MUMBAI: Internationally celebrated recording artist Kenny G, acclaimed as the biggest-selling instrumental musician of the modern era, will release his new album Rhythm and Romance on 5 February with Starbucks Entertainment and Concord Records....

MUMBAI: Burst Media, a leading provider of advertising representation, services, and technology to independent web publishers, has announced results of a survey about the ongoing writers’ strike and the near-term media implications. The survey,...

MUMBAI: Independent studio Lionsgate has garnered five Oscar nominations spanning three films. Lionsgate has now earned 32 Academy Award nominations in the past nine years, more than any other independent studio. The kudos include...

MUMBAI: Sony Pictures Entertainment CEO and chairman Michael Lynton and co-chairman Amy Pascal announced that Peter Schlessel has been appointed president, worldwide affairs at Sony Pictures Entertainment. Schlessel, who has been serving as president...

MUMBAI: The Motion Picture Association of America (MPAA), admitted that it grossly overestimated college students’ contribution to its reported $6.1 billion in annual global piracy losses. The MPAA has claimed for some time now...

MUMBAI: Ratatouille, the computer-animated feature from Walt Disney Pictures and Pixar Animation Studios, has received five Academy Award nominations, the most ever for a Disney/Pixar film. The film is nominee for Best Animated Feature Film...

MUMBAI: Three homes raided in Melbourne‘s western suburbs; 170 burners and over 400,000 pirated DVDs seized Australia/Hong Kong – Victoria Police, assisted by the Australian Federal Police and investigators from Australian Federation Against Copyright...

MUMBAI: Miramax Films is flying high with 21 nominations including eight for No Country For Old Men, four for The Diving Bell and The Butterfly, one for Gone Baby Gone and eight for There...

MUMBAI: Turner Entertainment Holdings Asia Pacific (Turner) has entered into a strategic partnership with leading web infrastructure company Outblaze Limited (Outblaze), creating a powerful digital partnership, TurnOut Ventures Limited (TurnOut), in the Asia Pacific....

MUMBAI: Music, games and mobile TV will be the major contributors to the global mobile entertainment market which will rise from just over $20 billion in 2007 to more than $64 billion by 2012,...

MUMBAI: After the Golden Globes faced a dismal reception owing to the Writer’s Guild Association strike, it is now Oscar Academy Awards facing the music.   The Golden Globes, held more than a week...

MUMBAI: Imax Corporation and SM Prime Holdings, the largest mall operator in the Philippines, today announced an agreement to install two Imax digital projection systems at shopping malls in the cities of Manila and...

MUMBAI: Autodesk and Electronic Arts are introducing a new project design workshop for Canada‘s first Masters for Digital Media (MDM) Program at Great Northern Way Campus in Vancouver, British Columbia. As part of the...

MUMBAI: DivX has inked a licensing agreement with semiconductor supplier AMD. This agreement will allow AMD to include DivX video technology with specific AMD Xilleon processors to power a broad range of next-generation digital...

MUMBAI: James W. Barge has joined Viacom as Executive Vice President, Controller, Tax and Treasury. Barge joins the company from Time Warner, where he most recently served as Senior Vice President and Controller.  ...

MUMBAI: Maike Haas has joined Sony Pictures Entertainment’s International Motion Picture Production division as vice president international production, Europe. The announcement was made by Columbia TriStar Motion Picture Group vice chairman Gareth Wigan and International...

MUMBAI: Rotten Tomatoes, the online movie site that aggregates critics’ reviews, tossed out its ninth annual Golden Tomato Awards on Monday, hailing Ratatouille as its best-reviewed wide-release movie of 2007.  The Disney/Pixar cartoon scored...

MUMBAI: Quentin Tarantino has been honored with the 6th Annual Ray-Ban Visionary Award, presented by Ray-Ban and The Creative Coalition, at Harry O’s in Park City, UT. Many of Tarantino’s friends and peers were...

MUMBAI: A new report details emerging music promotion trends to be successful in today’s new music business model. The music business as we know it is dying a fast death and gone are those...

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’...

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...

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,...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

MUMBAI: The amount of money spent on making films in the UK in 2007 including Harry Potter and the Half Blood Prince, Sweeney Todd, Brideshead Revisited and How to Lose Friends and Alienate People...

MUMBAI: The Writers Guild Foundation has established an Industry Support Fund to assist members of the industry who are in financial distress as a direct result of the Writers Guild of America strike against...

MUMBAI: Chuck Dages has been named Warner Bros. Home Entertainment Group’s Executive Vice President, Emerging Technology. The announcement was made by Warner Bros. Home Entertainment Group president Kevin Tsujihara, to whom Dages will directly...

MUMBAI: Director and producer Doug Liman announced today the formation of a new media company, Jackson Bites, which will create television-style programming for alternative distribution. He will serve as co-owner of the venture with...

MUMBAI: The National Association for Multi-ethnicity In Communications (NAMIC) announced the nominees for the 14th Annual NAMIC Vision Awards. Presented by NAMIC-Southern California, the NAMIC Vision Awards is the only competition recognizing outstanding achievements...

MUMBAI: Spout.com announced an exclusive partnership with MySpace to bring the frenzy and films of the 2008 Sundance Film Festival to the MySpace Film community. Spout’s insight on the festival will come direct from Butterknife filmmakers...