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  • Steve Jobs doc released following ‘Jobs’ this month

    Steve Jobs doc released following ‘Jobs’ this month

    MUMBAI: With Jobs starring Ashton Kutcher released in cinema’s this month, there has been a surge of interest in Steve Jobs’ life as people seek to understand what made one of the most revered creative entrepreneurs of the 20th century tick.

     

    Having experienced success with their recent release William and Kate: A Royal Arrival, Electric Sky has acquired another Future Sight Entertainments doc, Steve Jobs: His Story. The doc will include insight from the people who knew him best; his close friends, family and colleagues at Apple and Pixar.

     

    Electric Sky already have early interest having released a promo screener last week and the doc includes contributions from Apple and Pixar heavyweights; John Lasseter, Tim Allen, Tim Cook, John Sculley and Steve Wozniak. Further big names to share their thoughts about Jobs include Ashton Kutcher, Owen Wilson, Bill Gates and Tom Hanks.

     

    Steve Jobs: His Story, will be available to deliver very soon to coincide with the continued international release of the movie later this year.

  • Ex-Fox studio executive Rothman to make films for Sony

    Ex-Fox studio executive Rothman to make films for Sony

    MUMBAI: 20th Century Fox movie studio former co-chairman Tom Rothman has reached a deal to produce up to four films per year for a joint venture with Sony Pictures Entertainment, the company said last week.

    Starting 1 September, Rothman will serve as chairman of a venture with the studio called TriStar Productions. Sony will provide financing and retain worldwide distribution rights for TriStar’s films, and Rothman will receive an equity stake.

    Rothman left his job as chairman and chief executive of Fox Filmed Entertainment in January after 18 years at the company, where he oversaw filmmaking operations that produced blockbusters including Avatar and Titanic.

  • Chicago real estate developer gifts 1,088 orginal film posters to Academy

    Chicago real estate developer gifts 1,088 orginal film posters to Academy

    MUMBAI: A Chicago real estate developer has gifted more than 1,000 original movie posters from the golden era of Hollywood to the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences.

    The posters document the studio era of “B” movie filmmaking in the first half of the 20th century and include a variety of genres like westerns, war films, musicals, biblical tales and films regarding social problems.

    “The 1,088 posters were donated to the Academy by Dwight Cleveland, a Chicago real estate developer, who continues to collect even today,” said the Academy in a statement.

    “B-movies tap into the public consciousness and provide rich fodder for better understanding the times,” observed Academy Library Director Linda Mehr while Anne Coco, the Herrick‘s graphic arts librarian called it as a “dream” gift.

    “Not only was it very well organized, but the posters also were in excellent shape. Our staff is fairly certain he was a librarian in another lifetime,” she said.

    It may be noted that Cleveland began collecting posters in 1977 while still in high school after being inspired seeing film posters in an art teacher‘s classroom. “I really think that film posters are one of the very few truly indigenous art forms of our country. By making these gifts, I hope to excite an appreciation for the works themselves among members of the general public and also set a good example for other collectors,” he observed.