Mumbai: Sony Pictures Television (SPT) announced a slate of six new mobile games to be released in 2008. The games, based on some of the studio’s feature films and television shows, and PSP system...
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Vasco Rossi is latest EMI Music smash hit
Mumbai: EMI Music International has 11 number one albums around the world. The latest blockbuster album from Italian superstar Vasco Rossi, Il Mondo Che Vorrei, is on course to be the latest number one...
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Top 10 American movie taglines: Tagline Guru
Mumbai: Tagline Guru released its survey of the Top 100 American movie taglines. According to a survey of 500 American advertising and branding professionals, the tagline used to publicize the film, Alien – In...
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Sony, Universal, Warner come together for MySpace
Mumbai: MySpace and three of the world’s largest music companies, Sony BMG Music Entertainment, Universal Music Group, and Warner Music Group, announced the formation of a landmark joint venture, MySpace Music. The new...
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iTunes store top music retailer in US
Mumbai: Apple announced that the iTunes Store (http://www.itunes.com) has surpassed Wal-Mart to become the number one music retailer in the US, based on the latest data from the NPD Group. With over 50 million...
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Bacardi, MySpace offer ‘Dream Gig’ in Miami
Mumbai: MySpace.com, the internet’s premier social networking site, has teamed up with Bacardi to offer one exceptional DJ the experience of a lifetime. That is, the chance to open for Bacardi B-LIVE when the...
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Targeted advertising key to VOD: ABI Research
Mumbai: Although video-on-demand (VOD) has enjoyed only limited consumer success since its introduction around the turn of this century, improving techniques for the insertion of targeted advertising, combined with a viewer population more accustomed...
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Paramount extends VooZoo application into vMTV, There.com
Mumbai: Paramount Digital Entertainment announced that the popular VooZoo application is launching in MTV Networks’ vMTV virtual world and Makena’s There.com. This marks the first movie studio to partner with There.com and underscores Paramount...
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Walt Disney Motion Pictures promotes Jason Brenek
Mumbai: Jason Brenek, who most recently served as the Studios’ vice president of Distribution Strategy, has been promoted to the newly created position of senior vice president, orldwide Digital Cinema and Cinema Programming, it...
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Twentieth Century goes live with piracy software MediaEscort
Mumbai: USA Video Interactive Corporation announced that Twentieth Century Fox Home Entertainment (TCFHE) has gone ‘live’ with its new copy protection software, MediaEscort, to protect the studio’s filmed entertainment content that is streamed via...
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