Austin’s Beatstars Partners with Sony/ATV

Biggest beat marketplace links with world’s largest music publisher

"...platform for buying and selling beats, is partnering with Sony/ATV in a joint venture allowing its users access to..."

May 6, 2020 Music Post by Kevin Curtin

Sony CDs Busted by AG

AG reaches settlements with Sony BMG and Internet-based digital-phone provider Vonage Holdings Corp.

"...than a year after filing suit against recording giant Sony BMG, Texas Attorney General Greg Abbott on Dec. 19..."

Dec. 29, 2006 News Feature by Jordan Smith

Abbott Expands Sony Spyware Suit

Music giant also engaged in deceptive practices, AG says

"...Texas Attorney General Greg Abbott on Dec. 21 socked Sony BMG Music Entertainment with additional allegations related to a..."

Dec. 30, 2005 News Feature by Jordan Smith

AG on Sony Spyware: 'Cloak-and-Dagger Deceit'

CDs contained program designed to limit unlimited copying, but Abbott alleges danger of identity theft

"...Greg Abbott last week filed a groundbreaking lawsuit against Sony BMG Music Entertainment, alleging the company secretly installed an..."

Dec. 2, 2005 News Feature by Jordan Smith

Sony Bags 'Baghead'

Sony bags Baghead

"...championed at last year's South by Southwest Film Festival, Sony Pictures Classics snapped up distribution rights to Mark and..."

Jan. 25, 2008 Screens Post by Joe O'Connell

Easy As Falling Off Analog

Sony's Recordable Mini Disc

"...thanks to a late-summer media blitz by electronics giant Sony, who chose sleepy little Austin as one of two..."

Sept. 27, 1996 Music Feature by Ken Lieck

Peter Rabbit

Beatrix Potter's amiable bunny gets a CGI makeover.

"...Oh my stars and garters! Sony Pictures Animation’s filmic reimagining of beloved children’s author Beatrix..."

Feb. 16, 2018 Movie Review by Marc Savlov

Ratchet & Clank

This animated video-game spin-off fails on every level

"...Based on the beloved, long-running Sony franchise, Ratchet & Clank arrives just in time to..."

May 6, 2016 Movie Review by Josh Kupecki

Morbius

Marvel's living vampire gets a Sony Spidey-verse spinoff

"...Morbius continues Sony's trepidatious attempts to turn their Spider-Man films into an..."

April 8, 2022 Movie Review by Richard Whittaker

Overcomer

God and running in this faith-based drama

"...Not reviewed at press time. The latest release from Sony's faith shingle, Affirm, by the Kendrick brothers (Fireproof), explores..."

Aug. 23, 2019 Movie Review

Venom

Spider-Man's nemesis gets a spin-off without web-head

"...budget, and lofty expectations as the first film in Sony's new Spider-Man spin-off cinematic universe (none of which are..."

Oct. 12, 2018 Movie Review by Matthew Monagle

Thrill Me, Creep

Night of the Creeps reunion at the Alamo Ritz

"...the cult classic's coming October 20th DVD release from Sony Home Entertainment, director Fred Dekker (Monster Squad) and stars..."

June 14, 2009 Screens Post by Marc Savlov

'NBA 08: The Life v3'

"...PlayStation2 games are still being made? Sony attempting to keep The Life alive? Indeed, Sony has..."

Oct. 18, 2007 Sports Post by Carson Barker

Offside

Deeply immersive, thought-provoking, and quite often funny, Offside depicts the resourcefulness women in Iran must rely on in order to enter a stadium to watch, no less play, soccer.

"...In marketing a foreign film about girls and soccer, Sony Pictures Classics bends like Beckham what is actually calm..."

June 8, 2007 Movie Review by Marrit Ingman

The Avatar's Avatar

How game designer and Women's Game Conference Chair Sheri Graner Ray plans to save the industry from stagnation

"...Chair Sheri Graner Ray, a senior game designer with Sony Online Entertainment, has spent the past 10 years voicing..."

Sept. 10, 2004 Screens Feature by Rachel Proctor May

In Custody

"...posterity. What he ends up getting is a broken-down Sony reel-to-reel audio deck and a 15-year-old “sound engineer” with..."

July 15, 1994 Movie Review by Marc Savlov

'Mo Music: New Music Tuesday

Breaking news with Michael Jackson and 'Mo Music.

"...Michael Jackson fans rejoice! Sony has just released the song "Breaking News," for just..."

Nov. 9, 2010 Qmmunity Post by Rob Cohen

Right Man for the Job

Charlie Robison says 'fuck everybody.'

"...Billy Gilman, Patty Loveless, and the Dixie Chicks -- Sony Nashville -- but rather than quietly fall in line,..."

June 29, 2001 Music Feature by Andy Langer

Pure Happiness

Unassuming Austin singer-songwriter stumbles upon the big time.

"...One of them was a deal with Sony Nashville's artist-friendly Lucky Dog imprint. Robison saw making albums..."

Sept. 28, 2001 Music Feature by Andy Langer

Sony Music 100 Years Soundtrack for a Century (Sony)

Box Sets

"...Sony Music 100 Years..."

Dec. 17, 1999 Music Review by Raoul Hernandez

SXSW Announces Gaming Award Nominees and Hosts

WWE star Xavier Woods to co-host ceremony in March

".../ Respawn Entertainment Uncharted 4: A Thief's End – Sony Computer Entertainment / Naughty Dog..."

Jan. 25, 2017 Screens Post by James Renovitch

Alamo Drafthouse Gets OK to Screen The Interview

Remember when Kim Jong-un threatened to nuke Austin? He'll be mad now.

"...Breaking news: Sony has authorized screenings of THE INTERVIEW on Christmas Day...."

Dec. 23, 2014 Screens Post by Richard Whittaker

More McCanlies, Texas

The full interview with the director of 'Secondhand Lions'

"...bought Lion's Gate. Feltheimer at the time was running Sony television. Michael had said, "I'm producing this movie."..."

Sept. 19, 2003 Screens Feature by Louis Black

Dancing About Architecture

"...City Limits Special for a PBS airdate in December. Sony Records, whose deal with ACL calls for an accompanying..."

Sept. 5, 1997 Music Column by Ken Lieck

Will Video Kill the Celluloid Star?

Most loves fade over time, and the romance of a hundred-plus years of filmmaking seems to be losing its luster as well. At least, that's what the new High Definition video vanguard, led by George Lucas and Robert Rodriguez, is saying. Is video the future of film?

"...Menlo Park; the new kid on the block is Sony Corp., whose recent developments in digital wizardry have leapfrogged..."

June 21, 2002 Screens Feature by Marc Savlov

Life of the Party

"...record stores nationwide thanks to Lucky Dog, an upstart Sony Nashville imprint dedicated to progressive country, an artist-friendly major..."

Oct. 2, 1998 Music Feature by Andy Langer

Cream of the Tech-Top

The Year in Multimedia

"...as the Walt Disney Studios, Windham Hill Records, and Sony Corporation of America with outstanding sound, graphics, and animation...."

Jan. 5, 1996 Screens Feature

New Year, Old Films

Mid-20th-century must-sees: Part I

"...NEAR-CLASSICS TO LESSER-KNOWN TITLESThe Awful Truth (1937; on DVD: Sony, $24.95): The Marx Brothers' Duck Soup director Leo McCarey..."

Dec. 30, 2005 Screens Feature by Louis Black

Double Bogey

An ingenious prank -- steal a bad script, make it better, and shoot it all on shaky cam -- turns sour for "The Sean Connery Golf Project" filmmakers, Rhys Southan and Sara Rimensnyder.

"...Southan, slip out of a test screening on the Sony lot and are seen sneaking into the studio's story..."

Feb. 14, 2003 Screens Feature by Sarah Hepola

Short Cuts

Sony Pics faux crix, 10-year Slacker reunion.

"...shocked, I say -- by the recent revelation that Sony Pictures had created its own film critic out of..."

June 8, 2001 Screens Column by Marc Savlov

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