Office writers get College Humor: Variety in 60 Seconds
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Lee Eisenberg and Gene Stupnitsky, both writers for
NBC's version of The Office, have been hired by Paramount to write an Animal House-style
comedy to be produced under the studio's deal with CollegeHumor.com.
Details on the film haven't been leaked, but it appears that Eisenberg and Stupinsky pitched a concept to allign with
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- Ben Fritz and John Dempsey look at the Microsoft/Starz! Vongo deal, and sneak a heretofore unseen-by-me detail into parenthses: "Movie companies have built a code into each movie to make it compatible with a Microsoft player but prevent its transfer to an unauthorized hand-held device."
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1-03-2006 @ 1:33PM
Porchland said...
Good for Vongo. I've always thought Apple had a right and a responsibility to protect its own content with good DRM, and I'm glad to see Vongo taking the same appoach.
Apple's movie service will have 80 percent of the market six months after it arrives, so Vongo (or whatever) doesn't really matter that much anyway. Disney and NBC Universal were smart enough to put their TV shows on iTunes; they're not going to give exclusivity to another download distributor for movies.
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