{"id":11215,"date":"2011-03-17T17:43:53","date_gmt":"2011-03-17T17:43:53","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.filmdetail.com\/?p=11215"},"modified":"2011-03-17T17:58:29","modified_gmt":"2011-03-17T17:58:29","slug":"a-conversation-with-ari-emanuel","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.filmdetail.com\/2011\/03\/17\/a-conversation-with-ari-emanuel\/","title":{"rendered":"A Conversation with Ari Emanuel"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-11216\" title=\"Ari Emanuel at the Web 2.0 summit\" src=\"http:\/\/www.filmdetail.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/03\/Ari-Emanuel-at-the-Web-2.0-summit.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"560\" height=\"280\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Last November Hollywood super-agent <strong><a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Ari_Emanuel\">Ari Emanuel<\/a><\/strong> sat down for a chat with CNBC&#8217;s Julia Boorstin at the Web 2.0 summit.<\/p>\n<p>As the CEO\u00a0of\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/William_Morris_Agency\">William Morris Endeavor Entertainment<\/a> he is one of the key players in the industry and the\u00a045 minute discussion focuses on the economics of\u00a0the entertainment business\u00a0and the challenges of the digital age.<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"YouTube video player\" width=\"560\" height=\"349\" src=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/n7-YsOzd4co\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>Some key points from the discussion are:<\/p>\n<li>Why &#8220;There&#8217;s no one answer anymore&#8221;<\/li>\n<li>How talent is monetised in the digital world<\/li>\n<li>WME&#8217;s deal with LinkedIn<\/li>\n<li>The &#8216;painful&#8217; negotiations with Fox over Seth MacFarlane&#8217;s deal<\/li>\n<li>Tensions between Silicon Valley and Hollywood<\/li>\n<li>Google TV and the established TV networks<\/li>\n<li>The importance of cost and worth<\/li>\n<li>Should stars use social networks to broadcast themselves?<\/li>\n<li>A possible deal with Facebook to fund a movie<\/li>\n<li>Why he isn&#8217;t sure yet about signing YouTube stars<\/li>\n<li>Why the music labels probably regret making the pricing deals with Apple a few years ago<\/li>\n<li>His concerns about piracy<\/li>\n<li>How Ari have advised a young Mark Zuckerberg<\/li>\n<li>What he thinks of Ari Gold, the fictional agent in Entourage that was based on him<\/li>\n<p>There is also a flash of his famous temper around the 30 minute mark in a question about piracy. <\/p>\n<p>&gt; <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Ari_Emanuel\">Ari Emanuel<\/a> at Wikipedia<br \/>\n&gt; <a href=\"http:\/\/www.web2summit.com\/web2010\">Web 2.0 Summit<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Last November super-agent Ari Emanuel sat down for a fascinating discussion about the challenges the digital age poses to Hollywood.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":11216,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[16,11],"tags":[1920],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.filmdetail.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11215"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.filmdetail.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.filmdetail.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.filmdetail.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.filmdetail.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=11215"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.filmdetail.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11215\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.filmdetail.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/11216"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.filmdetail.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=11215"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.filmdetail.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=11215"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.filmdetail.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=11215"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}