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Sid Ganis’ Jiaflix Teams With China Movie Channel On Netflix-Like Service

By THE DEADLINE TEAM | Thursday June 28, 2012 @ 10:49pm PDTTags: Sid Ganis

Jiaflix Enterprises, of which producer and former studio exec Sid Ganis is one of the founders, and the government-owned China Movie Channel plan to launch a Netflix-style streaming service in China, the Wall Street Journal reports. Paramount Pictures has signed on as a participant and negotiations are underway with other studios. The service is expected to launch later this year. China Movie Channel’s internet subsidiary M1905.com already streams some Chinese movies, but the new partnership with Jiaflix will make U.S. and other foreign movies available to Chinese audiences. Getting those audiences to pay to watch movies and TV shows will be a challenge because of the pervasive availability of pirated content. Jiaflix and M1905 said they are working on a “a program to combat Internet piracy in China” but did not elaborate. Janis, also former president of the Academy of Motion Picture Arts & Sciences, said that distributing movies online also would allow Jiaflix to circumvent limits the government places on the number of foreign films released in in China.

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Sid Ganis Joins Dolby Labs As Adviser

By THE DEADLINE TEAM | Monday December 19, 2011 @ 8:58am PSTTags: Dolby, Sid Ganis

SAN FRANCISCO (December 19, 2011) — Dolby Laboratories, Inc. (NYSE:DLB) today announced it has engaged Sid Ganis to support its cinema business and expand relationships with the industry’s creative leaders. Ganis, who most recently served as president of the

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Jean-Luc Godard Will Not Show Up For Honorary Oscar

By THE DEADLINE TEAM | Monday October 25, 2010 @ 11:37am PDTTags: Academy Awards, AMPAS Governors Awards, Don Mischer, Eli wallach, Francis Ford Coppola, Jean-Luc Godard, Jean-Luc Godard Honorary Oscar, Kevin Brownlow, Movies, Oscars, Sid Ganis, Tom Sherak

Beverly Hills, CA — The Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences announced today that, following a two-month-long cordial exchange of correspondence with Academy president Tom Sherak, Jean-Luc Godard has regretfully notified Sherak that he will not be able to attend the November 13th Governors Awards and receive his

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Tom Sherak Re-Elected AMPAS President

By MIKE FLEMING JR | Wednesday August 4, 2010 @ 4:27am PDTTags: Academy of Motion Picture Arts & Sciences, James L. Brooks, Oscar Best Picture, Oscar Best Picture Category, Oscar Rule Changes, Oscars, Sid Ganis, Tom Sherak, Tom Sherak AMPAS
Mike Fleming

It was hardly a cliffhanger, but Tom Sherak was reelected president of the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences. He was voted in last night by the Academy Board of Governors along with Sid Ganis (first vice president), James L. Brooks, (vice president) Phil Robinson (vice president), Hawk Koch (treasurer) and Annette Bening (secretary). Sherak’s first term was marked by the Academy’s controversial decision to expand the Best Picture category to 10 films, for which Sherak was a proponent. While widening the field gave some extra attention to films like District 9, The Blind Side, Inglourious Basterds and Up In The Air, the extra five films were not at all a factor in what really became a two-horse race between Avatar and Best Picture winner The Hurt Locker. Read More »

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