The Producers Guild of America (PGA) has announced the return of its Produced By Conference, which will be held Saturday, June 11, and Sunday, June 12, at the FOX Studio Lot in Century City.
The 2022 Produced By Conference will be co-chaired by a group of producers including Betsy Beers, creative partner, executive producer, Shondaland; Mike Farah, CEO, Funny or Die; and Charles D. King, founder and CEO, MACRO.
PGA’s Produced By Conference is a networking event and educational forum that reaches across film, television and new media to ignite conversation and action around the most pressing issues facing the industry and how producers are shifting the future of the industry. Produced By will also provide the opportunity for attendees to obtain first-hand advice from notable producers during the Conference’s popular Mentoring Roundtables. Produced By’s long-standing session, Pitch Perfect, is back this year providing a platform for selected attendees to pitch projects to experienced producers and executives who will provide feedback. Discounted early bird registration for Produced By 2022 is available now through April 30.
In addition to host sponsor FOX Studio Lot, conference sponsors to-date include: A+E Studios; Batch & Bottle; BEN Group Inc.; Delta, Official Airline Partner; DNEG; GreenSlate; Honolulu Film Office; National Geographic Documentary Films; and Produce Iowa.
The Produced By Conference 2022 team consists of supervising producer Branden Chapman; program directors Matt Ullian and Jane Sarkin (Boldface Partners); sponsorship director Diane Salerno (Six Degrees Global); marketing consultant Julie Giles (greenHAT digital); and the PGA’s PR agency of record, Sunshine Sachs Morgan & Lylis.
Apple sells $46 billion worth of iPhones over the summer as AI helps end slump
Apple snapped out of a recent iPhone sales slump during its summer quarter, an early sign that its recent efforts to revive demand for its marquee product with an infusion of artificial intelligence are paying off.
Sales of the iPhone totaled $46.22 billion for the July-September period, a 6% increase from the same time last year, according to Apple's fiscal fourth-quarter report released Thursday. That improvement reversed two consecutive year-over-year declines in the iPhone's quarterly sales.
The iPhone boost helped Apple deliver total quarterly revenue and profit that exceeded the analyst projections that sway investors, excluding a one-time charge of $10.2 billion to account for a recent European Union court decision that lumped the Cupertino, California, company with a huge bill for back taxes.
Apple earned $14.74 billion, or 97 cents per share, a 36% decrease from the same time last year. If not for the one-time tax hit, Apple said it would have earned $1.64 per share — topping the $1.60 per share predicted by analysts, according to FactSet Research. Revenue rose 6% from last year to $94.93 billion, about $400 million more than analysts forecast.
But investors evidently were hoping for an even better quarter and appeared disappointed by an Apple forecast that implied its revenue for the October-December quarter covering the holiday shopping season might not grow as robustly as analysts envisioned. Apple's stock price shed about 2% in Thursday's extended trading, leaving the shares hovering around $221 — well below their peak of about $237 reached in mid-October.
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