News Briefs

  1. Home
  2. News
  3. Articles | Series
Displaying 6671 - 6680 of 6791
  • Thursday, Jan. 30, 2014
Google's 4Q earnings rise 17% but ad rates fall
SAN FRANCISCO (AP) -- 

Google's fourth-quarter earnings rose 17 percent even though a long-running slump in its online ad prices deepened.

The performance announced Thursday indicates that Google is still struggling to close the gap between the rates for ads shown on mobile devices and those on personal computers.

Advertisers haven't been willing to pay as much to reach prospective customers on the smaller screens of smartphones and tablets, but Google Inc. has been tweaking its digital marketing system so mobile and PC ad campaigns are bundled together. In doing so, Google Inc. is hoping advertisers eventually will recognize the advantages of reaching people on the go and gradually begin to pay higher prices for mobile marketing pitches.

But Google's average ad price during the fourth quarter fell 11 percent from the previous year. That was the steepest quarterly drop in 2013. It marked the ninth consecutive quarter More

  • Thursday, Jan. 30, 2014
Elton John, "Dallas Buyers Club" get GLAAD Media Award bids
Actors Jared Leto and Matthew McConaughey pose for photographers at Dallas Buyers Club's UK Premiere at the Washington Mayfair Hotel, on Wednesday Jan. 29, 2014, in London. (Photo by Jon Furniss Photography/Invision/AP Images)
LOS ANGELES (AP) -- 

Elton John, Lady Gaga and the movie "Dallas Buyers Club" are among the nominees for awards presented by the gay advocacy group GLAAD.

The 25th annual GLAAD Media Awards honor outstanding images of the lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender community in areas including music, movies, TV and journalism.

On Thursday, GLAAD announced 93 nominees in the English-language categories, with cable channels earning 28 bids and broadcast networks receiving 11. Netflix earned its first nomination for the series "Orange Is the New Black."

There are 37 Spanish-language nominees, including a stand-alone bid in the novella category for Univision's "Amores Verdaderos," which included the wedding of a gay couple.

The GLAAD Media Awards will be presented in Los Angeles and New York this spring.

  • Wednesday, Jan. 29, 2014
Oscar nomination for "Alone Yet Not Alone" song rescinded
LOS ANGELES (AP) -- 

The motion picture academy says it's rescinding the Academy Awards original song nomination for "Alone Yet Not Alone" from the film of the same name after it discovered composer Bruce Broughton emailed members of the group's music branch to make them aware of his submission during the nominations voting period.

Broughton serves as a member of the music branch's executive committee and is a former governor for the academy.

Academy president Cheryl Boone Isaacs said Wednesday using a position within the organization to personally promote one's own Oscar submission creates the appearance of an unfair advantage.

An additional nominee will not be named. The other nominees are "Happy" from "Despicable Me 2"; "Let It Go" from "Frozen"; "The Moon Song" from "Her"; and "Ordinary Love" from "Mandela: Long Walk to Freedom."

More
  • Tuesday, Jan. 28, 2014
Viacom, Fox want to run anti-smoking ads too
By Michael Felberbaum, Tobacco Writer
RICHMOND, Va. -- 

More TV networks want to gain from tobacco companies' mandate to run anti-smoking ads that will cost tens of millions of dollars.

Fox Broadcasting and the company behind MTV, Comedy Central and BET argue that a court-ordered plan to air anti-tobacco ads on ABC, CBS and NBC won't do a good job reaching young adult and black viewers. Those populations were aggressively targeted by the tobacco industry and are areas of concern for the public health community.

Fox, which is owned by Rupert Murdoch's Twenty-First Century Fox Inc., and Viacom Inc. are asking the U.S. District Court in Washington, D.C., to include its channels in the anti-smoking ad purchase.

The required ads stem from a 2006 ruling that the nation's largest cigarette makers concealed the dangers of smoking for decades. A judge ordered the tobacco companies to pay for corrective statements related to issues such as the adverse health More

  • Tuesday, Jan. 28, 2014
Football moves Emmy Awards to Monday this year
In this Sunday, Sept. 22, 2013 file photo, Jon Hamm, left, and Alec Baldwin present the award for outstanding lead actress in a comedy series on stage at the 65th Primetime Emmy Awards at Nokia Theatre, in Los Angeles. (Photo by Chris Pizzello/Invision/AP, File)
LOS ANGELES (AP) -- 

This year's Emmy Awards ceremony will air on a weeknight instead of its traditional Sunday slot.

NBC and the TV academy say the ceremony honoring prime-time TV's best is set for Monday, Aug. 25. A host has not yet been announced.

The network said Tuesday that a potential conflict with NBC's "Sunday Night Football" led to the switch. The Emmy ceremony rotates annually among the major networks and is required to air the week after the creative arts Emmy ceremony.

The creative arts awards, which honor technical and other achievements, were already set for Aug. 16.

Sunday has become the home for most major awards shows, including the Oscars. NBC says the last time the Emmy ceremony was held on a Monday was in May 1976.

  • Monday, Jan. 27, 2014
Mirren to be honored at British Academy awards
A Saturday, Jan. 25, 2014 photo from files showing Helen Mirren as she arrives at the 66th Annual DGA Awards Dinner in Los Angeles, Calif. (Photo by Richard Shotwell Invision/AP, File)
LONDON (AP) -- 

Oscar-winning actress Helen Mirren, whose roles have ranged from a hard-nosed detective to Queen Elizabeth II, is to receive the British Academy Film Awards' highest honor.

The academy announced Monday that the 68-year-old will collect the BAFTA Fellowship at a London ceremony next month. Chairman John Willis said Mirren was being honored "as one of the most outstanding actresses of her generation."

Previous fellowship recipients include Charlie Chaplin, Alfred Hitchcock, Elizabeth Taylor and Judi Dench. Mirren said that "to join that list of legendary names is overwhelming."

Mirren was acclaimed for her starring role in the TV detective series "Prime Suspect" and won a best-actress Academy Award in 2006 for playing Britain's monarch in "The Queen."

The awards ceremony takes place Feb. 16 at London's Royal Opera House.

More
  • Monday, Jan. 27, 2014
Miami is the product being placed in these films
In this undated photo provided by Reel Miami Project, a couple, played by Eric Aragon and Elisabetta Fantone, sit on Miami Beach. (AP Photo/Reel Miami Project)
By David Fischer
MIAMI (AP) -- 

Product placement is nothing new in movies or TV. Insert a fast-food logo or a certain car in a scene and you've made a subtle (or maybe not-so-subtle) pitch for the brand.

Now a group in South Florida is using the concept of product placement to market Miami. In this case, the product is the city itself.

And the placement is in a series of short fictional films, with various neighborhoods serving as the backdrop for stories about out-of-towners discovering the destination.

The films, collectively called the Reel Miami Project, will be marketed online and through social media with the goal of promoting tourism.

Films for Miami Beach and Wynwood were released this week, with films featuring South Beach, Downtown Miami, Coral Gables and the Everglades set to follow.

Bacardi, the liquor company whose U.S. headquarters is located in Miami, is providing some of the financial backing. More

  • Monday, Jan. 27, 2014
Quentin Tarantino sues website over leaked script
In this Oct. 18, 2013 file photo, director Quentin Tarantino delivers a speech before receiving the Lumiere Award during the 5th edition of the Lumiere Festival, in Lyon, central France. (AP Photo/Laurent Cipriani, File)
By Anthony McCartney, Entertainment Writer
LOS ANGELES (AP) -- 

Quentin Tarantino sued the news and gossip website Gawker on Monday over a post that directed readers to a leaked copy of the Oscar-winning screenwriter's latest movie.

Tarantino's lawsuit accuses Gawker Media LLC of contributory copyright infringement for posting a link to the 146-page script for a planned film titled "The Hateful Eight" last week. A link to the script was posted on Gawker's Defamer blog and remained active Monday afternoon, despite demands from Tarantino's lawyers to take it down, the lawsuit states.

"There was nothing newsworthy or journalistic about Gawker Media facilitating and encouraging the public's violation of (Tarantino's) copyright in the screenplay, and it's conduct will not shield Gawker Media from liability for their unlawful activity," the lawsuit states.

Gawker Editor-in-Chief John Cook said the company would fight the lawsuit and pointed out that the company More

  • Monday, Jan. 27, 2014
Luis DeAnda becomes GM at TBWA\Chiat\Day LA
Luis DeAnda
LOS ANGELES -- 

TBWA\Chiat\Day Los Angeles has appointed Luis DeAnda to the role of general manager, as part of the executive leadership team for the agency. This is a new role for the expanding agency group, and DeAnda will report directly to agency president, Carisa Bianchi.

DeAnda (43) joins from TBWA\Media Arts Lab, where he was most recently global managing director for TBWA\MAL’s international network. As part of his new role, DeAnda will focus on agency operations, client management and talent management for the Los Angeles office. He will also continue to partner with TBWA\MAL’s leadership in helping the Apple brand expand into key global markets.

Bianchi commented, “As our agency model has evolved to include Digital Arts Network, Shopper Arts Network, BEING and Let There Be Dragons within the TBWA LA Group, it is important that we have a strong leadership team in place More

  • Sunday, Jan. 26, 2014
Ex-Marlboro Man dies from smoking-related disease
By Daisy Nguyen
LOS ANGELES (AP) -- 

Eric Lawson, a working actor who portrayed the Marlboro Man in cigarette ads during the late 1970s, has died. He was 72.

Lawson's wife, Susan Lawson, said Sunday that her husband died Jan. 10 at his California home. The cause was respiratory failure due to chronic obstructive pulmonary disease, or COPD.

The ruggedly handsome Lawson portrayed the smoking cowboy in Marlboro print ads from 1978 to 1981. He also had bit parts in such TV shows as "Baretta" and "Charlie's Angels" before injuries sustained on the set of a Western film ended his acting career.

A smoker since age 14, Lawson later appeared in an anti-smoking commercial that parodied the Marlboro Man and an "Entertainment Tonight" segment to discuss the negative effects of smoking.

He is also survived by six children.

MySHOOT Company Profiles

About SHOOT

The Trusted Source For News, Information, Industry Trends, New ScreenWork, and The People Behind the Work in Film, TV, Commercial, Entertainment Production & Post Since 1960.

Today's Date:
© 1990-2024 DCA Business Media LLC. All rights reserved.
SHOOT and SHOOTonline are registered trademarks of DCA Business Media LLC.