Mumbai: Lucky and Flo, the world’s first-ever DVD-sniffing dogs, made a special visit to Clover Avenue Elementary School in Los Angeles to kick-off a three-city North American tour that will include visits to Mexico...

Mumbai: The Motion Picture Association (MPA), in partnership with the Beijing Silk Street Co, and Chaoyang Model Anti-Copyright Infringement and Piracy-Free Zone, launched a billboard featuring a personal message from Hong Kong movie star...

Mumbai: On 20 April, the Motion Picture Association (MPA), organizers of the 15th Beijing Student Film Festival (BSFF) and the China Film Copyright Protection Association (CFCPA) announced the winners of a China-wide short video...

Mumbai: Nokia has introduced two new music-enabled devices as additions to its XpressMusic range. The new Nokia 5320 XpressMusic and Nokia 5220 XpressMusic offer a range of affordable music and entertainment experiences with the...

Mumbai: The Warner Bros. Television Group and Time Inc.’s Essence Communications Inc. are teaming up on a series of initiatives that will expand the Essence brand across a number of platforms, including the Internet...

Mumbai: New Zealand is marking World Intellectual Property Day with the culmination of a nationwide IPR competition for students and the launch of an anti-movie piracy trailer featuring local hit Sione’s Wedding. The events were...

Mumbai: Co-creator of Spider-Man, X-Men, Fantastic Four, Hulk, Iron Man and the Marvel Comics Universe of superhero characters Stan Lee announced he will be forming a new partnership with Sir Richard Branson’s Virgin Comics....

Viacom, MGM Studios and Lionsgate have formed a JV that creates a GenX TV channel and VOD service....

Mumbai: R&B singer-songwriter Kelly Rowland has been appointed as the official 2008 Ambassador for the MTV Staying Alive Foundation. The multi-platinum selling artist and Destiny’s Child alumnus is to be the public face of...

Mumbai: Online animation community MyToons.com will mark its first anniversary by collaborating with Adobe to deliver content to Adobe Media Player. High-quality, member-created animations from MyToons.com, along with video from television broadcasters and leading...

Mumbai: Qube Cinema has partnered with the 2008 Tribeca Film Festival taking place in New York City from 23 April to 4 May. This initiative is aimed at introducing and exposing independent filmmakers to...

Mumbai: Jeff Blake has signed a long-term contract with Sony Pictures to continue to serve as chairman of worldwide marketing and distribution for the Columbia TriStar Motion Picture Group through 2012, it was announced...

Mumbai: Universal Pictures will hold the world premier of Baby Mama at the opening night of the Tribeca Film Festival at Ziegfeld Theatre in New York. Present at the event will be Baby Mama writer/director...

Mumbai: Universal Music Group (UMG) has made an equity investment in Buzznet (http://www.buzznet.com), one of the web’s fastest growing social media networks. The announcement was made by UMG chairman and chief executive officer Doug...

Mumbai: Peace Arch Entertainment Group, an integrated global entertainment company, announced that it closed major television and DVD deals on 18 titles in 14 territories at April’s MIPTV market held in Cannes, France, the...

Mumbai: Universal Music Group (UMG) and PluggedIn (www.pluggedin.com) announced an agreement whereby PluggedIn users will have access to thousands of high-definition quality videos from UMG’s extensive roster of chart-topping artists covering every genre of...

Mumbai: Vivendi Entertainment has partnered with Palm Pictures in acquiring US rights for the film New York, I Love You it was announced by Vivendi president Tom O’Malley and Palm managing partners Jan Korbelin...

Mumbai: Original Film founder and producer of several hit film franchises Neal H. Moritz and Sony Pictures Entertainment have renewed their first look development and production pact though 2011, it was announced by Columbia...

Mumbai: Columbia Records has signed tween TV sensation Miranda Cosgrove, star of Nickelodeon’s convergent mega-hit iCarly, to be a recording artist, as part of the global partnership between Nick and the Sony Music Label...

Mumbai: Major film studios of Hollywood have developed and adopted a Best Practices Guide for Green Production, a handbook that outlines procedures and strategies for reducing waste and carbon emissions, and encouraging recycling and...

Mumbai: The Academy of Television Arts & Sciences Interactive Media Peer Group has announced a call for entries in the category of Outstanding Creative Achievement in Interactive Media for the 2007-2008 Primetime Emmy Awards. The...

Mumbai: DreamWorks Studios has optioned the rights to make a feature film from Platinum Studios Inc.’s comic book Atlantis Rising, it was announced DreamWorks Studios president of production Adam Goodman. Alex Kurtzman and Roberto Orci,...

Mumbai: The Motion Picture Association of America (MPAA) filed a lawsuit in federal court in Los Angeles against Pullmylink.com, a website that facilitates copyright infringement on the internet. Sites like Pullmylink contribute to and profit...

Mumbai: Motion Picture Association of America (MPAA) chairman and CEO Dan Glickman announced four key promotions in the Association’s US-based communications, legal and anti-piracy departments and in the Motion Picture Association’s Europe, the Middle...

Mumbai: Video rental chain Blockbuster has installed a local company’s disc repair machines in each retail location throughout Canada and the UK. The 12-year-old Disc Go Technologies was started by Mark Chaplin who saw a...

Mumbai: Podcasting network Wizzard Media has signed a global content distribution agreement with iRecords, an independent music label based in Hollywood, California. This relationship creates a strong and innovative tie between new and exciting...

Mumbai: Podcasting network Wizzard Media has entered into a content distribution partnership with Fishman Productions to distribute film and television projects through Wizzard’s digital syndication network. Fishman Productions was founded in 1989 as an independent...

MUMBAI: Paramount Pictures and Nickelodeon Movies have greenlit the live-action epic adventure, M. Night Shyamalan’s The Last Airbender, which will launch over the Independence Day weekend in 2010, opening on 2 July, 2010. Shyamalan...

MUMBAI: Taiwan’s communications industry has joined hands with the Cable & Satellite Broadcasting Association of Asia (CASBAA), an Asia-Pacific industry-based advocacy group, to raise awareness of the obstacles impeding the dynamic growth of Taiwan’s...

MUMBAI: The New Zealand Federation Against Copyright Theft (NZFACT) executive director Tony Eaton, representing the Motion Picture Association (MPA) in New Zealand, joined New Zealand’s Associate Commerce Minister Judith Tizard and other creative industry...

MUMBAI: The Recording Industry Association of America (RIAA) and Motion Picture Association of America (MPAA) joined Atlanta public officials to destroy more than one million counterfeit CDs and DVDs seized as a result of...

MUMBAI: On 15 April, an intelligence-led investigation culminated in 30 officers from the Hong Kong Customs Intellectual Property Investigation Bureau raiding a warehouse that had been supplying pirated optical discs to Hong Kong’s pirate...

MUMBAI: PluggedIn (www.pluggedin.com) has announced the launch of its beta website, offering free to consumer streaming of the highest quality music videos available anywhere on the web. The new entertainment website features over 10,000...

MUMBAI: Starbucks and iTunes announced Pick of the Week, a new program that offers coffeehouse customers a chance to discover complimentary new music and music videos each week. Pick of the Week featured artists...