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Festival Guests at Munich
Filmfest
Germany's largest summer
film festival opens on June 27 through
July 5, and for nine days will be showing
158 new films from 51 countries
•
The 32. FILMFEST
MÜNCHEN opens with the German
premiere of "The Young and Prodigious T.S.
Spiver." Director Jean-Pierre Jeunet, who
opened Filmfest in 2001 with "Amelie" will
be here with his young lead actor Kyle
Catlett. The festival's closing night film
is the American production "I Origins,"
which will be screened following the award
ceremony on July 5th. Director Mike Cahill
("Another Earth") will be on hand with his
stars Michael Pitt ("Boardwalk Empire")
and Astrid Bergès-Frisbey ("Pirates
of the Caribbean: The Curse of the Black
Pearl").
••••
In addition to big
stars and young talent from around the
world, French icon Isabelle Huppert will
be coming to MÜNCHEN. Huppert will be
honored for her contributions to motions
pictures as an art form. She will also be
presenting her latest film "Paris Follies"
at its German premiere.
••••
"I'm thrilled that
Isabelle Huppert is coming to Munich. It's
something we've been planning for years
and now it's finally happening," commented
festival director Diana Iljine. "And we
have plenty of great guests this year.
From Hollywood to Bollywood."
••••
Also coming to town
are German actor Udo Kier, recipient of
the CineMerit Award. American cult
director Walter Hill is being honored with
the first complete retrospective of his
work ever. Producer legend and Oscar
winner Arthur Cohn will be here for a gala
in which he will talk about his decades in
the American film capital. And Indian
superstar Irrfan Khan will be bringing a
touch of Bollywood to Bavaria. Irrfan Khan
is known internationally for films
including "Slumdog Millionaire", "The
Amazing Spider-Man," "Life of Pi" and
"Lunchbox" but also for films from India.
In Munich he'll be presenting his latest
film "Qissa." Awards given at Munich
Filmfest-
The most prestigious and lucrative awards
at FILMFEST MÜNCHEN are given by:
ARRI and Osram (ARRI/OSRAM Award for Best
International Film), Senator (CineVision
Award for Best International Newcomer
Film), Bavaria Film, Bayerischer Rundfunk
and the DZ Bank (German Cinema New Talent
Award), VFF - Verwertungsgesellschaft der
Film- und Fernsehproduzenten (Bernd
Burgemeister TV Movie Award). Sponsor•Hofbräu
München- ••••
It is the third
year for Hofbräu München as a
Filmfest sponsor among many. The brewery
that is practically synonymous the world
over for Munich and its beer, makes sure
that guests take a little Munich lifestyle
back home with them. Hofbräu beers
are served at many Filmfest events
including the Open Air screenings with its
beergarden atmosphere and the closing
night bash.
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• The Young and Prodigious T.S.
Spivet The Munich Film Festival premiered
Jean-Pierre Jeunet's "The Young and
Prodigious T.S. Spivet," and will close
with "I Origins" from U.S. helmer Mike
Cahill.
••••The
festival features four sections --
CineMasters, CineVision, Spotlight and
International Independents , packed with
German premieres.
••••"This
year's films hit their targets -- they go
straight to the heart or the solar
plexus," said festival director Diana
Iljine in a statement.
••••
Jeunet's film, which is based on
the young adult novel by Reif Larsen,
stars Helena Bonham Carter and Kyle
Catlett.
••••Jeunet
is best known for feature debut
"Delicatessen" and "Amelie," which grossed
$170 million worldwide. His other pics
include "The City of Lost Children,"
"Alien: Resurrection" and "A Very Long
Engagement."
• CineMeritAward for Udo
Kier The Munich Fest honored Udo Kier at a
gala ceremony with CineMerit Award,, given
to an actor whose career spans Europe and
the U.S.
••••
The ceremony included the world premiere
of his latest film "Arteholic," in which
director Hermann Vaske accompanies
art-obsessed Kier through some of Europe's
greatest museums. As part of its homage,
the festival will be showing five
additional films with Kier: "Tod Eines
Weltstars" and "Egomania" by Christoph
Schlingensief; "My Own Private Idaho"; "A
Trick of the Light," from by Wim Wenders;
and "Iron Sky," by Timo Vuorensola.
••••Kier's
career is full of daring choices, and he's
worked with such icons as Andy Warhol
("Andy Warhol's Frankenstein"), Rainer
Werner Fassbinder ("Lili Marleen," "Lola"
and "Berlin Alexanderplatz") and Lars von
Trier (nine films including both volumes
of "Nymphomaniac").
••••In
1991, Kier made his first Hollywood film,
"My Own Private Idaho," from Gus Van Sant,
and has acted in art films, genre films
and Hollywood blockbusters.
••••
"Udo Kier is an actor who leaves a lasting
impression, no matter what the role," said
festival director Diana Iljine. "He is an
actor who is not afraid to take chances.
And many of them have paid off. Udo Kier
himself is a work of art."
••••Previous
recipients of the CineMerit Award include
actors Julie Christie, John Malkovich and
Michael Caine as well as the directors
Michael Haneke, Barry Levinson and Milos
Forman.
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Supreme court rules TV streaming service
Aereo
illegal Justices accept argument of
major broadcasters that Aereo's service
amounts to a violation of copyright
law. •••
The US supreme court has ruled that
Aereo, the TV streaming service backed by
media mogul Barry Diller, is illegal.
•••Aereo,
which launched in 2012 in the New York
area, has expanded across the US and is
now available in cities including Atlanta,
Boston, Denver, Houston and Miami.
•••Backed
by Diller's IAC, Aereo has clashed
repeatedly with the television networks.
Last October broadcasters including ABC,
CBS and Fox filed a petition to the
supreme court after an appeals court
rejected their call for a ban on the
service
•••In
a 6-3 decision, the court rejected an
earlier appeals court decision which had
ruled the fledgling service did not breach
broadcasters' copyright. The Supreme Court
has ruled that Aereo, the upstart
television streaming service, violated
copyright laws by resending broadcast
signals without paying licensing fees.
The ruling effectively means the court
sees Aereo as similar to a cable company
&endash; and therefore liable to pay for
the content it broadcasts.
•••Aereo
captures the over-the-air signals of
network broadcasters and streams them to
customers via their computers, smartphones
or devices such as Apple TV or Roku. It
has thousands of tiny aerials that it
assigns to each of its customers, which
allows Aereo to argue that its clients are
merely renting antennae of the sort they
would otherwise have in their homes.
•••Customers
pay between $8 and $20 a month for the
service, which includes a cloud-based
digital video recorder &endash; far less
than the average cable bill. The company
does not pay fees to the media companies
whose signals it redistributes, while the
cable companies pay about $3bn. The
broadcasters argued that Aereo violated
copyright law.
••••The
justices said the law forbids unlicensed
companies to "transmit" copyrighted shows
to the viewing public. Aereo argued,
unsuccessfully, that it was transmitting
signals to individual customers through
the use of tiny rented antennas.
••••The
decision represents a major victory for TV
broadcasters, who depend increasingly on
licensing revenues from cable and
satellite services.
••••Two
veteran Washington attorneys, Paul Clement
and David Frederick, presented the
contrasting arguments in the case, ABC vs.
Aereo.
••••Clement,
a former solicitor general who represented
ABC and other broadcasters, called Aereo a
"gimmick" that allows "thousands of paying
strangers to watch live TV online" without
paying a licensing fee to the broadcasters
for their copyrighted programs.
••••This
violates the Copyright Act of 1976, he
said, adopted in part to deal with the
advent of cable TV service. Broadcasters
were given an exclusive right to any
program that is "publicly" performed or
transmitted to the public "by means of any
device or process." This could describe a
cable TV tower, and it also describes
Aereo precisely, he said.
••••However,
Aereo came up with what some say is a way
to skirt around the law. It denies that
its service amounts to a "public" airing
of programs, but is merely a new way for
individual consumers to watch programs
they could see for free.
••••With
the service for instance in New York,
subscribers rent a tiny antenna devoted to
their own individual use at a Brooklyn
facility. Through it, they capture free
over-the-air TV signals in the area.
Frederick, representing Aereo, compared
this to a set of old-fashioned "rabbit
ears" on a TV set.
••••"It's
no different than if I'm at home, and I
have an antenna or rabbit ears on my TV,
and I know what channels I can get,"
attorney Frederick said. "Consumers have a
right to get over-the-air signals that are
free to the public," he added.
••••He
likened Aereo to the 1980s-era video
recorders that allowed consumers to record
copies of programs to be viewed at home.
In 1984, the high court ruled that
recording programs at home for later
viewing did not violate copyright
laws.
••••The
argument centered on the interpretation of
a federal law that applies to the public
performance of copyrighted works. Aereo
argued that its antennae meant it was
facilitating thousands of individual
performances and not a public performance,
which would violate the Copyright Act of
1976, which gives the copyright owner the
"exclusive right" to "perform the
copyrighted work publicly".
••••
In a statement, 21st Century Fox, formed
from the breakup of News Corp, said: "21st
Century Fox welcomes the US supreme
court's ruling, a decision that ultimately
is a win for consumers that affirms
important copyright protections and
ensures that real innovation in
over-the-top video will continue to
support what is already a vibrant and
growing television landscape."
••••Objecting
to the ruling, supreme court justice
Antonin Scalia compared Aereo to a
photocopier and said the company "should
not be directly liable whenever its
patrons use its equipment to 'transmit'
copyrighted television programs to their
screens". But the majority of the judges
rejected that argument given Aereo's
"overwhelming likeness to the cable
companies."
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In memory of Casey Kasem" - A sad day for
radio listerners around the
world• Photo: taken during a beauty
pageant
promoting
good posture at Troy Cory's place in
Pasadena. "Thanks Casey for introducing the Troy
Cory Show." Best of memories, Troy.
••••
••••
Casey
Kasem, a radio voice who connected
generations of Americans to thousands of
rock and pop acts, died Father's Day, June
15, 2014. Kasem, hospitalized in
Washington state since June 1, had been in
declining health. The longtime host of
radio's American Top 40, which he started
in 1970, was a familiar voice to millions,
known for his signature closig advice:
"Keep our feet on the ground and keep
reaching for the stars."
••••
Kasem founded the
American Top 40 franchise with Don
Bustany, Tom Rounds and Ron Jacobs and
hosted it from 1970 to 1988 and from 1998
to 2004. Between January 1989 and early
1998, he was the host of Casey's Top
40, Casey's Hot 20, and
Casey's Countdown. Also beginning
in 1998, Kasem hosted two AC spin-offs of
American Top 40, American Top 20
and Ameican Top 10. He retired from
AT20 and AT10 on July 4, 2009 and both
shows ended on that day. Ryan Seacrest
took over the AT40 franchise in
2004.
••••
Kasem, known for his
distinctive, rich, dramatic voice, was the
youngest member ever to be inducted into
the National Radio Hall of Fame and has
his own star on the Hollywood Walk of
Fame. He first served as DJ and radio
announcer while serving the Army during
the Korean War and began his professional
radio career in the 1950s.
••••
He was also active in politics for
years, supporting Lebanese-American and
Arab-American causes,an interest which was
triggered by the 1982 Israeli invasion of
Lebanon. He wrote a brochure published by
the Arab American Institute entitled
"Arab-Americans: Making a Difference". He
turned down a position in Transformers
series because of the show's plot
portraying "evil Arabs". He also called
for a fairer depiction of heroes and
villains, on behalf of all cultures. Kasem
campaigned against the Gulf War,
advocating non-military means of
pressuring Saddam Hussein into withdrawing
from Kuwait, was an advocate of
Palestinian independence and arranged
conflict resolution workshops for Arab
Americans and Jewish Americans.
••••
Kasem supported a number of other
progressive causes, including affordable
housing and the rights of the homeless,
animal rights and environmental causes,
and was a critic of factory farming.m was
a
••••
He was married to Linda Myers from
1972 to 1979 with whom he had three
children, Mike, Julie, and Kerri
Kasem.
From 1980 until his death, Kasem was
married to actress Jean Thompson. They had
one child, Liberty Jean Kasem.
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ATBA says FCC report spells war on
broadcasters. WASHINGTON DC
&endash; After consideration and study of
the GN Docket No. 12-268 REPORT &
ORDER released by the Federal
Communications Commission (FCC) on June
2nd, the Advanced Television Broadcasting
Alliance (ATBA) voiced concern that the
FCC has declared war on broadcasters,
especially LPTV and Translator stations.
The FCC is seemingly denying a significant
amount of the nation free over-the-air
television access in favor of providing
well-funded wireless carriers with more
spectrum for profit. The FCC in the
R&O concluded that the concerns of
broadcasters "are outweighed by the
detrimental impact that protecting LPTV
and TV translator stations would have on
the repacking process and on the success
of the incentive auction."
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Is Comcast lobbying the
FCC? Big companies
often try to hitch former Washington
insiders for its lobbying team; but the
cable giant Comcast has been especially
aggressive in picking up former
congressional aides and Federal
Communications Commission staff members --
even a former FCC commissioner -- as
company lobbyists.
••••
• Many of them
are now fully engaged on the company's
$45-billion takeover venture of Time
Warmer Cable. Such deal would widen
Comcast's lead as the nation's biggest
cable and Internet provider, but requires
the approval of the FCC and the Justice
Department's antitrust division and may
face questions in Congress.
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Digital Hollywood Spring,
May
5-8, Ritz Carlton, Marina Del
Rey.
• tviNews Reports By:
Josie Cory, Mark Anderson, and Troy Cory
••••In
an era that has seen the downsizing or
demise of most household-name tradeshows,
Digital Hollywood is flourishing as a sort
of live-content aggregator attracting
various industry stalwarts to hold private
meetings all at the same venue, then
network together at conference tracks,
keynote roundtables and after-hours
parties.
••••
Victor Harwood who is presiding over
several annual trade shows dealing with
entertainment, media, advertising and
technology events, besides Digital
Hollywood, said back in 2007, "The idea of
putting together a tradeshow by hassling
people to buy booth space is old -- anyone
who did that is not in business
anymore."
••••
His upcoming Spring confab at the Ritz
Carlton Hotel, in Marina Del Rey, CA, made
up of separate multi-track but co-located
events is still the only conference that
brings together creatives, agents,
distributors, technologists, financiers,
lawyers and media -- legally, it's very
hard for a lot of these people to be in
the same room, unless there's a common
purpose and a common theme. More minds
have been changed -- at Digital Hollywood
than at any other conference."
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Is Comcast lobbying the
FCC? Big companies
often try to hitch former Washington
insiders for its lobbying team; but the
cable giant Comcast has been especially
aggressive in picking up former
congressional aides and Federal
Communications Commission staff members --
even a former FCC commissioner -- as
company lobbyists.
••••
Many of them are
now fully engaged on the company's
$45-billion takeover venture of Time
Warmer Cable. Such deal would widen
Comcast's lead as the nation's biggest
cable and Internet provider, but requires
the approval of the FCC and the Justice
Department's antitrust division and may
face questions in Congress.
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AereoVs.Broadcasters •The
Areo Debate "To Be or Not to Be,"
provided food for a heated discussion at
the Digital Hollywood Spring conference
May 7, 2014. Moderated by James M. Burger,
Partner, Thompson Coburn, Neil W. Netanel,
Professor of Law, UCLA Law School; John C.
Ulin Partner, Arnold and Porter midway
through the debate were interreupted by
questions of the audience which became
increasingly agitated. It did make for a
lively debate though considering the fact
that most panelists usually take questions
only at the end of a panel discussion.
••••
A
ruling to be followed closely by advocates
of net neutrality, and broadcasters, the
US Supreme Court
justices questioned the legality of Areo
as they weighed whether the starup
violates copyright law by recording
over-the-air programming from an off-site
antenna and delivering it to customers via
the internet. Areo aims to upend the
broadcast industry's decades-old business
model by letting customers in 11 cities
watch live and recorded shows for as
little as $8 a month.
••••
Barry Diller,
Chairman and Senior Executive of media
company, IAC/InterActiveCorp, said
broadcasters are seeking to stifle
innovation for their own financial gain by
suing to shut down Aereo Inc., the
streaming-video company he's backing. "I
am really tired of being accused of
stealing anyone else's programming when we
are not," Diller said. "It's kind of
obnoxious to take away programming they
have promised the public they could
receive directly simply because they want
to take away every dollar from
consumers.
•
•Aereo's
faceoff at the nation's highest court
against broadcasters
including
21st Century Fox Inc., and CBS Corp,
stemmed from its bid to forge a
technological route around the television
companies' copyrights. It was Diller,
co-creator of Fox's broadcast network,
who pushed Aereo
beyond its original plan to offer services
only in parts of New York, Aereo CEO Chet
Kanojia stated.
•••The
Supreme Court arguments didn't indicate a
like outcome, as justices, including
Stephen Breyer repeatedly questioned
whether ruling against Aereo would broadly
imperil cloud-computing technologies that
let consumers remotely store content such
as video and access it through the
Web.
••••
U.S. copyright law
gives owners the exclusive right to
perform their works "publicly." If Areo is
deemed to be a public rather than private
performance, the ruling may affect cloud
storage offerings from companies like
Google Inc., Dropbox Inc., Apple,
Amazon.com Inc. and Box Inc.
••••
"If you stop Aereo,
you stop technology," Diller said. •
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FCC Featured at Cable Show, LA Conv. Ctr.
Apr
29-May
1 A
Faster, Better, More Entertaining
Future
• Convention Co-Chairs Welcome:
Rob Marcus, Chairman & CEO, Time
Warner Cable Inc. John Skipper, President,
ESPN, Inc. & Co-Chairman, Disney Media
Networks • City Welcome: Eric Garcetti,
Mayor, City of Los Angeles
• Keynote: Michael Powell,
President & CEO, NCTA • Live From The Cable Show:
FCC Chairman Thomas
Wheeler.
"Let me be clear. If someone acts to
divide the Internet between 'haves' and
'have-nots,' we will use every power at
our disposal to stop it," Wheeler said.
"As chairman of the FCC, I do not intend
to allow innovation to be strangled by the
manipultion of the most important network
of our time, the Internet."
••••
The Cable Show,
the industry's 2014 annual gathering in
Los Angeles had no shortage of news to
pick apart given Comcast's 45 billion deal
to buy Time Warner Cable as well as
the deal Comcast cut with Charter
Communications.
••••
But what was
actually on the minds of many were the
companies that weren't at the show at all:
Netflix, Hulu, Amazon.com, Google, Yahoo,
AT&T, Verizon, Dish and DirecTV --
essentially every company that isn't
strictly speaking a cable company.
••••
However, the fact
that Netflix was nowhere to be found at
the show, either at the session or on the
exhibition floor, was telling.
•••••The
National Cable and Telecommunications
Association, which runs the Cable Show,
says companies such as Netflix have
appeared at the conference in the past to
participate on panels, but they've never
been a big presence.
••••
Many of the cable
networks, such as Turner (which owns CNN
and TNT), Fox News, Discovery
Communications and AMC were there partly
to show off their programming, but mostly
to take meetings with the cable industry.
Privately, some of them have said the
conference would be more useful if the
satellite and telephone companies were
also here.
••••
If the Comcast
merger is approved by regulators, Time
Warner Cable won't exist next year,
turning the Cable Show into the Comcast
show. •
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Stephen Colbert to host the "Late Show" in
2015 Will the
real Stephen Colbert please stand up. After much speculation, and exactly a
week after David Letterman announced his
plans to retire, the fast-sprung news has
settled in that Stephen Colbert, the host,
writer and executive producer of "The
Colbert Report," will replace Dave
Letterman as host of the "Late Show" in
2015. Now that leaves us with the
question, what character is going play the
host." CBS CEO Les Moonves explained that
Cobert would not host the show as
blustering character. "What you're going
to get is the real Stephen Colbert."
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Bill Adrian of the William Adrian Agency
Dies
(1919 - 2014) Mr. Adrian passed away on March 26,
2014 at the age of 94. Visitation on April
3rd from 5-8 p.m. at Cabot and Sons
Mortuary at Chestnut Street, Pasadena.
Funeral Mass, Friday April 4, at 10 a.m.
at St. Philips Catholic Church, 151 S.
Hill Street, Pasadena. ABOUT
BILL ••••
William P. Adrian
was born in Hackensack, NJ in 1919 and
raised in Syracuse, NY, Bill graduated
from Nottingham HS and later attended
Syracuse University where he studied
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Troy Cory was among the first
international entertainers and the first
American entertainer to perform in the
People's Republic of China, beginning in
1988. In itself a notable
culture-historical feat, in view of
China's closed door policies of the late
70s and well into the 80s.
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It was just last week, (Nov 3rd, 2013)
-- that
Josie Cory & Margit
Seelos discussed the contributions of
their respective husbands musical talents
to the world. It was in the late 1970s
that found the two women pushing both
grown men to play Santa Claus, elves, and
create the musical scores for the
German/USA production film "Merry
Christmas;" and YouTube.com sequels:
"Just in the Nick of Time,"
starring Priscilla Cory, as
"Little Miss Santa," and featuring
the late German singer, Manuela.
The Movie itself was Produced by VRA
TelePlay Picture's, Josie Cory;
Bohemia Film's Williams Janovsky;
and ARD's Gábor Wagner. • The Feature Movie was filmed in
-- and around the city of Munich,
Nymphenburg and Castle Neuschwanstein,
Germany and in Oberndorf, Austria, the
small village and church where the
Christmas carol "Silent Night" was
performed for the first time on December
25, 1818
•
101 St.
Nicholas, the Castle
Neuschwanstein,
and the music of Troy Cory and Ambros
Seelos •
•
The vocals, sound tracks and string
section on the Munich Sound recordings
were provided by Troy Cory, Ambros Seelos,
and "The Munich Philharmonics." The piano
and musical arrangements were conducted by
Ambros Seelos and Sylvester
Levay. Several years later it was
Levay who garnered a Grammy Award for
"Fly, Robin, Fly," and wrote the music
scores for the film "Howard the Duck" and
the Vienna musical "Elisabeth."
History:
Founded in 1956 by ABC's
Sam
Donaldson
and his partner Al
Preiss
and acquired by the Cory's in
1987.
In
March, 1963, TVI hosted the first "Annual
Festival of World TV Classics Award " at the
Huntington Hartford Theater. It grew to command
the print readership of television network
executives in 142 countries on six continents,
covering the industry of television, film,
telecommunication and WiTEL. In the middle 90s
TVI Magazine went online: tvimagazine.com
. .
."People read what
they want," says tviNews. "There is no master plan
what people are interested in." The question is,
how can we partner with people to have a symbiotic
realationship?
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Cory's Road to Harbin,
China
• Troy Cory was
among the first international entertainers and the first
American entertainer to perform in the People's Republic of
China, beginning in 1988. In itself a notable
culture-historical feat, in view of China's closed door
policies of the late 70s and well into the 80s. The PRC's
administrative climate in comparison is much less
restrictive now and China's open door policy enables many
entertainers to introduce themselves t o the populace
Chinese audiences• •
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