MUMBAI: National Geographic has formed a new global media group composed of its film, music, magazine, book publishing, television, radio, digital media and maps units. Tim Kelly, 51, president and CEO of National Geographic...
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Universal Pictures promotes Fogelson & Egan
MUMBAI: Coming off of a summer which saw four of its domestic motion picture releases each exceed $100 million at the boxoffice, Universal Pictures today recognized the achievements of two of its senior marketing...
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Columbia Pictures ups Kadin as SVP production
MUMBAI: Jonathan Kadin has been promoted to senior vice president, production at Columbia Pictures and will continue to report to Doug Belgrad and Matt Tolmach, presidents of production. Jointly commenting on the announcement,...
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Star makes new appointments in its team
MUMBAI: Star has made new appointments in its production and programming team as per which Todd Lituchy has been nominated as President, Entertainment, David Searl as Senior Vice President, Production and Donovan Castillo-Mohlman as...
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MPAA lauds anti-counterfeiting trade deal
MUMBAI: The Motion Picture Association of America, Inc. (MPAA) applauded the announcement by United States Trade Representative (USTR) Susan Schwab that the United States and a group of key trading partners will launch negotiations...
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Omnifone launches MusicStation in Hong Kong
MUMBAI: Mobile music company Omnifone has come up with the first rollout of its award-winning unlimited music downloads service, MusicStation, in Asia-Pacific with Hutchison Telecommunications (Hong Kong) Limited’s mobile operation 3 Hong Kong. 3...
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Disney affiliates with US government
MUMBAI: The U.S. Department of Homeland Security and the U.S. Department of State have tied hands with Walt Disney Parks and Resorts for a multi-media initiative – Welcome: Portraits of America, to welcome international...
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UK Film Council back £1 mn contest winner
MUMBAI: The UK Film Council’s Premiere Fund with Screen WM is backing Faintheart, the world’s first user generated feature film and winner of MySpace’s MyMovieMashUp competition. The MySpace community watched over 800 short film...
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IMAX signs theatre deal in Morocco
MUMBAI: IMAX Corporation has inked an agreement with Al Amine Investissement, a leading commercial retail developer in Morocco, to install an IMAX theatre in the city of Casablanca. Scheduled for installation in early 2009,...
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Sony, MSN promote Spiderman 3 DVD release
MUMBAI: In order to promote the DVD release of Spider Man 3, Farecompare.com has inked a deal with Sony Pictures Home Entertainment and MSN.com. Farecompare.com is providing 20 round trip airline tickets to lucky...
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