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 Buena Vista Music Group - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
The chairman of the group is Bob Cavallo, who reports to Dick Cook, chairman of the Walt Disney Studios.
Buena Vista Records, a label devoted to soundtrack recordings of live-action Disney films, such as Mary Poppins (film) and Babes in Toyland (1961 film), as well as recordings by actors then under contract to Disney, such as Annette Funicello and Hayley Mills.
Buena Vista Music Group doesn't have its own distribution network, instead, relying on Universal and EMI to distribute their work.
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 Reference.com/Encyclopedia/Buena Vista Motion Pictures Group
The subject of this article is a corporate group of movie studios, not to be confused with Buena Vista Distribution.
The Buena Vista Motion Pictures Group is a collection of affiliated motion picture studios, all subsidiaries of The Walt Disney Company.
The name Buena Vista comes from the much older company Buena Vista Distribution, a company founded by Walt Disney as a subsidiary to distribute his films in 1955.
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 The Walt Disney Company - TvWiki, the free encyclopedia   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-13)
It includes the Buena Vista Motion Pictures Group, a collection of movie studios including Walt Disney Pictures, Touchstone Pictures, and Hollywood Pictures.
Disney's Buena Vista Music Group, which includes Walt Disney Records, Mammoth Records, Lyric Street Records, and Hollywood Records, also falls under the umbrella of The Walt Disney Studios.
Buena Vista Television, which also is a part of the Media Networks unit, produces such syndicated television programs as Who Wants to Be a Millionaire?
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 Walt Disney Pictures @ Filmbug UK
Walt Disney Pictures is the flagship motion picture studio of The Walt Disney Company.
In its relation to the main corporate structure, Walt Disney Pictures was only founded as a separate division of the company in 1983.
Walt Disney Pictures includes Walt Disney Feature Animation and DisneyToon Studios, and it is a part of the Buena Vista Motion Pictures Group.
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 disney
Disney also owns a group of cable networks including: The Disney Channel, ABC Family, Toon Disney, the ESPN group, and SOAPnet.
Buena Vista Television, which also is a part of the Media Networks unit, produces such syndicated television programs as Who Wants to Be a Millionaire, Live with Regis and Kelly, and Ebert and Roeper.
1984: Touchstone Pictures is created; after the studio narrowly escapes a buyout attempt by Saul Steinberg, Roy Edward Disney and his business partner, Stanley Gold, remove Ron W. Miller as CEO and president, replacing him with Michael Eisner and Frank Wells.
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 Pixar   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-13)
The acquisition was completed on May 5, 2006 (swapping one Pixar share for 2.3 shares of Disney), making Pixar a wholly-owned subsidiary of Disney.
Pixar was founded as the Graphics Group, one third of the Computer Division of Lucasfilm that was launched in 1979 with the hiring of Ed Catmull from the New York Institute of Technology (NYIT).
Originally intended as a straight-to-video release (and thus not part of Pixar's five picture deal), the film was upgraded to a theatrical release during production.
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 Job Listings-- Executives
Universal Pictures (UP) is the motion picture division of NBC Universal, one of the world's leading media and entertainment companies in the development, production and marketing of entertainment, news and information to a global audience.
The Buena Vista Motion Picture Group, consisting of Walt Disney Pictures and Touchstone Pictures develops, produces and domestically distributes all live-action films for the Walt Disney Studios.
We are hands-on litigators, who write motions, discovery requests and responses, and appellate briefs; prepare witnesses; take and defend depositions; and argue motions and appeals, often without outside counsel or "partnering" with outside counsel.
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 LaughingPlace.com: Richard W. Cook Promoted to Chairman of The Walt Disney Studios (The #1 Site for Disney)
In 1980, he was named assistant domestic sales manager for Buena Vista and subsequently became vice president and general sales manager, and then senior vice president of Buena Vista Pictures Distribution in 1988.
A graduate of the University of Southern California, Cook is a member of the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences.
He is trustee of the California Institute of the Arts, a trustee of the University of Southern California and also served as president for the USC Alumni Association.
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 Disney Resource Center - disney channel
The Walt Disney Company (most commonly known as Disney) NYSE: DIS is one of the largest media and entertainment corporations disney land in the world.
It includes disney jasmine the Buena Vista Motion Pictures Group, a collection of movie studios including Walt Disney Pictures, Touchstone Pictures, and Hollywood Pictures.
Disney's Buena Vista Music Group, which includes Walt Disney Records, Mammoth disney world Records, Lyric Street Records, and Hollywood Records, also falls under the umbrella disney ariel of The Walt Disney Studios.
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 Blue Meanies - Uncyclopedia
The Blue Meanies, also known as The Blue Man Group and suspected as all taking turns as mysterious guitar virtuoso Buckethead are allegedy fictional creatures developed by the Walt Disney Studios in the early 1960's.
Due to various sundry reasons, the Meanies were shelved after their ill-received debut in favor of more marketable characters such as Pluto and Baloo the Bear.
There are current plans at Disney to revive the Meanies as stars of a rollicking three-dimensional adventure for the whole family entitled We Never Should Have Let Pixar Go: What in the Fuck Were We Thinking featuring the vocal talents of Sean Connery, Screech, and remixed vocal samples of Judy Garland.
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 Computer Terms   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-13)
Also called a projection panel, it is a data projector that accepts computer output and displays it on a see-through liquid crystal screen that is placed on top of an overhead projector.
(Random Access Memory) A group of memory chips, typically of the dynamic RAM (DRAM) type, which functions as the computer's primary workspace.
See memory and computer for an explanation of how memory is used in processing data.
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 motion pictures — Infoplease.com
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Motion picture piracy: controlling the seemingly endless supply of counterfeit optical discs in Taiwan.
The effects of flexible specialization on industrial politics and the labor market: the motion picture industry.
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 POWER UP! - Feel the Surge!
Nina Jacobson, President of Buena Vista Motion Pictures Group and ranked fourth on the list, said: “I am honored to be included in the POWER UP list.
I hope that as an out lesbian and working mom, I can inspire others to pursue all of their goals, personal and professional, no matter how many people tell you that one must be sacrificed for the other.
According to the group’s co-founder, producer Amy Shomer, the list is one means of achieving the organization’s goal of promoting the visibility of gay women in show business.
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 The Walt Disney Company - Mickeypedia: The Disney Encyclopedia!
The Walt Disney Company (also known as "Disney") (NYSE: DIS) is one of the largest media and entertainment corporations in the world.
The unit also includes Buena Vista Theatrical Productions and Disney's distribution companies: Buena Vista International, Buena Vista Home Entertainment, and Buena Vista Home Entertainment International.
* 1984: Touchstone Pictures is created; after the studio narrowly escapes a buyout attempt by Saul Steinberg, Roy Edward Disney and his business partner, Stanley Gold, remove Ron W. Miller as CEO and president, replacing him with Michael Eisner and Frank Wells.
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 Disney Plans Worldwide "Roadblock" for Movie Trailer
Disney-owned Buena Vista Motion Pictures Group is planning a multichannel, worldwide "roadblock" simulcast of a new movie trailer on the Web, TV, and mobile phones.
Disney also took the roadblock approach with its 2003 launch of "Pirates of the Caribbean," but on a smaller scale, said Dennis Rice, SVP of publicity at Buena Vista Pictures Marketing.
WDIG was an early entrant to the mobile content market in 1999, when it launched text-based content services in the U.S. under the ABC News and ESPN brands, and later expanded into Japan and 25 other countries.
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 Schneider
Richard Cook, Chairman of The Walt Disney Motion Pictures Group; Thomas Schumacher, president of Walt Disney Animation, Walt Disney Television Animation and Buena Vista Theatrical Group; and Nina Jacobson, president of the Buena Vista Motion Pictures Group, will continue in their current positions.
Nina Jacobson built much of her reputation outside Disney and we are pleased that she joined us in early 1998 to contribute her creativity and judgment to developing motion pictures and overseeing production of our live action films."
Under his leadership, Buena Vista Pictures Distribution was the number one domestic distributor for 2000 and for seven of the past 10 years.
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 Indiantelevision.com's Kidology: Alan Bergman is president of Walt Disney Studios
Bergman also worked on various film financing deals including the recently completed deal to finance numerous live action films over the course of the next several years.
Bergman joined the company in 1996 as a director in the corporate controllership group with a focus on TWDS' initiatives.
In 1998, he was promoted as vice president of the company's operations planning group, where he was responsible for developing the company's annual operating plan.
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 Geoffrey Ammer Named President, Worldwide Marketing Columbia TriStar Motion Picture Group Business Wire - Find Articles
Ammer joined Sony Pictures Entertainment (SPE) from Revolution Studios, where he collaborated on all aspects of marketing and distribution worldwide for Revolution Studios' motion picture releases.
The Columbia TriStar Motion Picture Group is a Sony Pictures Entertainment company.
Sony Pictures' global operations encompass motion picture production and distribution, television programming and syndication, home video acquisition and distribution, operation of studio facilities, development of new entertainment products, services, and technologies, and distribution of filmed entertainment in 67 countries.
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 The Walt Disney Company - Studio Entertainment Press
The Studio Entertainment unit is the foundation on which The Walt Disney Company was built, and at its heart are world-renowned animated features and live-action motion pictures.
The Buena Vista Motion Pictures Group develops scripts and oversees film production and distribution for Walt Disney Pictures and Touchstone Pictures.
Buena Vista Home Entertainment (BVHE) distributes and markets video and DVD products from the Walt Disney Pictures, Touchstone Pictures, Hollywood Pictures, Miramax, Dimension, Saban and Spyglass labels.
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 Disney To Make Films Based On Judy Blume Books
Under the terms of the deal, the Blumes' Tashmoo Productions Inc. and Jane Startz Productions, Inc. will adapt several of Blume's books, beginning with Deenie, Blume's bestseller about a young woman's struggles to define herself independently from the dreams and expectations her parents have for her.
Buena Vista Montion Picture Group's Senior Vice President of Production and Development Karen Glass brought in and will oversee the project for the Studio.
Jane Startz's producer credits include the upcoming Ella Enchanted for Miramax Films, Tuck Everlasting for Walt Disney Pictures, The Mighty for Miramax Films, The Indian in the Cupboard for Paramount Pictures and Columbia Pictures, and The Baby-Sitters Club for Columbia Pictures.
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 World of Owen at Wilson-Brothers.com
Wes Anderson and Disney's Touchstone Pictures, partners on "The Royal Tenenbaums," are teaming up again for comedy/adventure "The Life Aquatic."
Shooting is skedded to start in September on location in Italy and at Cinecitta studios in Rome.
Buena Vista Motion Pictures Group prexy Nina Jacobson and VP of production Jeff Clifford are overseeing the project for the studio.
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 Miramax @ Filmbug UK
Also, Disney's Buena Vista Home Entertainment divison releases Miramax output.
The company's film studio consortium, Buena Vista Motion Pictures Group will assume control of Miramax, which will have a smaller annual production budget.
The Weinsteins have announced that they intend to start a new film production company, but the Miramax name will remain with the film studio owned by Disney.
www.filmbug.co.uk /dictionary/studios/miramax-films.php   (240 words)

  
 Buena Vista Motion Pictures Group - Entertainment - Mitchell Leib, Glen Lajeski appointments - Brief Article Los ...
Buena Vista Motion Pictures Group - Entertainment - Mitchell Leib, Glen Lajeski appointments - Brief Article
Buena Vista Motion Pictures Group's music division has promoted Mitchell Leib to the dual position of executive vice president/general manager, music and soundtracks and executive vice president/general manager, artists & repertoire and soundtracks.
Leib had been senior vice president of artists & repertoire and soundtracks and Lajeski was senior vice president of music.
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 KidScreen Magazine - People in new jobs
Buena Vista Motion Pictures Group (Burbank, California, 818-560-1000): Nina Jacobson takes over as president, on the heels of departing co-president Todd Garner, with whom she shared the title.
Roger Estrada comes on-board as VP of creative for products, international television group from Universal Studios Consumer Products, where he was senior art director.
She will be responsible for overseeing research for FW brands, including Fox Kids, Fox Family and the boyzChannel and girlzChannel.
www.kidscreen.com /articles/magazine/20000601/29161.html   (529 words)

  
 Cases
By 2006, 40-year-old Nina Jacobson, described as “lean as a marathoner, energetic, verbal and intense, all sharp angles and elbows,” had become one of the heavy-hitters in the traditionally male-dominated entertainment business, as the president of Walt Disney Motion Pictures Group (WDMPG), a division/business unit of The Walt Disney Company (TWDC).
She joined WDMPG, formerly the Buena Vista Motion Pictures Group, in February 1998 and by 2006 had supervised the studio’s production of The Sixth Sense, The Chronicles of Narnia: The Lion, The Witch, and The Wardrobe, and Pirates of the Caribbean, amongst other films.
Some of her favorite films to have worked on during her tenure at Disney were The Pirates of the Caribbean: The Curse of the Black Pearl, The Royal Tenenbaums, The Sixth Sense, Freaky Friday, and The Princess Diaries.
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 WALT DISNEY AND DISNEYLAND
Disney Studio Entertainment, also known as the Walt Disney Studios, is headed by chairman Dick Cook and includes Disney's movie and animation studios, record labels, and Broadway-style stage shows.
1996: The company takes on the Disney Enterprises name and acquires the Capital Cities/ABC group, renaming it ABC, Inc. In December, Michael Ovitz, president of the company, leaves "by mutual consent." To celebrate the pairing, ABC's first Super Soap Weekend is held at Walt Disney World.
Disney makes deal with Studio Ghibli for dubbing and releasing their films in the U.S. The anthology series is revived again; the home video division releases its first DVDs.
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 Honolulu Star-Bulletin Features
Earlier this year, co-writers/co-directors Chris Sanders, left, and Dean DeBlois, right, joined Jason Scott Lee at Hawaii's opening of Walt Disney Pictures' "Lilo & Stitch" at the Waikiki Twin Theatres.
The film's success prompted Buena Vista Motion Pictures Group to let the pair -- who spent years working at Disney's animation studio -- to form their own company, Stormcoast Pictures, allowing them to write, direct and produce animated and live-action fare.
Sanders is working on an untitled CGI project he will direct, while Deblois will begin writing the live-action family film "The Gumshoe Chronicles," which he will direct.
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 Indiantelevision.com > News Headlines > Oprah leads 20 media mavens in Forbes 'Top 100 Women's' power list
The Forbes' rankings of the top 100 list of the most powerful women in the world has a total of 20 female media doyens as well.
While the female media heavyweights may not have attained celebrity or mass popularity status, their claim to fame is most certainly the media mammoth institutions they run - NBC's Today Show, ABC's Good Morning America, CNN, Buena Vista Pictures, People magazine, The Wall Street Journal, The New York Times and Cosmopolitan, to list a few.
While Harpo chairman Oprah Winfrey was at the number nine spot, Pearson chief executive Marjorie Scardino followed closely behind at number 18.
www.indiantelevision.com /headlines/y2k5/july/july342.htm   (132 words)

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