Mumbai: David Chase, the seven time Emmy award-winning creator of The Sopranos, has signed a deal with Paramount Pictures to write, direct and produce his first feature film, an original drama. Chase has a...

Mumbai: MPAA chairman and CEO Dan Glickman made the following statement in response to the House passage of the Prioritizing Resourcesand Organization for Intellectual Property Act (PRO-IP): "We applaud the members of the House...

Mumbai: Digital cinema player Access Integrated Technologies announced that Lionsgate will provide movies to digital cinema equipped theatres in the Phase I digital cinema program and will pay virtual print fees under a long-term...

Mumbai: The Cable & Satellite Broadcasting Association of Asia, CASBAA has released an update of its Indonesia in View report for its members, providing a snapshot of Indonesia’s pay-TV market conditions with a summary...

Mumbai: Nerds, pirates and robots take over as MTV Music Television announced the nominees for the 2008 MTV Movie Awards. Dominating the pack is Superbad with five nominations followed by Juno with four nods....

Mumbai: Digonex Technologies announced an agreement with Warner Music Group whereby Digonex will use its proprietary technology to recommend varying wholesale prices to WMG for select digital album downloads. The test is expected to...

Mumbai: Best Feature Film * Winner – SECRET SUNSHINE (MIRYANG) (Republic of Korea). Produced by Kim In-soo, Lee Chang-dong and Hanna Lee* CARAMEL (Lebanon/France).Produced by Anne Dominique Toussaint, Hadeel Kamel and Raphael Berdugo* NIGHT...

Mumbai: The Asia Pacific Screen Awards (APSAs) are held in collaboration with UNESCO, FIAPF – International Federation of Film Producers Associations and CNN International. The awards acclaim the cinematic excellence of Asia-Pacific films that...

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...

Mumbai: The official Tom Cruise website by Rogers & Cowan www.TomCruise.com was launched with an exclusive and celebratory 27-year career retrospective Tom Cruise video reel of movie clips spanning from Taps to Lions for...

Mumbai: Social music site Jango (www.jango.com) and Hearst Magazines have announced a cross-promotional partnership to develop co-branded online music widgets for Seventeen.com, the website of Seventeen magazine. Matching social music and editorial in a...

Mumbai: Universal Music Group (UMG) and Gotuit have signed a broad license agreement for Gotuit’s intellectual property, which includes six issued patents and numerous patent applications. Under this license, UMG will foster the development...

Mumbai: Meebo announced a $25 million investment from a group of investors led by JAFCO Ventures, with participation from Time Warner Investments, KTB Ventures, and existing investors Sequoia Capital and Draper Fisher Jurvetson (DFJ)....

Mumbai: MPAA’s Dan Glickman joined New York’s Attorney General Andrew Cuomo and others to announce an aggressive new approach to fighting piracy in the Empire State. Cuomo announced that he is appointing a special...

Mumbai: Sony Pictures Television International (SPTI) has inked a "day-and-date" video-on-demand licensing deal with KT Corporation (KT), South Korea’s integrated telecommunications service provider, to offer current and upcoming theatrical movies from Sony Pictures Entertainment...

Mumbai: Reach for Me, the first feature-length motion picture to be shot and produced entirely in 4K, will be screened on Sony’s 4K Digital Cinema Projection System. Directed by LeVar Burton and produced by...

Mumbai: Universal Music Group (UMG) has completed its acquisition of Univision Music Group following the recent clearance of the deal in the US by the Federal Trade Commission. The acquisition results in UMG becoming...

Mumbai: Motion pictures are among America’s most important diplomats deserving of protection and advancement in our changing global environment, according to MPAA chairman and CEO Dan Glickman. Glickman, in remarks before the National Press...

Mumbai: The Motion Picture Association (MPA) announced in a press release that it has launched an anti-piracy trailer to coincide with World Intellectual Property Day on 26 April. The trailer will be shown before...

Mumbai: The Secret, a motivational movie and book based on the Law of Attraction, has spawned a worldwide phenomenon of DVD and book sales. Now, The Secret has prompted a lawsuit from the film’s...

Mumbai: The Melbourne International Film Festival (MIFF) Premiere Fund has confirmed a slate of 12 films, with a six-film line-up for 2008 and a further six for 2009. Innovation Minister Gavin Jennings said the...

Mumbai: Egami Media, a wholly owned subsidiary of Image Entertainment, focused on the aggregation and wholesale distribution of digital rights, will be distributing content via the iTunes Store. Egami Media will initially offer over...

Mumbai: Warner Home Video announced the promotion of Schuyler Hollingsworth III to Managing Director of Warner Home Video Mexico. In his new post, Hollingsworth will manage all operations in Mexico, including DVD, Video Games...

Mumbai: Hands-On Mobile and Marvel Entertainment announced the availability of the mobile game and personalization content around the forthcoming big-screen adaptation of Marvel’s legendary super hero Iron Man. The game and content is currently...

Mumbai: On 30 April, acting on an informant’s tip, 15 officers from the Ministry of Domestic Trade and Consumer Affairs (MDTCA), with the support from Malaysian Federation Against Copyright Theft (MFACT), representing the Motion...

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...

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...