Tagged: Hollywood & News
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Oscars online: stars give behind-the-scenes glimpse as viewers offer their opinions News
25.02.2013 Last night’s Oscars ceremony simply wouldn’t have been complete without the input of social media. Whether it was an average Joe letting the world know what they really thought... -
DVD and Blu-ray are still Hollywood’s big earners, while iTunes dominates online VOD News
01.02.2013 A report on how US viewers are watching films shows that physical discs are still providing Hollywood with plenty of revenue, while Apple’s iTunes dominates next-generation...Categories: Games/Entertainment, Digital Media -
Hacker who put Scarlett Johansson images on internet gets 10 years in jail News
18.12.2012 A hacker who hacked the personal email account of Scarlett Johansson and other Hollywood celebrities and placed them on the internet has been sentenced to 10 years in jail. -
Disney acquires Lucasfilm for US$4bn – Star Wars: Episode 7 in production News
31.10.2012 Digital entertainment giant Disney has acquired Lucasfilm for US$4bn in a deal that includes all of the company’s subsidiaries, including Lucasfilm Animation and its video games...Categories: Multimedia, Mergers & Acquisitions, Games/Entertainment, Digital Media, Deals Done, Consumer Tech -
Ireland at the dazzling intersection between Hollywood and Silicon Valley News
01.10.2012 It is 2012 and as the future of Hollywood is increasingly linked with that of Silicon Valley, the impact of the Irish and Irish-Americans on these two iconic centres of industry... -
CoderDojo comes to Hollywood – legendary studios host the future authors of entertainment News
28.09.2012 LOS ANGELES - The spread of CoderDojo in just one year to nearly every geography on the planet has been fascinating to watch. But an unexpected pleasure to emerge from the Irish...Categories: Software Development, Software & Web Development, Software, Internet, Education, Digital Media, Apps -
Hollywood laps up lessons by the most disruptive generation ever to hit media News
28.09.2012 Senior Hollywood and Silicon Valley executives locked horns on the tricky task of serving today’s digital natives who can react by mashing up IP and express their dissent... -
ITLG announces Hollywood 50 at Sony Pictures Studios – Irish-American execs take centre stage News
22.09.2012 The Irish Technology Leadership Group (ITLG) has the 'Hollywood 50' highlighting global Irish-American executives making a significant impact within their field of technology.Tags: ITLG, Hollywood, Intel, Lucasfilm, Google, Yahoo!, Brown Bag Films, Irish Film Board, Adobe, Apple, Disney, BBC, Microsoft, Trinity College Dublin -
Blockbuster film producer Irish American Kathleen Kennedy named in ITLG Hollywood 50 News
22.09.2012 The ITLG has scored quite a coup in putting together an all-star line-up of some of the entertainment industry’s most senior executives for its annual Innovation in... -
BBC Worldwide digital entertainment chief to lead ITLG panel in Hollywood News
20.09.2012 A stellar cast of some of the leading digital entertainment professionals in the world will join the panel at the Irish Technology Leadership Group (ITLG)’s Innovation in...Tags: BBC, Warner, Sony, Dylan Collins, Activision, Microsoft, Google, Disney, Lucasfilm, ITLG, Movies, Games, Hollywood, Silicon Valley -
Northern lights shine on the crossroads of Hollywood, Wall Street and Silicon Valley News
18.09.2012 As a region, Northern Ireland has become an important intersection on the various highways of digital entertainment, financial services and technology development and is well... -
Oscar winner plotted a digital route to Silicon Valley via Dublin and Hollywood News
13.09.2012 One of the miracles of the evolving digital media space is how individuals quietly working away on new technologies can send ripples through entire industries, like the movie...Tags: Google, YouTube, Hollywood, ITLG, Silicon Valley, Trinity College Dublin, Start-ups, Algorithms, -
From Dublin to Skywalker Ranch – entertaining the children of the digital age News
11.09.2012 Lucasfilm head of studio operations Colum Slevin talks to John Kennedy about his origins in the Dublin animation industry in the late 1980s to driving the animation operations... -
Weekend News Round-up: is Hollywood killing itself, Samsung V Apple jurors speak out News
27.08.2012 In our trawl through some of the top tech reportage internationally over the weekend we look at whether Hollywood 'gets' the streaming revolution; how jurors came to their...Categories: Digital Media, Funding, Games/Entertainment, Intellectual Property, Investments, Legal, Mobile, Mobility, Multimedia, Phones -
SOPA’s evil twin PIPA faces defeat in US Senate News
19.01.2012 Just days after the controversial Stop Online Piracy Act (SOPA) was shelved in the US Congress, an equally controversial piece of legislation, Protect IP Act (PIPA), that also...Categories: Communications, Consumer Tech, Digital Business, Digital Media, eCommerce, Intellectual Property, Internet, Legal, Legal Eagle, Multimedia -
Controversial SOPA bill killed in US Congress News
16.01.2012 The controversial Stop Online Privacy Act (SOPA) has effectively been stopped in its tracks. Virginia Republican Representative Eric Cantor killed the bill. -
Interview with Netflix content chief Ted Sarandos (video) News
11.01.2012 Netflix’s chief content officer Ted Sarandos believes that despite SOPA, Silicon Valley and Hollywood will eventually come together to find a solution to the global piracy problem. -
Reddit to black out on 18 January to protest SOPA News
11.01.2012 Popular news-sharing site Reddit has said it will be blacking itself out on 18 January for 12 hours in protest of the controversial Stop Online Piracy (SOPA) and Protect IP Acts... -
Anonymous threatens retaliation if SOPA gets passed News
21.12.2011 Hacker group Anonymous has come out with a statement on the controversial Stop Online Piracy Act (SOPA) which reconvenes in the US Senate today. While the world has been given... -
Sham of SOPA hearings riles up key internet figures News
16.11.2011 Leading figures in technology have hit out at what they regard as a sham set of hearings around the controversial Stop Online Piracy Act which many fear would give the US...