Friday, March 2, 2012
Cinedigm Signs Eurythmics Dave Stewart To Produce Documentaries For Theaters
Woodland Hills, CA and NY, NY March 2, 2012) Cinedigm Entertainment Group, a division of Cinedigm Digital Cinema Corp. (NASDAQ: CIDM), announced today that it has signed rock icon Dave Stewart to bring a series of documentary films to movie theatres in a recurring time slot. Produced by Weapons of Mass Entertainment, the films in the “Dave Stewart Presents …” series will feature Stewart and a variety of musical guests from all backgrounds, including rock, pop, country, blues and more, focusing on the art and process of songwriting, and culminating in a unique performance showcasing newly created songs. Stewarts track record as a musician, producer, author, entrepreneur, filmmaker and innovator bodes well for this cutting-edge, on-going theatre series. The British artists music career spans three decades and more than 100 million album sales, highlighted by his collaboration with Annie Lennox in the iconic pop-rock duo Eurythmics [Sweet Dreams (Are Made of This)"]. Additionally, Stewart has produced albums and co-written songs for Stevie Nicks, Tom Petty, Bono, Sinead OConnor, Mick Jagger, Katy Perry, Jon Bon Jovi, Joss Stone, Stevie Nicks and a host of others, racking up multiple song writing and producing awards, including a Grammy and a Golden Globe. With Jagger, Stewart recently formed SuperHeavy, the aptly titled super group with Joss Stone, Damian Marley and A.R. Rahman. Having made a number of music documentaries and videos over the last 12 months with such greats at Mick Jagger, Joss Stone, Stevie Nicks and others has really whet my appetite for capturing and putting amazing songwriting collaborations on cinema screens, said Stewart, CEO of Weapons of Mass Entertainment. “I’m excited to work with Cinedigms great team to share with movie-going audiences the personal and magical creative moments that lead to unique performances. “Dave Stewart Presents …” will be Cinedigm’s first series of recurring alternative programming distributed into theatres using the company’s highly efficient digital cinema model in essence, programming a movie theatre screen like a cable channel but with all the excitement and energy of a concert venue. Cinedigm is currently vetting appropriate sponsors and partners to take part in this groundbreaking venture. Were confident that music fans will relish the opportunity to see and hear Dave interact with musics biggest names and promising newcomers on the big screen, with big sound, surrounded by their friends, said Cinedigm Chairman and CEO Chris McGurk. “We know Dave Stewart who is prodigiously talented and incredibly innovative – will drive music lovers of all genres to theatres with this regularly occurring program.”
Thursday, March 1, 2012
John Davis Nabs Archetype
Chronicle producer developing robo shortProducer John Davis, who had been among the people who shepherded Josh Trank and Max Landis' box office hit Chronicle towards the giant screen, has focused on another filmmaker having a sci-fi flavoured video clip background who he thinks might dive right in. He's just acquired the privileges to Aaron Sims' Archetype, which you'll watch below.Archetype follows what goes on whenever a hulking war machine all of a sudden appears to malfunction within the area. It's introduced set for testing and questioning by Johnson (Robert Pleasure) about why it shut lower its fellow fight 'bots by having an EM pulse. Appears there can be a ghost within the machine, with RL7 obtaining a situation from the Johnny Fives. Or, given what we should learn later within the short, much more likely it's all regulated gone a little Robocop...Sim cards is not exactly a Hollywood newcomer: he runs a VFX and design company and it has led try to from Clash From The Leaders to Large Seafood and Rise From The Planet From The Apes. Younger crowd practical knowledge dealing with the Stan Winston Studio.For Davis, she has form getting the tales of rampaging robots towards the screen, getting created I, Robot for Fox in 2004. He'll work with Sim cards to obtain Archetype converted to a feature length story (possibly alongside the short's author, Zachary Parris), there is however little else in position yet.
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