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| PSY and Ylvis top YouTube 2013 video hit list Posted: 11 Dec 2013 07:29 PM PST YouTube's annual "Rewind" collection of online videos that won the most attention at the website was headed by Ylvis musically wondering what "The Fox" might say. Fox outfits also wound up the most searched-for Halloween costumes this year, according to Google. The video had logged more than 277 million views as of yesterday. Topping the YouTube music video list was PSY's "Gentleman", watched nearly 600 million times. "While each annual list is unpredictable, trending videos just get bigger each year," YouTube head of culture and trends Kevin Allocca said in a blog post. "And with 80% of all views on YouTube coming from outside the US, the global community is driving pop culture unlike ever before." - AFP, December 12, 2013. |
| Hollywood studio Warner sued over “Hobbit” profits Posted: 11 Dec 2013 05:05 PM PST The Weinstein brothers filed a lawsuit against New Line and Time Warner seeking $75 million (RM241.1 million) in damages over the companies' decision to split "The Hobbit" into three films, but only paying the Weinsteins for the first movie. "This case is about greed and ingratitude," the Weinsteins said in the lawsuit, filed in New York, according to industry journal Variety. The Weinsteins said they invested $10 million (RM32.2 million) in developing "The Hobbit", when New Line acquired the rights in 1998 and agreed to pay 5% of the profits from the first film to the brothers. But Warner Bros said in a statement that the Weinsteins, owners at the time of Miramax, had simply made a bad deal. "This is about one of the great blunders in movie history," said a statement emailed to AFP by Warner Bros spokesman Paul McGuire. "Fifteen years ago Miramax, run by the Weinstein brothers, sold its rights in 'The Hobbit' to New Line. No amount of trying to rewrite history can change that fact," it added. Warner Bros say the Weinsteins were entitled to a share of the first movie, which made $1 billion (RM3.2 billion) worldwide, but not to the two sequels. "They agreed to be paid only on the first motion picture based on The Hobbit. And that's all they're owed," said the studio's statement. The legal battle comes as "The Hobbit: The Desolation of Smaug", the second movie in the trilogy after last year's "The Hobbit: an Unexpected Journey", is released around the world. The final part of the series by New Zealand director Peter Jackson, "The Hobbit: There and Back Again", is due for release in December 2014. - AFP, December 12, 2013. |
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