MUMBAI: Warner Music UK is planning to relaunch of celebrated dance label, FFRR (Full Frequency Range Recordings), originally founded by legendary DJ, A&R executive and artist Pete Tong in 1986. Tong will return to...

MUMBAI: Universal Music Group has promoted Amanda Marks to the newly created position of global head of digital accounts. Marks reports to Universal Music Group president of global digital business Rob Wells. Previously, Marks...

MUMBAI: The Ukrainian film director Maryna Vroda received a Palme d’Or (Golden Palm) for the best short film at the 64th Cannes Film Festival. The 15 minute motion picture Kross (cross-country race – Ed.)...

MUMBAI: Columbia Pictures has acquired the US distribution rights to the forthcoming motion picture from Oscar-winners Kathryn Bigelow and Mark Boal, director and screenwriter, respectively, of the Best Picture-winning film The Hurt Locker. The untitled...

MUMBAI: Dreamworks Animation’s Kung Fu Panda 2 hits movie theaters on 26 May and ahead of the release, art director Raymond Zibach, will visit Chengdu for the premiere in China, and to explore the...

MUMBAI: Last Friday the 13th, at the Cannes Film Festival, Jean-Claude Marcourt, Minister of Economy for the Walloon Region of Belgium, launched the first co-production market for 3D-stereoscopic films in Europe and beyond. The...

MUMBAI: The Richards Group has committed to use Rentrak’s StationView Essentials set-top box database measurement service as one of its resources for local TV planning and buying across the Dallas and Waco markets. The...

MUMBAI: Queen Latifah, winner of Grammy, Golden Globe and SAG awards, has partnered with multichannel retailer HSN for the exclusive launch of the Queen Collection, her first-ever lifestyle brand. On 27 August, Latifah will...

MUMBAI: With The Hangover Part II opening worldwide this week, director Todd Phillips has spoken out about the possibility of a third and final Hangover movie. While quizzed at a press conference for Part...

MUMBAI: Phase 4 Films, a client of Rentrak’s Box Office Essentials service, has chosen to tap Rentrak’s multiscreen measurement capabilities by signing an OnDemand Essentials contract in order to manage and grow its on-demand...