Musician and composer Antonio Sanchez is scoring premium cable network EPIX’s original series Get Shorty produced by MGM Television. This marks Sanchez’s first TV project.
The show is created by Davey Holmes (Shameless) who is also executive producing the MGM Television production with Adam Arkin (The Americans) and Allen Coulter (The Sopranos) who also directed the first episode. The 10-episode, one hour dark comedy stars BAFTA Award nominee Chris O’Dowd (Girls, St. Vincent) and multi-Emmy winner Ray Romano (Everybody Loves Raymond).
Get Shorty, which premiered on Aug. 11, follows a hitman from Nevada who tries to become a movie producer in Hollywood as a means to leave his criminal past behind. For the score, Sanchez is incorporating his signature percussive sound, but also the classically trained composer will incorporate an orchestral sound when applicable. Sanchez is best known in the film world for his score for Alejandro Inarritu’s Birdman.
Google Opens Its Defense In Antitrust Case Alleging Monopoly Over Online Ad Technology
Google opened its defense against allegations that it holds an illegal monopoly on online advertising technology Friday with witness testimony saying the industry is vastly more complex and competitive than portrayed by the federal government.
"The industry has been exceptionally fluid over the last 18 years," said Scott Sheffer, a vice president for global partnerships at Google, the company's first witness at its antitrust trial in federal court in Alexandria.
The Justice Department and a coalition of states contend that Google built and maintained an illegal monopoly over the technology that facilitates the buying and selling of online ads seen by consumers.
Google counters that the government's case improperly focuses on a narrow type of online ads — essentially the rectangular ones that appear on the top and on the right-hand side of a webpage. In its opening statement, Google's lawyers said the Supreme Court has warned judges against taking action when dealing with rapidly emerging technology like what Sheffer described because of the risk of error or unintended consequences.
Google says defining the market so narrowly ignores the competition it faces from social media companies, Amazon, streaming TV providers and others who offer advertisers the means to reach online consumers.
Justice Department lawyers called witnesses to testify for two weeks before resting their case Friday afternoon, detailing the ways that automated ad exchanges conduct auctions in a matter of milliseconds to determine which ads are placed in front of which consumers and how much they cost.
The department contends the auctions are finessed in subtle ways that benefit Google to the exclusion of would-be competitors and in ways that prevent... Read More