Mumbai: Youku and Universal Music launched an online competition titled "Super Star Super Search 2009" on 6 October. Their aim is to help Universal Music to find outstanding young Chinese musicians to form the...
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Bierer appointed EVP Digital Media for MTV Networks International
Mumbai: MTV Networks International (MTVNI), a unit of Viacom has promoted Gideon Bierer to Executive Vice President of Digital Media for MTVNI. Bierer will continue reporting to MTV Networks International president Robert Bakish. In...
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Sony Home Entertainment introduces Sony Pictures Blu-Ray Club
Mumbai: To coincide with the Blu-ray release of You Don’t Mess With The Zohan, Sony Pictures Home Entertainment has launched the Sony Pictures Blu-ray Club in the US. The new loyalty program rewards consumers...
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Singapore’s MDA doles out $8.1 million in digital funding
Mumbai: Fifteen new projects on the concept of Co-Space have been awarded funding by the multi-agency Interactive Digital Media (IDM) Research and Development (R&D) Programme Office (IDMPO) hosted by Singapore’s Media Development Authority. Collectively,...
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Star to launch Marathi entertainment channel in November
Mumbai: Star India has launched its third regional language general entertainment channel, Star Pravah, which is a Marathi general entertainment channel. Promising to offer "Quality entertainment reflecting Maharashtrian culture, and values", Star Pravah will...
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BIG TV gains 500,000 subscribers in two months
Mumbai: BIG TV, the DTH arm of Reliance Communications, announced that they touched the magic figure of 500,000 subscribers within two months of its launch. This has put BIG TV DTH in the unique...
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Tata Elxsi brings life to Roadside Romeo
Mumbai: Tata Elxsi Visual Computing Labs came on board from 1 January 2007 onwards and saw Roadside Romeo come to life in 21 months. The movie took more than two and a half years...
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Yash Raj Films organizes special screening of Roadside Romeo
Mumbai: On the evening of 18 October Yash Raj Films organized a special screening of Roadside Romeo for the exhibition companies. Programming heads and their teams from various exhibition companies were invited to see...
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Balaji Tele considers legal action as Star pulls off Kyunki
Balaji Telefilms considers legal action as Star to pull off Kyunki Saas Bhi Kabhie Bahu Thi from 10 November....
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Mohandas to screen at South Asian International Film Festival
Mumbai: Mohandas, the debut film of director Mazhar Kamran, has been invited by the South Asian International Film Festival in New York for a special screening on 26 October. Mohandas is based on reality...
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Deepika Padukone crowns Fiama Di Wills Beautiful Face winner
Mumbai: Deepika Padukone, Fiama Di Wills Brand ambassador, crowned the winner of the Fiama Di Wills Beautiful Face 2008 Hunt announced at the Wills Lifestyle India Fashion Week. The contest was launched a month...
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Rang Rasiya to be screened at London and New York Film Festivals
Mumbai: Ketan Mehta-directed Rang Rasiya, internationally known as the Colours of Passion, will be screened at at the BFI’s 52nd London Film Festival on 26 October and 30 October. This will be followed by...
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Star Gold showcases Akshay Kumar in Chandni Chowk to Bollywood
Mumbai: Post the Akshay Kumar movie festival, Star Gold will present Chandni Chowk to Bollywood – a Journey of a SuperStar to be aired on 26 October at 8 pm to culminate the fest....
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Zoom Bollywood Case Files traces Gulshan Kumar’s journey
Mumbai: Zoom Bollywood Case Files will trace Gulshan Kumar’s journey from being a son of a fruit juice seller in Darya Ganj market in Delhi to Bollywood’s biggest music success story this Monday-Tuesday, 20-21...
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BIG to distribute Satyajit Ray’s 10 movies on home video
BIG Home Entertainment has acquired the rights to market and distribute 10 movies by filmmaker Satyajit Ray....
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Screen Actors Guild seeks mediator in labor talks with Hollywood studios
Mumbai: The Screen Actors Guild National Board of Directors has passed a resolution at its quarterly plenary in Los Angeles saying that SAG will formally request a federal mediator to be brought into the...
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Manish Malhotra creates golmaal for Kareena Kapoor
Mumbai: Rami, assistant of Golmaal Returns director Rohit Shetty, wanted certain changes in Kareena Kapoor’s outfits. He sent a message to her designer Manish Malhotra. The latter, pronouncing "Rami" as "Rumi", informed Kapoor of...
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CASBAA adds two new companies as members
Mumbai: The Cable & Satellite Broadcasting Association of Asia (CASBAA) has added two new corporate members – Manila-based media service provider Mediascape (part of Philippines telco PLDT) and Malaysian Internet and multimedia solutions provider...
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Christie teams up with Walt Disney for High School Musical 3 premiere
Mumbai: Christie, a provider of visual solutions for entertainment, business and industry, has announced that the world premiere of Walt Disney Pictures’ High School Musical 3: Senior Year was screened on the acclaimed Christie...
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India’s TZP to compete with 66 countries at Oscars
A record 67 countries, including first-time entrant Jordan, have submitted films for consideration in the Foreign Language Film category for the 81st Academy Awards....
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Diwali 2008: Four movie releases; no SRK; ho-hum hype
This Diwali is unlike any other in recent years for the Hindi film industry. For starters, prior to this there haven’t been two release dates for Diwali....
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