AutoMobility LA is
where the new auto industry gets
business done, unveils groundbreaking new
products and makes strategic announcements
in front of media and industry
professionals from around the
globe. ••••
Following
AutoMobility LA, the 2018 LA Auto Show
will open its doors to the public Nov. 30
&endash; Dec. 9.
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More Than 60 Debut Vehicles at LA Auto
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•••
With more than 60
debut vehicles locked in for this year's
AutoMobility LA, nearly half will make
their highly-anticipated world premiere,
including an all new-vehicle from Hyundai
and a pickup truck from Jeep. Kia is also
expected to have multiple vehicles make
their world debut, including one of the
brand's best-selling cars.
••••German
luxury automaker Audi has confirmed that
the e-tron GT concept 4-door electric
performance coupe will make its global
premiere at AutoMobility LA for media and
industry professionals. Mitsubishi's
newest concept is also set to make its
North American debut at the show.
••••This
year, 57% of AutoMobility LA's debut
vehicles span across several segments
within the luxury class; these include
Volvo's latest luxury sedan, the all-new
S60, which will make its auto show debut
alongside the all-new V60 Cross Country
wagon. The Swedish automaker has also
confirmed that its global CEO is
slated to make significant announcements
about the company's progressive approach
to transportation from its all-new display
at AutoMobility LA.
••••The
Polaris Slingshot three-wheeled roadster
will also have its 2019 lineup of models
make their auto show debut at AutoMobility
LA, including the S, SL, SLR, and new
Grand Touring.
••••"Cars
are designed, purchased, tuned, customized
and enjoyed year-round here in Los
Angeles," said Terri Toennies, Executive
Vice President and General Manager of
AutoMobility LA and the Los Angeles Auto
Show. "In a city that's known for its car
culture and overall passion for cars,
there is no better place to debut
vehicles, reach influencers and engage
with the masses than AutoMobility LA and
the LA Auto Show. About the Los Angeles Auto Show and
AutoMobility LA Founded in 1907, the Los Angeles Auto
Show (LA Auto Show®) is the first
major North American auto show of the
season each year. In 2016, the
show's Press & Trade Days merged with
the Connected Car Expo (CCE) to become
AutoMobility LA™, the industry's
first trade show converging the technology
and automotive sectors to launch new
products and technologies and to discuss
the most pressing issues surrounding the
future of transportation and mobility. •
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101- OHIO STATE AND WASHINGTON TO PLAY
IN THE ROSE BOWL GAME- By Gary Sunkin ••••
Since 1890, the Tournament of Roses has
produced America's New Year Celebration,
bringing the traditions of the Rose Parade
and Rose Bowl Game to Pasadena and the
world for nearly 130
years.
••••
The Ohio State Buckeyes,
champions of the Big Ten Conference, and
the Washington Huskies, champions of the
Pac-12 Conference, will play in the 105th
Rose Bowl Game presented by Northwestern
Mutual at 1 p.m. PT/4 p.m. ET, on January
1, 2019, at the Rose Bowl Stadium.
••••
This year's Rose Bowl Game will be the
12th meeting between the Ohio State
Buckeyes and the Washington Huskies, but
will be the first occurrence in The
Granddaddy of Them All.
••••
No. 9 Washington is headed back to the
Rose Bowl for the first time since a 34-24
victory over Purdue on Jan. 1, 2001.
••••
No. 5 Ohio State is headed back to the
Rose Bowl for the first time since a 26-17
victory over Oregon on Jan. 1, 2010.
••••
The Washington-Ohio State game will mark
the first time in five years that the Rose
Bowl has featured the Pac-12 and Big Ten
champions. The last time that happened was
after the 2013 season, when Michigan State
defeated Stanford, 24-20.
• Back to Pasadena
••••
Washington and Ohio State are each making
their 15th appearance in the Rose Bowl.
USC (with 34) and Michigan (20) are the
only two programs that have been to the
Rose Bowl more.
The Huskies are 7-6-1 in the Rose Bowl
Game. The Buckeyes are 7-7.
••••
This will be the first postseason matchup
between UW and Ohio State.
Pre-game festivities on January 1, will
begin at 1 p.m. PT (4 p.m. ET). The game
will be televised nationally on ESPN.
Additional tickets for the Rose Bowl Game
will go on sale on Tuesday, December 4, at
9 a.m. PT online via www.ticketmaster.com
or by calling Ticketmaster at
1-800-653-8000. www.PRIMESPORT.com •
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Nancy O'Dell to ride as Grandmarshall of
the 87th Hollywood Christmas
Parade HOLLYWOOD
-- 2018 marks the
historic 87th anniversary of the Hollywood
Christmas Parade, an American holiday
tradition.
The
annual parade takes place on the Sunday
after Thanksgiving in the Hollywood
community in Los Angeles, California,
United States. Grand Marshal of the 87th
Parade is
Entertainment
Tonight's Nancy
O'Dell.
••••
Presented
and produced by Associated Television
International, the live parade which
happens in association with The City
of Los Angeles, is taped for network
television, and will take place on
Hollywood Boulevard on Sunday,
November 25, 2018 at 5:00 p.m.
••••
The
parade's telecast will be hosted
by Erik Estrada, Laura McKenzie, Dean
Cain and Montel Williams, with
special co-hosts Elizabeth
Stanton and Garrett Clayton.
The event will include live musical
performances that will take place on two
stages; featuring The Marine Toys For
Tots.
••••
The 87th
Annual Hollywood Christmas
Parade will premiere as
a two-hour special on The CW
Network on Monday, December 14
at 8:00 p.m. ET / PT (7:00
P.M. CENTRAL). The parade
will also air to more than one million
American servicemen and women worldwide on
American Forces Network. A true
Hollywood yearly tradition, the parade
attracts more than one million in
attendance each year, with larger than
life inflatable character balloons and
celebrity filled cars making the much
heralded trek down the over three mile
parade route.
••••
About
Nancy O'Dell: Emmy Award-winning
journalist Nancy O'Dell has proven to be a
force in all areas of her career as a
host, author, producer and entrepreneur.
One of the country's most respected
and leading entertainment journalists,
O'Dell is co-host of the most-watched
entertainment news program in the world,
three-time Emmy Award-winning
ENTERTAINMENT TONIGHT. Prior to her work
at ET, she served as the co-host o
••••
With
more than 20 years of experience, O'Dell
contributes to CBS This Morning and is a
go-to anchor for live TV specials.
She was a special presenter on the
Academy of Country Music Awards, as well
as a host of the American Country Music
Awards. She hosted the 2016 Grammy
Red Carpet Live Special on CBS, as well as
the live Emmys, Golden Globes and Critics
Choice Red Carpet Special for multiple
years. For 17 consecutive years she
has hosted the Tournament of Roses Parade.
She is a member of the Academy of
Country Music Awards and was the original
host and consulting producer for Nashville
Star, as well as the host and producer of
HGTV's Celebrities at Home. f Access
Hollywood and was named one of Television
Week's "10 Most Bankable Stars in
Syndication." •
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LOST LA holiday marathon on KCET kicks off
Nov.
22. As we celebrate
the fall season, KCET has just announced
its special Thanksgiving marathon
that
will feature two
KCET original shows including
Emmy-award® winning food series THE
MIGRANT KITCHEN which explores
California's booming food scene through
the eyes of a new generation of chefs and
culinary artisans whose cuisine is
inspired by the immigrant experience.
••••
KCET will continue
the holiday celebration with over three
hours of historical series LOST LA
(sponsored by Union Bank and a
co-production with USC Libraries) hosted
by public historian Nathan Masters. LOST
LA uncovers the dreams that built
modern-day Los Angeles through documents,
photos and other rare artifacts from the
region's libraries and archives.
•••••
The marathon will
kick off Thurs., Nov. 22
LOST LA: "Descanso Gardens" -
Descanso Gardens, located in La
Cañada Flintridge just east of Los
Angeles, is a 150-acre botanical garden
that welcomes thousands of visitors
annually. This documentary not only
explores the natural, year-round beauty of
this urban retreat, but reveals its
surprising history as one of Southern
California's most beloved public
gardens. •
LOST LA: "Dream
Factory"
Los Angeles is often identified with
Hollywood, but there's more to the
entertainment industry than its
facade of movie stars and blockbuster
films. This episode explores the career of
Lois Weber, a filmmakerwho rose to
greatness in a nascent film industry that
welcomed women into creative leadership
positions; as well as a Central Casting
Bureau that capitalized on the city's
segregated ethnic enclaves when filling
background roles. •
LOST LA:
"Yosemite"
Yosemite National Park has seen some
drastic changes since its birth as a park
and preserve in 1864. From a scenic land
maintained by indigenous peoples to its
emergence as a tourist attraction,
Yosemite Valley has become a postcard for
the natural beauty of the state. But
Californians have long fought over how to
manage the Park that currently is a site
of conflict over humanity's relationship
with nature. •
LOST LA: "Desert
Fantasy".
California's deserts have sparked the
imaginations of millions of people around
the world including real estate developers
that have created desert utopias like Palm
Springs and Las Vegas. From the famously
alien landscape of Joshua Tree National
Park tothe wide expanses of seemingly
empty land, the desert has been seen as a
place of reinvention and a blank slate to
create dreams. •
LOST LA: "Beach
Culture".
One of Southern California's great
international exports has been its beach
culture. Surfers, bodybuilders, and
acrobats taught Californians how to have
fun and stay young at the beach. •
LOST LA: "Ghost
Towns".
Three California ghost towns are explored.
Bodie was a Mono County gold mining
settlement that was preserved in time
while Llano Del Rio was a socialist
utopian community in the Mojave Desert.
Finally, Zzyzx was a former health spa on
the way to LasVegas. Some California
dreams succeeded, giving birth to
metropolitan regions in the state's north
and south. Other dreams failed, leaving
nothing but ruins. •
LOST LA:
"Venice"
Venice Beach boasts a rich, multilayered
history. From its origins as a themed
seaside resort to its international fame
as a countercultural hub, explore Abbot
Kinney's original Venice of America
development, the community of Beat poets
who called Venice home and how the
commercial renaissance has impacted the
historically African-American neighborhood
of Oakwood.
•
115- Major Global Producers in the
spotlight at MIP Cancun
••••
The only dedicated TV content trade event
for Latin American and US Hispanic
audiences, MIP Cancun takes place at the
Moon Palace in the Mexican resort city
from 14-16 November.
••••
Created by the organisers of the world's
leading TV content markets, MIPTV and
MIPCOM, MIP Cancun, Latin America TV
Market, brings together the community
of acquisition, distribution, and
production executives from 46 counties to
develop content deals for the fast growing
Latin American and US Hispanic TV markets.
MIP Cancun includes its signature 1-to-1
Distribution marketplace, and the
Co-Production Matchmaking Programme.
www.mipcancun.com
••••
Two creative Super-Panels, one exploring
the production relationship between Mexico
and Spain, the second looking at the quest
for brand-defining original programming,
have been added to the MIP Cancun
conference line-up.
••••
The
first of the Super-Panels is titled MEXICO
AND SPAIN: CREATIVITY AND PRODUCTION
EFFICACY EXPLORED and will feature Raul
Berdonés, Founder and CEO of
Spanish production powerhouse Grupo
Secuoya; and Epigmenio Ibarra, CEO of
Mexico's Argos Comunicación. The
pair will have an in-depth discussion on
best practices in development,
storytelling, talent management, and
production.
••••
As
head of Grupo Secuoya, the leader in
outsourced TV production services and
management of physical production
facilities in Spain, Berdonés is in
full expansion in Latin America, with
projects involving major companies in
Colombia, Chile, Peru and Mexico.
••••
Ibarra
was a war correspondent for many leading
media. Since 1992 he has been CEO of Argos
Comunicación, one of the most
important production powerhouses of the
world, with which he has produced
telenovelas and series for TV Azteca,
Telemundo, HBO, Netflix, and
documentaries. Argos Comunicación
incorporates complete production and
postproduction services for television and
film content. •
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American Film Market under way at the
Loews hotel in Santa
Monica. ••••The AFM kicked off on October
31, running through November 7. ••••The
American Film Market is considered the
world's largest motion picture business
event held each year at the beginning of
November in Santa Monica, California. More
than 7,000 people attend the eight-day
annual event to network and to sell,
finance and acquire films, making it the
pivotal destination for independent
filmmakers and business people from all
over the world.
Participants come from more than 80
countries and include acquisition and
development executives, agents, attorneys,
directors, distributors, festival
directors, financiers, film commissioners,
producers, writers, the world's press all
those who provide services to the motion
picture industry.
•••
Unlike a film festival, the AFM is a
marketplace &endash; with over 200,000
square feet of exhibition space &endash;
where production and distribution deals
are closed. In just eight days, more than
US$1 billion in deals will be sealed -- on
both completed films and those in every
stage of development and production.
•••
The American Film
Market uses all 15 movie theatres on Santa
Monica's Third Street Promenade.
Participants
may view more than 500 screenings of 300+
films-- 29 new films every two hours.
Titles range from big budget blockbusters
that will be released by the major studios
to lower budget art and genre films
recognized at international film
festivals.
•••
The AFM is produced
by the Independent Film & Television
Alliance (IFTA), the trade association
representing the world's producers and
distributors of independent motion
pictures and television programs.
•••
The American Film
Market held its first event March
21&endash;31, 1981
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Amazon pitched facial-recognition system
to ICE Amazon
pitched its facial-recognition system in
the summer to Immigration and Customs
Enforcement (ICE) officials as a way for
the agency to target or identify illegal
immigrants.
••••
••••••Amazon
has marketed the technology to police
departments as a way to target and
identify criminals, and it is used in
Florida and Oregon. Civil rights and
privacy advocates are concerened that
the unproven technology's expansion could
have a chilling effect on public protests
or embolden government and police efforts
to supercharge mass surveillance.
••••
In June Amazon
employees urged the company to reject work
that could be used for government
surveillance. It is said hundreds of
anonymous Amazon workers wrote CEO Jeff
Bezos a letter roughly one week after the
meeting, saying, "We refuse to build the
platform that powers ICE, and we refuse to
contribute to tools that violate human
rights."
••••Microsoft,
a tech giant building facial-recognition
tools that compete with Amazon's, came
also under fire from employees for the
potential work it could do as part of a
major ICE contract.
••••Google
has also faced internal resistance over
its contributions to Project Maven, a
Defense Department initiative that would
allow AI to identify objects in
battlefield drone video. [No word on
whether Google employees oppose
its Dragonfly search
engine, which was developed secretly
for China. It links users' searches
to their personal phone numbers, making it
easier for the Communist government to
track every citizen. Google's Dragonfly
also blocks any content Communist rulers
don't want their citizens to see.]
••••Amazon
has a number of government contracts and
is believed to be the lead contender to
win the Pentagon's $10 billion
cloud-computing contract, known as JEDI
(Joint Enterprise Defense Infrastructure).
The company also operates a private cloud
service for top-secret intelligence used
by the CIA.
•••Note:
Amazon's Jeff Bezos
personally owns The Washington Post since
2013. •
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Digital Hollywood,
Fall Digital
Hollywood Fall will take place October 16
- 18, at the Skirball Center, Los Angeles,
and the Influencer
Awards Celebration will take place on
October 16-18, 2018• About Digital
Hollywood During the past two decades Victor
Harwood, founder and Director Digital
Hollywood has developed and produced
over two hundred leading conferences and
events for artists, professionals and top
executives.
••••
• Digital Hollywood
debuted in 1994 and has from its start
been among the leading trade conferences
in its field with over 15,000 top
executives in the film, television, music,
home video, cable, telecommunications and
computer industries attending the various
events each year.
••••
• Keynote speakers
at various Digital Hollywood events
have included: Rupert Murdoch, Chairman
and Chief Executive Officer, News
Corporation; Steven A. Ballmer, Chief
Executive Officer, Microsoft Corporation;
Jeff Zucker, President and Chief
Executive, NBC Universal; Philippe Dauman,
President and Chief Executive Officer,
Viacom Inc.; Robert A. Iger, President and
Chief Executive Officer, The Walt Disney
Company; Leslie Moonves, President and
Chief Executive Officer, CBS Corporation;
Barry Diller, Chairman and Chief Executive
Officer of IAC/InterActiveCorp; Ivan
Seidenberg, Chairman and Chief Executive
Officer, Verizon Communications, and
more; •
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115-Valley
Film Festival, OCTOBER 31 - Nov.
4 NO HOLLYWOOD,
California - The 18th
annual Valley
Film Festival (VFF) will take
place, October 31 &endash; November 4,
2018 at Laemmle NoHo7 in the NoHo Arts
District. It kicks off with the
World Premiere of 818, a character driven
drama that weaves five stories in one
Valley. Directed by Chris Gehrt, Joe
Hackett, and Joe Taylor.
Tickets available
at ValleyFilmFest.com.
••••
The Valley Film Festival supports local
and international voices that advance
storytelling, while furthering the
education, production, and exhibition of
film. VFF has been showcasing great
content for 18 years and is a non-profit
project of Community Partners.
••••
"United by Film," has been the
Festival's unwritten theme for the last
few years and is now front and center,
complete with the hashtag
#unitedbyfilm. "As a festival, we see
the universal threads in film submissions
from all over the world," said VFF's
founder Tracey Adlai. "There is an the
explosion of cinema coming out of the
Middle East to Russia, to the 818, f
sharing stories that know no borders and
unify our hopes, dreams, conflict,
heartbreak, and tragedy."
••••
Prior to the screening, Academy Award
® nominee and Golden Globe ®
winner, Sally Kirkland, will be presented
with the Jack F. Murphy Award for
Achievement in Independent Filmmaking.
Kirkland was chosen for her incredible
career spanning six decades in theater,
film, and TV, her advocacy of the arts,
and her involvement with VFF over the last
18 years.
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Are Classic SIM cards
out? New iPhone could deal blow
to phone carriers as classic SIM cards
face extinction ••••
Each new iPhone is
usually good news for mobile network
operators. In anticipation the latest
Apple Inc. device always comes with
upgrades that make it easier to play
games, watch films and download reams of
data. More data means bigger phone
bills.
••••However,
the new iPhones might not be so welcome.
That's because there's a possibility that
Apple could introduce so-called electronic
sims, or eSIMs, a shift to become
inevitable to the new technology.
••••The
SIMs issue (under investigation by the
DOJ) has been rife since Apple complained
to the Justice Department that Verizon
Communications Inc. and AT&T Inc. were
colluding to prevent their
introduction.
••••••••••••There
are very few people who don't have a
smartphone already, meaning it's
increasingly a battle for market share
rather than new users. •
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115-China
will be MIPCOM's 2018 Country of
Honor The world's
entertainment content market, MIPCOM takes
place in Cannes, France, from 15-18
October. ••••
"China has now emerged as a major producer
and consumer of film and television and
will play a leading role at MIPCOM, to
present to the world great Chinese stories
and work with colleagues around the globe
to usher in a better future," said Mrs. Ma
Li, Director General of the International
Cooperation Department of the National
Radio and Television Administration,
People's Republic of China.
••••
"The Chinese television and entertainment
sector has a special place within the
MIPCOM and MIPTV community going back to
2004 when MIPTV welcomed the largest-ever
delegation of Chinese TV executives at an
international television market. As MIPCOM
2018 Country of Honour, China will be
showcasing its wide range of programme
genre destined for international
television channels," commented Laurine
Garaude, Director of Reed MIDEM's
Television Division. •
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115-Comcast
Beats Out Fox to Acquire Sky
TV Comcast Corp.
won out over 21st Century Fox and the Walt
Disney Co. in the battle for Sky
television by offering nearly $40 billion
for the satellite-TV service that boasts
23 million customers in five European
countries.
••••
Winning Sky is a
huge boost for Comcast and its chief
executive, Brian Roberts. His company,
which started as a small Tupelo, Miss.,
cable system a half-century ago, has
steadily grown through acquisitions and
should soon boast more than 50 million
customers worldwide. Comcast will have a
presence in some of the most prosperous
countries in Europe -- Britain, Ireland,
Germany, Austria and Italy.
•••••••
Sky is one of the
most popular TV brands in Europe. Last
year, the satellite TV broadcaster
produced $18.5 billion in revenue. It
creates its own original programs, runs
the popular Sky News channel and maintains
exclusive partnerships in Europe with HBO,
Showtime and Warner Bros. studio. •
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Cory Meets JiangZemin, former President
PRC •
• Back in the
80s, as a goodwill ambassador representing
the U.S.A., Troy Cory and his back-up
dancers and singers, "The Brooke Sisters,"
were the first entertainers from the
United States to appear in a full staged
program in the People's Republic of China
during the Shanghai TV Festival, and
televised on China's National Television
(CCTV), viewed by over 300 million
people.•
•
• •
It was there Cory met Jiang Zemin, then
mayor of Shanghai, and who later became
the 5th President of the People's Republic
of
China.•
•
The '88 Shanghai Concert was the
beginnings of Troy's concert tours in
China for the next two decades. The
concerts, just to name a few, included the
following cities: Shanghai, Beijing,
Anshan, Harbin,
Fuzhou and and Tsingtao
(Qingdao)
•
Troy Cory was among the first
international entertainers and the first
American entertainer to perform in the
People's Republic of China, beginning in
1988. In itself a notable
culture-historical feat, in view of
China's closed door policies of the late
70s and well into the 80s. The PRC's
administrative climate in comparison is
much less restrictive now and China's open
door policy enables many entertainers to
introduce themselves to the populace
Chinese audiences. •
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