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Sony Music Artists Win Big At 52nd Grammy Awards(Comments)

February 1, 2010

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 [...]

Sony Music Artists Win Big At 52nd Grammy Awards

“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 [...]

Michael Jackson’s “This Is It” Has Incredible Debut

Well, Sony sure scored with their $60 million purchase of the concert footage from Michael Jackson’s rehersals before his concert tour. The movie made $2.2 million domestically in its opening night, and is looking very strong at a $20+ million dollar opening day. MJ even scored an 81% (at the time of this writing) approval [...]

A Nod To Official Sony Ericsson Blogs

Want to learn more about the inner workings of the Sony Ericsson company? Well, three blogs have sprouted up in recent times that many people may not know about – the XPERIA blogger resource centre, Satio Launch Blog, and the GreenHeart blog. I didn’t even know about them myself, but it really is hard to [...]

New Michael Jackson Song “This Is It” Hits Web, Two-Disc Album Now Available

The first new Michael Jackson song to emerge since the world mourned the loss of this musical icon has been released – a brand new single entitled “This Is It.” Sony Music Entertainment’s Columbia/Epic Label Group has also released the two-disc album This Is It (you can purchase at that link) featuring the music that [...]

Venom Moving Forward

Scifiwire had a chance to talk with Paul Wernick about the status of the Venom movie spin-off. Wernick confirmed that a script has indeed been turned into Sony:
We’ve written two drafts of Venom, and the studio has it, and they’re pushing forward in whatever ways they push forward
When asked when the film might go into [...]

Sony Pictures Entertainment Launches Redesigned Sony Pictures Web Museum

Sony Pictures Entertainment today announced the launch of its completely re-designed museum web site offering a look at the studio’s storied lot and productions ranging from “On the Waterfront” to “Spider-Man.” In an effort to preserve the rich history of the company’s studio facilities, which span 44 acres in the “Heart of Screenland,” Sony Pictures [...]

What To Expect From Sony At CEATEC Japan 2009

Sony will be presenting its latest, industry leading digital AV products and technologies at “CEATEC JAPAN 2009“, to be held at Makuhari Messe convention center, Chiba city from October 6th to 10th. Sony’s booth will consist of four themes: “3D entertainment”, “Network Field”, “Display Technology”, and “Ecology”. Sony will be exhibiting a range of products [...]

Sony Should Probably Stop Referencing Nigeria Altogether

In the last few months Sony has made several negative references to the country of Nigeria, and many are criticizing the company for doing so. The references are indirectly related to each other and happened in two seperate divisions of Sony, but occurred so close to one another it became an odd coincidence. The first [...]

Zombieland Now Showing In Theaters

Zombieland is an American zombie comedy horror, written by Rhett Reese and Paul Wernick and directed by Ruben Fleischer. The film is distributed by Columbia Pictures (a Sony Pictures company) and was released today. The film is rated R for horror violence/gore and language. The film takes place within a post-apocalyptic context, beginning with a [...]

Cloudy With A Chance Of Meatballs Still #1

I recently saw Cloudy With A Chance Of Meatballs in 3D (Sony Pictures Animation) at the theater with my girlfriend here in Roswell, Georgia. This was the first time I had actually seen a full animation in 3D as well, and my girlfriend’s first polarized 3D movie. I was not surprised that the glasses they [...]

Violinist Joshua Bell’s Latest CD, At Home With Friends, Full Of Instrumental And Vocal Duets

Joshua Bell, the Grammy-winning Sony Masterworks violinist, fulfills a life-long dream of recording a CD of instrumental and vocal duets with a colorful roster of musicians in his upcoming album At Home With Friends (available September 29th), including Josh Groban, Sting, Kristin Chenoweth, Regina Spektor, and Chris Botti, among others. The concept of At Home [...]

He-Man and The Masters of the Universe heading to Sony

With Warner Brothers Pictures no longer being involved with He-Man and the Masters of the Universe, variety reports that Columbia pictures is finalizing a deal to acquire the property. Sony and Escape Artists’ Todd Black, Jason Blumenthal and Steve Tisch will now start developing the project from scratch for Columbia pictures, sources close to the [...]

New Michael Jackson Album and Song set for Release

The first new song to be released after Michael Jackson’s death is set for release on October 12th and is entitled “This is It”. Subsequent to that, a two disc album of the same name is set for release on October 26th and North America on October 27th.

Win a VAIO and Tickets to the Tonight Show

VAIO and Intel are teaming up to offer some exciting prizes for sharing your story. Prizes include VAIO mini-notebooks autographed by Conan O’Brien and tickets to The Tonight Show in L.A. as well as other items.
To enter visit Intel’s site and submit a story on how you use your intel-powered PC. Hurry the [...]

Cloudy With A Chance Of Meatballs #1 During Weekend Theater Sales With $30M Draw

Cloudy with a Chance of Meatballs is a computer-animated film produced by Sony Pictures Animation and distributed by Columbia Pictures. It was released on September 18, 2009 and was the top film in U.S. and Canadian theaters this weekend, taking in $30.1 million in ticket sales – the 3rd highest weekend opening for a movie [...]

Peyton Manning, Justin Timberlake And Others In New Sony Commercial

Sony Electronics’ launched last week its new integrated marketing campaign with two 30-second commercials, Ping Pong (two versions) airing nationwide, along with a fantastic new campaign web site — http://www.sony.com/experts. The campaign theme centers on Sony quality as a key point of differentiation that informs the decision-making process at retail, and ultimately leads consumers to [...]

Spiderman 4 on IMAX May 5, 2011

According to Columbia Pictures it’s official. Not sure who the nemesis will be, but I hope it’s either Kraven the Hunter or The Lizarad aka. Dr. Curt Connors.
Press release is below:
IMAX Corporation and Columbia Pictures today announced that the highly-anticipated action-adventure Spider-Man 4, will be released to IMAX(R) theatres simultaneously with the film’s worldwide release [...]

Dr. Oz Gets His Own TV Show

“The Dr. Oz Show,” a high octane, multi-topic hour-long series hosted by trusted health expert, best-selling author, and world-renowned cardiac surgeon Dr. Mehmet Oz, premiered in syndication yesterday (check local listings – PDF). Episodes airing during its premiere week feature two of the recently announced “Core Team Oz” guest contributors, fashion and style expert Tim [...]

Michael Jackson’s “This Is It” Trailer In HD

This Is It was a planned series of 50 concerts by Michael Jackson to be held at the The O2 arena in London. The shows were scheduled to begin in July 2009 and continue through March 2010, which would have totaled over a million in attendance and injected a billion into the UK’s economy. It [...]

Charlize Theron Returning for Hancock 2

Peter Berg confirmed to MTV that Charlize Theron will be returning for the sequel to Hancock.

Sony to Distribute Marvel Anime

Sony Pictures Home Entertainment, under a new business unit headed by Tony Ishizuka, is set to distribute four anime series produced by Japanese animation studio Madhouse. The series will be aired in Japan on the anime network Animax of which Sony Pictures Entertainment is the parent company of and then distributed worldwide. The series is [...]

Sony Insider Forums Now Complete With 167,000+ Posts & 111,000+ Members

Greetings, I would just like to inform everyone that the merger of Sony Insider forums, Minidisc Community Forums, and ATRACLife is now complete. Sony Insider now has the largest third party forums for Sony content, with 166,000+ posts and 111,000+ members. If you were a member at the aforementioned communities your existing log-in will work [...]

Sony Ericsson Launches Extra Man Campaign For 2010 FIFA World Cup

Sony Ericsson announced the launch of its Extra Man campaign for the 2010 FIFA World Cup South Africa. The campaign aims to deliver the ultimate football experience to all World Cup supporters across the globe, made possible due to Sony Ericsson’s unique position as Official Mobile Handset of the 2010 FIFA World Cup. Reflective of [...]

The Boondock Saints 2: All Saints Day Trailer Arrives

The Boondock Saints: All Saints Day, a Sony Pictures film, is the highly-anticipated sequel to indie cult classic, The Boondock Saints. The film is the continuation of writer & director Troy Duffy’s tough, stylized cutting edge saga of fraternal twins, the MacManus brothers (Norman Reedus, Sean Patrick Flanery). The two have been in deep hiding [...]

Hancock Sequel On Track

Previously Will Smith told JoBlo that a sequel was “definitely” happening. A few month’s later, Peter Berg spoke with Sci Fi wire and shared his thoughts on a potential sequel stating “There might be another god out there”.
Now things appear to be getting fleshed out. According to the Hollywood Reporter, Sony/Columbia has hired Adam Fierro [...]

PS3’s New Ad Campaign – “It Does Everything”

Sony is moving full speed ahead in promoting the benefits of the PS3 after the recent price drop. Peter Dille/Senior Vice President, Marketing & PlayStation Network gives us a sneak peek at the latest campaign: “It Only Does Everything”. In his posting on the Official PlayStation Blog, he goes on to mention the focus of [...]

Matisyahu’s New Album ‘Light’ Coming August 25th

Light is the confirmed title for an upcoming third album by reggae singer Matisyahu, which will be released on August 25th, 2009. Matisyahu had been working on his third album for nearly two years, which caused months of promises and then delays, making it the longest time he has ever spent making a record. On [...]

Sony UK Offering TV Trade In Program Similiar To “Cash For Clunkers”

Sony UK (and possibly other regions, soon) are running a Rock n’ Roll themed campaign where you can trade in your old TV for a discount on a new Sony Bravia. Its not a bad bit of compensation for those out there looking to upgrade. It reminds me of the “cash for clunkers” vehicle trade-in [...]

Sony Insider Will Be At CEDIA Expo 2009

Just wanted to give everyone a heads up and note that Sony Insider will be present during CEDIA Expo 2009 (September 9th-13th) in my hometown Atlanta, Georgia at the Georgia World Congress Center. Sony will also be there at booth 1409, which we plan on covering extensively. We’ve heard rumors that there will be several [...]

Sony To Refresh HDNA Advertising Campaign With Peyton Manning, Justin Timberlake And More

Sony today announced its new integrated marketing campaign, which aims to reinforce Sony as a leader in quality and hopefully spur consumer demand for holiday shopping in the fourth quarter. The creative concept is an expansion of the company’s 2008 HDNA campaign, which featured a “panel” of celebrity experts who served as brand ambassadors. Situated [...]

Sony Music And Yo-Yo Ma To Release 30 Years Outside The Box

Sony Music and Yo-Yo Ma are proud to announce Yo-Yo Ma: 30 Years Outside the Box on October 27th. This milestone release celebrates and commemorates Yo-Yo Ma’s 30 year recording career with Sony Music. Created with the full participation of Yo-Yo Ma, 30 Years Outside the Box, is the definitive collection of this iconic artist [...]

Scammers Targetting Innocent People & Sony Insider With Job Postings

The life of a webmaster sure is a weird one. I’ve been hacked before, and scammers have used my sites in the past to advertise their products or steal e-mail addresses from various databases. I’ve even had one website completely defaced with foreign text and weird pictures associated with an online clan. However, this new [...]

Sony Breaks Worlds Largest Meatball Record To Promote Cloudy With A Chance Of Meatballs

Cloudy with a Chance of Meatballs is a computer-animated parody film produced by Sony Pictures Animation and distributed by Columbia Pictures. It is scheduled for a theatrical release on September 18, 2009 (also in 3D) and is inspired by the children’s book of the same name by Judi Barrett and Ron Barrett. The film features [...]

Aliens Crash Land In Upcoming “District 9″ Movie

District 9 is an upcoming science fiction film produced by Peter Jackson, set for an August 14th release date and will be distributed by Sony’s Tristar Pictures. It takes place in Johannesburg, South Africa; aliens made first contact with Earth twenty-eight years prior while humanity waited for the hostile attack or for giant advances in [...]

Sony Bringing Michael Jackson Concert “This Is It” Film To Theaters Halloween Eve

Sony Music To Distribute Whitney Houston’s First Album In Seven Years

I Look to You is the name of the long awaited seventh studio album by worldwide multi-platinum selling R&B recording artist Whitney Houston. It will be released first in Germany by Sony Music on August 28 before being release in the UK on August 31 by RCA Records and finally worldwide on September 1 by [...]

RedBox DVD Rental And Sony Deal Worth $460 Million

In a regulatory filing following Sony Pictures’ recently struck deal with Redbox, the DVD kiosk company’s owner, Coinstar, said Tuesday that the studio will reap $460 million under terms of its multiyear pact. Sony on Monday announced a deal to provide new releases directly to Redbox through September 2014. It’s the first such agreement for [...]

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