The Change Mariner: Category: Industry - Entertainment

May 10, 2004

'Jesus Is My Homeboy' Becomes Fashion Statement

Rugged Elegance: Driven by the success of "The Passion of the Christ" at the box office, "Jesus Chic" has become the new Hollywood fashion trend. Celebrities such as Madonna, Pamela Anderson and Ashton Kutcher have been recently spotted wearing "Jesus...

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April 20, 2004

Studios Rush to Cash In on DVD Boom

The New York Times: Not since the advent of the videocassette in the mid-1980's has the movie industry enjoyed such a windfall from a new product. And just as video caused a seismic shift two decades ago, the success of...

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April 19, 2004

DVD War Looms As Advancements Draw Near

Yahoo! News The DVD stands out as one of the most rapidly adopted consumer technologies ever, but in the electronics industry it's akin to an aging king in Shakespearean drama -- rivals are lurking, knives drawn. Just as consumers are...

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March 29, 2004

Leisure Pursuits of Today's Young Man

New York Times: The television industry was shaken last October when the ratings from Nielsen Media Research showed that a huge part of a highly prized slice of the American population was watching less television. As the fall TV season...

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February 12, 2004

BitTorrent: The Third Wave of File Sharing

New York Times: Three years later, Mr. [Bram] Cohen, 28, has emerged as the face of the next wave of Internet file sharing. If Napster started the first generation of file-sharing, and services like Kazaa represented the second, then the...

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February 9, 2004

How Home Theaters Are Transforming Entertainment

New York Times: The VCR and the DVD player have changed where and how Americans watch movies, and now home theaters are further transforming the experience. As setups like the Slotkys' become commonplace, TV watching is becoming more of a...

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February 5, 2004

Some Christians See 'Passion' as Evangelism Tool

New York Times: For years it was an article of faith for many Christians that the most powerful vehicle for bringing nonbelievers to Jesus was a Billy Graham crusade. Now, they expect it will be a Mel Gibson movie. Three...

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January 24, 2004

Desperately Seeking Sundance Cool

Wired News: PARK CITY, Utah -- Sundance is the Super Bowl of film festivals, at least in terms of advertising. During the 11 days of the Sundance Film Festival, held each January, this tiny ski town grows thick with corporate...

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January 21, 2004

AOL: You've Got Movies!

CBS Marketwatch: A buck gets you more than a song on the Internet these days. Time Warner's America Online is offering broadband users downloaded movies for 99 cents each. AOL is partnering with MovieLink, a movie download rental service and...

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January 13, 2004

China Poses Trade Worry as It Gains in Technology

New York Times: Today, the principal international standard-setting organizations have representation from many countries, including China, but American interests often carry the greatest influence. "We are accustomed to the United States being the biggest market and the technology leader, so...

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Disney closes Orlando studio as digital animation takes over

Sun Sentiel (Florida): The Walt Disney Co. is shuttering its Orlando-based animation studio, cutting 258 jobs, as the company shifts from hand-drawn animated films to computer-generated features and videos. Some of the employees will be offered jobs in Burbank, Calif.,...

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December 12, 2003

Stephen Jobs' View on TV Downloads: Very Different From Music

RollingStone.com: Q: Lots people who work in the movie business have watched what's happened to the music industry and think they're next. Do you see that? SJ: It is a problem. But movies are very different than music. First of...

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November 29, 2003

Presence of Powerful Woman Behind The Screen Translates Into More Women On-screen

NYNewsDay: ... Ms. Lauzen's latest study, which analyzed the 2002-3 prime-time season, found that women made up 22 percent of all creators, executive producers, producers, directors, writers, editors and directors of photography, a percentage that has remained virtually unchanged for...

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November 28, 2003

China Pushes EVD As Alternative to DVD

CBSNews.com: If I were an entertainment industry executive, I'd worry less about college students sharing files on the Internet and more about what's happening in China. The Chinese government just announced a government-funded project to develop an alternative to the...

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November 18, 2003

HDTV Requires More than Makeup - Watch Out Cameron Diaz

TelevisionWeek: ... When seen on film, Diaz's skin imperfections are not noticeable, thanks to Hollywood's talented makeup artists. However, with HDTV, the picture is so precise that the acne damage cannot be hidden. In a high-def broadcast of Charlie's Angels...

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November 17, 2003

PCs As Heart of Home Entertainment

New York Times: This is not your grandma's PC," said Louis J. Burns, the executive in charge of Intel's desktop computer division. The arrival of the more flexible personal computers, Silicon Valley executives argue, is aimed at permitting the industry...

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October 29, 2003

Flat-Panel Display Demand Surges

New York Times: Looking to the fastest-growing segment of the world television market, Sony announced Tuesday a $2 billion joint venture with Samsung, to produce liquid crystal displays, commonly known as flat-panel screens. With production to start in South Korea...

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October 17, 2003

Disney Threatened By 3-D Animation

Contra Costa Times: Meanwhile, Disney is undergoing a radical transformation of its own, experiencing wrenching internal changes in its bedrock animation business. For the first time in decades, the entertainment giant that pioneered feature-length animation with 1937's "Snow White and...

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September 15, 2003

Disney, CinemaNow Ink Net-movie Deal

CNET News.com Disney agreed to license some of its feature films to movie rental site CinemaNow, in a move to fight Net film piracy and further experiment with new technologies. On Monday, Walt Disney Company unit Buena Vista Pay Television...

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September 14, 2003

Hollywood Faces Online Piracy

New York Times: When "Hulk" hit the small screen early, Hollywood hit the roof. Two weeks before this summer's film adaptation of the angry green giant opened in theaters in June, copies started showing up on file-sharing networks around the...

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September 10, 2003

Latino Roles On The Rise

SignOnSanDiego.com: As Hollywood moves to capture the burgeoning Latino market at the box office -- and the hiring of more Latino talent to work on and off-camera -- Latino actors are increasingly hiring dialect coaches. Indeed, the numbers show a...

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The Death of the CD, DVD: RIP

CNN.com: In the 1950s, the revolution was all about rock 'n' roll. The 70s brought punk and disco. And sometime this decade, the rebellion shifted from the music genre to the digital domain. ... "On-demand services are the future of...

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September 9, 2003

Women Dominate Fall Movies

Extratv.com: Say goodbye to the boys of summer and say hello to the ladies of the fall: Julia, Ren�e, Meg, Nicole, Sharon, and Uma. From Julia Roberts and Halle Berry to Nicole Kidman and Ren�e Zellweger, box-office expert Paul Dergarabedian...

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September 7, 2003

The New Digital World of Film Stunts

newsobserver.com: "I'm very concerned about the sort of career my son is going to have," said Leonard, as he picked over a plate of biscuits and gravy at a restaurant near his ranch home in Agua Dulce. "There could be...

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September 5, 2003

Internet to screen first premiere

CNN.com: The writer of Oscar-nominated movie "The Full Monty" is premiering his latest film on the Internet, in a world first. Simon Beaufoy's latest film "This is not a love song" is being streamed online as it debuts simultaneously in...

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August 30, 2003

China bans Tomb Raider sequel

BBC The second Tomb Raider film, starring actress Angelina Jolie, has been banned in China because it portrays the country "negatively", authorities said. ...The Chinese also complained the film had made the country appear to have no government and run...

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August 22, 2003

Hollywood finds itself at the mercy of cellphone-toting teenagers

Cape Times: In Hollywood, 2003 is rapidly becoming known as the year of the failed blockbuster, and the industry now thinks it knows why. .. The problem, they say, is teenagers instant-messaging their friends with their verdict on new films...

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August 21, 2003

Laser breakthrough promises longer CDs

ABC Canberra (Australia): Researchers in Canberra and Paris have combined to increase the amount of information able to be stored on CDs and DVDs. Professor Claude Fabre from the University of Paris and Professor Hans Bachor from the Australian National...

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August 17, 2003

Action-Hungry DVD Fans Sway Hollywood

New York Times: Home video sales accounted for more than 58 percent of Hollywood's income last year, more than twice as much as box-office revenues. Sales of DVD's to consumers are the biggest, most profitable and fastest-growing component of that...

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July 1, 2003

Sinbad and Linux brave the high seas

Infoworld Now Tux, the Linux mascot, is rubbing elbows with Brad Pitt, Catherine Zeta-Jones and Michelle Pfeiffer. These Hollywood stars all give their voices to characters in DreamWorks LLC's "Sinbad: Legend of the Seven Seas," the studio's first animated film...

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