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Industry: Email Alert RSS FeedDownload duo goes in new direction: SightSound founders sign movie-making deal with MGM.(Headliners)(Pense Productions contract with Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer Inc.)(Brief Article)
Video Business, March, 2004 by Sweeting, Paul
Sooner or later they all go Hollywood. After battling the entertainment industry establishment for six years regarding their movie and music download patents, the two entrepreneurs behind SightSound Technologies, Scott Sander and Arthur Hair, have formed a production company and signed a three-year first-look deal with MGM Studios.
The new company, Pense Productions, will put $1 million into a development fund that will be jointly overseen with MGM. Sander will handle creative duties, while Hair, who came up with the idea for downloads in 1988, will provide the techno-wizardry that the pair hopes will allow Pense to pair production costs to the bone. The two produced the experimental digital movie Quantum Project, starring Stephen Dorff,...
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