Mumbai: Ultra Merchandising & Retails, a part of Ultra Group, has acquired license and merchandising rights for toon character Richie Rich by Harvey Entertainment. The merchandise products of Richie Rich such as comic books,...
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Ford, Sex and the City and Iron Man top 2008 brandcameo awards
Mumbai: Brandchannel, the online resource about branding, revealed the winners of its fourth annual brandcameo Product Placement Awards. "Resisting economic slowdown and government opposition, the integration of advertising into different forms of entertainment continues...
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Columbia, Sony BMG announce release of Black Ice album
Mumbai: Columbia Records/ Sony BMG will release Black Ice, the new studio album from AC/DC, on 20 October. Black Ice, the first full-length studio album of all-new material from AC/DC since the release of...
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Jade Goody bids farewell to Bigg Boss
Mumbai: Jade Goody, the celebrity from UK’s reality show Big Brother, made an entry into the Bigg Boss house as one of the 14 participants on 17 August, as Bigg Boss Season 2 premiered...
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Reliance BIG TV rolls out MPEG4 Direct-to-Home service
Reliance Anil Dhirubhai Ambani Group's DTH service under the brand name Reliance BIG TV was launched across the country on 19 August....
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Balaji to explore other strategic partners after Star’s exit
Balaji Telefilms & Star Group part ways; Balaji to explore strategic initiatives in various other segments of the India media and entertainment industry....
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Percept to release Ru-Ba-Ru on 12 September
Mumbai: Percept Picture Company’s latest venture Ru-Ba-Ru is all set to hit theatres on 12th September. Ru-Ba-Ru is a romantic thriller, which will see Randeep Hooda with newcomer Shahana Goswami. The film is directed...
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Film frat gives its verdict on next big Bollywood blockbuster
Singh Is Kinng set new benchmarks for weekend opening & its first week collections stand at Rs 900 million. Now bets are high on the next big box office blockbuster....
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Global Entertainment licenses 500 music titles, film scores
MUMBAI: Global Entertainment Acquisition Corporation acquired through license the library of music scores, commercial jingles, original songs and underscores from Impact Productions, a Miami based power commercial music house. The library contains hundreds of...
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Movie marathon on 29 August may create fix in theaters
As many as seven movies are slated to release theatrically on 29 August, which in itself is a record....
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MPA’s crackdown unearths 7.5 million pirated movie discs in A-Pac
MUMBAI: Motion Picture Association’s (MPA) Asia-Pacific wide anti-piracy enforcement operation – Operation Takedown, which was launched in May 2008, concluded at the end of July 2008. The operation resulted in the arrest of 461...
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Time Broadband to bring 15 TV channels on mobile
MUMBAI: Time Broadband Services Pvt. Ltd. (TBSL) will be launching its Digital Mobile TV channel bouquet in India, which will comprise 15 entertainment and news channels. The channels will be entertainment based verticals comprising...
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Prasad EFX dolls up Satyam with visual effects
MUMBAI: Digital post production studio Prasad EFX has executed more than 425 VFX shots for the action thriller Satyam (Salute in Telugu). The VFX for Satyam was supervised by VFX director from Hollywood Craig...
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Film frat revs up anti-piracy campaign for New Zealand students
MUMBAI: The New Zealand film industry’s "What are you really burning?" campaign was stepped up with the launch of the first of 6,000 posters being distributed to 2,700 schools throughout the country. The posters,...
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Star Wars: The Clone Wars, McDonald’s join hands for Happy Meal
McDonald’s and Lucasfilm Ltd. have teamed up to create a Happy Meal program for Star Wars: The Clone Wars, which will be available for a four-week period (15 August – 11 September). "We’re very...
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MPA and Singapore film industry launch anti-camcording campaign
MUMBAI: On 15 August, distributors and cinema exhibitors in Singapore together with the Motion Pictures Association (MPA) jointly rolled out anti-camcording warning messages in all cinemas in Singapore. This campaign, supported by the HIP...
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Disney.com adds new entertainment features
MUMBAI: Disney.com, part of the Disney Interactive Media Group, has added several new features on the site including new game, video, community and character portals accessible from the homepage. Disney.com is also rolling out...
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Warner Music & Microsoft ink music video deal for Xbox
MUMBAI: Warner Music Group and Microsoft have entered into a music video agreement for Xbox Live Online Entertainment Service. Warner Music Group will make its music videos available to Microsoft’s Xbox Live community around...
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Orion Pictures changes name to People Tree Films
Nikhil Advani and Mukesh Talreja's Orion Pictures has been renamed as People Tree Films following a notice from Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer, which owns the brand name....
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Excel Home Videos unveils Olympic Movie Fest on DVD
Mumbai: As the world’s biggest sporting spectacle gains momentum in Beijing, Excel Home Videos has unveiled a film festival featuring movies based on sports. The fest includes movies like Chariots of Fire, Rocky, Goal!,...
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UTV acquires majority stake in True Games Interactive
UTV Interactive has acquired an 80 per cent stake in True Games Interactive, a US-based online game publishing start-up....
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Mauj Mobile Rajiv Nayyar joins as senior vice president
MUMBAI: People Group’s wireless arm, Mauj Mobile has appointed Rajiv Nayyar as senior vice president carrier sales and marketing. People Infocom (Mauj Mobile) CEO Manoj Dawane said, "The appointment of our new Sales and...
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PassionForCinema.com rolls One-Minute Film Festival
Mumbai: PassionForCinema.com has announced its Call for Entries for the second annual PFCOne Film Festival, a pioneering online festival featuring one-minute movies. The entry period for PFCOne runs from 5 August through 31 October...
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Mahadev Ka Sajjanpur renamed as Welcome To Sajjanpur
Mumbai: Shyam Benegal takes to comedy movies with his forthcoimng film Mahadev Ka Sajjanpur… Based in a township called Sajjanpur, everyone in the unit was always seen as getting transported to the world of...
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