MUMBAI: On 19 June, EMI America Records will release the late “Crocodile Hunter” Steve Irwin’s final documentary, Ocean’s Deadliest, on DVD. Irwin is joined by explorer and adventurer Philippe Cousteau, grandson of the famous...
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Disney donates $12.5 mn to performing arts center
MUMBAI: Walt Disney World Resort unveiled plans for three significant financial donations to the Central Florida community led by a $12.5 million commitment to the Dr. P. Phillips Orlando Performing Arts Center (DPAC). Walt...
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Dubai Film Festival’s Muhr Awards open for 07
MUMBAI: The Dubai International Film Festival’s (DIFF) second annual Muhr Awards for Excellence in Arab Cinema is now open, and will be accepting submissions until 31 August 2007. As part of the festival’s...
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French customs bar Last Looks from Cannes
MUMBAI: French Customs officials have quarantined a 35mm print of the controversial film Last Looks, which was to have its world premiere, out of competition, at the current Cannes Film Market. The film’s director,...
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Mountain Dew launches Transformers promos
MUMBAI: Mountain Dew has partnered with DreamWorks Pictures and Paramount Pictures for a promotion in conjunction with the 4 July 2007 release of the live-action film Transformers. The ‘Transform Your Summer’ online promotion will award...
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Actor Delon to attend Festival de Cannes
MUMBAI: French born actor Alain Delon will be one the honorary hosts of the 60th Festival de Cannes. Delon will attend the anniversary ceremonies on 20 May. His last visit to the Festival goes...
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Murphy to star in Columbia’s Fantasy Island
MUMBAI: Eddie Murphy has been pencilled in to star in Columbia Pictures’ feature film adaptation of Fantasy Island. The screenplay will be penned by Jay Scherick and David Ronn, who recently teamed with Murphy on...
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Happy Feet exec producer joins Rainmaker
MUMBAI: Oscar-winning film Happy Feet’s executive producer Ed Jones has joined Rainmaker Animation to produce Escape from Planet Earth. Steve Nichols, lead animator on the last two Pirates of the Caribbean films has joined...
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Sony introduces Kung Fu Hustle online game
MUMBAI: Sony Online Entertainment’s Taipei-based Soga studio is developing a game based on the film Kung Fu Hustle, in conjunction with Shanghai Northstar. Designed specifically for the Chinese market, Soga is also collaborating with...
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MPAA, AMPTP discourage smoking depiction
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...
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Starz to premiere Pirates’ Dead Man’s Chest
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...
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Cannes fest to open with forum on cinema
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...
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Cannes to showcase montage of classics
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...
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Paramount, Daewoo plan theme park in Korea
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...
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MPAA sharpens teeth on smoking depictions
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...
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Australia allots $ 10 million to IP crimefighting
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...
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UK Film Council chalks out funding plans
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...
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Joost closes $45 million in financing
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...
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USVO delivers anti-piracy product to studio
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...
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Electronic Arts to launch The Simpsons game
MUMBAI: Electronic Arts Inc will soon launch The Simpsons Game, in partnership with Gracie Films and Twentieth Century Fox Television. The Game features a hilarious, sprawling storyline crafted by the TV show’s Emmy Award-winning...
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Shrek ties up with McDonald’s
MUMBAI: McDonald’s has launched one of its largest promotions ever for Shrek The Third. From high-tech Shrek Happy Meal toys created in eight languages, to an innovative online community dedicated to kids, to the...
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Kevin Spacey launches watch range with play
MUMBAI: Academy Award-winning actor Kevin Spacey appeared as a star guest in a self-produced stage play during the SIHH Watch Fair in Geneva recently. The short film of this performance will have its online...
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Anime Network expands VoD service in the US
MUMBAI: 200,000 households in West Virginia, US, will be able to access a Subscription Video On Demand service (SVOD) from May 2007, due to a deal struck between Anime Network and Suddenlink Communications. One...
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Electronic Arts launches talent hunt in APac
MUMBAI: Interactive entertainment software company Electronic Arts has announced the launch of “EA Amplify Artist Search,” a pan-regional search for the hottest emerging bands from the Asia Pacific region. The initiative is being hosted...
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DreamWorks acquires Jackson’s Lovely Bones
MUMBAI: DreamWorks Studios and Film 4 have acquired The Lovely Bones. It is Peter Jackson’s adaptation of the Alice Sebold best-selling novel. The announcement was made by DreamWorks Studios CEO and co-chairman Stacey Snider....
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Columbia & Original Pictures pair up for The Ark
MUMBAI: Columbia Pictures has acquired the rights to the Dark Horse Comics graphic novel The Ark to be adapted into a feature film by Original Film’s Neal H. Moritz. The announcement was made by...
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MyMovieNetwork unveils tool for filmmakers
MUMBAI: There is a new video tool available now to innovative aspiring filmmakers. A new online video site, MyMovieNetwork.com, launched recently, focuses on the amateur and independent filmmaking community by providing filmmakers an environment...
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Volvo launches Pirates’ online treasure hunt
MUMBAI; Volvo Car Corporation has launched a worldwide online hunt for real-life sunken treasure, at volvocars.us/thehunt. As part of its promotional drive for Disney’s Pirates of the Caribbean movie franchise, the company has sunk...
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Spiderman frenzy sets in
MUMBAI: The Spider-Man buzz has begun even before the film officially releases on 4 May 2007. The superhero is currently hanging off a ledge of The Venetian Resort~Hotel~Casino in Las Vegas overlooking The Strip...
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US report slams countries with weak IP rights
MUMBAI: An annual report on worldwide intellectual property rights released on Tuesday by the Office of the US Trade Representative (USTR), identifies countries particularly lacking in adequate and effective IP rights and enforcement. It...
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Jaman, Dreamachine sign 42 film deal
MUMBAI: Jaman.com, an online community for world cinema has announced the completion of an initial 42 film distribution deal with Dreamachine, an independent sales, production and financing house. Under the agreement, the definitive works...
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DreamWorks posts $15.4 mn net income
MUMBAI: DreamWorks Animation has reported total revenue of $93.7 million and net income of $15.4 million, for the quarter ended 31 March 2007. This compares to revenue of $60.1 million and net income...
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Sony creates international film division
MUMBAI: Sony Pictures Entertainment has creatied an International Motion Picture Production department, to be jointly led by Gareth Wigan and Deborah Schindler. Schindler has been promoted to President of the new division and will join...
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Disney raises $3 mn with Pirates premiere
MUMBAI: Disney has collected $ three million in ticket sales for the 19 May 2007 world premiere of Pirates of the Caribbean: At World’s End, to benefit the Make-A-Wish Foundation of America and Make-A-Wish...
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Danny DeVito unveils own liqueur label
MUMBAI: Actor, producer and director Danny DeVito launched Premium Limoncello, an estate crafted, lemon-flavored liqueur at the Wine and Spirits Wholesalers of America Annual Convention in Orlando, FLorida. Harbrew Imports Inc of Freeport, New...
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Turner Broadcasting puts its content on Joost
MUMBAI: Broadcast-quality Internet television service Joost (www.joost.com) has announced that Turner Broadcasting System, Inc. will begin to distribute content on Joost from its brands and properties, including Adult Swim and CNN. Programming from Hasbro,...
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Disney.com offers sneak preview of Ratatouille
MUMBAI: Disney/Pixar will debut an extended nine-minute sequence from its upcoming summer comedy Ratatouille on Disney.com on 1 May 2007. In an innovative cross-media promotion, Disney will launch a day long television advertising campaign...
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DVD burners seized in Bangkok piracy raid
MUMBAI: Eleven persons were arrested and 140 DVD-R burners seized during an operation in the Bangkok suburb of Nondhaburi conducted by the Royal Thai Police (Economic and Technological Crime Suppression Division). The operation, carried...
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Pirates’ The Show nominated for Webby award
MUMBAI: The Webby Awards has nominated Industrial Light and Magic’s The Show microsite featuring Disney’s Pirates of the Caribbean: Dead Man’s Chest, for the Best Movie and Film and the Best Use of Moving...
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Burger King ties up with Spider-Man 3
MUMBAI: A five week long Burger King Corporation (BKC) promotion with Columbia Pictures’ Spider-Man 3 will have the “Which Spidey Suits You?” scratch-and-win game pieces on specially marked Burger Kind menu items. As in the...
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Sony bags distribution rights of five films
MUMBAI: Sony Pictures Entertainment has acquired the exclusive distribution rights outside North America for DVD, television, mobile and new media distribution for five films of Peace Arch Entertainment. The Peace Arch Entertainment Group produced...
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Will Ferrell & his wife to be honored in LA
MUMBAI: The comedian-actor Will Ferrell and his Swedish wife, Viveca Paulin-Ferrell, are deeply involved in the Swedish School of Los Angeles and in recognition and appreciation of their efforts, they have been bestowed “The...
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Sarah Silverman to Host MTV Movie Awards
MUMBAI: Sarah Silverman will take the hosting reins for the 2007 MTV Movie Awards. Star of both big screen and small, Silverman will lend her unique brand of provocative comedy to this year’s ceremony...
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McLaren prize for Palme d’Or short film winner
MUMBAI: The National Film Board of Canada will award the Norman McLaren Prize to the winner of the Palme d’Or of short film, for the third year running. The Norman McLaren Prize was created...
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Michael Douglas to star in Tragic Indifference
MUMBAI: Actor Michael Douglas will again play a courtroom lawyer in the upcoming film Tragic Indifference, a legal drama based on a landmark liability case against the Ford Company in which the automaker’s indifference...
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Universal brings the Simpsons to theme parks
MUMBAI: Fox’s blockbuster hit series, The Simpsons, has become the inspiration for a new ride at Universal’s theme parks. Homer, Marge, Bart, Lisa and Maggie Simpson – stars of TV’s longest running series – will...
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Christie to show new D-technology in Canada
MUMBAI: Christie, a global player in visual solutions for entertainment, business and industry, is one of the main sponsors of the ongoing ShowCanada Niagara Falls 2007. An annual convention of theatre owners, ShowCanada is...
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Imax, Warner to make third 3D adventure
MUMBAI: Warner Bros and Imax Corporation will soon start work on a third original Imax 3D co-production for release to Imax theatres in 2009. Tentatively titled Deep Sea-quel, the Imax 3D picture will be...
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Warner to make Happy Feet mobile game
MUMBAI: Hong Kong based Artificial Life Inc, a provider of mobile 3G technology and applications, has signed a mobile game development agreement with Digital Distribution, a Warner Bros subsidiary to develop a mobile game for the...
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Blu-ray Disc sales cross 1 million mark
MUMBAI: The Blu-ray Disc has become the first high definition format to sell more than one million discs, a milestone it has achieved in less than a year, say research statistics. Blu-ray Disc sales...
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Disturbia holds on to top slot in second week
MUMBAI: DreamWorks’ Disturbia held on to the top spot at the box office for the second consecutive week, while New Line Cinema’s Fracture came in second raking in over $10 million, says www.Hollywood.tv founder...
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Adam Sandler, Kevin James to play gay couple
MUMBAI: CBS sitcom The King of Queens star Kevin James and comedian Adam Sandler have teamed up to play firemen pretending to be a gay couple so that they can get domestic partnership benefits...
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Clooney to make dark comedy with Warner
MUMBAI: George Clooney’s Smoke House production company and Warner Bros Pictures are planning to team up to remake Rachel Boynton’s political documentary Our Brand is Crisis, as a dark comedy, says www.Hollywood.tv founder Sheeraz...
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JPMorgan forms entertainment advisory group
MUMBAI: Global financial services firm JPMorgan has formed the JPMorgan Entertainment Advisors (JPMorgan EA) to provide a range of financial and strategic advice, services and products to clients of all types in the entertainment...
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Idol participant Sanjaya at the White House
Ousted Idol participant makes it to White House Ousted American idol participant Sanjaya Malakar was invited to the White House to attend the annual Correspondents Association Dinner hosted by the Washington press corps this...
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Spider-Man Maguire finds new direction in life
MUMBAI: At the age of 31, finding himself engaged and the father of a six-month-old girl, Spider-Man star Tobey Maguire has found his life moving in a completely new direction, reports www.Hollywood.tv founder Sheeraz...
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Oliver Stone to make ad for MoveOn Campaign
MUMBAI: Director Oliver Stone has been tapped to make a commercial spot for a campaign that calls for US troops to be pulled out of Iraq, says www.Hollywood.tv founder Sheeraz Hasan. Conceived by the...
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Fired Apprentice floats own show
MUMBAI: Enterprising young Bangladeshi Syed Ahmed has bounced back with his own TV show for Sky One and a revolutionary business idea to replace towels after being fired in the BBC version of The...
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Rain hinders National Treasure sequel shoot
MUMBAI: Mount Rushmore was dropped as a location for the upcoming sequel to National Treasure after weather forecasts called for rain on the day of shooting, reports www.Hollywood.tv founder Sheeraz Hasan. The scheduled scenes...
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Webber plans sequel to Phantom of the Opera
MUMBAI: Lord Andrew Lloyd Webber has said he will not work on another TV series after Joseph : Any Dream Will Do, and plans to devote himself to writing a sequel to his hit...
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Casino Royale, Pirates among UK top grossers
MUMBAI: Casino Royale and Pirates of the Caribbean: Dead Man’s Chest have been included in the top 10 highest grossing films at the UK box office, taking more than £50 million each in 2006....
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Beau Garrett is Revlon’s new face
MUMBAI: Revlon has signed on one of Hollywood’s upcoming stars, Beau Garrett, to represent the brand. Garrett will join the likes of Halle Berry, Eva Mendes and Sheryl Crow in endorsing Revlon products, and...
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Spider-Man 4, 5, and 6 in the pipeline
MUMBAI: Spider-Man 3 director Sam Raimi confirmed at a Los Angeles media briefing on Friday that Sony Pictures plans to make a fourth, fifth and sixth instalment of the popular film, says www.Hollywood.tv founder...
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Pirates’ sequel cost skyrockets to $300 mn
MUMBAI: Disney’s latest venture, Pirates of the Caribbean: At World’s End, is scheduled to open worldwide on 25 May 2007, but the film is yet to be finished and the budget is continuing to...
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Brad Pitt, George Clooney to team up again
MUMBAI: Brad Pitt and his Ocean’s Thirteen co-star George Clooney have agreed to team up again in the Coen brothers’ film Burn After Reading, making it their third film together. www.Hollywood.tv founder Sheeraz Hasan...
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Spider-Man set to be a Broadway musical
MUMBAI: Even as Spider-Man 3 gears up to swing into theatres on 4 May, 2007, auditions have commenced for Spider-Man to be turned into a Broadway musical. A summer reading is already scheduled for...
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MGM to remake 1980 movie musical Fame
MUMBAI: MGM is planning a $25 million remake of the 1980 movie musical Fame with producer Mark Canton and Lakeshore Entertainment, according to www.Hollywood.tv founder Sheeraz Hasan. “We will update it, (but) we will...
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Pitt and Jolie heading for Cannes
MUMBAI: Actors Brad Pitt and Angelina Jolie will be heading to Cannes next month to present their film A Mighty Heart, when the annual fest kicks off on 16 May 2007, according to www.Hollywood.tv...
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Warner to launch Blood Diamond on HD DVD
MUMBAI: Warner Home Video will debut its adventure film Blood Diamond on the high definition Blu-ray Disc on 5 June 2007. The HD DVD will include a commentary by director Edward Zwick, featurettes and...
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McConaughey, Cruz blamed for Sahara expense
MUMBAI: Media reports in the US now indicate that huge amounts were spent on actors Matthew McConaughey and Penelope Cruz during the making of the 2005 film Sahara, leading to incongrous budget hikes. The allegation...
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Ashley Judd to act in film on US immigration
MUMBAI: Hollywood actor Ashley Judd may feature in The Weinstein Company’s next feature film Crossing Over. The film already boasts a star cast comprising Harrison Ford, Ray Liotta, Sean Penn and Cliff Curtis, reports...
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Church official arrested in piracy crackdown
MUMBAI: A sacristan working at the Naples’ main cathedral (Duomo di Napoli) was arrested along with his son as part of an anti-piracy investigation carried out by the Fiscal Police (GdF) from Rome, who...
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Thomson digitally masters Meet the Robinsons
MUMBAI: Thomson has provided the digital cinema mastering and distribution for Walt Disney Pictures’ Meet the Robinsons. Thomson’s Technicolor Digital Cinema digitally mastered and distributed Meet the Robinsons for 892 screens worldwide. Domestically, the...
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Harrison Ford to wed Calista Flockhart
MUMBAI: They first met at the Golden Globes in 2002, and now Hollywood actor Harrison Ford and Calista Flockhart plan to get married, says www.Hollywood.tv founder Sheeraz Hasan. Ford made his proposal on April...
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Will Ferrell launches new website
MUMBAI: Actor Will Ferrell and Gary Sanchez Productions have together launched their own comedy video website christened FunnyOrDie.com. The beta release of the website debuted last Thursday, and a two-minute video clip called The...
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Spidey director Sam Raimi eyes The Hobbit
MUMBAI: Spider-Man director Sam Raimi is seriously thinking about making a feature film based on The Hobbit, reports www.Hollywood.tv founder Sheeraz Hasan. The possibility of Raimi directing The Hobbit has surfaced with the falling...
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Red Rock sets first P&A commitment
MUMBAI: Red Rock Pictures Holdings, Inc. has made its first commitment to financing prints and advertising for the release of a motion picture. The company has made a commitment to support Beach Party at...
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Starz Entertainment acquires 3 Weinstein films
MUMBAI: Starz Entertainment continues its relationship with the Weinsteins and directors Quentin Tarantino and Robert Rodriguez, acquiring the exclusive Pay TV rights to The Weinstein Company’s recently released pulp thriller Grindhouse, directed by Tarantino...
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UK Film Council aids award winning films
MUMBAI: Universal Pictures International has been granted £300,000 for Yimou Zhang’s award-winning and Oscar-nominated The Curse of the Golden Flower, from the UK Film Council’s P&A Fund. The film, a period drama-tragedy set in...
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Marvel, Sega to launch superhero videogames
MUMBAI: Marvel Entertainment, Sega Europe and Sega America have expanded their relationship to include the rights to develop and distribute games inspired by Marvel’s franchises – Captain America, The Incredible Hulk and Thor. Through...
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Tri Continental film fest calls for entries
MUMBAI: The Tri Continental Film Festival has called for entries to its fifth annual event. The fest seeks completed films that reflect the equal rights of all regardless of race, gender, class, sexual orientation,...
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Warner to introduce Daffy Duck videogame
MUMBAI: Warner Bros Interactive Entertainment is set to launch the Looney Tunes – Duck Amuck videogame in fall 2007, which will star Daffy Duck in stylus-based gameplay for the Nintendo system. In the game...
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IFILM, Paramount to premiere film trailers
MUMBAI: MTV Networks’ IFILM and Paramount Vantage (both units of Viacom) have teamed to premiere movie trailers and showcase exclusive behind-the-scenes content for a number of key Paramount Vantage movie releases this year. ...
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News Corp, NBC, Comcast ink content deal
MUMBAI: News Corporation, NBC Universal and Comcast Corporation have inked a distribution agreement in which Comcast’s Comcast.net and Fancast.com will serve as key distribution sites for News Corp. and NBCU’s recently announced online video...
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Edward Norton to star in The Incredible Hulk
MUMBAI: Two-time Academy Award nominee Edward Norton has signed on to play Bruce Banner, who transforms into Marvel’s renowned, larger-than-life Super Hero, The Hulk in Marvel Studios’ new big screen adaptation of The Incredible...
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Warner to launch Film Noir Collection DVDs
MUMBAI: Warner Home Video (WHV) doubles the stakes in The Film Noir Classic Collection Vol. 4, debuting 31 July, with legendary Hollywood tough guys and femme fatales once again colliding, this time in 10...
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EA, Endemol ink partnership for Virtual Me
MUMBAI: Electronic Arts and Endemol have inked a creative partnership for the development of Virtual Me, a new digital entertainment concept that bridges the divide between traditional TV and videogames. The all-new online offering...
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Brendan Fraser signs for Mummy 3
MUMBAI: Actor Brendan Fraser has signed a lucrative contract to star in the upcoming movie Mummy 3. However, the amount that he is going to be paid has not been disclosed, reports Sheeraz Hasan Founder...
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Harry Potter Theme Park in the offing
MUMBAI: Universal Studios Florida is close to putting the final touches on a deal to set up a “Harry Potter World†on an unused portion of Orlando amusement park, according to Sheeraz Hasan Founder...
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Lindsay Lohan teams with director Siverston
MUMBAI: Lindsay Lohan says she’s excited to start working on the tentatively titled film called Hippy with director Chris Siverston after working together in I Know Who Killed Me, which is due to be...
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Spider-Man 3 premiere to travel to nine cities
MUMBAI: Columbia Pictures’ Spider-Man 3 is set to debut worldwide on 4 May and the filmmakers will travel to nine key cities, beginning with the world premiere in Tokyo, Japan on 16 April and continuing through the...
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60th Cannes Film Festival to roll on 16 May
MUMBAI: The 60th Cannes Film Festival will begin from 16 May. The competition jury this year is headed by British director Stephen Frears. During his career he had filmed scripts like Hanif Kureishi’s...
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Spider-Man 3 projections already buoyant
MUMBAI: The first round of tracking for Sony Pictures’ eagerly-awaited Spider-Man 3 has registered higher than either of its predecessors in the Sony franchise. According to www.Hollywood.tv founder Sheeraz Hasan, while Spider-Man 1...
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Tom Hanks, Ron Howard team for Da Vinci prequel
MUMBAI: Even though the critics hated it, The Da Vinci Code was a blockbuster hit, raking in a staggering £388 million in ticket sales worldwide. Sheeraz Hasan Founder of www.Hollywood.tv reports that actor Tom...
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Christina Ricci to star in Warner Bros’ Speed Racer
MUMBAI: Christina Ricci has been set to star opposite Emile Hirsch in Warner Bros. Pictures’ and Village Roadshow Pictures’ new action adventure Speed Racer. Ricci will play Trixie, Speed’s loyal and courageous girlfriend, who...
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Rob Marshall, Weinstein to take on Nine
MUMBAI: Academy Award nominated director Rob Marshall (Memoirs of A Geisha, Chicago) and The Weinstein Company are joining forces to bring the classic Broadway show Nine to the big screen. This marks the first...
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Shia LaBeouf cast in Indiana Jones film
MUMBAI: Shia LaBeouf has now been set for the new Indiana Jones movie. The announcement was made by Steven Spielberg and George Lucas. LaBeouf will join Harrison Ford who returns as the action hero. Production...
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Pirates premiere to raise $3 million for charity
MUMBAI: The Walt Disney Company is helping to make wishes come true for children all over the world by donating proceeds from the world premiere of Walt Disney Pictures/Jerry Bruckheimer Films’ Pirates of the...
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Orange partners with Paramount for VoD
MUMBAI: Paramount Pictures has inked a deal with Orange for Internet and TV Video-on-Demand offering. With this, Paramount becomes the fourth US studio to partner with Orange for its 24/24 Video service. New productions...
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Julia Roberts crusades for the environment
MUMBAI: Julia Roberts won an Oscar in 2001 for her portrayal of a crusading activist. Now that her third child is due this summer and the twins Hazel and Finn are about to turn...
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