Mumbai: Dennis Adamovich has joined TBS in the newly created role of senior vice president and general manager of comedy festivals, according to an announcement by Turner Entertainment Networks president Steve Koonin. Adamovich’s first...

Mumbai: Sony Ericsson and Warner Music International announced an agreement enabling new music and mobile content from Madonna’s smash hit new album Hard Candy to be sold with selected Sony Ericsson mobile devices in...

Mumbai: Museum of the Moving Image director Rochelle Slovin announced the launch of a major new website devoted to the history of film, television, and digital media: Moving Image Source. Made possible with support...

Mumbai: Film icon Dennis Hopper has been set to star in Crash, the first original drama series from Starz Entertainment, based on the Academy Award-winning Best Picture. The 13-episode one-hour series, co-produced with Lionsgate,...

Mumbai: IMAX Corporation and DreamWorks Animation SKG announced that the studio’s highly anticipated summer movie, Kung Fu Panda, starring Jack Black, Dustin Hoffman, Angelina Jolie, Ian McShane, Jackie Chan, Seth Rogan, Lucy Liu and...

Mumbai: Ignition Entertainment, a UTV Enterprise and worldwide publisher and developer of videogames, announced the launch of the official game site and first teaser trailer in a series of videos for the upcoming stealth-horror...

Mumbai: DreamWorks Animation and Paramount Pictures Corporation announced a stellar cast line-up for DreamWorks Animation’s upcoming comedy, Madagascar: Escape 2 Africa, which is slated for a 7 November, 2008 theatrical release. Madagascar: Escape 2...

Mumbai: Yahoo! and Havas Digital inked a global partnership that encompasses all of the operating units within Havas Digital. Under the terms of the agreement, Havas Digital will work with the Right Media Exchange...

Mumbai: Qloud has announced that it launched its My Music Application on MySpace (http://www.myspace.com/music_app). Qloud’s My Music application enables MySpace users to import and play entire songs and videos from their complete iTunes library...

Mumbai: EMI Music Publishing has extended its long-term relationship with Grammy Award winning songwriter and performer Ben Harper. A multi-instrumentalist whose blend of rock, folk, reggae, blues and soul have won him a devoted...

Mumbai: Television programming from France’s networks including TF1, France Télévisions, Arté, Mediatoon’s Dargaud TV and Dupuis TV, along with hit US shows from The Walt Disney Company and MTV Networks is now available on...

Mumbai: Apple announced that movies from major film studios including 20th Century Fox, The Walt Disney Studios, Paramount Pictures, Warner Bros. Entertainment, Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer Studios Inc. (MGM), Sony Pictures Television International and Lionsgate UK are...

Mumbai: Barry Ziehl has been promoted to Senior Vice President of Worldwide Public Relations and Marketing for Warner Bros. Consumer Products (WBCP), it was announced by Warner Bros. Consumer Products executive vice president of...

Mumbai: IMAX Corporation announced that Heather Anthony has been named Vice President, Investor Relations for the company. Anthony has more than a decade of experience in the investor relations and financial communications industry having...

Mumbai: SpiralFrog (www.spiralfrog.com), the free, ad-supported Web-based music experience, has inked a digital distribution agreement with EMI Music. With the agreement, EMI’s expansive catalog of digital music and music videos will become available to...

Mumbai: EA Mobile, a division of the Electronic Arts Casual Entertainment Label, announced the availability of Kung Fu Panda, an original mobile game based on the characters, locations and storyline from the DreamWorks Animation...

Mumbai: EMI Music has entered into an agreement with ad-supported digital music service Qtrax to make EMI’s catalog of digital music available to music fans in the US and Canada. As part of the...

Mumbai: Universal Pictures and Marvel Studios are set to present the world premiere of The Incredible Hulk at the Gibson Amphitheatre on 8 June. The Incredible Hulk is directed by Louis Leterrier; cast members...

Mumbai: Internet television service Veoh Networks (www.veoh.com) has received an additional round of funding worth $30 million led by Intel Capital, the global investment arm of Intel Corporation, joined by Adobe Systems and Capital...

Mumbai: Verizon Wireless announced it has activated three new cell sites in Rock County that bring the nation’s most reliable network to area residents. This new coverage area is in the southeastern portions of...

Mumbai: Sony Computer Entertainment America (SCEA) announced that on 5 June it will introduce Qore: Presented by Playstation Network, a highly interactive, monthly original program that covers the world inside PlayStation, available only on...

Mumbai: Asia’s media and entertainment company Star and FedEx Express, a subsidiary of FedEx Corp., airlifted 31 tonnes of necessities to Sichuan Province, China, on 1 June. The supplies will provide immediate aid to...

Mumbai: Access Integrated Technologies (AccessIT) announced its plans for the installation of 150 of its leading edge CineLiveSM product in key markets throughout the United States. The technology, which enables the live broadcast to...

Mumbai: Coca-Cola will celebrate the Essence Music Festival at The Apollo on 5 June where some of today’s most popular R&B and neo-soul artists will perform on the Apollo’s legendary stage in celebration of...

Mumbai: Universal Capital Management, a publicly traded venture capital company that provides emerging growth companies with management and strategic resources for successful growth, announced that it has signed a new management agreement with its...

Mumbai: Warner Premiere’s Lost Boys The Tribe arrives on Blu-ray and DVD 29 July from Warner Home Video. Lost Boys The Tribe is directed by P.J. Pesce from a script by Hans Rodionoff and...

Mumbai: Leading film organizations published the first UK-wide film education strategy. Film: 21st Century Literacy aims to bring greater consistency to the provision of film education in the UK so children and young people...

Mumbai: Building on the success of the anti-piracy campaign initiated by the City of New York and the Motion Picture Association of America (MPAA) last year, MPAA chairman and CEO Dan Glickman announced that...

Mumbai: Lionsgate has acquired the US and Canadian distribution rights to Transporter 3. Jason Statham returns as iconic action hero Frank Martin in the third installment of the EuropaCorp-produced series. The announcement was made...

Mumbai: The Los Angeles Film Festival announced that Walden Media and New Line Cinema’s Journey to the Center of the Earth will make its world premiere with a special 3D screening as part of...

Mumbai: Universal Music Group (UMG) and Qualcomm Incorporated announced that UMG will expand its lineup of direct-to-consumer mobile content and services for music fans by leveraging Qualcomm’s BrandXtend solution. UMG’s mobile offering will be...

Mumbai: Terminator Salvation: The Future Begins, starring Sam Worthington and Christian Bale, began principal photography in May in Albuquerque, New Mexico. The Halcyon Company Presentation of a Moritz Borman Production of a McG Film,...

Mumbai: The Walt Disney Studios has signed a multi-year deal with Ahmet Zappa, Harris Katleman and Christian Beranek to oversee the newly christened Kingdom Comics, an innovative new venture of developing graphic novels to...

Mumbai: Lionsgate has entered into a distribution agreement with leading consumer entertainment products company MGA Entertainment for Little Tikes brand. The deal was announced by Lionsgate Executive Vice President of Marketing and Family Entertainment,...

MUMBAI: TiVo, the creator of television services for digital video recorders (DVRs), announced that TiVo subscribers will soon be able to download movies from The Walt Disney Studios to their broadband connected TiVo DVRs...

MUMBAI: Thought Equity Motion, supplier of online content licensing and management services, and Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer Studios (MGM) have formed an agreement which will provide producers and media professionals around the world digital access to stock...

MUMBAI: The New Zealand Federation Against Copyright Theft (NZFACT) and PricewaterhouseCoopers (PwC) have announced a partnership that will strengthen New Zealand’s anti-piracy capacity with PwC providing specialist forensic investigative assistance and helping to raise...

Mumbai: Britain’s Breakthrough Brits will this weekend fly out to LA to make their mark on Hollywood. The honourees will get the chance to showcase their work to some of the industry’s finest and...

MUMBAI: Countries from the Asia-Pacific region are invited to submit films for the region’s highest accolade in film for 2008, the Asia Pacific Screen Awards (APSAs). Opening date for entries is 1 June. Submission...

MUMBAI: Filmed entertainment studio Lionsgate continued its growth momentum for fiscal 2008, reporting revenues of $1.36 billion and a net loss of $74.0 million for its fiscal year ended 31 March, 2008, the company...