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Costume Designers Guild and the predominantly male members of the Art Directors Guild.But an equally growing concern bubbling away under the surface has been a lack of costume designers’ involvement in the off-screen monetization of their designs. As Variety recently reported, when Disney collaborated with fashion brand Rag & Bone on an officially licensed “Cruella” collection to tie in with the new live-action film, “Cruella” costume designer Jenny Beavan didn’t see a dime.

Brent Lang Executive Editor of Film and MediaConcord Theatricals has secured exclusive worldwide stock and amateur stage licensing rights to Toby Marlow and Lucy Moss’ “Six.” The musical is a slyly modern retelling of the lives of the six wives of Henry VIII, with a twist that their stories of death, divorce, beheading, and survival are presented as a pop concert.

Ellise Shafer administratorLeading digital art brand Ikonick is teaming up with Bravado, Universal Music Group’s global merchandising and brand management company, to produce, market and distribute canvas art and NFTs across their extensive roster of artists.NFTs, or non-fungible tokens, have become all the rage in the music industry in recent months.

Cruella”-inspired fashion line, which was licensed, designed and released without costume designer Jenny Beavan’s knowledge, has finally pushed a number of fellow costumers — including the Costume Designers Guild itself — into publicly calling out the “unfair” practice, despite the risk it poses to their own careers. Oscar-winning Beavan is the brains behind the sumptuous outfits in the new “Cruella” film, starring Emma Stone and Emma Thompson.

Todd Spangler NY Digital EditorAfter a months-long standoff, Ryan Kavanaugh’s Triller short-form video platform and Universal Music Group announced worldwide licensing agreements that span recorded music and publishing.In February, UMG pulled its catalog from Triller, citing Triller’s failure to pay licensing fees for songs used on its service.With the new agreements, Triller’s users gain access to UMG’s full catalog of music from the company’s record labels and recording artists, as well as

Matt Donnelly Senior Film WriterTom Rothman, Sony Pictures motion picture group chairman, has said many times, both on the record and in the private confines of Louis B.

Rebecca Davis editorSony Music Entertainment (SME) said Monday that it has signed both a new direct China digital distribution deal with NetEase Cloud Music and a multi-year extension of its existing agreement with Tencent Music Entertainment (TME).Sony’s NetEase deal is the latest to shift power away from TME in China’s streaming industry and make the space slightly more competitive. It comes amidst a government antitrust probe of TME and its parent company Tencent Group.

Halston, Roy Halston Frowick was an American fashion designer who rose to prominence in the 1960s before going on to define the Studio 54 era of the ‘70s and early ‘80s until he lost control of his fashion house. During that time, Jacqueline Kennedy famously wore one of Halston’s pillbox hats to husband John F. Kennedy’s 1961 presidential inauguration.

AMC Networks reported a 6% downturn in revenue during the first quarter due to a slump in advertising and content licensing, but earnings per share beat Wall Street forecasts.

Cynthia Littleton Business EditorOn the surface, Disney and Sony Pictures Entertainment seem to be two studios heading in opposite directions when it comes to business strategy.Disney is investing huge sums of money and resources into building direct-to-consumer streaming platforms. Sony Pictures has vowed to stay on its traditional studio path, dealing high-end content to the highest bidders.

Disney has worked a new licensing deal with Sony Pictures Entertainment that would allow the Spider-Man films to join the Disney+ Marvel Cinematic Universe streaming catalogue.The “unprecedented” agreement announced April 21 covers the US streaming and TV rights to the slate of films Sony will release from 2022 to 2026, along with “a significant number” of past releases.

EXCLUSIVE:  IMG will be serving as the global licensing rep for Skydance Animation and its upcoming feature film and TV lineup, which includes its first two movies, Luck directed by Peggy Holmes and Spellbound directed by Vicky Jenson.

Netflix and Sony Pictures Entertainment have set a significant new licensing deal giving the streaming giant an exclusive window for the studio’s theatrical titles starting in 2022.

In a real-life scheme that could easily make up the plot of a network procedural or streaming limited series, HBO and Netflix helped the feds bring to justice a Hollywood wannabe who scammed investors out of hundreds of millions of dollars.

Matt Donnelly Senior Film WriterVuulr, a digital marketplace for rights to filmed content, has tapped two entertainment industry veterans to expand its presence in mainstream Hollywood.Former Vudu content head Daniel Gagliardi has joined as senior vice president of development and strategy. Andrew Marshall, who has worked at Disney and NBCUniversal to name a few, joins as head of legal and business affairs.

Jem Aswad Senior Music EditorTriller, the short-form video app, has struck a licensing agreement with the National Music Publishers’ Association, which represents most American music publishers. The deal will see the platform compensating the songwriters and publishers covered by NMPA when their songs are used in videos on the platform.

Spotify has announced that it has reached an agreement with Kakao Entertainment (previously KakaoM), making their content available on the platform across the globe, including for the first time in South Korea.The two companies had been in a bitter dispute that saw Kakao — which last month launched a streaming service in Korea — removing the rights to hundreds of songs by its artists from Spotify after the licensing deal between the two companies expired and they failed to agree on new terms.

Ben Croll When online licensing marketplace Vuulr expanded its international reach early last year, the Singapore-based startup anticipated a gradual rollout. Launched in Asia in 2019, the platform went global in January 2020, thinking it would take some time to convince industry players to move their activities online.“As a digital platform for licensing and acquisition, we represent a new way,” Vuulr CEO Ian McKee tells Variety.

Cynthia Littleton Business EditorParamount Pictures has set a new deal with Epix that will give the studio more flexibility with its post-theatrical windowing strategy and allow for thousands of new and library movie titles to be available on the fledgling Paramount Plus streamer.The deal extends Epix’s hold on the all-important first pay TV window for Paramount Pictures releases through the end of 2023. It had been set to expire at the end of 2022.

Jem Aswad Senior Music EditorUniversal and Sony Music, the two largest music companies in the world, have inked licensing agreements with the music streaming and discovery service Audiomack.

Todd Spangler NY Digital EditorThe war of words between Ryan Kavanaugh’s Triller and Universal Music Group escalated Friday, after UMG pulled its catalog from the video-sharing app citing Triller’s failure to pay licensing fees for songs used on its service.Early Friday, Universal Music said it was removing its music from Triller — which positions itself as a rival to popular social-video app TikTok — because, “Triller has shamefully withheld payments owed to our artists and refuses to

direct to your inboxA scheme aimed at cracking down on rogue landlords could be rolled out to around 1,400 privately-rented homes across Manchester.Landlords or agents managing several properties could have to pay thousands of pounds to licence them under plans being considered by the city council.Selective licensing is introduced in areas where property management and standards are low, and levels of crime, antisocial behaviour and deprivation are high.

The Justice Department will not move to terminate or modify the 80-year consent decrees that govern how most music is licensed after a review.

This Is Spinal Tap have set up a licensing body to exclusively manage the cult film’s rights.Rob Reiner, Harry Shearer, Christopher Guest and Michael McKean, creators of the iconic mockumentary, have set up a wholly-owned entity to manage the licensing of the film and all rights related to it.It comes after the film’s creators settled their rights dispute with French media group Vivendi and its StudioCanal division, in which Shearer alleged in a 2016 suit that despite decades of cult success,

Brent Lang Executive Editor of Film and MediaDramatists Play Service, the theatrical publishing and licensing house, has reached a deal to be acquired by Broadway Licensing. The transaction is expected to be completed by the end of March 2021.

BBC Studios unveiled a new content catalogue deal Thursday with Lionsgate Play covering the streaming platform's presence in the vast India market. Under the agreement, five of BBC Studios recent scripted dramas have been selected for the service, with the shows subtitled into multiple regional Indian languages.

Brent Lang Executive Editor of Film and MediaConcord Theatricals has secured exclusive worldwide licensing rights to “Slave Play” by Jeremy O. Harris, the galvanic look at sex, race, and power that scored a history-making 12 Tony Award nominations.

Canal+, the pay-TV arm of French media giant Vivendi, has won its long-running court battle against Paramount Pictures and competition regulators over movie licensing in Europe. The EU Court of Justice, Europe’s highest, ruled on Wednesday in favor of Canal+, voiding an agreement struck between Paramount and European regulators in 2016.

EA has released a statement in response to footballer Zlatan Ibrahimović’s claim that the use of his likeness in the FIFA series was unauthorised.The saga started earlier this week (November 23) when the A.C. Milan striker asked on Twitter: “Who gave FIFA EA Sport permission to use my name and face?”, claiming it was “time to investigate”.

Dave Chappelle had made it clear that he did not approve of ViacomCBS licensing his Comedy Central series, Chappelle’s Show, without paying him a dime. The comedian spoke about it during his recent Saturday Night Live monologue, and now he has done something about it.

Jill Goldsmith, Dade Hayes ViacomCBS CEO Bob Bakish Friday defended a strategy of licensing popular content to outside platforms even as it prepares to roll out streaming service Paramount+ in a fiercely competitive market.The company inked of series of lucrative licensing deals with Netflix and Amazon as well as WarnerMedia and NBCUniversal in 2019 and 2020 as an influx of well-funded streaming rivals hit the market – rivals, Disney in particular, that are aggressive in clawing back streaming

Matt Donnelly Senior Film WriterIn late August, DC Comics and Warner Bros. held a virtual convention to showcase superhero content for fans across the globe, all presented by live-stream due to the coronavirus.

Licensing giant IMG has been tapped by Super Bowl champion Tom Brady and business partner Alex Guerrero to extend the global reach of TB12, their global health and wellness company. The agreement with IMG, a subsidiary of Endeavor, will expand TB12's traditional retail and ecommerce presence as its products help consumers recover from injury, or prevent injury.

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AMC Network and Sid Gentle Films have named IMG as the exclusive consumer products licensing agent for the hit BBC America spy thriller Killing Eve. Under the new partnership with IMG, a licensing program of products, experiences and collaborations will be built around Killing Eve themes like fashion, beauty, travel and games.

Dade Hayes Finance EditorAMC Networks and Sid Gentle Films have made IMG the exclusive worldwide licensing representative for Killing Eve as the BBC America breakout looks to extend its brand across fashion, beauty, travel and other categories.It will be the first consumer product and licensing foray for the spy thriller, with potential deals for fashion products, apparel, accessories and beauty as well as travel and games, both areas suited to the show.