Mumbai: Sierra Entertainment announced that The Mummy: Tomb of the Dragon Emperor video game, based on Universal Pictures’ upcoming epic adventure directed by Rob Cohen — set to hit theatres 1 August– has shipped...

Mumbai: More than 50 independent cinemas across the UK have benefited from a £475,000 injection of Lottery cash from the UK Film Council to help upgrade facilities and enhance the cinema-going experience for audiences....

Mumbai: Warner Music Group Senior global consumer marketing VP Dan Pelson has moved to uPlayMe as CEO. uPlayMe is a new way to connect with people who share the same taste in music and...

Mumbai: Michael G. Wilson and Barbara Broccoli, producers of 22nd  James  Bond  adventure  Quantum  of  Solace, announced that Jack White of the rock band The White Stripes, and Alicia Keys, have recorded  the  theme...

Mumbai: Seven years after the destruction of Raccoon City, the war against the zombies rages on in Resident Evil: Degeneration, a co-production of CAPCOM and Sony Pictures Entertainment Japan (SPEJ) based on the popular...

Mumbai: Asia-Pacific’s online content services market continues to see robust growth, thanks to online gaming. Even as it battles piracy concerns, revenues for paid online content rose 25.6 percent in 2007 and are expected...

Mumbai: MySpace announced the Elvis Week Karaoke Contest, running 28 July – 4 August for MySpace members in the U.S. and Canada. MySpace and Elvis Presley Enterprises (EPE) have partnered together to encourage MySpace...

Mumbai: Nick at Nite has green-lit Glenn Martin DDS, the first television series from Michael Eisner’s Tornante Animation, cuing production on 20 episodes of the original, stop-motion primetime program. Giving the American family a...

Mumbai: DivX and CinemaNow inked an agreement that will allow CinemaNow to offer users the ability to download premium content in the high-quality DivX format and play back those titles on the PC, as...

Mumbai: EMI Music Publishing has signed a long-term worldwide publishing agreement to represent legendary singer-songwriter/producer/arranger Eddy Grant. The deal covers the Guyana-born musician’s new and future music, as well as his extensive back-catalogue including...

Mumbai: Nickelodeon announces that Nick Rewind, a catalogue featuring some of Nick’s most beloved classic shows, is now available on the iTunes Store (www.itunes.com). Nick Rewind features both full-length episodes and seasons of classic...

MUMBAI: Lionsgate has finalized arrangements for a new five-year, $340 million revolving credit facility that helps position the Company for continued future growth, it was announced by Lionsgate vice chairman Michael Burns. The new...

Mumbai: Rule #1, a co-production between STAR, MediaCorp Raintree Pictures, Scorpio East Pictures, Dream Movie Entertainment and Boku Films, came up victorious at the 12th Pucheon International Fantastic Film Festival’s Award Ceremony on 25th...

Mumbai: Imax Corporation and Warner Bros. Pictures announced that The Dark Knight: The Imax Experience continued its unprecedented box office performance with the highest grossing second weekend in Imax history. The Imax release grossed...

Ashok Amritraj's Hyde Park Entertainment has roped in actor Brandon Routh for Dead Of Night....

SingTel has signed a deal with Warner Bros. International Television Distribution (WBITD) that will make it possible for its mio TV service to screen up to 60 top Warner Bros. US series as early...

MUMBAI: The Rolling Stones and Universal Music Group have signed an exclusive, long-term, worldwide recording agreement. The pact covers future albums by the Rolling Stones and the single most iconic catalogue in rock and...

MUMBAI: NESTA and the UK Film Council have named the 12 independent British film businesses who will participate in the Digital Innovation in Film programme. The programme, which is jointly run by the two...

MUMBAI: Turner Broadcasting System’s broadband entertainment network GameTap has signed a long-term partnership with THQ Inc. that includes worldwide subscription play and digital download rights for a wide selection of the publisher’s games for...

MUMBAI: Global Entertainment Acquisition Corporation has completed the first sceenplay of what it expects to be a franchise comedy currently titled Brand Dead. The creative was completed recently and approved by the company’s CEO...

Mumbai: FUNimation Entertainment, an owned subsidiary of Navarre Corporation has acquired the home video, master toy and merchandising rights to Afro Samurai: Resurrection from GDH K.K. This release will be the second instalment to...

Mumbai: Stan Lee is teaming up with Walt Disney Studios Home Entertainment (WDSHE) to introduce a revolutionary new concept in original superheroes and the comic book format, Time Jumper, which will become the industry’s...

Mumbai: Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer Pictures (MGM) has signed Darren Aronofsky to direct and David Self to write a new instalment for its Robocop franchise. Aronofsky, the director of The Fountain, and Self, the writer of Road...

Mumbai: Sony Pictures Classics has purchased the US rights to Charlie Kaufman’s directorial debut Synecdoche, New York from Sidney Kimmel Entertainment, a deal brokered by UTA. The film screened in official competition at the...

Mumbai: AOL Music unveiled Tour Tracker, a free web service presented by American Express that lets music fans track their favourite artists and bands on tour. The site includes special incentive to buy tickets,...

Mumbai: DivX announced the DivX Certification of a new Blu-ray Disc (BD) Player from Panasonic, the DMP-BD50. This is the first DivX Certified Blu-ray model to be shipped to the U.S. market and will...

Mumbai: The DVD sales and rentals of Batman Begins was boosted by The Dark Knight’s unprecedented non-holiday weekend box office take of $158.4M, as reported by Rentrak’s Box Office Essentials. According to Rentrak’s Retail...

Mumbai: At the 2008 Comic-Con International, Glu Mobile unveiled Superman/Batman, a new game coming to mobile phones around the world this winter. Superman/Batman, developed and published by Glu through its licensing agreement with Warner...

Mumbai: "Where Nightmares Come Alive" is the theme for Universal Studios Hollywood’s first Halloween short film competition, a virtual film festival timed to coincide with the launch of the annual Halloween Horror Nights event...

Mumbai: Electronic Arts announced it has signed with leading Hollywood talent and literary agency UTA for representation in motion pictures and television. UTA will help the company develop a comprehensive strategy for moving its...

Mumbai: Sony Pictures Imageworks president Tim Sarnoff announced its second annual scholarship winners, presented this year to four students currently enrolled at academic institutions affiliated with IPAX, Imageworks and Sony Pictures Animation’s Professional Academic...

94% Americans believe they make a contribution to the environment by downloading a movie online versus renting or buying it....

Mumbai: Discovery Communications president and CEO David Zaslav will present the MIPCOM 2008 Green TV Keynote on 13 October. MIPCOM, the world’s audiovisual content market, will be held in Cannes from 13 through 17...

Mumbai: In his keynote address before the Bipartisan Policy Center (BPC) luncheon this afternoon, Motion Picture Association of America (MPAA), chairman and CEO Dan Glickman championed the need for intellectual property protections and the...

Mumbai: Warner Bros. Interactive Entertainment will publish Watchmen, an episodic downloadable game based on the upcoming Warner Bros. Pictures’ film for the Xbox 360 video game and entertainment system from Microsoft, PS3 computer entertainment...

Mumbai: Warner/Chappell Music, the global music publishing arm of Warner Music Group has inked a worldwide publishing agreement with singer/songwriter Katy Perry. Under the agreement, Warner/Chappell Music will administer Perry’s catalogue of work and...

In order to crackdown illegal music & film downloads, 6 UK ISPs have inked a deal with the music industry to help combat online piracy....

Mumbai: Aspiring dancers can enter Bollypop, an online dance competition sponsored by Verizon to help showcase the growing amount of Bollywood movies and music videos; the company offers its FiOS TV and V CAST...