154 stories by "Todd Spangler"
For $90, Aaron Sorkin will share his tricks of the screenwriting trade. Sorkin, scribe of such films such as “A Few Good Men,” “Steve Jobs” and “The Social Netw…
DanceOn, the YouTube network focused on dance culture, has adopted a new name " Izo " as the company looks to stretch its legs more broadly into music content. "We really needed to create an…
TheAudience, a social-media and digital content marketing agency focused on connecting brands with cultural influencers, has hired Mike Dodge as CEO and Debbie Menin as executive VP of strat…
Hulu announced a straight-to-series order for “The Handmaid’s Tale,” a drama from from MGM Television starring Elisabeth Moss. The series, based on the novel of the same na…
YouTube and Awesomeness Films have announced “Dance Camp,” a music-and-dance teen drama, as the first feature-length film under their co-production deal. The movie, produced by J…
ESPN cut a content-distribution deal with event-ticketing site StubHub, part of a bigger initiative by the eBay-owned subsidiary to turn itself into a bigger destination for sports fans. …
Twitter has launched live-streaming video app Periscope, developed by the startup it bought earlier in 2015 for a reported $100 million, upping the battle with overnight mobile-app str…
The cyber-attackers who broke down Sony Pictures' digital doors stole five movies and uploaded them to piracy sites " a move that could cost the studio millions of dollars in lost box office…
NBC’s broadcast of “Peter Pan Live” Thursday drew a huge social-media following — well above the Peacock’s “Sound of Music” broadcast last year and …
Move over, Elsa. Apple’s iPad is the No. 1 brand among children 6-12, beating out Disney, Nickelodeon, YouTube, Netflix, Toys ‘R’ Us, McDonald’s, and multiple snack-f…
Jim Louderback, g.m. of Discovery Digital Networks, is leaving the company two years after the cable programmer bought web-video startup Revision3, where he had been CEO. Louderback annou…
Time Warner Cable’s broadband and video-on-demand services were knocked offline for more than two hours Wednesday, with the cable company saying most services were restored by 6 a.m. E…
Twitch, the videogame-streaming service that Google is in the process of acquiring for $1 billion, has pulled the plug on Justin.tv. Justin.tv, a website designed for users to "lifecas…
Yo, Adrian! The entire “Rocky” film franchise starring Sylvester Stallone as Rocky Balboa is scheduled to expire from Netflix’s streaming service as of July 1, 2014, accord…
YouTube is playing hardball with music companies: The Internet video service this week will begin removing videos from indie labels that have refused to agree to the terms for its music-subs…
Endemol Beyond USA, the digital multichannel network unit of global TV production firm Endemol, hired former Disney executive and entrepreneur David B. Williams as chief content …
Producers of Tony-nominated musical “If/Then” starring Idina Menzel are working with Mashable on a digital-marketing campaign, which the parties tout as the first such collaborat…
Cable TV loves Robin Williams in old-lady drag. 20th Century Fox's "Mrs. Doubtfire" was the most-aired pic on basic cable in 2013. The 1993 comedy was played 66 times across five networks, a…
Mr. Moviefone is about to get disconnected. AOL’s Moviefone dial-in lines will no longer be available after next Monday, March 31, according to a recording on the service. The phone nu…
With Disney’s blockbuster $500 million-plus deal to buy Maker Studios, look for dealmaking activity in the online multichannel network space to continue apace. MCNs are “now top-…
Disney Interactive is eliminating 700 jobs, about 26% of its total workforce, as the Mouse House’s games and Internet division struggles to achieve profitability. The cuts were expecte…
AwesomenessTV, DreamWorks Animation’s digital division, has hired Walt Disney Studios marketing exec T.J. Marchetti as chief marketing officer. Marchetti will be in charge of all Aweso…
NBCUniversal is trying to transplant some Silicon Valley culture to the East Coast. The media company Monday announced the launch of the 63,000-sq.-ft. NBCU Technology Center in Englewood Cl…
Jacob Shwirtz, formerly head of social TV at Viacom’s MTV Networks, will join Endemol North America as chief social media officer for its Internet-video division, Endemol Beyond USA…
A man who was wearing a Google Glass device during a showing of “Jack Ryan: Shadow Recruit” last Saturday at an AMC Theatres location in Columbus, Ohio, was questioned by agents …
