MUMBAI: Yahoo! and Microsoft have inked a 10 year agreement that will improve the web search experience for users and advertisers, and deliver sustained innovation to the industry. Microsoft will now power Yahoo! search...
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Viacom profits down as film division suffers losses
US media giant Viacom has seen a drop in its profits due to the impact of the economic downturn and drop in box office revenues....
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Warner Bros. to create The Bachelor & The Bachelorette videogames
MUMBAI: Warner Bros. Interactive Entertainment and Ludia Inc. have inked a deal to create and distribute videogames based on the hit reality TV dating shows The Bachelor and The Bachelorette, from Warner Horizon Television...
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Hong Kong hands out highest ever jail sentence to movie pirate
MUMBAI: On 27 July, Hong Kong’s deputy district judge M. Chow handed out Hong Kong’s stiffest ever penalty for movie piracy distribution at the conclusion of a three year investigation and prosecution of an...
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Disney’s 3D film G-Force takes $32 million at box office
MUMBAI: Disney’s 3D action film G-Force has taken an opening of $ 32.2 million at the North American box office knocking Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince out of the top spot in its...
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Chronicles of Narnia 3 begins filming in Australia’s Gold Coast
MUMBAI: The Chronicles of Narnia: The Voyage of the Dawn Treader, the third in the series of films based on the bestselling books by C.S. Lewis, has begun principal photography on location in Queensland,...
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Fontana’s three independent albums top charts
MUMBAI: Fontana, the independent distribution arm of Universal Music Group (UMG), tops the national independent albums chart this week with three albums in the Top 10 and six albums in the Top 15, according...
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Universal Publishing Production Music acquires French music company
MUMBAI: Universal Publishing Production Music (UPPM) has acquired the publishing assets of French production music company, Kapagama S.A. UPPM serves the business that creates, produces, and licenses music for use in film/TV, advertising, broadcast...
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Fox Reality Channel’s Househusbands of Hollywood set to premiere
MUMBAI: Fox Reality Channel tosses convention out the window with its groundbreaking new, one-hour, 10-episode original series, Househusbands of Hollywood, which will premiere in the US on 15 August. Cooking, cleaning, child rearing and...
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UTV’s Ignition & SNK PlayMore launch King of Fighters XII game
MUMBAI: UTV’s Ignition Entertainment and SNK PlayMore have launched The King of Fighters XII for the Xbox 360 and PlayStation3 computer entertainment system. The King of Fighters XII is rated T for Teen and...
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