MUMBAI: Bollywood actors Sanjay Dutt and Suniel Shetty will be coming together to endorse SABMiller’s premium beer brand Haywards 5000. According to sources close to the development, the deal with the two actors...
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Mauj creates mobile content for Sunday
MUMBAI: Mauj Mobile in association with Eros Multimedia Pvt. Ltd has unveiled mobile content for the movie Sunday across the country. With this film, Mauj continues its association with all films produced by Kumar...
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Tata Elxsi announces Q3 results
MUMBAI: Tata Elxsi has posted a profit after tax of Rs 140.641 million for the quarter ended 31 December, 2007 as compared to Rs 139.627 million for the quarter ended 31 December, 2006. The...
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Raj TV to launch four music channels
MUMBAI: Raj Television Network Ltd will be launching four new music channels, which will collectively be called Raj Musix. The four channels will be telecast in Tamil, Telugu, Kannada and Malayalam languages and will...
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Inox PAT up 30 per cent to Rs 63 million
MUMBAI: INOX Leisure Ltd. (ILL) announced its results for the third quarter of the financial year 2007-2008. For the quarter ended 31 December 2007, ILL reported a PAT (Profit after Tax) of Rs 62.9...
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NBC Universal buys 26% in NDTV Networks
MUMBAI: NBC Universal, Inc has picked up a 26 per cent stake in Prannoy Roy’s NDTV Networks for a consideration of $ 150 million. NDTV Networks is the overseas subsidiary of NDTV. The announcement...
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Aamir Khan lines up 3 productions for 2008
MUMBAI: Still reveling in the success of his directorial debut Taare Zameen Par, actor – producer Aamir Khan is all set to begin shooting for the Hindi remake of Tamil film Ghajini. According to...
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Striking writers, studios eye informal talks
MUMBAI: The Writers Guild of America (WGA) will hold informal talks with studio CEOs this week in an effort to resume formal negotiations with the Alliance of Motion Picture & Television Producers, the studios’...
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Demand for DVD movie rentals explodes
MUMBAI: DVDPlay a DVD rental kiosk operator and developer, has reached a new milestone with 13 million DVD movie rentals, an indicator that DVD rentals continue to be one of the fastest growing segments...
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WGA, Spyglass Entertainment ink agreement
MUMBAI: The Writers Guild of America (WGA) has reached an independent agreement with Spyglass Entertainment. The company finances, produces, and distributes theatrical motion pictures, which includes The Sixth Sense, Shanghai Noon, Bruce Almighty, Seabiscuit,...
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EMI inks deal with The Licensing Agency
MUMBAI: EMI Music has announced a partnership with The Licensing Agency (TLA) to supply music and video downloads to consumers upon completion of Lightspeed Research questionnaires. Music fans will be incentivised to complete...
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Warner Music France buys tour production co.
MUMBAI: Warner Music France announced the acquisition of Jean-Claude Camus Productions, France‘s leading tour production, promotion and booking company. This agreement brings together Camus Productions’ unrivalled experience in staging live events with Warner Music’s...
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Cannes Fest director to select Indian films
MUMBAI: It’s time for Indian filmmakers to put the final touches to their masterpieces as the selection for the Cannes Film Festival looms ahead. Cannes International Film Festival director of the department of films...
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Saeed Mirza to return to direction with PNC
MUMBAI: After a sabbatical of nearly 13 years, director Saeed Akhtar Mirza, of Albert Pinto Ko Gussa Kyun Aata Hai fame, has returned to shoot a movie with Rajat Kapoor and Pritish Nandy Communications...
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Europe welcomes music festivals galore
MUMBAI: Doomsayers often predict classical music will go the way of CD shops and dodo birds, but someone forgot tell this to the people who organise festivals. From one end of Europe to the...
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India’s biggest radio reality show in B’lore
MUMBAI: Kai Ittare Caru, Big Hero Yaaru?, India’s biggest radio reality show presented by BIG 92.7 FM in association with Hyundai Motors’ newly launched Hyundai i10 kick started on 18 January at Sigma Mall,...
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Pyramid Saimira sponsors FFI’s 50th year
MUMBAI: The Film Federation of India (FFI) celebrated its golden jubilee on 19 January in Mumbai at Rang Sharda Auditorium. The event was sponsored by film distribution and exhibition firm Pyramid Saimira Group of...
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Cinema Today exhibition from 1 February
MUMBAI: Cinema Today 2008, India ‘s largest exhibition on cinema and allied industries, will be held from 1 to 3 February at Bombay Exhibition Centre, Goregaon (E), Mumbai. Cinema Today is the only kind...
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Sabsey Favourite garners 10.5 mn viewers
MUMBAI: Star Gold has received an overwhelming response for the finale telecast of Idea Sabsey Favourite Kaun 2008. In its fifth edition it has reached out to almost 10.5 million viewers across Hindi speaking...
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Star Gold’s republic day film parade
MUMBAI: Beginning 21 January, Star Gold is all geared up to celebrate the spirit of India ‘s Republic Day, Salaam-E-India, a festival of the best patriotic movies the country has produced. The films to...
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Microsoft, Sundance grant to winner Bala
MUMBAI: Microsoft Corp., together with Sundance Institute presented the Microsoft HDi Grant to director Jason Kohn and producer Jared Goldman for their 2007 Sundance Film Festival Grand Jury Prize-winning documentary Manda Bala (Send a...
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Indra Kumar’s daughter to debut in Karzzzz
MUMBAI: Producer-director Indra Kumar who has given us blockbuster films like Dil, Beta, Mann and the recent laugh riot Dhamaal will launch his daughter Shweta opposite Himesh Reshammiya in T-Series’s Karzzzz. Produced by Bhushan...
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23 Brit films for Sundance Film Festival
MUMBAI: The year has got off to a flying start for British filmmakers with the Sundance Film Festival screening 23 British films, including nine UK Film Council Lottery-funded films. Second in number only to...
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