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Entertainment Weekly Says Raphael Saadiq’s ‘The Way I See It’ Most Overlooked CD Of 2008(1)
Raphael Saadiq (born Charlie Ray Wiggins on May 14, 1966 in Oakland, California) is an American singer, songwriter and record producer associated with the soul music movement. In September of this year, he released The Way I See It, “a truly cohesive and thoroughly enjoyable body of work that pays tribute to the golden era [...]
Tronic Studios Create A “Sweet” Video for SonyStyle
Consumer electronics rank high on holiday wish lists but who doesn’t enjoy a gift of chocolates on any occasion? So when creative collective Tronic Studio sculpted an animated array of the latest Sony products from digital chocolate in a whimsical holiday spot for the Sony Style stores, they demonstrated that life can be “Sweet” indeed. [...]
The Optimum High-Definition Experience Sweepstakes
It’s the Holiday season, and with that comes various contests and promotions. Sony is now running “The Optimum High-Definition Experience Sweepstakes” with some rather impressive prizes. The grand prize is a Sony BDP-S550 Blu-ray Player and 15 Blu-ray movies. First prize is a PS3 with LittleBigPlanet and Resistance 2. Second Prize is an one-of-a-kind autographed [...]
Sony Is Finally Making Smart Commercials For PS3
When the Playstation 3 Video Delivery Service launched on July 15th, Sony broadened our content offering to include TV shows and movies to make the PS3 the total entertainment package. With nearly 1000 full-length movies and 2700 TV episodes for download onto the PS3 or PSP, the Video Delivery Service brings you digital entertainment right [...]
Sony Pictures Wins Mobile Programming Award For Afterworld
Sony Pictures Television International (SPTI) announced today that they had been honored with an award for “Best Original Programming, Mobile” at the 2008 Mobile Excellence Awards. The award winners were announced at a ceremony in Los Angeles last night. SPTI’s win was for Afterworld, a ground-breaking science fiction property. Consisting of 130 2-3 minute episodes, [...]
Columbia Pictures To Produce Antony Moore’s “The Swap”
Columbia Pictures has inked the writing team of Tim and Tom Mullen to adapt the raucous comedy novel The Swap by Antony Moore for the screen, it was announced today by Doug Belgrad and Matt Tolmach, presidents of Columbia Pictures. John Calley, Diana Napper, and Lisa Medwid will produce the film for John Calley Productions.
The [...]
Will Smith’s Son, Jaden Smith, Set To Star In New Karate Kid Remake
Columbia Pictures, Overbrook Entertainment and Jerry Weintraub Productions will remake the 1984 hit The Karate Kid with Jaden Smith starring in the lead role, it was announced today by Doug Belgrad and Matt Tolmach, presidents of Columbia Pictures. The film will be produced by Jerry Weintraub, James Lassiter, Will Smith, and Ken Stovitz. Chris Murphy [...]
Sony Pulls Movie Content From Netflix XBOX360 Marketplace
Sony is fine with selling its movies and TV shows through digital means — just not, apparently, when it involves working with its chief video game rival. Sony has thrown a minor monkey wrench in the launch of Microsoft’s revamped Xbox Live online platform. The reinvention of the XBOX Live interface, among other new features, [...]
A Busy Winter For Crackle
Crackle is a multi-platform video entertainment network and studio, administrated by Sony Pictures Entertainment (SPE) and formerly known as Grouper. It features dozens of exclusive shows, hundreds of full-length movies, and thousands of video clips from Sony’s catalog. Crackle’s distribution method is similar to television, where they have seasons for their “webisodes,” like sitcom episodes. [...]
Perez Hilton Ban On Blogging About Sony Music Stars Lifted
Accomplished celebrity blogger Perez Hilton had been unable to write about Sony Music/Zoomba artists for an unknown period of time. However, Hilton has recently noted that the ban is no longer effective after discussions with Sony. Which means Perez Hilton’s readers will now be able to hear about Britney Spears, Beyonce (aka Sasha Fierce), Pink, [...]
Quantum of Solace Dominating Movie Theaters
Sony/MGM’s Quantum of Solace grossed a commanding $56.1 million from 10,460 screens in 67 markets, assuring the 22nd chapter in the James Bond legacy a #1 overseas spot for a third consecutive weekend. Weekend overseas viewers, while down nearly 50% from the previous week, nonetheless provided Solace with the No. 1 spot in 61 of [...]
Sony Music Hooks Exposure For European Promotion
Sony Music is launching a broad-ranging communications and artist agency, SBX, as a pan-European joint venture with communications company Exposure. Marcel Engh will lead the agency as MD. The agency offers ‘a full 360-degree proposition, from initial strategic planning and market research to creative work, content programming and fully integrated execution’. Services will include artist [...]
Sony Pictures Television International Acquires Mystery Channel
Sony Pictures Television Intl.’s networks group Tuesday announced that it has acquired Mystery Channel in Japan from former owners Marubeni, Media Intl. and Broadmedia Studios. According to the terms of the deal, Mystery Channel, which supplies an eponymous cable and satellite channel to 4 million subscribers, will become a subsid of Sony Pictures Entertainment (Japan), [...]
Sony’s Angels & Demons Trailer
Angels & Demons is a bestselling mystery novel by Dan Brown. Published in 2000, it introduces the character Robert Langdon (Tom Hanks), who is also the principal character of Brown’s subsequent, better known novel The Da Vinci Code. It also shares many stylistic elements with the better known novel, such as conspiracies of secret societies, [...]
HPA Honors Sony Pictures Imageworks
A team from Sony Pictures Imageworks that developed the stereoscopic 3-D postproduction pipeline used to make “Beowulf” will be among the recipients of the Hollywood Post Alliance’s Judge’s Award for Creativity and Innovation in Post Production, which will be presented at the third annual HPA Awards, Nov. 6 at the Skirball Cultural Center.
Winners of the [...]
Anastacia: Sony “Innocently” Asked Me To Lie
thisisbristol.co.uk is reporting a rather odd story about the singer Anastacia that we felt compelled to share. Anastacia has claimed that her record label, Sony, told her to lie about her age. The 40-year-old shaved years off her age in an attempt to appear younger. But she has now blamed Sony for making her lie [...]
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