Mumbai: Dolby Laboratories, Inc. (NYSE: DLB) announced that it is providing technical services as well as cinema technology solutions to the the 33rd Toronto International Film Festival (TIFF) for the 15th year in a...

Mumbai: Image Entertainment, Inc. (NASDAQ: DISK), an independent licensee, producer and distributor of home entertainment programming in North America, announced at the Toronto International Film Festival that it has acquired from CT1 Holdings, LLC...

Mumbai: As part of its continuing effort to offer innovative advertising solutions to its clients, NBC Universal (NBCU) will join forces with Google (NASDAQ:GOOG) to form a strategic multi-year advertising, research and technology partnership....

Mumbai: Hollywood actor Tom Cruise has launched an iPhone friendly version of his official website – www.tomcruise.com. The visitors will also be able to register for website updates right from their iPhone smart phone...

Mumbai: Music World Music/Columbia Records/ Sony BMG will release the third full-length studio album of Beyoncé on 18 November. One of 2008’s most hotly anticipated new album releases, Beyoncé’s as-yet-untitled upcoming album marks the...

Mumbai: On the heels of a record breaking U.S. summer box office totalling more than $3.9 billion, all eyes are fixed upon the Florida based studio that has been capturing the interest of industry...

Mumbai: The Entertainment Technology Center (ETC) [www.etcenter.org] announced that it will set up a Stereoscopic 3-D Content Testing Lab in addition to its Anytime/Anywhere Content Lab. Building on the success of ETC’s world-renowned Digital...

Mumbai: Amazon.com has premiered the new, previously unreleased Bob Dylan song and music video "Dreamin’ of You." In celebration of the Amazon.com Music Store’s 10th anniversary, fans around the world will get an exclusive...

Mumbai: The Imax release of DreamWorks Animation SKG’s Madagascar: Escape 2 Africa has been extended to include the Thanksgiving holiday, and will now run into December. Madagascar: Escape 2 Africa will be digitally re-mastered...

Mumbai: Electronic Arts Inc and Warner Bros. Interactive Entertainment will release the Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince video game globally in the summer of 2009, alongside the Warner Bros. Pictures’ film based on...

Mumbai: Dolby Laboratories, Inc. announced that shipments of Dolby 3D Digital Cinema units have reached more than 500 in 24 countries since its market debut less than a year ago in October 2007. Dolby...

Mumbai: MySpace has inked a content partnership with Warner Bros. Television Group to bring the new original digital series Sorority Forever – created by director/producer McG and the producers of the Internet series Prom...

Mumbai: The UK Film Council’s Premiere Fund has awarded £500,000 of National Lottery funding to Dorian Gray for a film, which is a take on Oscar Wilde’s classic novel A Picture of Dorian Gray....

Mumbai: Twentieth Century Fox will be releasing The Day The Earth Stood Still, directed by Scott Dickerson and starring Keanu Reeves, Jennifer Connelly, Kathy Bates, John Cleese and Jaden Smith, simultaneously to both IMAX...

Mumbai: EMI Music and Warner Music Group Corp. have inked a marketing and distribution partnership in South East Asia, building on the companies’ existing relationship in India, the Middle East and North Africa. Under...

Mumbai: Scala, a provider of end-to-end solutions for the connected signage market, has announced that Muvico Theaters will connect their digital signage network to their POS system to drive the theater business. Muvico currently...

Mumbai: A 35-member delegation from Taiwan attended the award ceremony of the ‘My Video’ Competition held at Hong Kong’s Central Library on 6 September. The competition, aimed at encouraging creativity and promoting public awareness...

Mumbai: The Starship Children’s Hospital received 23 DVD players from Motion Picture Association (MPA) president and managing director and Asia-Pacific and New Zealand Federation Against Copyright Theft (NZFACT) director Mike Ellis.  Fifty movies on...

Mumbai: The late Egyptian director Youssef Chahine will be honored during the second Middle East International Film Festival (MEIFF), to be held in Abu Dhabi from 10 to 19 October, with a photo exhibition...

Hollywood actor Tommy Lee Jones has sued the makers of No Country For Old Men - Paramount Pictures - for $10 million....

Mumbai: Al Pacino-Robert De Niro starrer Righteous Kill that is awaiting a September 12 theatrical release has now inspired a game by Merscom. The company has announced Righteous Kill: The Game, inspired by the...

Mumbai: Warner Music International (WMI) has appointed Sam Chen as Chairman and CEO, Warner Music Chinese Mandarin Group. On this newly created position, Chen will be reporting to Warner Music Asia Pacific president Lachie...

Mumbai: Napster and Lenovo have inked a co-marketing agreement under which Napster’s music subscription service will be offered as a free 14-day trial on most new Lenovo notebook and desktop PCs in the US...

Mumbai: Paramount Vantage will handle international sales on Academy Award winner Neil Jordan’s latest feature Ondine. Currently in production, the cast includes Colin Farrell, Alicja Bachleda, Stephen Rea and introduces Alison Barry. The Director...

Mumbai: Director Craig Ross Jr. will be releasing his film The Mannsfield 12 on MySpace.com. This is the first movie to be released on a social networking website Set to turn the technological ties...

Mumbai: Imax Corporation and Warner Bros. Pictures announced that The Dark Knight has crossed the $55 million mark in worldwide gross box office receipts after its seventh week of release. As of Friday, the...

Mumbai: Warner Music Brazil, a division of Warner Music International, and Sport Club Corinthians Paulista, one of Brazil’s popular soccer teams, have announced an innovative strategic partnership. Warner Music Brazil will develop and distribute...

Mumbai: Tudou founder and CEO Gary Wang will deliver a keynote at MIPCOM 2008. The address will be given on 16 October within the framework of a day of debate dedicated to the convergence...

Mumbai: New Regency continues to expand and enhance its motion picture division with Amy Israel joining the company as executive vice president of production. This was announced by Regency chairmen Robert Harper and Hutch...

Mumbai: Cineplex Entertainment has launched its online social networking movie and entertainment community, mycineplex. "Cineplex Entertainment is very pleased to introduce our vibrant new online social networking community, mycineplex," said Cineplex Entertainment vice president,...

Mumbai: Qube Cinema has inked a partnership with the Digital Cinema Network (DCN) in Australia to convert the six-screen boutique Sun Theatre Yarraville in Melbourne’s Inner West to a fully networked and automated DCI...

Mumbai: Digital media company DivX and Funai Electric Co. announced the DivX Certification of a new Blu-ray player from Funai. The player will be launched in the European market in October. With DivX Certification,...

Mumbai: Sony Pictures Television International (SPTI) has appointed Sergey Plotnikov to the position of general manager of its newest network AXN SCI-FI. This network is present in Russia, Ukraine, Belarus and Kazakhstan. Based in...

Mumbai: Cinema Buying Group (CBG), a buying program for independent theaters administered by the National Association of Theatre Owners, has announced an agreement with digital 3D experience provider RealD to bring next-generation 3D capability...

Mumbai: MGM Networks, a division of Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer Studios, has inked a multitude of new deals with cable and satellite operators across Eastern Europe. With MGM Channels already carried in millions of subscriber homes across...

Mumbai: AOL has launched the mobile industry’s most robust and far-reaching solution for targeting advertising to iPhone users. Offered through Third Screen Media, Platform-A’s mobile ad-serving platform and network, the solution detects and delivers...

Mumbai: Bill Melendez, considered a pioneer in animation and best known for bringing the Peanuts characters to life, died early Tuesday morning, 2 September at St. John’s hospital in Santa Monica. Doctors said Melendez...

Mumbai: Acting on information provided by Taiwan Foundation Against Copyright Theft (TFACT), the Intellectual Property Rights (IPR) Police raided a DVD-R burner lab in Taipei County on 29 August. They arrested two operators, a...

Mumbai: Jeff Nathanson has signed on to write the screenplay for the first film installment of The 39 Clues, it was announced by DreamWorks Studios co-chairman and CEO Stacey Snider, and Scholastic Media president...

Mumbai: Two-time Academy Award nominee Will Smith’s summer blockbuster Hancock will be debuting on DVD, Blu-ray High-Def and PSP 25 November from Sony Pictures Home Entertainment (SPHE). More than $560 million worldwide grossing film...

Mumbai: Global beauty brand Dove has partnered with Hollywood film The Women to inspire and educate them about a wider definition of beauty. In addition to The Women, Dove has partnered with director Diane...

Mumbai: PNY Technologies and Sony Pictures Home Entertainment have announced the launch of a new 2GB USB preloaded with Sony Pictures’ 80’s comedy classic, Ghostbusters starring Bill Murray and Dan Aykroyd.  This marks the...

Mumbai: Viacom owned Paramount Pictures has acquired Screenlife LLC, which is the creator of Scene It? game franchise, with an aim to step up on its digital content initiatives. Post the acquisition, Screenlife will...

Mumbai: DIRECTV, Inc. and TiVo Inc. have extended their current agreement, which includes the development, marketing and distribution of a new HD DIRECTV DVR featuring the TiVo service, as well as the extension of...