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Feds OK Second Commodities Exchange Against Hollywood
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All About Jazz
Decision comes after Friday's greenlight of Trend Exchange. Federal regulators approved the creation of another commodities exchange hoping to trade in film futures. The Commodity Futures Trading Commission has not yet given the greenlight to the Cantor Exchange's actual contracts to be traded. That decision is still pending. Their decision is not much of a surprise. On Friday, the commission approved the creation of the Trend Exchange, which also plans to trade in film futures, but, like Cantor, has yet ...
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The T.A.M.I. Show: 1964
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JazzWax by Marc Myers
On October 29, 1964, about 3,000 high school students--some with their parents--jammed into the Santa Monica Civic Auditorium in California to hear a concert. The event would be filmed with new Electronovision technology that its developers claimed produced more vivid results than standard TV cameras. The concert was billed as The T.A.M.I. Show--which stood for Teenage Awards Music International. TAMI was a somewhat innocent acronym with viral power as evidenced by the audience's teens, who began screaming at the top ...
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The Miles Davis Movie: Filming Charlie Parker and Miles Davis at the Three Deuces
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Miles Davis Online
But it was at the Three Deuces, playing every night there with Bird and Max, that really helped me find my own voice.
Miles Davis (excerpt from Miles: The Autobiography)
In 1944 Miles Davis moved to New York to study in the Julliard School of Music. His tenure would only last a few months. Instead he sought a musical education in the clubs of 52nd Street with musicians like Charlie Parker and Dizzy Gillespie. Davis soon joined Parkers group at ...
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Opportunities for Indie Filmmakers, Pop Composers
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All About Jazz
For years it was common for studios to cross-market a film with a well known performer, but today niche artists are landing more tracks in films and reaping the spoils, especially around award season.
Glancing at recent best song nominees, offbeat names like “Bird" York ("In the Deep" from “Crash"), A.R. Rahman ("Jai Ho" from “Slumdog Millionaire") and Marketa Irglova and Glen Hansard ("Falling Slowly") have slipped into the category, elbowing out bigger artists contributions and often winning. Most studio ...
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Music Choice Adds SWRV Interactive Music Channel
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HypeBot
Cable and online music providers Music Choice have created a new a 24/7 interactive music network using the never.no technology suite. SWRV. tv features interactive shows that offers viewers the opportunity to submit content, vote for and rate videos, and take over an entire programming block. They can participate by sending text, photos, and video, either using their mobile phones or by going online. Here's an overview.
24/7 Interactive Channel SWRV from never.no ...
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Studios Step up Futures Fight
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Michael Ricci
The major movie studios may have lost their first battle over box-office futures trading, but they unveiled a powerful new weapon in response.
Financial reform legislation unveiled Friday by Sen. Blanche Lincoln, D-Ark., contains a provision that would ban futures trading based on box-office receipts. Lincoln is chairman of the Senate Agriculture Committee, which has jurisdiction over futures markets. The Motion Picture Assn. of America, joined by the National Association of Theatre Owners, the Directors Guild of America and the ...
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Film Looks at Struggles of Indie Records Stores
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HypeBot
“An elegy for a vanishing subculture ...a lively, bittersweet film that examines - with caustic humor, brutal candor, and, ultimately, great affection - why roughly 3,000 indie record stores have closed across the nation over the past decade..." - Johnathan Perry, Boston Globe
“I Need That Record! The Death (or Possible Survival) of the Independent Record Store" by guerilla filmmaker Brendan Toller features interviews with Thurston Moore, Ian MacKaye, Noam Chomksy, Mike Watt, Lenny Kaye and others. The ...
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Grateful Dead: "Crimson, White and Indigo" to Screen in Theaters
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On Target Media Group
On April 20th, Grateful Dead and Rhino Records will release the new CD & DVD package Crimson, White & Indigo.
Crimson, White & Indigo CD/DVD captures their July 7th, 1989 performance at JFK Stadium in Philadelphia to an audience of 95,000. The entire full-length theatrical concert experience is fully mastered and coming to theaters nationwide this month.
Click to pre-order: http://www.dead.net/features/dead-world-roundup/philly-89-now-available-pre-order
Screening Dates:
Rochester, NY - Little Theatre 4/15 at 7pm Ft. Lauderdale, FL - Cinema Paradiso 4/16 ...
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