Video Age International articles from November 2005

Video Age International archives from November 2005

Telenovelas face mature market and new challenges.
November 1, 2005... For 25 years, telenovelas have provided a steady diet for viewers worldwide. From their home base in Latin America, they moved first to Italy in 1980, then expanded to the rest of Europe, later moving to Asia and, recently, to Central and...

AFM won MIFED battle. markets' war still raging.(International film and multimedia market)(American Film Market)
November 1, 2005... As the 26th annual AFM convened November 2-9 in Santa Monica, California, it unexpectedly found itself facing increased competition. When the venerable market decided a few years back to move from its longstanding February timeslot to November,...

Jornadas ready to deal with pirate connections.
November 1, 2005... Argentina's premier cable TV gathering, Jornadas, will celebrate its 15th birthday from November 30-December 2, at the Sheraton Buenos Aires Hotel & Convention Center in Argentina. The annual international convention, organized by ATVC...

Asia TV forum showcases growth.
November 1, 2005... Lately, when a TV distributor is asked which territories are becoming more receptive to international business, he or she will often mention Asia--be it Korea, Japan or even the territory known as Australasia. And the market that is set to...

My two cents.
November 1, 2005... For a few years now, many experts, pundits, politicians, broadcasters and God knows who else have been complaining that over-the-air frequencies are no longer needed for television. And because, today, TV is consumed via other forms of...

Indian Summit '05 showed TV gains.(WORLD)
November 1, 2005... The Indian TV Summit 2005, held recently in Mumbai, attracted the likes of U.S. Federal Communications Commission (FCC) Commissioner Kathleen Abernathy to India's fertile TV field. Abernathy discussed the U.S. perspective on regulatory...

Nigerian film industry grows.(WORLD)
November 1, 2005... Nigerian movies are showing real promise... away from home. Adebambo Adewopo, director general of the Nigerian Copyright Commission, reported that Nigerian movies provide an alternative to Western-made movies, and are attractive to African...

E!'s new sales strategy.(E! Networks shows will be on gender basis)(Brief Article)
November 1, 2005... E! Networks' international program sales strategy has altered, according to Kevin MacLellan, senior vice president, International at E! Networks. "We have taken to selling on a demographic perspective rather than a gender perspective," he said....

DVDs, movies released together.(WORLD)
November 1, 2005... To deal with a decrease in its Worldwide Home Entertainment division's revenue during the third quarter of 2005, Walt Disney's new CEO, Robert Iger, reported that he is looking to change the time frames in which movies are released to theaters...

Rai Trade goes to La Scala.(WORLD)(Brief Article)
November 1, 2005... New artistic director of Milan, Italy's La Scala, France-born Stephane Lissner, paid a visit to the Rai Trade MIPCOM stand to announce his theater's new projects. These include three new titles per year, plus a ballet and a Christmas concert...

Letter to the editor.(Letter to the Editor)
November 1, 2005... Dear Editor, I read your article on the demise of MIFED. I attended 23 MIFEDs, including the last one. It was always my favorite market, although some-I times (particularly during the late' 1980s) it was horribly administered. To me,...

From Homo Luden to CGI: Hollywood in a nutshell.
November 1, 2005... The Big Picture--The New Logic of Money and Power in Hollywood (Random House, 2005), by Edward Jay Epstein, is a must-read for anyone interested in the film and television industries. Though "Hollywood" often still refers mainly to the big...

Challenged by new tech, traditional TV reaffirmed.(MIPCOM Report)
November 1, 2005... What was expected to be an uneventful MIPCOM became a little more eventful, when a downpour came, and buckets had to be used to contain some of the rain accumulating in the Riviera area of the Palais. After MIPCOM, many distributors were...

A superlative AFM, marked by doubts.(American Film Market Photo Report)(Brief Article)
November 1, 2005... Yes, it was hailed by organizers as the "best AFM in history, but, in the Jew of one participating distributor, "it is still a market in transition." According to some European film companies attending the AFM, the market's autumn date, the...

Artear's Silvia Bottero: for 2006, three new titles.
November 1, 2005... On average, Artear produces up to three telenovelas per year, according to the companys International Marketing executive, Silvia Bottero. In any event, in 2006, Artear Argentina will distribute three new nontelenovela titles: La Noche del...

Let's do lunch.(Calendar)
November 1, 2005... SPAIN TV EXPO NOVEMBER 9-11 Miami, U.S. TEL: (305) 446-4387 FAX: (305) 446-2602 www.icex.es NAB POST+ NOVEMBER 15-17 New York City, U.S. TEL: (202) 595-2051 FAX: (202) 429-4180 ...