Mumbai: Indie Ranch Media has announced the completion of its project Only Halfway Home. This is a short film inspired by and featuring music from Levon Helm’s Grammy Award winning album Dirt Farmer. Indie...

Mumbai: The stars were out at Newport Beach as celebrities and other fashionistas in the film industry celebrated the opening of the 9th Annual Newport Beach Film Festival at Fashion Island. More than 1,200 people...

Mumbai: Independent licensee, producer and distributor of home entertainment programming in North America Image Entertainment announced that it has signed a multiyear North American DVD distribution agreement with ProElite, a sports, entertainment and media...

Mumbai: Three members of a criminal syndicate selling pirated movies were convicted of breaching Hong Kong’s copyright law and were each sentenced to 15 months imprisonment. The judgment maintains Hong Kong’s reputation as a...

Mumbai: THQ will be developing Journey to the Center of the Earth for Nintendo DS. Based on Journey to the Center of the Earth 3-D, the 3-D film from New Line Cinema starring Brendan...

Mumbai: New Line Records will release the original soundtrack to the feature film version of the HBO television series Sex and the City, which is due in theaters from New Line Cinema on 30...

Mumbai: The Motion Picture Association (MPA) and the International Federation of the Phonographic Industry (IFPI) will distribute 300,000 copies of an educational booklet outlining the dangers of illegal peer-to-peer (P2P) file sharing to 300,000...

Mumbai: Big Screen Entertainment Group has acquired the international sales rights to the new Eric Roberts/Karen Black thriller entitled Contamination. The film features acclaimed Russian filmmaker Rodion Nahapatov. In addition to starring, Nahapatov also wrote...

Mumbai: Jaman.com has inked a content partnership with top indie film and DVD distributor Arts Alliance America to add to its collection of documentary and feature films. The announcement furthers Jaman’s mission to deliver quality...

Mumbai: US District Judge Wm. Terrell Hodges sentenced Wesley Trent Snipes to three years imprisonment for charges of failing to file income tax returns. Snipes was found guilty by a jury on 1 February. Eddie...

Mumbai: Nokia announced an exciting multimedia film production with Academy Award nominated director Spike Lee. Nokia Productions will create the world’s first social film built entirely by everyday people using their mobile devices to...

Mumbai: On a panel commemorating World Intellectual Property Day in Washington, D.C., Motion Picture Association of America (MPAA) chairman and CEO Dan Glickman noted that intellectual property is the lifeblood of many US businesses...

Mumbai: To mark World Intellectual Property Day on 26 April, Taiwan Foundation Against Copyright Theft (TFACT), representing MPA has organized a range of activities, including a movie marathon, school outreach activities, radio interviews, and...

Mumbai: To mark World Intellectual Property Day on 26 April, the Hong Kong Government and the International Federation Against Copyright Theft – Greater China (IFACT-GC) have organized a range of activities designed to raise...

Mumbai: Oscar-nominated filmmaker Guillermo del Toro will direct The Hobbit and its sequel, it was jointly announced by The Hobbit executive producers Peter Jackson and Fran Walsh, New Line Cinema president and COO Toby...

Mumbai: Universal Music Publishing Group president of Europe & UK Paul Connolly announced the company’s acquisition of Big Life Music. As part of this agreement, UMPG has a worldwide publishing deal with multi-platinum selling...

Mumbai: Imax Corporation and Warner Bros. Pictures have crossed the $400 million mark at the Imax box office with films released through the partnership between the two companies. Since June 2003, Warner Bros. Pictures has...

Mumbai: Becker Group, in partnership with Warner Bros. Consumer Products, announced it will bring worldwide audiences Harry Potter: The Exhibition, a state-of-the-art exhibition highlighting artifacts from the Warner Bros. films based on J.K. Rowling’s...

Mumbai: Online celebrity auction site QLu will begin a series of auctions on behalf of talented and diverse artists and their significant humanitarian efforts. Started by Susie Busch-Transou and her partner, Cindy Lee, QLu...

Mumbai: Starbucks has announced it is restructuring its entertainment business to focus on digital strategy and core content with music and books. The move comes as part of its efforts to transform the company...

Mumbai: Animax Entertainment, a broadband Emmy-winning multiplatform entertainment studio, and Toronto-based digital entertainment studio Unplugged TV have announced the launch of a new joint venture–Animax Unplugged, a Branded Entertainment division. Animax Unplugged brings together two...

Mumbai: Portraits of some of the UK’s most successful Black film actors will be on display at the National Portrait Gallery in UK from 25 April in a four month run. The portraits have...

Mumbai: Nokia Australia opened the doors of its Nokia Music Store today,delivering millions of tracks from global hits to local artists and giving consumers the real freedom to enjoy music at their fingertips, 24/7. Nokia...

Mumbai: The Walt Disney Studios will celebrate Earth Day 2009 (22 April) with the debut of Earth, the first feature-length nature documentary from its new production banner Disneynature. This new film is from award-winning...

Mumbai: Motion Picture Association of America chairman and CEO Dan Glickman will give a speech at a National Press Club luncheon on 28 April entitled ‘Trading Up: Movies and the Global Marketplace’. Glickman, 63, who...

Mumbai: Archos has inked a global relationship with Paramount Digital Entertainment that brings hundreds of Paramount movies to Archos Portable Media Players (PMPs), allowing consumers to watch favorite movies such as Cloverfield, Shooter and...

Mumbai: Feature films directed by Asian American women will be the highlight this year at the Los Angeles Asian Pacific Film Festival produced by Visual Communications and presented by Honda. A record number of 10...

Mumbai: Sony Corporation of America (SCA) announced that it has signed a merger agreement with Gracenote. Sony will pay approximately $260 million plus other contingent consideration. SCA senior vice president, software Tim Schaaff said, "Sony...

Mumbai: Google is deceiving its customers into paying for ads they don’t want, according to a federal class action lawsuit filed by Kabateck Brown Kellner, LLP in US District Court, Northern District of California...

Mumbai: The Motion Picture Association (MPA) announced a slew of special events and programs including the launch of a new anti-piracy trailer, movie premieres and movie marathon as part of its week-long outreach efforts...

Mumbai: The Spanish-language starMedia Portal announced the launch of starMedia EntertaiNEWS (http://www.us.starmedia.com/entretenimiento/entertainews), a new online channel which taps starMedia’s extensive content resources to bring Spanish-speakers throughout the US the most current and broadest array...

Mumbai: Sarah Brightman’s first album of new material in five years Symphony, continues to stay into the UK Top 20 at 13, instantly becoming the soprano’s highest charting album since her 1997 release Timeless. The...

Mumbai: EA’s Casual Entertainment Label and Warner Bros. Interactive Entertainment announced that the Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince video game will be released later this year to coincide with the Warner Bros. Pictures...

Mumbai: Warner Home Video (WHV) is releasing yet another volume of the hit animated series Shaggy and Scooby-Doo Get a Clue! on DVD on 8 July. Titled Shaggy and Scooby-Doo Get a Clue! Volume...

Mumbai: NBC Universal Global Networks has announced the launch of two of its most successful channel brands in Romania. The localised versions of SCI FI and Universal Channel will debut on TV platform AKTA...

Mumbai: MySpace together with NBC News and msnbc.com, two of the most globally-respected names in news, announced an exclusive partnership to launch Decision ’08 (http://myspace.com/decision08), a comprehensive online center for in-depth 2008 election-related news,...

Mumbai: ZFriction Ltd in association with Electronic Arts, announced the launch of Vixture (www.vixture.com) with total prize money of Rs 50 lakh-the largest ever offered in any console gaming championship in India.   "Unlike other...

Mumbai: In honor of Earth Day (22 April), Jaman.com will be highlighting a collection of films reflecting the state of the earth. "We cannot underestimate the power of film to inspire us and transform the...

Mumbai: The 45th edition of MIPTV featuring MILIA 2008 was marked by the unprecedented participation of new media companies in the market. Both in the conference program and the exhibition halls, digital and telecoms...

The Walt Disney Studios will be launching a new production banner Disneynature that will produce major big screen nature documentaries....

Nokia and Sony BMG Music Entertainment have joined forces for Nokia Comes With Music, a way for people to discover and enjoy music with their Nokia device....