Today, the British Association for Screen Entertainment (BASE) has announced the categories for the BASE Awards 2022, featuring a new list to celebrate the evolution of the home entertainment category over the last 12 months. The 42nd BASE Awards will return to the stage at the iconic Camden Roundhouse on Thursday 6th October, following the […]
The British Association for Screen Entertainment (BASE) has announced the date of the 42nd BASE Awards as Thursday, October 6th, 2022. The UK’s annual celebration of Home Entertainment will return to the Camden Roundhouse, following the huge success of the 2021 Awards at the iconic North London venue. This year’s Awards will include exciting new […]
Today, the Digital Entertainment Group International (DEGI) has announced that BBC Studios, Sony Pictures Entertainment and The Walt Disney Company, EMEA have become DEGI members, with immediate effect. They join existing members Google, Lionsgate, Paramount Pictures, Universal Pictures & Warner Bros. Pictures, in what promises to be another exciting year of growth and transformation for […]
[vc_row][vc_column][vc_column_text] In Conversation is a new BASE LINE monthly editorial feature for 2022. Each month BASE LINE will speak to a key category partner, and share their insights and vision for the future. [/vc_column_text][vc_single_image image=”9551″ img_size=”medium” alignment=”center”][vc_column_text]BASE LINE: What does 2022 look like for hmv customers? PH: It looks great. The team have used the […]
An update via the Alliance for Intellectual Property When the UK left the EU, one of the new powers we gained was to decide our own UK IP Exhaustion regime. Exhaustion regimes are important because they set the rules by which Intellectual Property (IP) owners can control the further distribution of their goods (it only […]
Today, the Digital Entertainment Group International (DEGI), and the Syndicat de l’Edition Vidéo Numérique (SEVN), launch ‘Les VODays’, a new week-long digital campaign across nine of the top digital retailer platforms. Films from Universal Pictures Video France, Sony Pictures Entertainment France, SND Films & WarnerMedia France will be available during Les VODays campaign. The nine digital retailer platforms taking […]
Today, Virgin Media O2 has launched its latest innovative platform What Should I Watch? in partnership with the Official Charts Company. The interactive TV and film recommendation tool has been curated to help speed up decision making when choosing what to put on the telly. It comes following a 60% rise in Google searches for […]
Home Entertainment value rose to £3.7 billion in 2021, up 13.3% ‘No Time To Die’[1] is the biggest title of the year with 1.148m retail sales, of which 717.5k physical units sold in two weeks, the largest week one disc sales since 2017, and the biggest ever week one on 4K UHD Warner Bros. Home […]
The British Association for Screen Entertainment (BASE) and the Official Charts Company (OCC) have today announced that the Official Film Chart will now feature on Skystore.com, to capture consumer attention and inspire Skystore.com users in their content search, and when deciding what to watch. The Official Film Chart ranks the UK’s best-selling films of the […]
It’s with great sadness that we share the news that Norman Abbott, the former Director General of the British Video Association, has passed away. Liz Bales, Chief Executive at BASE said “We are deeply saddened to hear of the passing of Norman Abbott, the first Director General of what was then known as the British Videogram Association. […]
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