LONDON: Pop star Lady Gaga will launch her Born This Way Foundation at Harvard University next month. The 25-year-old set up the youth anti-bullying charity with her mother, Cynthia Germanotta, and is now...

  LONDON: Socialite Paris Hilton is set to return to the music industry with electro pop group Lmfao. Hilton had earned mixed reviews for her debut album "Paris" back in 2006. Contactmusic.com reports that...

  LONDON: Actress Kate Winslet is keen to play a role of man in future as she believes it would be a "challenge". The 36-year-old recently won a Golden Globe for her performance in...

  LOS ANGELES: After picking up the maximum awards at the 69th Golden Globes, Silent French film "The Artist" is leading the nomination pack of the British Academy of Film and Television Arts (BAFTA)...

  LONDON: Pop star Lady Gaga has become the first person in the world to cross 18 million followers on micro-blogging site Twitter. The 25-year-old has left behind teen sensation Justin Bieber who was...

  LOS ANGELES: Pop star Madonna says that working on her directorial debut "W.E." was not fun because it became "all-encompassing". The 52-year-old wrote, produced, cast and directed the movie and found it to...

Acclaimed director Steven Spielberg has said he will produce the fourth instalment of "Jurassic Park" but won't helm the sci-fi thriller....

  LOS ANGELES: After leading the nomination pack for the 69th Golden Globe awards, "The Artist" emerged as the big winner at the extravaganza by winning three trophies. "The Descendants" followed close behind, with...

  LOS ANGELES: Comic book-inspired "The Adventures of Tintin: The Secret of The Unicorn" bagged the best animated film trophy at the Golden Globes award ceremony here. The Steven Spielberg film narrates the story...

Acclaimed director Steven Spielberg says the 9/11 terrorist attack in the US in 2001 changed him a lot and made his work "darker"....

  LONDON: If an online campaign has its way, the world-famous Barbie doll may soon get a new makeover — it may go bald in support of children affected with cancer. The "hair-free" doll...

  LONDON: Multiple Oscar nominee Thomas Newman has signed on to compose the music for the upcoming James Bond movie "Skyfall". This will be Newman’s first association with a 007 movie, but not his...

  LONDON: Late pop legend Michael Jackson’s unreleased lyrics has been put up for auction. Singer’s dermatologist Arnold Klein, is selling the eight-and-a-half line handwritten lyrics after being declared bankrupt. "It looks like it...

  LOS ANGLES: Singer Elton John is writing his first book "Love Is the Cure: Ending the Global Aids Epidemic," a collection of memories and meditations on the fight against Aids. The book is...

  DUBAI: Dubai will host the 5th edition of the Gulf Film Festival April 10-16. Films from the UAE, Saudi Arabia, Kuwait, Bahrain, Oman, Qatar, Yemen and Iraq will be showcased. Entries have been...

  NEW YORK: Mexican actress Salma Hayek is set to be honoured with French honour Legion d’Honneur. According to the French President Nicholas Sarkozy’s official New Year’s list, Hayek will receive a formal induction,...

  NEW YORK: Pop star Lady Gaga has been chosen to lead New Year’s Eve countdown in New York’s Times Square this year. The 25-year-old, who was born and raised in the city, has...

  SAN JUAN: Puerto Rican singer Ricky Martin is turning 40 and to help him celebrate, his millions of fans are putting together on social networks the 40 most memorable things about the artist....

  LOS ANGELES: A clump of Michael Jackson’s hair will be used to manufacture a roulette ball. The bosses of Onlinegamblingpal.com bought the hair, which was collected at a New York hotel following the...

  LONDON: Beating big names like screen legend Marilyn Monroe, pop icon Madonna and actress Angelina Jolie, Jennifer Aniston has been named the hottest woman of all time in a new poll by online...

  LONDON: Actress Anne Hathaway has got engaged to her boyfriend of three years, Adam Shulman. The couple started dating in 2008 following Hathaway’s split from Raffaello Follieri, after he pleaded guilty to 14...

Mumbai: Shah Rukh Khan and Kajol’s romantic blockbuster "Dilwale Dulhania Le Jayenge" has found a fan in Hollywood heartthrob Robert Pattinson. "Well, I have five movies in my top list which I really admire...

Mumbai: GDC Technology has signed a digital cinema server contract with Harkins Theaters, the cinema chain in North America. The contract involves the deployment of nearly 400 SX-2000A Digital Cinema Servers with Integrated Media...

Mumbai: Kirsten Dunst and Orlando Bloom have joined Clive Owen and Anil Kapoor in Roger Donaldson’s next project Cities. The thriller is being produced by Matthew Metcalfe and Chris Curling. Eyeworks New Zealand CEO...

Mumbai:  Exclusive Media Group has acquired worldwide rights in all media excluding US and Canada to the  comedy Outrun, written and directed by Dax Shepard who, co-directs with David Palmer. The movie stars with...

MUMBAI: The 2011 American Film Market (AFM) opened on 2 November with more than 90 new buying companies, buyer registration tracking up 10 percent and general attendance tracking higher versus 2010. Buyers from China are...

MUMBAI: Academy Award-winning director Ron Howard attended the opening day of the American Film Market to meet with buyers and talk about his vision for his new Formula 1 film Rush on behalf of...

LONDON: Actress Megan Fox will soon make her theatre debut on Broadway. She has joined the cast of "The 24 Hour Plays", which debuts Nov 14 at the American Airlines Theater, reports contactmusic.com. Other...

  MUMBAI: Hollywood’s fascination with Bollywood stars continues. The latest to join the list is "Twilight" actress Kristen Stewart, who is a huge fan of superstar Shah Rukh Khan. She calls him an "epitome...

  LOS ANGELES: Actress Demi Moore has been accused of lashing out at a photographer, who followed her on a trip to a nail salon here. Moore, who is going through a tough time...

  LONDON: Actor Steve Martin is all set to release a book based on a collection of his posts on microblogging site Twitter, to raise money for charity. Martin is gathering all his ‘Tweets’...

  TEHRAN: Iranian actress Marzieh Vafamehr, who was sentenced to 90 lashes after appearing in an Australian movie, has been released from a prison in her country, human rights group Amnesty International said. Vafamehr...

MUMBAI: Actor Robert Pattinson hopes his sex scene with his real-life girlfriend Kristen Stewart in The Twilight Saga: Breaking Dawn – Part 1 lives up to the hype. The British actor features in an...

Mumbai: Eight U.S.-China co-produced films will be showcased next month in a program jointly sponsored by the Motion Picture Association of America, Inc. (MPAA) and China Film Co-production Corp. with support from the Film...

LONDON: Hollywood director Steven Spielberg has confirmed that he is working on the fourth instalment of "Jurassic Park" and that the sequel will be an improvement from the last one, which was released in...

MUMBAI: Sony Pictures Television (SPT) has licensed Pan Am, its glossy, period drama series set around the iconic international airline, to Star in India and TVNZ in New Zealand. In addition, Sony Pictures Television’s...

MUMBAI: Alan Finney, one of Australia’’s most experienced and successful film distributors and marketers, has become the sixth member of the 2011 International Jury of the Asia Pacific Screen Awards (APSA). Alan Finney joins...

MUMBAI: Mattel, Inc. has entered into an agreement to acquire HIT Entertainment for $680 million in cash from a consortium led by Apax Partners funds. HIT Entertainment owns a global portfolio of popular preschool...

MUMBAI: Netflix, Inc will expand to the United Kingdom and Ireland in early 2012, offering unlimited TV shows and movies streaming instantly over the Internet to TVs and computers for one low monthly subscription...

MUMBAI: Universal Music Publishing Group has promoted Brian Lambert to executive vice president and head of film & television music. Lambert will report directly to Universal Music Publishing Group president North America Evan Lamberg....

Mumbai: Universal Pictures has forged a three-year, first-look production agreement with Suzanne de Passe and Madison Jones’ de Passe Jones Entertainment. Universal Pictures chairman Adam Fogelson and co-chairman Donna Langley said, "Suzanne and Madison...

MUMBAI: Imax Corporation and Eastman Kodak Company have inked a partnership that will broaden the application of digital cinema technologies in theatres and enhance the consumer’s movie-going experience. Imax has licensed from Kodak certain...

MUMBAI: Actor David Hasselhoff says he want to team up with Pamela Anderson for Baywatch: The Movie. "Why not? We’re still hot enough. I’m up for it," dailystar.co.uk quoted Hasselhoff, who was acted with...

MUMBAI: Senator Chris Dodd, Chairman and CEO of the Motion Picture Association of America, Inc. (MPAA) will deliver the Keynote Address at the Asia Pacific Screen Awards, 2011. The Keynote Address will be given on...

MUMBAI: Actor Matt Damon is all set to make his directorial debut in a yet-untitled drama, which will also star him. Contactmusic.com reports that the actor has teamed up with John Krasinski to write...

MUMBAI: Actress Elizabeth Hurley and cricketer boyfriend Shane Warne are not going to get a prenuptial agreement. The couple got engaged last month and the 43-year-old former cricketer, who had been dating the ‘Gossip...

MUMBAI: Actress Ashley Greene has become the new face of clothing brand DKNY and DKNY Jeans. The 24-year-old will appear in the brands’ spring 2012 ad campaigns and says she can’t wait to get...

Mumbai: GDC Technology has won a server supply agreement with Wehrenberg Theatres, the family-owned theatre chain in the US. The deployment, which commenced in October 2011, will see a total of 144 GDC digital...

Mumbai: Mark Zucker is retiring as president, Sony Pictures Releasing International, and Steven O’Dell has been promoted to fill that role. Zucker’s retirement comes after 36 years in the industry and 27 with Sony...

MUMBAI: Mum-to-be Beyonce Knowles says she is "blessed" that everything in her personal life is going well and is not nervous about her impending motherhood. "It’s going really well, I am so happy with...

Mumbai: Creative England’s Film Culture Fund opens for applications today, with £490,000 delegated Lottery funds from the BFI to distribute in its first round. Creative England launched on 01 October, 2011 becoming a BFI delegated...

Mumbai: Imax Corporation has inked a joint revenue sharing agreement with TGV Cinemas to install a digital Imax theatre system at the Sunway Pyramid Shopping Centre. The theatre is expected to open by 15...

MUMBAI: Paula Askanas has been promoted to executive vice president of communications for Sony Pictures Television (SPT).   Askanas will report to SPT president Steve Mosko. In this role, Askanas oversees business and trade...

Mumbai: British Indie Stranger Things (Best UK Feature), Croatian/Serbian/Slovenian co-production Just Between Us (Best International Feature), Bulgaria’s Tilt (Best Debut Feature) and Italian short Reset (Film of the Festival) were among the winners at...

Mumbai: The Asia Pacific Screen Awards (APSA) announced 37 films from 19 countries and areas have been nominated in this year’s Asia Pacific Screen Awards. APSA 2011 International Jury President, Nansun Shi, made the...

MUMBAI: The Hungarian police raided the set of Brad Pitt’s upcoming zombie movie World War Z and seized 85 weapons from a warehouse. According to the police personnel, the seizure included automatic weapons such...

MUMBAI: The European Film Academy (EFA) and the Asia Pacific Screen Academy (APSA) have inked an alliance. The first expression of the alliance will be participation on the 2011 APSA International Jury by Israeli director Samuel...

MUMBAI: Hollywood couple Brad Pitt and Angelina Jolie have donated $340,000 for famine victims in Somalia. Jolie, who raises six children, Maddox (10), Pax (7), Zahara (6), Shiloh (5), and twins Knox and Vivienne...

MUMBAI: Independent studio Entertainment One (eOne) and Viasat Broadcasting, have entered into a distribution financing co-venture for 10 Viasat Broadcasting free TV territories on the television series, The Firm, based on John Grisham’s best-selling...

MUMBAI: Actor Johnny Depp will play the lead in a biopic on author Dr. Seuss. Depp will also produce the film with Christi Dembrowski, Christopher Meledandri and David Kennedy. Seuss, whose real name is...

MUMBAI: The Walt Disney Company CEO Robert Iger will step down as CEO of the studio in 2015. Additionally, the Walt Disney Company Board of Directors have agreed to extend Iger’s contract through June...

MUMBAI: Warner Bros. International Television Distribution has concluded an agreement with Reed MIDEM for the US major to be the exclusive sponsor of the MIPFormats 2012 Fresh Talent Pitch. Under the terms of the...

Mumbai: Nansun Shi was announced as President of the 2011 International Jury of the Asia Pacific Screen Awards (APSA). Shi will be joined on the jury by Toronto International Film Festival co-director Cameron Bailey,...

MUMBAI: Singapore animation company Scrawl Studios has inked a co-production deal with French partner Cyber Group Studios for its CG-animated series Zou. The new (52 x 11) CG-animated pre-school series has been presold in 50 countries...

MUMBAI: Global phenomenon Justin Bieber begins his third year on the world stage with the 1 November release of his first Christmas album Under The Mistletoe. The album is a seasonal mix of traditional...

Mumbai: Entertainment Games, Inc. (EGAM) has inked a licensing agreement with Elvis Presley Enterprises Inc. (EPE) that will see Elvis become a character within a soon-to-be launched, story-driven online game. EPE will license to...

Mumbai: As part of its commitment to forge marketing partnerships, Relativity Media has formed a convergent program with MTV that will cross promote Immortals on-air as well as drive viewers to MTV.com. Relativity will...

Mumbai: Sony Movie Channel, the U.S. multi-platform television network from Sony Pictures Television (SPT), unveiled its authenticated online service Sony Movie Channel Everywhere, making full-length Hollywood movies available online at no additional charge to...

Mumbai: Sparky Animation, in conjunction with Japan’s Duckbill Entertainment, Baku Enterprise Inc. and Bandai Visual Inc. is producing a CGI animated television program based on the Japanese book series, One Stormy Night. The deal...

Mumbai: Paramount Pictures and New Regency Productions’ Noah will be directed by Darren Aronofsky. The screenwriter John Logan will re-write the script by Aronofsky & Ari Handel. Aronofsky and Scott Franklin will produce the...

MUMBAI: The Walt Disney Studios president of distribution Robert Chapek has been promoted as Disney Consumer Products president. Chapek will report to The Walt Disney Company president and CEO Robert A. Iger. Chapek will...

MUMBAI: Selena Gomez will be hosting the 2011 MTV EMA. With her infectious charm, striking style and upbeat energy, actress and Universal Music platinum recording artist Gomez is guaranteed to help make the 18th...

MUMBAI: Andrea Wong will join Sony Pictures Entertainment (SPE) as president of international production for Sony Pictures Television (SPT) and as president of international for SPE. She will report to Sony Pictures Entertainment chairman...

MUMBAI: Fox will premiere an extended trailer for the network’s new drama series, Touch, during the MIPCOM 2011 Media Mastermind keynote session on 4 October, in Cannes, France. International buyers and media will be...

Mumbai: This October, Sony Pictures Repertory celebrates Ghostbusters, its franchise, and its fans by bringing the classic back to theaters for a limited engagement of one showtime one night a week. Starting on 13...

Mumbai: Live Nation Entertainment’s Front Line Management Group division and UMG will launch a joint venture management company aimed at managing and strengthening artists and their brands through sponsorships, marketing campaigns and brand extension...

Mumbai: VoxPop Worldwide Inc has inked a partnership with BETA Records, a music content creator and driver. The partnership gives both companies the ability to raise the bar in online music content, providing avenues...

Mumbai: Sony Pictures Entertainment’s Face of the Fan program has launched a casting call for the fifth installment of the film franchise. A Constantin Film International GmbH and Davis Films/Impact Pictures (RE5) Production, the...

Mumbai: Alan Cumming, Garret Dillahunt, Isaac Leyvastar and Frances Fisher will be starring in the period drama Any Day Now, written, produced and directed by Travis Fine.    The film completed principal photography in...

Mumbai: Keith Weaver has been promoted to executive vice president, worldwide government affairs for Sony Pictures Entertainment. He will report to Sony Pictures Entertainment senior executive vice president and general counsel Leah Weil.  “In...

MUMBAI: Walt Disney Parks and Resorts Worldwide is joining forces with visionary filmmaker James Cameron and Fox Filmed Entertainment to bring the world of Avatar to life at Disney Parks. Through an exclusive agreement,...

Mumbai: MIPCOM 2011 is preparing to welcome a galaxy of actors, directors, writers, producers and show business personalities who will join the largest TV industry gathering in Cannes and grace the red carpet at...

MUMBAI: Continuing with the expansion of its global digital operation, Universal Music Group (UMG) has promoted Simon Watt to Head of Technology, Global Digital Group. Watt will report to Global Digital Business president Rob Wells. Formerly,...

Mumbai: – Cross Creek Pictures president Brian Oliver and Exclusive Media Group co-chairmen Guy East and Nigel Sinclair will be co-financing director Ron Howard’s Formula 1 film Rush. This marks the third collaboration between...

Mumbai: To accelerate the development and adoption of next-generation 3D digital cinema, Christie and James Cameron’s Lightstorm Entertainment, Inc have signed five-year agreement to exchange research, testing, development and technical support on the industry’s...

MUMBAI: Paramount Pictures has signed Academy Award winner Denzel Washington and Academy Award winning director Robert Zemeckis for its new movie Flight. Walter Parkes and Laurie MacDonald will produce under the Parkes/MacDonald production banner...

Mumbai:- IODA, the  leader in digital distribution, marketing and technology solutions for the independent music industry, has signed a global distribution deal with ABC Music, the music label of the ABC (Australian Broadcasting Corporation)....

MUMBAI: DreamWorks Animation SKG, Inc’s summer blockbuster, Kung Fu Panda 2, has grossed over $650 million globally to date, making Jennifer Yuh Nelson the highest-grossing female director of a film at the worldwide box...

Mumbai: South West Screen announced that In the Dark Half, the first of the three iFeatures films to reach completion, has been selected to screen at the Raindance Film Festival in London (28 September...

Mumbai: Imax Corporation has appointed Jiande Chen as CEO of Imax China. Reporting to China’s Board of Directors and its chairman, Imax CEO Richard Gelfond, Chen will direct the Company’s expansion in the greater...

MUMBAI: Lionsgate and Tiger Gate Entertainment have appointed Wendy Reeds as EVP – sales and distribution. Reeds will spearhead all Tiger Gate content sales activities and will also direct Lionsgate’s film and TV sales...

Mumbai:  John Fogelman announced the launch of FactoryMade Ventures, http://www.factorymade.com , a hybrid entertainment, media business development and consulting firm. Filmmaker J.J. Abrams will join FactoryMade as its principal investor. FactoryMade Ventures will partner...

Mumbai: Tom Quinn and Jason Janego have joined forces with The Weinstein Company (TWC) co-chairmen Harvey and Bob Weinstein to create a TWC label to bring new films and specialty entertainment to audiences simultaneously across multiple...

Mumbai: Principal photography began  on Warner Bros. Pictures and Village Roadshow Pictures’ The Gangster Squad, starring  Josh Brolin and Ryan Gosling, Emma Stone and Sean Penn. The movie is being directed by Ruben Fleischer. Los Angeles, 1949....

Mumbai:  – GDC Technology has inked a contract with Jinyi Zhujiang Movie Circuit Co., Ltd. The contract is a repeat order, which involves the deployment of  200 GDC SX-2000A Digital Cinema Servers with Integrated Media Block (IMB). Full...

MUMBAI: As the exhibition industry continues its conversion to digital technology, Sony continues to expand its 4K customer base with the addition of three unique and innovative circuits: Beach Movie Bistro, in Virginia Beach,...

Mumbai: CBS Films has acquired feature film rights to Tamara Ireland Stone’s debut novel Time Between Us and set Robin Schorr to produce through her RCR Pictures banner. Young adult tome follows a teenage...

Mumbai: The Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences has awarded a $50,000 grant to underwrite the 2011 Telluride Film Festival’s Guest Director program, this year featuring musician Caetano Veloso. Veloso has over 100...

MUMBAI: Screen Actors Guild and the American Federation of Television and Radio Artists (AFTRA) continued formal discussions this weekend between the AFTRA New Union Committee and the SAG Merger Task Force to facilitate the...