Slumdog Millionaire has now taken home two more major film industry awards winning the top prizes from Screen Actors Guild & Producers Guild of America....

MUMBAI: Warner/Chappell Music, the global publishing arm of Warner Music Group and Buma/Stemra, the Dutch collecting society, announced that Buma/Stemra is the latest collecting society to join Warner/Chappell’s Pan-European Digital Licensing (PEDL) initiative. Granting...

MUMBAI: Bratt Pitt walked the red carpet at the Potsdamer Platz in Berlin, accompanied by Angelina Jolie, and the very next day Tom Cruise was on parade just a few meters away. The popular...

MUMBAI: The UK Film Council is supporting the innovative release of Faintheart, the world’s first fully user-generated film, by providing free film screenings in 46 cinemas across the UK chosen by the public. Faintheart,...

MUMBAI: Sony Pictures Home Entertainment (SPHE), Sony DADC and manufacturing partner Shanghai Epic Music Entertainment Co., Ltd. (Shanghai Epic) have opened the first Blu-ray Disc replication facility in China. This production facility for BD25...

MUMBAI: On 19 January, Chinese authorities confirmed that the Beijing Xuanwu District People’s Court convicted Yang Jianwei, for the sale of false online broadcasting licenses. This was the first criminal case relating to the...

Mumbai: Imax Corporation and Taiwan’s VieShow Cinemas have inked an agreement to open an Imax theatre in its Sun Cinemas multiplex in the city of Taipei. The installation is scheduled to be completed to...

MUMBAI: Paramount Pictures has become the first studio to offer digital cinema support directly to exhibitors across the United States and Canada. The move is expected to accelerate the roll-out of digital and 3-D...

MUMBAI: The 17th Annual Elton John AIDS Foundation (EJAF) Academy Awards Viewing Party hosted by Sir Elton John and David Furnish will be held on Sunday, 22 February, 2009, at the Pacific Design Center...

MUMBAI: Blue Sky Studios, a wholly owned subsidiary of Fox Filmed Entertainment, has entered into a lease to occupy approximately 105,000 square feet of studio space in Greenwich, Connecticut, bringing more than 300 jobs...

MUMBAI: WPP Group chief executive officer advertising and marketing communications Sir Martin Sorrell, will give a keynote speech at MIPTV 2009 on the theme: "What screens will they watch – and what will be...

MUMBAI: In the new Broadway hit Shrek The Musical, DreamWorks Animation SKG, Inc. is relying on Autodesk, Inc. 3D character animation technology. A customized system based on Autodesk MotionBuilder software is being used to...

MUMBAI: EMI Music has made key executive appointments to its global marketing team as the company looks to maximize the results that EMI delivers for its artists. The EMI Music marketing organization now includes...

Mumbai: Warner Music Australia has acquired a majority stake in Peppermintblue Entertainment, an artist services company working in the fields of recorded music, artist management and touring.  Founded in 1999 by Pat "Smiley" Cleary...

MUMBAI: Universal Music Christian Group (UMCG), a division of Universal Music Group Distribution, received top honors in two categories at the 24th Annual Stellar Awards, celebrating the year’s best Gospel music. Habakkuk Music artist...

MUMBAI: Actor Tom Cruise has been nominated for the annual Cadet Choice Award by the U.S. Military Academy at West Point for his role in his latest film, the WWII thriller Valkyrie. The awards...

MUMBAI: As Barack Obama becomes the first African American president to enter the White House, Excel Home Videos has launched a spectrum of movies with black lead actors. From the legendary Sydney Poitier –...

MUMBAI: The Cable & Satellite Broadcasting Association of Asia (CASBAA) launched its first exclusive Members Report for 2009, the multi-layered Online Video in China, Japan & Korea, assessing the video services sector in three...

Mumbai: In line with their commitment to the continued international growth of the television and new media distribution of their content, Disney-ABC Worldwide Television and Disney Media Networks have announced the key appointment of...

MUMBAI: GDC Technology has signed a contract in China under which Dadi Digital Cinema Development Limited will deploy 100 units of GDC’s SA-2100 Digital Cinema Server in China by the middle of 2009. A...

MUMBAI: Current Grammy Award nominees Jennifer Hudson and Carrie Underwood are the latest performers announced for the 51st Annual Grammy Awards telecast. They join previously announced performers and nominees Kenny Chesney, Coldplay, Jonas Brothers,...

MUMBAI: Sony Online Entertainment LLC has acquired PoxNora online collectible strategy game and the other key assets for future game development from Tucson-based Octopi, LLC. As part of the acquisition, members of the Octopi...

MUMBAI: Reed MIDEM CEO Paul Zilk was named Officer dans l’Ordre des Arts et des Lettres (Officer of the Order of Arts and Letters) by the French Minister of Culture and Communications, Christine Albanel....

MUMBAI: Glenn Adilman and Sharon Hall have been promoted to executive vice presidents of comedy and drama development, respectively for Sony Pictures Television (SPT). The announcement was made by SPT presidents of programming Zack...

MUMBAI: Digital cinema solution provider GDC Technology (GDC) and RealD have signed an agreement wherein RealD will license to GDC the right to install and deploy its 3D EQ (aka ‘ghostbuster’) technology in GDC’s...