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Entertainment News January 8 - TOP 3 Stories for TuesdayTAKE A LOOK AT THE DETAILS OF THE MATINEE FILM FESTIVAL READ WHAT MATTHEW TOFFOLO LEARNED YESTERDAY
NOW ONLINE TO WATCH! The terrific SHORT SCREENPLAY WINNER - SID AND WALT. A terrific comedy. Watch the entire script reading when it was read at WILDsound's Screenplay Festival. CLICK HERE AND WATCH SID and WALT NOW! SUBMIT YOUR FILM (short or feature) NOW! SUBMIT YOUR SCRIPT (short, feature or TV Pilot) NOW! The imbroglio over the fate of Sunday's Golden Globe Awards took comical twists and turns Monday as NBC, the Hollywood Foreign Press Assn., Globes producer Dick Clark Prods. and the WGA desperately tried to cut a deal that would allow the event and telecast to take place in some form. By the end of the day, the 65th annual Golden Globe Awards was downscaled from a gala dinner and presentation ceremony with ritzy afterparties to an hourlong news conference set for 6 p.m. PT Sunday. By Monday evening, NBC Universal, Warner Bros., Weinstein Co., Fox Searchlight and HBO had scrapped their party plans. NBC Universal prexy and CEO Jeff Zucker came up with the idea of announcing the winners in 25 categories at an hourlong news conference at the Beverly Hilton Hotel that would be covered live under the auspices of NBC News. NBC News scribes are covered under a separate NABET contract and thus are not on strike against the net. After 72 hours of wrangling with the HFPA and Dick Clark Prods., a defiant WGA said it would picket even the downscaled event. Top showbiz execs at the Consumer Electronics Show largely agreed on that point both in a panel sponsored by Variety and as reflected in the new initiatives they unveiled on Monday, the first official day of the Vegas tech confab. Execs overseeing digital distribution for ABC Disney TV, Fox, Warner Bros. and Paramount joined Variety prexy-publisher Charlie Koones for the panel. Most of the talk about 2008 focused on high-quality on-demand streaming, from Paramount's "Jackass 2.5" to Fox and NBC's Hulu.com to ABC's media player. "People online want to watch for free, because they can get content for free via piracy," said Fox digital media prexy Dan Fawcett. "Downloading to own and keep on a PC seems to be losing out. People like to watch on an impulse." News January 8, News January 8, News January 8
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