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Amrita TV’s Best Actor winner off to Hollywood
MUMBAI: Amrita TV’s reality show Best Actor, held at Calicut on 25 January, was won by Calicut’s Surabhi Lekshmi. Four finalists were vying for the title of Oxywash Best Actor but the BA Bharatanatyam...
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Cinemax India posts PAT of Rs 115 million
MUMBAI: Cinemax India has reported profit after tax (PAT) of Rs 115.2 million (Rs 11.52 crores) for the nine months ended unaudited consolidated financial results for the year 2007-08. The company has posted...
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Hanaro Telecom inks deal with Disney
MUMBAI: Korean telecom company Hanaro Telecom has signed a content deal with The Walt Disney Company to provide the latter’s movies over its HanaTV IPTV service. Under the deal, Hanaro Telecom will gain...
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Winners of 2007 DGA Awards announced
MUMBAI: Joel Coen and Ethan Coen have won DGA’s Outstanding Directorial Achievement in Feature Film for No Country for Old Men. The winners of the 2007 Directors Guild of America Outstanding Directorial Achievement Awards...
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Napster, Ericsson roll out music service
MUMBAI: Ericsson and Napster have announced the launch of the Napster Mobile music service with Telecom Italia through its mobile brand TIM, the leading mobile carrier serving the Italian market with over 35 million...
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Johnson named prez at Nickelodeon/MTV Kids
MUMBAI: Brown Johnson, formerly Executive Vice President, Creative Director, Nickelodeon Preschool, and General Manager, NOGGIN has been promoted to the newly created position of President, Animation, Nickelodeon and MTVN Kids and Family Group, it...
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Radio City launches hunt for best Hindi band
MUMBAI: Radio City 91.1FM launched RC Live – the nationwide hunt for India‘s best Hindi band. The reality show RC Live will have judges like Subir Malik of Parikrama, Palash Sen of Euphoria and...
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Disney Channel premieres Phineas and Ferb
MUMBAI: Disney Channel will premiere its original animated series Phineas and Ferb, an imaginative comedy from animation producers Dan Povenmire (Family Guy) and Jeff ‘Swampy’ Marsh (The Simpsons), in a month-long global programming event...
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Oscar Nominee No End in Sight on DVD
MUMBAI: Nominated for an Academy Award for Best Documentary, No End In Sight is available on DVD from Magnolia Home Entertainment. From writer, director, producer Charles Ferguson, a former senior fellow at the Brookings...
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Shemaroo releases Mahendra Kapoor’s songs
MUMBAI: Shemaroo Entertainment has released a series of Ultimate Unremix that features the original songs of veteran singer Mahendra Kapoor. The two DVD pack of 50 songs features 25 solo songs in volume I...
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AV Max Expo 2008 to be held in Delhi
MUMBAI: Infomedia India will be organizing India‘s largest Audio & Video exhibition Av Max Expo ’08 in Delhi to be inaugurated on 2 February at Pragati Maidan. This Ninth edition of the AV...
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IFC, Lionsgate ink 70-film TV licensing deal
MUMBAI: IFC, the first and most widely distributed network dedicated to independent culture, and Lionsgate, the premier independent filmed entertainment studio, have concluded a major licensing deal for a package of 70 Lionsgate feature...
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Adlabs post profit after tax of Rs 220 mn
MUMBAI: Reliance Anil Dhirubhai Ambani Group’s (ADAG) Adlabs Films has reported profit after tax (PAT) of Rs 220 million (Rs 22 crores). The company’s revenues across all divisions logged growth in the quarter...
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Bollywood & jewelry brands dazzle together
MUMBAI: Talk about glamour and either Bollywood or stunning jewelry comes to mind. And everyone wants to be associated with them. Understanding this aspirational psyche, India’s jewelry brands are joining hands with the latest...
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Sony BMG forays into Tamil music market
MUMBAI: Sony BMG India is marking its entry into the growing music market in Tamil Nadu by signing on Dhasavadhaaram. Kollywood’s leading producer and distributor V. Ravichandran’s film Dhasavadhaaram stars Kamal Hassan. The music...
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Eros’ Toonpur Ka Superhero goes on floors
The 3D & live action animation film - Toonpur Ka Superhero, directed by Kireet Khurana was launched....
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Glasgow Film Festival set to kickoff
GLASGOW: The Glasgow Film Festival 2008 is all set to enthrall cinema lovers yet again. Scheduled to be held between 14 and 24 February, the lineup of the films to be screened is large...
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Bollywood.tv goes global with Stardust Awards
MUMBAI: Bollywood.tv, a portal for South Asian film and entertainment content, celebrated its launch among the crème of the Indian film industry at the Max Stardust Awards 2008. Bollywood.tv CEO Nigel Glynn-Davies said, “Bollywood.tv is proud...
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ROK Ent, China Mobile Pakistan ink deal
MUMBAI: ROK Entertainment Group, the UK-based mobile technologies, applications and entertainment development company has announced that it has signed a contract with China Mobile Pakistan (CMPak) through its partners BPS to supply a portfolio...
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Aishwarya turns producer with Hollywood film
MUMBAI: Aishwarya Rai Bachchan is all set to act and play the role of an executive producer for the Bhopal Movie. The film is based on the story of a young woman’s search for...
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Shringar Cinemas posts net profit of Rs 36 million
MUMBAI: Shringar Cinemas Limited has posted a net profit of Rs 36 million for the third quarter of FY 2007-08. The company’s total revenues rose by 37 per cent year-on-year at Rs 246 million against...
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Jaman.com launches online film festival
MUMBAI: To pay a tribute to the influence of Hong Kong cinema on Hollywood, Jaman.com has partenered with Asian cinema distributor Fortune Star, for a six-month Hong Kong Online Film Festival. This retrospective dedicated...
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Wilding’s Buddha Wild comes to IFFTAC
MUMBAI: The theatrically released feature film Buddha Wild Monk in a Hut, directed, written and presented by actress and producer Anna Wilding, has been accepted as a finalist into the International Festival of Films...
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WGAW grants interim agreement for Grammys
MUMBAI: The Writers Guild of America, West (WGAW) has agreed to grant an interim agreement for this year’s Grammy Awards in Los Angeles. This will allow for written material for the show to be...
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BR Films ramps up production; signs three directors
MUMBAI: Film production seems to be picking pace like never before. Taking a lead is BR Films’ Ravi Chopra, who is getting aggressive on production. Chopra already has multiple projects in the pipeline...
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Star Movies brings back the Award Fever
MUMBAI: It’s that time of the year again. The countdown to the Oscars has begun and Star Movies will feature movies that have been honored by the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences...
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Starz to roll drama series on film Crash
MUMBAI: Crash, a new original drama series based on the Academy Award-winning Best Picture will debut exclusively on Starz in 2008. The 13-episode, one-hour series, co-produced with Lionsgate, will be Starz’s first ever original...
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Despite WGA strike, people watch TV: Carat
MUMBAI: What were celebrities talking about on the red carpet at the recently held Screen Actors Guild Awards? It wasn’t just gossip and couture. The buzz was about the writers’ strike. To gain a...
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Lottery funded films score at Sundance
MUMBAI: Man on Wire, a feature documentary film by British filmmaker James Marsh and supported by the Lottery through the UK Film Council’s New Cinema Fund has won two prizes at Sundance, the leading...
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Jaaved Jafferi on a film signing spree
MUMBAI: After the success of Dhamaal, Jaaved Jafferi is marching ahead with many new projects in hand. He has signed 10 films with some various filmmakers. Jafferi said, “Yes I am doing multiple projects. As...
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Eisner to co-produce series on Cook’s novel
MUMBAI: Ex-Disney chief Michael Eisner’s company Vuguru is launching an innovative prequel web and mobile phone series based on G.P. Putnam’s Sons latest novel, Foreign Body from author Robin Cook. The series will be...
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imeem buys web music player Anywhere.FM
MUMBAI: Social media network imeem has acquired Anywhere.FM, a San Francisco-based web music player and Internet radio service. The acquisition of Anywhere.FM brings music uploading capabilities, a web music player, and recommendation features that...
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UTV’s soap Bhabhi celebrates 1200 episode
MUMBAI: UTV’s tele-serial Bhabhi that airs on Star Plus celebrated the completion of its 1200th episode with the entire cast and crew at Madh Island on 25 January. “Star TV has always been a platform...
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Kabir Bedi talks to Farhan Akhtar on Zoom
MUMBAI: Farhan Akhtar’s Dil Chahta Hai added contemporary nuances to the language of Indian cinema, making the young filmmaker hot property almost overnight. Considering Ahktar is one of the industry’s youngest producers, directors and...
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Baba Arts acquires Mahadev Productions
MUMBAI: Baba Arts has acquired a majority stake in Mahadev Productions, producer of Bhojpuri films. They bought over the company by acquiring a 51 per cent stake. Bhojpuri actor Ravi Kissen also a stake...
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‘The box office collection of my second film should be better than that of Heyy Babyy’ – Sajid Khan
The man has almost had a makeover with his short haircut and weight loss of 20 kilos. That’s not it; actor turned director Sajid Khan is even going to work towards building a physique...
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Shringar to pump Rs 100 mn in production
MUMBAI: Exhibition and distribution company Shringar Cinemas Ltd has now firmed up its film production plans. Businessofcinema.com was the first to report in December last year that the company was mulling a foray into...
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French honour for Shah Rukh Khan
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Vir Sanghvi quits Mukerjea’s NewsX as CEO
MUMBAI: NewsX CEO Vir Sanghvi has put in his papers at the company. As per an official release, the company and Sanghvi jointly announced their decision to terminate their professional working relationship with effect...
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MAX Stardust Awards 2008
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Actor Sanjay Kapoor inaugurates AAFT Noida
MUMBAI: Actor Sanjay Kapoor inaugurated the 58th batch of Asian Academy of Film & Television (AAFT). The star shared his experiences, both good and bad, which he encountered during his career. After the ceremony, he...
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Dhoni joins Saif, Juhi to endorse FritoLays
MUMBAI: PepsiCo India Holdings’ FritoLay division has signed Mahendra Singh Dhoni as its new brand ambassador. Dhoni will join Bollywood actors and long standing FritoLay ambassadors Saif Ali Khan and Juhi Chawla to launch...
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Indian Film Company to delopy £20 mn in Q4 08
MUMBAI: The Indian Film Company (TIFC) will be deploying approximately £20 million in Q4 2008. TIFC invested £21.64 million till Q3 2008. The company’s total net asset value is up 2.38 per cent to...
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Sun TV launches FM station at Kanpur
MUMBAI: Sun TV Network Ltd will be launching an FM radio station at Kanpur under the brand S FM from 29 January through its subsidiary South Asia FM Ltd. This station can be heard...
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NDTV Imagine’s Dhoom Macha De to launch on 1 Feb
MUMBAI: Starting 1 February, NDTV Imagine’s musical show Idea Dhoom Macha De will go on air. The show will be aired at 8.30 pm. For the first time ever on television, 11 of India’s popular...
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Max Stardust Awards to air 16 February
MUMBAI: The Hindi film industry descended at the MMRDA grounds, Bandra Kurla Complex in Mumbai for the Max Stardust Awards. The awards saw performances by Saif Ali Khan, Kareena Kapoor, Lara Dutta, Govinda and...
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Sony Ericsson inks deal with 10 record labels
MUMBAI: Sony Ericsson announced deals with 10 major record labels at the MIDEM conference in Cannes, adding over five million new tracks to its catalogue. The company unveiled the next stage in the evolution...
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Brian Burkin named SVP at Sony Pictures Ent
MUMBAI: Brian Burkin has joined Sony Pictures Entertainment’s International Motion Picture Production division as Senior Vice President Business Affairs and Operations, it was announced by Columbia Tristar Motion Picture Group president Deborah Schindler and...
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Bollywood meets Wales at Ambassador bash
MUMBAI: Reena and Sandeep Marwah hosted cocktails and dinner in honour of the Deputy First Minister of Wales, Ieuan Wyn Jones, at JW Marriott on Friday night. There were two reasons for the grand...
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Barkah appointed GM, Universal Music Intl
MUMBAI: Bimbom Barkah has been named General Manager of Universal Music Indonesia. The appointment was announced by Sandy Monteiro, Senior Vice-President of Universal Music Group International (ASEAN), to whom he will report. Based in...
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Empire Home Ent acquires 3 DVD releases
MUMBAI: Empire Home Entertainment, the distribution division of Empire Film Group, has completed the acquisition of two new feature films and one comedy for release to the USA DVD market over the next three...
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RKO signs interim deal with Writers Guild
MUMBAI: RKO Productions, a subsidiary of RKO Pictures, and the Writers Guild of America (WGA) have reached an interim comprehensive agreement. The company’s current production schedule, to be announced next week, includes several original...
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Echelon Studios signs intl rights to Ifactory
MUMBAI: Eric Louzil’s Los Angeles-based Echelon Studios has struck a deal to distribute and sell foreign rights to Ifactory in association with Crybaby’s Reasonable Excuse, a pop thriller. The pop thriller stars Natalie Stewart from...
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Emmy award winners launch new studio
MUMBAI: Emmy Award winning Peter White, Garrett Law and A.J. Lewis have joined forces to create Attention Span Media, a Los Angeles based full-service creative and production studio specializing in the creation of high-quality...
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Shah Rukh Khan gets highest French award
MUMBAI: Shah Rukh Khan was awarded the Ordre des Arts et des Lettres at a ceremony on Sunday at the world premiere of Asterix at the Olympic Games in Mumbai. This title of an...
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WPP acquires Roshan Abbas’ Encompass
MUMBAI: WPP has acquired a majority stake in Roshan Abbas’ brand activation, events and content creation agency Encompass. Encompass will be aligned with WPP’s ad agency JWT, with founders, Roshan Abbas (managing director) and...
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MAAC appoints McCann as creative AOR
MUMBAI: Maya Academy of Advanced Cinematics (MAAC), 3D animation and visual effects training academy, appointed McCann Erickson as its creative agency. This comes as a part of the recent restructuring MAAC has done to strengthen...
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Canon India promotes Alok Bharadwaj as SVP
MUMBAI: Digital imaging company Canon India has promoted Alok Bharadwaj as senior vice president. Canon India recorded its best-ever growth of 35 per cent in 2007 under Bharadwaj’s leadership. In his new position, Bharadwaj...
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DishTV inks deal with Sony Pictures for MoD
MUMBAI: Direct-to-Home service provider DishTV has entered into an agreement with Sony Pictures Television International to air the latest Sony blockbusters on its value added service, Movie on Demand. Subscribers will now be able...
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G3S cinemas launched in New Delhi
MUMBAI: G3S, a recently opened multiplex in West Delhi’s Garg Trade Center in Rohini, will offer audience of the area a unique ambience within and outside the cinema hall an atmosphere suitable to young...
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VSNL to premiere YRF’s Chak De! on web
MUMBAI: Videsh Sanchar Nigam Ltd (VSNL) and Yash Raj Films have joined hands for the web premiere of last year’s blockbuster Chak De! India. VSNL offers broadband and internet services in India under the...
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Subhash Ghai’s Balck and White music launch
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Aishwarya Rai Bachchan launches Provocateur
MUMBAI: Lux Provocateur, Hindustan Unilever’s latest offering, is all set to capture women’s unfettered imagination. A fairyland glitzy and fun event marked the launch of the Lux Provocateur in the city yesterday at the...
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Salman sings along with Adnan Sami
MUMBAI: Airtel Bol Baby Bol on Star One gets bigger with star-studded episodes beginning this weekend. Fans will be in for a treat as Salman Khan is all set to mesmerize viewers. Khan makes...
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Launch of 007 movie Quantum of Solace
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Quantum of Solace
Film: Quantum of Solace Director: Mark Forester Producer: Michael G Wilson, Barbara Broccoli Second Unit Director: Dan Bradley Cast: Daniel Craig (James Bond), Olga Kurylenko (Camille), Mathieu Amalric (Dominic Greene), Judi Dench (M), Gemma...
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New 007 film named Quantum of Solace
MUMBAI: The 22nd James Bond movie has been named Quantum of Solace. The film is being directed by Mark Forester and stars Daniel Craig, Olga Kurylenko, Mathieu Amalric, Judi Dench, Gemma Arterton and Jeffrey...
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Subhash Ghai, Rishi Kapoor flag off Karzzzz
MUMBAI: Bhushan Kumar’s mega film Karzzzz was flagged off on 25 January on the T-Series premises with a puja to introduce the entire star cast of the film. Hosted by RJ and anchor Siddharth...
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Akshaye Khanna goes electric
MUMBAI: Akshaye Khanna will soon be seen in the streets of Mumbai driving a customized electric car Rewa. Khanna’s concern for the planet and the cause of global warming has made him choose the...
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Jump Games ties up with Manchester United
MUMBAI: Reliance Entertainment’s Jump Games has inked a deal with Manchester United Football Club as their official mobile games partner. Jump Games has signed an exclusive global deal to design, develop and distribute mobile...
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MICA wing to organize short film festival
MUMBAI: The Mudra Institute of Commnications, Ahmedabad (MICA) Entrepreneurship Development Center (EDC) will soon be organizing a short film festival called Fulmarxx Shorts Fest. Talking about this initiative, Shiladitya, the brain behind FulMarxx tells...
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Adlabs to launch 13 multiplexes in North India
MUMBAI: Reliance Anil Dhirubhai Ambani Group’s (ADAG) Adlabs Cinemas has opened two new properties in Noida and Agra. The next six months will also see the rollout of at least 13 properties and 30...
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Aishwarya opposite Rajnikanth in Robot
MUMBAI: After Shriya Saran, it’s now Aishwarya Rai Bachchan who has been cast opposite South superstar Rajnikanth. The actress will be seen in Shankar’s science fiction film Robot. Incidentally, Aishwarya also starred in Shankar’s...
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Bhosle, Dixit, Shyamalan for Padma Awards
Mumbai: Bollywood playback singer Asha Bhosle, actress Madhuri Dixit and Hollywood-based director Manoj Night Shyamalan received the Padma Awards 2008 from the President of India on 26 January. Bhosle received the Padma Vibhushan award, which...
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Scintillating performances for Grammy Awards
Mumbai: Beyoncé, the Foo Fighters and Carrie Underwood are gearing up to perform at the 50th Annual Grammy Awards that will take place on 10 February at Staples Center in Los Angeles. Special segments will...
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Shringar launches multiplex in Bangalore
MUMBAI: Shringar Cinemas Limited has commenced its operations at Fame Lido-Bangalore with effect from 25 January 2008. Fame Lido consists of four screens and 993 seats. One of the USPs of this property is...
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PepsiCo’s Nooyi elected chairman of USIBC
Mumbai: The Board of Directors of the U.S.-India Business Council (USIBC) announced that Indra K. Nooyi has been elected to the position of Chairman at this premier business advocacy organization. She will be the...
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Star Screen Awards to air 27 January
Mumbai: Star Plus will air the Nokia 14th Annual Star Screen Awards 2008 on 27 January from 7.30 pm onwards. The razzmatazz starts with the red carpet followed by the award function. The awards...
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BR Films’ TV show to launch on Star One
MUMBAI: In its first offering for the New Year, Star One announced the launch of Pari Hoon Main, a tale of two girls who enter a never-seen-before fascinating world of… each other! Produced by...
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Nielsen to launch VOD measurement service
Mumbai: The Nielsen Company announced the commercial launch of NORA Nielsen On Demand Reporting & Analytics, a new measurement service that aggregates and anonymously reports on video-on-demand (VOD) usage based on real time transactions...
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Animation workshop conducted at Frameboxx
Mumbai: Animation maestro Yogendra Bhangley from Mumbai conducted a workshop for the students of Frameboxx in Chandigarh. Yogendra Bhangley, who has lent his computer graphics expertise to numerous national and international animation, TV commercials...
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WGA inks agreements with Lionsgate, Marvel
Mumbai: The Writer’s Guild of America has recently signed deals with many film studios to get back to work on the movies that were put on hold thanks to the WGA strike. The latest to...
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Jim Urie promoted to CEO UMGD
Mumbai: Jim Urie has been promoted to CEO of Universal Music Group Distribution (UMGD), the sales, marketing and distribution arm of Universal Music Group (UMG). Urie previously served as president of UMGD and will...
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Napster’s music subscription in Japan
Mumbai: Napster has announced that the company’s mobile music subscription service is available to NTT DoCoMo customers through nine new models of the mobile company’s line of music-enabled handsets, the FOMA705i series. The Microsoft...
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Rajat Sharma takes INS value to Rs 5 billion
Mumbai: Rajat Sharma has announced a strategic investment of Rs 1 billion (Rs 100 crores) in Independent News Service Private Limited (INS), the holding company of India TV. The investment has taken Sharma-led INS’s...
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HP, Sony Pictures ink content licensing deal
Mumbai: HP and Sony Pictures Home Entertainment (SPHE) announced that SPHE will license select catalog titles from its vast home video library for production and distribution via HP’s DVD manufactured-on-demand service. This agreement makes...
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Shiamak to choreograph High School Musical
Mumbai: The winning team of Disney Channel’s My School Rocks (MSR) inter-school dance competition was awestruck to see their idol shake a leg and share the same frame with them in a special music...
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HP DVD Manufactured-on-Demand Service
Mumbai: HP’s manufactured-on-demand service is used to produce a DVD of any movie, TV show or other video content, regardless of niche or obscurity. Content currently being targeted for release includes classic and older...
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BBC inks global deal with MySpaceTV
Mumbai: BBC Worldwide, the commercial arm of the BBC, and MySpace, the world’s largest social networking platform, announced the launch of a ground-breaking partnership to bring new and archived short form BBC content to...
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MAX unleashes hilarious brand campaign
Mumbai: MAX released its latest brand campaign on 20 January. Titled ‘Talking Films’, it gives a whole new meaning to the adjective ‘film buff’ or in MAX language ‘deewana’. MAX has unveiled four new...
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Launch of T-Series’ Karzzzz
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Film Review: Sunday
Film: Sunday Cast: Ajay Devgan, Irrfan Khan, Arshad Warsi, Ayesha Takia, Ali Asgar, Anjana Sukhani, Murli Sharma, Vrajesh Hirjee Special appearance: Tusshar Kapoor, Esha Deol Director: Rohit Shetty Producer: Kumar...
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Karan Johar’s Dharma Productions to rev up projects by 2009
MUMBAI: Karan Johar’s Dharma Productions has ambitious plans up its sleeves. While the next film from the Bollywood bellwether will only be released in 2009, plans are to have as many as three releases...
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Star launches Star Chinese Movies 2
MUMBAI: Star launched Star Chinese Movies 2, a new channel dedicated to showcasing the best of Chinese motion pictures from the 1970s to 1990s. Star Chinese Movies 2 features a stellar line-up of megastars...
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Cinemax brings Punjabi cinema to Mumbai
MUMBAI: Multiplex chain Cinemax is promoting regional cinema as it is mainstream Hindi. Its property at Versova has opened doors for a Punjabi film Yaariyan and hosted a premiere for the upcoming release. The...
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Sony to provide content to ReelTime
MUMBAI: ReelTime Rentals has executed an agreement with Sony Pictures Television, a subsidiary of Sony Pictures Entertainment, to provide select motion picture film content to ReelTime’s existing content roster. Under the terms of the...
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Bollywood celebrities ride high on BIG FM
MUMBAI: It’s raining stars on BIG 92.7 FM as celebrity actors like Ajay Devgan and Ayesha Takia visited the BIG 92.7 FM Mumbai studios to interact with callers and fans across the city on...
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