While change is coming to the television set, for now the best way to get access to online video is through game consoles and other devices like Apple TV and Google’s Chromecast.
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Of 101 films released by the six major studios in 2012, Glaad said only 14 of them contained characters that were identified as lesbian, gay or bisexual, and none that were were transgender.
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Sony Pictures Television has gone largely underacknowledged, but that is changing, partly because of prodding from one of its largest shareholders.
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A new business venture, which secured the rights to six Beatles songs, has a licensing strategy that is pushing the music onto television and the movies.
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From a sleepy movie channel to an incubator of signature television, AMC is hoping to seize the moment and create new, profitable hits.
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Tom Rothman, previously the chairman and chief executive of Fox Filmed Entertainment, will head a venture at Sony that expects to make four films a year.
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Following its own move into automated buying, IPG Mediabrands announced a plan to help clients create content for online platforms.
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The team behind “Elysium,” starring Matt Damon and Jodie Foster, promises that it has taken an imaginative detour from the familiar blockbuster formula.
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Cases against two services that change how viewers watch TV are far from settled, but the stakes, which would affect broadcasters’ profits, could not be bigger.
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Netflix has given a good shaking to the settled world of television: it has provided its own series, streamed them over the Internet and made them available all at once everywhere.
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The Ninth U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals affirmed a lower court’s ruling and lent further support to Dish’s ad-skipping digital video recorder.
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Many of the movies offered to fans in San Diego were sequels or retreads, raising questions on whether “more of the same” was about all Hollywood had.
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The Japanese phone carrier’s proposal of $8.5 billion for Universal Media Group was believed by some analysts to represent a $2 billion premium over its value.
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Movies based on real-life dramas are filling up the latter part of the Hollywood release schedule, connecting with audiences wired into news events.
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The company has begun talks with major media companies about licensing TV channels, according to people with knowledge of the meetings.
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The film studio will work with Kevin McCollum, a Broadway producer, to create live theater out of movies in its catalog.
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All six major film studios have approved a special “producer’s mark” to distinguish those who have actually done substantive producing work from those who haven’t.
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The video game system is a useful tool for reaching young men, who can elude advertisers. Sony estimates advance sales will reach about $10 million.
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The president, Jeff Robinov, has faced questions about the direction of the Warner Brothers Pictures Group.
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ESPN’s move spurred a debate about whether anyone would be left watching in 3-D television soon, and whether anything would be available worth watching.
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