Mumbai: Aspiring dancers can enter Bollypop, an online dance competition sponsored by Verizon to help showcase the growing amount of Bollywood movies and music videos; the company offers its FiOS TV and V CAST...

Mumbai: Paramount Digital Entertainment and Legacy Interactive announced that they are developing titles based on the popular Paramount Pictures’ films Clueless, Mean Girls and Pretty in Pink. In Clueless: The Game, the player takes...

Mumbai: Twentieth Century Fox Telecommunications International announced that hit television shows 24, Bones and My Name is Earl are now available for purchase and download on the iTunes Store in the UK. In the...

Mumbai: Cineplex Entertainment and RealD announced they have signed a long-term agreement to install a minimum of 175 3D systems into Cineplex Entertainment theatres across the country by December 2009, bringing RealD’s committed screen...

Mumbai: MyToons.com, the online animation community, has completed its second round of funding led by Syncom Venture Partners and Barshop Ventures. The capital will be used to support MyToons’ continued technology infrastructure development and...

Mumbai: Lionsgate has appointed Lisa Ellzey as executive vice president of Motion Picture Production. An award-winning producer, Ellzey most recently served as Twentieth Century Fox production EVP. The announcement was made by Lionsgate Motion...

Mumbai: Warner Home Video will release John F. Kennedy’s assassination story on 11 November in the name of Oliver Stone’s JFK as a Three-Disc Ultimate Collector’s Edition (UCE). The UCE will feature The Kennedys:...

Mumbai: Warner Bros. Pictures’ The Dark Knight made new box office records with its first weekend gross of $158,411,483. The announcement was made by Warner Bros. Pictures Domestic Distribution President Dan Fellman. The weekend...

MUMBAI: As part of the newly expanded format of the Computer Animation Festival, SIGGRAPH 2008 will feature three all-star Production Studio Nights hosted by industry powerhouses Pixar Animation Studios, Sony Pictures Imageworks, and Lucasfilm....

Mumbai: Radio NRI, a service of NRI Media, announced that two of its live radio channels are available to listeners on the new Apple iPhone 3G. Listeners can enjoy Bollywood & Beyond and Bollywood...

Mumbai: Revlon has signed Academy Award winning actress Jennifer Connelly to represent the Revlon brand. She joins Revlon’s line-up of accomplished and glamorous women including Academy Award winning actress Halle Berry, actress Jessica Alba,...

Mumbai: Warner Music Group has promoted Stephen Bryan to senior vice president, digital strategy and business development. Based in New York, Bryan will report to Digital Strategy and Business Development executive vice president Michael...

Mumbai: Imax Corporation and Warner Bros. Pictures announced that the studio’s summer box office hit, The Dark Knight, starring Christian Bale and Heath Ledger, directed by Christopher Nolan, shattered opening box office records on...

Mumbai: Innovation and creativity in the Spanish audiovisual industry will take centre stage at Mipcom 2008 during Focus on Spain, a series of events and conferences organised in partnership with the Institute for Spanish...

Mumbai: British films were a $3 billion hit last year, according to the latest statistics published by the UK Film Council. They accounted for more than one in four cinema tickets sold in the...

Mumbai: On 17 July, Criminal Investigation Bureau (CIB) officers with the assistance of Taiwan Foundation Against Copyright Theft (TFACT), representing the Motion Picture Association (MPA) in Taiwan raided a major pirate burner lab in...

Mumbai: Imax Corporation and Tokyu Recreation announced a joint venture agreement to install up to four Imax theatres in Japan. The agreement marks Imax’s second international joint venture deal, as the company aligns itself...

Mumbai: TiVo and YouTube have inked a partnership wherein TiVo will make available YouTube videos on the TV via its DVR. A partnership between the two companies allows broadband-connected subscribers with TiVo Series3 and...

Mumbai: Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer Pictures is putting into development a musical remake of classic 1983 comedy Valley Girl as a feature film based on an idea by Idealogy’s Sean Bailey and Matt Smith. The announcement was...

Mumbai: Cinema exhibitor Cinépolis and RealD 3D announced that Cinépolis will add 500 RealD 3D screens to its circuit. The rollout of these 500 RealD 3D screens have already begun with six new screens...

Mumbai: Playtech has signed a four-year, exclusive licensing agreement with Paramount Entertainment for the classic blockbusters Gladiator and The Untouchables. The deal gives Playtech licensees the exclusive distribution rights to a number of branded...

Mumbai: Lionsgate’s AMC drama Mad Men earned 16 Emmy nominations — the most among all drama series — marking the first time a basic cable program has topped that list. Nominations include nods for...

Mumbai: Star announced several key appointments to enhance its programming and content function. Bonny Yu has been named programming vice president, XING KONG, Star’s flagship Mandarin general Entertainment channel for Mainland China. Jennifer Batty...

Mumbai: Nate Albert has been appointed Vice President of A&R for Universal Republic Records, announced Universal Republic Records A&R Senior Vice President Tom Mackay. In his new role, Albert will report to Mackay. "Nate...

Mumbai: Universal Pictures Digital Platforms Group (UPDPG) is creating a video game based on Universal Pictures’ blockbuster action-thriller Wanted, starring James McAvoy, Morgan Freeman and Angelina Jolie. The game will be published worldwide by...

Mumbai: Sony Computer Entertainment America (SCEA) launched the new video delivery service on PlayStation Store for PlayStation3 (PS3) and PSP (PlayStation Portable) systems in the United States. Consumers will have the ability to download...

Mumbai: Warner Bros. Records has signed singer-songwriter Jason Reeves for a recording deal. It will pick up distribution of the 23-year-old Iowa City native’s digital debut album, The Magnificent Adventures of Heartache. The label...

Mumbai: Showtime Networks has entered into an exclusive seven-year film distribution arrangement with The Weinstein Company (TWC). The joint announcement was made by Showtime Networks chairman and CEO Matthew C. Blank and TWC co-chairmen...

Mumbai: James Canniffe has been named vice president, development, alternative programming at Sony Pictures Television (SPT), it was announced by reality and syndicated programming senior vice president Holly Jacobs to whom he will report....

Mumbai:  Dawn Steinberg has been upped to executive vice president, talent and casting, Sony Pictures Television (SPT), it was announced by SPT programming and production co-presidents Zack Van Amburg and Jamie Erlicht to whom...

Mumbai: New Era Cap signed a licensing agreement with Warner Bros. Consumer Products, on behalf of DC comics, to launch a collection of 59FIFTYs fitted caps featuring the vast array of DC Comics heroes...

Mumbai: ValCom has entered into a joint venture with Future Films for production of three horror movies. This joint venture between ValCom, executive producer, and Future Films is anticipated to generate revenues of approximately...

Mumbai: Comcast Corporation has inked a partnership with Warner Bros. Pictures’ The Dark Knight. This partnership provides Comcast customers with exclusive behind-the-scenes movie footage, mini-movies and trailers from one of this summer’s most-anticipated films,...

Mumbai: At the E3 Media and Business Summit, Microsoft and Netflix unveiled an exclusive partnership to offer consumers the ability to instantly stream movies and TV episodes from Netflix to the television via the...