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...mother ship could soon find itself under attack on several fronts. Network affiliates, the regional business partners that carry and promote the shows to local viewers, want a piece of the new action. "This fight will get very real very quickly, and there'll be a court case within six months over this," predicts Rafat Ali, owner of the industry-news site paidContent.org One struggle brewing pits CBS against its affiliate in Raleigh, N.C., WRAL, which wants to stream prime-time shows live, then sell downloads on its own website, limiting access geographically to Raleigh viewers. Production companies and studios...
...only 57 min. Larry Kramer, digital president for CBS--among the most active networks in the new-media space--finds it's "a real balancing act" to experiment aggressively without jeopardizing the Eye's stately brand. "A lot of this activity is meant to support the mother ship," he says...
...Home Team corollary: actors comprise the largest Academy contingent. A long-standing grievance of the Screen Actors Guild is "runaway productions": movies shot abroad, especially in Canada, that ship jobs out of the U.S. Thus there may be some protectionist resentment against Brokeback, which is set in Wyoming and Texas but was shot mostly in Alberta. This would tilt the Best Picture vote to Crash, a low-budget, L.A.-made movie that?s so teeming with speaking parts it seems to have employed half the SAG members in Southern California...
...That information, or the lack thereof, is part of the problem. For instance, 24 hours before American-bound containers are loaded onto a vessel in a foreign port, the ship?s captain must send an electronic manifest of his cargo to U.S. Customs and Border Protection, which checks it against intelligence reports to determine if any of the containers need further inspection. But the captain doesn?t actually know what?s in the containers. The manifest he sends is drawn from the bill of lading the original shipper supplies, which may not be detailed, or more importantly, accurate...
...theories addresses this question: Which film represents the home team? The majority of Academy members live in or near Los Angeles, and actors make up the largest voting contingent. A long-standing grievance of the Screen Actors Guild (SAG) is "runaway productions": movies shot abroad, especially in Canada, that ship jobs out of the U.S. Thus there may be some protectionist resentment against Brokeback, which is set in Wyoming and Texas but was shot mostly in Alberta. This would tilt the Best Picture vote to Crash, a low-budget, L.A.-made movie that has--as one of its stars...