as president of the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences, Mr. Sherak sought younger and more diverse members and began a drive to build a museum of world film.
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NBCUniversal announced it extended the contract of Donna Langley, chairwoman of Universal Pictures, through 2017 and handed her oversight of worldwide marketing and overseas production.
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AOL said it hoped Gravity would help AOL “distribute relevant and engaging content and advertising across the Internet through intelligent technology.”
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Officials may seek to break down country-by-country partitions that keep pay TV from being a single market in the European Union.
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TV makers at the Consumer Electronics Show in Las Vegas will be showing off a range of sets that can connect to the Internet and run apps.
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Sequels drove a solid year at the box office, as future-minded producers are planning new franchises.
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The $170 million deal for Gracenote, a subsidiary of Sony, adds to the Tribune Company’s growing repository of entertainment metadata.
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Brad Grey of Paramount Pictures has chosen to produce fewer films, giving up revenue, but increasing profitability as the industry moves into survival mode.
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The blockbuster model, despite a surplus of coming titles and a frightful recent track record, remains a profitable model for the biggest filmmakers.
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The comedian wrote a series of commercials for the new season of “Comedians in Cars Getting Coffee,” his Web show.
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With download sales cooling after a decade of growth, streaming services like Spotify, Pandora and Apple’s new iTunes Radio have become the latest hope for the troubled music business.
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The modern assistant has an understanding of social media that time-stretched (and old school) magazine executives lack, and increasingly they are assuming responsibility for spreading the magazine’s message.
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The Federal Trade Commission fears that what has become known as “native advertising,” “paid links” or “sponsored content” can confuse consumers.
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The aide, Jim Kennedy, worked for both Bill and Hillary Rodham Clinton and for their foundation.
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Martin Scorsese’s “The Wolf of Wall Street,” starring Leonardo DiCaprio, was completed last week and hurriedly scheduled for movie industry screenings.
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The Wii U console has been slow to catch on after a year, but Super Mario 3D World could make it popular.
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Two big-budget movies about the mythological figure, from different studios, are scheduled for release next year.
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The second installment of the “Hunger Games” franchise set a November box-office record with its opening weekend in North America.
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The investment was made by Technology Crossover Ventures. Also, the streaming music service Pandora reported an increase in revenue for the quarter.
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A Kohl’s campaign to air during the American Music Awards on Sunday will let viewers tweet their votes, in real time, on how Ms. Lopez should get to the stage.
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