Results tagged “dailyvariety”

It used to be "You can click but you can't hide" but now the MPAA is going even further. While it might be small potatoes compared to the $4.8 million police were granted to get you to buckle up, the MPAA has given $186 grand for surveillance cameras to be placed in LA's downtown Fashion district -- the "hotbed of hard copy movie piracy" according to Daily Variety.

According to showbiz trade paper, Daily Variety, the Screen Actors Guild is currently in the final stage of negotiations with major videogame companies to form a new contract which covers compensation and other benefits for that talent and replaces the one set to expire this Friday. The current contract has been extended twice before but will not be extended a third time. If negotiations break down or a new agreement is not reached, it could lead to a strike against videogame companies by SAG and its sister union, AFTRA.

Who says we aren't literary on the left coast? Yesterday we talked about the launch of the litblog co-op and today Daily Variety and the New York Times report that the Harper-Collins imprint, Regan Books, is planning to move to Los Angeles by the end of the year.

Of course, the biggest local story is the death of Johnny Carson. The LA Times has an obituary written by Daily Variety's Brian Lowry and focuses on his entertainment career. The Daily News takes an even more local look and examines how America's greatest talk show host effected Burbank. Johnny Carson was 79 years old.