The Dark Knight took the world by storm on Blu-ray and DVD breaking records for 2008. The blockbuster hit from acclaimed director Christopher Nolan became an instant must-own classic with Blu-ray sales of over 1.7 million units and total DVD and Blu-ray sales of 13.5 million worldwide, including consumer sales and rental sales, in one week. Brisk consumer sales – totaling over 10 million with one week of sales reported - are expected to continue through the holiday season. The Dark Knight is the best selling Blu-ray title in history and will become the best selling 2008 title overall this week. The response to the digital copy offering included on the Blu-ray and Special Edition DVD have been remarkable with the number of consumers activating their digital copies approaching 300.000. The Dark Knight is already the number one movie for the year on the iTunes 2008 Chart.
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December 28th, 2008 | Posted in Business | No Comments
Roy Lee earned his first motion picture producing credit as executive producer on Gore Verbinski’s 2002 blockbuster The Ring. He went on to produce The Grudge, based on the Japanese film Ju-On and directed by Takashi Shimizu.
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December 17th, 2008 | Posted in Biography | No Comments
SERGIO AGÜERO (Producer) segued to film and television production from a successful career packaging and financing motion pictures. In 2004 he launched Andale Pictures to produce and finance movies and television with a Latino protagonist or theme, geared to mainstream audiences. The company is developing a slate ranging from broad-based studio movies to smaller genre pictures targeting a youth core audience.
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December 17th, 2008 | Posted in Biography | No Comments
ION Television, the “Positively Entertaining” general entertainment network available to over 94 million homes, and RHI Entertainment, the leader in the production and distribution of groundbreaking movies, miniseries and series for television, today announced the U.S. debut of Pinocchio, a four-hour original production making its television premiere on ION Television on Sunday, December 14 at 7:00 p.m. ET. The miniseries will be broadcast in its entirety in one evening.
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December 2nd, 2008 | Posted in Business | No Comments
Research and Markets has announced the addition of the “2009 Trendology: U.S. Motion Pictures & Video Production” report to their offering.
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November 28th, 2008 | Posted in Statistics | No Comments
Research and Markets has announced the addition of the “Online Segment Driving Worldwide Movie Rental Market” report to their offering.
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November 28th, 2008 | Posted in Business | No Comments
The World Business Forum (www.wbfny.com) is proud to announce that George Lucas, legendary producer, director and screenwriter, has joined an already impressive assembly of global leaders to speak at the 2009 World Business Forum being held on October 6-7, 2009 at Radio City Music Hall in New York City.
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November 20th, 2008 | Posted in Events and Awards | No Comments
Image Entertainment, Inc., a independent licensee, producer and distributor of entertainment programming in North America, announced today that Werner Herzog’s “Encounters at the End of the World” was one of 15 documentaries selected by the Academy of Motion Pictures, Arts & Sciences to advance in the voting process for consideration as a nominee for “Best Documentary Feature” for the upcoming 81st Academy Awards presentation.
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November 19th, 2008 | Posted in Business | No Comments
ITV announced today that its wholly owned subsidiary Granada Germany has acquired a 51.2% stake in Imago TV Film-und Fernsehproduktion GmbH (”Imago”), the Berlin based TV production business.
The deal represents further progress towards ITV’s strategic objective of growing its production, format creation and distribution businesses in key international territories in order to increase Global Content revenues to £1 billion by 2012.
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October 7th, 2008 | Posted in Business | No Comments
On Sunday, September 21 at 8:00 pm (ET/PT) the telecast awarding Primetime Emmys in 29 categories will be presented before a black-tie audience and televised by the ABC Television Network from the NOKIA Theatre L.A. LIVE. This year’s Emmy telecast will be executive-produced by Ken Ehrlich and directed by Louis J. Horvitz. The Television Academy’s Governors Ball will follow the telecast at the Los Angeles Convention Center.
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September 21st, 2008 | Posted in Events and Awards | No Comments
