"Do you think I did it?" "Doesn't she deserve justice?" An early trailer has debuted for an indie drama titled Plea, marking the feature directorial debut of filmmaker Brian McQuery. It hasn't premiered at any film festivals yet, but has been submitted to many. McQuery is a friend of the site who has worked with us on preparing interviews many times over the years. Plea is his first feature after making numerous shorts. After 20 years in prison, a wrongfully convicted man is released from prison for rape and murder. The victim's husband has become a recluse, obsessed with a true crime documentary about the case, and tries to contact law enforcement to reopen the investigation. Then the prosecutor is kidnapped in a desperate attempt to convince her to find the real killer. The film stars Steve Mize, Anne Marie Howard, Eddie Kehler, and Heather Langenkamp, with Marty Ryan and Reggie Watkins.
- 11/11/2022
- by Alex Billington
- firstshowing.net
New York -- When Fox News Channel made its call of the election for Barack Obama at exactly 11 p.m. Et, it was the culmination of a series of events that began when the exit polls were released a little less than six hours earlier.
While exit polling favored John Kerry exactly four years ago Tuesday and turned out to be dead wrong, Fox News Channel's decision desk and executives said this time, things were different.
"The first results of the exit polls, which were available to us after 5, gave a really strong indication for Obama," said John Moody, executive vp of news editorial at Fox News Channel. It was Moody's final call, seated at the network's decison desk, that awarded states to the candidates. Shortly after 10:30 p.m., it was clear that Obama would reach 270 and the White House.
Moody talked to anchor Brit Hume before the coverage began,...
While exit polling favored John Kerry exactly four years ago Tuesday and turned out to be dead wrong, Fox News Channel's decision desk and executives said this time, things were different.
"The first results of the exit polls, which were available to us after 5, gave a really strong indication for Obama," said John Moody, executive vp of news editorial at Fox News Channel. It was Moody's final call, seated at the network's decison desk, that awarded states to the candidates. Shortly after 10:30 p.m., it was clear that Obama would reach 270 and the White House.
Moody talked to anchor Brit Hume before the coverage began,...
- 11/6/2008
- by By Paul J. Gough
- The Hollywood Reporter - Movie News
New York -- It's going to be a busy Election Night made even busier at Fox News, which will christen two HD studios, a raft of new technology and broadcast five live streams out of its Sixth Avenue headquarters.
Key to telling the story Tuesday night and early Wednesday will be the newly built Fox News studio on the 12th floor, where for the first time the channel's main anchor team, decision desk and correspondents showing real-time results will be clustered. Down the hall is another studio for Fox Broadcasting, where Shepard Smith will broadcast the network's results. Both will have the latest technology the channel has developed to impart maximum information, Fox News senior vp Joel Cheatwood said.
The Fox News studio is at the center of it all, where anchors Brit Hume, Chris Wallace and analysts will sit with a big rear-projected screen showing results over their heads...
Key to telling the story Tuesday night and early Wednesday will be the newly built Fox News studio on the 12th floor, where for the first time the channel's main anchor team, decision desk and correspondents showing real-time results will be clustered. Down the hall is another studio for Fox Broadcasting, where Shepard Smith will broadcast the network's results. Both will have the latest technology the channel has developed to impart maximum information, Fox News senior vp Joel Cheatwood said.
The Fox News studio is at the center of it all, where anchors Brit Hume, Chris Wallace and analysts will sit with a big rear-projected screen showing results over their heads...
- 11/3/2008
- by By Paul J. Gough
- The Hollywood Reporter - Movie News
New York -- It's been a long and surprising road for the network pool tasked to cover next week's Democratic National Convention in Denver, but things are coming together a few days before the opening.
Miles of wire and cable are being lined and cameras set up to capture the events inside downtown Denver's Pepsi Center, where the first three nights of the convention will be held. But it won't be until the weekend when the Fox News Channel-led pool will be able to do the same thing at Invesco Field, where Barack Obama will accept his party's nomination for president on Thursday night.
"It's like organized chaos right now," Fnc political director Marty Ryan said from Denver. "We have a lot of work to do, but things are coming into place."
During big events like the quadrennial political conventions, the presidential debates and January's inauguration, the broadcast and cable networks cooperate on coverage.
Miles of wire and cable are being lined and cameras set up to capture the events inside downtown Denver's Pepsi Center, where the first three nights of the convention will be held. But it won't be until the weekend when the Fox News Channel-led pool will be able to do the same thing at Invesco Field, where Barack Obama will accept his party's nomination for president on Thursday night.
"It's like organized chaos right now," Fnc political director Marty Ryan said from Denver. "We have a lot of work to do, but things are coming into place."
During big events like the quadrennial political conventions, the presidential debates and January's inauguration, the broadcast and cable networks cooperate on coverage.
- 8/21/2008
- by By Paul J. Gough
- The Hollywood Reporter - Movie News
New York -- Barack Obama's decision to accept the Democratic nomination at a Denver football stadium instead of a convention center throws a wrench into the networks' coverage plans.
No network has finalized its plans for covering the Democratic National Convention in August or the Gop's event in early September in St. Paul, Minn. But the networks have budgeted millions of dollars, from transporting anchors and staff both cities to the costs of cameras and cables and dozens of other line items. The decision, announced Monday, to move Obama's acceptance speech from the 19,000-seat Pepsi Center to the 76,000-seat Invesco Field has upended what the networks had thought was the plan with less than two months to go.
"It's going to cost us all more than we budgeted, and we'll have to figure out how to handle it," CBS News senior vp Paul Friedman said.
Early steps were made Monday, when the networks had a conference call to decide what to do. Fox News Channel previously had been selected to handle the pool coverage, and that won't change. Marty Ryan, executive producer of political coverage at Fox News, said some resources originally earmarked for the venue over four days will move to Invesco for the convention's final day.
"It's just a question of how big in each place," Ryan said. "That we're still resolving."
But what's certain is that the networks will have to spend millions more in total to cover the Democratic convention, and they already are over budget.
Covering the political conventions has grown less important to the broadcast networks, which no longer provide the gavel-to-gavel coverage they did years ago. That's been supplanted mostly by cable coverage, with ABC, CBS and NBC devoting about an hour a night Monday, Tuesday and Wednesday before the nominee's acceptance speech Thursday. The networks say the conventions are, for the most part, not news. There isn't a lot of suspense with the nominations locked up long ago.
"Certainly for the networks, it's going to raise the issue as to whether we really need to do Monday, Tuesday and Wednesday," Friedman said. "It's the kind of is?sue we've all danced around: How much convention coverage is necessary when there are no news developments?"
That doesn't mean that there won't be any coverage or even a major cut on the broadcast nets. Nothing's been decided, though the feeling before Monday was that the nets would have an hour a night with their anchors there all four days. Each network will have access to the pool coverage and, for instance, could cover key speeches not with their anchors on site but from the desk in New York. With the cost of building a set at the Pepsi Center about $600,000 and faced with the prospect of building another set at Invesco, it may not be the best choice for the broadcast networks to build two sets.
"The change in the schedule and venue have called into question our planning so far," ABC News spokeswoman Emily Lenzner said. "And because of the change in circumstances we're now taking a fresh look at everything, which takes time and more planning."
Said CBS News' Friedman: "Any news operation that didn't look at it hard would be irresponsible." But he said there would be no doubt that the networks would be there in force for Obama's speech, whether it was held indoors or out.
"That's going to be an historic night," Friedman said. "It's going to be worth covering, and you want your anchor there."
Fox News and MSNBC were planning to center their shows and coverage outside of the arena as it was; CNN Washington bureau chief David Bohrman said his network will be well served by its election bus that has traveled the country during the primary season and has four high-definition cameras aboard.
"All we're going to need to do is get our bus two miles away from Pepsi to Invesco," he said.
So far there are no changes to the Republican National Convention, which will be held Sept. 1-5, beginning three days after the Democratic convention ends. The cost of the coverage of that convention apparently is coming in under budget, but for fairness reasons, if the coverage of the Democrats is altered then it's likely that the broadcast nets will do the same for the Republicans.
"That's the next set of questions," one exec said. "We're all going to be sensitive to that."
Brooks Boliek in Washington contributed to this report.
No network has finalized its plans for covering the Democratic National Convention in August or the Gop's event in early September in St. Paul, Minn. But the networks have budgeted millions of dollars, from transporting anchors and staff both cities to the costs of cameras and cables and dozens of other line items. The decision, announced Monday, to move Obama's acceptance speech from the 19,000-seat Pepsi Center to the 76,000-seat Invesco Field has upended what the networks had thought was the plan with less than two months to go.
"It's going to cost us all more than we budgeted, and we'll have to figure out how to handle it," CBS News senior vp Paul Friedman said.
Early steps were made Monday, when the networks had a conference call to decide what to do. Fox News Channel previously had been selected to handle the pool coverage, and that won't change. Marty Ryan, executive producer of political coverage at Fox News, said some resources originally earmarked for the venue over four days will move to Invesco for the convention's final day.
"It's just a question of how big in each place," Ryan said. "That we're still resolving."
But what's certain is that the networks will have to spend millions more in total to cover the Democratic convention, and they already are over budget.
Covering the political conventions has grown less important to the broadcast networks, which no longer provide the gavel-to-gavel coverage they did years ago. That's been supplanted mostly by cable coverage, with ABC, CBS and NBC devoting about an hour a night Monday, Tuesday and Wednesday before the nominee's acceptance speech Thursday. The networks say the conventions are, for the most part, not news. There isn't a lot of suspense with the nominations locked up long ago.
"Certainly for the networks, it's going to raise the issue as to whether we really need to do Monday, Tuesday and Wednesday," Friedman said. "It's the kind of is?sue we've all danced around: How much convention coverage is necessary when there are no news developments?"
That doesn't mean that there won't be any coverage or even a major cut on the broadcast nets. Nothing's been decided, though the feeling before Monday was that the nets would have an hour a night with their anchors there all four days. Each network will have access to the pool coverage and, for instance, could cover key speeches not with their anchors on site but from the desk in New York. With the cost of building a set at the Pepsi Center about $600,000 and faced with the prospect of building another set at Invesco, it may not be the best choice for the broadcast networks to build two sets.
"The change in the schedule and venue have called into question our planning so far," ABC News spokeswoman Emily Lenzner said. "And because of the change in circumstances we're now taking a fresh look at everything, which takes time and more planning."
Said CBS News' Friedman: "Any news operation that didn't look at it hard would be irresponsible." But he said there would be no doubt that the networks would be there in force for Obama's speech, whether it was held indoors or out.
"That's going to be an historic night," Friedman said. "It's going to be worth covering, and you want your anchor there."
Fox News and MSNBC were planning to center their shows and coverage outside of the arena as it was; CNN Washington bureau chief David Bohrman said his network will be well served by its election bus that has traveled the country during the primary season and has four high-definition cameras aboard.
"All we're going to need to do is get our bus two miles away from Pepsi to Invesco," he said.
So far there are no changes to the Republican National Convention, which will be held Sept. 1-5, beginning three days after the Democratic convention ends. The cost of the coverage of that convention apparently is coming in under budget, but for fairness reasons, if the coverage of the Democrats is altered then it's likely that the broadcast nets will do the same for the Republicans.
"That's the next set of questions," one exec said. "We're all going to be sensitive to that."
Brooks Boliek in Washington contributed to this report.
- 7/8/2008
- by By Paul J. Gough
- The Hollywood Reporter - Movie News
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