MUMBAI: Paramount Pictures and Nickelodeon Movies have greenlit the live-action epic adventure, M. Night Shyamalan’s The Last Airbender, which will launch over the Independence Day weekend in 2010, opening on 2 July, 2010. Shyamalan...

MUMBAI: Taiwan’s communications industry has joined hands with the Cable & Satellite Broadcasting Association of Asia (CASBAA), an Asia-Pacific industry-based advocacy group, to raise awareness of the obstacles impeding the dynamic growth of Taiwan’s...

MUMBAI: The New Zealand Federation Against Copyright Theft (NZFACT) executive director Tony Eaton, representing the Motion Picture Association (MPA) in New Zealand, joined New Zealand’s Associate Commerce Minister Judith Tizard and other creative industry...

MUMBAI: The Recording Industry Association of America (RIAA) and Motion Picture Association of America (MPAA) joined Atlanta public officials to destroy more than one million counterfeit CDs and DVDs seized as a result of...

MUMBAI: On 15 April, an intelligence-led investigation culminated in 30 officers from the Hong Kong Customs Intellectual Property Investigation Bureau raiding a warehouse that had been supplying pirated optical discs to Hong Kong’s pirate...

MUMBAI: PluggedIn (www.pluggedin.com) has announced the launch of its beta website, offering free to consumer streaming of the highest quality music videos available anywhere on the web. The new entertainment website features over 10,000...

MUMBAI: Starbucks and iTunes announced Pick of the Week, a new program that offers coffeehouse customers a chance to discover complimentary new music and music videos each week. Pick of the Week featured artists...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

A documentary, animation & foreign language film are some of the latest films to receive funding from the UK Film Council's P&A Fund....

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...

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...

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...

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...

Jaman.com has acquired a collection of films like Dowry Law, Face to Face with Sir Ian McKellen amongst others from BBC Worldwide America....

Former Walt Disney CEO & founder of on-line content companies Vuguru & Veoh - Michael Eisner will deliver the keynote at MIPCOM....

Mumbai: GluTV, a new online video service offering premium Indian content, announced the distribution of its popular Indian news, sports, serials, reality shows and Bollywood entertainment on Adobe Media Player. Adobe Media Player offers full...

Mumbai: Audi has joined forces with Paramount Pictures and Marvel Studios for the release of the movie version of Iron Man due in theaters 2 May, and will launch a global marketing campaign highlighting...

Mumbai: Adobe Systems Incorporated announced that it plans to lead an initiative to define an industry-wide open file format for digital cinema files to streamline workflows and help ensure easy archiving and exchange. Adobe intends...

Mumbai: Autodesk announced the 2009 releases of the Autodesk Inferno, Autodesk Flame and Autodesk Flint software for visual effects systems, and the Autodesk Smoke software finishing system. The company also announced Extension 1 for...

Mumbai: Pepsi is tapping into China’s Generation Wow in innovative ways by partnering with pioneering phone snap and click marketer MyClick. Pepsi-Cola has launched its third Pepsi Creative Challenge as part of a 360-degree...

Mumbai: Oracle has acquired Portal Software, a leading global provider of billing and revenue management solutions for the communications and media industry. Oracle currently supplies technology and applications to over 90% of communications companies worldwide,...

Intel Capital will be investing $ 12 million in Shanghai Media Group's Broad Band unit for its IPTV platform....

Mumbai: Kirk Olson has been promoted as senior vice president, advertiser sales and Paul Brennan as vice president, advertiser sales at Sony Pictures Television (SPT), it was announced by SPT president, advertiser sales Amy...

Mumbai: StreamScale, a provider of high-performance storage solutions for the Digital Media market, announced the availability of NumaRAID, a newly developed high-performance, scalable storage platform based on commodity components that delivers extremely high sustained...

Mumbai: Pussycat Dolls, Jessica Simpson, Disturbed, Filter and DJ Z-Trip will perform and comedian Carlos Mencia will host Operation MySpace, at FX a unique concert event for the troops overseas on 12 April. Brought...

Mumbai: eVOC Insights, a customer experience consulting firm, and RelevantView, a leading technology provider of web-based research solutions, announce the release of a new syndicated social networking report, ‘The Changing Face of Social Networking...

Mumbai: Screen Actors Guild (SAG) and the Alliance of Motion Picture and Television Producers (AMPTP) have agreed to begin formal negotiations on 15 April at the AMPTP headquarters in Encino, CA. "Now that we...

Mumbai: IBM will introduce IBM Management Complexity Factor for Media, the first media-industry specific methodology and toolset designed to dramatically improve digital media storage environments at NAB2008. Complementing IBM’s existing leadership in storage and...

Mumbai: Award-winning screenwriter and Writers Guild of America, West Board of Directors member Tom Schulman is set to receive the WGAW’s prestigious Valentine Davies Award, recognizing both his writing legacy and valued service to...

Mumbai: Philips is the first manufacturer to offer a watermarking solution in its hospitality television sets and will have it available starting in May in a full range of HDTV sizes including 26", 32",...

Mumbai: Video search engine blinkx announced a partnership with aniBoom (www.aniboom.com), a premier multiplatform animation network for the global distribution of high-quality independent animations and cartoons. Over 200 independent short films from animators across...

Mumbai: In an increasingly competitive market, broadcasters and post-production facilities are differentiating and growing their businesses by investing in Autodesk visual effects and finishing solutions. These solutions provide digital artists and editors with the...

Mumbai: EMI Music Publishing songwriters including Fergie, Beyonce, Nelly Furtado and Stargate’s Tor Erik Hermansen swept the board at the ASCAP Pop Music Awards last night, picking up 21 awards in the ceremony at...

Mumbai: Award-winning television comedy writer Seaman Jacobs, a longtime member of the Writers Guild of America, West, died of cardiac arrest on 8 April at Century City Hospital in Los Angeles. He was 96. Creating...

Mumbai: Sony Corporation announced that it has signed a three-year sponsorship agreement with world-renowned classical pianist Lang Lang. Through this relationship, which officially began on 1 April, Lang Lang will appear in Sony events...

Mumbai: By 2012, digital music sales will represent an impressive 40 per cent of all music purchased worldwide, according to In-Stat. In 2007, digital sales represented 10 per cent of the total worldwide music...

Mumbai: Beginning this week, Blockbuster Inc. will be offering Blu-ray movies for rent and sale in all of its corporate stores in the US as well as in Canada, and select domestic franchise locations....

Mumbai: Euro Disney S.C.A. announced the nomination of Philippe Gas to the position of President of Euro Disney S.A.S., the management company of Euro Disney S.C.A. and Euro Disney Associes S.C.A., the operator of...