MUMBAI: Radio station, Fever 104 FM kicked off the musical extravaganza of composer A.R. Rahman who performed live in the Raja Garden, West Delhi. It was a three hour long performance by Rahman and...
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WGA strike draws music industry supporters
MUMBAI: As the second week of the 2007 screenwriters strike approaches, Hollywood‘s troubles strike a chord with more industries outside of television and film. Recording artists have begun to assemble alongside the writers in...
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Bebo is Sony Crackle’s distribution partner
MUMBAI: Sony Pictures Entertainment’s Crackle has added Bebo’s Open Media to their list of viral distribution partners, which includes MySpace, Facebook, hi5, AOL, Piczo and WordPress among others. The move enables Crackle’s content to...
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Bennett, Seinfeld to perform at Sony event
MUMBAI: Sony Pictures Television’s presentation at the 2008 Consumer Electronics Show will include performances by multiple Grammy and Emmy Award-winner Tony Bennett and Golden Globe and Emmy winner Jerry Seinfeld. Also appearing at the...
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Kramer wins Sony’s Crackle Best Short Film
MUMBAI: Crackle, a Sony Pictures Entertainment Company, has named John Kramer the winner of its first short-film contest. Filmmakers across the country submitted their best work to the streaming entertainment network’s Shorts channel with...
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Sony Pictures acquires Jackson’s District 9
MUMBAI: Sony Pictures Entertainment has acquired North American distribution rights as well as distribution rights in a significant number of foreign territories, including all English speaking territories, to the Peter Jackson produced sci-fi motion...
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Music Review: Dhan Dhana Dhan Goal
Film: Dhan Dhana Dhan Goal Director: Vivek Aghnihotri Producer: Ronnie Screwvala Music Directors: Pritam Lyrics: Javed Akhtar Rating: 2.5/5 Pritam is certainly the musician of the year. Barring...
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Music of Big B’s Bhojpuri film released
MUMBAI: Industrialist Pappu Pittie and producer Deepak Sawant hosted a party to celebrate Bhojpuri film Gangotri’s release. Interestingly, Gangotri’s music released post the film’s release. The event was graced by the Bachchan family...
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Beyoncé gets International Artist Award
MUMBAI: The winners of The 2007 American Music Awards were announced during a live event televised on ABC. International superstar Beyoncé was honored with the International Artist Award of Excellence for her efforts to...
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Divya Kumar to direct Pankaj Udhas’s album
MUMBAI: Wife of T-Series head honcho Bhushan Kumar and actress, Divya Khosla Kumar is all set to direct ghazal singer Pankaj Udhas’s new album. However, this is not her first shot at direction....
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BBC World scores hattrick at Promax Asia
MUMBAI: BBC World was conferred with three awards, two Gold and one Silver, at the Promax Asia Conference 2007, held on the 14 – 15 November at The Art House in Singapore. The...
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Mahadevan directs 3 films for Mirchi Movies
MUMBAI: Director Anant Mahadevan seems to be a roll these days. While recently, he was in news for signing films with Smita Thackaray, Moser Baer and Multi-vision, the director now has new film deals...
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UTV, multiplexes disagree over Goal’s terms
MUMBAI: Differences between producers and multiplexes over revenue sharing terms continue to crop up. While first it was only Yash Raj Films that had the clout over demanding higher revenue shares for its movies,...
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Shah Rukh, Chak De! get V Shantaram Award
MUMBAI: Yash Raj Films’ sports blockbuster Chak De! India was honored at the V. Shantaram Awards. Chak De! India won for Best Film, Best Director (Shimit Amin), Best Actor (Shah Rukh Khan), Best Editor...
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