Mumbai: Asia Pacific Screen Awards chairman Des Power announced the appointment of Alicia Mayer Beverley as vice patron of The Academy of the Asia Pacific Screen Awards. The Academy of the Asia Pacific Screen...
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Universal Music Group signs agreement with Qtrax Digital Music Service
Mumbai: Universal Music Group International, a division of Universal Music Group, and Qtrax, has announced a licensing deal covering Europe, Asia/Pacific, South America & Africa. This deal follows a similar recent agreement with Universal...
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Youku and Universal Music pair up to find tomorrow’s Super Band
Mumbai: Youku and Universal Music launched an online competition titled "Super Star Super Search 2009" on 6 October. Their aim is to help Universal Music to find outstanding young Chinese musicians to form the...
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Bierer appointed EVP Digital Media for MTV Networks International
Mumbai: MTV Networks International (MTVNI), a unit of Viacom has promoted Gideon Bierer to Executive Vice President of Digital Media for MTVNI. Bierer will continue reporting to MTV Networks International president Robert Bakish. In...
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Sony Home Entertainment introduces Sony Pictures Blu-Ray Club
Mumbai: To coincide with the Blu-ray release of You Don’t Mess With The Zohan, Sony Pictures Home Entertainment has launched the Sony Pictures Blu-ray Club in the US. The new loyalty program rewards consumers...
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Singapore’s MDA doles out $8.1 million in digital funding
Mumbai: Fifteen new projects on the concept of Co-Space have been awarded funding by the multi-agency Interactive Digital Media (IDM) Research and Development (R&D) Programme Office (IDMPO) hosted by Singapore’s Media Development Authority. Collectively,...
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Screen Actors Guild seeks mediator in labor talks with Hollywood studios
Mumbai: The Screen Actors Guild National Board of Directors has passed a resolution at its quarterly plenary in Los Angeles saying that SAG will formally request a federal mediator to be brought into the...
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CASBAA adds two new companies as members
Mumbai: The Cable & Satellite Broadcasting Association of Asia (CASBAA) has added two new corporate members – Manila-based media service provider Mediascape (part of Philippines telco PLDT) and Malaysian Internet and multimedia solutions provider...
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Christie teams up with Walt Disney for High School Musical 3 premiere
Mumbai: Christie, a provider of visual solutions for entertainment, business and industry, has announced that the world premiere of Walt Disney Pictures’ High School Musical 3: Senior Year was screened on the acclaimed Christie...
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Actor Christopher Lloyd to attend premiere of Call of the Wild 3D at 3DX
Mumbai: Singapore and 3DX Film and Entertainment Technology Festival will play host to the first screening of Call of the Wild in 3D, directed by Richard Gabai and starring Christopher Lloyd. The film is...
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