Ondas de Radio: Apaga la Tele!!!!!

Por Christian Quezada

Yo, al igual que muchos, me estoy empezando a aburrir de la televisión chilena. Pocas ideas nuevas, formatos “franquicia” de países extranjeros mal adaptados, doble estándar a flor de piel en nuestras pantallas, programas de “realidad” muy poco serios y de problemáticas muy superficiales, peleas de farándula con gente desconocida, programas de investigación que no salen de lo mismo de siempre. En fin. No dan ni ganas de hacer el zapping acostumbrado con el control remoto.

Si bien hay programas de la TV Chilena que rescato como CQC (Mega), Jugados (Telecanal), Mucha Tele (Vía X) y Sin Dios Ni Late (Zona Latina), en general, es muy pobre lo que pasa al prender la Tele. Por eso, si estás aburrido de ver esta televisión elaborada a través de franjas horarias arbitrarias, donde en todos los canales dan programas muy similares, incluso a la misma hora, acá te recomiendo que apagues la tele y te conectes al mundo de la radio.

Como sabemos, Chillán es casi la única ciudad de Chile que no cuenta con al menos una radio que mezcle juventud, universitarios, buena música, ironía, dinamismo o diversión. Por eso acá te dejo una lista de programas que te recomiendo escuchar, además de como acceder a ellos ya sea prendiendo tu radio, entrando a Internet o en la radio de tu auto.

ES LO QUE HAY

ADN Radio Chile

Lunes a Viernes a las 15 Horas

Conduce: Patricio Cuevas y Alejandra Dueñas

Diales 8va región: Chillán 101.3 / Pinto 91.5 / Los Ángeles 104.5 / Concepción 104.1

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Descripción: Programa de actualidad general vista desde un punto de vista distendido, divertido y muchas veces irónico. La dupla de Jani Dueñas y Pato Cuevas además tienen importantes invitados, creaciones de personajes y segmentos muy divertidos. Personalmente tiene una línea muy parecida a la que tenía Rock and Pop en los noventa, por eso muy recomendable. Si después de almorzar sientes esa maldita fatiga molestándote, tranquilo…. Es lo que Hay.

WORLD DANCE MUSIC

40 Principales

Sábados a las 22 Horas

Conduce: Luis Lopez

Diales 8va región: Chillán 89.1 / Los Ángeles 94.5 / Concepción 92.5

Chillan, Los Ángeles y Concepción en el canal 652 de VTR (Servicio D-Box)

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Descripción: El Radio Show de electrónica más escuchado en el mundo. Directamente desde España, Luís López repasa las 20 canciones de la semana en el rubro Electrónico. Todo lo nuevo y que más suena en las pistas de baile de Europa y Latinoamérica. Además varios estrenos y entrevistas a los mejores DJ`s del mundo. Este programa tiene una producción muy similar a lo que eran los programas de Radioactiva Chile en su etapa del año 1997 al 2001, cuando llegó a ser la radio Nº1 de Chile.

RADIOTRANSMISOR

Sonar FM

Lunes a Viernes a las 18 horas

Conduce: Alfredo Lewin

Chillán, Los Ángeles y Concepción en el canal 668 de VTR (Servicio D-Box)

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Descripción: Repaso por los rincones más interesantes de la cultura pop: libros, cine, deportes, agenda y música. Sobre todo música. Una ciudad repleta de radiotransmisores. Tremenda conducción de un maestro en cuanto a información sobre música se refiere. Gracias a él empecé a escuchar Rock en pleno, eso a mediados del año 2001.

SISTEMA SONAR

Sonar FM

Lunes a Viernes a las 08 horas

Conduce: Jorge Lira

Chillán, Los Ángeles y Concepción en el canal 668 de VTR (Servicio D-Box)

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Descripción: Dosis justa de información, con el análisis preciso y buena música. Para que llegues al trabajo, al colegio o a la U, lo mas actualizado posible. En la conducción Jorge Lira, un experto despertador de masas (lo hizo durante varios años en La Grúa de Rock and Pop)

LA FERIA DE LAS PULGAS

Rock And Pop

Lunes a Sábado a las 12 Horas

Conduce: Chico Jano

Chillán, Los Ángeles y Concepción en el canal 661 de VTR (Servicio D-Box)

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Descripción: Compra, vende, permuta, ofrece y busca pega…Rock and Pop no está ajena a la crisis económica mundial, por eso cada día el Chico Jano, abre las puertas del único persa radial con permiso municipal. En 2 horas puedes vender de todo (incluso a tu suegra), todo esto acompañado de la mejor música.

PEGAO A LAS SÁBANAS

Carolina

Lunes a viernes a las 07 Horas

Conduce: Víctor Aranda “Pelo Verde” y DJ Osvaldo

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Descripción: El clásico despertador de Chile te despega las lagañas de tus ojos, separa las sabanas de tu cuerpo y te despierta los sentidos, para inyectarte a la vena los mejores éxitos y el mayor desorden. Carolina tiene a la dupla de dementes más desordenados de Chile, Víctor Aranda (P-lo Verde) Y DJ Osvaldo. V. Aranda, un demente al micrófono. Durante años se hizo conocido por las bromas telefónicas que realizó, en su paso por 40 Principales, en el programa “Estación 40”.

MÁXIMO 2009

Carolina

Lunes a Sábado a las 19 Horas

Conduce: Rodrigo “Pelao” González.

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Descripción: El clásico estelar de la tarde y líder en su horario desde hace años, se llama Máximo 2009. Toda la ironía, simpatía, desfachatez y genialidad del “Pelao” González (Mucha Tele, Vía X) desde las 19:00 Horas. Para cualquier persona… escolares, universitarios, mamás, mamacitas, técnicos, panaderos, jardineros, abogados, periodistas, cuicos y flaites. Todos reunidos escuchando la mejor música y los más diversos personajes. Conocido en nuestra provincia más que nada por su segmento Radio Piruja, todo un clásico de la radiotelefonía nacional.

CLUB 90

Carolina

Domingos a las 23 horas

Conduce: Víctor Aranda

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Descripción: P-lo Verde, te acompaña con una hora llena de éxitos noventeros. Aquí podrás escuchar esas canciones que marcaron tus años de básica. Grunge, pop, rock, electrónica, hip-hop y todos los estilos que marcaron la década pasada son parte de Club 90. Nostalgia al máximo para cerrar la semana.

Espero que les sirva, estos son programas totalmente recomendables desde el punto de vista musical sumado a la manera diferente de entretener o hablar de temas de actualidad tan densos como la política.



Having worked his way up from doorman, Luis Lopez now acts as personal bodyguard, confidant and friend to Tony Prince, Liberty Citys most successful nightlife impresario.

Release date: Available now
Official site: www.rockstargames.com/episodesfromlibertycity

Having worked his way up from doorman, Luis Lopez now acts as personal bodyguard, confidant and friend to Tony Prince, Liberty Citys most successful nightlife impresario.

La última carrera del Open de España CM 2009, se ha celebrado el pasado fin de semana en el circuito de Cartagena hasta donde se desplazó el equipo DALOPA TEAM, con su piloto, Luis López de la Cámara, quién tenía un tú a tú ya en la jornada de entrenamientos con el líder Xavier Doménech que marcaba la pole, pero era seguido de un De la Cámara a tan sólo 3 décimas lo de deparaba una jornada de carreras más que interesante. La nota negativa la ponía de nuevo el Bango del segoviano que volvía a fallar tras los últimos fallos en Alcañiz, después de que aparecieran de nuevo los fallos mecánicos, lo que le impedían bajar algo más el tiempo de los cronos y le hacían meterse a boxes sin poder dar más vueltas al trazado cartagenero.

La jornada del domingo amanecía con sol y calor, propio de Cartagena, De la Cámara salía a realizar su cometido de ganar la manga y a esperar el fallo de Doménech. Y así fue, el segoviano lidero la manga de principio estando al frente 4 vueltas, tras las cuales frente el acoso de Doménech, el segoviano decide ser adelantado, liderando el catalán la carrera. A 3 vueltas para el final De la Cámara cambia de estrategia y adelanta al del equipo Monlau y se sitúa líder de la carrera, dando el todo por el todo. A escasas dos curvas del final de carrera, el Bango de De la Cámara de nuevo falla no engranando la marcha y teniendo que terminar el segoviano la carrera, por lo que es adelantado por  Doménech, que ganaba la carrera, Cirre y Martínez que hacían segundo y tercero respectivamente, mientras que el segoviano hacía una cuarta posición que le dejaba un muy mal sabor de boca tras haber estado liderando la carrera.

En la segunda manga, el segoviano, tras los problemas mecánicos decidía no salir, dado que la 2ª plaza de la general del campeonato la tenía ya matemáticamente, junto con algún dolor que le quedaba de la anterior prueba en Alcañiz, le hacían ver la carrera desde boxes y vio de nuevo una victoria de Doménech que le afianzaba más en el liderato.

Tras esta carrera el campeonato se decidía y Doménech tomaba el testigo de García, ganador del campeonato del 2008, proclamándose vencedor, con un muy competitivo De la Cámara en segunda plaza y un David García tercero, conformaron el pódium de la general final del Open de España CM 2009.

CLASIFICACIÓN CARTAGENA OPEN ESPAÑA CM

Carrera 1
1. Xavier Doménech, 10 vueltas.
2. Enrique Cirre, a 1.764 .
3. Raúl Martínez, a 7.609.
4. Luis López de la Cámara, a 22.033.
5. Fernando Servillera, a 40.221.

Carrera 2
1. Xavier Doménech, 10 vueltas.
2. Raúl Martínez, a 2.427.
3. Joan Josep Forés, a 11.116.
4. Fernando Servillera, a 12.556.
5. Enrique Cirre, a 12.785.

GENERAL FINAL OPEN ESPAÑA CM 2009

1º Xavier Domenech…265 puntos

2º Luis López de la Cámara … 198 puntos

3º David García … 156 puntos

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A new video has emerged from Rockstar about it’s upcoming Episodes from Liberty City. The disc contains the popular Lost and Damned DLC along with the newbie Ballad of Gay Tony and the video above shows off the pair in typical Rockstar fashion. First we’re introduced to Armando Torres and Henrique Bardas – two of Luis Lopez’s (the lead in Ballad of Gay Tony) oldest friends as they butt fists, drive fast and shoot things. On top of said fun is the believable voice acting which seems to improve with each DLC. After that, we’re taken back to the gritty world of The Lost Motorcycle club were veteran member Brian tries to cause problems within the gang he loves so dearly…to the point where it gets creepy! Episodes from Liberty City will be out 29th October for the Xbox 360.

In a new documentary titled Chevolution, producer/director Trisha Ziff and director Luis Lopez explore the Che phenomenon from all angles, including the revolutionary’s early life, his fateful encounter with Castro, the Cuban revolution he helped make happen, to his life trying to foment revolutions in other countries. But it also examines how he crossed paths with photographer Alberto Korda, the fashion photographer/photojournalist who took the famous picture of Guevara that was the basis for the icon we know today. Here are some excerpts from the review published by the Tribeca Film Festival, where the film was screened this spring:

The story of Che, Korda, and the photograph that started it all is told via archival footage and photographs, some light narration, and interviews with people from all walks of life. We hear from some of the people who traveled with Guevara in South America, where he was a medical student who saw the suffering of the poor and wanted to do something to help them. They also speak to some of the photographers who, along with Korda, documented Che’s rise to power after the revolution he and Castro began in Cuba was a success. They also speak to Korda’s daughter, Diana Diaz, who’s protecting the legacy of her father’s most famous work, Jon Lee Anderson, a biographer of Che’s life, and a range of people who have been influenced by Che, positively (Tom Morello of Rage Against the Machine, for instance), negatively (Cubans who hate what Che stands for), and everything in between.

What struck me about the movie was its completeness; it not only took a careful look at the lives of Guevara and Korda, but it also examined the genesis of the famous photograph, taken at a memorial for the victims of the 1960 terrorist attack on the ship Le Cubre. The photo, one of two frames of Che amongst rolls taken by many photographers at the event, wasn’t even published in the local papers the next day, but showed up internationally seven years later. Che’s revolutionary message, which dovetailed nicely with the student protests that had started around the world by that time, combined with a lack of copyright laws in Cuba, allowed the image to spread like wildfire around the globe.

But the film also talks about how Che lived the remaining years of his life, which ended during a failed revolution in Bolivia in 1968, how his message has been diluted by the capitalistic efforts to exploit his image, how Che’s revolutionary message wasn’t supported by everyone, and the belated efforts of the late Korda — and now, his daughter — to protect the use of the image via lawsuits. Just about all of it is engaging, making it less a dry history lesson and more of an examination of how pop culture and capitalism conspires to make Marxist revolutionaries into corporate logos.

The film is being distributed by Netflix’s Red Envelope Entertainment, and should be available from them in the near future.

For the complete review go to http://www.cinematical.com/2008/04/27/tribeca-review-chevolution/

You can watch the trailer here

Depois da Rockstar ter publicado as primeiras imagens “in-game” de Grand Theft Auto IV: The Ballad of Gay Tony, agora chegou a vez de ficarmos sabendo de mais alguns detalhes sobre as missões deste episódio exclusivo da Xbox 360.

[Direto do EuroGamer]

Rockstar ha appena annunciato un nuovo contenuto scaricabile, in esclusiva xbox 360, per GtaIV dal nome “The Ballad of Gay Tony”. Questa volta impersonificheremo Luis Lopez, dipendente di un night club di Liberty City. L’espansione sarà disponibile quest’inverno al prezzo di 1600 MSpoints.

Rockstar inoltre annuncia anche l’uscita di un DVD, sempre per xbox 360, contenente le due espansioni uscite fin’ora e indipendente da GTAIV, ovvero possiamo giocarci senza possedere necessariamente il gioco iniziale, tale dvd arriverà in america al prezzo di 39.99$.

Un buen tema, que ya tiene unos mesecitos …

There is never something for nothing.

Be what you want to be

Luis Lopez

    Many people have wished to be millionaire, successful and even wise, but most haven’t realized such dreams because they think, that wasn’t their destiny or because they haven’t being lucky. Let me tell you that success doesn’t have anything to do with luck or destiny. It’s on you. You have the capacity to do whatever you want, but you must be willing to give up something for what you desire. You probably have heard the cliché “there is no such thing, something for nothing” it is very true in this unequal world. If you are one of those people that always daydream and think how to improve your life, you must know these words, and their meaning. You must apply then unconsciously. Thoughts are things, desire, faith, autosuggestion, specialized knowledge, imagination, organized planning, decision, and persistence.

    Thoughts are things: this means that whatever you dream, think, or wish can come true. This is the first step to the goal you wish to accomplish, but unfortunately, this is where most of the people stop. If you have a brainstorm of thoughts in your mind, the first step is to define the most desired one and begin from there. Desire is the second step after you have decided what you want to do or be. One way to build desire is to picture yourself in what you want, and feel the power and strength of it. Whatever the mind of a man can conceive and believe; can be achieved. Faith is what makes miracles come true, the human’s spiritual emotion that moves the world. If you have faith in yourself, you have the power of doing anything. Autosuggestion: you must influence yourself consciously and work on your attitudes, behavior, and physical conditions necessary for your goal until you master them, so you can be able to apply them unconsciously. Specialized knowledge: to become or to do what you wish; you must master the subject, work harder, and acquire everything necessary for your goal. General knowledge is not good; so be very specific in your knowledge acquisition and take only what is necessary for it. Imagination: is where you give shape, form, and action to your ideas. You can create anything that you imagine. That is the greatest power of the human race. Organized planning is the process where you decide how you are going to achieve your goal. Plan every step, each one is very important. Stick to your plans and don’t change them. Don’t try to make it easy, because the easier the task, the weaker your goal is going to be. Decision: it’s easy to make decisions; the hard part is to maintain your decision. Procrastination: is the opposite of decision and is a common enemy that you must conquer. Don’t ever leave your decisions aside; instead, work hard when things get difficult. Persistence: this is the last step to reach your goal. No matter how things complicate, you must keep on with you plans. If you had started with the hard part, it is easier to continue.

    Most of the people, who had failed in their plans, is because they have failed to follow one of these instructions. One suggestion to prove these instructions is to apply them to small goals; you’ll see that it actually works. Later, when you have mastered and you are able to apply this device, you will be able to do it unconsciously. Failure will always be in your way but there are no greater failures then to stop trying. Always remember that there is no such thing: that there is never something for nothing and depending on how rich, wise or success you want to be, is how hard you are going to work for it, and that the ladder of success is never crowded at the top.

PROJECTS ANNOUNCED

CBS Films has optioned the romantic comedy spec “Plan B,” by TV scribe Kate Angelo. Plot details are being kept under wraps, but the story is believed to center on a woman who sets out to be artificially inseminated and falls in love. Todd Black, Jake Blumenthal and Steve Tisch are producing through their Escape Artists shingle. Spec sparked a bidding war that involved multiple parties. CBS Films has jumped into the post-WGA strike lit market with resolve. Last month, the nascent company paid $1 million for Dan Fogelman’s untitled boomers-in-Vegas comedy pitch. Angelo has an overall deal at ABC Television Studios and has a pilot in contention at ABC with Julie Bowen attached to star. Angelo’s credits include “Will & Grace” and J.J. Abrams’ “What About Brian.”

Paramount Pictures has preemptively bought “Lost City of Z,” a David Grann manuscript about the search for a lost city in the Amazon, with Brad Pitt to produce the feature adaptation through his Plan B shingle as a potential starring vehicle. Grann’s forthcoming nonfiction book concerns British explorer Col. Percy Harrison Fawcett, who was attempting to find the so-called City of Z when he and his party disappeared in 1925. Over the next 70 years, scores of explorers tried and failed to retrace Fawcett’s path, including a 1996 expedition of Brazilian adventurers. Pitt would play Fawcett. Doubleday is scheduled to publish “Lost City of Z,” an expansion of Grann’s September 2005 article in the New Yorker, in February. When Pitt expressed interest in toplining as well as producing “Lost City of Z,” Paramount moved quickly to buy it. Par previously optioned Grann’s New Yorker article “City of Water.”

Ray Romano is plotting a return to the smallscreen via TNT. Comic thesp has teamed with “Everybody Loves Raymond” scribe-producer Mike Royce to create “Men of a Certain Age,” a comedic one-hour drama in which Romano will also star. In a rare move, TNT is going straight to pilot on the script, which was written outside the normal development process. “Men” will revolve around three men in their 40s, friends since college, who now find themselves going through midlife crises of various sorts. Project is described as akin to “Sideways” in tone.

Chuck Russell is writing to direct “Northern Lights,” an action film set in the field of aerobatics — death-defying stunt flying. Russell is working on a rewrite of a script by David Ellison and Duane Adler; Electric Entertainment’s Dean Devlin is producing with Ellison and his Skydance Prods. banner. Plan is to begin production in Pic will shoot in Shreveport, La., by fall.

Columbia Pictures has preemptively snapped up Matt Bondurant’s upcoming novel “The Wettest County in the World” for Douglas Wick and Lucy Fisher to produce through their Red Wagon shingle. John Hillcoat, who’s shooting the bigscreen adaptation of Cormac McCarthy “The Road,” is attached to direct. Based on a true story, “Wettest County in the World” revolves around a moonshine gang operating in the bootlegging capital of America — Franklin County, Va. — during Prohibition.

Christopher Plummer and Helen Mirren are toplining Michael Hoffman’s Leo Tolstoy biopic “The Last Station,” which starts shooting April 7 in Germany. They replace previously announced thesps Anthony Hopkins and Meryl Streep in the roles of Tolstoy and his wife, Sofia. Other key cast include James McAvoy and Paul Giamatti. Warner Bros. has picked up German domestic rights to the e13 million ($20 million) project.

PROJECT UPDATES

Martin Scorsese’s Rolling Stones concert documentary “Shine a Light” will be livin’ large. When Paramount Classics opens the film Friday in roughly 270 theaters domestically, 93 of those will be large-format Imax theaters, which bring larger-sized ticket prices. In many markets, the film will be playing exclusively on Imax screens, meaning it won’t be shown in regular theaters. That’s the biggest opening in Imax’s history after “Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix,” which opened simultaneously in 91 Imax screens and in more than 3,000 regular theaters. Film will subsequently open in international Imax locations. An Imax ticket costs more — as does each print of the film — meaning added revenues for the exhib and the studio. In the case of “Shine a Light,” an adult ticket will cost $13, while a kid’s ticket will cost $10.50. The appeal of Imax is its quality of image and sound, according to Scorsese.

Scott Bakula has scored the second lead role opposite Matt Damon in “The Informant,” Steven Soderbergh’s espionage thriller for Warner Independent. Bakula will play Brian Shepherd, an FBI agent who exposes an international price-fixing scheme with the help of biochemist Mark Whitacre (Damon). Project is based on a true story; Scott Burns adapted the book by Kurt Eichenwald. Participant Media and Groundswell are co-producing with WIP. Jennifer Fox and Gregory Jacobs are producing.

Lifetime’s hit drama “Army Wives” has been hit with yet another change of command, as exec producer-showrunner Dee Johnson has left the show. As part of the changeover, Nick Thiel (“Burn Notice”) has joined the show and been handed executive producer stripes. “Army Wives” creator Katherine Fugate, considered the voice of “Army Wives,” remains as an exec producer, along with Mark Gordon. Production has just begun on season two of “Army Wives,” which scored an 18-episode salute after posting Lifetime’s best-ever series ratings in the key adults 18-49 demo last summer. Lifetime and producer ABC Studios wouldn’t comment on reasons behind Johnson’s departure, which was first reported by TV Guide, but the old “creative differences” explanation made the rounds.

ll four theaters skedded to bow Argo Pictures’ controversial documentary “Yasukuni,” about the Japanese shrine that honors war dead including Class A war criminals, on April 12 have cancelled, the distrib announced. One is in Osaka and three are in Tokyo. Another Tokyo theater had already pulled the docu from its schedule. Shot over 10 years by Chinese helmer Li Ying, the docu has become a lightening rod for controversy both in Japan and Asia. Scenes include protests by families of Asian war victims against former Japanese Prime Minister Junichiro Koizumi’s visits to the shrine. Members of parliament, including those belonging to Koizumi’s ruling Liberal Democratic Party, have questioned the use of government coin to help finance the pic.

ACQUISITIONS/ FESTIVAL NEWS

Chevolution” the Netflix-backed docu about Alberto Korda’s famously enigmatic photo of Cuban revolutionary Che Guevara, has been picked up by int’l sales agent Fortissimo Films. Pic, which preems at next month’s Tribeca Film Festival, was financed by Netflix’s original content unit Red Envelope Entertainment. Deal between Red Envelope and Fortissimo sees Hong Kong and Amsterdam-based Fortissimo handle sales in all territories outside North America. Helmed by Trisha Ziff and Luis Lopez, pic will have its market premiere in Cannes in May.

Senator Entertainment has acquired distribution rights in North America, Germany and Spain to the sci-fi thriller “Splice” from writer-director Vincenzo Natali. Film, which stars Adrien Brody and Sarah Polley, revolves around two scientists who undertake illegal genetic experiments and create a new species fusing human and animal DNA. As the pair become global celebrities, the consequences of their accomplishment begin to become apparent.

Cinema Libre has acquired worldwide rights to Glenn Gers’ “disFigured,” which is making its premiere at the AFI Dallas Film Festival this week. The film is about an overweight woman who befriends, through a Fat Acceptance Group, a real estate agent recovering from anorexia. “With Cinema Libre, we hope to work with groups that support awareness of size diversity issues and would like to set up special screenings of the film across the country this summer,” said Gers. Helmer penned the Diane Keaton starrer “Mad Money” and the thriller “Fracture,” starring Anthony Hopkins.

The Tokyo Intl. Anime Fair ended its four-day run on Sunday with a total attendance of 126,622, up 17.55% over last year and a new event record. According to TIAF officials, 24,479 visitors came to the two business days on Thursday and Friday, down slightly from previous years. Meanwhile, 102,143 came to the public days on Saturday and Sunday, up 22.42% year on year. The number of foreign biz visitors rose 12% to 1,055, while media attendance over the four days gained 23% to 1,626. A total of 289 companies and orgs took booths at the Tokyo Big Site event hall, nearly one-fourth of which were non-Japanese. TIAF will hold its next edition from March 18 to 21, 2009.

BUSINESS NEWS

Jennifer Aniston and producing partner Kristin Hahn have formed Echo Films, a company that will start with a first-look deal at Universal Pictures. Aniston and Hahn have already made several project acquisitions, most of which will be developed as star vehicles for Aniston. The studio has just acquired screen rights to Jane Fallon’s British bestseller “Getting Rid of Matthew,” and Aniston and Hahn will produce with Lynda Obst and Marc Rosen. Fallon, a veteran U.K. TV producer who is married to Ricky Gervais, will adapt her novel about a hard-charging publicist whose lusty affair with a married man is ruined by his decision to leave his wife and two children for her. She invents a new persona, befriends the spurned wife and attempts to patch up the marriage up so she can be rid of him. In the process, she develops a thing for his oldest son.

Image Entertainment CEO-prexy Marty Greenwald is handing the reins of the quirky video and production company he founded to longtime lieutenant David Borshell today. Borshell, who had been chief operating officer since 2000, steps up to president with Greenwald’s exit from the exec suite. The company will not fill the CEO post; Greenwald, a colorful character who formed Image after 20 years in the adult video biz, will remain chairman of the board. The shift comes with the start of the publicly traded company’s new fiscal year. It follows several turbulent years for the company, which entered into a merger with BTP, since dissolved, and earlier fended off a hostile takeover bid by Lionsgate.

Benelux film and TV distributor Dutch FilmWorks has launched House of Knowledge Intl., an international sales, licensing and production division. Building on House of Knowledge, the domestic distribution DVD operation for nonfiction that launched in 2002, HKI will focus on mind, wellness and historical factual properties, Dutch FilmWorks CEO Willem Pruijssers announced Monday. HKI’s first slate will be presented at the Mip TV mart, which kicks off in Cannes next Monday. The first slate, split between docu specs and series, strongly emphasizes self-help and new age themes. It is led by “Staya Erusa: Find the Book of Knowledge,” a follow-up to “Staya Erusa: The Begining,” a film on how people can better live up to their expectations. “Book of Kowledge” co-producer Uri Geller will present the docu at Mip TV. The Mip TV slate also features living guide special “The Secret Goes Europe”; 14-part series “The Secret Workshops”; “The Brain Fitness Program”; docu collection “World War II in Word and Motion”; history of armed conflict skein “War Through Times”; dance guide “Jumpstyle”; “Play Poker Like the Pros”; and “Sexual Intelligence.”

Eros Intl. signed TV syndication deals for packages of films with two of the leading Indian global TV networks, Sony Entertainment Television and Sahara Television Network, on Monday. Sahara gets 35 library films including “Hum dil de chuke sanam,” “Devdas” and “Hey Ram.” SET gets 16 new pics from 2007-08 including “Om shanti om” and “Heyy Babyy.” Eros Intl., listed on London’s Alternative Investment Market, is one of India’s leading film and entertainment companies. It has a film library of more than 1,300 titles and releases 25-30 new movies per year. The $6 billion Indian TV sector is growing by 21% annually.

Distrib Kadokawa Pictures plans to expand its theater chain to some 200 screens from its current 106 screens plus three Tokyo Arthouses. Speaking at Friday’s press conference to unveil its 2008-2009 slate Kadokawa prexy Taiichi Inoue said the distrib was shooting for a box office of 5 billion yen ($50 million) this year.

Woody Allen asked a federal court on Monday to strip a clothing company known for its racy ads featuring scantily clad models of at least $10 million for using his image on billboards and on the Internet. In a lawsuit in U.S. District Court in Manhattan, the actor and director said he does not endorse commercial products or services in the United States, which makes the May 2007 American Apparel billboards in Hollywood and New York and Web site displays “especially egregious and damaging.” The lawsuit said Allen was not contacted by the company and did not consent to the use of his image, which was taken from one of his movies. American Apparel Inc., which is based in Los Angeles and operates worldwide, did not immediately reply to a telephone message seeking comment Monday. The lawsuit complained of a billboard featuring a frame from “Annie Hall,” a film that won Allen a best director Oscar. The image showed Allen dressed as a Hasidic Jew with a long beard and black hat and Yiddish text meaning “the holy rebbe.” The words “American Apparel” also were on the billboard.

STRIKE NEWS/ LABOR ISSUES

In the wake of Saturday’s decision by the American Federation of Television and Radio Artists to ditch its longstanding bargaining partnership with SAG on the feature-primetime contract, the Alliance of Motion Picture and Television Producers held off Monday on deciding which union it will sit down with first. SAG, which earlier spurned offers to start negotiations in March, now contends it should be first up because it covers all film work and the lion’s share of TV work done by thesps. SAG prexy Alan Rosenberg noted in a message to members that studios want to end the uncertainty over a possible strike, further motivating the AMPTP to start talks as soon as possible as the June 30 contract expiration looms. “We believe the AMPTP will be eager to do so, especially since motion picture start dates are critical,” he said. However, it’s widely expected that the congloms will start talks as early as this week with AFTRA, the smaller of the two unions, on the three primetime shows it covers. And that move should bolster the companies’ leverage once they start negotiations with SAG by making the notion of going on strike less attractive. SAG’s new request for negotiations to begin as soon as possible marks an about-face from the position it took after the majors announced they were ready to go with talks in mid-February. It was previously unwilling to start negotiations until after it had completed its official preparations — despite pressure from high-profile members George Clooney, Robert De Niro, Tom Hanks and Meryl Streep to start ASAP. SAG had insisted it could not start talks until a joint board meeting approved the joint proposal — an event that had been set for Saturday but was then called off once AFTRA’s board voted to end its negotiating partnership with SAG.

INDUSTRY MOVES

New Line’s Richard Brener is staying on as Toby Emmerich’s right-hand man and has been promoted to prexy of production. Move comes two weeks after Emmerich was appointed president and chief operating officer of the scaled-down mini-major. The 35-year-old Brener joined the company in 1995 as a temp and rose through the ranks to story editor and senior VP. He’s been serving as New Line’s No. 2 production exec after a promotion to senior exec VP-COO in early 2007.

In an effort to sell more shows and formats to U.S. outlets, BBC Worldwide America has streamlined its sales and production operations under the direction of Paul Telegdy, the Beeb exec most responsible for exporting “Dancing With the Stars” to ABC. As BBC Worldwide America exec veep of TV sales and content & production, Telegdy will now oversee TV sales and co-production dealmaking for the Beeb’s U.S. division, as well as production. Previously, the Beeb’s head sales rep for the U.S. had been Candace Carlisle, exec veep of co-productions and sales and a 22-year veteran of the pubcaster.

Casey Patterson has been tapped senior VP for event production and talent development at TV Land and Spike TV — a gig that will put her in regular contact with Hollywood’s movie marketing machine. Newly created gig puts Patterson in charge of the cablers’ efforts to expand programming and marketing opportunities tied to film releases and other high-profile projects. She’ll also oversee event production and talent development for both nets.

James E. Curry has joined the Century City office of Sheppard Mullin Richter & Hampton as partner in the firm’s entertainment and media group. He most recently practiced as a founding partner with White O’Connor Curry, also in Century City. Curry, a trial attorney, specializes in business lawsuits on behalf of entertainment clients, primarily studios and networks. His clients have included Disney, Warner Bros. and Paramount/Viacom.

Struggling vidgame publisher Atari has tapped a respected industry vet as its CEO, signaling that the long-troubled company is attempting to revive its fortunes. Jim Wilson, who most recently headed Sony BMG’s home entertainment unit and was previously exec veep of worldwide studios for Vivendi Universal Games, was named to the position Monday. He’ll work closely with former EA exec David Gardner and Sony exec Phil Harrison, who were recently named CEO and prexy, respectively, of Atari parent company Infogrames.

TECHNOLOGY/ MULTI-PLATFORM CONTENT

The TV biz was looking highly mobile on Monday in advance of the annual CTIA Wireless confab in Las Vegas, with Sony Pictures Television, Fox, NBC Universal and MTV Networks announcing mobile entertainment deals. The mobile entertainment biz is still very much in the experimental phase in the U.S., though some of the majors are starting to harvest coin from mobile content deals in Europe and Asia, where the market is more mature and advanced mobile vid technologies more widespread. Sony Pictures Television made the most ambitious move in unveiling a slate of mobile games and six new and returning Web serials designed as short-form bits ideal for tiny cell phone screens. News Corp.’s Fox Mobile Entertainment wing unveiled the FoxMobile.com portal featuring a slew of content designed to be viewed on mobile devices. Site includes content from Fox Broadcasting Co., FX, Fox Reality Channel, Speed and National Geographic Channel cablers as well as such show-specific franchises as “The Simpsons,” “Family Guy” and “Nip/Tuck.” NBC U tubthumped pacts with AT&T, Verizon and Blackberry maker Research in Motion to distrib the Peacock’s portfolio of more than 60 wireless-friendly websites dedicated to NBC, NBC Sports, USA Network, Bravo, MSNBC and Universal Pictures, among other properties. MTV Networks has teamed with mobile vid provider mywaves to offer its first free mobile ad-supported vid package of clips and customized content from its various cablers.

Geert Wilders’ anti-Islamic film “Fitna” was back on Liveleak.com on Monday three days after the British-based Internet site pulled it following threats to staffers. A statement on the Liveleak site said it had upgraded security for staffers and their families. Liveleak bowed the 15-minute film on Thursday. On Monday, Dutch Foreign Minister Maxime Verhagen met ambassadors of countries belonging to the Organization of the Islamic Conference to assure them the film did not reflect the opinion of the Dutch government. Prosecutors have yet to decide whether to take action against right-wing pol Wilders for violating hate speech laws in the pic, which U.N. Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon called “offensively anti-Islamic.” Over the weekend there were protests in Indonesia and Pakistan and calls for a boycott of Dutch products in Jordan and Malaysia.

Walt Disney Japan and Yahoo Monday revealed plans to strengthen their co-operation in the Internet biz. Yahoo will start running the Disney games site banner on its Yahoo Games and Yahoo Kids sites beginning Tuesday. Also, Disney will link to the Yahoo sites on its games site, Disney Games. The object is to join the contents of Disney and Yahoo Japan, enabling users to play the games more easily. The two companies will also co-operate in ad placements on each other’s sites. Disney and Yahoo are already collaborating on mobile service, Disney Mobile, that Disney launched on March 1 with the support of SoftBank Mobile Corp. The new deal expands the target of that partnership to PC users.

Pubcaster Television New Zealand launched digital factual channel TVNZ7 Sunday to boost uptake for the Freeview digital free-to-air platform. The Freeview consortium of broadcasters has added 13 channels since the service launched on May 2. From Wednesday, the Freeview satellite platform will be complemented by a digital terrestrial platform. TVNZ7 joins digital entertainment channel TVNZ6 plus the digital re-broadcast of TVNZ analog channels TV One and TV2; Media Works-owned TV3, high-def TV 3 and C4; Maori TV as well as regional focused Stratos. TVNZ7 features 30% news content, as well as documentaries, current affairs programs and commentary shows.

WEBSITES TO WATCH

http://shine.yahoo.com/

Yahoo aims to shine some light on the underserved adult (25-54) woman demographic with Yahoo Shine. The new destination aggregates original content as well as relevant fare from other sections of Yahoo and offers syndicated material from partners including Conde Nast, Hearst and Rondale. It also provides a glimpse where the new Yahoo is headed, adopting a white-space laden blog format organized around the demo rather than the topic.

http://daisywhitney.com/newmediaminute/

Warner Bros. Television is enlisting the help of video search and targeting firm Digitalsmiths to help manage the video inventory of a new WB video site slated to launch in the coming weeks, reports Daisy Whitney in TVWeek. Digitasmiths provides tools to help visitors find what they’re looking for online and serve ads to the content contextually. If you haven’t seen it yet, check out Daisy’s excellent video podcast, New Media Minute. This week she tries to get to the bottom of who’s watching Hulu.

http://video.titantv.com/

Local station website online programming service TitanTV launched a trio of new series recapping the latest episodes of three of the TV’s most popular reality shows – Survivor, America’s Next Top Model and Dancing With the Stars.

SOURCES:

www.variety.com
www.cynopsis.com