Warner Bros. Television Group president and chief content officer Peter Roth has inked a contract extension with the company that will make him chairman of the unit, a newly created position.
15.01.2020 - 20:36 / deadline.com
By Anthony D'Alessandro
Editorial Director/Box Office Editor
Universal Pictures and Warner Bros. are entering into a North America ten-year joint venture in regards to their home entertainment arms. Separate from that deal, both studios are committing to license each other’s disc products in certain offshore markets.
The new domestic j.v., which is subject to regulatory approval, will distribute Blu-ray, DVD and 4K UHD for new releases, library titles and television content in U.S.
Warner Bros. Television Group president and chief content officer Peter Roth has inked a contract extension with the company that will make him chairman of the unit, a newly created position.
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Scandinavian major NENT Group has commissioned romantic drama “Harmonica” from Warner Bros. International Television Production Sweden.
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Warner Bros.’ Hamburg-based German division, Warner Bros. Entertainment GmbH, has agreed for the first time to financial contributions of €1 million ($1.1 million) annually for regional funder Filmförderung Hamburg Schleswig-Holstein (FFHSH).
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Veteran talent buyer Dave Poe and Oakland-based music group Ineffable Music have partnered for a new joint venture called Patchwork Presents to book and promote shows across the country. Patchwork Presents will be led by Poe and has already entered into a deal to oversee talent buying duties for The Criterion in Oklahoma City, a state of the art 3,500-capacity venue.
By Anthony D'Alessandro
Warner Bros. is bringing some Chinese New Year blockbuster fare to North America in a big way.The studio has acquired North American theatrical rights to Wanda Pictures' upcoming tentpole Detective Chinatown 3.
Warner Bros. Pictures has confirmed details of its wide specialty release of “Detective Chinatown 3” in North America. The film will reach American theaters on Jan. 24, coinciding with a huge outing handled by Wanda Pictures in China at the beginning of Chinese New Year (aka Spring Festival).
Looking to streamline costs, Universal Pictures and Warner Bros. on Wednesday announced a joint venture that will see the two Hollywood studios share distribution duties for their physical DVDs in North America.The partnership intends to commence in early 2021, pending regulatory approval.
Universal and Warner Bros. — facing the continued deterioration of physical disc sales — want to pool their DVD distribution businesses under a major new deal.
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Grammy-winning Latin producer Rudy Pérez has signed a joint venture with Spirit Music Group, one of the world’s leading global independent music publishing companies, Billboard reveals exclusively today (Jan. 14).
Consumer spending on home entertainment rose 8.4% to a record $25.2 billion in 2019, spurred by the at-home sector’s biggest growth engine — digital, according to DEG: The Digital Entertainment Group.