Mumbai: Acting students of Whistling Woods International were in for a surprise when they had superstar Salman Khan come in as a guest speaker. Khan shared his 22 years of experience in Bollywood with...
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Dish TV CEO Arun Kumar Kapoor resigns
Mumbai: Dish TV India’s CEO Arun Kumar Kapoor has resigned from his post Kapoor has decided to move on for enhanced career opportunity, after a short stint of 18 months with the organization. During...
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Samsung India launches Blu-Ray Player, BD-P1400
Mumbai: Samsung India Electronics has launched its next generation DVD Players in the Indian Market, including its first Blu-ray player BD-P1400. The flagship model of the new 2008 DVD range is the Samsung Pebble...
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Story of the movie industry’s crime-fighting canines
Mumbai: Lucky and Flo, the world’s first-ever DVD-sniffing dogs, made a special visit to Douglas MacArthur Elementary School in Northern Virginia to close out their three-city North American tour that included visits to Mexico...
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AKQA Film for digital content launches
Mumbai: AKQA Film has launched to create and distribute unique digital programming and content for clients and independent projects. AKQA Film combines the existing motion graphics and broadcast team to create a team of...
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Blindness opens Cannes Festival, Robert De Niro presents Palme D’Or
Mumbai: Blindness, directed by Fernando Mereilles, will open the Cannes Film Festival, scheduled to be held later this month. Blindness will be screened on 14 May. The film stars Fernando Mereilles, with Julianne Moore,...
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Young Lions chosen to represent US at Cannes Lions
Mumbai: USA TODAY, official U.S. representative to the International Advertising Festival in Cannes, and co-sponsors AKQA, Atmosphere BBDO and Greenberg Kirshenbaum have announced the winners of the 2008 Young Lions "Team USA" competitions. 2008...
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Nexicon signs motion picture studio to GetAmnesty
Mumbai: Nexicon has announced the signing of a major independent motion picture studio to its growing portfolio of GetAmnesty clients. This is the first post-pilot GetAmnesty contract signing, and signifies the full production launch...
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Singapore hosts world’s first 3-D film festival
Mumbai: Singapore has been named the host city of the world’s first fully 3-D based film and entertainment technology festival that will take place 19-23 November. The Media Development Authority of Singapore (MDA) will...
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Latin superstar Juan Gabriel joins Universal Music Group
Mumbai: International recording superstar and prolific songwriter Juan Gabriel, one of Latin music’s most important artists, has signed global recording and publishing agreements with Universal Music Group, the world’s leading music company. New recordings...
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Warner Bros. forms branded services unit
Mumbai: Expanding upon its recently announced strategy to launch a number of Warner Bros.-branded, advertiser-supported and subscription video-on-demand programming (AVOD and SVOD) channels around the world, Warner Bros. International Television Distribution (WBITD) has formed...
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YRF, multiplexes settle for all films; Tashan screens 3 May
One week post the release of the film, Yash Raj Films and all India multiplexes have resolved the revenue sharing terms for Tashan....
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‘As a company, we needed to completely reinvent ourselves with the change in technology, market & delivery systems’ – Saregama India MD Subroto Chattopadhyay
RPG Enterprises president and CEO (entertainment sector) and Saregama India managing director Subroto Chattopadhyay has over 26 years’ experience with companies like Unilever, PepsiCo and ITC. Chattopadhyay, who joined RPG Enterprises in November 2005,...
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Balaji sells Sarkar Raj TV rights to Studio 18 for Rs 140 mn
Balaji Motion Pictures has sold the satellite rights of Ram Gopal Varma directed Sarkar Raj to Studio 18 for Rs 140 million....
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Storemedia Technologies to merge with Prime Focus
Mumbai: Prime Focus Ltd will be merging its wholly owned subsidiary, Storemedia Technologies with the company. The company’s board of directors at its meeting held on 30 April, 2008, has approved in principle to...
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UTV’s World Movies to air Cannes special
Mumbai: UTV’s World Movies will be airing footage and award-winning movies from Festival De Cannes on the special series Cannes Calling this May. The Cannes Film Festival will begin on 14 May. Cannes Calling...
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Darsheel launches denim wear brand OYO
Mumbai: Darsheel Safary, better known to kids as Ishan Awasthi has launched a dedicated denim wear brand for kids called OYO in Mumbai. OYO’s message is to say goodbye to the traditional frills and...
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Haal-E-Dil to release on 20 June
Mumbai: The shooting of the film Haal-e-Dil, a young love story is complete. The film is scheduled to release on 20 June. Haal-e-Dil is an Eros International presentation, a Big Screen Entertainment Production and...
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Excel Home Videos releases 101 Dalmatians platinum DVD
Mumbai: The Platinum edition of 101 Dalmatians, the 1961 cult animation film from Disney, is being released on DVD. The DVD released by Excel Home Videos, has been digitally restored with enhanced picture and...
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Apple puts movies on iTunes same day as DVD release
Mumbai: Apple announced that new movie releases from major film studios and premier independent studios are available for purchase on the iTunes Store on the same day as their DVD release. New releases and...
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Lionsgate, Ish Entertainment form new TV joint programming venture
Mumbai: Ish Entertainment, the company recently formed by Michael Hirschorn and Stella Stolper, has formed a joint venture with Lionsgate to produce original entertainment for television. With offices in Santa Monica and New York,...
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BIG Music, Zapak partner for Crazy Cart music
Mumbai: BIG Music has announced its partnership with Zapak Digital Entertainment to produce music for the online racing game Crazy Cart in India. Zapak, that bagged the exclusive rights for Shanda Interactive Entertainment’s online...
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Hindus urge world distributors to halt The Love Guru
Mumbai: Hindu groups are contacting film distributors associations, exhibitors groups, theater owners, etc., in various parts of the world urging them not to distribute/screen upcoming movie till Paramount Pictures makes necessary changes to it....
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Santosh Sivan’s film wins at Houston WorldFest
Santosh Sivan-directed film Before The Rains has won at the 41st Annual WorldFest 2008 Grand REMI Awards....
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Dadasaheb Phalke Academy bestows award to Brij Bhushan
The Dadasaheb Phalke Academy has conferred the Dadasaheb Phalke Lifetime Achievement Award to Brij Bhushan....
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Katrina Kaif unveils new Spice Mobile handsets
Mumbai: Spice Mobiles has collaborated with developer of advanced wireless technologies and data solutions Qualcomm to bring 3G CDMA (CDMA2000 and WCDMA) devices to the Indian market. To mark the commencement of this collaboration...
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One More Thought, Lemontea join hands to produce Dasvidaniya
Mumbai: One More Thought Entertainment (OMTE) launched in February 08 announced the launch of its new film Dasvidaniya in association with Vinay Pathak and Shashant Shah’s Lemontea Productions. Present on the occasion were OMTE...
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Mumbai Cutting premiered at IFFLA
Mumbai: The cream of Bollywood directors was present for the world premier of Mumbai Cutting at Indian Film Festival of Los Angeles (IFFLA), Arclights Hollywood on 27 April. White Cloud Production CEO Niyati Shah...
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Indian panorama of IFFI opens
Mumbai: A special exposition of the entire Indian Panorama films of the International Film Festival of India is being presented at Siri Fort Auditoria, New Delhi. The eight-day exposition titled ‘The Festival of Indian...
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3000 posters of Rock On put across cinemas worldwide
Mumbai: Farhan Akhtar-starrer Rock On released its first poster across 3000 cinemas worldwide this week. The film is set for release on 29 August but the first leg of marketing has started four months...
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21-yr-old wins Filmaka first annual film competition
Mumbai: Digital entertainment studio and online community Filmaka announced Nuru Rimington-Mkali as the winner of its first annual feature film competition with his short And I Refuse to Forget. Hailing from London, the 21-year-old...
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First look of Percept, T-Series’ Aashayein unveiled
Mumbai: Percept Picture Company and T-Series unveiled the first look of the film Aashayein starring John Abraham in the lead. The film also stars Sonal Sehgal, Farida Jalal, Girish Karnad, Anahita Nair amongst others....
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The History Channel ready to air Bollywood Bosses
Mumbai: The History Channel will air Bollywood Bosses from 2 May onwards. The show will be aired every Friday at 8 pm till 4 July. This 10-week series takes a look at the careers...
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Sony launches Indian version of Extreme Makeover
Mumbai: Sony Entertainment Television has launched the Indian version of Extreme Makeover called Naye Roop Nai Zindagi. The show has been produced by Miditech. The show goes on air 2 May. With an intention...
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Rentrak announces Top 20 cross-platform movies of ’06, ’07
Mumbai: Rentrak Corporation announced the Top 20 Cross Platform Movies of 2006 and 2007. Metrics used to identify the top cross platform movies of 2006 and 2007 included box office ticket sales, 2006 and...
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