My Take on the Warner and AT&T Sagas
By Dom Serafini
The news is still reverberating around the world as a sort of Shakespearean Comedy of Errors seems to be coming to life. Discovery is paying AT&T $43 billion (…)
Albert Whitman Media: A New Old Kid On The Block
By Attila Gazdag*
It was a logical move for the Park Ridge, Illinois-based Albert Whitman & Company to expand into all media platforms with the establishment of Albert Whitman Media. The (…)
NAB Switches From a Republican to a Democratic CEO
Gordon Smith, a 69-year-old former Republican Senator from Oregon, is set to step down as CEO of the National Association of Broadcasters (NAB), a major lobbying arm of the U.S. (…)
Post-Brexit Rules In a Nutshell
The Strasbourg-based European Audiovisual Observatory has published a detailed report on post-Brexit rules. Below is a partial summary.
Both the E.U. and the U.K. provide for visa-free travel for short-term visits. (…)
Confessions of a Closet AOL User
By Dom Serafini
Do you remember the expression, “Would the last one to leave, please turn out the lights?” Well, it might possibly refer to me… as well as former Disney (…)
U.S. Studios’ Value Went from Millions to Billions, Aided By Political Actions
By Dom Serafini
The U.S. entertainment industry, like many other sectors, went from being valued in the millions to evaluations in the billions in just over 34 or so years. In (…)
Italian Film Fest Organizers Gear Up For In-Person Events
The 69th annual edition of the Trento Film Festival began in person on April 30. Coincidentally, that was around the same time that results of a survey about the future (…)
Milan, Italy to New York JFK on a Delta Flight
By Dom Serafini
The saga to my inbound flight to New York’s JFK airport began at Milan’s Central railroad station, where, in order to board the train to the Malpensa airport (…)
NYC-Rome on a COVID-Free Flight: A Report
The most important tool that passengers should take on COVID-free flights from New York City’s JFK airport to Rome, Italy, is a… pen, and you’ll soon see why.
Let’s start with (…)
Gadgets and Souvenirs at the L.A. Screenings
Traditionally, the many venues of the L.A. Screenings have been great places for international content buyers to collect gadgets and souvenirs from the studios. Indeed, how often have VideoAge‘s observers (…)
