MUMBAI: The New Zealand Federation Against Copyright Theft (NZFACT), representing the Motion Picture Association (MPA) in New Zealand, welcomed the New Zealand government’s resolve to enhance new legislation that requires Internet Service Providers (ISPs)...

MUMBAI: Cartoon Network has inked a partnership with the NBA to develop long- and short-form basketball-themed content across a wide variety of platforms, including online, mobile, VOD and on-air. Through this partnership and the...

MUMBAI: Universal Music Publishing Group (UMPG) has signed the catalogue of artist/composer/guitarist, Jimi Hendrix, to an exclusive administration agreement encompassing all territories throughout the world outside the United States. On the basis of this...

MUMBAI: Sony Pictures Entertainment is uniting its domestic and international television divisions as part of its strategy to produce and distribute content on a worldwide basis. Sony Pictures Television (SPT) president Steve Mosko will...

MUMBAI: Universal Music UK has promoted Brian Rose as managing director, commercial division. In his expanded role, which is effective immediately, Rose will take responsibility for all digital and mobile sales for Universal Music...

MUMBAI: Giorgio Stock has been promoted to executive vice president and managing director, Disney Channels, Europe, Middle East and Africa (EMEA). He will lead The Walt Disney Company’s portfolio of kid-focused, family inclusive television...

MUMBAI: Time Warner will be investing $241.5 million in Central European Media Enterprises Ltd. (CME). For this investment, Time Warner will receive 19 million newly issued CME common shares, consisting of 14.5 million shares...

MUMBAI: Warner Bros. Home Entertainment Group (WBHEG) will debut the “Warner Archive Collection”, which is a selection of movies spanning more than 60 years of filmmaking never before available on DVD. The world’s largest...

MUMBAI: MGM Mirage has completed its previously announced sale of Treasure Island Hotel & Casino (TI) to Ruffin Acquisition, LLC for $775 million. Ruffin Acquisition, LLC is wholly owned by Phil Ruffin. At closing,...

MUMBAI: Disney Interactive Media Group senior vice president and managing director Cindy Rose will be opening MIPTV Digital Forum’s Cross Platform Gaming and Online Worlds Seminar with a keynote on 2 April. The 46th...

MUMBAI: Lionsgate’s Transporter 3 proved dominant across all revenue channels including DVD, Blu-ray and digital downloads. The movie debuted with nearly two million DVD units sold in its first week and also marked Lionsgate’s...

The 27 year old British reality TV star Jade Goody succumbed to cancer on Sunday at 3.55 am. Goody, who has two kids, died in her sleep at her home in Essex....

MUMBAI: TV5MONDE USA will exclusively air live coverage of the opening and closing ceremonies at the 60th annual Cannes Film Festival, in the US. TV5MONDE USA America’s only 24/7 French language channel, currently. Didier...

Apple's iTunes customers can purchase and rent movies such as Quantum of Solace and Twilight in HD on the iTunes Store....

MUMBAI: MGM Home Entertainment will be releasing Valkyrie on Blu-ray Disc and Special Edition DVD with Digital Copy on 19 May. Set in Nazi Germany, Valkyrie chronicles the daring and ingenious ‘July 20 plot’...

MUMBAI: MTV Networks Music Group announced the newly formed Creative Music Integration (CMI) team to oversee innovative integrations of music within all of MTV and VH1’s long form programming. The team, under the direction...

MUMBAI: Richard Llewellyn has joined Notion Music as sales director in the United Kingdom. With over 20 years experience in the music industry, Llewellyn started his career in music publishing working for Boosey &...

MUMBAI: Star appointed Cora Yim as vice president, programming for Star Chinese Movies and Star Chinese Movies 2. Yim will report to Chinese Programming executive vice president Cheah Chee Kong (CheeK). Yim will spearhead...

Disney-Pixar studios' new animation film UP will be the opening ceremony film at Cannes. Film Fest. This is the first time that an animation film will open the fest. ...

MUMBAI: International talent from four continents is heading to Cannes later this month, to take part in the entertainment content market MIPTV. Charlie Hunnam, who plays Jackson “Jax” Teller in the FX Network series...

MUMBAI: The stars come out again in Hollywood as film legends George Lucas, Steven Spielberg and Martin Scorsese take part in an All-Star Tribute to the late filmmaker Akira Kurosawa and celebrate the launch...

MUMBAI: Electronic Arts will be launching a new multiplayer mode, called Don Control, to The Godfather II game. This new mode will be available as a free downloadable patch when the game releases on...

MUMBAI: ROK Entertainment Group, the mobile technology, applications and services company, has launched its India office, which will be headquartered in New Delhi. Tasked with marketing ROK’s suite of revenue-generating mobile applications to India’s...

MUMBAI: Slumdog Millionaire has secured a slot as one of the 20 major foreign movies that China will import this year. Danny Boyle’s Slumdog Millionaire has cleared the Chinese censors. The director will attend...

MUMBAI: Lionsgate has acquired North American distribution rights (including Canada) to the EuropaCorp-produced action/thriller From Paris With Love. From Paris With Love which has been directed by Pierre Morel stars John Travolta and Jonathan...

MUMBAI: Joined by the National Basketball Association (NBA), Yao Ming Foundation, China Film Copyright Protection Association (CFCPA) and Beijing Student Film Festival (BSFF), the Motion Picture Association (MPA), tipped off a campaign to promote...

MUMBAI: Lionsgate has acquired worldwide distribution rights to the film version of Suzanne Collins’ best selling futuristic young adult novel The Hunger Games. Collins will adapt the screenplay from her novel, the first in...

MUMBAI: EMI Music Publishing has reached an agreement to represent the intellectual property of Dr Martin Luther King, Jr. Under the terms of the long-term global deal with The King Estate, EMI Music Publishing...

MUMBAI: THQ Inc. plans to bring the Up video game, based on Disney-Pixar film, to all major consoles worldwide beginning in spring 2009. Up is currently in development across seven game systems, including Wii...

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....

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...

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...

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...

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...

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....

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...

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...

MUMBAI: Leslie Urdang has been named president of Santa Monica based Olympus Pictures, LLC, a motion picture company formed in 2007 to both develop and produce feature films. Urdang was formerly senior vice president...