MUMBAI: Mark Wahlberg and Matt Damon, who teamed up in the Boston police saga The Departed, are set to reunite in Paramount Pictures’ The Fighter. David Hoberman and Todd Lieberman are producing through their...

MUMBAI: Sony Pictures Television International (SPTI) has signed aN agreement to exclusively acquire all international television, Internet, digital sell-through, gaming and mobile rights to Afterworld, a futuristic 2.5D animated episodic property from Emmy Award...

MUMBAI: Disney Online will be launching Pirates of the Caribbean massively multiplayer online role-playing game (MMORPG) based on the film franchise. Scheduled to launch in spring 2007, Pirates of the Caribbean Online will allow...

MUMBAI: Lionsgate and Apple announced that movies from Lionsgate will be available for purchase and download on the iTunes Store. iTunes customers will be able to purchase blockbuster Lionsgate films like Terminator 2, LA...

MUMBAI: During 2006, the International Chamber of Commerce’s BASCAP Intelligence Reports monitored 414 global incidents of intellectual property theft which relate primarily to mobile, temporary, and low rent locations in 44 countries. Street vendors,...

MUMBAI: Disney has renamed its video game business unit to Disney Interactive Studios. Disney Interactive Studios’ senior vice president and general manager Graham Hopper said, “This change reflects our focus on creativity, the weight...

MUMBAI: Walt Disney Pictures’ new CG-animated feature Tinker Bell will be released worldwide in mid-2008 from Disney’s Buena Vista Worldwide Home Entertainment. The announcement was made by Buena Vista Worldwide Home Entertainment president Bob...

DreamWorks Animation SKG and Aardman Animations, Ltd. will no longer continue their exclusive partnership in creating animated films.   Together the two companies have collaborated on three feature films: Chicken Run (2000), Wallace &...

MUMBAI: The Motion Picture & Television Fund (MPTF) today announced that the benefit auction, From the Twentieth Century Fox Archives: Documents from the Golden Age of Hollywood, raised in excess of $250,000 for the...

MUMBAI: Continuing its 73-year association with the Academy Awards, PricewaterhouseCoopers (PwC) has announced that Brad Oltmanns and Rick Rosas will lead the balloting process for the 79th Annual Academy Awards.   For the second...