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BMI, the leading U.S. performing right organization, honored the composers of music featured in the past year’s top-grossing films, top-rated prime-time network television series and highest-ranking cable network programs tonight at its annual Film & Television Awards. Held at the Beverly Wilshire Hotel, the black-tie gala was hosted by BMI President & CEO Del Bryant and Film/TV Relations Vice President Doreen Ringer Ross, who handed out more than 80 BMI Crystals throughout the evening.

Dick Martin, who co-created and co-hosted Rowan and Martin’s Laugh-In – a show which forever changed the face of television – and who championed free speech and satire as staples in American media, died today of respiratory complications, while surrounded by his wife, family, and friends. He was 86 years young.

Allan Loeb worked at the Chicago Board of Trade until 1992, when he gave it up to move to L.A. and write screenplays. Loeb took a screenwriting class at UCLA extension and started writing script after script, selling his first project, The Second Time Around, to DreamWorks in 1997.

William S. Beasley, a veteran of more than forty feature films, has been involved in the motion picture industry since the year 1975. He is re-teaming on the film 21 with director Robert Luketic, whom he previously worked with on the comedy Win A Date With Tad Hamilton. Beasley most recently executive produced the David Goyer drama The Invisible, starring Marcia Gay Harden and Justin Chatwin.

Brett Ratner has established in a very short time himself as one of Hollywood’s most successful directors. Ratner’s eight feature films have grossed over one and a half billion dollars worldwide. At 26 years old he directed his first feature film, the surprise box office hit Money Talks, a comedy starring Charlie Sheen and Chris Tucker. His second film, the action comedy Rush Hour, starred Jackie Chan and Chris Tucker and earned $250 million worldwide. He followed that success with the romantic fantasy drama The Family Man, a critical and box office hit starring Nicolas Cage and Tea Leoni. A year later, Ratner delivered Hong Kong-style action with Chan and Tucker in the hit sequel, Rush Hour 2, which grossed more than $342 million worldwide. Ratner made his first foray into the world of suspense thrillers with his fifth feature film Red Dragon, the Silence of the Lambs prequel starring Edward Norton, Anthony Hopkins, Ralph Fiennes, and Emily Watson. Ratner’s sixth feature film, After the Sunset, starring Pierce Brosnan, Salma Hayek, Woody Harrelson, and Don Cheadle enjoyed success in theatres nationwide.

Ryan Kavanaugh is a principal of Relativity Media, LLC, a financing, consulting and production company that structures slate financing for both major studios and independent production entities.

Russell Carpenter won an Academy Award for Best Cinematography for his beautiful imagery on Titanic, the enormously successful romantic drama directed by James Cameron. He also collaborated with the director on T2 - 3D: Battle Across Time and True Lies. Carpenter previously worked with director Robert Luketic on Monster-In-Law.

Missy Stewart, a graduate of Bennington College with a degree in Fine Arts and Literature, followed an arts career until the late eighties when her interests began to shift from the world of fine art to cinema. She found the collaborative and narrative aspects of film very appealing and the visual side stimulating and not so dissimilar to painting.

Tracklist:

* 1. You Can’t Always Get What You Want -Rolling Stones Remix by Soulwax

2. Time To Pretend -MGMT (Extra Clean Version)

Revisit the game where the only winning move is not to play when WarGames: The Dead Code premieres on DVD July 29 from MGM Home Entertainment. In the sequel to the 1983 $79 million box-office smash, the government is keeping a watchful eye on Will Farmer – a computer hacker who engages a super-computer named Ripley in an online terrorist-attack simulation game that is designed specifically to profile potential threats to the United States. When Homeland Security becomes convinced that Farmer is indeed a potential threat, he must do all in his power to clear his name and end the game. Directed by Stuart Gillard (RocketMan, The Initiation of Sarah) and starring Matt Lanter (“Heroes,” “Commander in Chief”) and Colm Feore (The Chronicles of Riddick, Chicago), the DVD features director and actor audio commentaries, a “Making Of” featurette and photo galleries.