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MPA chief Charles Rivkin put piracy front and center at his CinemaCon keynote, touting the ongoing recovery in the entertainment sector but noting gains will always be crimped when intellectual property keeps being ripped off. He spoke to thousands of cinema owners at the Las Vegas confab, as the association that reps…

Gov. Phil Murphy (D-NJ), who once had aspirations of an entertainment career, told a D.C. crowd, “I always dreamed, as I was considering acting … that maybe I’d get an Oscar, so this is as close as I am going to come.” Murphy was one of the recipients this week of the inaugural MPA Awards, the studio trade and…

EXCLUSIVE: The Motion Picture Association posted a $4.2 million deficit in 2020, as the trade association adjusted to its traditional six-member roster, according to the latest tax filing with the Internal Revenue Service. The loss is a contrast to 2019, when the trade association reported a $4.4 million surplus…

The Motion Picture Association and the Entertainment Industry College Outreach Program have launched a new fellowship program to increase diversity in the entertainment and policy sector. The MPA-EICOP Entertainment Law & Policy Fellowship Program will offer the fellowship to two recent graduates from Historic Black…

Charles Rivkin, chairman and CEO of the Motion Picture Association, has congratulated Fran Drescher on her election as president of SAG-AFTRA. "The last year and a half have demonstrated yet again how much we can get done as an industry when we work collaboratively together," he said in a statement, "and I know that…

MPA chief Charles Rivkin reflected on the year of furloughs for exhibition, and the industry’s recession, but emphasized one of strength going forward in a speech at CinemaCon on Tuesday. The drumbeat of “comeback” is the motif continually being emphasized at this year’s conference. He pointed to the Congress relief…

The studios are continuing to line up against the effort to recall California Governor Gavin Newsom, with the latest contributions coming from the Motion Picture Association’s political action committee along with that of MPA’s chairman, Charles Rivkin. The MPA California PAC donated $10,000 to Stop the Republican…

White House Press Secretary Jen Psaki indicated this week that the White House hopes to name nominees for ambassadorships "soon," a highly anticipated announcement in L.A. donor circles and among Democratic fundraisers across the country. Only adding to the chatter of who is in line for what was an Axios report this…

The Motion Picture Association released its annual report on box office and home entertainment, and the bottom line is sobering but little surprise after a year of Covid closures. The U.S./Canada box office market was down 80% in 2020, to $2.2 billion, while tickets sold were down 81% to 0.24 billion. Still, that was…

Motion Picture Association Chairman Charles Rivkin’s compensation rose to $3.1 million in 2019, while revenues for the industry trade association increased with the addition of Netflix as a member. The figures were revealed as part of public tax documents filed earlier this month. Rivkin collected $2 million in base…

EXCLUSIVE: The Motion Picture Association has renewed the contract of chairman and CEO Charles Rivkin for another three years, starting on January 1. Rivkin joined the MPA in September 2017 as CEO and, after a transition period, also became chairman in January 2018. Before joining the trade organization, he was the…

Donald Trump was a showman whose election in 2016 was in part due to his fame from The Apprentice, but President-elect Joe Biden and Vice President-elect Kamala Harris will come into office with much closer ties to the entertainment industry. The new administration will likely usher in a much more receptive vibe from…