MUMBAI: R Madhavan, popularly known as Maddy is in Mumbai. The actor is flush with the success of his 13B thriller and is eager to say, “I have had to wait for such a...
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Preity Zinta gets down to business
MUMBAI: The actor’s hat is going to take a back seat for some time now for actress Preity Zinta as she gears up for the second season of IPL. Even though there is a...
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Excel Home Videos releases Korean movies on DVD
MUMBAI: Excel Home Videos and NDTV Lumiere have released modern controversial film-maker Kim Ki-Duk’s internationally acclaimed movie Spring, Summer, Fall, Winter…and Spring (2003) and Time (2006) on DVD. Known for story-telling that is a...
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Wall-E Blu-Ray Disc is biggest selling animation movie
Blu-ray Discs accounted for more than 1 in 10 of Wall-E sales, beating the Blu-ray sales of box office hits such as Mamma Mia!, Ratatouille and Kung Fu Panda....
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Exhibitors insist on performance linked revenue share
Exhibitors want revenue share of movies to be performance linked; benchmarks decided on the box office collection, budgets, star cast etc....
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Arts Alliance Media expands Spanish digital cinema roll out
MUMBAI: Arts Alliance Media (AAM), Europe’s leading digital cinema provider and Yelmo Cines, have inked an agreement to equip 18 new screens in 18 different sites throughout their chain with digital cinema, 3D and...
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Warner/Chappell Music UK & INXS expand deal
MUMBAI: Warner/Chappell Music UK has extended its long-term publishing agreement with INXS. Under the new agreement, the music publisher will administer the worldwide rights to the majority of INXS’ catalogue of songs, which spans...
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Universal’s Fast & Furious first to use D-BOX Motion Code technology
MUMBAI: D-BOX Technologies Inc. announced that the release of Universal Pictures’ action-thriller Fast & Furious on 3 April 2009, will represent the first theatrical feature to use its D-BOX Motion Code technology. With Fast...
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Stardeath & White Dwarfs sign with Warner Bros. Records
MUMBAI: Oklahoma City psych/prog/experimental pop quartet Stardeath & White Dwarfs Stardeath & White Dwarfs have signed to Warner Bros. Records. After spending the last few years traversing the galaxy as the road crew for...
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Disney announces long-term environmental goals
MUMBAI: The Walt Disney Company announced a set of strategic environmental goals and challenging three – five year targets to reduce emissions, waste, electricity and fuel use, and its impact on water and ecosystems....
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Priyanka Chopra to receive Nielsen Box Office award in HK
Actress Priyanka Chopra will receive the Nielsen Box Office Award for outstanding contribution to Asian films....
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Moser Baer launches two MP3 players
MUMBAI: Moser Baer has launched two MP3 player models – MP565-2G and MP582-2G. The products, which come with 2GB memory, stereo earphones and USB adaptor, are in the price range of Rs 1190 –...
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BSNL IPTV service uses Verimatrix Content Security System
MUMBAI: Verimatrix Video Content Authority System (VCAS) for IPTV has been deployed to protect IPTV services to Bharat Sanchar Nigam Ltd’s (BSNL) customers. The state-owned telecommunications operator has embarked on a nation-wide launch in...
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Akon joins hands with AR Rahman for new music album
Two time Oscar winning music director A R Rahman and American hip-hop singer Akon have joined forces to work together on a new album called Freedom is Beautiful....
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Middle East International Film Festival to be held in October
MUMBAI: A month after returning from the 59th Berlin International Film Festival, the Middle East International Film Festival executives have announced the new dates for the 2009 festival. To be held at the Emirates...
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Dolby unveils CP750 digital cinema processor
MUMBAI: Dolby Laboratories’ latest generation cinema processor, the Dolby CP750 Digital Cinema Processor, will be available for orders during ShoWest starting 30 March, 2009. The CP750 is designed to work within the new digital...
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WorldKids International Film Festival to be held on 21 March
Mumbai: On the International Day for the elimination of racial discrimination, WorldKids Foundation will show The Peace Tree, a film which aims at spreading intercultural understanding to reflect diversity in unity. A Canadian film,...
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Telugu film industry boycott plexes from 20 Mar; want 60%
The Telugu film industry has joined hands with the Hindi film Producers' Guild & will refrain from releasing movies in multiplexes in Andhra Pradesh from 20 March....
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