Los Angeles CA—June 19, 2013—Shine America has named Rob Hughes Vice President, Marketing and Kevin Ivey, Executive Director, Research, it was announced today by Vivi Zigler, President, Shine 360˚ & Digital, Shine America. Hughes, who was formerly Executive Director, Marketing & Communications for Saban Brands, will oversee all day-to-day marketing responsibilities for Shine America including working with all network and digital partners on Shine America series initiatives, developing international marketing materials for Shine America produced series, as well as marketing Shine America itself. Ivey, who was formerly Vice President, Program Research for NBCUniversal cable network’s Syfy and Chiller, is charged with creating a new research department for Shine America and supplying strategic research data to the company’s scripted, unscripted, digital, publicity, Shine Latino and Shine 360˚ teams. Both Hughes and Ivey will work out of Shine America’s Los Angeles office and report to Zigler.
- 6/19/2013
- by THE DEADLINE TEAM
- Deadline TV
While sequels, remakes, comic book adaptations and animated movies will inevitably dominate 2011's box office, there will still be a few hits that don't fall in to any of these categories. In 2009, there was Avatar, The Hangover and The Blind Side, and in 2010 there was Inception. Here's a look at ten of the contenders, including three high-profile book adaptations, a few alien invasion movies, a potential Twilight successor or two and some wholly original wild cards.I Am Number Four (Feb. 18): Based off a recently published young adult novel and featuring an alien in a high school-set romance (like a movie version of television's Roswell), I Am Number Four fits in to a handful of the above-mentioned categories. While the book is too new to have built much of a fan base, and the Twilight association is tangential at best, alien-related movies tend to draw large crowds. If Disney's...
- 1/29/2011
- by Ray Subers <mail@boxofficemojo.com>
- Box Office Mojo
After a quiet 2009 and 2010, comic book adaptations are back in a big way in 2011. Marvel will continue its Avengers series with Thor and Captain America: The First Avenger, and the hope is that their box office numbers are more reminiscent of Iron Man than The Incredible Hulk. Elsewhere, DC Comics and Warner Bros. will finally unleash Green Lantern, the X-Men return without Wolverine in X-Men: First Class and Jon Favreau and Daniel Craig attempt to successfully blend the sci-fi and western genres for Cowboys & Aliens. With all of these major comic book adaptations, 2011 has an off-chance of topping 2008, which was the year The Dark Knight and Iron Man led the genre to a record $1.22 billion in sales (an astounding 13 percent of overall box office). After Iron Man and Iron Man 2 owned the first weekend of May in 2008 and 2010, respectively, Marvel is back on that date this year with Thor.
- 1/28/2011
- by Ray Subers <mail@boxofficemojo.com>
- Box Office Mojo
In 2011, Hollywood will rely on former glories to a greater degree than ever before. Sequels (including prequels and spin-offs) comprise over a fifth of the currently scheduled nationwide releases, tallying 27. Last year, there were 19, and the previous high was 24 in 2003. Of the 27 sequels, nine are second movies (Cars 2, Diary of a Wimpy Kid 2: Rodrick Rules, The Hangover Part II, Happy Feet 2, Hoodwinked Too! Hood vs. Evil, Johnny English Reborn, Kung Fu Panda 2, Piranha 3Dd, Sherlock Holmes 2), up from eight in 2010. Five are third movies (Alvin and the Chipmunks: Chipwrecked, Big Mommas: Like Father, Like Son, Madea's Big Happy Family, Paranormal Activity 3, Transformers: Dark of the Moon), down from seven in 2010. Deeper cut sequels will be well represented all the way up to No. 8. There'll be the highest number of fourth movies ever, tallying five (Mission: Impossible Ghost Protocol, Pirates of the Caribbean: On Stranger Tides, Scream 4,...
- 1/28/2011
- by Brandon Gray <mail@boxofficemojo.com>
- Box Office Mojo
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