MUMBAI: Warner Music and 7digital.com have extended their partnership that will see high quality MP3 music downloads from Warner Music made available across Europe. Warner Music is the first major to sign a pan-European...
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Amazon VOD available on Panasonic Blu-ray disc players
MUMBAI: Amazon Video On Demand has now been made available on Panasonic’s full line of 2009 VIERA CAST-enabled Blu-ray Disc players. Current owners of Panasonic’s 2009 Blu-ray Disc players automatically received a free software...
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Thai police nets 5 & 25,000 pirated discs
MUMBAI: On 7 January, a team of 22 officers from the Economic & Technological Crime Suppression Division (ECOTEC) headed by Commander General Visuth Vanichburta as well as Motion Picture Association (MPA) representatives, raided two...
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Steven Spielberg to direct Harvey for Fox & DreamWorks
MUMBAI: Steven Spielberg will direct as his next film a contemporary adaptation of Mary Chase’s Pulitzer Prize winning play Harvey, a co-production between Twentieth Century Fox and DreamWorks Studios. Harvey is the first screenplay...
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Warner Bros. Home Entertainment ups Junge as SVP business management
MUMBAI: Jeff Junge has been promoted to senior vice president, business management, Warner Bros. Home Entertainment Group. Junge will continue to drive mergers and acquisitions for Warner Bros. Home Entertainment Group and unify strategic...
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EMI Music Publishing inks merchandising deal with Transport For London
MUMBAI: EMI Music Publishing has struck a merchandising partnership with Transport For London (TfL), to create a new range of mugs and T-shirts featuring lyrics from songs about London. The range features lyrics written...
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Netflix inks deal with Disney-ABC Television Group to stream shows
MUMBAI: Netflix, Inc. has inked an agreement with Disney-ABC Television Group that will make several of ABC’s most popular TV series available to be streamed instantly from Netflix. In its entirety, the deal will...
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Sam Taylor-Wood’s Nowhere Boy to close 53rd London Film Fest
MUMBAI: The Closing Night Gala of The Times BFI 53rd London Film Festival will be the world premiere of Ecosse Films’ Nowhere Boy, the debut feature from British artist Sam Taylor-Wood. Nowhere Boy is...
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Sony Corp posts net loss of $386 million
MUMBAI: Sony Corp has posted a net loss of $386 million in the first quarter ended in March as compared to a profit of 35 billion yen in the year-earlier period. The company’s total...
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Sony Pictures Imageworks launches open source program
MUMBAI: Sony Pictures Imageworks will soon be launching an open source development program. Imageworks chief technology officer Rob Bredow said that five technologies will be released initially. Imageworks’ production environment, which is known for...
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