Mumbai: Sony Pictures Television International (SPTI) has promoted Jamie Weissenborn to senior vice president, digital media, and global advertising sales, for SPTI’s international networks group. The announcement was made by Andy Kaplan, SPTI’s president,...
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Columbia Pictures acquires rights to Goosebumps
Mumbai: Columbia Pictures has acquired from Scholastic Media the right to adapt Scholastic’s bestselling Goosebumps book series into a theatrical feature. Deborah Forte and Neal H. Moritz will produce the film; it was announced...
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Universal Music Group signs deal with Neil Finn
Mumbai: Universal Music Publishing Group president of Europe & UK Paul Connolly announced the signing of Neil Finn to an exclusive, long-term, publishing administration deal for the World (excluding North America, Australia/New Zealand). Finn...
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Inox Leisure starts operations in Vijayawada
Mumbai: Multiplex chain Inox Leisure has started its operations at Vijayawada’s Gandhi Nagar. Inox is the first national multiplex chain to open in Vijayawada, and will house three screens and 1087 seats. Inox has...
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Weinstein Company, Star ink Pay-TV output deal
CANNES: The Weinstein Company announced at the Cannes Film Festival that it signed an exclusive five year Pan Asia pay-TV output deal with Star. Audiences in Asia will be able to view a wide...
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Eros International and Lionsgate ink joint venture deal
Eros International and independent filmed entertainment studio Lionsgate have agreed on a deal to form a joint venture....
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Manoel De Oliveira receives Lifetime Achievement Award at Cannes
CANNES: Portuguese director Manoel de Oliveira, who recently celebrated his 100th birthday, received a lively acclaim from Gilles Jacob, who awarded him the Palme d’Or for his lifetime career achievement in film. The Grand...
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Clint Eastwood’s Changeling screens at Cannes
CANNES: Five years after premiering Mystic River at the Festival de Cannes, Clint Eastwood returns to competition with Changeling, a thriller which takes place in the late 1920s in a working-class suburb of Los...
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