Beastie Boy Yauch enters film distribution biz
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NEW YORK  - Adam Yauch, of hip-hop group Beastie Boys, is launching Oscilloscope Pictures, an independent film distribution and international sales company.
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The main attraction is still renting movies by mail, but now the company is producing its own indie flicks. Look out, Bob and Harvey. By  Erin Biba from Wired magazine.
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Record labels including Universal and SonyBMG have begun selling music through a new download service.
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TVT Records, long ranked as a top independent label, was hit last year with a $9.1 million court judgment over the release of old recordings of the rapper Pitbull.
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Bill Frohlich and Jordan Katz have been named co-presidents of Sony BMG Sales Enterprise, the new entity comprising the distribution operations of Sony Music Distribution (including its independent arm RED Distribution) and BMG Distribution.
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The rapper is joining forces with Steve Stoute to open an ad agency that will help marketers reach multicultural consumers.
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Nearly 100 people turned up at an open casting call for âNotorious,â a biopic of the rapper Christopher G. Wallace, better known as Biggie Smalls or Notorious B.I.G.
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Faced with a protracted sales slump, record labels are now tapping into the tween scene, after Walt Disney Co. has become the unlikely hitmaker of the year with chart toppers like "Hannah Montana" and "High School Musical."
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The Beastie Boys are moving ahead  with plans for a vocal version of their latest album, the  all-instrumental &quot;The Mix-Up.&quot; Adam &quot;MCA&quot; Yauch said the trio  is &quot;talking to some different artists who might do kinda like  remixes and put vocals on it, so it wouldn&#39;t be us doing vocals  on it.
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Horror brand Fangoria is  launching a genre film label and has tapped agency CAA to raise  the financing, which is expected to top $100 million.
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An investment firm run by former Walt  Disney Co. Chief Executive Michael Eisner has launched a studio  that will produce and distribute videos for the Internet,  portable media devices and cell phones, as Hollywood strives to  reach tech-savvy viewers online.
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A record company has recently released the recordings of black vaudevillian Bert Williams, an early master of speech-song and vanguard of hip-hop.
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Sean "Diddy" Combs -- rapper, music producer, fashion designer, business mogul, Broadway star -- has had many career-defining moments. This week at the Sundance Film Festival, he had yet another.
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The company goes to Sundance and adds to its stable of offbeat flicks.
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Hip-hop impresario Sean "Diddy" Combs is making room for two more in his posse.
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The Blu-ray Disc Association (BDA) today announced that The Walt Disney Company will become a member of the Board of Directors of the BDA, and will begin releasing content non-exclusively in the Blu-ray Disc format when Blu-ray hardware launches in North
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Jon Francke, a buyer at the video-rental chain Potomac Video, just placed his company's first order for Blu-ray discs.