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Macro and Beats are partnering to uplift diverse rising film talent with a film pitch competition for students and recent alumni of HBCUs. Starting today, students and alumni of historically Black institutions including Morehouse College, Spelman College, Atlanta University or Morris Brown College can submit pitches…

“The only system is a sound system and if I can’t dance to it, it’s not my revolution,” preaches one of the lead characters in Beats, the UK rave culture film executive-produced by Steven Soderbergh. Here is some first footage, which channels iconic movies such as Trainspotting and La Haine. Set over summer 1994 in…

Just in time for the holidays, Apple and Amazon have struck a deal dramatically expanding the selection of Apple devices sold on the e-commerce platform. Amazon said today its website will now offer the most-recent iPhones — including the XS and XS Max, introduced in September — as well as iPad, Mac computer, Apple…

EXCLUSIVE: Black-ish star Anthony Anderson has come aboard to star in Netflix’s Beats, a coming-of-age drama set in Chicago’s South Side hip-hop scene. The pic, from Global Road Entertainment and 51 Minds Entertainment, just began filming with The New Edition Story director Chris Robinson helming Miles Orion…

Related: Apple Buys Beats: Iovine, Cue And The $3 Billion Deal

Just hours after the biggest deal in Apple’s history, two of the key players in the $3 billion acquisition of Beats Electronics and Beats Music took to a conference stage to say the deal took a decade to happen, and then virtually no time at all. “I asked them every day for 10 years,” said Jimmy Iovine, the long-time…

The Financial Times says it is, in what the paper calls “a radical departure” for Apple, which has eschewed splashy acquisitions. The deal still isn’t done, but talks are far enough along to have determined that the company founded by music exec Jimmy Iovine and performer-producer Dr. Dre will report directly to Apple…

The 2011 Los Angeles Film Festival gave two juried awards: the Narrative Award recognizes the finest narrative film in competition at the festival and went to Stéphane Lafleur for the North American premiere of Familiar Ground, while the Documentary Award recognizes the finest documentary film in competition and went…

Sony Pictures Classics closed a deal for domestic rights to Beats, Rhymes & Life: The Travels of a Tribe Called Quest. The film was in the documentary competition at the 2011 Sundance Film Festival. It marks the feature directorial debut of actor Michael Rapaport and documents the progression of the seminal…