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Stock News Bot Date: March 21, 2007 06:00:00 AM
CNSC News Movielink Expands Music Offerings Through Deals with CenterStaging, Egami Media and Digital Music Group
SANTA MONICA, Calif.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Movielink, the leading U.S. broadband video-on-demand (VOD) download service, is expanding its catalog of long form music offerings from practice sessions to live shows, announcing deals today with CenterStaging Musical Productions Inc., which is owned by CenterStaging Corp. (OTCBB:CNSC), Digital Music Group, Inc. (NASDAQ:DMGI) and Egami Media, Inc., a wholly owned subsidiary of Image Entertainment, Inc. (NASDAQ:DISK).
By teaming with a digital distribution partner, CenterStaging’s online portal, rehearsals.com, provides access to the rehearsal studio and gives fans around the world a backstage view of all that goes on before concerts, televisions shows, tours and recording sessions of their favorite performers. With original content that includes exclusive candid interviews and discussions, fans will experience the process and excitement that is truly music in the making, seeing the teamwork involved with the band and production crews and watching how artists work to perfect their style from up and coming artists like Sick Puppies, Fenix TX, and The Deadly Syndrome to more established musicians like Taylor Dayne, Edgar Winter and Chris Isaak.
Egami will provide a wide range of titles including music concerts such as Johnny Cash: Anthology, Katt Williams Live and Kiss: Rock The Nation: Live!, as well as independent films and television series including Assault on Precinct 13 and The Dick Van Dyke Show. DMGI will provide music video content beginning with the Masters of Rock series featuring artists such as the Red Hot Chili Peppers as well as classic television favorites Gumby and Friends, I Spy and My Favorite Martian.
“Through these deals, Movielink significantly builds the service’s long form music-focused content, offering users an extensive selection of on-stage and behind-the-scenes performances from artists old and new,” said Jim Ramo, CEO, Movielink.
“Movielink is a pioneer in bringing films to the realm of digital downloading,” states Tommy Nast, Executive Vice President, CenterStaging. “We’re proud to team up with them to expand the musical selections in their database and bring our signature rehearsals.com quality to more viewers and fans.”
“Egami eagerly supports key retailers like Movielink with the best in independent programming. Movielink continues to be a leader in the rapidly evolving digital download space and we look forward to working with them on behalf of our content partners,” said Burgess Wilson, VP Digital Operations, Egami Media.
Movielink is available to U.S. Internet users with broadband connections. Consumers can easily browse Movielink's user-friendly site and view trailers of available titles without charge. Once customers are ready to rent or purchase a title, they register with Movielink and pay for their rental or purchase via credit card. Movielink's Movies in Minutes(TM) feature lets customers begin watching titles within 2-10 minutes.
About Movielink
Movielink (www.movielink.com) is the leading online movie download service offering U.S. broadband customers an extensive selection of recently released films and classic movies covering every genre, from action, comedy, drama, family and romance to sci-fi, horror and thrillers. The service is owned and operated by Movielink, LLC, a joint venture of Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer Studios, Paramount Pictures, Sony Pictures Entertainment, Universal Studios and Warner Bros. Movielink content offerings are drawn from the current releases and vast libraries of those studios as well as from those of Walt Disney Pictures, 20th Century Fox and leading independent studios.
CenterStaging Corp. (OTCBB:CNSC) is a public company based in Burbank, CA with an office in Bensalem, PA and is the parent company of CenterStaging Musical Productions, Inc. and its division rehearsals.com. The Company provides rehearsal and production services for all facets of the entertainment industry. The 150,000 square foot facility features 11 rehearsal studios, one sound stage, a high-definition broadcast center, thousands of musical instruments and backline equipment in Burbank, CA. The facility houses rehearsals.com which is envisioned as a gateway into the professional artist’s workshop, and provides streaming video as well as digital audio programming, exclusive performances, candid artist interviews and intimate lessons from the masters. The teaming of CenterStaging and rehearsals.com mounts a powerful vertically integrated entertainment model that not only develops and produces content, but will deliver compelling programming to an online audience.
About Egami Media
Egami Media, Inc. is a subsidiary of Image Entertainment, Inc. (NASDAQ:DISK), a leading independent licensee, producer and distributor of home entertainment programming in North America. Egami focuses on the aggregation and wholesale exploitation of digital rights to a wide array of video content. Egami’s current digital library consists of over 1,900 exclusive video programs and over 180 audio programs containing over 2,700 tracks.
About Image Entertainment
Image Entertainment, Inc. is a leading independent licensee, producer and distributor of home entertainment programming in North America, with approximately 3,000 exclusive DVD titles and 200 exclusive CD titles in domestic release and approximately 400 programs internationally via sublicense agreements. For many of its titles, the Company has exclusive audio and broadcast rights and, through its subsidiary Egami Media, Inc., exclusive video on demand, streaming video and download rights. The Company is headquartered in Chatsworth, California, and has a domestic distribution facility in Las Vegas, Nevada. For more information about Image Entertainment, Inc., please go to www.image-entertainment.com.
Founded in 2005, Digital Music Group Inc. (Nasdaq:DMGI) is a content owner and global leader in the digital distribution of independently owned music, TV, film and video catalogs. DMGI acquires the digital rights to media catalogs and digitally encodes them into multiple formats for distribution to online music, mobile, and video stores. Our retailers include: the iTunes Store, Google Video, BitTorrent, Movielink, RealNetworks, Napster, Wal-Mart Music, Yahoo! Music, InfoSpace, Moderati, Zingy, 9Squared, and many others. For more information, please visit www.dmgi.com.
