Mumbai: Technology solutions firm Saviance Technologies will be hosting Disney Institute’s professional development programs in five cities in India. Program attendees will learn about Disney’s best business practices and how they can adapt those...
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Bachchan announces IIFA nominations; worldwide voting opens
Mumbai: The nominations for the Idea IIFA Awards 2008, Bangkok were announced and released worldwide by IIFA Brand Ambassador Amitabh Bachchan. It was also announced that the voting for the Idea IIFA Awards would...
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Katrina Kaif is face of Mallya’s IPL team
Mumbai: Katrina Kaif will make her presence felt at IPL events and functions to support Vijay Mallya’s team. The actress will be shooting an exclusive solo music video for Mallya’s team that will be...
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Cartoon Network to premiere new Barbie movie
Mumbai: Cartoon Network will be premiering the new Barbie movie called Barbie Mariposa this summer. The movie is set in the world of butterfly fairies. Mariposa, which means Butterfly in Spanish, is a beautiful...
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Technicolor, CinemaNow partner to serve online retailers
Mumbai: Technicolor and CinemaNow have announced that the two companies have partnered to offer online retailers a better way to deliver the digital content consumers are demanding. Under the new partnership, Technicolor and CinemaNow...
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Kodak, Lasergraphics team up for film scanning
Mumbai: Eastman Kodak has announced a collaboration with Lasergraphics to provide customers with Kodak Digital ICE Technology to improve the quality of motion picture film scanning. Through this new arrangement, Lasergraphics will be offering...
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Bindass Movies rolls Apun ka Hollywood Contest
Mumbai: Bindass Movies will give one luck winner an opportunity to go to Hollywood, Los Angeles, USA with its Apun ka Hollywood Contest that has been on air since 11 April. One can log...
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Main Aur Mrs Khanna goes on floors
Mumbai: UTV Spotboy Pictures and Sohail Khan Productions’ first co-production venture Main Aur Mrs. Khanna has commenced its shoot in April. The film is being directed by debutante Prem Soni and stars Salman Khan,...
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RGV’s Sarkar Raj to release on T-Series
Mumbai: The ongoing dispute between Ram Gopal Varma and T-Series over forgery of documents and non- payments allegations was resolved yesterday. An official statement from both the parties says, "We both compromised on all our...
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BigFlicks offers movie downloads for $ 1.49
Mumbai: BigFlicks Video-on-Demand division www.broadband.bigflicks.com is celebrating ‘Unity in Diversity’ to commemorate Indian New Year festivals Vishu, Ugadi, Baisakhi and Pehla Baisakh. The celebration will offer a bouquet of 70 movies in Malayalam, Tamil,...
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Radio City 91.1FM juggles senior management
Mumbai: Radio City 91.1FM has announced key changes in its senior management. These changes include Rana Barua – National Head Marketing who now also spearheads National Programming at Radio City while Nik Martin shares...
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Disney Animator Ollie Johnston takes last breath
Mumbai: Ollie Johnston, one of the greatest animators and the last surviving member of Walt Disney’s elite group of animation pioneers known as the ‘Nine Old Men’, passed away from natural causes at a...
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VH1.com launches contest for Madonna concert tickets
Mumbai: VH1.com is now accepting submissions for their ‘4 Lines To See Madonna’ promotion — acontest where two creative fans will win a pair of tickets to see Madonna perform at a special show...
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Brad Bird to receive animation writing award
Mumbai: The Writers Guild of America, West’s Animation Writers Caucus (AWC) has awarded its tenth annual Animation Writing Award for lifetime achievement to Pixar writer-director Brad Bird, whose most recent film, Disney/Pixar’s Ratatouille won...
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HP, DreamWorks preview color display technology
Mumbai: HP and DreamWorks Animation SKG previewed a display technology that helps solve a longstanding obstacle for digital content creators–affordable and consistent color accuracy between devices. The result of an unprecedented collaboration between the...
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Compact Disc to raise funds; appoint new senior management
MUMBAI: Animation firm Compact Disc India’s board has approved to raise funds from top foreign banks. According to a Reuters report, the company expects to raise $38.5 million and another $30 million from foreign...
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Sony Computer Entertainment America revamps PS3 stores
MUMBAI: Sony Computer Entertainment America has introduced a new, more dynamic look and faster, more fluid navigation to PlayStationStore for PlayStation3 (PS3). As part of the revamp, PlayStation Store, previously a Web-based storefront, now...
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Zee Entertainment posts Rs 1 billion net profit in Q4
Zee Entertainment Enterprises reported consolidated net profit of Rs 1.04 billion for the fourth quarter, which is up 49%....
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TinselVision inks deals with Indian broadcasters for IPTV
TinselVision will deliver TV programming free to its audience in a deal, which also marks its first foray within the Indian domestic market....
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Ubisoft Entertainment acquires Pune based gaming studio
Video game publisher Ubisoft has acquired India's gaming studio called Gameloft, which is based in Pune....
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Lottery funding to increase choices for cinema audiences
A documentary, animation & foreign language film are some of the latest films to receive funding from the UK Film Council's P&A Fund....
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Mukta Arts declares 40% dividend to investors
Mumbai: Subhash Ghai’s Mukta Arts Ltd. has declared a 40% dividend to its investors for the year 2007-08. The company recorded highest profit of Rs. 16.8 crores with a turnover of Rs. 111.7 crores...
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Sajid Nadiadwala appoints casting agents for Kambakth Ishq
Mumbai: Sajid Nadiadwala has appointed the casting directors of reality show Entourage–Susan Paley Abramson and Justine Hempe–as the casting agents for the Hollywood stars for Kambqat Ishq. Confirming the development Kambakth Ishq line producer...
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Eros International’s Eyeqube Studios commences operations
Mumbai: EyeQube Studios, a joint venture between Eros International Plc and Charles Darby, announced that their state-of-the-art visual effects studio in Mumbai has commenced operations. The company has officially begun work on films like...
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Thought Equity Motion launches music & sound effects collection
MUMBAI: Online motion content licensing and management services supplier Thought Equity Motion continues has launched its new music and sound effects collection. The Thought Equity music collection gives creatives direct access to original, exclusive...
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PVR launches Green Films in Gurgaon
MUMBAI: Green Films, a concept conceptualized by PVR Nest (the CSR division of PVR Cinemas), in association with Agilent Technologies and National Geographic Channel was launched at PVR MGF, Gurgaon to spread awareness over...
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Best of Kuwaiti Cinema at Gulf Film Festival
Mumbai: The first edition of the Gulf Film Festival got off to a start in the presence of His Highness Sheikh Majid Bin Mohammed Bin Rashid Al Maktoum, Chairman of the Dubai Culture and...
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Eros International on track to achieve expected results
Mumbai: Eros International has announced that the company is on track to achieve full year performance in line with its expectations for the year ended 31 March 2008. The company said that it continued...
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Sony announces upgrades to its Blu-ray offerings
Mumbai: Following the industry-wide adoption of the Sony Blu-ray high definition DVD format, Sony Creative Software announced upgrades to its DVD Architect and Blu-print applications for authoring Blu-ray discs. Ongoing development of Blu-ray authoring...
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Documentary Channel deals with Northstar Media for IMAX Films
Mumbai: Documentary Channel (DOC) has reached an exclusive agreement with IMAX Corporation through Norwalk, Conn.-based distributor Northstar Media to televise a collection of 21 films from the IMAX library for the first time in...
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Himanshu Shekhar joins Big FM as regional head
MUMBAI: BIG 92.7 FM has appointed Himanshu Shekhar as the regional head-North and West. In his new portfolio, Shekhar will be responsible for all business aspects of the Stations in the Northern and Western...
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