MUMBAI: EMI Music has announced a partnership with The Licensing Agency (TLA) to supply music and video downloads to consumers upon completion of Lightspeed Research questionnaires. Music fans will be incentivised to complete...
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Warner Music France buys tour production co.
MUMBAI: Warner Music France announced the acquisition of Jean-Claude Camus Productions, France‘s leading tour production, promotion and booking company. This agreement brings together Camus Productions’ unrivalled experience in staging live events with Warner Music’s...
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Europe welcomes music festivals galore
MUMBAI: Doomsayers often predict classical music will go the way of CD shops and dodo birds, but someone forgot tell this to the people who organise festivals. From one end of Europe to the...
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Microsoft, Sundance grant to winner Bala
MUMBAI: Microsoft Corp., together with Sundance Institute presented the Microsoft HDi Grant to director Jason Kohn and producer Jared Goldman for their 2007 Sundance Film Festival Grand Jury Prize-winning documentary Manda Bala (Send a...
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23 Brit films for Sundance Film Festival
MUMBAI: The year has got off to a flying start for British filmmakers with the Sundance Film Festival screening 23 British films, including nine UK Film Council Lottery-funded films. Second in number only to...
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UK sees prod spends of £723 million in 2007
MUMBAI: The amount of money spent on making films in the UK in 2007 including Harry Potter and the Half Blood Prince, Sweeney Todd, Brideshead Revisited and How to Lose Friends and Alienate People...
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Guild sets up fund for non-WGA members
MUMBAI: The Writers Guild Foundation has established an Industry Support Fund to assist members of the industry who are in financial distress as a direct result of the Writers Guild of America strike against...
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Dages appointed Warner Bros Home Ent EVP
MUMBAI: Chuck Dages has been named Warner Bros. Home Entertainment Group’s Executive Vice President, Emerging Technology. The announcement was made by Warner Bros. Home Entertainment Group president Kevin Tsujihara, to whom Dages will directly...
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Liman launches new co; inks deal with WGA
MUMBAI: Director and producer Doug Liman announced today the formation of a new media company, Jackson Bites, which will create television-style programming for alternative distribution. He will serve as co-owner of the venture with...
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HBO tops NAMIC Awards’ cable nominations
MUMBAI: The National Association for Multi-ethnicity In Communications (NAMIC) announced the nominees for the 14th Annual NAMIC Vision Awards. Presented by NAMIC-Southern California, the NAMIC Vision Awards is the only competition recognizing outstanding achievements...
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