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Midweek draws produced at Pinewood Studios by Initial Endemol for Camelot San Antonio, Texas (PRWEB) April 09, 2013 Pinewood Studios has purchased a NewTek TriCaster™ 855 live production solution to streamline the production of three weekly prize draw results programmes for The UK National Lottery's YouTube channel and social media sites. “We needed a streamlined, efficient and, above all, reliable process for delivering our online results shows, as we only have one chance to get...
- Greg Bryk (A History Of Violence), Greyston Holt (ALCATRAZ), and Paul Greene (THE CLIENT LIST) join previously announced lead Laura Vandervoort (SMALLVILLE) in principal cast - - From No Equal Entertainment, Hoodwink Entertainment, and Entertainment One, BITTEN is set to premiere in early 2014 on Space - To tweet this release: http://bit.ly/151QeSj TORONTO, April 9, 2013 /CNW/ - Space announced today that production has begun on its buzzed-about new Original Drama series...
ONE-NIGHT-ONLY EVENT FOR FANS CELEBRATES CLASSIC FILMS AND THEIR STARS LOS ANGELES, April 9, 2013 /PRNewswire/ -- The American Film Institute (AFI) announced today its collaboration with Target and MAGNUM(®) Ice Cream Bar for the return of the special one-night-only event, Target Presents AFI Night at the Movies. The popular program initiated in 2007 will present fans with a rare chance to see classic films alongside the community's top filmmakers and stars who made them....
LOS ANGELES, April 9, 2013 /PRNewswire/ -- Seven Arts Entertainment Inc. (OTCQB:SAPX) (the "Company" or "Seven Arts") announced today the appointment of Vince Vellardita as the new Chairman of Seven Arts Entertainment's Board of Directors, as part of a contribution to Seven Arts of film and music assets controlled by Mr. Vellardita. Mr. Vellardita will be chief executive officer and president of a newly formed subsidiary, Seven Arts Music and Television Inc. ("SAMT"), pursuant to a...
One Lucky and Deserving Roomie Will Receive Free Rent for a Year Plus $10,000; and the Roommate Video Shorts Contest Returns with $250 Weekly Prizes CHICAGO, April 9, 2013 /PRNewswire/ -- Apartments.com celebrates the fifth year of its popular Roommate of the Year video contest -- just launched at http://www.roommateoftheyear.com -- as they once again seek America's best, greatest, fantastic, fabulous, amazing, wonderful roommate. The lucky roomie who wins the grand prize in this...
CULVER CITY, Calif., April 8, 2013 /PRNewswire/ -- Sony Pictures Entertainment today unveiled a first look at writer-director Neill Blomkamp's new film Elysium by bringing it directly to the fans in anticipation of the launch of the film's first trailer online tomorrow, it was announced today by Marc Weinstock, president of Worldwide Marketing for Sony Pictures. Elysium, from TriStar Pictures in association with Media Rights Capital, will be released in theaters nationwide on August...
THE ARGENTINE NATIONAL FILM BOARD (INCAA) PARTNERS WITH REED MIDEM FOR MIPCOM FOCUS ON ARGENTINA CANNES, France, April 8, 2013 /PRNewswire/ -- Reed MIDEM today announces that Argentina has been named MIPCOM 2013 Country of Honour. Organised by Reed MIDEM, MIPCOM will take place in Cannes, 7-10 October. In partnership with the Argentine National Film Board (Instituto Nacional de Cine y Artes Audiovisuales), MIPCOM will organise a dedicated focus on Argentina's vibrant television,...
New compact Super 16 digital cinema camera with 13 stops of dynamic range, allows shooting with a professional film look in a beautiful design that fits in your pocket! LAS VEGAS, April 8, 2013 /PRNewswire/ -- NAB 2013 -- Blackmagic Design today announced Blackmagic Pocket Cinema Camera, a beautifully designed, pocket sized digital cinema camera that includes powerful features such as Super 16mm sized 1080HD sensor, super wide 13 stops of dynamic range, built in SD card recorder...
Celebrities, friends and fans are invited to celebrate the life, career of "the world's film critic" CHICAGO, April 8, 2013 /PRNewswire/ -- Roger Ebert's life and prolific career will be remembered during a memorial tribute this Thursday at the Chicago Theatre, which is expected to draw friends and admirers from Hollywood to the independent film world to the Chicago Theatre. This special evening will include music, several great moments from the beloved TV show "At the Movies,"...
Publisher of the #1-Selling Screenwriting Software Invites Technology Providers, Production Companies, Schools, Festivals, and Writers' Groups to Help Define the Future of Scripted Media LOS ANGELES, Calif., April 8, 2013 /PRNewswire-iReach/ -- Final Draft, Inc., publisher of Final Draft®, the #1-selling screenwriting software, today launched a wide-ranging partner program intended for technology providers, production companies, distributors, film schools, drama departments,...
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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...
