Google inks deal with Sony BMG Music Entertainment & Warner Music Group to provide music videos online for free....

MUMBAI: Traditional video-on-demand (VoD) services may not be growing at a particularly rapid pace, but the introduction of time shifting, network PVR, and mobile video will propel the demand for VOD technology as the number...

In 2006, the bulk of the $16.9 billion revenue will come from standard-definition DVD: Kagan Research....

MUMBAI: Google Inc has agreed to acquire YouTube, the consumer media company for people to watch and share original videos through a Web experience, for $1.65 billion in a stock-for-stock transaction. Following the acquisition,...

MUMBAI: Zizzle Toys has launched the Black Pearl Playset for kids from this year’s blockbuster film – Pirates of the Caribbean: Dead Man’s Chest, starring Johny Depp. Zizzle president and CEO Roger Shiffman said, “Pirates...

MUMBAI: Sony Pictures Home Entertainment (SPHE) has launched the first three 50GB dual-layer Blu-ray Discs (BD) – Click, Black Hawk Down and Talladega Nights: The Ballad of Ricky Bobby. The heart-warming comedy Click, starring...

MUMBAI: LucasArts and Sony Online Entertainment debuted an enhanced trial for Star Wars Galaxies that, for the first time ever, delivers all the exciting content of the full versions of Star Wars Galaxies: An...

MUMBAI: IMAX Corporation and Sony Pictures Entertainment announced that Sony Pictures Animation’s Open Season, directed by Roger Allers (The Lion King), Jill Culton (Toy Story 2, Monsters Inc.), and co-director Anthony Stacchi (ANTZ), grossed...

MUMBAI: Nearly a month before the upcoming DreamWorks Animation and Aardman Features comedy Flushed Away hits theaters, fans will have the opportunity to meet and interact with the film’s animated characters in an online...

MUMBAI: Viacom’s Paramount Motion Picture Group and Dresdner Kleinwort has inked a $300 million film financing arrangement. The fund, named Melrose Investors 2 LLC (Melrose 2), will invest in the production of at least...