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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Dan Glickman makes statement on prioritizing resources and organization for IP Act
Mumbai: MPAA chairman and CEO Dan Glickman made the following statement in response to the House Judiciary Committee’s passage of the Prioritizing Resources and Organization for Intellectual Property Act (PRO-IP). "The Judiciary Committee took...
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Trade, technology key to future of movies
Mumbai: "Motion pictures are among America’s most important diplomats deserving of protection and advancement in our changing global environment", said Motion Picture Association of America (MPAA) chairman and CEO Dan Glickman. Glickman, in remarks...
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Paramount, Artificial Life to co-distribute mobile game globally
Mumbai: Hong Kong-based Artificial Life, a full service provider of mobile technology and applications, announced the launch of Shooter-The Official Mobile Game, which is based on the successful Paramount Pictures motion picture The Shooter....
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Paramount buys screen rights for Beautiful Boy, Tweak
Mumbai: Paramount Pictures has purchased the screen rights to the current New York Times non-fiction bestsellers Beautiful Boy: A Father’s Journey Through His Son’s Addiction by David Sheff and Tweak: Growing Up on Methamphetamines...
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BBC brings its programs to iTunes store in US
Mumbai: BBC has announced that for the first time BBC America programming will be available for purchase and download from the iTunes Store in the US (http://www.itunes.com). Making BBC programming available on the iTunes...
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EFX Prasad gets SICA Award for special effects
SICA Awards for excellence in Special Effects in cinema was awarded to EFX - Prasad Corporation 'Best Special Effects for 2007....
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T-Series buys Chandni Chowk To China music for Rs 55 – 60 mn
T-Series has acquired the audio rights of Akshay Kumar and Deepika Padukone starrer Chandni Chowk to China.<br /> ...
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MySpace launches MySpace Karaoke with kSolo
Mumbai: MySpace has launched the beta version of its newest offering, MySpace Karaoke (http://ksolo.myspace.com), powered by the world’s first web-based karaoke service kSolo. MySpace Karaoke is a user-generated music service that enables members to...
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Censor Board gets lenient with film certification
Over the last three years, the number of films refused certification by the Central Board of Film Certification (CBFC) has gone down....
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DLF targets 500 screens in 5 years; to invest Rs 12 billion
DLF to invest Rs 12.50 billion on expanding its multiplex business by adding about 500 screens in the next four to five years....
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Sony Pictures, DQ partner with PNC for Meerabai Not Out
PNC's Meerabai Not Out will be distributed worldwide by Sony Pictures. DQ Entertainment has acquired 50 percent stake in the film.<br /> ...
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Pyramid Saimira acquires Rajnikanth starrer for Rs 650 mn
Pyramid Saimira has bagged the worldwide rights of Rajinikanth-starrer Kuselan for a sum of Rs 650 million for 11 years....
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UTVi chooses Avid Newsroom Solutions in India
Mumbai: Real Image Media Technologies, the exclusive reseller for Avid Newsroom Solutions in the country, has announced that UTV has chosen the Avid Unity ISIS solution for its Business news channel – UTVi. After...
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India Radio Forum to be held on 30 May
Mumbai: The who’s who of the international radio broadcast arena will gather at the third India Radio Forum in Mumbai this year. Organized by Partners in Media Asia, the event promises to provide an...
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Shemaroo to screen three movies at Cannes 2008
Shemaroo Entertainment will screen Ghatothkach, Anuranan and Mumbai Salsa at Cannes Film Festival 2008......
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HBO lines up exclusive premieres for May
Mumbai: HBO has lined up premieres of some of the latest movies this May. The channel has also brought 60 of the biggest star-studded favorite blockbusters across genres through May and June, every night....
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IIFA to be held in Bangkok 6-8 June
Mumbai: The ninth IIFA awards will be held in Bangkok this year. As it has traveled to over three countries and nine locations, IIFA has left a lasting impact on its host country and...
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CinemaNow, uVuMobile team to provide WAP services
Mumbai: CinemaNow and mobile software company uVuMobile announced that they have integrated their technologies to offer a Wireless Application Protocol (WAP) service that allows consumers to preview movie trailers and remotely download full-length movies...
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Time Warner Cable launches campaign to support Speed Racer
Mumbai: Time Warner Cable announced the launch of a promotional campaign for the company’s Road Runner Turbo High Speed Online service in partnership with Warner Bros. Pictures’ upcoming live-action, high-octane family adventure Speed Racer....
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DreamWorks Animation reports first quarter results
Mumbai: For the quarter ended March 31, 2008, DreamWorks Animation SKG reported total revenue of $156.6 million and net income of $26.1 million, or $0.28 per share on a fully diluted basis. This compares...
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Warner Bros. Television unveils new digital initiatives
Mumbai: The Warner Bros. Television Group (WBTVG) unveiled two new broadband destinations and other key components of its multiplatform digital media business strategy at a New York press conference. The announcements, made by Warner...
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Nokia expands games distribution channels in Asia
Mumbai: Nokia announced that SNAP Mobile, its connected mobile Java gaming platform, has expanded games distribution channels in the People’s Republic of China (PRC) and Taiwan. Through further cooperation with SINA Corporation, a leading...
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MPA marks World IP Day in Singapore
Mumbai: The Motion Picture Association (MPA) will launch a new anti-piracy trailer titled ‘What Are You Really Burning?’ at the official website www.mpa-i.org to mark World IP Day. The Anti-Piracy trailer was previewed to...
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Malaysia authorities take down another pirate movie burner lab
Mumbai: On 28 April, 10 officers from the Ministry of Domestic Trade and Consumer Affairs (MDTCA), with the support from Malaysian Federation Against Copyright Theft (MFACT), representing the Motion Picture Association (MPA) in Malaysia,...
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