MUMBAI: Bimbom Barkah has been named General Manager of Universal Music Indonesia. The appointment was announced by Sandy Monteiro, Senior Vice-President of Universal Music Group International (ASEAN), to whom he will report. Based in...

MUMBAI: Empire Home Entertainment, the distribution division of Empire Film Group, has completed the acquisition of two new feature films and one comedy for release to the USA DVD market over the next three...

MUMBAI: RKO Productions, a subsidiary of RKO Pictures, and the Writers Guild of America (WGA) have reached an interim comprehensive agreement. The company’s current production schedule, to be announced next week, includes several original...

MUMBAI: Eric Louzil’s Los Angeles-based Echelon Studios has struck a deal to distribute and sell foreign rights to Ifactory in association with Crybaby’s Reasonable Excuse, a pop thriller. The pop thriller stars Natalie Stewart from...

MUMBAI: Emmy Award winning Peter White, Garrett Law and A.J. Lewis have joined forces to create Attention Span Media, a Los Angeles based full-service creative and production studio specializing in the creation of high-quality...

MUMBAI: The 22nd James Bond movie has been named Quantum of Solace. The film is being directed by Mark Forester and stars Daniel Craig, Olga Kurylenko, Mathieu Amalric, Judi Dench, Gemma Arterton and Jeffrey...

Mumbai: Beyoncé, the Foo Fighters and Carrie Underwood are gearing up to perform at the 50th Annual Grammy Awards that will take place on 10 February at Staples Center in Los Angeles. Special segments will...

Mumbai: The Nielsen Company announced the commercial launch of NORA Nielsen On Demand Reporting & Analytics, a new measurement service that aggregates and anonymously reports on video-on-demand (VOD) usage based on real time transactions...

Mumbai: The Writer’s Guild of America has recently signed deals with many film studios to get back to work on the movies that were put on hold thanks to the WGA strike. The latest to...

Mumbai: Jim Urie has been promoted to CEO of Universal Music Group Distribution (UMGD), the sales, marketing and distribution arm of Universal Music Group (UMG). Urie previously served as president of UMGD and will...