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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