Tonis Kiis, the senior vice president of international distribution at Warner Bros., has been named CineEurope’s 2023 International Distributor of the Year award recipient. The award will be presented June 22 as part of the CineEurope Awards Ceremony hosted by the Coca-Cola Company at the Centre Convencions Internacional Barcelona in Barcelona, Spain.
Telstra and media asset management specialists Silver Trak Digital have launched their new 5G Cinema Direct content delivery service, which the companies say is Australia’s fastest, most robust, and most secure delivery of digital content over 5G for cinemas, content distributors and movie studios.
As has been widely reported, Apple plans to spend $1 billion a year to produce movies that will be released in theatres. All the stories quote knowledgeable people familiar with the company’s plans. Apple has reportedly approached movie studios about partnering to release a few titles in theatres this year and a slate of films in coming years, according to those people, who asked not to be identified because the plans are private
Trafalgar Releasing will present The Rocky Horror Show to cinemas worldwide next month.
Marketing executive Briana McElroy has been named head of worldwide digital marketing for the Lionsgate Motion Picture Group. Her appointment was announced by JP Richards and Keri Moore, president, and co-president of marketing for the Lionsgate Motion Picture Group, to whom McElroy will report.
Nagra has announced that its NexGuard forensic and watermarking services have completed the Amazon Web Services technical review. The company said this provides AWS customers with the peace of mind that the integration with AWS infrastructure is fully validated and utilizes AWS resources efficiently to deliver market-leading forensic watermarking for audio and video content.
The Trusted Partner Network today announced the launch of its enhanced program with a new membership model, application, and cloud content security assessments, and the TPN+ platform. TPN, which is fully owned by the Motion Picture Association, is leveraging the updated MPA Content Security Best Practices v5.0 to expand its scope to include software application and cloud security in addition to site and work-from-home security assessments.
The Berwick Film & Media Arts Festival has announced the full program line-up for the 18th edition of the festival, which will take place March 3-5. The festival champions films and filmmakers who push the boundaries of genre, form and convention to surprise expectations and enliven audience relationships with cinema.
The International Broadcaster Coalition Against Piracy has announced key 2022 achievements in protecting its members’ content and removing pirate services from the U.S. market and worldwide.
LucidLink, a maker of cloud file storage for remote collaboration, announced today that it has teamed up with the Motion Picture Associaition’s Trusted Partner Network to establish what the company says is safer, more secure content creation workflows for hybrid and remote teams worldwide.
