MUMBAI: Sony Pictures Television International (SPTI) has appointed Assaf Tarnopolsky as vice president, mobile programming and digital product development. Based at SPTI’s headquarters in Culver City, California, he reports to Marie Jacobson, SPTI’s executive...
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Pirate vendors attack officers in Philippines
MUMBAI: On 16 October, officers from the Optical Media Board (OMB) were attacked by pirate vendors at the St Francis Mall located at Mandaluyong City during a routine enforcement operation to seize pirated movies...
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WonderWorks releases iPod movies
MUMBAI: WonderWorks Entertainment has come up with its Mobile Matinee collection of eight classic movies and 12 audiobooks on three DVD-ROMs for the iPod and iPhone market. The DVD-ROM titles are pre-formatted for iPod,...
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Imperia acquires Muller film library
MUMBAI: Imperia Entertainment, Inc., in conjunction with its sale of an equity interest in Muller Media, Inc., has acquired Muller’s film and television library, by assignment of all copyrights owned by Muller to Imperia,...
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Australia’s biggest DVD burning lab busted
MUMBAI: Victorian Police, supported by investigators from the Australian Federation Against Copyright Theft (AFACT), raided Hoai Thu Video Shop in Footscray yesterday. Over 100,000 DVDs were seized, along with 51 DVD burners, 14 folders...
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Social networking revenues to touch $2.4 billion
MUMBAI: Virtual communities and online social networking sites are providing a new, powerful and extremely popular medium for human connection. In a new report independent market analyst Datamonitor expects global active memberships in...
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APac Screen Awards’ intl jury announced
MUMBAI: The Asia Pacific Screen Awards has announced the international jury in the inaugural Awards. Jury president Shabana Azmi will be joined on the jury by legendary Pusan Festival Director Kim Dong-Ho of Korea,...
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Devine Ent inks deal with NetMovies Inc.
MUMBAI: Devine Entertainment Corporation, seeking to capitalize on the burgeoning global demand for high quality film and television content, announced an expansion for the future distribution of its acclaimed core library of family films...
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Dancing with the Stars video game on Wii
MUMBAI: Activision, Inc. has teamed up with Disney-ABC Television Group’s ABC Entertainment and BBC Worldwide America to create the first ever Dancing with the Stars video game for the Wii home video game system....
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Sony BMG celebrates MTV Music Awards
MUMBAI: Top artists from showbiz, business, media and politics, and Sony BMG managers from Germany and around the world will be getting together to celebrate the presentation of the MTV Europe Music Awards in...
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