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Attention, TV industry: Cling to church and state attitudes about integrated digital content at your own peril. "We're so beyond the point of this being an appendage" to production, Adam Abramson, director of digital content for The Late Late Show with James Corden, said at a Produced By New York panel on producing…

As a producer on Kenneth Lonergan’s Manchester By the Sea, Matt Damon had push-comes-to-shove final cut approval over the film–a safeguard against the legal and reputation-staining legacy still attached to Lonergan over his troubled 2011 film Margaret. "It was just a way of keeping everyone calm,” Damon said…

With Savannah/Hilton Head International Airport scheduled to open Monday post-Hurricane Matthew, Underground executive producer and director Anthony Hemingway is cautiously optimistic that the WGN America breakout series can resume production on Season 2 this week. "They're not allowing people back into the city yet,"…

So how did Clark Gregg react when he heard the fourth season of Agents of S.H.I.E.L.D. was plucking Ghost Rider from the Marvel stable to add to his team? "I'll be honest, I saw the movies," Gregg said tonight during the show’s New York Comic-Con panel, his reference to the Nicolas Cage big-screen iterations of the…

Updated 10:00 PM: You can sum up the American Idol series grand finale very simply: Everyone got to take part in a medley and there were no surprise appearances. The broadcast was at 100 minutes and counting when they brought out original judges Simon Cowell, Paula Abdul and Randy Jackson. For the official Idol…

Following an appetizer consisting of early glimpses at the second season of Daredevil, Netflix and Marvel served New York Comic Con attendees a main course this afternoon by screening the entire pilot of Jessica Jones, starring Krysten Ritter in the title role. The second of four shows based on Marvel characters to…

For all its big cinematic moments — The X-Files miniseries begins with a spectacular crash landing of an alien spacecraft, circa 1947 Roswell and uber-contemporary paranoia complete with a reference to Uber — one fan seemed to speak for many Saturday at New York Comic Con when she asked why the return of the iconic…

Whither the 90-minute dramatic feature? Even though Darren Aronofsky’s students at NYU, where he is teaching these days, tell him they want to make movies, the director of Noah and Black Swan told the crowd at Produced By NY today that the future of movie-going is relegated to horror, comedy and event…

During a loose, hour-long session at the PGA’s Produced By NY conference, TV’s top showrunners, sardonically prodded by moderator Mark Gordon, held onto spoilers and indicated, that, alas, the only way to learn how to be a show runner is to become a show runner.  Unlike this morning’s Produced By panel “The Ms. Factor&#8221…

Producer Cathy Schulman held up a list of more than a dozen titles on a sheet of paper: They were the movies made, since Bridesmaids that were about and for women. This was progress, Schulman, president of Mandalay Pictures, noted, joking that her list could formerly be contained on a gum wrapper. Things are getting…