MUMBAI: Pyramid Saimira Theatre Ltd’s production company Pyramid Saimira Productions International Ltd. is going to take up a mega Kannada movie project titled Omm. The movie will be directed by Ravi Srivatsva and will...
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Autodesk offers Maya 08 Extension 1 software
MUMBAI: Autodesk, Inc. has launched Autodesk Maya 2008 Extension 1 software, which introduces Maya Muscle functionality into the 3D modeling, animation, visual effects and rendering solution. This comprehensive muscle and skin system, recently acquired...
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Warner Home Video promotes 2 executives
MUMBAI: Warner Home Video has promoted Dan Miron to Executive Vice President, Worldwide Supply Chain Management and Richard Siao has been named Senior Vice President, Sales Planning and Operations. In his new post,...
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Barco crosses 2000 D-Cinema milestone
MUMBAI: Barco, the player in digital cinema, has reached its 2,000th 2K digital cinema projector milestone. The company now holds more than 55% market share in Europe and 65% in the Asian Pacific region...
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TorrentSpy ops liable for copyright fraud
MUMBAI: In a significant victory for the major Hollywood studios, a federal judge in Los Angeles has terminated an ongoing lawsuit against the operators of TorrentSpy.com in favor of all six of the Motion...
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Shemaroo unveils video for pre-schoolers
MUMBAI: Shemaroo Entertainment has released a video for kids – ‘Smart Cookie Vol 1 – Pyjama Party’. Designed for an age group from one-seven years, primarily targeting pre-schoolers, this video is a playful imaginative...
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26 arrest orders for copyright violations
MUMBAI: In May 2007, U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) agents, working in conjunction with U.S. Secret Service (USSS), the Puerto Rico Bureau of Special Investigations, and officials of the Motion Picture Association of America...
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Disney uses Realscan 3D for Book of Secrets
MUMBAI: Realscan 3D, a Los Angeles-based effects company specializing in solutions in high resolution, high color structured light 3-D scanning, recently overcame a number of challenges to deliver high-quality scans used in the production...
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Autodesk provides effects for Sony’s Beowulf
MUMBAI: Sony Pictures Imageworks has used Autodesk Maya and Autodesk MotionBuilder software to shape hundreds of 3D animation and visual effects shots for Beowulf, director Robert Zemeckis’ new stereoscopic film. Sony Pictures Imageworks...
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New Line Cinema, MGM to co-produce movie
MUMBAI: Academy Award-winning filmmaker Peter Jackson; Harry Sloan, Chairman and CEO, Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer Studios Inc.; Bob Shaye and Michael Lynne, Co-Chairmen and Co-CEOs of New Line Cinema have jointly entered into the following series of...
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Blockbuster donates 20000 DVDs to US army
MUMBAI: Blockbuster Inc., the provider of in-home movie and game rentals, is once again teaming up with the USO to donate more than 20,000 DVDs for US military men and women stationed around the...
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Indiagames to offer two titles on GoD
MUMBAI: Indian online and mobile games company Indiagames has tied up with Level Up – a multiplayer online role playing game’s company (MMORPG) to launch two of its popular game titles – Ragnarok and Gunz...
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Tata Elxsi renders VFX for Aamir’s TZP
MUMBAI: Tata Elxsi’s Visual Computing Labs has rendered the visual effects for Aamir Khan’s home production ‘Taare Zameen Par’. Tata Elxsi creative director Visual Computing Labs, Pankaj Khandpur said, “We have worked with Aamir...
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Sun launches FM station at Vijayawada
MUMBAI: Sun TV Network Ltd has launched its FM radio station at Vijayawada under the brand ‘S FM’ from 25 December, 2007 through its subsidiary Kal Radio Ltd. This station can be heard at...
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Refex Refrigerants partners with TV 18
MUMBAI: Refex Refrigerants Limited, a Chennai based leading refrigerants management solutions provider has entered into a partnership with TV 18. Refex Refrigerants managing director Anil Jain said, “Refex is on a high growth path and...
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Hello FM establishes in Puducherry
MUMBAI: Hello 106.4FM has launched its sixth station in Puducherry by going on air from 23 December. This station will also be maintaining the same frequency as its other radio stations. On the launch...
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T-Series unveils Adnan Sami’s latest album
MUMBAI: After the success of Tera Chehra and Kisi Din, singer-composer Adnan Sami and T-Series’ Bhushan Kumar have joined hands again to come out with a new album, Best Friends. The album was released...
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India: Welcome overtakes Taare collections
(UPDATED: Wednesday, 26 December, 9.00 pm) MUMBAI: The weekend collections in India of last week’s releases Welcome and Taare Zameen Par have been announced by the respective companies. Studio 18 distributed Welcome grossed...
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Benegal to rope in Hrithik for film on Buddha
MUMBAI: Beyond Dreams Entertainment Limited’s CEO Yash Patnaik and Light of Asia Foundation Chairman, Navin Gooneratne are all set to produce a historic film to be directed by filmmaker Shyam Benegal based on Gautam...
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Total Exports to foray into film business
MUMBAI: Madhya Pradesh based company Total Exports Ltd is planning to foray into the media and entertainment business. The company, at its board meeting on 4 January, 2008, will be looking at getting an...
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Ashtavinayak raises $33 mn via FCCBs
Shree Ashtavinayak Cine Vision has raised $33 million via foreign currency convertible bonds for expansion....
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