Big Fantastic has one of the more impressive track records in the web series circuit, tent-poled by their international breakout franchise Prom Queen. For years they have been the goto production house for studios like Michael Eisner’s Vuguru (Prom Queen, Foreign Body), 60Frames (Cockpit) and Warner Bros. (Sorority Forever). But now as the company prepares its first non-studio original series since their debut Sam Has 7 Friends, the company announced they have signed on as a new media signatories to the Writers Guild of America, West, under the WGA’s Minimum Basic Agreement (“Mba”). “The Guild has done a great job of recognizing and legitimizing the efforts of online creators like us,” said Big Fantastic’s Doug Cheney. “We chose to become a signatory now because it affords us tremendous opportunities as writers while allowing our company access to the vast WGA talent pool.” There’s been a fair...
- 2/24/2010
- by Marc Hustvedt
- Tubefilter.com
Fall Web TV Week is finally here! It kicks off tonight with the October edition of the Tubefilter Hollywood Web Television Meetup in Los Angeles at 7:00 Pm. The night gets under way with a special sold-out "Going Live!" panel all about live streaming web series streamed Live at 7:20 on Stickam and right here on Tubefilter. Going Live! Panel: Hailey Bright, Co-Host, Coin-Op TV Live Drew Baldwin, Producer, The Streamy Awards (and Tubefilter co-founder) Brian Gramo, Founder, theStream.tv Tyler Crowley, Exec. Producer, Mahalo Daily, This Week in Startups, Kevin Pollack's Chat Show Bismarck Lepe, Founder, Ooyala Moderator: Marc Hustvedt, Editor-in-Chief, Tubefilter News Spotted on the Meetup RSVP list... Private High Musical's Taryn Southern..The Guild's Felicia Day, Jeff Lewis, Sandeep Parikh, Sean Becker and Kim Evey...The Bannen Way creators Mark Gantt and Jesse Warren....Blip.tv founders Mike Hudack and Dina Kaplan...lonelygirl15's Jessica Rose and Yousef Abu-Taleb.
- 10/19/2009
- by Tubefilter News
- Tubefilter.com
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