MUMBAI: The Animation Guild – also known as IATSE Local 839 has reached a tentative agreement on a new collective bargaining agreement. The agreement provides for 2 per cent increase of annual wage and for pension, health, and secondary retirement plan (Individual Account Plan, or IAP) benefits to be provided under the terms of the IATSE Basic Agreement.
The three-year deal, that runs from 1 August this year till 31 July, 2015, was negotiated with animation producers represented by the Alliance of Motion Picture and Television Producers (AMPTP), including ABC, Adelaide (Sony), Animated Productions (Paramount), Cartoon Network, Cast & Crew Payroll, CBS, Columbia, DeLuxe Laboratories, DreamWorks Animation, Entertainment Partners, FPS Services, Fox TV Animation, Legendary, MGM Animation, Muddy Water, NBC Universal, PES Payroll, Turner Films, Walt Disney Pictures and Warner Bros. Animation.
In a statement, the AMPTP said “Both sides worked through some difficult issues to reach an agreement that gives members of The Animation Guild the same benefits package and two percent annual wage increase as recently negotiated in the IATSE Hollywood Basic Agreement.”
Other provisions of the new agreement include a new storyboard revisionist classification, and changes to the talent development program and the DreamWorks Animation wage minimums.
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Animation Guild in a three-year deal
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Disney’s ‘Cars’ & ‘Pirates of the Caribbean: Dead Man’s Chest’ available on iTunes
MUMBAI: Two of Disney’s big releases, the animated Disney/Pixar film Cars and Walt Disney Pictures’ motion picture Pirates of the Caribbean: Dead Man’s Chest will now be available for download at the Apple’s iTunes store from Buena Vista Worldwide Home Entertainment.
Cars, the comedy-adventure about a hotshot rookie race car who along with a cast of car-acters goes on the ride of his life. Starring Owen Wilson (‘Wedding Crashers’) and Paul Newman, the movie takes audiences of all ages on an adventure. The film will be available for download at the iTunes store beginning 7 November, states an official release.
Pirates of the Caribbean: Dead Man’s Chest, starring Johnny Depp as Captain Jack Sparrow is an epic adventure that has become Disney’s most successful movie of all time, adds the release. Pirates of the Caribbean: Dead Man’s Chest will be available for download at the iTunes store beginning 5 December.
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Dish TV inks deal with BVITV for MoD service
MUMBAI: The direct-to-home Dish TV has added Walt Disney movies to its movie-on-demand (Mod) offering besides providing Bollywood movies.
For this, DishTV has entered into an agreement with the international television distribution arm of The Walt Disney Company -Buena Vista International Television-Asia Pacific (BVITV-AP) to air the latest blockbuster movies on its value added service.
Subscribers of the Mod pay-per-view service will have access to a slate of box office hit features from Walt Disney Pictures, Touchstone Pictures, Miramax and Jerry Bruckheimer Films including The Chronicles of Narnia: The Lion, The Witch and The Wardrobe, Disney’s highest grossing film to date, Casanova, Cinderella Man, Herbie: Fully Loaded, Dark Water, and Flight Plan, informs an official release.
Speaking about the tie-up, Dish TV CEO Sunil Khanna said, “Strategic alliances of this magnitude and nature are very important for any operator in any market. We are happy to tie up with BVITV at a juncture when the Mod services for Hindi movies has already been launched and now Dish TV is all set to launch the same service for English movies as well. With this move, we will be able to offer this service to more than 1.2 million subscribers of Dish TV spread across the country”.
The movie can be ordered through SMS, phone or by logging on to www.dishtvindia.in. The consumer can watch the movie for 24 hours at his/her own convenience at a cost of Rs. 50 per movie.