MUMBAI: Building upon the successful Stargate franchise, Sci Fi Channel has greenlit a two-hour movie based on the hit science fiction adventure series Stargate Atlantis. Sci Fi will have the exclusive worldwide television premiere...
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UK Film Council launches treasure hunt for rare film across England
MUMBAI: The UK Film Council will be appealing to the nation to join a treasure hunt for rare film to improve the national archive, as part of its Strategy for UK Screen Heritage. Working...
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Docu on Kiran Bedi to screen at Toronto Intl. Film Festival
The Toronto International Film Festival will screen Yes Madam, Sir, a feature-length documentary about the life of India's first female police officer Kiran Bedi....
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Movie pirated sentenced to 2 years jail for running burner lab
MUMBAI: District Court Judge Stanley Chan convicted two movie pirates of breaching Hong Kong’s copyright law and sentenced them both to 24 months imprisonment, the longest jail term to be meted out this year...
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Academy of Motion Picutres to preserve MGM/UA archives
MUMBAI: Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer Studios Inc. (MGM) is joining together with The Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences to preserve archives from the United Artists/MGM library. A special signing ceremony was concluded recently by Academy...
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MGM options The Many Worlds of Jonas Moore for TV series development
MUMBAI: Seizing an opportunity to leverage the current wave of popularity and notoriety surrounding the new digital graphic novel sensation, The Many Worlds of Jonas Moore, MGM Domestic Television Distribution has acquired an option...
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Alcatel-Lucent supports first commercial trial of mobile TV service
Mumbai: Alcatel-Lucent will support the first commercial trial of the Open Mobile Alliance (OMA)’s new BCAST Smartcard Profile, an emerging standard for Mobile TV content protection. This trial is being led by Alcatel-Lucent for...
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Intel and Yahoo! to bring the Internet to television
Mumbai: Intel Corporation and Yahoo! previewed plans for the Widget Channel, a television application framework optimized for TV and related consumer electronics (CE) devices that use the Intel Architecture. The Widget Channel will be...
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Steven Spielberg & USC Shoah Foundation Institute honor Kirk Douglas
MUMBAI: Dreamworks SKG co-founder and Shoah Foundation founder Steven Spielberg will present the USC Shoah Foundation Institute’s Ambassadors for Humanity Award to legendary actor and humanitarian Kirk Douglas. Douglas will be honored for his...
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British films make strong showing at Toronto Film Festival
MUMBAI: British films make a strong showing at this year’s Toronto Film Festival with nine of the 25 films British films co-funded by the UK Film Council. The films, some of which are new...
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