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Marc Smerling and Sony Music Entertainment have entered into a strategic partnership to develop a slate of original podcast programming through Smerling's Truth Media, a podcast and television production company. The pact is to expand Truth’s overall number of podcast series it produces, including several upcoming…

National CineMedia is teaming with Disney and Sony Music on a new preshow to be rolled out nationwide this weekend in 1,700 theatres across the country. Dubbed Noovie, the initiative on 20,600 screens from AMC, Regal, Cinemark and 49 other chains replaces FirstLook and updates the first major pre-show NCMI introduced…

English-Irish boy band sensation One Direction gave fans something extra to get excited about this morning. The pop idols announced an upcoming film of their current Where We Are tour (see trailer below), touting it as “the first ever full One Direction concert experience on the big screen.” In keeping with the…

Universal Music has already announced that it will pay $1.9B for the recorded music operation. We’re told Sony’s teed up to disclose that it landed EMI’s music publishing business for $2.2B. The deals end a drawn-out process to decide the fate of a company whose hitmakers include The Beatles and Katy Perry. But the…

Google has agreed to pay royalties to songwriters repped by the National Music Publishers Assocation when their songs appear in videos on YouTube. The deal, which covers roughly 3,000 mainly indie songwriters, resolves a copyright lawsuit brought by the organization in 2007 and sets up the two sides to share ad…

Ellis Watson joined Simon Cowell's Syco production company only in March and already he’s leaving amid reports that it’s because of Cowell's reputation as a hands-on manager. "The idea that Simon has been micro-managing is bollocks," Watson tells me. "We've got on bloody beautifully." Instead, Watson is saying the…