U.S. investment company sets sights on MLSE: report

The U.S. private equity firm behind the Yankees Entertainment and Sports Network is interested in buying the parent company of the Toronto Maple Leafs. Providence Equity Partners is looking at the Ontario Teachers’ Pension Plan’s 80 per cent stake in Maple Leaf Sports & Entertainment, a person familiar with the situation told The Canadian Press. “We do not have any comment on the story at all. The sale process is an ownership matter,” Rajani Kamath, corporate communications director for MLSE, ...

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AFM 2011: German Cloud Services Group Mediapeers Sets up in LA

The Berlin-based group, which offers paper- and tape-less digital solutions for the marketing, distribution and sale of entertainment content, is already a major on-line player in Europe and Asia. The company recently signed a deal with France Telekom that will see the French public broadcaster use the cloud services group for sales and distribution of its entire catalogue. Other prominent mediapeers partners include South Korean teleco giant SKT and German sales/distribution group Telepool.

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‘Captain America’ Overtakes ‘Pirates of the Caribbean’ for No. 1 on DVD Charts

“Captain America: The First Avenger” Home Entertainment scored a rare triple-play victory on the home video charts the week ending Oct. 30, as summer theatrical blockbuster Captain America: The First Avenger rode its $176.6 million box office gross to a No. 1 debut on both sales charts as well as the rental chart. Captain bumped Walt Disney Studios’ Pirates of the Caribbean: On Stranger Tides, the previous week’s huge tentpole release, to No. 2 on both the Nielsen VideoScan First ...

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eOne nabs Vivendi vid biz in Canada

LONDON — eOne has taken over Vivendi Entertainment’s home entertainment biz in Canada. The acquisition, effective from Jan. 1, will see eOne’s market share in the retail sector significantly increased by Vivendi’s library giving the distrib rights to a raft of docu and special interest genre titles. Under the deal, eOne will become the exclusive distributor in Canada for key home entertainment distribution labels, including Navarre, Funimation, Shout!, Factory, Classic Media, Mill Creek and National Geographic.

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E3 Daily Dispatch: Microsoft to Introduce Live TV and Voice-Controlled Entertainment to Xbox 360; Ubisoft Offers Free Tom Clancy Online Game

E3:Microsoftto Introduce Live TV and Voice-Controlled Entertainment to Xbox 360 This Year While the main focus ofMicrosoft’s E3 press conference at the USC Galen Center was on huge games like Actvision’sCall of Duty: Modern Warfare 3, Epic Games’Gears of War 3, and next fall’sHalo 4; the game maker announced new ways for its 35 million Xbox Live gamers to watch and interact with television, movies, music and games online. “We are forging new partnerships to bring live tv to Xbox ...

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E3: Sony Apologizes for Playstation Network Outage

Kobe Bryant demonstrates 2K Sports’ “NBA 2K12″ in L.A. Sony Computer Entertainment America President Jack Tretton kicked off the annual E3 press conference with an apology for the PlayStation Network outage that has plagued the company for over a month. He thanked PlayStation gamers for their patience and continued loyalty. “I want to apologize both personally and on behalf of the company for any anxiety we have caused you,” Tretton said. Tretton stated PlayStation Network activity is back up to ...

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E3: 5 New Games Generating Buzz

“Call of Duty: Modern Warfare 3″ The 2011 Electronic Entertainment Expo kicks off at the Los Angeles Convention Center next week, and The Hollywood Reporter details which new games are going to have people speaking come Tuesday. Star Wars: The Old Republic (Electronic Arts)The massively multiplayer on-line game is set in an age thousands of years before the rise of Darth Vader and grants gamers to step into characters that follow the light or the dark side of the Force.

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Valiant readies its comics comeback

Valiant Entertainment is reviving itself with plans to return in print and digital comics next year.The four-year-old company also announced Thursday that former Marvel CEO and Vice Chairman Peter Cuneo has become chairman of Valiant. And it disclosed that it’s received a capital infusion from private investment company Cuneo & Co.Valiant noted that Peter Cuneo’s tenure with Marvel concluded with Marvel’s sale at the end of 2009 to Disney for over $4 billion.Valiant’s library titles include “Archer and Armstrong,” “Bloodshot,” ...

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Deluxe to Combine Visual Effects Companies Method, CIS (Exclusive)

Deluxe Entertainment Services Group plans to formally announce Wednesday that it has combined two of its visual effects companies: Method, which Deluxe acquired from Ascent Media in December; and Deluxe’s CIS Visual Effects. The company will operate under the moniker Method Studios, targeting feature film and commercial clients. Upcoming credits include work on X-Men: First Class and Captain America: The First Avenger. In Los Angeles, the CIS Hollywood-based team has been relocated to Method’s Santa Monica offices.

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Sony reports $3.2 bil loss

TOKYO — Hit hard by the March 11 earthquake and tsunami, as well as by the manmade catastrophe of continuing hacker invasions of its sites around the world, Sony stated on Thursday that it has recorded a 259.6 billion yen ($3.2 billion) net loss for the past fiscal year, the biggest since 1995 and its third-straight year of red ink. The total impacts of the natural disaster will slice 150 billion yen ($1.83 billion) off operating profit this year, Sony ...

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