MUMBAI: The international arm of Studio 18 is pushing the forthcoming Shahid – Kareena starrer Jab We Met abroad by releasing the movie on 26 October in Lisbon, Portugal. Apart from the US, UK...

MUMBAI: NDS, the provider of technology solutions for digital pay-TV has launched VideoGuard Express for the Indian cable market which delivers CAS security. The system has been pre-integrated with a set-top box and electronic...

MUMBAI: The Directorate of Film Festivals and Embassy of Arab Republic of Egypt will be organizing an Egyptian Film Festival from 24 to 26 October in Siri Fort Auditorium – II.  The three-day Festival...

PRESS RELEASE PVR Ltd., through its 100% subsidiary PVR Pictures is strengthening its content creation space as a part of its backward integration in the filmed entertainment space. The company has teamed up with...

MUMBAI: Multiplex major Shringar Cinemas Limited has posted a net profit of Rs 40.1 million (Rs 4.01 crores) for the second quarter of FY 2007-08 as against a net profit of Rs 26.6 million...

MUMBAI: UTV Software Communications has made an addition of three senior executives to its core team. Preneet Malhotra has been appointed as the CEO of UTV Interactive, Roma Patel as group director – finance...

MUMBAI: Eros International will be releasing Dus Kahaniyaan on 23 November, 2007. Eros International’s and Sanjay Gupta owned White Feather Films’ first project together Dus Kahaniyaan, is a film with a huge lead cast....

MUMBAI: Rap Media will be executing its agreements with Adlabs Films Ltd for the company’s various existing and proposed sites. These sites are located in the cities of Agra, Meerut, Jallandhar, Amritsar, Ludhiana, Mohali and...

MUMBAI: After being out of jail for close to two months, actor Sanjay Dutt today surrendered to the police after he received a copy of the judgment from a TADA court, which convicted him...

MUMBAI: Veteran actress Tanuja is all set for a comeback, not in films but on television through 9X, the soon-to-be-launched Hindi entertainment channel from Indrani Mukerjea’s INX. Tanuja will be seen on the small...

MUMBAI: After a shooting stint of Yuvraaj in Austria, producer – director Subhash Ghai is ready with yet another directorial venture titled Black n White. The movie completed its last schedule on 22 October in...

MUMBAI: In telecom company Bharti Airtel’s latest TV commercial, where it promotes their new Google search platform, special effects have been infused by post-production specialists Prime Focus.  The TVC has been created by Rediffusion...

MUMBAI: Music director and singer A R Rahman, the United Nations and Endemol have partnered with the soon-to-be-launched Hindi general entertainment channel, 9X for a music based show – Mission Ustaad. The show will...

MUMBAI: Multiplex chain Inox Leisure has posted a net profit of Rs 83 million (Rs 8.3 crores) for the quarter ended 30 September 2007, up 19 per cent as compared to Rs 69.6 million...

MUMBAI: Vh1 will now bring the third edition of ‘Hip Hop Hustle’ this October with the hottest Hip Hop artist in the US – Platinum Grammy Award Winner Chamillionaire who will drop his new...

MUMBAI: In a meeting held at the Sony Pictures Entertainment’s Mumbai office this morning (Monday, 22 October), Sony Pictures and Eros International have put forth a revised revenue sharing model with multiplexes for their...

MUMBAI: In a joint operation with Southall Broadway Police, London Borough of Ealing Trading Standards and the BPI, a search warrant was executed at a private address in Heston and two further related premises...

MUMBAI: Actors Irrfan Khan, Konkona Sen Sharma, director Rajkumar Hirani, singer Shaan and music director, script writer and director Vishal Bhardwaj have been nominated in the entertainment category for the seventh Annual Teacher’s Achievement Awards....

MUMBAI: Excel Home Videos has won two awards at the recently held global Walt Disney Studios Home Entertainment licensee conference in Paris.   This is the first time that Excel Home Videos has won...

PRESS RELEASE This news will certainly have all of Shahid’s Gujarati fans smiling. The producers and distributors of JAB WE MET are leaving no stone unturned to publicise the film, which hits cinemas next...

MUMBAI: On 16 October, a special preview of the romantic comedy Jab We Met was organised in Mumbai. Shahid Kapur attended the preview with Pankaj Kapur and Supriya Pathak. However, Kareena Kapoor, not surprisingly,...

MUMBAI: Nick will premier Nin x Nin on Nick Home Cinema. The movie iwll be aired on 21 October at 11 am.   Kanzo Hattori, an apprentice ninja, leaves his hometown of Iga to...

MUMBAI: Actor Salman Khan has signed a film with Shree Ashtavinayak Cine Vision.   However, the details of the film are still being worked upon. The shooting for the film, which is scheduled to...

MUMBAI: E-City Ventures promoted E-City Films has acquired exclusive distribution rights for Hollywood movie Shoot ‘Em Up in India across all territories.   E-City Films has entered into a distribution tie-up with New Line...

MUMBAI: India‘s biggest obsessions – Cricket and Bollywood celebs rocked at a party hosted by Neo Sports and BCCI at Hard Rock Café on 18 October. The bash witnessed the presence of the entire...

MUMBAI: Soon after the conclusion of Zee’s Sa Re Ga Ma Pa 2007, the channel is all set with the second series of last years musical reality show, Sa Re Ga Ma Pa –...

Film: Saawariya Director: Sanjay Leela Bhansali Producers: SLB Films and Sony Pictures Cast: Ranbir Kapoor, Sonam Kapoor, Salman Khan, Rani Mukherji, Zohra Sehgal Music Director: Monty Sharma Release Date: 9 November, 2007 “Saawariya” is...

Film: Speed Director: Vikram Bhatt Producer: Harry Baweja Banner: Baweja Movies Cast: Aftab Shivdasani, Zayed Khan, Sanjay Suri, Urmila Matondkar, Amrita Arora, Aashish Chaudhary, Tanushree Datta, Sophie Chaudhary Music Director: Pritam Chakraborty Cinematography: Praveen...

MUMBAI: Studio 18 national head – domestic distribution Utpal Acharya will be joining Inox Leisure Ltd as the vice president – exhibition, business development, new alliances and strategy. Acharya will be replacing Saurabh Varma,...

MUMBAI: News Corporation’s wholly-owned subsidiary based out of Hong Kong – Star – is expanding distribution of its signature Hindi and Mandarin language programming in North America with the opening of a sales office...

MUMBAI: A total of 45 films will compete for the top award in the International Competition and 20 for the award in the Asian Panorama in the forthcoming International Children’s Film Festival, The Golden...

MUMBAI: B4U Network will be the official media sponsor of the Mayor of London’s Annual Diwali Event, at Trafalgar Square in London on 28 October. This is the third consecutive year that B4U has...

MUMBAI: The Indian Film Festival of Los Angeles (IFFLA) has called for entries for the upcoming festival to be held at its home, ArcLight Hollywood for the 6th year. IFFLA 2008 festival will run...

MUMBAI: White Feather Arthouse Films’ first film – The Great Indian Butterfly, after being selected for the Indo-America Arts Council Film Festival, is now set to go to the River to River, Florence Indian...

MUMBAI: This weekend on Amul Star Voice of India, actor Shahid Kapur will mesmerize one and all with his dancing skills while also displaying his singing prowess. The episode will be aired on 19...

MUMBAI: Naksha producer Akshay Bajaj will soon be launching three films. Of the three projects, one is romantic, while the other two are comedy.   Bajaj was also the executive producer of Ramji Londonwale.  ...

MUMBAI: After its fall out with Prime Focus for post production facilities, Adlabs, which is the market leader in film processing lab business, is now readying to set up a digital post production lab....

MUMBAI: NDTV’s standalone revenues were up 46 per cent year on year for the quarter ending 30 September, 2007. The company’s revenues for Q2, FY 2008 touched Rs 680 million (Rs 68 crores) compared...

MUMBAI: Banking on the upcoming festive season of Diwali, Disney Channel is telecasting a watch and win ‘Diwali Dumb Duma Dum’ contest, every evening between 5 – 8 pm.   The interactive three week...

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PRESS RELEASE Avalon Aviation Academy, the aviation training wing of Aptech Limited, a Global learning Solutions Company, has opened a new centre at Kingsway Camp, near Delhi University – North Campus today. The centre...

MUMBAI: Eros International is planning to invest approximately $40-60 million to produce films in India through its new company with Charles Darby – EyeQube Studios. Eros announced its newly formed visual effects led entity...

MUMBAI: UTV Broadcasting’s affiliate company V&S Broadcasting has appointed Sanjay Bhasin as vice president, sales.   Bhasin will lead the ad sales division of V&S Broadcasting for their forthcoming set of three channels in...

MUMBAI: Anuj Saxena’s Maverick Productions, which recently stepped into the distribution business, has acquired the distribution rights of Farah Khan’s Om Shanti Om starring Shah Rukh Khan for the Rajasthan territory. Maverick will distribute...