More movie theaters are joining a protest against Universal Pictures’ plan to offer video-on-demand for the Eddie Murphy comedy "Tower Heist" while the film is still playing in theaters, reports the Los Angeles Times’ Company Town blog. A number of…
Netflix appears to have lost whatever good will it once had on Wall Street, as the market reacted negatively to the latest move by the company. Netflix shares fell 4.8% Monday after the company announced it would scrap its Qwikster…
Netflix announced today that it is abandoning a recently announced plan that was poorly received by customers, The New York Times reports in its Media Decoder blog. The company will keep its online streaming and DVD-by-mail services together under one…
Yahoo co-founder Jerry Yang is reportedly interested in a private equity deal that would take the company private, reports Reuters. The deal would involve rolling over Yang’s investment in Yahoo, which was at 3.63% of the company’s shares as of…
Dawn Ostroff, the former entertainment chief of The CW, has been hired as the president of Conde Nast Entertainment, according to The Hollywood Reporter. TVWeek reported late last month that Ostroff was in talks with the publishing house. She will…
Steve Jobs learned in February that he didn’t have much time left, and spent the last months of his life saying goodbye to the people who meant the most to him, reports The New York Times. A "nearly endless stream…
[Updated Oct. 7, 2011, 10:30 a.m., to reflect that earlier reports of the concert’s cancellation appear to be inaccurate.] PCMag.com reported that the Facebook broadcast of Saturday’s Michael Jackson tribute concert has been canceled. Earlier reports indicated that the concert…
Cinemark, the third-largest U.S. movie theater chain, plans to ban the Eddie Murphy comedy "Tower Heist" from its theaters, reports the Los Angeles Times’ Company Town blog. The theater company is angry about Universal Pictures’ plan to release the film…
Netflix is in talks with "Reno 911" producers about reviving the canceled Comedy Central comedy, reports New York Magazine’s Vulture blog. "It’s still a long shot, but there’s a ray of hope," the story notes. Comedy Central still owns the…
A central theme running through Apple’s acclaimed advertising over the years was largely responsible for creating the cultural phenomenon that the company became under the leadeship of Steve Jobs, writes Bob Garfield in Advertising Age. The theme in the advertising…