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Apple, Record Labels Team Up to Boost Album Sales
Very soon, your next album purchase on iTunes might contain more than just a handful or two of tracks. Although the project reportedly deemed "Cocktail" is characteristically still under wraps, Apple is said to be planning a virtual, interactive CD experience with every full-album download.... read more
Found in: Culture, NewsRicky Gervais' Children's Book Series to Get 3D Film Treatment
Ricky Gervais and Universal's Illumination Entertainment have announced plans to adapt Gervais' Flanimals children's books into a feature 3D animated movie.... read more
Found in: Books, NewsSacha Baron Cohen's Brüno threatened with an NC-17
An early cut of Sacha Baron Cohen’s Brüno was only offered an NC-17 certificate from the MPAA because of graphic sexual content, Universal confirmed this week. According to The Wrap, there are two sequences the ratings board found particularly galling: an anal-sex scene and another that involves Cohen sneaking up on a man on a hunting trip without any clothes.... read more
Found in: Movies, NewsUniversal Music, YouTube partner for music-video venture
Instead of watching grainy, low-quality videos, you might begin to see high-definition music videos soon on YouTube. According to Variety, Universal Music Group has begun talks with Google's YouTube to launch a music video website similar to YouTube, but with higher quality videos.... read more
Found in: Music, NewsCate Blanchett to join Russell Crowe in Robin Hood
Through its unusually public development process, Ridley Scott’s take on Robin Hood has evolved from an ostensible character experiment for Russell Crowe to, Variety now reports, a reworked version of Gladiator, the movie that first brought Scott and Crowe together nearly a decade ago.... read more
Found in: Movies, NewsIn coup, DreamWorks to release movies through Disney
In a major surprise and minor industry scandal, DreamWorks confirmed on Monday that it will now release its movies through Disney, not Universal, as had previously been announced.... read more
Found in: Movies, NewsCandy Land to become a movie
Forget Marvel—Hasbro is where it’s at. The toy company already flipped its Transformers brand into one of the most valuable current movie franchises, and we now have movie versions of G.I. Joe, Ouija and Monopoly on the way. Not to be outdone, Universal pulled together a deal with the company, and the first fruit will be a movie based on the frothy board game Candy Land.... read more
Found in: Movies, NewsQ-Tip: The Renaissance
Back when he was rockin’ the mic for A Tribe Called Quest... read more
Found in: Music, ReviewsGore Verbinski to produce remake of The Host
Cue collective grumble from cult sectors: Universal has officially nabbed Gore Verbinski to produce a remake of The Host, the much-touted 2006 creature epic from South Korea.... read more
Found in: Movies, NewsTransformers: The Ride coming to Universal
For all the talk of that Laurentian Abyss and all those Sector 7 classified secrets, there's some real noise making the rounds about our favorite Autonomous Robotic Organisms from the planet Cybertron. Transformers are set to make theme park gold as Universal plans to install Transformers: The Ride at both its Hollywood and Singapore parks.... read more
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