MUMBAI: Microsoft Corp. announced at the 2008 International Consumer Electronics Show (CES) that Disney-ABC Television Group and Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer Studios Inc. (MGM) will be joining the more than 35 networks and studios offering US Xbox...

MUMBAI: Social networking website MySpace has named Amit Kapur as its chief operating officer.   In this role, Kapur will be responsible for spearheading the development and implementation of all global business operations for...

MUMBAI: IFC, the first and most widely distributed network dedicated to independent culture, and Lionsgate, the premier independent filmed entertainment studio, have concluded a major licensing deal for a package of 70 Lionsgate feature...

MUMBAI: The Weinstein Company announced that their 2007 slate of films grossed over $210 million internationally, providing the company with an increase of 170 per cent from its first to its second year in...

MUMBAI: The Internet Movie Database (www.imdb.com), the web’s most comprehensive and authoritative source of information on movies, TV, and celebrities and a subsidiary of Amazon.com announced it has agreed to acquire Without A Box,...

MUMBAI: The Sundance Institute and Sundance Channel announced the 2008 Sundance Film Festival and said their short films will be available across the world for free on http://www.sundance.org/watch and will be for sale on...

MUMBAI: THQ announced plans to acquire Big Huge Games, a development studio focused on the Role-Playing-Game (RPG) genre, a multi-billion dollar market segment.   Big Huge Games was founded in 2000 by four veteran...

MUMBAI: Imax Corporation continued its impressive box office winning streak during 2007 by generating $145 million for Hollywood releases, which is 56 per cent higher than the $93 million that the Imax theatre network...

MUMBAI: Jaman.com and TiVo Inc. have inked a deal wherein TiVo subscribers will soon be able to access thousands of American independent and international film titles directly from the TV screen via their TiVo...

MUMBAI: ST Microelectronics, a supplier of System-on-Chip (SoC) solutions for digital TV, has announced the DTV150, its new cost-saving hardware platform. The DTV150 provides demodulation, MPEG-2 high-definition (HD) and standard-definition (SD) decoding, full HD...

MUMBAI: Peanut Labs, Inc., provider of Gen-Y sample for market researchers, have released the results of its latest survey tracking Gen-Y trends, both at the box office and on TV at the end of...

MUMBAI: Autodesk, Inc’s end-to-end game development software solutions were used to create most of the top titles hitting the shelves this holiday season. Holiday games created with Autodesk products include Ubisoft’s Assassin’s Creed, BioWare’s...

MUMBAI: Academy Award-winning filmmaker Peter Jackson; Harry Sloan, Chairman and CEO, Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer Studios Inc.; Bob Shaye and Michael Lynne, Co-Chairmen and Co-CEOs of New Line Cinema have jointly entered into the following series of...

MUMBAI: New Line Cinema’s The Golden Compass has passed the $100 million mark in international box office gross Wednesday as the film continues its successful worldwide run since its Dec. 7 opening.   After...

MUMBAI: Disney/Pixar’s Ratatouille has raced past the $600 million score at the worldwide box office over the weekend, and now stands as the second biggest international release of all-time for a Disney/Pixar production.  ...

MUMBAI: Year 2007 sees an increase in cinema visits, record summer at the box office, increased market share for British films and a jump in inward investment Harry Potter and the Order of the...

MUMBAI: For the quarter ended 30 September, 2007, DreamWorks Animation SKG, Inc. reported total revenue of $160.8 million and net income of $47 million, or $0.47 per share on a fully diluted basis. This...

MUMBAI: As per Ubisoft, Academy Award winner Anthony Hopkins and other leading Hollywood actors will star in Ubisoft’s Beowulf video game based on Paramount and Shangri-La’s feature film. Other than Hopkins, Ray Winstone, Brendan...

MUMBAI: Coming off of a summer which saw four of its domestic motion picture releases each exceed $100 million at the boxoffice, Universal Pictures today recognized the achievements of two of its senior marketing...

MUMBAI: Starz Entertainment announced the launch of its new High Definition (HD) premium movie channels, Starz Comedy HD, Starz Edge HD and Starz Kids and Family HD.   The new HD offerings together with the...