Mumbai: Universal Pictures has acquired the rights to produce a feature film based on In The Heights, a multi-generational and multi-ethnic musical by Lin-Manuel Miranda and Quiara Alegria Hudes. In The Heights has exhilarated...

Mumbai: EMI Music chief executive Elio Leoni-Sceti has confirmed the leadership of the company’s three newly-established global business units: New Music, Catalogue and Music Services. Leoni-Sceti will lead the New Music unit as its...

Mumbai: The 15-minute Indian short film Aakhiri Munadi has been selected for the River to River Italy Film Festival. Aakhiri Munadi is written and directed by NSD student Ahsan Bakhsh. He had also written...

Mumbai: Video game publisher Atari has added the Ghostbusters: The Video Game to its 2009 release schedule. Working closely with Sony Pictures Consumer Products and Terminal Reality, Atari will bring this completely new story...

Mumbai: Access Integrated Technologies, Inc. has announced that Premiere Cinema Corp. (Premiere) will become the second theatre chain to participate in AccessIT’s Phase 2 Digital Cinema Deployment Plan for up to 10,000 screens. Premiere’s...

Mumbai: EMI Music has appointed Ernesto Schmitt as president of its catalogue business, reporting to EMI Music chief executive Elio Leoni-Sceti. He will join EMI next month. Schmitt, 38, has a strong track record...

Mumbai: Universal Music Group Distribution (UMGD), division of Universal Music Group (UMG), has appointed Geoff Mayfield as vice president business analysis and research. The announcement was made by UMGD chief financial officer Todd von...

Mumbai: Ann Junod Burkart has joined Sony Pictures Entertainment as vice president global communications. The announcement was made by Sony Pictures executive vice president global communications Jim Kennedy, to whom she will report. "Burkart...

Mumbai: Following the industry-leading success with its Phase 1 Digital Cinema deployment, Access Integrated Technologies, together with Barco, announced the mutual signing of a Supply Agreement for digital cinema systems during AccessIT’s three-year Phase...

Mumbai: Access Integrated Technologies and Christie Digital Systems USA have signed a supply agreement to bring Digital Cinema systems including Christie projectors to theatres in the United States and Canada. Christie will provide up...