MUMBAI: Customers can now rent box-office favorites and purchase top TV shows in HD from Amazon Video On Demand. Customers can select from more than 500 HD TV shows and movies from major studios...

MUMBAI: Derek Powell has been promoted to senior vice president and general manager of Warner Bros Entertainment’s Global Digital Media Xchange (GDMX). Powell will succeed Paul Saccone, who has announced his intention to retire...

MUMBAI: This year, the Festival de Cannes’ official website is changing its image and style to fully reflect the diversity and energy of the event. The new website has navigation that’s as instinctive as...

MUMBAI: NCR Corporation has purchased the remaining equity in TNR Holdings Corp.,  in order to expand the NCR SelfServ Entertainment portfolio across North America under the Blockbuster Express brand. NCR will leverage TNR’s operator...

MUMBAI: Warner Bros. Entertainment is continuing its long-standing commitment to environmental stewardship with the completion of two projects on its Burbank lot. The recently constructed Stage 23 is the first "green" sound stage built...

MUMBAI: MYPLASH, the reloadable Visa Prepaid Card program created for the teen and young adult market, and EMI Music have entered into a multi-tiered agreement. The two companies will offer artist-themed MYPLASH cards to...

MUMBAI: RRsat Global Communications Network has launched a new service: RRsat Global Internet TV (www.RRsatGlobalInternet.tv). This is a global, managed, end-to-end TV service solution, which delivers TV from broadcasters anywhere in the world to...

Motion picture & television production industry paid more than $40 billion in wages and $38 billion to vendors throughout the United States in 2007....

MUMBAI: Comcast Corporation will be offering several Oscar Award-winning and nominated films On Demand and in HD including best-picture winner Slumdog Millionaire. Also, The Wrestler and Frost/Nixon will debut On Demand on the same...

MUMBAI: Susan Boyle, the singer who stunned viewers the world over with her performance of I Dreamed a Dream on the TV show Britain’s Got Talent, has influenced sales of sheet music as well...

MUMBAI: Disney Interactive Studios has appointed Dan Tudge as vice president and general manager of Propaganda Games, Disney Interactive Studios’ development studio in Vancouver, British Columbia. Tudge is tasked with overseeing the operations of...

MUMBAI: Sony Pictures Technologies has opted for DFT Digital Film Technology’s new Scanity film scanner for various data workflows. The vast number of workflows and deliverables that Sony Pictures Technologies will be managing on...

MUMBAI: Affinity Mediaworks Corp. Affinity Mediaworks has completed a production financing agreement with Insight Film Studios to provide gap financing for the feature film Damage. The movie stars Stone Cold Steve Austin. This film...

MUMBAI: Peace Arch Entertainment Group Inc. has sold all shares of its North American home entertainment operations to Phase 4 Films Inc., a new entity to be led by current Peace Arch Home Entertainment...

MUMBAI: Inlet Technologies is supporting ZillionTV Corporation’s distribution of high quality personalized television. The ZillionTV Service utilizes Inlet’s Armada automated encoding workflow management platform as its backend encoding infrastructure to support the encoding handled...

MUMBAI: Film production company Stereo Vision Entertainment has inked a $ 33 million joint venture agreement with XA Worldwide. Stereo Vision CEO Jack Honour said, "This J/V agreement commits XA Worldwide to provide the...

MUMBAI: US rock operation, The Eleven Seven Music Group, whose roster includes Buckcherry and Mötley Crüe, and EMI Music have entered into an agreement in which EMI will provide The Eleven Seven Music Group...

MUMBAI: Orange and Canal+ will be broadcasting TV Festival over CanalSat and Orange TV during the upcoming Cannes Film Festival, which will be held from 13 – 24 May. Edited by Canal+ and co-produced...

MUMBAI: Actor Keanu Reeves prevailed over a group of stars of film, television and sports to win the Celebrity Category of the 2009 Toyota Pro/Celebrity Race. "The King of the Beach," six-time Toyota Grand...

MUMBAI: New York-based Emerging Pictures has selected CDNetworks to provide the low-cost delivery of large HD-file downloads for its 100% green data delivery platform, enabling a new technology and business model for cinema. Emerging...

MUMBAI: Sony has unveiled its latest Blu ray player. Incorporating the latest in cutting edge technology, the BDP-S360 delivers pristine 1080p picture quality, with full 7.1 surround sound via a compatible AV receiver. This...

MUMBAI: On 18 April, at a ceremony held at the China Film Museum, the Motion Picture Association (MPA) joined the organizers of the 16th Beijing Student Film Festival (BSFF) and the China Film Copyright-Protection...

MUMBAI: DIRECTV will be offering the most movies in 1080p, the highest resolution format available for HD video enthusiasts and the same format used by Blu-Ray HD DVDs. DIRECTV customers with DIRECTV Plus HD...

MUMBAI: Red Rock Pictures Holdings, Inc., a film and entertainment marketing company, has entered into an agreement with National Lampoon and the founder of Van’s Warped Tour to promote and distribute the upcoming feature...

MUMBAI: Apple Corps and EMI Music will be releasing the original Beatles catalogue, which has been digitally re-mastered for the first time, for worldwide CD release on 9 September, 2009. This is the same...

MUMBAI: Action Concept from Germany and Chinese company Asian Union will join hands to produce a slate of four – five action movies, which will be released on all possible platforms in China and...

The Alliance of Motion Picture and Television Producers and Screen Actors Guild have reached a tentative agreement on a new film and television contract....

MUMBAI: Angry Monkey Entertainment’s comedy motion picture Baby On Board will premiere in digital, E-Cinema theaters in select US markets on 24 April. The movie stars Heather Graham, Jerry O’Connell, John Corbett, Lara Flynn...

MUMBAI: A court in Stockholm today convicted the four defendants of copyright offences in The Pirate Bay Trial and sentenced each to one year’s imprisonment. Substantial damages were also awarded against them. The criminal...

MUMBAI: The Pan-Chiao District Prosecutors office has indicted the company operating local file-sharing website Foxy and one person, suspected of being the owner and operator of the site, of violations of Taiwan’s Copyright Law....

MUMBAI: Hugh Jackman will be honored with a hand and footprint ceremony at Grauman’s Chinese Theatre on 21 April. The Tony and Emmy-winning actor, who recently hosted the Academy Awards, joins a very select...

MUMBAI: Warner Bros. Interactive Entertainment will publish The Clique: Diss and Make Up, a new videogame based on the best-selling young adult book series by author Lisi Harrison, on Nintendo DS in fall 2009....

MUMBAI: Producer Moritz Borman’s lawsuit against Halcyon Co. has been dismissed with prejudice after the two sides amicably resolved all of the outstanding differences between them related to the upcoming film Terminator Salvation. Messrs....

MUMBAI: Top gaming industry analysts Bill Lerner, Rich Moriarty and Grant Govertsen have formed a Union Gaming Group, which is a new boutique research and advisory firm. Based in Las Vegas, Union Gaming Group...

Making its debut with over 500 Hollywood & German films, iTunes offers films like Quantum Of Solace, The Dark Knight, High School Musical 3 etc....

MUMBAI: The Motion Picture Association of America will open its second Business of Show Business symposium with the release of a new report detailing the economic impact of motion picture and television production and...

This year there will be 19 auditoriums to use digital technology & 3D will be the highlight with Disney Pixar Studios' Up being premiered in digital 3D....

MUMBAI: Three Good Men has entered into a deal with Media 8 Entertainment regarding the world-wide distribution of its film Ca$h, starring Sean Bean. Under the agreement, Media 8 will serve as world sales...

MUMBAI: GDC Technology (GDC) and RealD have completed the integration of RealD’s 3D EQ (aka ‘ghostbuster’) technology in GDC’s line of SA-2100 digital cinema servers. RealD’s 3D EQ technology augments the separation of the...