MUMBAI: Relativity Media has promoted Greg Forston to executive vice president and general sales manager of theatrical distribution. Forston will report directly to Relativity Media president, worldwide distribution Kyle Davies. Forston previously served as...
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RealD and SAGA sign agreement to expand 3D cinema in China
MUMBAI: RealD Inc and Beijing SAGA Luxury Cinema Management Co., Ltd., a deluxe Chinese theatre chain, have signed an agreement to equip 100 auditoriums across the SAGA circuit with RealD 3D technology. Installations have...
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Carl Ichan finally sells stake in Lionsgate
MUMBAI: Carl and Brett Icahn have reached an agreement with Lionsgate under which the Icahns have agreed to sell up to 44,161,971 shares of Lionsgate common stock, representing substantially all of the Lionsgate shares...
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240 films to compete for 2011 Asia Pacific Screen Awards
Mumbai: The Asia Pacific Screen Awards marks its fifth year with the strongest competition to date. APSA Artistic Director Maxine Williamson announced that 240 films from 43 countries will compete in this year’s APSAs,...
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ABC Studios’ Missing to have world premiere at MIPCOM
MUMBAI: ABC Studios’ TV series Missing will debut at MIPCOM 2011’s World Premiere Television Screenings on 03 October in Cannes. International buyers and media will have their chance to screen episode one of this...
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GDC passes the 10,000 digital cinema server milestone
MUMBAI: GDC Technology has surpassed the 10,000 mark in digital cinema server deployments. The achievement includes the installation of over 3,000 GDC SX-2000 Digital Cinema Servers with Integrated Media Block, and goes hand-in-hand with...
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New multi-platform HD movie service to launch in Canada
MUMBAI: Hollywood Suite, four new high–definition channels for the True Movie Lover, will be launched across Canada this November. Featuring commercial–free HD movies 24/7, uncut and unedited, Hollywood Suite is the exclusive home of...
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Principal photography begins on Relativity Media’s 21 And Over
MUMBAI: Principal photography has begun the comedy 21 and Over, starring Miles Teller, Justin Chon, Skylar Astin and Sarah Wright. Jon Lucas and Scott Moore, writers of The Hangover and The Change Up, will...
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Barco inks JV with China Film Group to develop digital cinema market
MUMBAI: Visualization company Barco and China Film Group have formed CFG Barco (Beijing) Electronics Co. Ltd. The new company is a joint venture among two Barco subsidiaries – Barco Visual (Beijing) Electronics Company Limited...
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Imax expands partnership in China with four-theater deal
MUMBAI: Imax Corporation and Jiangsu Eudemonia Blue Ocean Cinema Development Co., Ltd. have inked an agreement to install four new digital Imax theatre systems in the People’s Republic of China. This agreement follows an...
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Miramax names Adrienne Gary as SVP – organizational strategy & admin
MUMBAI: Miramax has appointed Adrienne Gary as senior vice president – organizational strategy & administration, effective immediately. Gary will be responsible for all recruiting, organizational structure, global HR and corporate administration. She will report...
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Carmike Cinemas signs LoI to acquire MNM Theatres’ 3 properties
MUMBAI: Carmike Cinemas, Inc has signed a letter of intent to acquire three Atlanta-area movie theatres with a total of 40 screens from MNM Theatres. The three MNM facilities are located in Atlanta, Hiram...
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Lady Gaga to open 2011 MTV Video Music Awards
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GDC bags contract for deployment of 372 digital cinema servers in US
Mumbai: GDC Technology has signed a deployment contract with four Minnesota-based individual theatre chains namely CEC Theatres (137 screens), Mann Theatres (79 screens), Muller Family Theatres (104 screens) and UEC Theatres (124 screens). The...
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Doremi Cinema secures large-scale D-Cinema rollout for Marcus Theaters
MUMBAI: Doremi Cinema has inked an agreement with Marcus Theaters to deploy integrated media blocks (IMB) / ShowVaults in approximately 570 first-run screens at nearly 50 locations. When completed, state-of-the-art digital projection technology will...
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Warner Bros Pictures surpasses $2 billion at international box office
MUMBAI: Warner Bros. Pictures International has crossed the $2 billion threshold at the international box office, as it gears up for a fourth quarter that includes releases such as Steven Soderbergh’s Contagion, Clint Eastwood’s...
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Academy salutes Malcolm McDowell with screening of A Clockwork Orange
MUMBAI: The Academy of Motion Pictures Arts and Sciences will celebrate the life and career of Malcolm McDowell with an onstage discussion and a 40th anniversary screening of a digital restoration of A Clockwork...
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Paramount to release World War Z on 21 December, 2012
MUMBAI: Paramount Pictures will be releasing the Brad Pitt starrer World War Z on 21 December, 2012. The movie is being directed by Marc Forster. The geo-political thriller from Paramount and Skydance Productions, in...
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Indian Film Festival of Los Angeles preps for 2012 entries
MUMBAI: The Indian Film Festival of Los Angeles (IFFLA) announced its call for entries. The 10th anniversary edition will be held 10-15 April 2012, at ArcLight Hollywood in Los Angeles. The deadline with reduced...
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Relativity, Saif Partners & IDG China Media team for content & distribution company
MUMBAI: SAIF Partners and IDG China Media and Relativity Media have formed a partnership to develop, produce, distribute and acquire Chinese material that possesses worldwide appeal. Relativity will distribute all of its future films...
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Netflix unveils Just for Kids experience
MUMBAI: Netflix has unveiled the Just for Kids experience, wherein members can click on the "Just for Kids" tab at the top of the Netflix home page and find a newly-designed section featuring content...
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SPA joins Warner/Chappell Music’s pan-European digital licensing initiative
MUMBAI: Warner/Chappell Music and SPA, the Portuguese collecting society, announced that SPA is the latest addition to Warner/Chappell’s Pan-European Digital Licensing (PEDL) initiative. SPA will be now be authorised to offer non-exclusive rights in...
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Sony Pictures Television & Caracol TV ink 3-year multiple series co-production deal
MUMBAI: Caracol Television and Sony Pictures Television (SPT) have entered into a three-year co-production agreement to produce multiple primetime series to premiere on Caracol Television in Colombia. The agreement builds on the relationship combining their...
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Imax expands partnership with Singapore exhibitor
MUMBAI: Singapore’s Shaw Theatres has signed an agreement with Imax Corporation to install a digital Imax theatre system in the new JCube entertainment complex in Singapore, which is scheduled to be completed by 2012....
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Emma Stone & Olivia Wilde appointed as Revlon’s global brand ambassadors
MUMBAI: Revlon has signed two of Hollywood’s most sought-after actresses, Golden Globe nominated actress Emma Stone and Olivia Wilde, as global brand ambassadors. Between them, Stone and Wilde have six major feature films slated...
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Universal Music Group ups Ethiopia Habtemariam to SVP of Motown Records
MUMBAI: In what stands as the first in a number of new appointments at Motown Records, Universal Music Group (UMG) has promoted Ethiopia Habtemariam to senior vice president of the storied label. Moreover, Motown...
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Lockerz partners with EMI Music to deliver videos of top recording artists
MUMBAI: Lockerz, a social commerce company with more than 45 million unique visitors monthly, has inked a partnership with EMI Music to release thousands of videos of top recording artists from their worldwide library,...
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Disney to release John Cartner in Imax 3D in March 2012
MUMBAI: Imax Corporation and Walt Disney Studios Motion Pictures will be releasing the action-adventure film John Carter, from Academy Award-winning filmmaker Andrew Stanton in Imax theatres simultaneously with the film’s worldwide release on 9...
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Harry Potter finale becomes highest grossing film of 2011
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Lionsgate posts net income of $12.2 million in Q1
MUMBAI: Lionsgate reported revenue of $261.3 million, EBITDA of $29.2 million, adjusted EBITDA of $28.7 million and net income of $12.2 million or $0.09 per basic common share for the first quarter of fiscal...
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Hangover Joe’s Get Up & Go signs license deal with Warner Bros
MUMBAI: Hangover Joe’s Get Up & Go, America’s best-selling hangover recovery product, has inked an exclusive licensing agreement with Warner Bros. Consumer Products to manufacture and distribute The Hangover recovery shot. Hangover Joe’s Get...
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Lucasfilm, Sony Pictures Imageworks launch VFX development
MUMBAI: Alembic 1.0, the open source project jointly developed by Sony Pictures Imageworks and Lucasfilm Ltd. has been released to the public. Alembic is the computer graphics interchange format developed by the two entertainment giants...
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Walt Disney Pictures & Autodesk ink XGen technology license deal
MUMBAI: Autodesk, Inc. and Walt Disney Pictures have inked an agreement to bring an animation and visual effects technology to the Digital Entertainment Creation community. Autodesk obtained a license with a five-year exclusivity period...
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Universal Republic Records appoints Rob Stevenson to EVP, A&R
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Lionsgate to remake Dirty Dancing
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Starz Entertainment & BBC Worldwide Productions ink deal for TV series
MUMBAI: Starz Entertainment and BBC Worldwide Productions have inked an innovative multi-year agreement to develop, produce, and distribute premium television series. These series will be co-developed by Starz and BBC Worldwide Productions and will...
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Sony converts new exhibitors to 4K digital cinema
MUMBAI: Sony continues to expand its 4K customer base with the addition of three unique and innovative circuits: Beach Movie Bistro, in Virginia Beach, Va., Vintage Cinemas in California and Zurich Cinemas in central...
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Netflix surpasses 1 million members milestone in Canada
MUMBAI: Within ten months of launching its service in Canada, Netflix has surpassed one million members. The milestone was achieved in July, when Amanda Bell James, from Flin Flon, Manitoba joined Netflix and won...
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Twentieth Century Fox Animation reveals voice cast of Ice Age: Continental Drift
MUMBAI: Twentieth Century Fox Animation and Blue Sky Studios has unveiled the voice cast for Ice Age: Continental Drift, the fourth entry in Blue Sky’s franchise, which has grossed over $4 billion in all...
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d2 is official digital cinema partner at 68th Venice Film Fest
MUMBAI: The island Lido is the background of the 68th International Venice Film Festival from 31 August till 10 September. For the 4th year, the Mostra Internationale D’Arte Cinematografica selects d2 as official digital...
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Federal Judge grants injunction against unlicensed VOD service
MUMBAI: Federal Judge John F. Walter granted a preliminary injunction against the operators of Zediva, an unlicensed video-on-demand service that the MPAA’s member studios sued for copyright infringement in April 2011. Judge Walter rejected...
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NBCUniversal names Craig Robinson as EVP – chief diversity officer
MUMBAI: KNBC president and general manager Craig Robinson has been named EVP – chief diversity officer for the company, reporting directly to NBCUniversal CEO Steve Burke. He takes over the role from Paula Madison,...
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Ben Foster to star in Gotti: In the Shadow of my Father
MUMBAI: Actor Ben Foster has been signed to play the role of John Gotti, Jr. in in Fiore Films’ “GOTTI: In The Shadow Of My Father,” which will begin pre-production in September and start...
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Lionsgate partners Universal Republic for The Hunger Games’ soundtrack
MUMBAI: Lionsgate and Universal Republic have inked a sweeping partnership on the soundtrack to the Lionsgate motion picture event The Hunger Games, which will be in theaters everywhere on 23 March, 2012. Unlike typical...
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Oprah Winfrey, James Earl Jones & Dick Smith to receive Academy’s Governors Awards
MUMBAI: The Board of Governors of the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences voted to present Honorary Awards to actor James Earl Jones and makeup artist Dick Smith and the Jean Hersholt Humanitarian...
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World War Z starring Brad Pitt shoot begins in Falmouth
MUMBAI: The shooting for World War Z began in Falmouth, Cornwall today by local film crew from the South West. Starring Brad Pitt, the Paramount Pictures production will be partially shot onboard a ship...
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iWin & Sony Pictures Consumer Products to bring TV show to Facebook
MUMBAI: iWin, Inc., a casual and social games creator, distributor and publisher, and Sony Pictures Consumer Products Inc., have inked a licensing deal to bring the TV game show The $100,000 Pyramid to the...
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Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows- Part 2 crosses $1 billion
Mumbai: Warner Bros. Pictures’ "Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows – Part 2" has surpassed $1 billion at the worldwide box office, becoming the first in the series—and the ninth film in history—to reach...
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Universal Music Group Distribution launches Digster.fm
MUMBAI: Universal Music Group Distribution (UMGD) has launched a fan-facing music playlist service called Digster.fm (http://www.digster.fm). Digster.fm publishes playlists across a wide variety of musical genres and artists, which fans can listen to...
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RealD & AMC Entertainment to equip additional 1,000 screens with RealD 3D
MUMBAI: RealD Inc and AMC Entertainment Inc. have inked an agreement to equip up to 1,000 additional screens with RealD 3D technology across the AMC circuit in the United States and Canada. The commitment...
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Relativity Media & Atlas Entertainment to bring Voltron to big screen
MUMBAI: Relativity Media has optioned the feature film rights for Voltron from World Event Productions, and will adapt the live-action big screen version from the 1984 cult-classic animated series Voltron: Defender of the Universe....
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New voices of support join coalition for Protect IP
MUMBAI: The coalition supporting legislation to get tough on foreign rogue websites that traffic in stolen films and TV shows or counterfeit goods is growing by the day. Citing the threat to American jobs...
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Disney’s Anne Sweeney named MIPCOM 2011 personality of the year
MUMBAI: Reed MIDEM has named Disney/ABC Television Group (DATG) president and Disney Media Networks co-chair Anne Sweeney as the MIPCOM 2011 Personality of the Year, making her the first woman ever to receive the...
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Paramount Pictures makes available Jackass movies on Facebook
MUMBAI: Paramount Pictures is offering the entire Jackass movie catalogue including Jackass The Movie, Jackass 2, Jackass 3, as well as, digital features Jackass 2.5 and Jackass 3.5 available for rent directly through the...
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Discovery Network A-Pac expands deal with J:Com to offer 3D VOD content in Japan
MUMBAI: Discovery Networks Asia-Pacific (DNAP) will start distributing 3D programmes in Japan for the first time through J:COM On Demand, a VOD service operated by Jupiter Telecom, and LISMO Video Store operated by KDDI....
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Rentrak opens Spain as its first European VoD market
MUMBAI: Rentrak Corporation has signed an exclusive, long-term multi-platform video-on-demand (VOD) reporting agreement with Digital+, Spain’s leading audiovisual (broadband TV) provider. Digital+ (PRISA Group’s audiovisual holding company) was the first company to introduce interactive...
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Universal Music Group & Dream Records sign Cindy Cruse Ratcliff
MUMBAI: Universal Music Group, in collaboration with Dream Records and RPM Music, have inked a multi-record deal with Dove Award-winning Christian singer, Cindy Cruse Ratcliff. Her new album titled, Twenty Three will hit iTunes,...
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Coca-Cola signs worldwide deal with Music Dealers
MUMBAI: The Coca-Cola Company has inked a partnership with full service licensing company Music Dealers in a deal that will narrow the gap between bands and brands, opening up a new route for emerging...
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Lucasfilm responds to UK Supreme Court ruling on copyright infringement
MUMBAI: The UK Supreme Court issued a split ruling in the copyright infringement lawsuit brought by Lucasfilm involving the Stormtrooper costumes from Star Wars. The Court agreed that Ainsworth’s replica costumes infringe Lucasfilm’s US...
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Cinedigm Digital Cinema & Arc Entertainment ink distribution deal
MUMBAI: Cinedigm Digital Cinema Corp and ARC Entertainment have entered into partnership to distribute theatrical programs by the end of 2011 using the targeted and efficient distribution model digital cinema enables. This relationship comes...
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CASBAA launches talent development program
MUMBAI: CASBAA and China Great Wall Industry Corporation (CGWIC) have announced the creation of the CGWIC-CASBAA Internship Program. With seed funding from CGWIC, CASBAA will offer internship opportunities in support of international university students...
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Time Warner Cable offers Tribeca Films on Free Movies On Demand
MUMBAI: Time Warner Cable digital customers now have access to Tribeca Films at no additional cost on Free Movies On Demand. Two to three new Tribeca films will be featured on the channel each...
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Universal Music Group & Talenthouse to launch social crowdsourcing campaigns
MUMBAI: Universal Music Group (UMG) has partnered with social crowdsourcing platform Talenthouse to create a variety of campaigns for its roster of chart-topping artists. Through this partnership, Talenthouse will work with those UMG artists...
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Harry Potter film franchise surpasses $7 billion milestone
MUMBAI: With Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows – Part 2 still in the first week of its record-breaking run, the Harry Potter film franchise has now crossed the $7 billion mark worldwide, and...
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RealD & Cinemark ink deal for 1,500 additional RealD 3D-enabled screens
MUMBAI: RealD Inc and Cinemark Holdings have expanded their 3D cinema relationship with a commitment for up to 1,500 additional RealD 3D-enabled screens to be installed across the Cinemark circuit in North America and...
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Kevin Lima to direct Monkeys of Mumbai for DreamWorks Animation
MUMBAI: DreamWorks Animation’s upcoming feature film Monkeys of Mumbai (working title) will be directed by Kevin Lima (Enchanted, Tarzan). This will be DreamWorks Animation’s first-ever Bollywood-style animated musical adventure. Lisa Stewart and Chris Chase...
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Cartoon Network signs with Angry Filmworks to develop Captain Planet movie
MUMBAI: Turner Broadcasting System Inc.’s Animation, Young Adults and Kids Media division (AYAKM) president and COO Stuart Snyder announced that Cartoon Network has signed a development agreement with producer Don Murphy and Susan Montford’s...
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Imax breaks opening weekend box office record with Harry Potter finale
MUMBAI: Imax Corporation and Warner Bros. Pictures announced that Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows – Part 2, the final installment of the film series, surpassed opening weekend Imax box office records globally by generating...
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Columbia Pictures teams up with foursquare for 30 Minutes or Less badge
MUMBAI: In anticipation of the nationwide release of Columbia Pictures’ action-comedy 30 Minutes or Less, the studio has partnered with foursquare to create a program that encourages users to interact with the film online...
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Charlie Sheen to star in new sitcom – Anger Management
MUMBAI: Two and a Half Men star Charlie Sheen is planning his return to series television in Anger Management, a sitcom based on Revolution Studios’ 2003 comedy feature of the same name. Lionsgate-owned Debmar-Mercury...
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Sony Music names Antonio ‘L.A.’ Reid as chairman & CEO of Epic Records
MUMBAI: Record executive and Grammy Award-winning producer Antonio ‘L.A.’ Reid has been named chairman & CEO of Epic Records. In this role, Reid will report to Sony Music Entertainment CEO Doug Morris and oversee...
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Harry Potter finale shatters weekend box office records
MUMBAI: The final installment of Warner Bros Pictures’ Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows – Part 2 has broken box office records worldwide in the opening weekend. The movie has collected a whopping $168.55...
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Harry Potter finale rakes in $43.5 million in midnight opening
MUMBAI: Warner Bros. Pictures’ Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows – Part 2 smashed the record for a midnight opening, taking in $43.5 million. The film broke the midnight opening record for IMAX theatres...
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Imax and AMC Entertainment expand joint revenue sharing relationship
MUMBAI: IMAX Corporation and AMC Entertainment Inc have expanded the companies’ joint revenue sharing arrangement to include the installation of 10 IMAX theaters in the United States. These theaters are expected to open by...
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LOVEFiLM and Entertainment One UK sign content deal
MUMBAI: LOVEFiLM and Entertainment One UK (eOne) have signed a five-year content deal allowing LOVEFiLM subscribers access to the portfolio of movies including The Twilight Saga. Members of LOVEFiLM, Europe’s subscription service – streaming...
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NBCUniversal and Netflix renew TV & film content deal
MUMBAI: Netflix, Inc and NBCUniversal Domestic Television Distribution have inked a multi-year renewal of their licensing agreement expanding the selection of non-exclusive NBCU film and TV library titles available to watch instantly streaming from...
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Harry Potter finale breaks multiple records in advance of opening day
MUMBAI: Warner Bros. Pictures’ Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows – Part 2 has already broken several records in the days leading up to the series finale’s hugely anticipated release. Advance ticket sales have...
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News Corporation appoints Tom Mockridge as CEO of News International.
MUMBAI: News Corporation has appointed Tom Mockridge to the role of CEO of News International. Mockridge will assume responsibility for his new role with immediate effect following the resignation of Rebekah Brooks. Mockridge joins...
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Peter Chernin’s CA Media invests in Legend Fighting Championship
MUMBAI: Legend Fighting Championship (Legend), Asia’s producer of Mixed Martial Arts (MMA) entertainment, has announced a strategic investment led by CA Media, LP (CA Media), the Asian division of US-based The Chernin Group, LLC....
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Barco delivers first commercial dual 4K DLP cinema projection system
MUMBAI: Barco is bringing to life an immersive, giant-screen movie experience for patrons at the New Mexico Museum of Natural History and Science providing two of its brightest projectors in a double-stack configuration, which...
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Japanese company Toei signs digital system agreement with GDC
MUMBAI: GDC Technology has signed a digital system agreement with Toei Co., Ltd., an entertainment company in Japan. Under the agreement, Toei will pay usage fees to GDC. The agreement solely applies to equipment...
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GDC inks VPF financing deal with Shochiku’s distribution division
MUMBAI: GDC Technology has signed a Virtual Print Fee (VPF) agreement with the distribution division of Shochiku Co., Ltd, a Japanese entertainment company. Under this non-exclusive VPF agreement, Shochiku will pay VPFs for any...
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Scratch Music Group raises $3.3 million; launches Scratch Weddings
MUMBAI: Scratch Music Group has closed a $3.3 million round of growth financing. Contour Venture Partners led the round with additional funding from the New York City Investment Fund (NYCIF) and angel investors Jason...
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Netflix to offer new unlimited DVD plans in the US
MUMBAI: Netflix Inc is launching new unlimited DVD-only plans in the US at their lowest price ever – $7.99 a month for the 1 DVD out at-a-time plan and $11.99 a month for the...
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Lionsgate to make Arnold Schwarzenegger’s Last Stand
Mumbai: Lionsgate’s Motion Picture Group president Joe Drake and president of production Michael Paseornek announced that Arnold Schwarzenegger will be making his return to films with The Last Stand. Korean action-suspense master Kim Jee-Woon...
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DreamWorks & Paramount to release Cowboys & Aliens in select Imax theatres
MUMBAI: Imax Corporation, DreamWorks Pictures and Paramount Pictures International have inked an agreement to offer the sci-fi western thriller Cowboys & Aliens in select international digital Imax theatres day-and-date with each territory’s release date,...
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Channel 31 signs exclusive deal with Paramount Pictures Corporation
MUMBAI: Russian independent media company CTC Media’s Channel 31 in Kazakhstan and Paramount Pictures have signed an exclusive two-year agreement that provides Channel 31 with the rights to broadcast a range of cinema-related productions by Paramount...
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GDC signs D-cinema deployment deal with Japanese film distribution company
MUMBAI: GDC Technology has signed a digital system agreement with Toho Co., Ltd, a Japanese entertainment company involved in film distribution. Under the non-exclusive agreement, Toho will pay usage fees for any of its...
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Academy travels to Kenya and Rwanda for Cultural Exchange with filmmakers
Mumbai: Eight members of the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences will be traveling to Kenya and Rwanda for an educational and cultural exchange with African filmmakers, students and the local creative communities....
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Paramount Pictures to launch animation division
MUMBAI: Paramount Pictures will launch an in-house animation division, with its first title slated for release in 2014. Paramount chairman & CEO Brad Grey said the initiative was part of the studio’s long-term strategy...
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Selena Gomez marks the launch of Disney Channel HD
MUMBAI: Selena Gomez, teen starlet of Disney Channel’s Wizards of Waverly Place and pop princess, celebrated the launch of Disney Channel HD by performing a gig at a London venue that was filmed exclusively...
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AEPOC, police arrest six suspects to stop illegal distribution of Pay-TV content
MUMBAI: AEPOC, the European Association for the Protection of Encrypted Works and Services, confirms another police investigation in Cyprus seizing six more card sharing servers and stopping six new suspects offering illegal subscriptions for...
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Eminem sets new record with 1 million in digital albums sales of 2010 Album Recovery
MUMBAI: Multi-platinum hip-hop artist Eminem has become the first artist ever to sell one million digital copies in the US of an album as his 2010 release — the chart-topping, Grammy Award-winning Recovery —...
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Netflix to expand service in 43 countries for streaming TV shows, movies
MUMBAI: Netflix, Inc will expand to 43 countries throughout Latin America and the Caribbean later this year, offering unlimited TV shows and movies streaming instantly over the Internet to TVs and computers for one...
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APSA Academy opens first round of development funding for Asia-Pac films for children
MUMBAI: Submissions are now open for the Asia Pacific Screen Awards’ (APSA) Children’s Film Fund – AUD$40,000 of development funding established by APSA and Manila based APSA Academy member Butch Jimenez, to support new...
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Adam Sandler to voice Dracula in Sony Pictures’ Hotel Transylvania
MUMBAI: Adam Sandler will voice the lead role of Dracula in Sony Pictures Animation’s 3D family comedy Hotel Transylvania. The film will be released on 21 September, 2012, by Columbia Pictures. The film will...
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Barco unveils open theater management system for digital cinema
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Michael Jackson’s video worn Thriller jacker sells for $1.8 million
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Disney Publishing Worldwide launches Disney Comics app for Apple
MUMBAI: Disney Publishing Worldwide announced its new Disney Comics App for iPad, iPhone and iPod touch is now available on the App Store. Disney Comics gives readers instant access to one of the most...
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Alliance Films to acquire Lionsgate’s Maple Pictures
MUMBAI: Alliance Films has agreed to purchase Lionsgate’s Canadian distributor Maple Pictures for approximately $38.5 million subject to a working capital adjustment. The Alliance group will acquire Maple and its film library and will...
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