MUMBAI: Two weeks before its 22 May release date, Indiana Jones and the Kingdom of the Crystal Skull is already seeing brisk advance ticket sales on Fandango.com. According to a recent Fandango poll of...

Mumbai: Imax Corporation has entered into two significant financing transactions, one with Wachovia Capital Finance Corporation to increase future availability and modify other terms under the company’s existing credit facility, and one with the...

Mumbai: Independent animation network Aniboom (aniboom.com) has broadened the reach of its content to more than 200 million potential mobile users worldwide through several key partnerships with top mobile entertainment distributors across the globe....

Mumbai: Sony Pictures Classics has acquired the US, Latin America, Australia and New Zealand rights to Atom Egoyan’s eleventh film Adoration. Adoration re-teams the Oscar-nominated director with producer Robert Lantos who has been involved...

Mumbai: The Los Angeles County Board of Supervisors has approved a new ordinance designed to hold property owners accountable for the manufacture and sale of pirated movies and music on their premises. The ordinance,...

Mumbai: Nokia announced the five finalists for the 2008 Nokia Mobile Filmmaking Awards which will be screened during the Pangea Day broadcast on 10 May. The winners will be flown to Los Angeles to...

Mumbai: The UK Film Council will this year honor some of Britain’s best Black and Asian film-making talent through its unique high-end honor program Breakthrough Brits. The program is designed to celebrate and bring...

Los Angeles judge issued $110 million judgment for infringement of copyrighted motion pictures & TV shows against TorrentSpy....

Mumbai: EMI Music Publishing has completed one of the most sought-after publishing deals of 2008, with the signing of Sam Sparro and his songwriting partner Jesse Rogg. With his debut album due to be...

Mumbai: The EA Casual Entertainment Label announced that BOOM BLOX, the first game released in collaboration between EA and director and producer Steven Spielberg, has shipped in North America and will be available 8...

Mumbai: The Cable & Satellite Broadcasting Association of Asia (CASBAA) will stage the eighth CASBAA Satellite Industry Forum on June 16th in Singapore at the Four Seasons Hotel. The one-day annual conference provides a...

Mumbai: THQ Inc. and DreamWorks Animation SKG have announced that they have entered into an exclusive licensing agreement to develop and publish video games based on the studio’s 2010 fall animated feature film. The...

Mumbai: Privately-held NY-based RightsFlow, a music, media and entertainment-focused professional services firm, announced the launch of its Outsourced Music Licensing Solutions. RightsFlow offers outsourced music publishing licensing and royalty systems to record labels, distributors,...

Mumbai: The Walt Disney Company has acquired the Disney Store chain in North America from subsidiaries of The Children’s Place Retail Stores.   As a result of the transaction, which consisted of an asset...

Mumbai: Microsoft Corp. announced that it has withdrawn its proposal to acquire Yahoo! Inc. "We continue to believe that our proposed acquisition made sense for Microsoft, Yahoo! and the market as a whole. Our...

Mumbai: On 16 May, Walt Disney Pictures and Walden Media are bringing the world of Narnia back to the big screen with the release of The Chronicles of Narnia: Prince Caspian. In conjunction with...