Mumbai: Mobile entertainment company ROK Entertainment Group has continued its aggressive expansion worldwide through three major product deployments. Firstly, its Finland-based mobile services development company Geniem has signed an exclusive mobile content delivery agreement...

Mumbai: Columbia Pictures and Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer Pictures are set to release Quantum of Solace on 14 November in North America. The strategic move places the highly-anticipated James Bond adventure one week closer to the prime...

MUMBAI: Image Entertainment has expanded its digital distribution business by making films and television programming available on the iTunes Store. An assortment of Image programming is available on iTunes for purchase or rent, including...

MUMBAI: Building upon the successful Stargate franchise, Sci Fi Channel has greenlit a two-hour movie based on the hit science fiction adventure series Stargate Atlantis. Sci Fi will have the exclusive worldwide television premiere...

MUMBAI: The UK Film Council will be appealing to the nation to join a treasure hunt for rare film to improve the national archive, as part of its Strategy for UK Screen Heritage. Working...

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...