AFI BLOG: Media and Technology

The Wall Street Journal
Cablevision Systems Corp. is close to an agreement to buy the Sundance Channel, jointly owned by General Electric Co.’s NBC Universal, CBS Corp., and actor Robert Redford, in a cash and stock deal valued at close to $500 million, according to people familiar with the negotiations.
Terms of the deal may be announced [...]

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Short shrift no longer: Brief films are popular again, especially when the Oscar-nominated ones screen together
LA Times
THANKS to a new generation of viewers more conversant with YouTube than with appointment television, the short subject seems to be making a comeback. “Hotel Chevalier,” Wes Anderson’s 13-minute prequel to “The Darjeeling Limited,” was added to the feature’s [...]

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