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New Living Room: from Netflix Streaming to Google TV
At book group last night, we not only picked David Mitchell's Cloud Atlas (in development with the Wachowskis and Tom Tykwer), but debated the relative merits of TiVo and Roku, the best way to get Netflix streaming on TV and the breadth of the Netflix catalogue of free-stream titles. I use my PS3 an...
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Relativity Media's Kavanaugh Takes Over Overture, Becomes Studio Boss
Skeptics of Relativity Media's Ryan Kavanaugh will have to admit that the aggressively ambitious 35-year-old Hollywood upstart is serious about turning his financing operation (he puts up the money for three-quarters of the movies made by Sony and Universal) into a real studio. After six years, the ...
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TCM Classic Film Festival is Hit, and is Coming Back
Last weekend's TCM Classic Film Festival in LA was such a hit that it's coming back in 2011. TCM targeted an aging demo starving for classic movies and created an event feel, with Q & As and panels, from Danny and Anjelica Huston honoring their father and grandfather in The Treasure of the Sierra Ma...
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Netflix's Sarandos Talks Streaming, Recommendations, Set Top Boxes
Scott Kirsner, author of Fans, Friends and Followers and the Cinematech blog, recently interviewed Netflix chief content officer Ted Sarandos at his office in Beverly Hills for Kirsner's "CONVERSATION" series.
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MSpot Streams Movies to PCs and Mobiles
I streamed The Hunt for Red October on my office computer the other day. Now that I have a fast cable modem and a nice big monitor, it flowed beautifully. No glitches. And in theory--although I couldn't get my BlackBerry to cooperate--if I had wanted to stop the action and continue watching on my PD...
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Weekend Read: Poland vs. Wells, Almodovar Talks Cruz, Time's Top 50 Sites, MTV Fall Preview
Hollywood Round-Up: MTV does the click per page routine with its fall movie preview, annoyingly.
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August Brings Dog Days, Celebs on Vacation
The dog days of August are upon us. Will any of the month’s upcoming movies kick ass, like The Fugitive or Pineapple Express? Or are they studio also-rans? It can go either way, writes the NYT.
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Are You Hooked Up to a Set Top Box?
It seems that one of Matt Dentler's new roles at Cinetic Rights Management is consciousness raising.
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Netflix and Facebook Are Friends
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