Major record labels are implementing new restrictions in order to deter artists from re-recording their music à la Taylor Swift.
As Billboard reports, Universal Music Group, Sony Music Entertainment, and Warner Music Group have recently overhauled contracts for their new signees, with some prohibiting artists from re-recording their music until 10 years — or more — after they’ve left the label.
“The first time I saw [Umg’s new contracts], I tried to get rid of it entirely,” attorney Josh Karp told Billboard. “I was just like, ‘What is this? This is strange. Why would we agree to further restrictions than we’ve agreed to in the past with the same label?’”
Until now, artists on major record labels who wanted to re-record their music typically had to wait five to seven years after releasing the original, or two years after their contract with the label expired. As a refresher: After music...
As Billboard reports, Universal Music Group, Sony Music Entertainment, and Warner Music Group have recently overhauled contracts for their new signees, with some prohibiting artists from re-recording their music until 10 years — or more — after they’ve left the label.
“The first time I saw [Umg’s new contracts], I tried to get rid of it entirely,” attorney Josh Karp told Billboard. “I was just like, ‘What is this? This is strange. Why would we agree to further restrictions than we’ve agreed to in the past with the same label?’”
Until now, artists on major record labels who wanted to re-record their music typically had to wait five to seven years after releasing the original, or two years after their contract with the label expired. As a refresher: After music...
- 10/30/2023
- by Abby Jones
- Consequence - Music
Taylor Swift is having a very successful streak with her “Taylor’s Version” re-recordings, which began following a showdown with Scooter Braun and her old record label regarding the sales of her masters.
In a new report on Monday (October 30), Billboard revealed that the major labels, Universal Music Group, Sony Music Entertainment and Warner Music Group, have recently revised contracts for new signees, according to top music attorneys.
In some of the contracts, labels are demanding 10, 15 or even 30 years to re-record releases after leaving their companies.
Keep reading to find out more…
“The first time I saw it, I tried to get rid of it entirely,” Josh Karp, a veteran attorney, said of new Umg contracts that he’s seen.
“I was just like, ‘What is this? This is strange. Why would we agree to further restrictions than we’ve agreed to in the past with the same label?’”
Previously,...
In a new report on Monday (October 30), Billboard revealed that the major labels, Universal Music Group, Sony Music Entertainment and Warner Music Group, have recently revised contracts for new signees, according to top music attorneys.
In some of the contracts, labels are demanding 10, 15 or even 30 years to re-record releases after leaving their companies.
Keep reading to find out more…
“The first time I saw it, I tried to get rid of it entirely,” Josh Karp, a veteran attorney, said of new Umg contracts that he’s seen.
“I was just like, ‘What is this? This is strange. Why would we agree to further restrictions than we’ve agreed to in the past with the same label?’”
Previously,...
- 10/30/2023
- by Just Jared
- Just Jared
Get in touch to send in cinephile news and discoveries. For daily updates follow us @NotebookMUBI.NEWSHead."A man for all seasons" is how Bruce Dern once described Bob Rafelson, who passed away this week at age 89. Josh Karp's 2019 Esquire profile captures the New Hollywood iconoclast at his intense best. This week, we're also remembering William Richert, writer/director of Winter Kills and A Night in the Life of Jimmy Reardon, and the legendary actor Paul Sorvino, an unforgettable presence across five decades of film roles.Steven Spielberg's next film, The Fabelmans, will have its world premiere at the Toronto International Film Festival. A semi-autobiography based on Spielberg's own childhood growing up in postwar Arizona, the film will star Michelle Williams, Paul Dano, Seth Rogen, plus Gabriel Labelle as Spielberg's stand-in. Nicolas Winding Refn has made a new six-part TV series. Copenhagen Cowboy will be the first production the...
- 7/27/2022
- MUBI
It begins with a death — a car accident that takes the life of a legendary director on his 70th birthday — and ends with a giant phallic symbol toppling over. In between those two moments, you get young film critics arguing, old actors kvetching, a Jim Morrison doppelganger, a naked woman wandering around an abandoned back lot, John Huston dispensing insults by a swimming pool, an orgy in a public bathroom, mannequins being used for target practice, empty drive-in theaters and the world’s greatest sex scene in a moving car.
- 11/14/2018
- by David Fear
- Rollingstone.com
Get in touch to send in cinephile news and discoveries. For daily updates follow us @NotebookMUBI.NEWSIdo Lupino's The Hitch-Hiker (1953).The United States Library of Congress has announced a significant update to their free screening platform, National Screening Room, with hundreds of films—ranging from historic documents of turn-of-century American life to Ida Lupino's The Hitch-Hiker. At this point we're well documented admirers of Paul W.S. Anderson's cinema, which is why we were thrilled to hear that Tony Jaa, Ron Perlman, and T.I. have joined Milla Jovovich in the cast for his latest video game adaptation: Capcom's Monster Hunter. The Chinese-Taiwanese annual Golden Horse awards have announced this year's nominations, which include Zhang Yimou's Shadow, Hu Bo's An Elephant Sitting Still, Bi Gan's A Long Day's Journey Into Night, and Pema Tseden's Jinpa, amongst many others.Recommended VIEWINGOne of the longest running, most compelling American film...
- 10/3/2018
- MUBI
Comedy writer/director David Wain returns to the Sundance Film Festival for a fourth time with A Futile and Stupid Gesture, his feature on the rise and fall of the National Lampoon empire. The film stars Will Forte as Lampoon co-founder Doug Kenney and is based on a 2006 book by Josh Karp. Wain tapped Kevin Atkinson to shoot the film after the two worked together on Wain’s Childrens Hospital and the prequel and sequel to Wet Hot American Summer. Below, Atkinson discusses his experiences as Dp on the project with Filmmaker. A Futile and Stupid Gesture hits Netflix on January […]...
- 1/27/2018
- by Filmmaker Staff
- Filmmaker Magazine - Blog
The National Lampoon magazine was a little before my time. My introduction to the National Lampoon brand was the classic Chevy Chase comedy Vacation. That was one of the funniest damn films I had ever seen! After that, I got around to seeing Animal House and Caddyshack, which were so great! To this day I still enjoy watching these films because they never fail at making me laugh.
Director David Wain’s (Wet Hot American Summer) new film A Futile and Stupid Gesture gives us a fantastically funny and meta look at the early days of National Lampoon and tells the story of how it was all started by Doug Kenny, who is fantastically played by Will Forte and Henry Beard, was wonderfully played by Domhnall Gleeson. It also highlights the insane experiences they had while building this comedy empire.
The movie is based on Josh Karp’s book of...
Director David Wain’s (Wet Hot American Summer) new film A Futile and Stupid Gesture gives us a fantastically funny and meta look at the early days of National Lampoon and tells the story of how it was all started by Doug Kenny, who is fantastically played by Will Forte and Henry Beard, was wonderfully played by Domhnall Gleeson. It also highlights the insane experiences they had while building this comedy empire.
The movie is based on Josh Karp’s book of...
- 1/26/2018
- by Joey Paur
- GeekTyrant
It’s hard to overstate the impact of National Lampoon magazine, but director Douglas Tirola tried anyway in 2015 with “Drunk Stoned Brilliant Dead,” a documentary examining its history and legacy. As much as David Wain’s “A Futile And Stupid Gesture” (premiering on Netflix January 26) might feel like a retread of its buoyant history lesson, his adaptation of Josh Karp’s book of the same name focuses primarily on the exploits of Lampoon co-founder Douglas Kenney, filtering the publication’s incendiary accomplishments through his suitably troubled personal history while assembling an impressive cast of contemporary comedy stars to provide some occasionally wildly...
- 1/25/2018
- by Todd Gilchrist
- The Wrap
It’s hard to talk about “A Futile and Stupid Gesture” — a somewhat funny and largely conventional movie about a very funny and wholly unconventional man — without talking about the film’s borderline-insane framing device. If you know absolutely nothing about “National Lampoon” co-founders Doug Kenney (Will Forte) and Henry Beard (Domhnall Gleeson), and would like to keep it that way until David Wain’s biopic can illuminate you on its own terms, consider this a reluctant spoiler warning. For everybody else… well, it’s certainly a choice.
Here’s the gist: Adapted from Josh Karp’s book of the same name, “A Futile and Stupid Gesture” retraces the true story of how two subversive Harvard grads took the road less traveled, started the most dangerous satirical magazine in American history, and became ground zero for a generation of comics that included the likes of Bill Murray and Gilda Radner.
Here’s the gist: Adapted from Josh Karp’s book of the same name, “A Futile and Stupid Gesture” retraces the true story of how two subversive Harvard grads took the road less traveled, started the most dangerous satirical magazine in American history, and became ground zero for a generation of comics that included the likes of Bill Murray and Gilda Radner.
- 1/25/2018
- by David Ehrlich
- Indiewire
In the 1970's, Harvard students Doug Kenney, Henry Beard, and Robert Hoffman founded a little magazine by the name of National Lampoon, which rapidly grew in popularity until it included all manner of media, from records, television, theater, and of course, movies such as Animal House and Vacation. Based upon Josh Karp's book of the same name, Netflix's A Futile And Stupid Gesture tells the story of "comedy wunderkind Doug Kenney, who co-created the National... Read More...
- 12/22/2017
- by Kevin Fraser
- JoBlo.com
Sneak Peek footage, plus images from director David Wain's upcoming biographical comedy feature "A Futile and Stupid Gesture". based on the book by Josh Karp, focusing on late comedy writer 'Doug Kenney' during the rise and fall of "National Lampoon" magazine, airing on Netflix, January 26, 2018:
"...in the 1970's and early 1980's, the success of 'National Lampoon' magazine and its influence creates a new media empire overseen in part by the brilliant comedy writer 'Doug Kenney'..."
Cast includes Domhnall Gleeson, Emmy Rossum, Seth Green, Natasha Lyonne, Annette O'Toole, Thomas Lennon and Will Forte as 'Doug Kenney'.
Click the images to enlarge and Sneak Peek "A Futile and Stupid Gesture"...
"...in the 1970's and early 1980's, the success of 'National Lampoon' magazine and its influence creates a new media empire overseen in part by the brilliant comedy writer 'Doug Kenney'..."
Cast includes Domhnall Gleeson, Emmy Rossum, Seth Green, Natasha Lyonne, Annette O'Toole, Thomas Lennon and Will Forte as 'Doug Kenney'.
Click the images to enlarge and Sneak Peek "A Futile and Stupid Gesture"...
- 12/22/2017
- by Michael Stevens
- SneakPeek
Gags, naughty cover shoots, cocaine and other debauchery are showcased in the new trailer for the David Wain-directed A Futile and Stupid Gesture, the upcoming biopic on National Lampoon cofounder Doug Kenney.
Will Forte plays the younger Kenney while Martin Mull portrays the older Kenney in the film, which is based on the book A Futile and Stupid Gesture: How Doug Kenney and National Lampoon Changed Comedy Forever by Josh Karp.
The trailer highlights the wild antics that took place behind the magazine, reflecting its ethos, and features the characters that shaped the publication,...
Will Forte plays the younger Kenney while Martin Mull portrays the older Kenney in the film, which is based on the book A Futile and Stupid Gesture: How Doug Kenney and National Lampoon Changed Comedy Forever by Josh Karp.
The trailer highlights the wild antics that took place behind the magazine, reflecting its ethos, and features the characters that shaped the publication,...
- 12/21/2017
- Rollingstone.com
It’s fitting that David Wain’s upcoming, Sundance-bound biopic “A Futile and Stupid Gesture” appears to ably — and amusingly — blend fact and fiction to serve up a unique slice of mostly-true goodness. The film, which will debut on Netflix next month, follows the real-life exploits of Doug Kenney (played by Will Forte, with Martin Mull stepping in to play an older version), “National Lampoon” co-founder and “Caddyshack” and “Animal House” screenwriter.
As Entertainment Weekly notes, “His comic seeds blossomed everywhere, and then…he was gone, a victim of his own excesses and inner demons.” (While Mull plays an older Kenney, he actually died back in 1980, at the age of 33.)
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When it comes to his inspiration for making the film, it was easy, as Wain told EW, “You...
As Entertainment Weekly notes, “His comic seeds blossomed everywhere, and then…he was gone, a victim of his own excesses and inner demons.” (While Mull plays an older Kenney, he actually died back in 1980, at the age of 33.)
Read More:‘The Last Man on Earth’ Review: Will Forte Goes Down With the Ship in a Surprising Season 3 — And Series? — Finale
When it comes to his inspiration for making the film, it was easy, as Wain told EW, “You...
- 12/20/2017
- by Kate Erbland
- Indiewire
When Netflix announced March 14 it would be financing and distributing a finished cut of Orson Welles’ “The Other Side of the Wind,” the company opened a new chapter in one of the wildest, most frustrating sagas of film lore.
The legendary director shot his final film between 1970 and 1976, but a series of financial setbacks kept him from realizing his vision before his death in 1985. In the 32 years since, surviving members of the production had attempted to complete the project, but for legal reasons were unable to procure the more than 1,000 reels of negatives from a vault in Paris until the streaming giant stepped in this week.
The negatives are now safely in Los Angeles, in the hands of the team that will edit the film, according to a March 14 note from producer Filip Jan Rymsza. A short video released the next day on Yahoo details the process of shipping the reels.
The legendary director shot his final film between 1970 and 1976, but a series of financial setbacks kept him from realizing his vision before his death in 1985. In the 32 years since, surviving members of the production had attempted to complete the project, but for legal reasons were unable to procure the more than 1,000 reels of negatives from a vault in Paris until the streaming giant stepped in this week.
The negatives are now safely in Los Angeles, in the hands of the team that will edit the film, according to a March 14 note from producer Filip Jan Rymsza. A short video released the next day on Yahoo details the process of shipping the reels.
- 3/20/2017
- by Andrew Lapin
- Indiewire
It’s time to head back to Twin Peaks, salute some major names (Gus Van Sant, James Cameron, Hal Ashby, Guillermo del Toro, Orson Welles), icons (James Dean), and (former) power players (Mike Ovitz). Plus, Harry Potter, Seinfeld, and McDonald’s! Let’s start with a loving look back at 50 years of the starship Enterprise.
Star Trek: 50 Artists 50 Years (Titan Books)
There have been a number of interesting books released to commemorate the 50th anniversary of Star Trek, but there’s no question that 50 Artists 50 Years is the handsomest. As the title makes clear, the premise is simple: 50 respected artists, all with wildly unique styles, were tasked with creating a work of art highlighting some element of the Trek universe. There’s plenty of original series — Glen Brogan’s jaunty representation of the bridge of the Enterprise is my personal favorite — and lots of Spock. Plus, Leonard Nimoy himself...
Star Trek: 50 Artists 50 Years (Titan Books)
There have been a number of interesting books released to commemorate the 50th anniversary of Star Trek, but there’s no question that 50 Artists 50 Years is the handsomest. As the title makes clear, the premise is simple: 50 respected artists, all with wildly unique styles, were tasked with creating a work of art highlighting some element of the Trek universe. There’s plenty of original series — Glen Brogan’s jaunty representation of the bridge of the Enterprise is my personal favorite — and lots of Spock. Plus, Leonard Nimoy himself...
- 11/10/2016
- by Christopher Schobert
- The Film Stage
Almost two weeks ago, principal photography began on David Wain‘s (Wet Hot American Summer) adaptation of A Stupid and Futile Gesture. Based on Josh Karp‘s best-selling book, the story follows National Lampoon co-founder Douglas Kenney, who’s played by Will Forte (MacGruber) in the biopic. Forte is surrounded by nothing but talent in this true-life story, which, according to him, we shouldn’t expect […]
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- 4/25/2016
- by Jack Giroux
- Slash Film
The <em>National Lampoon</em> writers room just got a little bigger.
Matt Lucas is joining Netflix's <em>A Futile and Stupid Gesture</em>, the origin story of the humor magazine that became a major force in 1970s comedy.
He's attached to an ever-growing cast that already includes <a href="http://www.hollywoodreporter.com/news/will-forte-star-as-national-875870" target="_blank">Will Forte</a>, Domhnall Gleeson, Emmy Rossum, Matt Walsh and Joel McHale.
Lucas will be playing English satirist Tony Hendra, who was the first editor hired by <em>National Lampoon</em> founders Doug Kenney and Henry Beard.
<em>Wet Hot American Summer</em>'s David Wain will direct the film, which is adapted from the 2006 book by Josh Karp ...
Matt Lucas is joining Netflix's <em>A Futile and Stupid Gesture</em>, the origin story of the humor magazine that became a major force in 1970s comedy.
He's attached to an ever-growing cast that already includes <a href="http://www.hollywoodreporter.com/news/will-forte-star-as-national-875870" target="_blank">Will Forte</a>, Domhnall Gleeson, Emmy Rossum, Matt Walsh and Joel McHale.
Lucas will be playing English satirist Tony Hendra, who was the first editor hired by <em>National Lampoon</em> founders Doug Kenney and Henry Beard.
<em>Wet Hot American Summer</em>'s David Wain will direct the film, which is adapted from the 2006 book by Josh Karp ...
- 4/14/2016
- The Hollywood Reporter - Film + TV
Netflix.s National Lampoon movie A Futile and Stupid Gesture has been casting up a storm lately, and now the movie has found its Harold Ramis and Bill Murray. Actors Rick Glassman and Jon Daly, respectively, will be taking on the roles in the Netflix movie. According to a Deadline report, Rick Glassman (Undateable) and Jon Daly (Kroll Show) will have supporting roles in the film. Glassman will portray Harold Ramis, while Daly will take on the part of Bill Murray in A Futile and Stupid Gesture. The actors will join previously announced players Will Forte, Martin Mull, Joel McHale, Thomas Lennon, Domhnall Gleeson, Jackie Tohn, Matt Walsh and John Gemberling. The film will be based on the 2006 book by journalist Josh Karp, "A Futile and Stupid Gesture: How Doug Kenney and National Lampoon Changed Comedy Forever." Karp.s book is a history of National Lampoon magazine and Doug Kenney,...
- 4/9/2016
- cinemablend.com
Casting continues on Netflix’s A Futile & Stupid Gesture, with Seth Green signing on to play Christopher Guest in the film based on the bestselling 2006 book by Josh Karp about the troubled life and storied career of National Lampoon co-founder Doug Kenney. Directed by The Wet Hot American Summer‘s David Wain and written by Michael Colton and John Aboud, the film will also examine how the magazine changed American comedy in 1970s and ’80s. Will Forte stars as Kenney, with…...
- 4/8/2016
- Deadline
Netflix’s upcoming biopic A Futile And Stupid Gesture has cast Undateable‘s Rick Glassman and Kroll Show vet Jon Daly in key supporting roles as Harold Ramis and Bill Murrary respectively. Based on Josh Karp's best-selling 2006 book about the troubled life and storied career of National Lampoon co-founder Doug Kenney, the film also charts the impact of the comedy magazine and subsequent media empire it spawned during the 1970s and ’80s. Directed by The State alum and The W…...
- 4/8/2016
- Deadline
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