MUMBAI: Fox Home Entertainment and MGM Home Entertainment chose Helen Hoffner, Ed.D., a professor at Holy Family University in Philadelphia, to serve as their expert on closed captioning for literacy as the studios launch...
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Maven powers Gemstar-TV Guide video channels
MUMBAI: Maven Networks has been selected by Gemstar-TV Guide to power its online video channels. Maven will work with TV Guide to launch next-generation broadband video experiences for TV Guide on its over 300...
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UK Film Council backs new Brit comedy
MUMBAI: How to Lose Friends and Alienate People, the film adaptation of the best-selling comic biography by journalist Toby Young, is being backed by the Aramid Entertainment Fund, the UK Film Council’s Premiere Fund and...
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Harry Potter in record number of theaters
MUMBAI: Even before it opens, Warner Bros. Pictures’ Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix is breaking records in theatres. Breaking its own domestic release record in support of Harry Potter and the Order of...
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Beatles monument to go up in Hamburg
MUMBAI: A monument in the memory of the Beatles will be constructed in Hamburg, where the Fab Four launched their international career 45 years ago. The construction is expected to begin this year. ...
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Disney, Microsoft to offer Xbox film rentals
MUMBAI: At the E3 Media and Business Summit, Microsoft Corp. and Disney-ABC Domestic Television inked an agreement to bring films from The Walt Disney Studios to US members of Xbox LIVE, the online games and...
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Global satellite delivery for Transformers
MUMBAI: Reinforcing its global leadership in digital cinema, Thomson, through its Technicolor Digital Cinema business, is the first to deliver a motion picture via satellite day-and-date to international and domestic theatre locations utilizing an...
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Ferretti to get Hollywood Prod. Designer Award
MUMBAI: Academy Award-winning production designer Dante Ferretti will receive the Hollywood Film Festival’s Hollywood Production Designer of the Year Award at the Festival’s 22 October awards ceremony. His selection was determined for his “distinguished...
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Dailymotion launches video entertainment site
MUMBAI: Independent video sharing site Dailymotion has launched a US version of the site. The localised US portal to Dailymotion delivers the highest-quality online video entertainment experience, with premium-level programming and video streaming and...
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The Orchard and Digital Music Group to merge
MUMBAI: Digital distributor and marketer of music The Orchard Enterprises and Digital Music Group Inc (DMGI) have entered into a merger agreement. The combined business will retain DMGI’s NASDAQ listing and change its name to The...
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