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  • Rentrak acquires Hollywood Software

    Rentrak acquires Hollywood Software

    MUMBAI: Rentrak has acquired Hollywood Software, Inc. (HSI), a Los Angeles-based company that develops enterprise software for managing key elements of the digital movie distribution and exhibition industries.

     

    Rentrak’s acquisition of HSI advances its mission to provide highly valuable, never-before-seen analytic tools to the motion picture industry. By combining Rentrak’s movie and television intelligence—including Video on Demand viewing information—with Hollywood Software’s studio and theater planning systems, this partnership will give movie studios an enhanced scope of a film’s success and revenue streams by providing a more comprehensive understanding of a film’s total viewership over its lifespan.

     

    “Rentrak’s acquisition of Hollywood Software advances our commitment to the movie industry by continuing to provide products that enable studios and theaters to drive movie attendance and provide an enhanced movie-going experience,” said Rentrak’s worldwide movie measurement business president Ron Giambra.

     

    “I am excited to join the Rentrak team to help develop new systems that optimise the talents of both market-leading companies,” said Hollywood Software’s David Gajda.

     

    Hollywood Software’s Theatrical Distribution System (TDS) is installed in more than 30 studios in the US and Canada including 20th Century Fox, Universal Pictures and Lionsgate. Its Digital Cinema Theatre Management System (TCC) product is currently used to manage more than 15,000 screens worldwide.

  • 20th Century Fox to open branded resort in Dubai

    20th Century Fox to open branded resort in Dubai

    MUMBAI: Twentieth Century Fox Consumer Products has inked an international licensing partnership with Al Ahli Holding Group to build a Fox-branded theme park and resort in Dubai.

     

    This will be the second 20th Century Fox World theme park and the first Fox-branded resort. The deal allows for a roll-out of up to three additional Fox-branded resorts in territories outside Dubai.

     

    20th Century Fox World, Dubai, an immersive entertainment destination, will encompass themed lands featuring unique attractions, rides and retail outlets that will bring to life the studio’s iconic film and television franchises. The licensing partnership with AAHG also calls for the creation of the world’s first Fox-branded resort, where themed rooms and dining opportunities will offer visitors a chance to further immerse themselves in the entertainment brands and rich history of 20th Century Fox. 

     

    Highlights of 20th Century Fox World, Dubai will include: 

     

    – Theme park consisting of themed lands and attractions based on Fox properties, including, Ice Age, Rio, Planet of the Apes, Aliens, Predator, Night at the Museum and Titanic, The Simpsons and Sons of Anarchy.

     

    – A broad attraction mix, ranging from media-based dark rides to thrill rides that will tell new stories based on Fox film and television brands. 

     

    – A themed retail street featuring unique shopping and dining based on Fox properties. 

     

    – The world’s first Fox-themed resort hotel. 

     

    “20th Century Fox World, Dubai is the second Fox theme park destination and marks an important step forward in our global theme park strategy. Fox World will be a world-class destination that will help fuel Dubai’s emergence as a global tourism destination. This park builds on the foundation being laid by 20th Century Fox World, Malaysia, currently under construction,” said Twentieth Century Fox Consumer Products president Jeffrey Godsick. 

     

    Al Ahli Holding Group CEO Mohammed Khammas said, “AAHG’s history in the genre of entertainment is replete with successful partnerships with top motion picture studios. We pride ourselves in understanding the pulse of the audience and catering to it with novel and breakthrough projects.”

     

    “Fox’s rich history of great entertainment-based intellectual properties from movies, television shows and animation concepts will help us spearhead this project and add value to our latest offering in the global entertainment space. As part of our international deal with Fox, we look forward to building these attractions and resorts globally starting with Dubai as the first location and additional Fox branded resorts that we hope to open across other territories in the future,” added Khammas.

     

    “We are thrilled to partner with Al Ahli Holding Group on this exciting project. 20th Century Fox World, Dubai will provide an ongoing platform for immersive brand engagement with our consumers from around the world, including key international markets of Europe, Russia and China,” said Twentieth Century Fox Consumer Products senior vice president of global live and location based entertainment Greg Lombardo.

     

    “The synergy created by AAHG’s partnership with Fox will enable 20th Century Fox World, Dubai to offer the consumers in the Middle East and global tourists visiting Dubai to experience world-class facilities with unique attractions and retail outlets that will take themed entertainment to a different level,” said AAHG director of investment and strategy Manoj Aheeray. 

     

    20th Century Fox World Dubai is slated to open in 2018, design and production services are being provided by Rethink Leisure & Entertainment.

  • Robert De Niro to be honoured with Hollywood Career Achievement Award

    Robert De Niro to be honoured with Hollywood Career Achievement Award

    MUMBAI: Two-time Oscar-winning actor Robert De Niro will be honored with the Hollywood Career Achievement Award. The awards ceremony will take place at the Beverly Hilton Hotel in Beverly Hills, on 1 November, 2015.

     

    The Hollywood Film Awards has recognised excellence in the art of cinema and filmmaking for 18 years, honouring some of the world’s biggest stars.

     

    “The Hollywood Film Awards is an incredible brand, previewing some of the biggest movies and stars of the year, while launching the award season. We are honored to have Robert De Niro as this year’s recipient of the Hollywood Career Achievement Award,” said Dick Clark Productions CEO Allen Shapiro. 

     

    De Niro is currently starring in Warner Bros. Pictures’ The Intern and will appear next in 20th Century Fox’s Joy, coming out 25 December, 2015.

     

    Past honorees of the Hollywood Career Achievement Award include Glenn Close, Harrison Ford, Richard Gere, Dustin Hoffman, Michael Keaton and Robin Williams among others.

     

    De Niro launched his motion picture career in Brian De Palma’s The Wedding Party in 1969 and has since starred in multiple movies including The Godfather, Part II for which he won the Oscar.

  • Adobe to showcase innovations at IBC 2015

    Adobe to showcase innovations at IBC 2015

    MUMBAI: Adobe, the leader in video software, today announced its next wave of innovation coming soon to Adobe Creative Cloud, which includes groundbreaking support for UltraHD (UHD), brilliant color technology improvements, and new touch workflows. In addition, Adobe Primetime, one of eight solutions of Adobe Marketing Cloud, extends its delivery and monetization capabilities for HTML5 video and offers new tools for pay-TV providers that make TV Everywhere authentication easier and more streamlined. Adobe will showcase the deepening connections across its Creative Cloud and Marketing Cloud offerings at IBC 2015, Europe’s largest professional broadcast show, in Amsterdam, Sept. 11-15.

     

    At IBC, Adobe will also demonstrate growing industry momentum, as customers continue to make the switch to Creative Cloud and Premiere Pro CC workflows. These include the film Deadpool from 20th Century Fox, coming Feb. 12, 2016; Staten Island Summer from Paramount Pictures, edited by Adam Epstein; and award-winning motion picture color grading artist Dado Valentic. Additionally, recently launched services benefitting from Adobe Primetime HBO Now, Showtime, MLB, Sony Pictures Entertainment, RTL Group, Shomi, Voo and Starz (Parsifal).

     

    Revealing New Innovation Across Adobe Video Tools

     

    At IBC 2015, Adobe will preview new video technology coming soon to Creative Cloud that streamlines workflows for broadcasters and media companies. These include:

     

    ·         Comprehensive native format support for editing beautiful 4K-to-8k footage in Premiere Pro CC ushers in a new era of UltraHD. Continued color advancements with support for High Dynamic Range (HDR) workflows in Premiere Pro CC and improved color fidelity and color adjustments come to After Effects CC. Keep pace with rapidly developing color workflows through deeper support for ARRI RAW, Rec. 2020 and other Ultra HD and HDR formats.

     

    ·         Introduction of a touch environment with Premiere Pro CC, After Effects CC and Character Animator optimized for Microsoft Surface Pro, Windows 8 tablets or Apple track pad devices.

     

    ·         Adjust the duration of a song to match video content with Remix, a new feature in Audition CC. More than a simple looping tool, Remix automatically rearranges music to any duration while maintaining musicality and structure, creating custom tracks to fit storytelling needs.

     

    ·         Updated support for Creative Cloud Libraries across CC desktop video tools, powered by Adobe CreativeSync. Now assets, including images from Adobe Stock, instantly appear in After Effects and Premiere Pro, to bring creative visions to life.

     

    ·         In Adobe Media Encoder, Destination Publishing, a single action solution for rendering and delivering content to popular social platforms such as YouTube, Vimeo and Creative Cloud, now includes support for Facebook to easily showcase and promote social media projects and campaigns.

     

    ·         Adobe Anywhere, a workflow platform for enterprise teams to collaborate, adds the ability to be deployed as either a multi-location streaming solution or a single-location collaboration-only version.

     

    “Adobe is redefining video and motion picture workflows to more easily provide fantastic image quality. Color is essential in cinematic storytelling and images with no color correction fall flat,” said Bill Roberts, senior director of professional video product management, Adobe. “And image quality is especially important in a world moving to UltraHD. With our continued Creative Cloud advancements, Adobe is helping production companies more easily create compelling UltraHD content for any screen.”

     

    “Color is now everyone’s responsibility in production. Feature updates in Adobe Premiere Pro CC, such as Lumetri Looks, enable filmmakers and editors to control the look of a project throughout the production process, from the initial script to the end, ultimately giving them more creative control. I look forward to what’s coming next in Creative Cloud,” said Dado Valentic, Founder and Chief Colorist at Mytherapy.

  • Redbox re-news disc deal with 20th Century Fox till 2017

    Redbox re-news disc deal with 20th Century Fox till 2017

    MUMBAI: Redbox has inked a new agreement with 20th Century Fox Home Entertainment, maintaining a 28-day window on Blu-ray Disc and DVD titles through 30 June, 2017.

     

    “We look forward to working with Fox to utilize our digital marketing network and national kiosk footprint to help Fox monetize their feature film properties in the high value transactional window. As a leader in the category with over 700 million transactions per year, Redbox is actively working with our studio partners to maintain a strong base of value for their new release movies,” said Redbox president Mark Horak.

     

    “This arrangement with Redbox upholds our retail and rental strategy, while allowing us to continue to deliver the best available movies and TV shows in the market to our customers. We aggressively seek out ways to provide the greatest access to all our content while ensuring it makes the best sense for our business,” added Twentieth Century Fox Home Entertainment president worldwide Mike Dunn.

     

    Horak concluded, “Fox is a terrific partner and we look forward to continuing to work closely with them to satisfy consumer demand for their high quality content at a great value from Redbox.”

  • 20th Century Fox’s home video releases to support 4K & HDR

    20th Century Fox’s home video releases to support 4K & HDR

    NEW DELHI: Going one up on the Blu-Ray format, 20th Century Fox is now gearing up to master all of its future movies in Ultra HD (UHD) and high dynamic range (HDR) for home entertainment, which is in compliance with the UHD Alliance’s HDR specification.

     

    The move comes even as the number of 4K televisions is on the rise globally. Some of the movies that the studio will release in the format are X-Men: Days of Future Past and The Maze Runner.

     

    According to a report on The Hollywood Reporter, Fox is already releasing some HDR titles using Samsung’s proprietary S-UHDTV displays. However, it seems Fox will adopt the standards embraced by the Blu-ray Disc Association for future planned releases.

     

    HDR delivers a much wider range of density and luminosity in the image. In very simple terms it means whites are whiter and the range of shadows in dark material much more visible. Viewers would instantly notice the clouds in the sky despite bright sunshine, and a much wider range of detail in shadows.

  • ‘Star Wars’ movies available for digital download for first time ever

    ‘Star Wars’ movies available for digital download for first time ever

    MUMBAI: As anticipation builds for the December release of Star Wars: The Force Awakens, the first new film in the Star Wars Saga in a decade, The Walt Disney Studios, Lucasfilm Ltd., and 20th Century Fox are gearing up to release The Star Wars Digital Movie Collection.

     

    For the first time ever, all six epic films in the saga, from The Phantom Menace to Return of the Jedi, will be available on Digital HD globally from 10 April.

     

    “Since the debut of the first film nearly 40 years ago, Star Wars has become a worldwide phenomenon with legions of fans from every generation. It’s only fitting that audiences enjoy this legendary Saga and its many fascinating behind-the-scenes stories on a wide variety of platforms, and we’re very excited to finally bring all six films to Digital HD for the first time,” said The Walt Disney Studios president Alan Bergman.

     

    “We’re thrilled that fans will be able to enjoy the Star Wars Saga on their digital devices wherever they go. These films broke new ground in technology, design, sound, and visual effects, and we’ve created some very special bonus material which delves into the Saga’s rich history, including new and never-before-released conversations between legendary Star Wars artists – the masters who helped George bring his iconic universe to life,” added Lucasfilm president Kathleen Kennedy.

     

    With Star Wars: Episodes I-VI available for purchase as a complete digital movie collection and individually, viewers will have the Rebel forces at their beck and call across their favorite devices anywhere – sunbathing at the beach, relaxing in their living room with friends, or waiting to board a flight to Endor (or elsewhere).

     

    Enhancing the movie collection are a host of never-before-seen special features including Star Wars: Discoveries from Inside and insightful Conversations between key contributors from across this celebrated film franchise, plus a curated collection of classic Star Wars extras from each film.

     

    The six movies in the Star Wars saga are: The Phantom Menace, Attack of the Clones, Revenge of the Sith, A New Hope, The Empire Strikes Back and Return of the Jedi.

  • Tom Cruise and Joseph Kosinski team up for Go Like Hell

    Tom Cruise and Joseph Kosinski team up for Go Like Hell

    MUMBAI: The movie Oblivion saw the coming together of Hollywood stars Tom Cruise and director Joseph Kosinski. Now, they have patched up for another upcoming movie, Go Like Hell for 20th Century Fox.

     

    The movie is a battle between Ford and Ferrari for dominance in the sports car market. Based on the book Go Like Hell: Ford, Ferrari and their Battle for Speed and Glory at Le Mans written by A J Baime, the flick is being produced by Lucas Foster and Alex Young.

     

    Cruise will be portraying Carroll Shelby who teamed up with Henry Ford II and Ford executive Lee Lacocca who challenged Ferrari in 1966 by developing the Ford GT40. The project has been under development since 2011. Michael Mann was supposed to direct the movie then and Brad Pitt was being considered for the lead role in the movie.

     

    Cruise will next be seen in Edge of Tomorrow to be released on June 6, 2014. Oblivion collected $286 million over the world.

  • Gone Girl to release in 2014, Frankenstein pushed to 2015

    Gone Girl to release in 2014, Frankenstein pushed to 2015

    MUMBAI: The Ben Affleck starrer Gone Girl has got a release date of 3 October 2014 while 20th Century Fox’s Frankenstein gets a date of 16 January 2015.

     

    rankenstein will see Harry Potter star Daniel Radcliffe opposite James McAvoy.
    Frankenstein was to open on 17 October 2014 with McAvoy playing Frankenstein and Radcliffe playing Igor. Instead it has decided to release Gone Girl with Affleck and Rosamund Pike in October along with animated family film Book of Life on 17 October.

     

    Fox is working with Regency on Gone Girl, which is under production. Based on a novel by Gillian Flynn it is about a couple who move from a city to a small town and then the wife goes missing.

  • Joel Edgerton to play Ramses in Ridley Scott’s ‘Exodus’

    Joel Edgerton to play Ramses in Ridley Scott’s ‘Exodus’

    MUMBAI: Joel Edgerton is in talks to star opposite Christian Bale in Ridley Scott’s Biblical epic Exodus

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    The actor, who cemented his in-demand status after a series of high-profile roles including Zero Dark Thirty and The Great Gatsby, would play the Egyptian ruler Ramses in the 20th Century Fox film that is moving toward a September start date. Bale is onboard to portray Moses.

     

    Exodus will shoot in Spain, Morocco and England.

     

    The project had picked up steam earlier this year when Steve Zaillian came aboard as scribe. Adam Cooper and Bill Collage penned a previous draft.

     

    Peter Chernin, who bought the project as a pitch, is producing alongside Scott. Both Chernin and Scott are based at Fox, as is Zaillian and Garrett Basch’s film rights.

     

    Edgerton, whose credits include the critically acclaimed crime drama Animal Kingdom, broke out in Gavin O’Connor’s 2011 MMA drama Warrior. He recently stepped into O’Connor’s Jane Got a Gun opposite Natalie Portman. The Aussie actor also is onboard to star opposite Michael Shannon in Jeff Nichols’ sci-fi film Midnight Special at Warner Bros.