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On one hand, former U.S. president Donald Trump wants Tesla CEO Elon Musk to head a new commission to identify and reduce government waste if he’s elected to a second (…)

Irv Holender, chairman of the Los Angeles-based Multicom Entertainment, shared some remembrances of his friend Johnny Yune on the occasion of the renewed success of Yune’s film They Call Me (…)

By Dom Serafini

The expression is: “There are always two sides to every story.” But if one counts fake news, there might even be three. To avoid fake news, consumers are (…)

Party invitations for MIPCOM Cannes 2024 — both “Save the Dates” and actual invitations — began arriving in e-mail inboxes as early as August 1 — a whopping 81 days (…)

By Alberto Barbera*

Today, movies are offered in forms and lengths that have very little to do with [requirements] that were developed over time. Lengths typically vary between the canonical 90 (…)

The August/September edition of VideoAge is now online. This digital issue is circulated worldwide through all VideoAge platforms, MIP Africa connect.me platform, and The Daily Television in Latin America.

Among the stories (…)

By Dom Serafini

On June 6, 2024, Informa, the U.K. publishing group, announced that it was closing its TBI TV trade magazine after more that 35 years of publication. Two months (…)

By Dom Serafini

RAI, the Italian state broadcast organization, is again in turmoil. Its top management is in a tug-of-war with the majority coalition and with the opposition parties. I personally (…)

The surprising stunt performed by Tom Cruise in the otherwise boring closing ceremony of the Paris Olympics, reminiscent of his Mission: Impossible movies, was meant to highlight the passing of (…)

At first, the French — Parisians in particular — were unhappy about their government spending 9 billion euro (U.S.$9.82 billion) to stage the 2024 Paris Olympics. They also objected to (…)