MUMBAI: DreamWorks Animation SKG, Inc. has announced the election of Tom Freston to its board of directors. Tom Freston most recently served as Viacom president and CEO from January to September 2006. Prior to...

MUMBAI: Warner Music has acquired a 70 per cent stake in Taisuke, a leading artist services company in Japan. Taisuke was founded in 1991 by Taisuke Morimoto as an all-rights music company with activities...

MUMBAI: Belgian record company ARS Entertainment will now become a part of Universal Music Group. The acquisition was concluded by Patrick Busschots, ARS Entertainment founder and Managing Director, and Vico Antippas, Senior Vice President,...

MUMBAI: Viacom Inc. has appointed Denise White as executive vice president human resources and administration. Based in New York, White will lead Viacom’s worldwide human resources strategies and practices to further develop the company’s innovative...

MUMBAI: On September 18, Taiwan’s IPR Police, in collaboration with the Taiwan Foundation Against Copyrights Theft (TFACT), representing the Motion Picture Association (MPA), raided a pirated DVD rental shop in Kaoshiung City. This action...

MUMBAI: Sony is introducing two capacities of its Memory Stick Entertainment Pack for the PlayStation system later this month featuring either 2GB or 4GB Memory Stick PRO Duo media. Both versions come with a...

MUMBAI: The Weinstein Company has acquired US rights to the thriller Walk All Over Me from IndustryWorks Distribution. Directed by Robert Cuffley and co-starring Golden-Globe nominee Leelee Sobieski and Tricia Helfer, the film recently...

MUMBAI: Brad Pitt will be starring opposite Mark Wahlberg in The Fighter, the Paramount Pictures drama about boxer Irish Mickey Ward and his unlikely path to become world lightweight champion. Pitt is in discussions...

MUMBAI: On 2 October, the iTunes Wi-Fi Music Store, which features Starbucks exclusive “Now Playing” service, goes live in more than 600 Starbucks locations in New York and Seattle. In celebration of this historic launch,...

MUMBAI: Disney-ABC Television Group and AOL have inked a deal to make availability of full-length episodes of popular primetime shows on AOL Video.   Delivered via a co-branded version of ABC.com’s Emmy-winning broadband player, full...