MUMBAI: The Academy Foundation of the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences has awarded $450,000 to 24 US film festivals for the 2009 calendar year. The announcement was made by Festival Grants Committee...

MUMBAI: Actress Eileen Herlie, who appeared on the daytime drama All My Children for more than three decades as the motherly Myrtle Fargate, died of pneumonia in New York City on 8 October. She...

MUMBAI: Dell and Universal Music Group (UMG) have teamed up to provide an economical way to jump-start a digital music library by pre-loading MP3 bundles on select new systems purchased on Dell.com. For the...

Mumbai: Online movie rental service Netflix and Samsung Electronics America have announced a broad partnership to offer consumers the ability to instantly stream movies and TV episodes from the Netflix Web site directly to...

Mumbai: Buffalo Inc. has launched its high performance line of MediaStation 8x Portable DVD Writers. The compact and light form factor makes it an affordable, portable DVD writer, ideal for price-conscious consumers who want...

Mumbai: Creator of television services for digital video recorders (DVRs) TiVo has signed independent deals with The Walt Disney Studios and Jaman.com wherein subscribers can download movies to their broadband connected TiVo DVRs directly...

Mumbia: Madame Tussauds Las Vegas has unveiled a figure of Zac Efron, star of High School Musical 3: Senior Year. Dressed in ‘Wildcats’ uniform and holding a basketball, the Zac figure stands in an...

Mumbai: The 24th MIPCOM recorded its highest attendance figure of all time, driven by an increase in attendance from the ‘METRIC’ countries and regions namely the Middle East, Turkey, Russia, India and China, as...

Mumbai: Digital distribution companies for the global independent music community IODA will provide its catalog of music to the recently launched MySpace Music. The addition of IODA will inject over one million new songs...

Mumbai: Imax Corporation and Ukraine’s Triumph have signed an agreement to add to the company’s roll-out of Imax theatres in the country. Kinokompaniya Triumf, which already had a deal to install two Imax theatres...