Mumbai: NDTV Imagine has announced the Salaam-E-Comedy Awards, in recognition of the genre of comedy films and the artists that are part of this popular genre. Airtel Salaam-E-Comedy Awards has been produced and conceptualized...
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Tata Elxsi to set up design studio in the UK
Mumbai: Tata Elxsi is planning to set up its Innovation Design and Engineering business unit, which provides creative design solutions, in the UK. The design studio would help position the company’s services in the...
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MGM will release Tom Cruise starrer Valkyrie on 26 December
Mumbai: Tom Cruise starrer Valkyrie is based on the true story of Colonel Claus von Stauffenberg (Cruise) and the daring and ingenious plot to eliminate one of the most evil criminals the world has...
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United Artists’ CEO Paula Wagner steps down
Mumbai: UA chief executive officer Paula Wagner has decided to leave her day-to-day responsibilities. MGM and UA confirmed that Wagner will transition to the role of a producer, under her own independent production and...
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Apple premieres movies on the iTunes store in Australia, New Zealand
Mumbai: Apple has announced that movies from major film studios including 20th Century Fox, The Walt Disney Studios, Paramount Pictures, Warner Bros. Entertainment, Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer Studios (MGM), Sony Pictures Television International and Lionsgate are now...
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Shoot on Sight producer to donate part of profits to bombings victims
Mumbai: Shoot On Sight Producer Aron Govil will donate a portion of the profits from the UK release of the film to the London bombings victims’ Memorial. On 7 July 2005, four suicide bombers,...
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Star Movies to air Die Hard on 16 August
Mumbai: Star Movies will be airing Die Hard 4.0 on 16 August at 9 pm. Directed by Len Wiseman, Die Hard 4.0 stars Bruce Willis, Justin Long, and Mary Elizabeth Winstead. When a security...
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Bond producer joins UK Film Council Board
Mumbai: Barbara Broccoli, producer of the James Bond films and chair of First Light Movies, has been appointed to the board of the UK Film Council by Culture Minister Margaret Hodge. The appointment will...
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Warner to offer movies on HD VOD for 85th anniversary celebration
Mumbai: Warner Bros. Digital Distribution (WBDD) is celebrating Warner Bros. Entertainment’s 85th Anniversary with the Video on Demand (VOD) release of 85 time-honored classic films, many of which will be available for the first...
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Xbox 360 hits big screen at selected theatres
Mumbai: Cineplex Entertainment (TSX: CGX.UN) and Xbox bring the Xbox 360 gaming experience to the big screen in surround sound exclusively at select Cineplex Entertainment theatres across Canada beginning 15 August. Pricing for a...
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Premiere Radio networks launches The iTunes Download
Mumbai: Premiere Radio Networks, a subsidiary of Clear Channel Communications, has announced the launch of The iTunes Download, a three-hour weekend music countdown show hosted by iTunes director of music programming Alex Luke. This...
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Warner Music International acquires majority stake in Get In
Mumbai: Warner Music International announced the acquisition of a majority stake in Get In, a leading artist services company in Spain. Formed in 1990 by Iñigo Argomaniz, Get In has operations in artist management,...
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SimplyMarry.com rolls Jodhaa Akbar contest with UTV Movies
Mumbai: As a part of its marketing campaign, SimplyMarry.com has tied up with the television world premier of the Ashutosh Gowariker’s Jodhaa Akbar and is sponsoring the contest on UTV Movies that will have...
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Entertainment drives India’s mobile internet growth: Nielsen
Entertainment-themed websites most popular with mobile internet users in India, Brazil, Russia, and China mobile markets according to Nielsen....
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‘I never thought that I would work with Yash Raj Films so early in my career’ – Deepika Padukone
Just one film old, actress Deepika Padukone is all set for the release of her second movie – Bachna Ae Haseeno from the Yash Raj Films’ stable. Directed by Siddharth Anand, the movie also...
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Blue Frog celebrates Independence Day with Taufiq Qureshi
Mumbai: Tabla Maestro Taufiq Qureshi and Drumming wizard Ranjit Barot come together at Blue Frog on 15 August to celebrate India’s 61st Independence Day through an Indian Classical Music Fusion concert. Qureshi, an ace...
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MGM acquires pitch Peter Segal signed to direct
Mumbai: Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer Pictures has acquired Ken Kaufman and David Agosto’s pitch with Peter Segal attached to produce and direct. Segal is director of the current hit film Get Smart starring Steve Carell, Anne Hathaway,...
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Comcast and MGM ink partnership to launch VOD channel
Mumbai: Comcast Corporation and Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer Studios announced a partnership to launch Impact, the first video-on-demand (VOD) channel dedicated exclusively to action programming. The new channel, available first to Comcast customers this week, features a...
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Arena Animation holds Perspectives Seminar in Delhi
Mumbai: Arena Animation Academy presented ‘Perspectives: A seminar on Animation’ at Siri Fort Auditorium, New Delhi, which was attended by over 2500 students, aspirants and animation enthusiasts. The seminar was inaugurated by Dr. Kiran...
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