ClickStar, the broadband entertainment company founded by Morgan Freeman and Lori McCreary announced several new executive hires Wednesday.
Among ClickStar's new management team is Stuart Halperin, an entrepreneur and veteran marketing executive in the film and digital sectors who has joined the company as chief marketing officer. Also joining the company as chief technical officer is Sam Edge. ClickStar's Dan Graham has been promoted from senior vp, operations, to chief operating officer.
Recently, McCreary stepped in as the new CEO, replacing James Ackerman who served as the company's CEO during its December launch period.
Among ClickStar's new management team is Stuart Halperin, an entrepreneur and veteran marketing executive in the film and digital sectors who has joined the company as chief marketing officer. Also joining the company as chief technical officer is Sam Edge. ClickStar's Dan Graham has been promoted from senior vp, operations, to chief operating officer.
Recently, McCreary stepped in as the new CEO, replacing James Ackerman who served as the company's CEO during its December launch period.
- 3/15/2007
- The Hollywood Reporter - Movie News
NEW YORK -- Online day-and-date movie website ClickStar has closed its second major deal, acquiring broadband rights to Todd Robinson's true crime thriller "Lonely Hearts", starring John Travolta, James Gandolfini and Salma Hayek.
The film will be available online just two weeks after its Apr. 13 U.S. theatrical opening. ClickStar founders Intel Corporation and actor Morgan Freeman and Lori McCreary's Revelations Entertainment had their first release last December, Brad Silberling's "10 Items Or Less" starring Freeman. It was distributed theatrically by ThinkFilm but made only $81,000 in theaters. Download income figures were not available.
ClickStar interim CEO James Ackerman negotiated the deal with producer/financier Avi Lerner's Millennium Films.
The film will be available online just two weeks after its Apr. 13 U.S. theatrical opening. ClickStar founders Intel Corporation and actor Morgan Freeman and Lori McCreary's Revelations Entertainment had their first release last December, Brad Silberling's "10 Items Or Less" starring Freeman. It was distributed theatrically by ThinkFilm but made only $81,000 in theaters. Download income figures were not available.
ClickStar interim CEO James Ackerman negotiated the deal with producer/financier Avi Lerner's Millennium Films.
New broadband movie outlet ClickStar has announced three home video distribution partnerships with major Hollywood studios in conjunction with its launch this week.
Sony Pictures Home Entertainment, Universal Studios Home Entertainment and Warner Bros. Home Entertainment Group will provide several hundred studio titles ranging from classic films to new day-and-date DVD releases.
"We are proud to feature many of the greatest movies ever made through these new agreements," said James Ackerman, CEO of ClickStar, the Joint Venture launched last year by Intel Corp. and Revelations Entertainment, the production company headed by Morgan Freeman and his business partner Lori McCreary.
Ackerman also said the company was in various stages of discussion with the other major studios and that 15 other content deals have been made with independent distributors of film entertainment and documentary companies.
He named Pennebaker Hegedus Films as one such partnership. The company, owned by filmmakers D.A. Pennebaker and Chris Hegedus, will supply film content to ClickStar's documentary channel. ClickStar also nabbed exclusive download rights to Al Franken: God Spoke, directed by Nick Doob and Hegedus.
ClickStar uses Intel's new Viiv technology to hook up to a consumer's television set, and it wirelessly delivers Web video. Ackerman also touts ClickStar as an opportunity for independent films and documentaries that might not otherwise get made to find a new distribution platform.
ClickStar boasts celebrity-endorsed programming channels, including a science exploration showcase called Our Space, hosted by Freeman; The Golden Age of Hollywood with Peter Bogdanovich, where the filmmaker will discuss classic films; and Jersey Docs, a docu channel run by Danny DeVito.
Sony Pictures Home Entertainment, Universal Studios Home Entertainment and Warner Bros. Home Entertainment Group will provide several hundred studio titles ranging from classic films to new day-and-date DVD releases.
"We are proud to feature many of the greatest movies ever made through these new agreements," said James Ackerman, CEO of ClickStar, the Joint Venture launched last year by Intel Corp. and Revelations Entertainment, the production company headed by Morgan Freeman and his business partner Lori McCreary.
Ackerman also said the company was in various stages of discussion with the other major studios and that 15 other content deals have been made with independent distributors of film entertainment and documentary companies.
He named Pennebaker Hegedus Films as one such partnership. The company, owned by filmmakers D.A. Pennebaker and Chris Hegedus, will supply film content to ClickStar's documentary channel. ClickStar also nabbed exclusive download rights to Al Franken: God Spoke, directed by Nick Doob and Hegedus.
ClickStar uses Intel's new Viiv technology to hook up to a consumer's television set, and it wirelessly delivers Web video. Ackerman also touts ClickStar as an opportunity for independent films and documentaries that might not otherwise get made to find a new distribution platform.
ClickStar boasts celebrity-endorsed programming channels, including a science exploration showcase called Our Space, hosted by Freeman; The Golden Age of Hollywood with Peter Bogdanovich, where the filmmaker will discuss classic films; and Jersey Docs, a docu channel run by Danny DeVito.
- 12/12/2006
- The Hollywood Reporter - Movie News
NEW YORK -- Morgan Freeman, Steven Soderbergh and HDNet co-owner Todd Wagner were among the filmmakers and industry professionals who gathered to discuss the future of feature film downloading as part of the Tribeca Film Festival's Tribeca Talks series. But during a Sunday afternoon discussion centering on Freeman's ClickStar online distribution venture and a Monday night panel sponsored by The Hollywood Reporter and moderated by THR business editor Georg Szalai, the topic quickly veered to the controversial cross-platform day-and-date film releasing strategy and the Hollywood business model. All panelists -- from ClickStar execs Lori McCreary and James Ackerman to MPAA exec vp strategic planning Dean Garfield and BitTorrent president Ashwin Navin -- said they wanted to preserve the moviegoing experience but that Internet film distribution was an inevitability that the industry is just beginning to face.
Danny DeVito has become the first artist to create a channel on the broadband entertainment service ClickStar. He and ClickStar CEO James Ackerman unveiled Jersey Docs, a showcase for documentary programming from around the world, at the Full Frame Documentary Film Festival in Durham, N.C., on Sunday. ClickStar Inc. was founded in 2005 by Revelations Entertainment, the nine-year partnership between Morgan Freeman and producer Lori McCreary, with investment from Intel Corp. DeVito said Jersey Docs will launch this fall as both a creative outlet and a viable business.
- 4/10/2006
- The Hollywood Reporter - Movie News
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