The Hollywood Reporter, Esq. Set to Launch June 5
LOS ANGELES, May 30 /PRNewswire/ — On June 5, 2006, The Hollywood Reporter will introduce The Hollywood Reporter, ESQ., the first comprehensive resource for entertainment and media law news, analysis, deals and filings. The Hollywood Reporter, ESQ. will offer an online suite of services, including a daily website, a weekly digital magazine, an email news service and searchable industry databases covering talent and studio deals, litigation affecting the entertainment and media law industries, corporate transactions, intellectual property and technology, labor matters and government issues. The website will launch June 5, and the first weekly issue will be published the next day.
The Hollywood Reporter, ESQ. will be published, reported and edited by its own staff members, a number of whom are lawyers, while also utilizing the resources of The Hollywood Reporter. This marks another significant extension of The Hollywood Reporter brand into the marketplace this year, coming after the launches of its weekly “Starz The Hollywood Reporter” TV program on the Starz movie channels and The Hollywood Reporter Europe, a daily email service that serves the European market.
“New markets, new technologies and new laws are transforming the way the industry makes and distributes entertainment. As a result, one of the fastest-growing areas of legal practice is entertainment and media law,” said Tony Uphoff, Publisher and President of The Hollywood Reporter.
“We are very excited to announce The Hollywood Reporter, ESQ., our new service specifically designed to meet the needs of this fast-growing and unique market,” Uphoff added. “The Hollywood Reporter, ESQ. is a natural extension of The Hollywood Reporter brand and reflects our philosophy of providing additional rich data and transactional information to core segments of the entertainment industry that we serve around the globe.”
Filling a niche in this arena, The Hollywood Reporter, ESQ. will provide entertainment and media lawyers with a timely, complete resource that delivers industry-specific news coverage and data.
The first component of the service, hollywoodreporteresq.com, will feature breaking entertainment and media law news and three all-inclusive searchable databases, which are titled:
— Industry Dealflow – major entertainment industry transactions,
including talent deals, distribution agreements and M&A activity;
– The Hollywood Docket – recent litigation complaint filings relating to
the entertainment and media industries from jurisdictions around the
country; and
– Attorney Rolodex – contact information for practicing attorneys and
business affairs executives.
Second, The Hollywood Reporter, ESQ. Weekly Edition will provide readers with a digest-style magazine featuring an executive briefing on the week’s developments in entertainment and media law, plus analysis and commentary from industry insiders, profiles of top lawyers and a roundup of the week’s key transactions and filings. The Weekly Edition’s digital magazine format will showcase its interactive features and print-on-demand capabilities.
Third, a Daily Email News Service will deliver a morning snapshot of top law industry headlines directly to users’ inboxes.
“In today’s entertainment industry, every business transaction, controversy or new trend has a legal angle and a lawyer involved, and these lawyers are now part of an increasingly powerful, influential and expanding entertainment and media law community,” said Norah Weinstein, publisher of The Hollywood Reporter, ESQ. “This community originates in Los Angeles and New York but now reaches into virtually every corporate law firm and law school in America. At this time of dynamic growth, The Hollywood Reporter, ESQ. was created to provide tailored content for the unique needs of entertainment and media lawyers.”
The Hollywood Reporter, ESQ. is designed to serve lawyers and other professionals affected by entertainment and media law issues, including talent lawyers, studio legal and business affairs executives, in-house lawyers, agents, managers, studio executives, bankers, investors and law students. “I am looking forward to some in-depth coverage about entertainment lawyers and the issues we face,” said Ken Ziffren of Ziffren, Brittenham, Branca, Fischer, Gilbert-Lurie, Stiffelman, Cook, Johnson, Lande & Wolf LLP.
“The entertainment and media industries are such exciting and interesting areas in which to practice law, especially these days with the emergence of digital media and increasingly complex business models,” said Matthew Belloni, editor of The Hollywood Reporter, ESQ. “Our coverage will reflect a full range of practice areas — from talent deals and corporate transactions to intellectual property litigation, guild and regulatory actions and technology issues — always with a focus on the legal issues and the lawyers who are facing them head-on.”
To subscribe to The Hollywood Reporter, ESQ., visit http://hollywoodreporteresq.com/ or call 866-357-0304. The annual subscription package includes full access to all three of the products. Firm- and companywide licenses and special law school rates also are available. The service will be usable on a complimentary trial basis from June 5 through June 18.
Weinstein attended USC Law School, where she graduated Order of the Coif. She was formerly a litigator with Skadden, Arps, Slate, Meagher & Flom LLP, in both the New York and Los Angeles offices.
Belloni also attended USC Law School and served as the Notes Editor of the Southern California Law Review. He previously practiced as an entertainment litigator at Alschuler, Grossman, Stein & Kahan in Santa Monica, where he wrote frequently about entertainment industry issues.
Serving as managing/online editor for The Hollywood Reporter, ESQ. and heading up its daily website is David Lott, who was previously Internet editor for the Los Angeles Business Journal.
The Hollywood Reporter is a must-read for entertainment’s most powerful, influential professionals. More than 175,000 key decision makers worldwide rely on the 75-year-old brand’s print and electronic offerings for intelligence that enables success in a continually evolving business and creative environment. The Hollywood Reporter is published by Netherlands-based VNU, the world’s largest organization of entertainment-related publications and services. http://hollywoodreporter.com/
Source: The Hollywood Reporter
CONTACT: Lynda Miller of The Hollywood Reporter, +1-323-525-2153,
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