MUMBAI: Tom Sherak has been elected president of the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences by the organization’s Board of Governors. Sherak, who is beginning his seventh year as a governor representing the...

MUMBAI: The British Academy of Film and Television Arts (BAFTA) installed Dolby 3D Digital Cinema in its London headquarters’ showpiece theatre at 195 Piccadilly. The Princess Anne Theatre sits at the heart of the...

MUMBAI: Screen Actors Guild and the Alliance of Motion Picture and Television Producers (AMPTP) reached agreement on the terms of new, two-year contracts covering Screen Actors Guild members working in Television Animation and Basic...

MUMBAI: Universal Music Group has entered into a long-term music monitoring and information deal with BigChampagne, the online music measurement company, for North America. As part of this deal, BigChampagne will provide UMG’s market-leading...

MUMBAI: Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer Inc. (MGM) has formed the office of the CEO. Mary Parent, chairperson for Worldwide Motion Picture Group, and Bedi A. Singh, president, finance and administration & CFO have been named members of...

MUMBAI: The subscription video-on-demand (SVOD) service, Disney Family Movies, has partnered with content providers Comcast, Charter, Cox, AT&T U-verse, Suddenlink and Verizon FiOS to offer a special preview nationwide from 3 – 7 September....

MUMBAI: Disney Interactive Studios announced that Spectrobes: Origins, the third installment of Disney’s monster battle video game franchise, is now available across North America exclusively for the Wii system from Nintendo. Spectrobes: Origins lets...

MUMBAI: Officers from the Saitama Prefectural police headquarters and Kawagoe police station, Saitama Prefecture, assisted by investigators from the Japan and International Motion Picture Copyright Association (JIMCA), raided and arrested Takayuki Hamaura, a 28...

MUMBAI: Time Warner Inc. and YouTube have signed an online video distribution agreement that will give consumers access to an extensive variety of high-quality, short-form content owned by Time Warner, including clips from movies,...

MUMBAI: MySpace is planning to social music discovery service iLike. The acquisition brings together two companies who share a common vision revolving around social discovery and distribution of quality content. "The iLike acquisition advances...