NEWS CORP. NEWS
posted 5 February 2009 source ap
Could Spiderpig be keeping News Corp. afloat??? [AP/Yahoo!]
posted 5 February 2009 source ap
Movie and TV studio revenue fell 25 percent to $1.49 billion, and operating profit sank 72 percent to $112 million. Key film releases such as "Marley & Me" and "The Day the Earth Stood Still" drove up marketing costs, while last year's holiday quarter had a better home-video release slate, including "The Simpsons Movie" and "Live Free or Die Hard," the company said.
Could Spiderpig be keeping News Corp. afloat??? [AP/Yahoo!]
Labels: NEWS CORP. NEWS
posted 2/05/2009 | permalink
Simpsons Creator Now Go-To Guy For Comments on Family Guy Creator
GROEN DRAIN
posted 6 September 2008 source myspace finance
Simpsons creator Matt Groening has always enjoyed a favorable relationship with the press. Serving as a sort-of go-to cultural commentator, the head of Fox's billion-dollar cartoon franchise is often quoted on everything from animation to music to high school to Olympic mascots. These days, however, he is often asked to comment on Fox's other billion-dollar cartoon franchise, Family Guy. In a Wall Street Journal article about Family Guy creator Seth MacFarlane, MacFarlane's contemporary is relegated to a handful of sentences, including a paragraph which curiously reads like a line from a Fox press release:
posted 6 September 2008 source myspace finance
Simpsons creator Matt Groening has always enjoyed a favorable relationship with the press. Serving as a sort-of go-to cultural commentator, the head of Fox's billion-dollar cartoon franchise is often quoted on everything from animation to music to high school to Olympic mascots. These days, however, he is often asked to comment on Fox's other billion-dollar cartoon franchise, Family Guy. In a Wall Street Journal article about Family Guy creator Seth MacFarlane, MacFarlane's contemporary is relegated to a handful of sentences, including a paragraph which curiously reads like a line from a Fox press release:
Cartoonist Matt Groening, creator of "The Simpsons," says, "He's laid the groundwork with this smash hit show and now, with new media opening up and Seth's specific kind of rapid-fire visual humor, how to exploit it just depends on how ambitious he wants to be."Given that Fox and the Journal are corporate siblings, could this be another sign of The Simpsons's diminishing stature in the eyes of Fox executives?
Labels: FROM THE FRONT LINES OF THE CARTOON WARS, GROEN DRAIN, NEWS CORP. NEWS
posted 9/06/2008 | permalink
Fox Uses Journal To Plug Flanders Book
READING DIGEST
posted 23 May 2008 source wall street journal
The newly News Corp.-owned Wall Street Journal had Mark I. Pinksy, author of The Gospel According to The Simpsons review the new Flanders' Book of Faith in a move that's totally synergystic!
posted 23 May 2008 source wall street journal
The newly News Corp.-owned Wall Street Journal had Mark I. Pinksy, author of The Gospel According to The Simpsons review the new Flanders' Book of Faith in a move that's totally synergystic!
Labels: NEWS CORP. NEWS, READING DIGEST
posted 5/23/2008 | permalink
Murdoch Buys Wall Street Journal
NEWS CORP. NEWS
posted 1 August 2007 source myspace finance
Rupert Murdoch purchased the Dow Jones today, and with it the Wall Street Journal. Among the changes made to the internationally renown financial paper includes scrapping the well-known hedcut style of portraiture accompanying articles in favor of Simpsonized portraits.
posted 1 August 2007 source myspace finance
Rupert Murdoch purchased the Dow Jones today, and with it the Wall Street Journal. Among the changes made to the internationally renown financial paper includes scrapping the well-known hedcut style of portraiture accompanying articles in favor of Simpsonized portraits.
Labels: NEWS CORP. NEWS
posted 8/01/2007 | permalink
Has Anyone Else Noticed That The Simpsons And OJ Simpson Have The Same Last Name?
NEWS CORP. NEWS
posted 14 May 2007 source the post chronicle
I realize I'm guilty of making lame OJ Simpson jokes on this site. But come on:
Hey uh that joke's about thirteen years too late guys
posted 14 May 2007 source the post chronicle
I realize I'm guilty of making lame OJ Simpson jokes on this site. But come on:
O.J. Simpson in "The Simpsons"? An internet parody of The Simpsons featuring O.J. Simpson has infuriated bosses at 20th Century Fox.
The studio has asked online video site Broadcaster.com to take down three animated clips, titled The OJ Simpsons that re-imagine the series with the ex-American footballer.
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The clips also parody the opening scene of The Simpsons, with Simpson being chased by several police cars - just like he was chased live TV in the US, after the pair were found dead in Los Angeles in June 1994.
Hey uh that joke's about thirteen years too late guys
posted 5/14/2007 | permalink
Mmmm, that's good cross-promotion!
NEWS CORP. NEWS
posted 15 February 2007 source simpsons channel
FOX promotes the 20th Century FOX film "The Simpsons Movie" (based on the FOX show "The Simpsons") on another FOX show, "American Idol" by giving finalists a sneak peek of said movie
posted 15 February 2007 source simpsons channel
FOX promotes the 20th Century FOX film "The Simpsons Movie" (based on the FOX show "The Simpsons") on another FOX show, "American Idol" by giving finalists a sneak peek of said movie
Labels: NEWS CORP. NEWS
posted 2/15/2007 | permalink
