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JULY 28, 2011

Los Angeles-based 3D movie projection technology provider RealD has inked an agreement to expand the number of 3D screens at AMC Entertainment by a thousand screens, the firms said Thursday. Financial impact of the additional screens was not announced by the companies. READ MORE>>.

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AUGUST 22, 2013

Los Angeles-based 3D movie projection technology provider RealD announced an expanded agreement with a Chinese company today, to install an additional 50 screens across Northern China. RealD said it has reached an agreement with UME International Cineplex, one of its existing customers, to add an additional 50 cinema screens.

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Tech Zulu Event

AUGUST 5, 2013

With unrivaled weather, a host of high-profile universities and unlimited array of daytime and nightlife entertainment, Los Angeles seems like a dreamland for young tech professionals and the companies hoping to employ their talents. A YouTube video is three minutes, whereas the typical Hollywood blockbuster runs 120 minutes.

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MAY 15, 2014

Los Angeles-based online and mobile movie ticketing provider Fandango announced this morning that it has signed on three new theater chains--bringing it roughly 85 percent of the nation''s theaters which have online and mobile ticketing. Financial impact of the move was not announced. READ MORE>>.

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Tech Zulu Event

NOVEMBER 11, 2013

Hard to believe another Digital LA Silicon Beach Fest Hollywood is happening this week back-to-back with the new LA Tech Summit produced by Cornerstone. LA Tech Summit takes place the following day and takes a more comprehensive look at the entire tech eco-system in Los Angeles, not just Hollywood.

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DECEMBER 13, 2018

Big screen movie theater operator IMAX is shutting down all of its virtual reality theater locations, including its flagship location in Los Angeles, the company said in a regulatory filing on Thursday--not a good sign for companies hoping to make location-based virtual reality a business. million in its fourth quarter of 2018.

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JULY 18, 2018

Los Angeles-based media brand Pocket.watch , which creates content for kids, has raised $15M in a Series B funding round, led by Viacom, the company said today. Pocket.watch says it develops eerything from small-screen video to big-screen blockbusters, games, toys, and other products focused on kids.

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JUNE 27, 2013

Amazon Studios , the content production arm of Amazon.com, which has a heavy presence in Los Angeles, has launched a new effort to accept submissions of "shorts"--the short videos that filmmakers have traditionally pitched to gain deals with local studios. amazon studios hollywood shorts short video pitch production option'

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MARCH 4, 2020

Amazon Studios , the content production arm of Amazon --which has most of its operations in the Los Angeles area--has cancelled its plans to attend next week's SXSW , over concerns of the novel coronavirus outbreak which is making its way into the United States.

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JANUARY 29, 2019

Now defunct, Los Angeles-based multi-channel content network Defy Media is unlikely to be able to pay the $1.7 Defy Media had run the SMOSH, Clevver, Screen Junkies, AWEme, Break, and Made Man brands. million it owes more than 50 YouTube creators, after the company's shutdown in November, according to a report.

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NOVEMBER 16, 2010

Los Angeles-based RealD , the developer of 3D movie projection technology, reports today that it has inked a deal with Chinese movie theater chain Wanda Cinema , to deploy up to 500 screens with its technology. The deal brings RealD's total deployed screens worldwide to around 9,300. READ MORE>>.

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DECEMBER 22, 2009

Los Angeles-based RealD , a developer of 3D movie projection technology, said last night that the firm's 3D technology was behind over 50 percent of the weekend domestic gross on Twentieth Century Fox's AVATAR film. The firm said its screens brought in nearly $40M of the total domestic box office from the James Cameron film.

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MAY 27, 2010

Los Angeles-based RealD , the developer of 3D projection technology which is waiting in the wings for an IPO, revealed its latest year's result in an updated S-1 filing with the SEC last night. The firm's biggest growth was in international screens, where the firm had a 378 percent increase in enabled screens from last year.

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SEPTEMBER 13, 2016

Los Angeles-based DEFY Media , a developer of YouTube channels and digital content, said on Tuesday that it has raised $70M in a Series B funding. DEFY Media is led by Matt Diamond, and owns such brands as SMOSH, Clevver, Screen Junkies, AWEme, Break, and Made Man. READ MORE>>.

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OCTOBER 2, 2009

Los Angeles-based RealD , which develops 3D movie projection hardware, disclosed this morning that it has installed an upgraded cinema systems at the El Capitan. RealD's XL system provides 3D capability to larger screens, over the 45 ft. RealD said its XL supports screens up to 80 feet wide on a single, DLP projector.

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NOVEMBER 2, 2010

Los Angeles-based RealD , the provider of 3D movie projection technology, has reported its quarterly results today, saying it had net revenues of $65.3M RealD also reported that it now has 9,300 screens deployed worldwide. Tags: reald movie projection technology earnings content hollywood theater. in revenues.

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JULY 27, 2017

Los Angeles-based mobile ticketing firm Atom Tickets said this morning that it is teaming up with Paramount Pictures and Participant Media, to offer up its users a chance to see the new Al Gore film, "An Inconvenient Sequel: Truth To Power", at special public screenings.

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DECEMBER 3, 2009

Los Angeles-based Withoutabox , which is now a part of Amazon.com's IMDB.com division, said this week that it has launched a new service targeted at film festivals. The site is looking to supplant the existing process of mailing DVDs to film festivals for screening. READ MORE>>.

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APRIL 26, 2012

Los Angeles-based movie site Fandango is expanding its rollout of mobile ticketing, saying this morning that it has added more than 1,400 additional screens across the country to its paperless mobile ticket program. Fandango said that it has added 1,300 Cinemark screens and 100 Regency Theatre screens to its network.

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MAY 18, 2015

Los Angeles-based 3D film projection technology provider RealD reported over the weekend that its screens delivered approximately 41 percent of the domestic, opening weekend gross of the new film, Mad Max: Fury Road. RealD says it is now the world's most widely used 3D cinema technology, with 26,500 screens.

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SEPTEMBER 24, 2013

There are new filmmakers who are trying to get into the entertainment business, but the market has been over saturated with content. To do this, they have created Filmzu , an online matchmaker to find and connect with others to create new content. Los Angeles is going to be our home base. Plus, you can’t beat the weather!

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MARCH 19, 2012

Los Angeles-based Fandango announced htis morning that it has scored an exclusive deal with Yahoo , where it will be the exclusive ticket seller for Yahoo! Fandango said the move will give Internet users access to nearly 20,000 screens across the country. Financial terms of the deal were not disclosed.

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JANUARY 27, 2011

Los Angeles-based RealD , the provider of 3D movie projection technology, and Real Entertainment Group said today that the two have made a major expansion in their 3D rollout plans. The two said that they have agreed to add up to 1,500 additional RealD, 3D-enabled screen across Regal Entertainment Group's theatre circuit.

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OCTOBER 14, 2019

Los Angeles-based BiasSync (www.biassync.com) was founded by three, very experienced serial entrepreneurs-- Michele Ruiz (broadcast journalism), Robin Richards (CareerArc, Internships.com, NTI Group, MP3), and Dan Gould (former VP of Technology for Tinder). Sometimes, it's just content presented online.

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OCTOBER 19, 2010

That said, it would be an understatement to say that traditional media is skeptical about Google’s benevolence and many fear a world in which video content margins are crushed in the way that print & music have been with the primary beneficiary having been Google. At the time all telco’s were envious of Yahoo!

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OCTOBER 16, 2012

Los Angeles-based Cinedigm , a developer of digital cinema products, said today that it has deployed its products in the Caribbean. Cinedigm said that Caribbean Cinemas will deploy up to 290 screens using its technology. The firm said the deal is its first large scale deployment outside the continental US and Canada.

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FEBRUARY 4, 2011

Los Angeles-based RealD , the developer of 3D movie projection technology, released its results Thursday, saying its Q3 2011 revenues rose to $57.8M, up 91 percent from Q3 of of 2010, when it reported revenues of $30.2M. The firm had a net GAAP loss of $16.6M. READ MORE>>.

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OCTOBER 4, 2012

Los Angeles-based CreatorUp (www.creatorup.com) wants to help aspiring online video producers with an online web education series. We teach through video tutorials, with courses around specific sites, like how to make content for FunnyorDie, taught by one of the staff writers from FunnyOrDie.

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JANUARY 3, 2014

In the world of many online television, movie, and video sites, scores of music streaming services, and other entertainment content, it''s often a difficult task to find what you really want to watch, listen to, or read. That''s also one of the things I really love about Los Angeles. What is Laudville? Phoebe Scott: It is.

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MARCH 29, 2012

Los Angeles-based Hulu said Thursday that it has launched a brand new, Hulu Plus user interface for its Android tablet users, as it launches on to an additional, seven Android tablets supporting its premium video service. Toshiba Thrive, Acer Iconia and LG G-Slate tablets.

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OCTOBER 30, 2008

We're always interested in how technology is influencing the business of Hollywood, and recently ran across Los Angeles-based Scripped. to the business of script writing, and is looking to combine a free online tool for writing scripts with matching those scripts with content producers.

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FEBRUARY 15, 2011

Los Angeles. My daily coffee meetings are not surrounded by the Hollywood elite with discussions of scripts, scenes and casting. In my LA I often see computer screens open with entrepreneurs talking about digital media. There are no $600 million funds in Los Angeles. And of course you have Hollywood.

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MARCH 4, 2010

Jason is also behind the popular "Startups Uncensored" events in Los Angeles, so we also pinged him on how those events have been going. We're now doing around 20 million people a month to Docstoc, and wanted to leverate that to create a marketplace where you could buy and sell professional content.

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TechCrunch LA

NOVEMBER 4, 2019

Creators and influencers like Bernstein are forging a path from content creator to full-fledged business, with multiple revenue streams via podcasts, licensing deals, branded merchandise and even software products. “A Karat’s approach to treating individual digital content creators as future “unicorns” is not isolated.

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NOVEMBER 4, 2008

Los Angeles-based RealD is continuing to sign up theaters for the firm's 3D projection technology, saying Monday that the firm has inked an agreement with Dickinson Theatres to deploy its products in 100 screens. Financial impact of the win was not disclosed. The systems will be deployed by the beginning of January.

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APRIL 17, 2010

The team has experience in building startups (Doug Ludlow was formerly a founder in a TechStars company) and have all worked at local Los Angeles based startups. Walk into any Coffee Bean & Tea Leaf in Southern California and you can’t miss their digital screens. with the clips.

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Tech Zulu Event

MAY 20, 2014

TechZulu recently sat down with east coast transplant Olenka Polak to talk about startup life in Los Angeles. OP: myLINGO is a smartphone app where you can select and download an audio track of a movie in your preferred language and go to the theatre and have that audio track synchronize to the movie playing on the screen.

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