I never knew the charm of spring I never met it face to face I never knew my heart could sing I never missed a warm embrace ‘Till April in Paris[1] Doris Day sings the title song in Warner Bros.’ April in Paris (1952), appearing as Ethel S. “Dynamite” Jackson and... More

February gets the short end of the calendar stick, date-wise. There’s a popular myth that the Roman Emperor Augustus stole a day from February when Sextilis was renamed August in his honor, so his month would be as long as July, previously named in honor of Julius Caesar. That�... More

Leading Nordic media company Nordic Entertainment Group (NENT) just a few years ago was running into a problem. Growing fast and expanding the business across several regions, the media group discovered that it had several instances of the same title in its rights management s... More

Although some people mistakenly believe SMPTE’s recently standardized C4 ID is a competitor to the Entertainment Identifier Registry (EIDR) global unique identifier system or they’re concerned that its introduction muddies the identifier landscape, neither is true. C4 ID a... More

The Entertainment Identifier Registry (EIDR) global unique identifier system made a significant amount of progress with content in the past year and more growth is expected this year, with the start of EIDR’s second decade just over the horizon, according to Clint Richmond, ope... More

Although the Entertainment Identifier Registry (EIDR) global unique identifier system is now widely accepted as the industry standard in many technical specifications and workflows, organizations still often need to overcome legacy technical, cultural and other challenges when se... More

This year members of The Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences nominated 52 different feature films and short subjects in 24 different categories (122 separate nominations overall), with Roma and The Favourite leading the rest with 10 nominations each. The record for the mo... More

PLAYA VISTA, Calif. — 2019 marks the ninth year of existence for the Entertainment Identifier Registry (EIDR), the global unique identifier system. But while it’ll be a year before the organization can celebrate year 10, perhaps a bigger milestone has already been reached.Thi... More

The BAFTA Award nominations for theatrical motion pictures are out. 42 different films were nominated in 21 different categories. And once again EIDR has unique IDs for all of them.  The winners will be announced on February 10, 2019. Below are all the associated EIDR IDs... More

By: Richard Kroon, Director of Engineering, EIDR January is mid-winter in the northern hemisphere – short days and deep snow in the upper latitudes or “that time of year when it might rain for a bit” as it is known in Los Angeles – but at the other end of the world it... More