Lifeboats

Hollywood Trade Variety Moves Into Data and Research Business

Hollywood trade magazine Variety launched a new data service called Flixtracker today, parent company The Variety Group announced.

Flixtracker is a paid subscription database for film and digital entertainment that is still in development, like a pre-natal IMDB. It’s the latest effort in Variety’s bid to establish a lucrative data and research division, now branded as Variety Insight. Read More

Get Me Rewrite!

On Monday, April 13, the actor Ashton Kutcher sent a message out to his fans using the microblogging tool Twitter.

“My dad always said ‘I’ll believe when I hear it from the horses mouth,’” was the message his subscribers received. “twitter is the horses mouth. no more ‘well the news said …’”

By Friday, April Read More