MUMBAI: China has stopped giving permission for American films to be shown in its theaters, as per recent media reports. While the Chinese government has not announced any ban, American movies are no longer...

MUMBAI: Fueled By Ramen recording group Paramore has been nominated as Best New Artist at the upcoming 50th Annual Grammy Awards. The news comes just as ‘RIOT!’, the band’s acclaimed second album, has received...

MUMBAI: EMI Records has launched a series of artist marketing campaigns utilising the Apple iPhone and iPod touch platforms to showcase audiovisual content. Initial activity to make use of the devices’ compelling wi-fi experience...

MUMBAI: Nickelodeon, a division of Viacom Inc.’s MTV Networks, and DreamWorks Animation SKG, Inc., have tied for a new, 26-episode, CG animated comedy series tentatively titled The Penguins of Madagascar. The Penguins of Madagascar is...

MUMBAI: The networks have walked away again from negotiating a fair deal with the on digital media earnings and TV viewers continue to miss their favorite shows, but now fans have a chance to...

MUMBAI: The founder and former CEO of the Dubai International Film Festival (DIFF) has filed a multi-million dollar lawsuit against two senior officials of the festival “for their deplorable and despicable behavior,” charging they...

MUMBAI: MPAA and RIAA have kicked-off the holiday shopping season with a multi-state effort to curtail sales of counterfeit CDs and DVDs in Los Angeles, New York, Atlanta, Dallas, Chicago, and New Orleans The...

MUMBAI: A new research released by media analysts Screen Digest reveals how the European TV-based video-on-demand and pay-per-view markets will develop over the next five years and what the industry is worth today.  From...

MUMBAI: Jason Spivak has joined Sony Pictures Home Entertainment (SPHE) as Senior Vice President, Strategic Development. Additionally, Noam Meppen has been promoted to Vice President, Retail Promotions and Merchandising and Jamie Glinsky to Executive...

MUMBAI: The latest report from media analysts, Screen Digest, entitled – Digital Cinema: Global and European roll-out, business models and forecasts to 2012, argues that Europe has reached a tipping point for digital cinema...

MUMBAI: The Walt Disney Co., Co-chairman of media networks and Disney-ABC Television Group, president, Anne Sweeney was named the most powerful woman in entertainment on The Hollywood Reporter’s 16th annual Women in Entertainment: Power 100...

MUMBAI: Entertainment superstar Dolly Parton was at London’s Savoy Hotel and traveled to the Magna Science and Adventure Park in Rotherham to announce the launch of her Imagination Library program in the United Kingdom....

The joint venture between Warner Bros. Entertainment, Universal Pictures and Digital Cinema Implementation Partners (DCIP), has now officially been named the Digital Cinema Distribution Coalition and has hired industry veteran Steven B. Cohen as...

MUMBAI: Thomson announced that Qube Cinema, a key supplier of digital sinema systems, has selected NexGuard, Thomson’s comprehensive, state-of-the-art content security suite, for integration into its DCI compliant D-Cinema and non-DCI E-Cinema servers across the...

MUMBAI: USTelematics, Inc., deploying proprietary technology and market-disruptive products at the forefront of the connected-car revolution, has enhanced its Voyager product line with the addition of Apple iTunes functionality and services, by integrating Voyager’s...

MUMBAI: SRC/Universal Motown star Akon has been nominated for four Grammys 2008, including possible honors for Best Contemporary R&B Album for his multi-platinum-five million selling album Konvicted, Best Rap Song for his hit, I...

MUMBAI: Fox Entertainment Group (FEG) has taken over Beliefnet, a web site that enables consumers to better understand their faith and build diverse spiritual communities by providing content and tools for a broad range...

MUMBAI: Popular social network, MySpacehas launched MySpace Transmissions, a music program that empowers top recording artists with a new platform to create and distribute exclusive video content available for viral distribution and audio tracks...

MUMBAI: Media 8 Entertainment, the film entertainment company engaged in the production, financing, acquisition, and worldwide licensing of theatrical feature films, and Blockbuster Inc., the global provider of in-home movie and game entertainment have...

MUMBAI: MovieTickets.com, the nternet movie ticketing service provider, has entered into a partnership with Starplex Cinemas, a Dallas-based theater chain operating 23 theaters and 216 screens nationwide.  MovieTickets.com, executive vice president and general manager,...

MUMBAI: George Clooney offered insights into his life and work in a special public session entitled – In Conversation with George Clooney at The Dubai International Film Festival. DIFF programmer and film critic Sheila...

MUMBAI: Universal Music Group (UMG) and imeem have entered into an agreement that will provide the imeem community with on-demand, interactive streaming of Universal’s extensive digital music and video catalog. With this announcement, imeem...

MUMBAI: VideoEgg, Inc., the leader in helping brands connect with people in online environments, is helping fill the vacuum media buyers are experiencing during the writers’ strike.   Providing targeted, engagement-driven online video advertisements,...

MUMBAI: Sony has installed the latest CineAlta 4K SRX-R220 digital cinema projectors, together with the LMT-100 Media Block servers and LSM-100 Screen Management System for the Cathay Cineplexes in Singapore, a cinema operator providing...

MUMBAI: As Blu-ray hardware enters Australian homes, Sony companies are collaborating with the country’s two leading movie rental chains to educate consumers on the high definition home entertainment format. The Video Ezy and BLOCKBUSTER...

MUMBAI: Thomson, through its Technicolor Digital Cinema business, and the Infocomm Development Authority (IDA) of Singapore announced a partnership to establish a digital cinema hub and network operations centre (NOC) in Singapore.   “Thomson...

MUMBAI: The Walt Disney Internet Group has acquired iParenting Media in a move that adds to its line-up of family-targeted web properties within Disney Online, including Disney Family.com, FamilyFun.com and Wondertime.com.   With the...

MUMBAI: IMAX Corporation and AMC Entertainment Inc., have inked a joint-venture agreement to install 100 IMAX digital projection systems at AMC locations in 33 major US markets.   AMC’s initial 50 IMAX digital locations...

MUMBAI: During a “fireside chat” with investors at UBS’s 35th annual Global Media and Communications Conference, Motion Picture Association of America, Inc. (MPAA) chairman and CEO Dan Glickman discussed the global and technological opportunities...

MUMBAI: New legislation proposed in the US House of Representatives will crack down on intellectual property theft in the US and abroad. Motion Picture Association of America, Inc. Chairman and CEO Dan Glickman thanked...

MUMBAI: Led by the worldwide success of 300 and Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix earlier this year, and the more recently launched Fred Claus and Beowulf, Warner Bros. Pictures International (WBPI)...

MUMBAI: New Line Cinema has promoted Elissa Greer to Executive Vice President of Publicity and Promotions.   The studio’s Executive Vice President of Marketing, Christina Kounelias stated, “Elissa is a smart, creative, and resourceful...