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August 27, 2010

Hello fellow readers, here is a scoop of information about Sony Innovation get-together that occurred in NYC. I’d say this is a pretty rare opportunity that bloggers and Sony enthusiasts who attended the event got to experience at the Sony USA Headquarters on 550 Madison Ave. This gig was hosted on the 35th floor at [...]

Impressions From A NYC Sony Event

Sony Insider is Going to NYC

Yup, you heard it right. We have visited San Diego Sony Electronics Headquarters earlier this summer and tomorrow we are heading to New York City where Sony will be hosting a special event for those who are enthusiastic about the brand and its achievements. We are also hearing Sony will be showing some new fall [...]

The Essential Lena Horne Is Scintillating And Seductive

Sony Masterworks released The Essential Lena Horne today, which spans thirty years of the legendary artist’s career, from her first recordings in 1941 to her live recordings of the 1950s and ’60s. This 39-song, 2-CD collection of golden standards includes six tracks previously unavailable on CD and begins and ends with irreplaceable versions of her signature [...]

Inside Job Movie Exposes The Truth Behind American Financial Crisis

Inside Job is a 2010 documentary from Academy Award nominated filmmaker, Charles Ferguson (“No End In Sight”), and is the first film to expose the shocking truth behind the economic crisis of 2008. The global financial meltdown, at a cost of over $20 trillion, resulted in millions of people losing their homes and jobs. Through [...]

Conversation With The Designers Of Sony’s make.believe Campaign

At IFA in 2009 and then at CES in 2010, Sony took the opportunity of international electronics shows to announce the group’s first unified brand message, make.believe, to be used globally and unveil animated 2D and 3D logos. Meet the designers whose teamwork and enterprising spirit brought the logos to life in an interview courtesy [...]

You Will Meet A Tall Dark Stranger In September

You Will Meet a Tall Dark Stranger is a 2010 British-Spanish-American comedy-drama film written and directed by Woody Allen and distributed by Sony Pictures Classics in the USA. The latest Woody Allen film, set for release on September 22nd, stars Antonio Banderas, Josh Brolin, Anthony Hopkins, Freida Pinto, and Naomi Watts. The film follows a [...]

Len Wiseman To Direct “Total Recall”

Len Wiseman is in final negotiations to direct Columbia Pictures’ Total Recall. The film will be a new, contemporized adaptation of Total Recall, which was based on the story, “We Can Remember It for You Wholesale” by Philip K. Dick. Kurt Wimmer is writing the screenplay. Neal H. Moritz will produce through his Original Film [...]

Interview with Adam Sessler

Adam and I talk about Sony’s strength’s, weaknesses, and 3D TV. If you watch G4 then you know who Adam Sessler is. Whether it’s during X-Play, E3 Coverage, or Comic-Con, his witty, entertaining, and extremely articulate comments on gaming and the industry are a staple at G4TV. What you might not know is that besides [...]

The Social Network Movie Coming Soon

Sony Pictures (Columbia) is steadily increasing publicity for The Social Network, which is based on Ben Mezrich’s Book: The Accidental Billionaires: The Founding of Facebook, A Tale of Sex, Money, Genius, and Betrayal. The more I see about this I feel that the movie will be most likely known amongst society as “The Facebook Movie.” [...]

Cage Returning To Ghost Rider

Nicolas Cage officially announced he will be resuming the role of Johnny Blaze. After speculation that to maintain rights to the character the film might proceed without him, Nicolas Cage shocked everyone by announcing to Craig Ferguson the deal had been signed: The first film nearly doubled the production budget, making nearly $230 million dollars [...]

Growing Up Proves Profitable

Grown Ups does well at the box office despite competition. Now that the dust has settled, Grown Ups held it’s own despite having the stiff competition of Toy Story 3, Knight & Day, and Sony’s own The Karate Kid. Grown Ups opened to approximately 5,100 screens at 3,534 locations it’s launch on June 26th. The [...]

Seth Rogen Is The Green Hornet

The Green Hornet is an upcoming 2011 superhero action/adventure film directed by Michel Gondry. The film is scheduled to be released on January 14th, 2011 and will be released in both in RealD 3D and IMAX 3D, as well as in 2D. Hornet has a $130 million budget and will be distributed by Columbia Pictures. [...]

One on One with Patrick Seybold

Patrick Seybold, Sony’s Senior Director, Corporate Communications & Social Media was kind enough to allow me to chat with him after Sony’s excellent showing at E3. Mr. Seybold and I discuss PlayStation Move, PSP, the impact of social media, and Kevin Butler. Sony had an excellent showing at E3 and redefined what the PlayStation brand [...]

The Karate Kid Is A Huge Success

The combination of Jaden Smith, Jackie Chan, Taraji P. Henson and Harold Zwart proves to be a winner for Sony. With the The Karate Kid having made it’s way through the theaters, initial estimates show the film doing exceptionally well at the box office. According to reports the overall production budget for the film was [...]

43rd Sony Aquarium Event Starts July 19th

The inhabitants of the Churaumi Sea are back again at Sony’s annual event that runs from July 19 – August 31 in Ginza. The Sony themed event takes place at the OPUS Communication Zone on the 8th floor at their building in Ginza. Inside the hall Sony has 4K SXRD projector, [SXRD-R110], and a 200 [...]

Andrew Garfield Will Be Peter Parker In The Next Spider-Man Movie

Andrew Garfield (born in 1983) is an actor who has appeared in radio, theater, film, and television, including the 2007 movies Lions for Lambs and Boy A, and 2009′s The Imaginarium of Doctor Parnassus. Sony Pictures official twitter has just updated with the breaking news that Andrew Garfield will be Peter Parker in the next [...]

Lebanon Could Be The Greatest Tank Movie Ever Made

Lebanon is an Israeli war film directed by Samuel Maoz. It won the Leone d’Oro at the 66th Venice International Film Festival, becoming the first Israeli-produced film to have won that honor. The film has not yet had a wide release, but shall debut in American theaters courtesy of Sony Pictures Classics on August 6th. [...]

John Legend & The Roots Collaborate To Engage Listeners With Wake Up!

Musical powerhouses John Legend & The Roots are presenting fans with a fiery new offering, Wake Up! The upcoming CD, being released by Sony Music on September 21, 2010, will feature soulful music from the 60′s and 70′s all with an underlying theme of awareness, engagement and consciousness — effectively telling listeners to Wake Up! [...]

Men In Black 3D

Men in Black III-D (aka Men in Black 3, MIB3D) will be the third installment of the film’s franchise. It will be released in 3D by Sony Pictures and directed by Barry Sonnenfeld, who directed the first two installments. The third was originally based on a script which takes place primarily in the year 1969 [...]

The Karate Kid Is The Kung Fu Kid

The Karate Kid is an upcoming 2010 martial arts film remake of the epic 1984 film of the same name. Directed by Harald Zwart, the remake stars Jaden Smith (son of Will Smith) and Jackie Chan. Principal photography for the film took place in Beijing, China; filming began around July 2009 and ended on mid [...]

Lin Yu Chun Is Taiwan’s Susan Boyle

Lin Yu Chun (Chinese: 林育羣; pinyin: Lín Yǜ Qǘn; born March 9, 1986 in Taipei) is a singer, who gained fame by appearing on a Taiwanese talent show, Super Star Avenue (超級星光大道), singing “I Will Always Love You” (originally by Dolly Parton) in the style of Whitney Houston’s cover version. He is well-known for his [...]

Want To Get Low? Buy A Funeral

Get Low is a film starring Robert Duvall and Bill Murray. The film is written by Chris Provenzano and C. Gaby Mitchell, and directed by Aaron Schneider. It also stars Sissy Spacek, Bill Murray, Lucas Black, Gerald McRaney, Bill Cobbs, Andrea Powell, Rebecca Grant, and Scott Cooper. The film is slated for a July 30th, [...]

Ghost Rider Sequel May Proceed Without Cage

The Ghost Rider sequel is moving forward, but it may not be with Nicolas Cage. New York Magazine’s Vulture section states that to retain the rights to Ghost Rider, Columbia may need to be in production by November 14, 2010. If Columbia can gain an extension from Marvel, then Cage could still be involved. If [...]

Christina Aguilera Goes Bionic In “Not Myself Tonight”

“Not Myself Tonight” is a new song by the Sony Music (RCA) recording artist Christina Aguilera. The song serves as the lead single from her forthcoming fourth studio album, Bionic. The track was written and produced by hip hop writer and producer Ester Dean and Polow da Don. The song, along with its accompanying music [...]

Taylor Swift Is The New Face Of Sony Cyber-shot Cameras

Taylor Swift, the lovely Grammy Award-winning country pop singer, songwriter and actress is the latest addition to Sony’s never ending cast of celebrity endorsers. We figured it wouldn’t be much longer before Swift popped up on the radar again after CEO and President Sir Howard Stringer introduced her at the beginning of Sony’s CES 2010 press conference. [...]

“The Other Guys” Protect And Absurd This Summer

The Other Guys is an upcoming action-comedy film directed and co-written by Adam McKay and distributed by Sony’s Columbia Pictures. The film stars Will Ferrell and Mark Wahlberg, and co-stars Samuel L. Jackson, Dwayne Johnson, Eva Mendes, Michael Keaton, Steve Coogan, Anne Heche and Derek Jeter. The film is expected to be released August 6, [...]

Want to Be a Sony Blogger?

Hey all Sony followers, fans and just those who enjoy Sony quality and design. Sony is offering a very interesting and exciting opportunity to become a Sony blogger at SonyStyle and snatch a couple of amazing prizes (like Sony’s XPERIA X10, woot!?) as well as travel to South Africa to attend the FIFA 2010 World [...]

FIFA And Sony Set To Create Global 3D Experience Of The FIFA World Cup

Following the initial joint announcement to make the world’s first FIFA World Cup available in 3D, FIFA and Sony unveiled insights into what the football fans around the globe can expect from this innovative undertaking to add a third dimension to the football viewing experience. Coinciding with the rapidly growing consumer interest in 3D fueled [...]

Live Action ‘The Smurfs’ Movie Begins Production in New York

Principal photography began Friday, March 26, in New York on Columbia Pictures’/Sony Pictures Animation’s hybrid live-action and animated family comedy, The Smurfs, it was announced by Bob Osher, president of Sony Pictures Digital Productions, Hannah Minghella, president of Sony Pictures Animation and Doug Belgrad, president of Columbia Pictures. We wrote about the movie last summer, [...]

Sony Pictures Entertainment Sells Off Interests In HBO Latin America

Sony Pictures Entertainment sold a portion of its investment and certain ancillary rights in its HBO Latin America joint venture, which owns and operates certain premium pay television businesses in Latin America, to an affiliate of Time Warner. Prior to this transaction, SPE owned approximately 29% of this joint venture and, after this transaction, will [...]

Eat, Pray, Love With Julia Roberts Coming Late Summer

Eat, Pray, Love is the title of an upcoming film based on the memoir of the same name by American author Elizabeth Gilbert, co-written and directed by Ryan Murphy. It began filming in August 2009 and will be released in the USA courtesy of Sony Pictures on August 13th, 2010. Filming locations for the film [...]

Superb Violinist Ray Chen Signs With Sony Classical

Violinist Ray Chen, who captivated the classical music scene with his consecutive victories at the Queen Elisabeth Competition in 2009 (video below) and the Yehudi Menuhin Competition in 2008, has signed an exclusive multi-year recording contract with Sony Classical. In February of this year, Mr. Chen signed a worldwide general management contract with CAMI Music. [...]

Michael Jackson’s Estate And Sony Music Shake On $250M Recording Deal

Michael Jackson has secured the largest recording deal in the history of the business and there are two winners in the equation. Michael Jackson’s estate will net easily $200 million out of the deal, and Sony wins because they will get nine albums out of the deal. The Washington Post thinks its ten albums, which [...]

Jimi Hendrix Lives On With New “Valleys Of Neptune” Album

Experience Hendrix and Sony Music Entertainment’s Legacy Recordings have released the monumental Valleys of Neptune, a newly curated album of 12 fully realized Jimi Hendrix studio recordings. Neptune features more than 60 minutes of music never commercially available on a Jimi Hendrix album, from the artist Rolling Stone magazine called the greatest guitarist of all [...]

Sony is Honored by International Forum Design Awards (iF)

Every year International Forum selects a number of manufacturer’s products for design and this year Sony scored 9 awards, out of which I am a proud owner of 3 – Bravia ZX1, Cybershot TX1 and VAIO X. If you never heard of iF, here is a little history about it: Since their introduction in the [...]

Rebooted Spider Man 3D Coming To Theaters July 3, 2012

The Spider-Man film series are superhero films based on the fictional Marvel Comics character of the same name, and unless you’re living in cave you’ve probably seen one of the movies. The rights to a motion picture based on Spider-Man were purchased in 1985 and moved through various production companies and studios, at one point [...]

Sony Music Artists Win Big At 52nd Grammy Awards

The annual 52nd Grammy Awards, the biggest music award show in the USA, was last night at the Staples Center in Los Angeles, California. Sony Music Entertainment and its various artists is one of the largest recorded music companies in the world and of course won really big – a total of 31 awards. But [...]

“Dear John” From Author Nicholas Sparks (The Notebook) Coming February 5th

Dear John is an upcoming 2010 romantic drama/war film starring Channing Tatum, Amanda Seyfried and Scott Porter. Directed by Lasse Hallström, and distributed by Screen Gems (a Sony Pictures company), the film is an adaptation of Nicholas Sparks’ novel of the same name. Some of you may remember Sparks’ last novel, The Notebook.

Sony Music And Simon Cowell Turn “Syco” Into A Global Venture

Simon Cowell and Sony Music Entertainment have announced the creation of a new long-term global venture to focus on the production and exploitation of music, television, film and digital content. The new venture will own all of the existing Syco television and music assets, which include the global TV franchises “The X Factor” and “Got [...]

Sony Ericsson USA Looking For Creative Digital Agency

Want a job? Sony Ericsson USA wants you. They’re looking for disruptive, show-stopping ideas. NBD – never been done. They’ve got an exciting energetic brand, great products and great parent companies with Sony and Ericsson. Come partner with them. Read the assignment below. Get your “Two-Pager” to (Kevin.Marrazzo at sonyericsson dot com) by noon ET [...]

Play.me – A New Music Service With Unlimited, Uninterrupted Streaming On Demand

Play.me – the newest music platform where users can stream ad-free music on demand from virtually anywhere at any time – has officially launched. Play.me’s browser-based service gives users instant access to over 2.5 million songs to create playlists and customize radio stations to share and stream through social networks like Facebook and Twitter. Play.me [...]

Ryan Palmer Wins 2010 Sony Open In Hawaii

Congratulations to Ryan Palmer on winning the 2010 Sony Open in Hawaii. Ryan won his third career PGA Tour title Sunday January 17, 2010 on the 72nd and final hole of the tournament outlasting Robert Allenby in an exciting back-and-forth day-long duel on the Seth Raynor designed Waialae Country Club. Ryan’s dreams became a reality [...]

Interview With Stan Glasgow, COO/President Of Sony Electronics USA

Merely two hours after I got off a plane and arrived at CES 2010, I sat down in a private meeting room with Stan Glasgow, COO/President of Sony Electronics USA. The interview took place about a hour before the CES 2010 press conference. It was the first time I’d ever interviewed someone on this level, [...]

Pictorial/Video: Scenes From Sony’s Booth At CES 2010

Sony’s presence at CES 2010 was quite memorable and they demonstrated a wide variety of new strategies for their product lines. Stan and I had a really good time covering some of the products, meeting with old Sony friends and meeting new ones. I cannot express to you enough how well we were treated by [...]

Pictorial: Scenes From Sony’s CES 2010 Press Conference

CES 2010 is nearly over but lucky for you I’m just starting to post some of the amazing content captured during our time at the show. CES was far different this year for Sony Insider than last year, as the site has matured dramatically since then and the level of respect and treatment we receive [...]

Video: Taylor Swift Performs “Love Story” At Sony’s CES 2010 Press Conference

Taylor Alison Swift (born December 13, 1989) is an American country pop singer-songwriter, record producer and actress. At one point in 2009, Taylor had 8 songs on the Billboard Top 100 chart along with CMA wins for Album of the Year, Female Vocalist of the Year, Video of the Year, and Entertainer of the Year. [...]

Sony, Discovery And IMAX To Create 24/7 3D TV Network

Three of the world’s leading media, technology and entertainment companies – Discovery Communications, Sony Corporation and IMAX Corporation – today announced a joint venture to be established to develop the first 24/7 dedicated 3D television network in the U.S. The partnership brings together three leaders with an extraordinary collection of award-winning 3D content, technology expertise, [...]

VEVO Aims To Be The Hulu Of Music Videos

VEVO is an online music video website owned by Sony Music Entertainment, Universal Music Group, EMI and Abu Dhabi Media Company. It is developed and hosted by YouTube, Sony, and Google. Google’s YouTube video service will host Universal content on the satellite website, making this the first time that YouTube hosts content off its main [...]

“Grown Ups” Coming Summer 2010 With All Star Cast

Grown Ups is an upcoming 2010 American ensemble comedy film starring Adam Sandler, Kevin James, Chris Rock, Rob Schneider, and David Spade. James, Rock, Schneider, and Spade have all worked with Sandler on films before, though this is the first film all five will have appeared in together. This is a pheonominal group of people [...]

Takers With T.I., Chris Brown, Many Others Coming To Theaters In Early 2010

Takers, directed by John Luessenhop (distributed by Sony/Screen Gems), revolves around a notorious group of criminals (Idris Elba, Paul Walker, T.I., Chris Brown, Hayden Christensen and Michael Ealy) who continue to baffle police by pulling off perfectly executed bank robberies. They are in and out like clockwork, leaving no evidence behind and laying low in [...]

Heath Ledger’s True Final Film: The Imaginarium of Doctor Parnassus

The Imaginarium of Doctor Parnassus, distributed by Sony Pictures Classics in the USA, is a fantasy film directed by Terry Gilliam and written by Gilliam and Charles McKeown. Imaginarium has already been released in the UK and Australia, and will arrive in the USA on Christmas day. The film follows the leader of a traveling [...]

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