Mumbai: Access Integrated Technologies, Inc. has inked a deal with Lionsgate wherein the latter will provide movies to digital cinema equipped theatres in the Phase 2 digital cinema program and will pay virtual print...

Mumbai: Endemol has announced that it is expanding its presence in South East Asia and establishing a new head office in Malaysia. Working closely with MDeC (Multimedia Development Corporation) – the custodian of MSC...

Mumbai: Beverly Hills 90210’s star Shenae Grimes’s movie The Cross Road is debuting to the world’s television buyers at MIPCOM. The Cross Road follows the challenges faced by a teenage girl when she falls...

MUMBAI: France’s Canal+ and the UK’s CBBC have acquired the broadcast rights to Twisted Whiskers CGI-animated entertainment series which is produced by American Greetings Properties, Taffy Entertainment and DQ Entertainment, in association with Mike...

Mumbai: Disney-ABC-ESPN Television, the international TV channel and content distribution arm of The Walt Disney Company, and Kabel Plus have concluded a multi-year agreement for the launch of Walt Disney Studios movie titles on...

Mumbai: Nokia premiered Nokia Productions, the first user generated multimedia film, will be held at the Nokia Plaza – LA Live with a simultaneous online premiere at http://www.nokiaproductions.com. T-Mobile USA, Inc. partnered with Nokia...

MUMBAI: The Walt Disney Company honored 11 new Disney Legends, recognizing individuals whose work has made a significant and lasting impact on the Disney legacy. The ceremony took place at the Disney Legends Plaza...

Mumbai: MySpace has launched a new MySpace Karaoke – a complete redesign of the industry-leading online karaoke channel. Highlights of the revamped service include streamlined navigation, improved sharing of recordings, a dedicated upload manager,...

Mumbai: Christie has surpassed the 5,000 digital cinema milestone, posting a record 5,197 completed installations worldwide just three years after launching the world’s largest digital cinema deployment plan. "Surpassing the 5,000 milestone is a...

Mumbai: Pathé Distribution received £250,000 for Steve McQueen’s directorial debut Hunger, a bold and unconventional film that tells the story of the imprisoned IRA hunger striker Bobby Sands (Michael Fassbender). The award will increase...

Mumbai: Britney Spears’s Womanizer has claimed the No. 1 spot on Billboard’s Hot 100 Singles chart from No. 96. This is the first time a song has ever made a leap of this magnitude...

Mumbai: Exclusive international distribution of Indie The Sensation of Sight, an Eithor/Or Films production, directed by Aaron J. Wiederspahn, has been signed by LongTale International. The film stars David Strathairn, Jane Adams, Ann Cusak,...

Mumbai: DivX, Inc. and Warner Bros. Entertainment have inked an agreement that will enable online retailers to offer Warner Bros. titles in the high-quality DivX standard definition format in October and high definition format...

Mumbai: Sony Electronics’ Digital Cinema Solutions and Services group has signed an agreement with Muvico Entertainment that will outfit its existing and new complexes with Sony’s 4K projection technology. Muvico’s Rosemont, Ill., theater was...

Mumbai: Bertelsmann has launched a new music rights business called BMG Rights Management, under the well-known BMG brand. BMG Rights Management, headquartered in Berlin, plans to offer custom-tailored services for songwriters and performers who...

Mumbai: When Walt Disney Pictures’ newest animated comedy adventure Bolt opens Nov. 21 audiences in more than 1,000 theatres will not only enjoy a family film about an action-star dog who believes he has...

Mumbai: MIPCOM has selected Toronto filmmaker Mark Terry to direct a one-hour film based on this year’s Opening Night Gala. Eight filmmakers were selected from around the world to serve as directors of this...

Mumbai: In parallel with the signing of national service agreements with some industry players, GDC Technology has made a similar arrangement with Christie Digital Systems USA, Inc. to expand its servicing network throughout the...

Mumbai: For the first time in its history, Universal Studios Hollywood will remain open on both Thanksgiving and Christmas day to offer families a chance to celebrate two of the year’s most traditional holidays...

Mumbai: Virgin Media has launched the first advertising trial on its on demand TV platform. Brands including Kelloggs, John Lewis and Royal Mail, will have their ads broadcast around selected on demand programs from...

Mumbai: MovieTickets.com has expanded its exhibitor program by signing an exclusive online ticketing agreement with New Orleans-based Southern Theatres L.L.C., which became the 25th new exhibitor to join MovieTickets.com in 2008. MovieTickets.com currently boasts...

Mumbai: Automated DVD rental service Redbox Automated Retail filed a suit in Delaware Federal Court against Universal Studios Home Entertainment and three of its affiliates on 10 October. The action was filed because Redbox...

George W. Bush signed a controversial bill, which will stiffen penalties for movie and music piracy at the federal level....

Mumbai: Christie has introduced its Brilliant3D technology that enables 3D content to be projected in full 2K resolution for digital cinema projectors utilizing 1.2" DMD chips from Texas Instruments. A first for the industry,...

Mumbai: Hollywood.com has acquired Media by Numbers, the box office data information and analysis company. Current Media by Numbers president Paul Dergarabedian will be joining the Hollywood.com team as part of the deal. Terms...

Mumbai: The Joker, played by the late Heath Ledger in The Dark Knight has taken the top spot for the most popular men’s Halloween costume inspired by a 2008 movie, with Christian Bale’s Batman...

Mumbai: DigiMeld, a provider of software solutions for streaming and live Internet broadcasting, will conduct the first feature film broadcast over the Internet simultaneously with the theatrical release of PublicScope Film’s The Third Jihad....

Mumbai: Regulations for marketing campaigns for the upcoming 81st Academy Awards were distributed to film companies last week by the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences. The only significant changes from the previous...

Mumbai: The Walt Disney Company announced a grant of $1.5 million to TreePeople, a non-profit organization, to plant an estimated 60,000 new trees over the next three year to help reforest fire-ravaged areas in...

Mumbai: TeleToon Canada Inc. and Marvel Animation have inked a multi-year output deal that sees TeleToon become the home of Marvel Animation in Canada. Beginning in spring 2009, a broad spectrum of Marvel animated...

Mumbai: The Motion Picture Association (MPA) will organize a film production workshop that runs 11-12 November, at the National Library, targeting film students in Singapore. Aimed primarily at providing budding filmmakers the practical knowledge...

Mumbai: The Motion Picture Association (MPA) will present its third-annual anti-Piracy Latin American Government Leadership Award at ShowEast – a convention and trade show for the cinema exhibition and distribution community – on 13...

Mumbai: Doremi Cinema has launched its latest Digital Cinema Server, the DCP-2K4. Building on Doremi’s DCP-2000 platform, which was the first JPEG2000 payback server on the market, the DCP-2K4 provides the same robust feature...