International Business News - hollywood http://www.ibtimes.com All articles are copyrighted by IBTimes.com 400 100 http://www.ibtimes.com/ http://www.ibtimes.com/images/top_logo_ibt2_3.gif The Screen Actors Guild said Saturday it will ask its members to authorize a strike after its first contract talks in four months with Hollywood studios failed despite the help of a federal mediator. http://www.ibtimes.com/data/articleimgs/180568-hollywood-labor.jpg http://www.ibtimes.com/articles/20081123/screen-actors-guild-to-seek-strike-authorization.htm http://www.ibtimes.com/articles/20081123/screen-actors-guild-to-seek-strike-authorization.htm Sun, 23 Nov 2008 01:26:04 EST The Screen Actors Guild said Saturday it will ask its members to authorize a strike after its first contract talks in four months with Hollywood studios failed despite the help of a federal mediator. http://www.ibtimes.com/data/articleimgs/180527-hollywood-labor.jpg http://www.ibtimes.com/articles/20081122/hollywood-actors-guild-to-seek-strike.htm http://www.ibtimes.com/articles/20081122/hollywood-actors-guild-to-seek-strike.htm Sat, 22 Nov 2008 18:21:09 EST The Screen Actors Guild and Hollywood studios plan to hold their first contract talks in four months Thursday and will negotiate this time with the help of a federal mediator. http://www.ibtimes.com/articles/20081119/next-deadline-in-actors-dispute-awards-season.htm Wed, 19 Nov 2008 21:13:01 EST If Dreamworks Chief Executive Jeffrey Katzenberg is right, you'll soon be out shopping for the latest in designer glasses. 3D glasses that is. Hollywood studios such as Dreamworks, Walt Disney and 20th Century Fox are betting 3D will finally become the next big thing in film, luring moviegoers to the theater with advancements in a technology that first caught viewers' attention in the 1950s. http://www.ibtimes.com/articles/20081119/get-your-glasses-3d-poised-to-take-over-movies.htm Wed, 19 Nov 2008 06:46:51 EST Hollywood producers said Thursday they are willing to meet with a federal mediator to try to break a long-running stalemate in their talks with the Screen Actors Guild. http://www.ibtimes.com/articles/20081023/hollywood-producers-willing-to-meet-with-mediator.htm Thu, 23 Oct 2008 19:39:33 EDT "Die Hard" director John McTiernan will have a chance to withdraw his guilty plea in a Hollywood wiretapping case that got him sentenced to four months in federal prison. http://www.ibtimes.com/articles/20081022/appeals-court-die-hard-director-can-change-plea.htm Wed, 22 Oct 2008 08:55:25 EDT "Die Hard" director John McTiernan will have a chance to withdraw his guilty plea in a Hollywood wiretapping case that got him sentenced to four months in federal prison. http://www.ibtimes.com/articles/20081021/appeals-court-die-hard-director-can-change-plea.htm Tue, 21 Oct 2008 20:51:47 EDT The Screen Actors Guild's national board of directors has voted to bring in a federal mediator to intercede in its contract dispute with studios. The board also agreed to ask its 120,000 union members if they want to authorize a strike. http://www.ibtimes.com/articles/20081019/sag-board-votes-to-allow-members-to-vote-on-strike.htm Sun, 19 Oct 2008 18:30:28 EDT For people in the beauty business, Hollywood is Mecca: Regular doses of red-carpet glamour, plus headline-making haircuts and camera-ready stars on practically every corner. http://www.ibtimes.com/articles/20081017/beauty-school-goes-inside-tinseltown.htm Fri, 17 Oct 2008 11:06:24 EDT A federal judge has kept in place a temporary prohibition on RealNetworks Inc.'s distribution of software that lets consumers copy and store DVD movies on their personal computers and portable hard drives. http://www.ibtimes.com/articles/20081007/judge-bars-realnetworks-dvd-copying-software.htm Tue, 07 Oct 2008 20:20:46 EDT In the year of "Sex and the City," perhaps it's no surprise that an event honoring women drew some of the biggest names in Hollywood. Nicole Kidman, Jane Fonda, Jennifer Lopez, Diane Keaton and Halle Berry joined dozens of other stars in a ballroom at the Four Seasons Hotel on Monday for Elle magazine's 15th annual Women in Hollywood tribute, honoring seven noteworthy women in entertainment. http://www.ibtimes.com/data/articleimgs/146795-elle-women-in-hollywood.jpg http://www.ibtimes.com/articles/20081007/list-women-celebrate-own-hollywood.htm http://www.ibtimes.com/articles/20081007/list-women-celebrate-own-hollywood.htm Tue, 07 Oct 2008 12:49:38 EDT RealNetworks Inc. said Monday it had temporarily stopped distributing its DVD copying software, RealDVD, at a federal judge's request in a copyright case brought by Hollywood studios. http://www.ibtimes.com/articles/20081006/judge-orders-realnetworks-to-pull-copying-software.htm Mon, 06 Oct 2008 17:59:32 EDT Korean-American producer Roy Lee has been a pioneer in remaking Asian movies for Hollywood, scoring big hits with movies like "The Ring" and the Oscar-winning "The Departed." Still, he says one of his recent productions got lost in translation. http://www.ibtimes.com/articles/20081003/korean-hit-my-sassy-girl-lost-in-us-translation.htm Fri, 03 Oct 2008 10:56:11 EDT The Screen Actors Guild's negotiating committee voted Wednesday to support a strike authorization vote, a tactic meant to break stalled contract talks with Hollywood studios. http://www.ibtimes.com/articles/20081002/actors-union-moves-closer-to-strike-vote.htm Thu, 02 Oct 2008 07:47:14 EDT The Screen Actors Guild's negotiating committee voted Wednesday to support a strike authorization vote, a tactic meant to break stalled contract talks with Hollywood studios. http://www.ibtimes.com/articles/20081001/sag-negotiating-committee-calls-for-strike-vote.htm Wed, 01 Oct 2008 23:25:19 EDT Five Hollywood studios have agreed to help pay for a $1 billion-plus rollout of digital technology on about 20,000 movie screens in North America, a precursor to showing movies in 3-D. http://www.ibtimes.com/articles/20081001/hollywood-studios-agree-to-digital-rollout.htm Wed, 01 Oct 2008 19:08:03 EDT Hollywood's six major movie studios on Tuesday sued RealNetworks Inc. to prevent it from distributing DVD copying software that they said would allow consumers to "rent, rip and return" movies or even copy friends' DVD collections outright. http://www.ibtimes.com/articles/20081001/hollywood-aims-to-block-realnetworks-dvd-software.htm Wed, 01 Oct 2008 07:47:50 EDT Hollywood's six major movie studios on Tuesday sued RealNetworks Inc. to prevent it from distributing DVD copying software that they said would allow consumers to "rent, rip and return" movies or even copy friends' DVD collections outright. http://www.ibtimes.com/articles/20080930/hollywood-aims-to-block-realnetworks-dvd-software.htm Tue, 30 Sep 2008 19:02:42 EDT A massive indoor water tank for filmmakers to shoot underwater shots, said to be among only three in North America, will become part of a North Carolina studio that also will soon include the largest sound stage built east of California. http://www.ibtimes.com/articles/20080925/film-studio-building-stage-water-tank-in-nc.htm Thu, 25 Sep 2008 21:06:57 EDT The largest sound stage east of California combined with an indoor water tank will attract larger, more expensive productions to North Carolina, said the head of EUE/Screen Gems in Wilmington. http://www.ibtimes.com/articles/20080925/film-studio-to-break-ground-on-stage-water-tank.htm Thu, 25 Sep 2008 12:38:35 EDT