February 2010
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EPIX teams up with Adobe to bring its service to... →
IntoMobile Dusan Belic February 17, 2010
EPIX — the service formed by such giants as Viacom’s Paramount Pictures, Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer Studios and Lionsgate — announced that it has added mobile capabilities to its multiplatform offer, “expanding the viewing experience across the third screen.” As a result, all interested parties (including cable, telco and satellite distributors) will be able to...
Epix Shows Mobile Hand →
Multichannel News Todd Spangler February 15, 2010
Epix provided a look at the mobile version of the premium-movie service that would let cable, telco and satellite distributors deliver hundreds of movies on-demand to subscribers’ mobile devices. Epix, a joint venture of Viacom, MGM and Lionsgate formed in 2008, has distribution deals with Cox Communications, Charter Communications,...
Vid-Biz: NBC Olympics, 3-D Movies, Livestation →
NewTeeVee Ryan Lawler February 15, 2010
The joint venture of Viacom, MGM and Lionsgate has provided a look at the mobile version of its premium, on-demand movie service that will deliver hundreds of movies to subscribers’ mobile devices.
EPIX brings movie streaming to mobiles courtesy of... →
Engadget Richard Lawler February 15, 2010
Already offering video to your TV and computer, EPIX is ready to unveil the third part of its “Big On Any Screen” service when it demonstrates a mobile version of the channel today at MWC 2010. It’s teamed up with Adobe and the Open Screen Project for a Flash Player 10.1 implementation that it claims offers “highest mobile viewing...
Viacom’s EPIX Lands Cable Deal With Charter... →
TechCrunch By Leena Rao February 4, 2010
Epix, the movie and entertainment streaming network that works across your TV, computer, and mobile phone, has landed its fourth cable deal: Charter Communications. In the past few weeks, the network also landed a deal with Cox Communications and Mediacom Communications. We wrote about the service here and here. Specific terms of the agreement were not...
January 2010
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Viacom’s EPIX Finds Second Cable Distributor In... →
TechCrunch By Leena Rao January 11, 2010
Epix, the movie and entertainment streaming network that works across your TV, computer, and mobile phone, has officially landed a second cable provider for its service: Cox Communications. We wrote about the service here and here. Cox was rumored to be in negotiations with EPIX in December. SAI was tipped on the deal over the weekend but the official...
Where there's smoke there's EPIX, cable/online... →
Engadget HD By Richard Lawler January 11, 2010
Just as rumors indicated, the second provider to pick up EPIX will be Cox Communications, with the channel scheduled to arrive in April. Cox VP Bob Wilson acknowledged helping customers increase their anytime/anyplace access was key to increasing satisfaction, we’ll see if the pace of additions is similar to that of FiOS. The service worked...
Epix Adds Another Distribution Partner: Cox... →
paidContent.org By Tameka Kee January 11, 2010
Epix, the premium entertainment JV between Viacom (NYSE: VIA), Paramount, MGM and Lionsgate (NYSE: LGF), has finally added another distribution partner: Cox Communications. Cox has more than 5 million subscribers.
The partnership goes live in April, with VOD, online and subscription-based access for Cox’s “movie tier customers” nationwide. The...
Epix Going to Cox →
Home Media Magazine By Erik Gruenwedel January 11, 2010 Epix, the high-definition pay-TV and online streaming channel co-owned by Lionsgate, MGM and Paramount Studios, Jan. 11 said it would be distributed by Cox Communications, the nation’s No. 3 cable operator, beginning in April. The deal gives Cox access to box office hits Star Trek, G.I. Joe: The Rise of Cobra, Paranormal Activity, Tyler...
Viacom's Premium Movie Channel Epix Coming To Cox →
Silicon Alley Insider By Jay Yarow January 9, 2010 Cox Communications has reached a deal to carry Epix, the premium movie channel started by Viacom last year, according to a source familiar with the matter. David Grabert, a spokesman for Cox, confirms this, but says Cox is “giving no further details at this time.” This is a much needed deal for Viacom’s fledgling movie channel....
December 2009
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Lionsgate Plugs Epix in DVD Releases →
Home Media Magazine By Erik Gruenwedel December 28, 2009
Lionsgate is quietly marketing Epix, the high-definition pay-TV and online streaming channel it co-owns with MGM and Paramount Studios, with special inserts inside new-release DVDs, including Gamer, the sci-fi thriller starring Gerard Butler and Amber Valletta, which streets Jan. 19, 2010.
“Like this movie?” reads the insert. “See it and...
Epix Close to Inking Partnership With Cox: Report →
NewTeeVee By Ryan Lawler December 11, 2009 Epix is close to signing its second major carriage agreement, Bloomberg is reporting, this time with cable provider Cox Communications. Epix is currently only available to subscribers of Verizon’s FiOS service, which stands at around 2.7 million vs. Cox’s the 6.2 million subscribers. A joint venture between Paramount, Lions Gate and MGM, Epix offers...
TRACE ADKINS TO ACT IN "TOUGH TRADE" →
Fox11 Arizona December 7, 2009
NASHVILLE, Tenn. (AP) — Trace Adkins has landed an acting role in a pilot for a TV series called “Tough Trade.” The series follows three generations of a troubled music dynasty in Nashville. Adkins plays a character named Scared. He’s a loyal friend of the family and a bodyguard to Sam Shepard’s character. Scared is described as both...
'Hurt Locker:' Capturing the sound of war →
Variety By Peter Caranicas December 1, 2009 What does war sound like? Since the advent of talkies, hundreds of movies — “All Quiet on the Western Front,” “To Hell and Back,” “Saving Private Ryan” — have tried to answer that question through recorded sound, Foley work, audio effects and the arts of sound mixing and editing. Most recently, “The...
Kings Of Leon: Check Out An Exclusive Live Video... →
MTV.com By Kyle Anderson December 17, 2009 On Saturday, fans of Nashville indie-rock heroes Kings of Leon can check out the premiere of the group’s live performance at London’s O2 arena. The band played three sold-out shows at the iconic venue back in June, a trio of concerts that featured all of the group’s biggest hits including “Use Somebody,” “Molly’s...
Report: Cox Close to Epix Carriage Deal →
Multichannel News By MCN Staff December 12, 2009 Bloomberg reports Cox Communications is close to a deal to carry the Viacom-backed premium movie channel Epix. The news service, in a report citing three people it would not identify, said official spokesmen wouldn’t comment but that Epix — packaged into a deal extending various MTV Networks outlets — might launch on Cox...
Starr report →
New York Post By Michael Starr December 12, 2009 “Cops” creator John Lan gley is happy to talk about the continued success of his Fox series, now in its 22nd season — but it’s his “Cops” racing team, which recently triumphed at the Baja 1000 in Las Vegas, that’s revving his engine these days. “We now have a race team with three cars … and came...
Claire van der Boom is shining in Hollywood →
Herald Sun (Aus) December 12, 2009 THE international star of Australian actress Claire van der Boom just brightened after being signed to her first major Hollywood project. The former leading lady of Channel 10 cop drama Rush has scored the role of religious-bent folk singer Billie Tucker in Tough Trade, the first pilot for new cable network Epix and directed by Academy Award winner Gavin Hood....
Cox Said Near Agreement to Carry Viacom’s Epix... →
Bloomberg By Andy Fixmer and Kelly Riddell December 11, 2009 (Bloomberg) — Cox Communications Inc., the third- biggest U.S. cable system, is near an agreement with Viacom Inc. to carry Epix, the new movie channel vying for subscribers with HBO and Showtime, said three people with knowledge of the talks. Cox may begin airing the channel next year, said one of the people, who asked not to be...
Epix HD closer to distribution deals, including... →
HD Report By Jeff Chabot December 11, 2009 Via Reuters Cox Communications may be close to reaching an agreement to carry movie channels Epix and Epix HD, but Cox is not the only TV provider who may get the new network. An article earlier this month from Reuters said Dish was talking to Epix, with a carriage deal expected early in 2010.
Is Epix HD such a hot commodity that we should be...
Apple's Lala music buy may have video impact →
MSNBC By Ian Paul December 10, 2009 There’s been a lot of noise over the last few days about Apple’s purchase of the online music-streaming service Lala. No one’s quite sure what this means for the future of Apple’s iTunes music service, or Lala’s own service. Most are speculating that Apple may be moving into the cloud to compete with subscription services from...
Viacom: A Cheap Play on Cable-TV Content →
Barrons By Brian S. Shipman and Kip Paulson December 10, 2009 WE ARE INITIATING COVERAGE of Viacom (ticker: VIA) with a Buy and a $40 price target. We believe well-established cable networks offer compelling secular positioning in the long term, and Viacom represents the cheapest option available. Management isn’t fighting secular trends anymore; it’s embracing the new reality of the...
Scary Movie →
CableFax By Michael Grebb December 8, 2009 Cable operators—as well as their satellite and telco competitors—worry a lot these days about cable networks going “over the top” to reach consumers directly. They should. But amid all the talk of broadcast and cable nets going direct, it’s easy to forget that the Hollywood movie studios have their own over-the-top plans that potentially affect everyone,...
Boxee Beta, New Astro-Designed,... →
Interactive TV Today By Tracy Swedlow December 8, 2009 ClipSync’s Social TV Technology Integrated with Boxee Platform Over-the-top-TV specialist, Boxee, unveiled the beta version of its platform at an event in Brooklyn last night, and also revealed that the new Boxee set-top box that it promised a few weeks back (see the article published on itvt.com, November 16th) has been designed by...
Viacom CEO says actors and directors paid too much →
USA Today By David Lieberman December 7, 2009 Arnold Schwarzenegger has nothing to fear from Philippe Dauman. But the diminutive Viacom CEO was talking like a Hollywood tough guy at the UBS Global Media and Communications Conference on Monday when former Disney CEO Michael Eisner asked about the high salaries paid to A-list actors and directors of blockbuster movies. “That has to change,” says...
Trace Lands Acting Role →
Country Weekly December 7, 2009 Trace Adkins will have a part in a new TV drama called Tough Trade, a Nashville-based series centering around the adventures of the Tucker family. Trace will play a character named Scared, the tough bodyguard to the Tucker family who follows his own code of honor and is feared and respected throughout Nashville. Also in the cast are veteran actors Sam Shepard, Cary...
All eyes on Comcast's Roberts in 2010 →
Reuters By Paul Thomasch December 5, 2009 NEW YORK (Reuters) - If Brian Roberts wants an audience, he’s got one. The Comcast Corp (CMCSA.O: Quote, Profile, Research) chief executive made headlines this week with his NBC Universal deal, expanding the reach of his cable company into nearly every corner of the media business, from making movies to running theme parks. That sort of influence...
Trace Adkins Makes a 'Tough Trade' for TV →
The Boot By Gayle Richardson December 4, 2009 Trace Adkins continues to shine on the small screen. After appearing on ‘Celebrity Apprentice’ and starring in the movie ‘American Carol,’ as well as making a guest appearance on ‘The Young and the Restless,’ Trace is now joining the cast of the one-hour drama, ‘Tough Trade.’ Filmed in Nashville, the...
Trace Adkins Will Play Bodyguard in TV Pilot... →
CMT News December 4, 2009 Trace Adkins will play the role of a bodyguard named “Scared” in a TV pilot shooting this week in Nashville. Titled Tough Trade, the original pilot is the first for EPIX, a new entertainment venture between Viacom, Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer Studios (a division of Viacom’s Paramount Pictures unit) and Lionsgate. Press materials refer to the pilot as “a...
Trace Adkins on Bodyguard Duty →
Great America Country By Wendy Newcomer December 4, 2009 If you’re in the market for a bodyguard with a killer voice, Trace Adkins is your man. Trace has just been cast in Tough Trade, the first original pilot series on EPIX. In the series, Trace will place a guy named “Scared,” a friend and bodyguard to Sam Shepard’s character, Linwood Tucker. According to a press release, Scared is “fiercely...
Dish May Be Close to Adding Epix HD →
TVPredictions.com December 4, 2009 (Washington, D.C.)— Epix HD, the new pay movie channel, could soon be coming to the Dish Network high-def lineup. According to Reuters, Epix says it’s in “meaningful discussions” with Dish to carry the channel, which has premiered such exclusive movie blockbusters as Iron Man, The Curious Case of Benjamin Button, Indiana Jones and the...
Joey Lauren Adams to star in new TV show you... →
Arkansas By Lindsey Millar December 4, 2009 The North Little Rock native’s one of the latest additions to the cast of “Tough Trade,” a Nashville-based drama created/produced by novelist and TV writer Chris Offut (“Weeds,” “True Blood”). “Weeds” creator Jenji Kohan and T. Bone Burnett are also on-board as executive producers. It’ll be...
Country Stars Who Act on TV →
AOL Television By Daniel Frankel December 4, 2009 Singer Trace Adkins has been brought onto the cast of ‘Tough Trade,’ ‘Nashville,’ adding a little authenticity to the drama about a Nashville music dynasty currently under development by fledgling premium cable channel Epix, according to the Hollywood Reporter. Adkins, who has sold more than 10 million albums, has plenty of...
Nashville drama Tough Trade adds Joey Lauren Adams... →
Examiner.com By Levi Agee December 4, 2009 According to the Hollywood Reporter the one hour “Nashville-based drama” Tough Trade is getting new cast members for the Lionsgate TV project. Joey Lauren Adams, Boyd Holbrook and Claire van der Boom will appear along side Sam Shepard, Cary Elwes and Lucas Black as three separate generations of the Nashville music dynasty. The show also...
Epix talks to Dish, others; sees deal soon →
Reuters By Alex Dobuzinskis December 3, 2009 NEW YORK (Reuters) - Epix, a new movie channel owned by three Hollywood studios, is talking with Dish Network Corp (DISH.O) and other carriers, and expects to secure another distribution deal by early 2010, the premium channel’s top executive said on Thursday. Mark Greenberg, president and chief executive of Epix, said he is “pretty...
EPIX CEO: Kids are media omnivores, industry must... →
Reuters By Kevin Simpson December 3, 2009 15:27 EST
Remember when the “good” TV in the house only received 7 or 8 channels? Most young people today cannot, and in many ways they could not care less. Even more, they probably think that it is just as odd that we “old folks” don’t understand their ability juggle multiple devices and inputs. Therein lies a critical challenge for broadcasters...
T Bone Burnett Producing TV Series (And its Music,... →
Paste Magazine By Christina Lee December 3, 2009 After gaining critical acclaim and Grammys for his film compositions, T Bone Burnett is set to tackle television. Burnett will serve as both executive producer and executive music producer of Tough Trade, a Nashville story exploring three generations of country music debauchery. Of course, he is more than familiar with the sounds of the South,...
10 Web trends to watch in 2010 →
CNN By Pete Cashmore December 3, 2009 Editor’s note: Pete Cashmore is founder and CEO of Mashable, a popular blog about social media. He is writing a weekly column about social networking and tech for CNN.com.
(CNN) — As 2009 draws to a close, the Web’s attention turns to the year ahead. What can we expect of the online realm in 2010?
While Web innovation is unpredictable,...
Lewis Black’s ‘Stark Raving Black’ premieres on... →
Punchline Magazine December 2, 2009 Although Lewis Black’s newest stand-up comedy special Stark Raving Black enjoyed a theatrical release in select cities across the nation a few months back, chances are there are still many hardcore Black-ites who have not yet peeped this beautifully produced film. But this weekend, that’s all going to change, when new cable programming service EPIX premieres...
Cast Announced for T Bone Burnett-Produced Music... →
Nashville Scene By D. Patrick Rodgers December 2, 2009 ToughTrade.jpg Remember that whole embarrassing “Nashville is the new L.A.” thing? It seemed like all that biz was going to die down for a bit, and then Hollywood started encouraging our little brother complex. West Coast celebs move here for a “change of pace.” Hollywood embraces the Nashville look. Hell,...
Cast Announced for T Bone Burnett-Produced Music... →
Nashville Music Blog By Patrick Rodgers December 2, 2009
Remember that whole embarrassing “Nashville is the new L.A.” thing? It seemed like all that biz was going to die down for a bit, and then Hollywood started encouraging our little brother complex. West Coast celebs move here for a “change of pace.” Hollywood embraces the Nashville look. Hell, there’s even one of...
T Bone Burnett producing TV series "Trade" →
Reuters Nellie Andreeva December 1, 2009 LOS ANGELES (Hollywood Reporter) - Grammy-winning producer, musician and songwriter T Bone Burnett is venturing into television. Burnett is joining Epix’s Nashville-set drama pilot “Tough Trade” as executive producer and executive musical producer. Azita Ghanizada has been added to the cast of “Trade,” which is eyed for a 2010...
'Hurt Locker:' Capturing the sound of war →
Variety Entertainment News By Peter Caranicas December 1, 2009
What does war sound like? Since the advent of talkies, hundreds of movies — “All Quiet on the Western Front,” “To Hell and Back,” “Saving Private Ryan” — have tried to answer that question through recorded sound, Foley work, audio effects and the arts of sound mixing and editing.
...
T Bone Burnett Joins Epix' 'Tough Trade' →
The Wrap December 1, 2009
T Bone Burnett has been named executive musical producer and an executive producer for Lionsgate’s “Tough Trade,” the first original series pilot for Epix, the multiplatform entertainment service from Viacom and its Paramount Pictures unit, MGM Studios and Lionsgate.
“Tough Trade” is a contemporary one-hour drama about a three-generation...
November 2009
53 posts
Lucas Black, Cary Elwes Join Epix's 'Tough Trade' →
Inside TV (AOL) By Gary Susman November 30, 2009 If you want to get the folks in the heartland to subscribe to your new premium cable channel, what better way than to expose the dark, seamy underbelly of the country music industry? Okay, we don’t see the logic either, but that’s what Epix, the month-old premium channel on Verizon FIOS systems, is doing. Two weeks ago, the channel...
Matthew McConaughey to Animate His Brother →
New Yorker Magazine, Vulture November 30, 2009 By Adam K. Raymond Music City Meltdown: Lucas Black and Cary Elwes have signed on to star with Sam Shepard in Tough Trade, the first pilot for new premium cable channel Epix. The show focuses on a family of Nashville musicians that makes a series of bad decisions leaving it on the verge of bankruptcy. Black will play a talented musician who...
Executive Moves →
Crain’s New York Business By Maia Blume November 29, 2009 New York City Ballet: Katherine Brown, 55, was appointed executive director, a newly created position. She rejoins the ballet company Dec. 14 from WNYC Radio, where she had been chief operating officer. She previously served as a development executive at the ballet company from 1988 until 1993.
The Switzer Group: Lloyd G....
Epix HD to run action movie marathon this holiday... →
HD Report By Jeff Chabot November 25, 2009 Epix channel, available through Verizon’s FiOS TV service, will run an action/adventure movie marathon this Thanksgiving, starting with the “The Indy 500: 500 Minutes of Indiana Jones,” and ending on Sunday with the world television premiere of “Cloverfield.”
“The Indy 500: 500 Minutes of Indiana Jones” will play all four of the Indiana Jones movies...
Home Sweet Networked Home, Part 1 →
TechNewsWorld By Erika Morphy November 25, 2009 Putting a WiFi router in your home is great for being able to use your laptop on the front porch as easily as you can in your living room, but a home network complete with wireless capabilities offers much more than just laptop mobility. There’s a whole new world of consumer electronics available for every part of the house. Think you have to...
Epix choses Akamai to deliver full-length HD films →
Indian Television November 24, 2009 MUMBAI: Epix, the next generation entertainment service from Viacom, Paramount Pictures, Lionsgate and MGM, has chosen Akamai as the company’s launch provider to deliver and manage its full-length High Definition (HD) films. Epix delivers blockbusters, new releases, library classics and original content across its HD television channel, video-on-demand service...