Hollywood

Hearst Tries a New iPad Pitch: “Read Them Here First”

Peter Kafka in Media on January 17 at 2:14 pm PT

Want to get your hands on Megan Fox (or whoever’s on the cover of Esquire) before anyone else?

HBO Hangs On to Universal’s Movies

Peter Kafka in Media on January 6 at 10:04 am PT

Translation: You’re not going to see “Ted” on Netflix or Amazon.

Rupert Murdoch Makes Peace with “Pirate” Google, Starts Selling Movies

Peter Kafka in Media on September 18, 2012 at 6:00 am PT

Turns out the search giant isn’t so awful, after all. And 20th Century Fox has a lot of digital movies and TV shows it wants to sell, starting with “Prometheus.”

Announcing D: Dive Into Media 2013, Featuring Google, Facebook, Sony, Hearst and More

Peter Kafka in Dive Into Media on September 6, 2012 at 6:07 am PT

Dive Media 2012 was a blast, so we’re coming back in February: Watch the most powerful and interesting minds in media grapple with the future, in a spectacular setting.

HBO, Fox Close a Digital Gap With New Rights Deal

Peter Kafka in Media on August 15, 2012 at 12:30 pm PT

The pay TV giant and the movie studio hammer out a new deal. Result: You can buy “X-Men: First Class” from iTunes when it’s showing on HBO.

Consumer Reports Joins the Netflix Pile-On

Peter Kafka in Media on July 26, 2012 at 3:00 am PT

Reed Hastings gets ranked behind almost all of his peers.

Ari Emanuel Wants You to Shut Up and Pay Up

Peter Kafka in D10 on May 30, 2012 at 8:11 pm PT

A nice nightcap for the D10 crowd: A visit from Hollywood mover and shaker Ari Emanuel, the talent agent with so much zest he got a (fictional) part in an HBO show.

Amazon Gets Into the Sitcom Business

Peter Kafka in Media on May 2, 2012 at 8:30 am PT

And the kids’-show business, too. Yet another big Web company says it’s going to make its own videos. How soon before Jeff Bezos finds a “Seinfeld”?

Surprise! Walmart’s Cloud Movie Service Is Pretty Good!

Peter Kafka in Media on April 20, 2012 at 5:37 am PT

“Disc to digital” still doesn’t make much sense as a concept — who wants to drive to Walmart and pay to put their movies in the cloud? But if you do want to do that, it works very well.