MUMBAI: D-BOX Technologies Inc. announced that the release of Universal Pictures’ action-thriller Fast & Furious on 3 April 2009, will represent the first theatrical feature to use its D-BOX Motion Code technology. With Fast...

MUMBAI: Oklahoma City psych/prog/experimental pop quartet Stardeath & White Dwarfs Stardeath & White Dwarfs have signed to Warner Bros. Records. After spending the last few years traversing the galaxy as the road crew for...

MUMBAI: The Walt Disney Company announced a set of strategic environmental goals and challenging three – five year targets to reduce emissions, waste, electricity and fuel use, and its impact on water and ecosystems....

MUMBAI: A month after returning from the 59th Berlin International Film Festival, the Middle East International Film Festival executives have announced the new dates for the 2009 festival. To be held at the Emirates...

MUMBAI: Dolby Laboratories’ latest generation cinema processor, the Dolby CP750 Digital Cinema Processor, will be available for orders during ShoWest starting 30 March, 2009. The CP750 is designed to work within the new digital...

MUMBAI: Leslie Urdang has been named president of Santa Monica based Olympus Pictures, LLC, a motion picture company formed in 2007 to both develop and produce feature films. Urdang was formerly senior vice president...

The conversion to digital cinema by theatre operators throughout the United States continues and is gaining momentum as the 2009 schedule of 3D movies are released. With the soon to be released Monsters vs....

MUMBAI: Disney has launched its first ever official community for fans called D23 (www.Disney.com/D23). Through D23, fans can go backstage and behind closed doors to get inside scoops from every part of Disney, while...

MUMBAI: The Disney Music Group and Universal Music Group (UMG) have entered into an international licensing agreement for Australia and New Zealand. Under its terms, the Disney Music Group has selected UMG to market...

MUMBAI: Pathee and Warner Bros. Entertainment UK (WBEUK) have inked a new strategic alliance in the UK, effective 13 April, that will see WBEUK distribute Pathe’s films in the UK and Ireland and the...