Mumbai: Desi Hits!, a multi-platform media company specializing in fusion entertainment, has signed a partnership with Warner Music Group (WMG) to give the music company’s artists an introduction to desi and Bollywood fans. WMG...

Mumbai: Columbia Pictures, Will Smith’s Overbrook Entertainment and Jerry Weintraub Productions will remake the 1984 hit The Karate Kid with Smith’s 10-year-old son Jaden Smith starring in the lead role. The announcement was made...

Mumbai: INgrooves, a provider of digital distribution, marketing and promotion services to the independent music community, has signed an agreement with digital media company 7Digital. 7digital powers over 1,000 digital properties, including their own...

Mumbai: SPE Networks – Asia (SPENA), home to top pay-TV channel brands including AXN, AXN BEYOND, Animax, Sony Entertainment Television, and subscription video-on-demand (SVOD) channels PIX and PIX Thriller, has three new senior appointments...

Mumbai: Sony Pictures Home Entertainment (SPHE) will be the first Hollywood studio to distribute high-definition Blu-ray Disc in the Chinese market. The announcement was made by SPHE senior vice president, international T Paul Miller...

Mumbai: Columbia Pictures has acquired a pitch by Mark Perez for Happy Madison Productions to develop into a motion picture. The announcement was made by Columbia Pictures presidents Doug Belgrad and Matt Tolmach. The...

Mumbai: Columbia Pictures has inked the writing team of Tim and Tom Mullen to adapt the raucous comedy novel The Swap by Antony Moore for the screen, it was announced by Columbia Pictures presidents...

Mumbai: Universal Pictures and Ludlum Entertainment have entered into a long-term deal that gives Universal the exclusive rights to continue making films based on the Jason Bourne character. The Bourne franchise has been one...

Mumbai: Minister for Culture Barbara Follett has announced that Pippa Cross, the producer of Shooting Dogs and the forthcoming film Heartless, has joined the UK Film Council’s Board of Directors. Her appointment will run...

Mumbai: Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer Studios (MGM) has promoted Bruce Tuchman to president, MGM Networks. The announcement was made by MGM chairman & chief executive officer Harry E. Sloan, to whom Tuchman reports. In this newly created...