Record Camera Collection Kept In Athens BasementBy Derek Gatopoulos
ATHENS, GREECE (AP), December 01, 2008 -- This month, the movie camera collection of retired postman Dimitris Pistiolas made it into the Guinness World Records — for the eighth time.

Report: China Blocks Japan-Flavored Taiwan FilmBy Min Lee, Entertainment Writer
HONG KONG (AP), December 01, 2008 -- China has reversed its decision to import a hit Taiwanese film that highlights Japan's 50-year colonial rule over the island because it may be offensive to nationalist sentiment on the Chinese mainland, news reports said. "Cape No. 7" is Taiwan's most successful movie in years, earning more than $6.9 million since its release on Aug. 22 and becoming the island's second top-grossing movie after the Hollywood romance "Titanic."

DVR Usage Making Big Changes In Television ViewingBy David Bauder, Television Writer
NEW YORK (AP), November 24, 2008 -- Figuring out a prime-time schedule is usually one of CW network chief Dawn Ostroff's most important duties. Never, however, has it seemed to matter less. The promise inherent in digital video recorders — that viewers can be in control of their own TV schedules — is rapidly being fulfilled this fall, and the business is changing around it. Nearly 30 percent of the nation's TV homes have at least one.

Historic Plymouth OKs Building $488M Movie StudioBy Denise Lavoie
PLYMOUTH, MA (AP), November 23, 2008 -- In this place sometimes known as America's hometown, schoolchildren and tourists flock to see Plymouth Rock, a replica of the Mayflower and the place where the Pilgrims and Mashpee Wampanoags Indians shared the first Thanksgiving meal. But the staid and historic image of Plymouth could soon be tempered by a decidedly modern attraction: a $488 million film and television studio, complete with 14 sound stages, a 10-acre back lot, a theater, a 300-room upscale hotel, a spa and 500,000 square feet of office space. The thought of turning Plymouth into a movie Mecca has won the enthusiastic support of many residents, but some don't like the idea of adding Hollywood to their history.

San Francisco Production & Post: Bay WatchArtisans, Executives In San Francisco Bay Area Assess Business, Infrastructure, Issues
By A SHOOT Staff Report
August 15, 2008 -- In many ways the changing landscape of the advertising industry is reflected in the San Francisco Bay Area, long a safe harbor for innovation, new media, entrepreneurial creative, varied inventive business models and generally thinking that's way outside the box.
    And indeed while traditional commercialmaking remains an integral component of the business mix, increased web content and other fare--short and long form--are making their mark in the Northern California production and post communities. Furthermore, visual effects and animation continue as mainstays of the Bay Area infrastructure.