The latter is Juma Entertainment founder Robert Horowitz's pick for his company's annual "Super Bowl's Greatest Commercials," which airs on CBS at 9 p.m. EST Feb. 4. "I'm hearing great things about Bridgestone," he says of the pregame buzz.
Panacea Entertainment founder Eric Gardner, who produced the "Elvira" films and television shows, has put his estate in Santa Rosa Valley, a Ventura County community situated between Thousand Oaks and Camarillo, on the market for $2.499 million.
The album - which follows 2007's breakthrough sophomore set, "TREY DAY" - sees the Grammy-nominated singer/songwriter teaming with an array of accomplished collaborators, including Eric Hudson, Bryan-Michael Cox, Johnta Austin, Carlos "Los DaMystro" McKinney, and Trey's longtime producer, Songbook Entertainment founder Troy Taylor.
"I started thinking [Akira] was more than a great film," Andy Frain, Manga Entertainment's founder, later recalled.
Ticketing site Seatwave will survive this year because people will still need to spend their money on entertainment, says founder and chief executive Joe Cohen.
Loom raised $1.3 million in seed funding last fall from Google Ventures, Tencent, Great Oaks VC, Overbrook Entertainment (Will Smith, Damon Wayy (founder, DC Shoes), and a few other angel investors.
The round included participation from Google Ventures (MG Siegler, disclosure: previously a TechCrunch employee and current contributor); Tencent, Great Oaks VC, Overbrook Entertainment (Will Smith, Damon Wayy (founder, DC Shoes), and a few other angel investors.
Patreon, a well-known Kickstarter-esque fundraising service for artists, had hundreds of thousands of dollars frozen by PayPal, which notoriously does not process fees associated with adult entertainment; Patreon founder Jack Conte told me the dustup had something to do with a project that involved a "lizard who had a naked butt".
In the years after the death in 1966 of the entertainment company's founder, the executives strived to stay true to Walt Disney's spirit.
"We've been pleasantly surprised at how much revenue is starting to come from sites like Hulu," said John Sloss, an entertainment lawyer and founder of Cinetic Rights Management, a firm that helps independent filmmakers distribute their work on new platforms.
"Even though we've seen example after example around the world of social media deepening connections, improving lives and making the world better, we are still only beginning to understand its potential," said the news and entertainment site's founder Arianna Huffington.
