MUMBAI: Rentrak Corporation announced that MPG has licensed Rentrak’s TV Essentials database of millions of reporting households in order to gain access to deeper insights provided by the company’s robust and granular set-top-box (STB)...
Read More
Content acquires international rights to 96 MINUTES
MUMBAI: Content has acquired international rights to SXSW’s 96 MINUTES. Inspired by true events, the drama is written and directed by Aimee Lagos. The film stars a mind-blowing young cast including Brittany Snow, Evan...
Read More
Sony Pictures & MGM ink worldwide theatrical distribution & co-financing pact
<p>MGM partners with Sony Pictures Entertainment to co-finance and theatrically market and distribute Bond 23 worldwide.</p>...
Read More
MTV Networks Entertainment Group launches new video game division
MUMBAI: MTV Networks Entertainment Group (MTVNE) is launching 345 Games, a new video gaming arm of Comedy Central and Spike TV. The new gaming unit will develop products based on the Entertainment Group’s franchises...
Read More
Disney & Shanghai Shendi Group to open first theme park in mainland China
MUMBAI: The Walt Disney Company and Shanghai Shendi Group, its joint venturepartner in China, will open the Shanghai Disney Resort following approval from theChinese central government, in Beijing. Both companies marked the start of...
Read More
Stephen K Friedman promoted as president of MTV
MUMBAI: Stephen K. Friedman has been promoted as the president of MTV. He had previously served as general manager, a position he held since 2008. In this role, Friedman oversees MTV, the world’s premier...
Read More
APSA winners to premiere at Beijing International Film Festival
MUMBAI: Four Asia Pacific Screen Awards (APSA) winners and a 2010 official entry will have their premiere in Mainland China this month at the inaugural Beijing International Film Festival (BJIFF). Darbareye Elly (About Elly,...
Read More
Starz begins production on Wizard of Oz 3D budgeted at $20 million
MUMBAI: Starz Animation Toronto, Multiple Media Entertainment (MME), and Gigapix Studios are set to begin production on the stereoscopic CG animated feature film, with the working title OZ3D, a humorous and contemporary adaptation of...
Read More
First ever 3D outdoor premiere for Pirates of the Caribbean: On Stranger Tides
MUMBAI: The Walt Disney Company is donating proceeds from the World Premiere of Walt Disney Pictures/Jerry Bruckheimer Films’ Pirates of the Caribbean: On Stranger Tides, to Boys & Girls Clubs of America. The first-ever...
Read More
Sony Corporation of America retains UM as agency of record
MUMBAI: UM, a division of IPG’s Mediabrands, has reached a new three-year agreement with Sony Corporation of America under which it will continue to serve as media planning and buying Agency of Record in...
Read More