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...
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Gaming fuels the online content market
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...
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MySpace announces Elvis Week Karaoke contest
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...
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Nick at Nite teams up with Eisner’s Tornante animation for new TV series
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...
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DivX, CinemaNow to expand content delivery to new consumer electronics
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...
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EMI Music Publishing signs Eddy Grant to global publishing deal
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...
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Nickelodeon makes it’s classic hits available on the iTunes store
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...
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Music of Vijayta Films’ Chamku released
Mumbai: The music of Vijayta Film’s forthcoming film Chamku was released on 29 July amidst the cast and crew Bobby Deol, Priyanka Chopra, producer Dharmendra and Sunny Deol, T series’ chairman and managing director...
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Balaji Telefilms’ Q1 net profit up 20.7%; Star JV in limbo
Balaji Telefilms' net profit up 20.7% to Rs 222.57 million for the quarter ended 30 June, 2008; talks with Star Group for regional channels not reached any conclusion so far....
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Lionsgate gets $340 million credit facility with JPMorgan, Wachovia
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...
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ENIL posts net profit of Rs 70 million in Q1 FY09
MUMBAI: Entertainment Network (India) Ltd. (ENIL), which houses the Radio Mirchi brand, has posted a net profit of Rs 70 million for the quarter ended 30 June 2008. For the quarter, total income grew...
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Film Review: Mission Istanbul
Film: Mission Istanbul Director: Apoorva Lakhia Producers: Ekta Kapoor, Shobha Kapoor, Suniel Shetty, Shabbir Boxwala Presenter: Popcorn Motion Pictures & Balaji Telefilms Ltd Cast: Zayed Khan, Vivek Oberoi, Shabbir Ahluwalia, Shreya Saran, Sunil Shetty,...
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Yue, Cheng win Best Actor Award at 12th Pucheon Festival
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...
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Eight film trailers with Singh Is Kinng print
Mumbai: A number of film production companies are flocking to attach the trailers of their upcoming movies with the print of the Studio 18-distributed Singh Is Kinng. If cinemas let them remain, customers will...
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The Dark Knight grosses $16.3 million at Imax
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...
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Shemaroo releases Mere Baap Pehle Aap on home video
Mumbai: Shemaroo Entertainment has released its home production Mere Baap Pehle Aap on home video. The film is directed by Priyadarshan. The star cast includes Paresh Rawal and Akshaye Khanna, who play father-son in...
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Ashok Amritraj ropes in Brandon Routh for Dead Of Night
Ashok Amritraj's Hyde Park Entertainment has roped in actor Brandon Routh for Dead Of Night....
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UTV Software to invest $75 million in gaming business
UTV Software Communications is planning to invest close to $ 75 million in its gaming business....
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UTV net profit up 176 per cent to Rs 251 million
Mumbai: UTV Software Communications has posted a net profit of Rs 251 million for the quarter ended 30 June, which is up 176 per cent as compared to Rs 91 million in the same...
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The Indian Film Company lines up six films for release till December
The Indian Film Company has lined up six films for release till December this year including Singh is Kinng, Kidnap, Ghajini, Golmaal Returns etc....
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NFDC’s Film Bazaar to introduce co-production market for docus
The National Film Development Corporation (NFDC) of India will be holding Film Bazaar 2008 from 26 – 29 November in Goa. Film Bazaar will offer a new "Co-Production Market Section for Documentaries." Over these...
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