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Home Entertainment Studios Score Big at 2019 BASE Awards
Try imagining a movie/TV industry awards event without a Netflix nominee/winner and you would get the 39th annual BASE Awards held this week in London. The British Association for Screen Entertainment’s annual gala saw 20th Century Fox Home Entertainment’s The Greatest Showman winning “title of the year,” and Universal Pictures U.K. earning “distributor of the year” … Continue reading “Home Entertainment Studios Score Big at 2019 BASE Awards”
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Video Game Show E3 Opens June 11 With New AR Experience
E3 2019, the biggest annual video game trade show, opens June 11 for a three-day run at the Los Angeles Convention Center. New this year is “The Unreal Garden @ E3,” an evolved version of the San Francisco-based augmented reality experience with new scenes and content. E3 delivers new immersive experiences to E3 attendees each … Continue reading “Video Game Show E3 Opens June 11 With New AR Experience”
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Home Entertainment Studios Score Big at 2019 BASE Awards
Try imagining a movie/TV industry awards event without a Netflix nominee/winner and you would get the 39th annual BASE Awards held this week in London. The British Association for Screen Entertainment’s annual gala saw 20th Century Fox Home Entertainment’s The Greatest Showman winning “title of the year,” and Universal Pictures U.K. earning “distributor of the year” … Continue reading “Home Entertainment Studios Score Big at 2019 BASE Awards”
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Video Game Show E3 Opens June 11 With New AR Experience
E3 2019, the biggest annual video game trade show, opens June 11 for a three-day run at the Los Angeles Convention Center. New this year is “The Unreal Garden @ E3,” an evolved version of the San Francisco-based augmented reality experience with new scenes and content. E3 delivers new immersive experiences to E3 attendees each … Continue reading “Video Game Show E3 Opens June 11 With New AR Experience”
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Four ‘Digital Revolution’ Pioneers to Be Honored at Industry Golf Tournament
Four industry veterans crucial to the launch of DVD — which signaled the start of home entertainment’s digital revolution — will be honored at the Los Angeles Media and Entertainment Golf Tournament on July 15. The tournament takes place the Monday prior to the ninth annual LAES and OTT Conference, produced by the Entertainment Merchants … Continue reading “Four ‘Digital Revolution’ Pioneers to Be Honored at Industry Golf Tournament”
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Studios, Distributors, EMA Team Up on Massive Digital Movie Rental Promotion
A consortium of studios and key digital retailers, cable companies and satellite providers is sponsoring a digital rental movie sale May 31 through June 3 in which consumers can stream up to 250 different movies at prices as low as $2.99 for recent releases and 99 cents for older, catalog titles. The “Ultimate Movie Weekend” … Continue reading “Studios, Distributors, EMA Team Up on Massive Digital Movie Rental Promotion”
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EMA Adds Seven New Members
The Entertainment Merchants Association has added seven new members: Bitmax, iNDEMAND, Movies Anywhere, Rev, Rightsline, TV Time and Vision Films. Bitmax is a digital media management company that supports leading content owners and digital distributors, helping them monetize content – from TVOD/EST to SVOD to AVOD. iNDEMAND distributes premium VOD and PPV entertainment to more than 200 … Continue reading “EMA Adds Seven New Members”
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DEG Creates Advisory Board for Canon Club
DEG: The Digital Entertainment Group May 20 announced the creation of an advisory board of senior executives for its Canon Club, an organization in which women at all levels and in all sectors of digital media share knowledge and build their business networks. The 10 appointed Advisory Board members will provide input on Canon Club … Continue reading “DEG Creates Advisory Board for Canon Club”
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Edelman Elected Treasurer, Gutierrez Secretary of EMA
Michele Edelman and Pedro E. Gutierrez Jr. have been elected to serve as treasurer and secretary, respectively, of the Entertainment Merchants Association. Edelman, who had been serving as secretary, replaces Matt Hill of Amazon, who stepped down from the EMA Board due to a change in his responsibilities at Amazon. Edelman is EVP of marketing … Continue reading “Edelman Elected Treasurer, Gutierrez Secretary of EMA”
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NATO Boss Chides Press for Streaming Video Focus
NEWS ANALYSIS — Helen Mirren may have gotten the most attention at this week’s CinemaCon confab in Las Vegas for her snarky, “I love Netflix, but f*** Netflix,” comment. But for John Fithian, president of the National Association of Theater Operators, media attention to over-the-top video and home entertainment is no laughing matter. Fithian reportedly … Continue reading “NATO Boss Chides Press for Streaming Video Focus”
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EMA Launches Leadership Development Foundation
The Entertainment Merchants Association has formed the EMA Leadership Development Foundation to support professional training and development within the home entertainment industry, and particularly within the EMA membership. “It’s about time that we recognize that our industry, that of the retailing and streaming of entertainment content to the consumer, is a unique industry and with … Continue reading “EMA Launches Leadership Development Foundation”
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MPAA: Global Home Entertainment Market Up 16% in 2018
It’s an over-the-top video world and it’s got the revenue to prove it. Global home entertainment consumer spending increased by 16% in 2018 to reach $55.7 billion from $48 billion in 2017, according to new data from the Motion Picture Association of America. The growth was driven by digital home entertainment, with U.S. digital spending … Continue reading “MPAA: Global Home Entertainment Market Up 16% in 2018”