"South Park" duo ink lucrative deal
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LOS ANGELES  - An animated series is redrawing the lines of television mega-deals.  The eye-popping $75 million pact announced Monday by Comedy Central and the creators of "South Park" may be the most prominent example of the Internet as a bona fide backend window alongside syndication and DVD. The duo of Matt Stone and Trey Parker will get a 50-50 ad split on digital platforms but not on television.
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Whether it meant to   or not, a certain full-page advertisement on the back cover of  Daily   Variety featuring the four main South Park kids is going to   remind people of Mel Gibson just the same.
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Post staff writer David Hilzenrath and editor Mike Flagg discuss which local executives have the sweetest deals.
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The pair announce their five-year pact to share content and partner on advertising ventures.
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Fresh off negotiating a landmark deal for the creators of South Park, lawyer Kevin Morris is trying to build bridges between Hollywood and Silicon Valley.
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A long-anticipated merger may soon come true.
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"South Park" creators Matt Stone and Trey Parker say that choosing their favorite episode would be like choosing between their children. Not that they're above that.
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Comedy Central and the creators of the popular show, âSouth Park,â have agreed to create a hub to spread the program and related material across the Internet, mobile platforms and video games.
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Eric Bauman made big bucks posting other people's gross-out videos to his website. Now the geeks whose clips he swiped on the way up are trying to knock him down. By David Kushner from Wired magazine.
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Some performers are finding that early success online can turn into an album contract.
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Kraft and Wrigley make a minty-fresh deal.
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Seven years ago, two businessmen entered into a partnership designed to bring a town center to Bowie and millions to both of them.
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THE BRAINS behind EA Gameâs early efforts at online gaming are to have a crack at building an online Star Trek universe. Perpetual Entertainmentâs Joe Keene and Chris McKibben have negotiated with Viacom
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NEW YORK  - "South Park" creators Matt Stone and Trey Parker have signed an unprecedented production deal with Viacom guaranteeing the duo a 50-50 split of ad revenue and a stand-alone Web presence as part of a three-year contract extension, according to a report published Monday in the New York Times.
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All this week, Matt Connolly and Darius Pocha will be running their business on the move. They have been challenged to work as normally as possible using only mobile communications.
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The deals have been in the pipeline for some time, but the duo finally completed their medicals on Friday night and signed five-year deals.
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Two top-tier license deals could push the company over the top.