Without a market component, the Monte-Carlo Television Festival has nevertheless built out and bulked up its industry section with each passing edition. More than anything, the move came out of sheer practicality, says executive director Cécile Menoni.
“We realized that the professionals who were already present could benefit from certain professional content,” Menoni explains. “The idea was to involve the many people who were already in attendance. To federate the juries, nominees and journalists, and to convey their overall vision of cotemporary industry concerns.”
This year’s festival business program runs from June 17 – 19, beginning with a conversation moderated by Variety’s Leo Barraclough that will find Amazon Studio’s Rola Bauer and executive producer Edward Ornelas discussing the challenges and opportunities, casting choices and artistic ambitions of the festival’s opening series, “Harlan Corben’s Shelter.”
From there we’re off to the races with eight more conferences tackling the...
“We realized that the professionals who were already present could benefit from certain professional content,” Menoni explains. “The idea was to involve the many people who were already in attendance. To federate the juries, nominees and journalists, and to convey their overall vision of cotemporary industry concerns.”
This year’s festival business program runs from June 17 – 19, beginning with a conversation moderated by Variety’s Leo Barraclough that will find Amazon Studio’s Rola Bauer and executive producer Edward Ornelas discussing the challenges and opportunities, casting choices and artistic ambitions of the festival’s opening series, “Harlan Corben’s Shelter.”
From there we’re off to the races with eight more conferences tackling the...
- 6/17/2023
- by Ben Croll
- Variety Film + TV
Rob Leane Jun 20, 2019
EA defends its use of loot boxes and prefers the term "surprise mechanics."
Electronic Arts' Kerry Hopkins, the company's VP of legal and government affairs, has defended EA's use of loot boxes, stating that these microtransaction-assisted game mechanics are "quite ethical and quite fun." Hopkins seems to like the term "surprise mechanics" as an alternative to "loot boxes."
It's worth remembering that the abundance of loot boxes in EA's Star Wars Battlefront II caused quite the online uproar when the game launched in 2017, and these mechanics were soon after removed from the title.
Speaking to UK Parliament’s Digital, Culture, Media and Sport Committee, in a discussion that PC Games N wrote up and shared online, Hopkins has compared loot boxes to surprise toys. She points out that such toys have been around "for years, whether it’s Kinder Eggs, or Hatchimals, or Lol Surprise."
Later in the discussion,...
EA defends its use of loot boxes and prefers the term "surprise mechanics."
Electronic Arts' Kerry Hopkins, the company's VP of legal and government affairs, has defended EA's use of loot boxes, stating that these microtransaction-assisted game mechanics are "quite ethical and quite fun." Hopkins seems to like the term "surprise mechanics" as an alternative to "loot boxes."
It's worth remembering that the abundance of loot boxes in EA's Star Wars Battlefront II caused quite the online uproar when the game launched in 2017, and these mechanics were soon after removed from the title.
Speaking to UK Parliament’s Digital, Culture, Media and Sport Committee, in a discussion that PC Games N wrote up and shared online, Hopkins has compared loot boxes to surprise toys. She points out that such toys have been around "for years, whether it’s Kinder Eggs, or Hatchimals, or Lol Surprise."
Later in the discussion,...
- 6/20/2019
- Den of Geek
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