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VIDEOAGE "PAPER CLIPS": A WEEKLY PRESS REVIEW
PROGRAMMING
Indonesian audiences looking for a dose of passion and intrigue
and love triangles galore are in for a pleasant surprise. Dori Media
International, a media company active in the production, distribution,
broadcasting and merchandising of telenovelas, has signed an agreement
with PT Matahari Lintas Cakrawala to launch a telenovela-dedicated
channel in Indonesia.
Globes
Newsletters Israel
While Fox sitcom
Arrested Development is gasping for its final breath of life
on the network, it's looking as though the show may be resuscitated
elsewhere. Both pay-TV net Showtime and Disney-owned broadcast net
ABC have shown interest in picking up the critically-acclaimed but
low-rated show after it ceases to exist on Fox.
E!
Online
Cult Russian
literary classic The Master and Margherita, which was censored
under the Stalin regime, and released over a quarter of a century
after it was written, has been adapted into a miniseries, which
will air on Russia's state television channel, Rossiya. If director
and screenwriter Vladimir Bortko's miniseries fails to capture an
audience, it will prove a superstitious theory that all Russian
screen adaptations of the book are doomed. In 1994, the Russian
director Yuri Kara filmed a movie based on the novel that was never
released because of arguments between the director and the producer,
as well as copyright issues.
The
New York Times
BUSINESS
Fox Filmed Entertainment is skewing younger. The News Corp.-owned
film company is starting a division to create films and other entertainment
for teenagers and young adults. The new division will acquire and
produce up to eight movies a year with budgets in the area of $20
million each, and will have its own production and marketing staff.
In addition to conventional feature films, the unit will attempt
to appeal to younger audiences by also producing entertainment for
distribution over the Internet and cell phones.
The New York
Times
TECHNOLOGY
Digital cinema is sweeping the globe, and while the U.S. remains
at the forefront of this technology, China is making waves too.
Texas Instruments, a provider of digital cinema technology, says
it expects a surge in demand for such products in China next year.
TI is currently the world's only provider of the digital technology,
which aims to improve the experience of watching a movie by eliminating
such things as scratches and dirt on the film used to shoot movies.
More than 600 theaters across the globe have installed the technology
already.
China
Daily
CONTROVERSY
A bit of whistle-blowing has gotten South Korean investigative news
show PD Notebook in a whole load of trouble. After uncovering
a breaking story, which proved that a celebrated stem cell scientist
-- Supreme Scientist of the Nation Dr. Hwang Woo Suk -- had faked
some of the human cloning data he was famous for publishing, the
show was faced with protesters, and the show's producers with death
threats. After all 12 of its advertisers cut off support, the show's
network, MBC, has pulled the plug.
The
New York Times
RESEARCH
U.S. Hispanic TV station Univision is making history by becoming
the first Spanish-language network to join Nielsen Media Research's
National Television Index, which provides ratings for the major
television networks. Previously, Univision was only part of Nielsen's
National Hispanic Television Index. The company will continue to
subscribe to the Hispanic index until September 2007, when both
the English and Spanish-language markets will be sampled by the
National People Meter.
The
Wall Street Journal
ADVERTISING
U.S. cable and broadcast network are getting creative when it comes
to advertising this holiday season. Pay-TV channel HBO, for instance,
is running print ads for its TV series DVDs that use the same tone
as the shows they are marketing (including a Sopranos DVD
ad that urges consumers to "keep your homemade ornaments to yourself").
The nets are also offering series-themed merchandise, like HBO's
Entourage shot glasses, and clothes and accessories actually
worn on ABC's Desperate Housewives.
The
New York Times
REGULATION
Product placement is making its way to British TV viewers everywhere.
Just one week after the European commission announced that it would
update the directive governing cross-border broadcasting regulations
to permit product placement, OFCOM -- the U.K.'s media regulatory
agency -- has given a cautious welcome to the idea of advertisers
paying for their brands to appear in programs.
The
Guardian
EXECUTIVE
SHUFFLE
At last year's NBC upfront, Saturday Night Live star Tina
Fey joked about the many hats NBC Universal's Jeff Zucker wears
at the studio. At this year's upfronts, she can add a new title
to the list: Zucker has been named chief executive of NBC Universal
Television Group. Zucker, one of the fastest-rising stars in the
industry, is likely to succeed NBC's longtime leader, Bob Wright.
The move, announced by Wright, who remains chairman of NBC Universal
as well as vice chairman of NBC's parent, General Electric, realigns
NBC management, with Mr. Zucker at the top.
The
New York Times
AWARDS SHOWS
The Daytime Emmy Awards are getting a modern-day makeover. The National
Academy of Television Arts & Sciences will unveil the first-ever
award for Outstanding Achievement in Content for Non-Traditional
Delivery Platforms at this year's 33rd Annual Daytime Emmy Awards.
The award will recognize excellence in entertainment programming
created specifically for new media, including programming viewed
online and via cellphone, iPod or video-on-demand.
The
Los Angeles Times
FILM
Wide-screen films are popping up all over Latin America. Imax Corp
will open three of its theaters in Venezuela and Colombia. Imax
has entered six new markets in South and Central America in the
last year alone. The expansion is due to the success of Hollywood
blockbusters being shown on the mammoth-sized screens.
The
Globe and Mail
King Kong
may very well turn out to be the blockbuster film Universal wants
it to be ... but the studio may have to be a little patient. Analysts
watching the box office noted that after a weak two-day opening
in midweek, the box office for King Kong jumped 40 percent
from Friday to Saturday, a sign that positive word of mouth was
driving people to the theaters.
The
New York Times
Woody Allen,
the quintessential neurotic New Yorker, has become enamored with
a whole new city: London. The filmmaker has set his most recent
film Match Point in the British capital, with another film
set to be shot in the same city. Scarlett Johansson stars in both
films.
Scotsman
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