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• YouTube wants a slice of the feature film pie

  BNET - 2009-09-03

  YouTube wants to offer movie rentals and is in talks with several top film studios about obtaining licences to stream feature films on a rental basis. YouTube is discussing the service with Sony Pictures, Lions Gate Entertainment, and Warner Bros Studios, according to a story published on Wednesday in The...

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• Ensequence Receives Emmy Award, Developer of the Year Award and Establishes Strategic Partnerships With Major League Baseball Advanced Media and Sony Pictures in 2008

  - 2008-05-15

  Ensequence, the interactive TV company, today announced in anticipation of the cable industry's premier convention, The Cable Show '08 being held May 18-20, the company's success to-date this year in bringing interactive TV to the mainstream. Key partnerships with Sony Pictures Home Entertainment SPHE and Major League Baseball Advanced Media...

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• Sony Pictures Classics Acquires Atom Egoyan's Film, 'Adoration'

  - 2008-05-07

  A Modern Drama Of Teens Reimagining Themselves Through The Internet

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• Is Your Rabbi Hot Or Not?

  - 2008-04-21

  Last spring, NEWSWEEK published a list of the 50 most influential rabbis in America, created and compiled by three nice and rich and powerful Jewish media big shots who, it seemed, didn’t have quite enough to do. The aforementioned big shots (or machers, if you will) were Gary Ginsberg, an...

  Tags: America, friendship, Handhelds, HARDWARE, MARKETING, Newsweek, Sony Pictures

• Sony Pictures "Dark Country" Brings 3D Thriller to Life Using New Silicon Imaging Digital Camera Technology

  - 2008-04-10

  3D cinematography has always held the potential for delivering to audiences a more realistic, story-telling experience. This promise has been largely unfulfilled due to the physical constraints of traditional dual-camera cinema rigs, which limit the creative direction of any given shot. Director Thomas Jane and Cinematographer Geoff Boyle,...

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• EI Solutions Turns on Solar Electricity System for Sony Pictures Entertainment

  - 2008-03-26

  PASADENA, Calif. -- EI Solutions, the systems integration arm of Energy Innovations, Inc., today announced the commissioning of a 235kW solar electricity system constructed for Sony Pictures Entertainment at its historic studio lot in Culver City, California. The system was designed and built by EI Solutions using 1120 solar panels...

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• Hulu.com Opens to Public, Offers Free Streams of Hit TV Shows, Movies and Clips from More Than 50 Providers Including FOX, NBC Universal, Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer Studios Inc. and Sony Pictures Television

  - 2008-03-12

  Company Announces New Licensing Deals with the Warner Bros. Television Group, Lionsgate, NBA, NHL and More

  Tags: NBC Universal Inc., Sony Pictures, TV

• THE HEAT INDEX; Weekly rating (0-10) of sizzle and fizzle.(MediaWorks)

  - 2008-03-03

  10 Jay Leno - Set to relinquish "The Tonight Show" to Conan O'Brien in '09, ABC, Fox and Sony Pictures are all eager to hand him his own show. 8 Jimmy KImmel - His retort to girlfriend Sarah Silverman's "I'm F-ing Matt Damon" is...

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• Sony Pictures Classics' Oscar Winning "THE COUNTERFEITERS" Grosses Highest Per Screen Average in Its Opening Weekend

  - 2008-02-26

  NEW YORK -- Sony Pictures Classics collected another Oscar for the Best Foreign Language film last night with Austrian writer-director Stefan Ruzowitzky's THE COUNTERFEITERS. This is the first time an Austrian film has won this award. The film in it's debut weekend posted the highest per-screen average of all the...

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• Ensequence and Sony Pictures Home Entertainment Announce Strategic Partnership for Blu-ray Disc™ Authoring

  - 2008-02-20

  Sony Pictures Home Entertainment to Integrate the Ensequence on-Q([R] )Create Suite Into "Blu-print", Sony's Blu-ray Disc Authoring System, Enabling Blu-ray Disc Developers to Create and Distribute Dynamic Interactive Experiences to Blu-ray Disc Viewers Worldwide

  Tags: Blu-ray disc, entertainment, home entertainment, Sony Pictures