WaterTower Music has announced the release of “The Hobbit: An Unexpected Journey Original Motion Picture Soundtrack” at all retailers on Dec. 11. The soundtrack will be available both digitally and as a 2 CD set. A Special Edition of the soundtrack, featuring six exclusive bonus tracks, seven ex[...]
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Treat Added Before Hotel Transylvania
“Hotel Transylvania” – the record-setting 3D computer-animated monster comedy from Sony Pictures Animation that ranked as the biggest September opening in movie history and the best opening ever for the studio – is releasing a new animated short as a special Halloween treat. Beginning Oct. 2[...]
Hallmark Channel to Honor Hero Dogs
You’ve heard of the Dog Days of Summer? Well, for three evenings in November, the Hallmark Channel is inaugurating the Dog Nights of Autumn. The network is celebrating four-legged friends from Tuesday to Thursday, Nov. 6 to 8, from 6 p.m. thru midnight ET/PT each night. How is the channel celebrat[...]
Sony Unveils Culver City Landmark
Sony Pictures Studios and the city of Culver City have unveiled “Rainbow,” a public art installation by American sculptor Tony Tasset. Soaring 94 feet high, just beyond the Madison Street entrance to Studio’s historic lot, “Rainbow” is a multi-colored steel arc 188 feet[...]
Sony Pictures Classics Adds Fill the Void
Sony Pictures Classics has announced that it has acquired all North American rights to Rama Burshtein’s directorial debut, “Fill the Void.” Written and directed by Burshtein, “Fill the Void” played in Venice and Toronto to enthusiastic audiences and will make its U.S. debut at the New [...]
Argo Soundtrack Available Today
WaterTower Music has released “Argo: Original Motion Picture Soundtrack” to all digital retailers. The original music was composed by four-time Academy Award nominee Alexandre Desplat. “We needed to find a theme that we would use throughout — obviously different instrumentation and tempo[...]
All You Need is Kill Gets Release Date
The upcoming epic sci-fi thriller, starring Tom Cruise and Emily Blunt and based on the book “All You Need is Kill,” will open on March 14, 2014, from Warner Bros. Pictures, Legendary Pictures and Village Roadshow Pictures. Directed by Doug Liman, “All You Need is Kill” is the first [...]
New Hobbit Trailer to Arrive Sept. 19
Warner Bros. Pictures, New Line Cinema and Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer (MGM) are joining the worldwide celebration of Tolkien Week with the debut of the highly anticipated theatrical trailer for “The Hobbit: An Unexpected Journey” on Sept. 19. The first in a trilogy of films adapting the endurin[...]
The Seven Year Hitch Premieres Oct. 13
Two best friends accidentally take their relationship to the next level and suddenly find themselves saying “I do” in “The Seven Year Hitch,” a Hallmark Movie Channel original premiering Oct. 13 at 8 p.m. ET/PT, 7C. The movie stars George Wendt (“Cheers”), Frances Fisher (“Titanic”),[...]
Resident Evil: Retribution: Soundtrack Info
On Sept. 11, Milan Records will release “Resident Evil: Retribution – Original Motion Picture Soundtrack” digitally and in stores. Milan Records previously released the soundtrack of Resident Evil: Afterlife, which grossed over $300 million worldwide. The album begins with the exclusive en[...]
Final Hobbit Movie Gets Release Date
Warner Bros Pictures and Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer Pictures jointly announced that the final film in Peter Jackson’s trilogy adaptation of the enduringly popular masterpiece “The Hobbit” by J.R.R. Tolkien — now titled “The Hobbit: There and Back Again” — will be released [...]
Sony Keeps Company with Robert Redford
Sony Pictures Classics announced it has acquired all U.S. Rights to Robert Redford’s “The Company You Keep.” Redford, who directed and produced the film, also stars alongside a cast including Shia LeBeouf, Julie Christie, Sam Elliott, Brendan Gleeson, Terence Howard, Richard Jenkins, Anna [...]
Cameras Roll on Hidden
Principal photography is underway in Vancouver on Warner Bros. Pictures’ “Hidden,” starring Alexander Skarsgârd (TV’s “True Blood”) and Andrea Riseborough (“Shadow Dancer”). Ray (Skarsgârd), Claire (Riseborough) and their seven-year-old daughter, Zoe[...]
Sony, LucasFilm Release Alembic 1.1
Alembic 1.1, the open source project jointly developed by Sony Pictures Imageworks (SPI) and Lucasfilm Ltd., released its newest improvements and updates at this year’s ACM SIGGRAPH Conference. Joint development of Alembic was first announced at SIGGRAPH 2010 and Alembic 1.0 was released to th[...]