Home Media Magazine - November 4-10, 2007 - (Page 9)

www.homemediamagazine.com 2 3 IN FOCUS PART Y W E E K It was party week for the studios, as Sony Pictures Home Entertainment held a pre-Halloween bash for Across the Universe and then joined with Walt Disney Studios Home Entertainment and 20th Century Fox Home Entertainment in producing a two-day “Blu-ray Festival” designed to trumpet the format to influential print and online journalists. Sony Pictures Home Entertainment’s Fritz Friedman and Lexine Wong with Home Media Magazine’s Thomas K. Arnold at the Across the Universe party. Sony Pictures Home Entertainment hosted a cocktail party during the Blu-ray Festival. Pictured are SVP of worldwide publicity Fritz Friedman (left) and senior EVP of North America Marshall Forster. The highlight of the Blu-ray Festival was a huge party at Social Hollywood hosted by Walt Disney Studios Home Entertainment to celebrate the Blu-ray Disc launch of Cars and Ratatouille. Shown here are Patton Oswalt (left), the voice of Remy in Ratatouille, and Cars director John Lasseter. Cheech Marin (left) with Ratatouille writer-director Brad Bird at the Disney party. (L-R): Walt Disney Studios Home Entertainment worldwide president Bob Chapek with John Ratzenberger, Lasseter and Disney marketing SVP Gordon Ho. At the Sony Pictures cocktail party, worldwide president David Bishop (second from right) met with (L-R) online journalists Bill Hunt of The Digital Bits, Gord Lacey of TVShowsOnDVD. com and Ron Epstein of the Home Theater Forum. (L-R): The youngest Prange (Mia) and Arnold (Hunter) followed in their parents’ footsteps, schmoozing with industry heavies at the Disney party. Disney’s Chapek trumpeted Bluray as a “revolutionary technology that will change the way we view movies.” The Disney party began with the USC Marching Band playing its fight song, and then segueing into “When You Wish Upon a Star.” 1 1 Alex Berliner©Berliner 2 4 er Alex Berliner©Berliner er©Berlin Alex Berlin 5 3 6 4 5 7 8 6 Alex Berliner©Berliner 7 9 8 10 9 10 Lasseter (right) was interviewed at the Disney party shortly before a troupe of celebrity chefs, led by Michel Richard, ushered the crowd into the main party room. November 4–10, 2007 Home Media Magazine 9 http://www.homemediamagazine.com

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