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April 2008
VOL. 28 No. 2

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April 2008 Issue

Cover Stories:

• An Italian-American quakes Hollywood: WGA’s Patric M. Verrone Assesses the Writers’ Strike.

• L.A. Screenings is more than moneymaking appointments for the studios.  For Los Angeles, it also means mucho dinero.

• Africa is television’s last frontier and DISCOP Africa is ready to prove it.

• Murdoch family values: Pay one and get a total of four — but not for free

Inside:

• World. California, Italy, Japan, UAE.
• Book review. Star power in Hollywood’s Golden Age. Compare it with today’s age.
• Company profile. CinemaVault is big on the fact that it likes to be small.
• Canada’s funny bone. But to tickle it, one has to go south.
• Ethnic TV — no longer dirty words.
• Euros to make dollars see green.
• Farrell Meisel explains how Poland is a dynamic TV market
• The drama of German TV drama makes pundits cry.
• Technology: Getting high on hi-def.
• Hollywood turns EST after profits went south with new media.
• Every body part of an actor can be monetized.
• NATPE review. Moving with the times: from show business to shoe business.
• Berlin film market report. Call it Berlinale, but it could just as well have been AFMnale.
• MIP-TV preview. Expect lots of action, business and some reaction to the latest events.
• Trade advertising at TV markets such as MIP is 50 percent good. At least according to Bob Jenkins.
  Which 50 percent is as yet unkown.
• Dermot Horan plays the “What if” scenario had WGA’s strike continued into the spring or summer. Plus, what’s left of TV pilots.
• Hollywood rewritten. The calm after the storm. Assessing post-strike damages.
• News about fairs, conventions and conferences worldwide.

• My 2¢. Why Canadians are funny and others are not.

  
  

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