MUMBAI: MySpace has inked an exclusive partnership with Canada’s wireless voice and data communications services provider Rogers Wireless, to offer MySpace functionality to Rogers Wireless customers on select mobile phones. The deal marks MySpace’s...
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Paradox, Millennium Film set up Conan movies
MUMBAI: Paradox Entertainment has sold the option for ‘Conan’ movies to Millennium Films. Development has started and discussions are underway for domestic and international distribution. “It is time for the Cimmerian to return...
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Sony Pictures posts increase in Blu-Ray sales
MUMBAI: Sony Pictures Home Entertainment (SPHE) has seen an increase in total Blu-ray Disc sales across six emerging markets including Hong Kong, Singapore, Taiwan, Eastern Europe, South Africa and the Middle East. The new...
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Netflix plans campaign for Eastwood’s film
MUMBAI: Online movie rental service Netflix announced a multi-platform campaign for the release of Tony Bennett: The Music Never Ends. Developed under the company’s Red Envelope Entertainment banner, the deal includes exclusive television, retail...
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Universal Music to acquire V2 Music Group
MUMBAI: Universal Music Group (UMG) intends to acquire V2 Music Group, Ltd, which includes independent music company V2 Records. Universal Music International (UMGI) chairman and CEO Lucian Grainge said, “V2 is recognised as a...
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Stars removed from Hollywood Walk of Fame
MUMBAI: A whole lot of stars have been temporarily removed from the Hollywood Walk of Fame at Vine Street. However, these will be reinstalled in 2009. The stars had been removed about three months...
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Universal Music Group invests in Loud.com
MUMBAI: Universal Music Group (UMG) has made an equity investment in Loud.com, which operates portals liek www.loud.com and www.battlerap.com. The announcement was made by UMG vice chairman and CFO Nick Henny, Loud.com co-founder and...
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Jessica Alba joins Myers in The Love Guru
MUMBAI: Paramount Pictures, which has scheduled Mike Myers’ new comedy The Love Guru — his first original character since Austin Powers — in a prime summer tentpole position on 20 June, 2008, has announced...
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Disney-MGM Studios to be renamed in 2008
MUMBAI: Disney-MGM Studios will become Disney’s Hollywood Studios in January next year. Walt Disney Company said that it is making the revision to reflect changes in the entertainment industry without mentioning details of its...
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Universal to release DVD of Kapoor’s Elizabeth
MUMBAI: Universal Studios Home Entertainment will be releasing the Shekhar Kapoor directed film Elizabeth on 18 September, 2007. What’s more, the sequel of the movie titled Elizabeth: The Golden Age is also set...
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