Mumbai: Dolby Laboratories announced the growth of Dolby 3D Digital Cinema worldwide at Cinema Expo 2008. With sales and commitments to equipment distributors in Europe, Asia, and the Americas, Dolby continues to transform theatrical...

Mumbai: Nanni Moretti announced that the Torino Film Festival will be featuring a third retrospective dedicated to the English cinema movement of the 1980s, titled ‘British Renaissance’. The two previously announced retrospectives are to...

Mumbai: JVC Tokyo Video Festival TVF2009 has begun accepting contest submissions from professional and amateur filmmakers worldwide. In its 31st year, the JVC Tokyo Video Festival is the largest international personal video festival open...

Mumbai: Online marketing company Lyris announced that Crackle.com has selected it to streamline their online marketing efforts. Crackle is a multi-platform video entertainment network and studio that distributes the hottest emerging talent on the...

Mumbai: The Nielsen Company reported that there is strong consumer appetite for 3-D films. It was based on a detailed analysis that showed a 65% sales increase in theatres using 3-D technology to exhibit...

Mumbai: Star has appointed Ron Plante as senior vice president, research. Based in Hong Kong, Plante will spearhead ad sales research, market research, program research and audience measurement research in support of sales, programming,...

Mumbai: Dolby Laboratories announced a licensing program for digital cinema server manufacturers at CinemaExpo 2008. This will allow their digital cinema servers to support Dolby 3D Digital Cinema playback. XDC became the first manufacturer...

Comcast's online movie tickets service Fandango Inc has bought out Movies.com from Walt Disney Internet Group....

Mumbai: David P. Kaplan has been named Senior Vice-President and Intellectual Property Counsel, Worldwide Anti-Piracy Operations, Warner Bros.  The announcement was made by Warner Bros. president Darcy Antonellis. Kaplan, formerly Vice President and an...

Mumbai: Disney Interactive Studios announced the November 2008 release of video games inspired by the upcoming animation film Bolt from Walt Disney Pictures. Bolt will be available for the Wii, Xbox 360, PS3, PS2,...

Mumbai: The President and COO of the Motion Picture Association (MPA), Bob Pisano, presented the Ian McPherson Memorial Lecture at the Dendy Cinemas, Opera Quays. The Ian McPherson Memorial Lecture serves as the keynote...

Mumbai: Apple announced that music fans have purchased and downloaded over five billion songs from the iTunes Store (http://www.itunes.com). Also, iTunes customers are now renting and purchasing over 50,000 movies every day, making iTunes...

Mumbai: Grover Crisp has been named Senior Vice President, Asset Management, Film Restoration and Digital Mastering for Sony Pictures Entertainment, it was announced by Sony Pictures Technologies president Chris Cookson. As part of his...

Mumbai: The Edinburgh International Film Festival has got off to a flying start with an exciting line-up of events and activities for filmmakers attending the festival, supported by the UK Film Council. This year’s...

Mumbai: Satellite spectrum management, market consolidation, government and military technology developments, capacity provision and Asia’s seemingly unflagging demand for satellite services were just a few of the issues covered during the CASBAA Satellite Industry...

Mumbai: Red Rock Pictures Holdings announced that it has entered into an agreement with Los Angeles-based F.N.B. Entertainment to develop and produce three feature films. F.N.B. Entertainment is the production company owned by well-known...

Mumbai: Producer/director Stephen Woolley has been named Patron of a new Directors’ Lab at this year’s Edinburgh International Film Festival for six of UK’s distinctive film directors. The Directors’ Lab has been set up...

Mumbai: R&B singer-songwriter and MTV Staying Alive special ambassador Kelly Rowland, MTV senior vice president and Staying Alive Foundation executive director Georgia Arnold announced the Kenyan recipients of the 2008 Staying Alive Foundation Awards....

Mumbai: MultiChoice Africa has signed a multi-year distribution deal with MTV to carry its kids entertainment brand Nickelodeon in southern Africa. This was announced by MultiChoice CEO Nolo Letele and MTV senior vice president...

Mumbai: Dolby Laboratories will provide digital cinema technical support for the UK’s biggest single-screen movie premiere to date. Disney Pictures’ and Walden Media’s The Chronicles of Narnia: Prince Caspian will be screened at the...

Mumbai: The Motion Picture Association (MPA) and the Asociación Argentina de Distribuidoras de Cine (AADC) conducted a training session on Camcording in the city of Comodoro Rivadavia on 16 June. Camcording is a form...

Mumbai: Following a distribution deal with independent record label Narnack Records, Lionsgate has added Grammy winner Lee Perry to its list. This was announced by Lionsgate Music president Jay Faires. The deal launches with...

Mumbai: NASA and Disney have signed a Space Act Agreement for a series of educational and public outreach activities related to Disney-Pixar’s new movie Wall-E, opening in theatres nationwide on 27 June. This collaboration...

Mumbai: MatrixStream Technologies is partnering with multiple motor vehicle manufacturers to bring consumers the new MX2 wireless terminal touch screen IPTV platform codename MX-Drive. The MX-Drive uses MatrixCast video streaming technology, allowing consumers to...

Mumbai: Warner Music Group (WMG) company WEA announced the promotion of Perry Bashkoff to Vice President, Digital Sales and Marketing. Based in New York, Bashkoff will continue to report to WEA senior vice president...

Mumbai: According to PricewaterhouseCoopers’ Global Entertainment and Media Outlook: 2008-2012, digital and mobile distribution that comprised 5 percent of global E&M spending in 2007, will account for 24 percent of industry growth during the...

Mumbai: Six must-have classic James Bond films will debut worldwide on Blu-ray Disc from MGM and Twentieth Century Fox Home Entertainment. Recently restored and re-mastered for high quality picture and sound quality via the...

Mumbai: Imax Corporation has signed an agreement with Meydan LLC, a sports and entertainment property developer in Dubai, UAE, to install an Imax theatre as part of a multi-billion development at the world-famous Nad...

Mumbai: The Pine Hill/Tousi production Looking for Palladin, presented last month at the Cannes Marché du Film, has been selected for the 22nd Napa Sonoma Wine Country Film Festival. The Napa Sonoma Festival, declared...

Mumbai: Qube Cinema announced the availability of its latest offering QubeMaster Xpress in the North American and European markets. The powerful and easy-to-use QubeMaster Xpress software provides users the ability to convert slides into...

Mumbai: The 33rd Toronto International Film Festival opens 4 September with the world premiere of Passchendaele. The film has been written, directed and produced by Canadian filmmaker Paul Gross. Co-produced by Niv Fichman, Frank...

Mumbai: Cinema equipment provider Ballantyne of Omaha announced that Marcus Theatres has purchased 13 NEC STARUS NC2500S Digital Cinema projector systems from its Strong Digital Systems (SDS) division. The financial terms were not disclosed....

Mumbai: ReelTime Rentals has entered into an agreement with Disney-ABC Domestic Television to provide popular video on demand rentals from The Walt Disney Studios. The rentals will include new and classic titles from Walt...

Mumbai: The Cable & Satellite Broadcasting Association of Asia (CASBAA) has announced the keynote speakers and other details of the upcoming 15th CASBAA Convention 2008 in Hong Kong during 28–30 October. The speakers were...

Mumbai: With the onset of the CommunicAsia trade show in Singapore, the Cable & Satellite Broadcasting Association of Asia (CASBAA) has added four new members, including two patron and two corporate members. The new...

Mumbai: Warner/Chappell Music has announced a worldwide publishing agreement with Grammy and Tony award-winning songwriter Steven Sater. The music label will administer Sater’s catalogue of work including music from his Broadway musical debut Spring...

Mumbai: Robert Oswaks has been promoted to president, marketing for Sony Pictures Television (SPT), it was announced by SPT president Steve Mosko. In this position Oswaks directs the development and strategic implementation of advertising,...

MUMBAI: Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer Studios Inc. (MGM) has named Dan Kolsrud to the newly created post of executive vice president, worldwide theatrical physical production. The announcement was made by MGM chairman, worldwide motion picture group Mary...

Mumbai: Sony Pictures Entertainment and its online video network Crackle have come together to support a set of collaborative principles that enable development of user-generated content online while respecting the intellectual property of content...

Mumbai: Youtube.com co-founder and CEO Chad Hurley will open MIPCOM’s first Broadband Video Summit with a keynote speech. The Broadband Video Summit will take place on 15 October at the 24th edition of MIPCOM,...

Mumbai: D3Publisher (D3P) together with its parent D3, announced a worldwide publishing agreement with the Universal Pictures Digital Platforms Group. The agreement includes videogames based on Focus Features and LAIKA Entertainment’s Coraline, the upcoming...

Mumbai: Award-winning Canadian singer-songwriter Christine Evans is currently shooting an independent feature film under the working title of Black And Blue in Los Angeles, California. Evans has the starring role of Amber in the...

Mumbai: Verizon Wireless and Nokia have teamed up for the Nokia 6205 The Dark Knight edition mobile phone. Celebrating the upcoming 18 July theatrical release of The Dark Knight, Nokia 6205 The Dark Knight...

Mumbai: Empire Film Group has entered into an agreement with Tradewell Media of New York for the placement of more than $5 million of media advertising as a key component of Empire’s support campaign...

Mumbai: EMI Music and BBC Worldwide have struck a deal that will see thousands of hours of pop and rock music content, locked away for years, released to the public for the very first...