Contestant Slim Diamond answers questions from Host Theresa Strasser while tapping a Game Show Network's (GSN) pilot game show at the Third Street Promenade on Thursday, April 16, 2009. GSN is an industry-leading, game content provider distributing competition programming through its 66-million subscriber cable television network and its casual and skill-based online games portal, GSN.com. As the premier television network for games, GSN produces some of the most popular original casino and game show series on TV today.

(TOP) Sara Manzanares, 21 (left) Taylor Lyon, 18, listen with free headphones to sound-clips at the Venice Board Walk on Friday, January 16, 2008, during a HBO marketing promotion for the TV Show "Big Love" now in its third season. Big Love is a drama about a Mormon fundamentalist family in Utah that practices polygamy and centres around a polygamist (Bill Paxton) and his relationship with the three wives, all whom he is married to. Big Love stars Bill Paxton, Chloë Sevigny, Jeanne Tripplehorn, Ginnifer Goodwin, Harry Dean Stanton, and Amanda Seyfried. It premiered in the United States on March 12, 2006 The show was cocreated by Mark V. Olsen and Will Scheffer, who also serve as executive producers.

An actor portraying "The Toxic Avenger" promotes Troma Entertainment at Loews Beach Hotel during the American Film Market on Friday, November 7, 2008.

The business of independent motion picture production and distribution - a truly collaborative process - reaches its peak every year at the American Film Market. Over 8,000 industry leaders converge in Santa Monica for eight days of deal-making, screenings, seminars, red carpet premieres, networking and parties. Participants come from over 70 countries and include acquisition and development executives, agents, attorneys, directors, distributors, festival directors, financiers, film commissioners, producers, writers, the world’s press all those who provide services to the motion picture industry.

Founded in 1981, the American Film Market (AFM) has grown steadily to become the premiere global marketplace where Hollywood’s decision-makers and trendsetters all gather under one roof. Unlike a film festival, the AFM is a marketplace where production and distribution deals are closed. In just eight days, more than $800 million in deals will be sealed — on both completed films and those that haven’t started shooting yet — making AFM the must-attend industry event.

The AFM transforms Santa Monica. The Loews Santa Monica Beach Hotel and the Le Merigot Beach Hotel are converted into a busy marketplace. All 23 screens on the Santa Monica Promenade and the surrounding community become AFM screening rooms for the entire eight-day event and eight digital and video screening rooms are added just for the AFM. Participants may view more than 900 screenings of approximately 500 films - 31 new films every two hours - the majority of them world or U.S. premieres. Titles range from big budget blockbusters that will be released by the major studios in the U.S., to lower budget art and genre films recognized at international film festivals, all destined for theaters and television around the world.

With 8,000 attendees, 900 screenings, and seminars programmed by leading industry organizations, the American Film Market continues to be the pivotal destination for independent filmmakers and business people from all over the world.

Make-up artist, Christian Waltze gives a touchup to actor John Ennis as he portrays a Walrus, during a filming of Fuel TV's "Stupidface" at the Santa Monica Boardwalk on Thursday, November 6, 2008. “Stupidface” is a fast-paced, action-packed, comedy and FUEL TV’s answer to the late-night TV wasteland of infomercials and reruns. Featuring sketch comedy, animation, and hidden-camera hi-jinx, “Stupidface” segments are produced by independent, underground comedy teams, several of whom have found online fame via YouTube.com. “Stupidface” takes late-night comedy to a whole new level—with hilarious results. all brought to you by the producers of American Misfits. There’s no way you’ll be able to wipe that smile off your Stupidface.

(ABOVE) Actress, singer, and songwriter Miley Cyrus, AKA Hannah Montana, is interviewed at the Santa Monica Pier on Wednesday, July 19, 2008, while filming an episode for Disney Channel's hit television series. (TOP)  A Hannah Montana double stands in for a scene.  Hannah Montana is an Emmy Award-nominated American television series, which debuted on March 24, 2006, on Disney Channel. The series focuses on a girl who lives a double life as an average teenage school girl named Miley Stewart (played by Miley Cyrus) by day and a famous pop singer named Hannah Montana by night. Concealing her real identity from the public, other than her close friends and family.

Actress Emily Osment, 16, who plays Lilly Truscotton  on Disney Channel's hit television series, 'Hannah Montana,' signs autographs, takes photos with her fans and poses for a portrait at the Santa Monica Pier  while filming an episode  on Tuesday, July 15, 2008.

(top) Starring actor Benjamin Bratt as William “The Cleaner” and Guest Star Alona Tal, 24, , films a scene from episode # 2 on Wednesday, April 30, 2008, at Santa Monica's Crescent Bay Park  for  A&E's new upcoming TV show the "Cleaner."  (above) Actresses Vennasa Lengies, 22, (left) and  Alona Tal, 24, (right) film a beach scene at Santa Monica Beach on Monday, April 28, 2008. The Cleaner is about a one-time addict who turns his life around and devotes himself to helping others kick their addictions to sex, drugs, alcohol, and gambling. The Cleaner has been picked up for 13 episodes, which will air on A&E over the summer. The new drama is A&E's s first in six years. Bratt's best-known role was that of Det. Rey Curtis on the television show Law & Order. In 1999, he was nominated for an Emmy Award for Outstanding Supporting Actor in a Drama Series for his work on the series. His more popular films include Miss Congeniality, Blood in Blood out and Traffic.