MUMBAI: The Motion Picture Association of America (MPAA) and the Alliance of Motion Picture and Television Producers (AMPTP) have joined Hollywood Unfiltered, an entertainment industry-led initiative to raise awareness of the public health consequences...

MUMBAI: Starz Entertainment will present the Starz Saturday Premiere of Pirates of the Caribbean: Dead Man’s Chest on 19 May 2007. The television channel will also offer two exclusive sneak peeks at the third...

MUMBAI: On the opening day of its 60th anniversary, the Festival de Cannes will hold a conference focused on the evolution of audience practices and on the ties between cinema creation, new promotional and...

MUMBAI: Cannes Classics, the montage of heritage films that are screened every year at the Cannes film festival since 2004, will see the likes of Andrzej Wajda and Jane Fonda presenting restored classics at...

MUMBAI: Paramount Licensing Inc and Daewoo Motor Sales Corporation have signed a deal to explore the development of a Paramount Pictures-based theme park in South Korea. The proposed theme park, to be located on...

MUMBAI: The Motion Picture Association of America (MPAA) has announced that the rating system is enhancing the amount of information provided to parents on the issue of smoking in films. Illegal teen smoking has...

MUMBAI: The Australian government will provide funding of $10.2 million over the next two years to combat intellectual property (IP) rights theft. The passing of Australia’s Copyright Amendment Bill 2006 in December has introduced more...

MUMBAI: The UK Film Council published its new funding and policy priorities from April 2007 to March 2010, including the creation of five new funding priorities to boost public access to film such as through film...

MUMBAI: Joost, the world’s first broadcast-quality Internet television service, has announced that five selected parties have collectively invested approximately $45 million in the company. Each party has invested in a minority percentage of the...

MUMBAI: USA Video Interactive Corp has delivered the first of two installments of its MediaEscort anti-piracy product to its unnamed Hollywood customer. USVO had announced in November 2006 that it had signed an agreement with...