Parsons to hand Time Warner CEO job to Bewkes (Reuters via Yahoo! News)
Time Warner Inc's board on Monday elected Jeffrey Bewkes to succeed Richard Parsons as chief executive on January 1, stoking expectations that big changes lie ahead for the world's largest media company....more...Theater robbery was inside job, police say (Chicago Tribune)
Two of the four men charged in the armed robbery of a downtown theater entered the business Halloween night dressed in clown costumes and hid behind a movie screen overnight before stealing $20,000 in cash, prosecutors said Monday. ...more... Parsons to hand Time Warner CEO job to Bewkes (Reuters via Yahoo! India News)
NEW YORK (Reuters) - Time Warner Inc said on Monday Chief Executive Richard Parsons will step down on Jan. 1 and be replaced by Chief Operating Officer Jeffrey Bewkes, stoking expectations that big changes lie ahead for the world's largest media company....more... Parsons to hand Time Warner CEO job to Bewkes (Reuters via Yahoo! Canada News)
Time Warner Inc said on Monday Chief Executive Richard Parsons will step down on January 1 and be replaced by Chief Operating Officer Jeffrey Bewkes, stoking expectations that big changes lie ahead for the world's largest media company....more... Rich Frank Goes Mobile (AdWeek)
LOS ANGELES Rich Frank has already been part of one marketing revolution?as president of Walt Disney Studios he was the first movie studio to hire Dennis Holt's [then] Western International Media?so the news that Frank had thrown in with mobile marketing agency Hyperfactory (winner of two Buzz Awards from AdweekMedia at the Next Big Idea conference last week) suggests a new front....more... TV, Film Writers Go on Strike; The Impact on Your Shows (WSYR 9 Syracuse)
Television and movie writers have hit the picket lines. They want a share of Internet and DVD sales. Members of the Writers Guild of America are picketing outside studios in......more... Writers strike sends shows into reruns (AP via Yahoo! News)
Americans may be getting more sleep after Hollywood writers went on strike Monday and forced the nation's late-night talk shows to start airing reruns. NBC said the "The Tonight Show with Jay Leno" will immediately air repeats....more... Movie Review: Martian Child (Blogcritics.org)
Mediocre at best, weepy "father and son" drama. Martian Child stars John Cusack as David Gordon, a popular science fiction writer. Seemingly on a whim he adopts young Dennis, a troubled youngster who spends much of his time in a box, combating the effects of the sun and attempting to keep from floating away. Oh yes, Dennis also claims to be from Mars; he has come to this planet on a mission ......more... 'Chuck' star: I've always felt like a nerd (CNN.com)
BURBANK, California (AP) -- Zachary Levi is embracing his inner nerd. "I'm more Chuck than I'm not Chuck," says Levi on the set of "Chuck," in which he plays a computer geek-turned-clueless secret agent. "Pretty much my whole life, actually, I've felt like a nerd....more... |