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CULVER CITY, Calif., April 17, 2013 /PRNewswire/ -- Pop icon Britney Spears will release a song for Columbia Pictures/Sony Pictures Animation's highly anticipated family comedy The Smurfs(TM) 2, entitled "Ooh La La," via Kemosabe / RCA Records. "Ooh La La," which will play at the end credits of the film, was written by Lukasz Gottwald (Dr. Luke), Joshua Coleman (Ammo), Henry Walter (Cirkut), Bonnie McKee, Jacob Kasher Hindlin (J Kash), Lola Blanc and Fransisca Hall and produced by...
AUSTIN, Texas, April 17, 2013 /PRNewswire/ -- Alamo Drafthouse Cinemas is pleased to announce plans to open its first Lubbock area location with franchise partner Triple Tap Ventures LLC. Alamo Drafthouse Cinema Lubbock will be located in the North Slide Square center at 5200 North Loop 289. (Logo: http://photos.prnewswire.com/prnh/20100816/FFLOGO) The Alamo Drafthouse Cinema in Lubbock will be a state-of-the art theater with eight screens. Each auditorium will be equipped with...
First Russian-Produced Film To Be Released in IMAX® 3D CULVER CITY, Calif., April 16, 2013 /PRNewswire/ -- STALINGRAD, the first Russian-made feature to be released in the immersive IMAX® 3D format, will be distributed in Russia by Sony Pictures Releasing International. An epic love story set during one of the most devastating battles in modern history, STALINGRAD's teaser trailer will be screened for the first time in the U.S. on April 17, 2013 at Caesar's Palace in Las Vegas,...
DENVER, April 16, 2013 /PRNewswire/ -- Shatter Buggy (http://shatterbuggy.com) combines something new--iDevice repair--with something old--house calls--to create a business model for 21st century success. Now celebrating its inaugural year of business, the company is ready for its next phase of growth. Shatter Buggy founder Benjamin Head has announced that franchising opportunities are now available, with compelling discounts for the first several contracts. He advises those who have...
Kalman J. (KJ) Istok Joins Company as Vice President of International Licensing LOS ANGELES, April 16, 2013 /PRNewswire/ -- Evolution, the premier licensing and global brand management firm, which was appointed global licensing and promotions agency for all merchandise stemming from Miramax's portfolio of properties, today announced international sub-agents in Europe, Latin America and Asia-Pacific. The Miramax portfolio encompasses more than 700 of the world's most original and...
First Two Blockbusters Announced are Christopher Nolan's 'Interstellar' and Michael Bay's Next Installment of 'Transformers' LAS VEGAS, April 15, 2013 /PRNewswire/ -- IMAX Corporation (NYSE:IMAX; TSX:IMX) and Paramount Pictures, a division of Viacom (NASDAQ: VIA and VIAB), tonight announced an agreement to release five of Paramount Pictures' upcoming films in the immersive IMAX format under an extension of the companies' long-running partnership. The arrangement features some of...
MONTREAL, April 15, 2013 /PRNewswire/ - Two-time Emmy award recipient, Toon Boom Animation Inc. announced today that HeARTBIT Digital Creation, one of Japan's promising animation studios, has signed a memorandum of understanding formalizing their intention to use the Toon Boom pipeline, namely Toon Boom(®) Storyboard Pro(TM) and Harmony(TM), in their upcoming production titled Francesca. In addition to Steven Chu, Toon Boom's Chief Operating Officer, and Hitoshi Kumagai, HeARBIT's...
Current Directors Nathan Myhrvold and Richard Sherman to Retire From Leadership Positions GLENDALE, Calif., April 15, 2013 /PRNewswire/ -- DreamWorks Animation SKG, Inc. (Nasdaq: DWA) today announced that at its upcoming annual meeting of stockholders, scheduled to be held on May 29, 2013, current directors Nathan Myhrvold and Richard Sherman will retire from the Company's Board of Directors and Lucian Grainge, chairman and chief executive officer of Universal Music Group, and...
Schwartz Is First Executive Appointment of New CBS Corporation/Lionsgate Partnership LOS ANGELES, April 15, 2013 /PRNewswire/ -- TVGN today named Brad Schwartz to be President of Entertainment and Media in its first executive appointment as part of the new CBS Corporation (NYSE: CBS.A and CBS) and Lionsgate (NYSE: LGF) partnership. Schwartz, who has served as a top programming executive for Fuse, CTV (Canada) and MTV, will oversee programming, scheduling, marketing and creative...
Full Range Of DLP Cinema Intelligent Display Solutions Ensures Any Theatre Can Go Digital And Reap The Rewards DALLAS and LAS VEGAS, April 15, 2013 /PRNewswire/ -- As nearly 85,000* movie theatre screens around the world showcase the digital cinema revolution using Texas Instruments (TI) (NASDAQ: TXN) DLP Cinema® technology, the benefits of digital are becoming more apparent every day to both exhibitors and audiences - and even more is possible. Whether exhibitors are looking to...
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Spinosaurus, meaning “Spine lizard,” is a genus of theropod dinosaur from the lower Albian to lower Cenomanian stages of the Mid Cretaceous Period (112 to 97 million years ago). It lived in what is now North Africa. The type species is S. aegyptiacus. A potential second species, S. maroccanus, was discovered in Morocco. It was the first known dinosaur fossil from Egyptian remains discovered in 1912 and described by German paleontologist Ernst Stromer in 1915. The original remains were...
Charles Francis Jenkins and Thomas Armat created the Vitascope, an early film projector, in 1895. They demonstrated the Vitascope at the Cotton States Exposition in Atlanta, they called it the Phantoscope. Armat and Jenkins fought over the rights to the invention and eventually Armat, with legal authority, sold the rights to the Kinetoscope Company. The company eventually approached Thomas Edison to finance the manufacture of their machine before it was outdated. He agreed on the term...
The Flat Huntsman Spider (Delena cancerides) is a species of arachnid that is native to Australia. In New Zealand, where it was accidentally introduced in the early 1920s, this species is known as the Avondale Spider. It is commonly found under loose bark and in woodpiles in colonies of up to 300 individuals. The range of this species in New Zealand has only expanded slowly out of Avondale (a suburb of Waitakere City near Auckland). Species have been found as far down the country as the Otago...
