The Toronto International Film Festival will screen Yes Madam, Sir, a feature-length documentary about the life of India's first female police officer Kiran Bedi....

MUMBAI: District Court Judge Stanley Chan convicted two movie pirates of breaching Hong Kong’s copyright law and sentenced them both to 24 months imprisonment, the longest jail term to be meted out this year...

MUMBAI: Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer Studios Inc. (MGM) is joining together with The Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences to preserve archives from the United Artists/MGM library. A special signing ceremony was concluded recently by Academy...

MUMBAI: Seizing an opportunity to leverage the current wave of popularity and notoriety surrounding the new digital graphic novel sensation, The Many Worlds of Jonas Moore, MGM Domestic Television Distribution has acquired an option...

Mumbai: Alcatel-Lucent will support the first commercial trial of the Open Mobile Alliance (OMA)’s new BCAST Smartcard Profile, an emerging standard for Mobile TV content protection. This trial is being led by Alcatel-Lucent for...

Mumbai: Intel Corporation and Yahoo! previewed plans for the Widget Channel, a television application framework optimized for TV and related consumer electronics (CE) devices that use the Intel Architecture. The Widget Channel will be...

MUMBAI: Dreamworks SKG co-founder and Shoah Foundation founder Steven Spielberg will present the USC Shoah Foundation Institute’s Ambassadors for Humanity Award to legendary actor and humanitarian Kirk Douglas. Douglas will be honored for his...

MUMBAI: British films make a strong showing at this year’s Toronto Film Festival with nine of the 25 films British films co-funded by the UK Film Council. The films, some of which are new...

MUMBAI: A New Orleans man has pled guilty to two counts of copyright infringement in U.S. District Court in Louisiana and was sentenced last week to 12 months in prison and ordered to pay...

MUMBAI: NBC Universal, which recently acquired a 26 per cent share in NDTV Networks, will now be acquiring UK independent production company Carnival Film & Television Ltd. Under the terms of the agreement, NBC...

Mumbai: 3D Digital experiences and technology platforms company Xpand has entered a five year exclusive deal with Eurasia Cinemas, 88 per cent shareholder of AFM Cinemas, Turkey’s only publicly held entertainment company and cinema...

Mumbai: Warner Music International (WMI) and European online music community, MusicMakesFriends have inked a content and revenue partnership. Effective immediately, Warner Music’s catalogue of audio content will be made available on MusicMakesFriends’ on-demand streaming...

Mumbai: Grammy and Latin Grammy-winning international superstar Gloria Estefan will be honored as the 2008 Latin Recording Academy Person of the Year. Estefan was chosen for her philanthropic, professional, and cultural accomplishments and she...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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,...

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...

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...

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...

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...

Warner Bros. Pictures has moved back the release date of Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince to summer 2009. The sixth installment of the blockbuster Harry Potter franchise will now open day-and-date domestically and...

Mumbai: As of 13 August, Universal Pictures International (UPI) has grossed more than $1 billion in box-office revenue for the year-to-date. The announcement was made by Universal Pictures’ chairman Marc Shmuger and co-chairman David...

Mumbai: Five members from the 11th Infantry Regiment of the King’s Guard were arrested on 9 August during a police raid, dealing a major blow to pirate syndicates in Bangkok and neighbouring Nonthaburi and...

The Motion Picture Association (MPA) welcomed the introduction of a City Ordinance that criminalizes the unauthorized recording of movies in cinemas in Manila. The Film Protection Ordinance was passed by the Manila City Council...

Mumbai: Hialeah, Florida a man was taken into custody after a lo-jack hit led the Hialeah Police Department’s Auto Theft Unit to a stolen vehicle at the man’s residence. Further investigation revealed that the...

Mumbai: Pure Play Music and HSBC will team up to provide students free access to music through their "Fresher Sounds" promotion. The promotion is a scaleable incentive program targeted at students, which will give...

Mumbai: LBI Eyewear has entered into a multi-territorial licensing agreement with DreamWorks Animation, SKG, to produce Shrek eyewear and accessories. Two separate collections are being developed. The first collection is Shrek Eyewear, a durable,...

Mumbai: Sony Pictures Imageworks’ and Sony Pictures Animation’s IPAX education program has announced the launch of its new online mentor program, which will begin in the winter of 2009, and will leverage Animation Mentor’s...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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,...