VideoAge International

10/09/2025

https://www.videoageinternational.net/2025/10/09/watercooler/mia-is-flashing-a-warning-sign/

Out of the 48 conferences at the MIA market, currently underway in Rome, the two that most accurately reflected the state of the Italian entertainment industry were: "Italian Cinema at the Crossroads" and the "New Challenges and Opportunities for the Italian Market," both of which were held on Monda...

10/08/2025

VideoAge at the MIA (Italian Audiovisual Market) in Rome. Here I am with film-TV consultant Giuseppe Proietti.

10/06/2025

https://www.videoageinternational.net/2025/10/06/watercooler/complementing-market-floor-activities/

TV trade shows like MIPCOM Cannes are great. But if the market doesn't give you everything you paid for and expected, VideoAge's MIPCOM edition is coming your way just before the Palais opens up, and will allow both buyers and sellers to prepare themselves with the market's overall view. At the mark...

10/02/2025

https://www.videoageinternational.net/2025/10/01/watercooler/sook-and-kimmel-back-in-the-news/

Nexstar CEO Perry Sook is back in the news since he, reportedly, was the one who gave the order to his local TV stations to drop the late-night Jimmy Kimmel Live broadcast on Disney's ABC TV network. According to The Wall Street Journal, the 67-year-old Sook likes to keep a "low profile," and declin...

10/01/2025

09/29/2025

https://www.videoageinternational.net/2025/09/29/watercooler/qa-with-a-hollywood-casting-director/

The word "Casting Director" first entered the lexicon around 1814, and described the person tasked with selecting actors for parts in stage productions. In the movie business, it began being used in 1920 (with the derogatory term "casting couch" first used in 1948). Over the years, it has become a u...

09/27/2025

Sneak preview of the October (MIPCOM) Issue. It will be online on October 6, and in print on October 10, 2025. We're now preparing VideoAge Daily at MIPCOM.

09/25/2025

https://www.videoageinternational.net/2025/09/25/watercooler/fashions-historic-bad-taste/

"The Sunday Styles" section of the September 14 edition of The New York Times featured a full front cover story, "Fashion's Historic Shake-up," which spanned seven pages and introduced big brands' new design talents. The feature introduced 13 new designers out of the 20 fashion houses that have chan...

09/24/2025

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09/22/2025

https://www.videoageinternational.net/2025/09/22/watercooler/john-malone-how-to-become-a-billionaire-by-collecting-failures/

By Dom Serafini John Malone, who, not long ago, was considered a modern-day Godot because he was widely talked about but rarely ever seen, has an autobiographical book out: Born to Be Wired. The book (published by Simon & Schuster) gave him an opportunity to open up to the press, and now he's becomi...

09/18/2025

https://www.videoageinternational.net/2025/09/18/watercooler/the-energy-cost-for-an-ai-query/

How much energy does AI use? According to a search on the popular AI search engine Perplexity, ChatGPT or similar large-language models consume about 2.9 watt-hours per query. It also added that this is 10 times the energy used by a standard Google search. Google offered a similar answer: The energy...