MUMBAI: Manisha Tripathi has been appointed as president, Miditech Pvt. Ltd. In this role Tripathi would be responsible for production, programming and business operations of Miditech’s projects and ventures. Tripathi is an accomplished professional...
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YRF’s Rocket Singh starring Ranbir Kapoor goes on floors
Yash Raj Films' Ranbir Kapoor starrer - Rocket Singh - Salesman of the Year has gone on floors....
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BIGFlix appoints Shah as head of international market for VoD
MUMBAI: The Video-on-Demand division of BIGFlix.com (a part of Reliance BIG Entertainment), has appointed Dr. Preetam Shah as the vice president, international business development, BIGFlix.com. He will head the international market for the video-on-demand...
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Rudra Pratap Singh rewarded
MUMBAI: A month before the second season of the Indian Premier League, Rudra Pratap Singh was in Cuttack, playing the Deodhar Trophy. It was then that he confessed, “I am eyeing the purple cap....
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People Pictures to release 99 in multiplexes on 15 May
People Pictures will go ahead and release its movie 99 in multiplexes despite the failed talks between producers and multiplexes....
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Perfetti ropes in Salman Khan for Chlormint ad campaign
Perfetti has roped in Salman Khan to star in the new ad campaign for Chlormint, where he will be seen with his brother Sohail Khan....
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Rev share talks fail; producers to chalk out alternate plan
In the meeting that took place today between the multiplexes & producers no solution was reached. Producers to work out alternate release strategy....
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Warner Bros. Interactive Entertainment to publish Scribblenauts
MUMBAI: Warner Bros. Interactive Entertainment will be acquiring, publishing and distributing Scribblenauts, an original IP for Nintendo DS. Created and being developed by 5TH Cell, the game, available in fall 2009, will deliver a...
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Aniboom Virtual Animation Studio launches new brand
MUMBAI: Aniboom (www.Aniboom.com), the virtual animation studio, launched their new brand, created by Neville Brody’s graphic design firm Research Studios. Aniboom has developed a new language for the animation content portal, one which incorporates...
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Razor & Tie expands distribution deal with Sony Music
MUMBAI: Sony Music Entertainment and Razor & Tie Entertainment have expanded their exclusive distribution agreement to include full digital rights. Sony Music has distributed Razor & Tie’s audio products since 1998. Under the terms...
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Sharmila Tagore on Cannes Film Festival jury
Veteran Indian actress and chairperson of the CBFC in India, Sharmila Tagore will be on the Jury of the Competition at the Cannes Film Festival....
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Twilight, Slumdog Millionaire top MTV Movie Awards nominations
MUMBAI: The hit films Twilight and Slumdog Millionaire get ready to battle it out as MTV: Music Television announces this year’s final nominees for the 2009 MTV Movie Awards. Pitting Hollywood vampires against the...
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Regal Entertainment launches Free Family Film Festival
MUMBAI: Regal Entertainment Group has launched its 2009 Free Family Film Festival. During this nine-week festival, more than 300 Regal Cinemas, United Artists and Edwards Theatres offer selected G and PG rated movies for...
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UTV inks deal with BT to carry UTV Movies in US
MUMBAI: UTV Network has appointed BT’s Media and Broadcast division to carry its channel UTV Movies to the US. UTV Movies was launched on the DIRECTV DTH Platform in the US on 18 March...
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Burger King ties-up with Paramount Pictures for 3 films
Burger King inks marketing tie up with Paramount for 3 movies namely Star Trek, Transformers: Revenge of the Fallen and G.I. Joe: The Rise of Cobra....
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Radio Mirchi ties up with Kerala Tourism
MUMBAI: Radio Mirchi 98.3 FM has tied up with Kerala Tourism to offer the best of holiday season to its listeners this summer. Listeners can tune into Radio Mirchi to experience the beauty of...
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Spectra Multimedia inks 3 film deal with Priyankaa
MUMBAI: The Mumbai-based film and TV software production house Spectra Multimedia has signed a three-film deal with regional actress Priyankaa. All three films will be made in Marathi and are expected to be completed...
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Avitel Post Studioz forays into animation; bags Rs 1.5 bn order
Post production studio Avitel forays into animation with orders worth Rs 1.5 bn from UK film production company Purple Passion Productions....
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Arbaaz Khan takes newcomer for a ride
MUMBAI: The Khan family is known to have been the original stars who have always had a way with wheels. All three brothers (Salman, Arbaaz, Sohail) go on a biking binge at their Panvel...
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What made Anurag Kashyap envious?
MUMBAI: It’s not often that successful film directors openly admire the work of their contemporaries. However, Anurag Kashyap had no qualms admitting that he simply loved the work of debutant director Shivajee Chandrabhushan in...
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Hindus censure Sony Pictures’ Angels & Demons movie
MUMBAI: Hindus have criticized makers of upcoming film Angels & Demons for unnecessarily playing with the sentiments of the faithful for mercantile greed. Hindu statesman Rajan Zed, in a statement in Nevada (USA) today,...
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16 is the new superstitious number in IPL
MUMBAI: The 16th over appears to be the death knell for batsman in the second edition of the Indian Premier League. In almost every match, there has been a wicket for the team fielding...
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Irrfan Khan’s injury delays Pan Singh Tomar shoot
Actor Irrfan Khan has torn the ligament of his right ankle while shooting for Tigmanshu Dhulia's Pan Singh Tomar, which has resulted the shooting being stalled....
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Anant Narayan & Minissha Lamba in a film together?
MUMBAI: Bollywood’s latest chocolate boy Anant Narayan is inundated with film offers. But producers put only one condition – they want Anant to be paired opposite "alleged" girlfriend actress Minissha Lamba After being listed...
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Hit Entertainment unveils new development slate
MUMBAI: Hit Entertainment has unveiled its new development slate. The first property from HIT Entertainment is Mike the Knight, by Lunar Jim creator Alexander Bar. Produced in CG animation, the 52 x 10 min...
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AMD, FxLabs partner for Bollywood games
MUMBAI: Advanced Micro Devices (AMD) and FXLabsStudios have inked a technology alliance to foster game development in India. The association makes FXLabs the first Indian game development company to join forces with AMD to...
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Nandana Sen turns down two international films
MUMBAI: Nandana Sen has turned down two international films as they had few nude sequences. A sources said, "She rejected those movies as they had few nude sequences to be shot and she wasn’t...
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Is the IPL over for India’s biggest peddlers?
MUMBAI: Shah Rukh Khan and Mahendra Singh Dhoni did everything to get the eyeballs for the second edition of the Indian Premier League. While SRK roped in brands like Sprite, Nokia and Star Plus...
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Actor – producer Anuj Saxena launches his website
MUMBAI: Actor – producer Anuj Saxena has launched his official website – www.anujsaxena.com. The website provides all the information about him. "Having a personal website is a good way to connect to audiences and...
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Jackky Bhagnani on Zee Muzic’s Anchor Hunt
MUMBAI: Bollywood debutants Jackky Bhagnani and Vaishali who make their debut in the forthcoming Kal Kissne Dekha, recently made the contestants of Zee Muzic’s Cornetto Anchor Hunt break into a cold sweat. The show...
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Sony to review Hindus’ withdrawal demand of Hanuman video game
MUMBAI: Sony Corporation has agreed to look into the issue of objections of Hindus against their newly released controversial “Hanuman: Boy Warrior” video game for PlayStation2. Replying to the communiqué of Bhavna Shinde of...
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Eagle Films’ Umesh Mehra on Rose d’Or Festival jury
MUMBAI: Producer-director Umesh Mehra has been nominated as a member on the 49th Rose d’Or Festival Of Television Programming being held from 2 – 5 May in Lucerne, Switzerland. Mehra’s banner, Eagle Films, founded...
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Stereo Vision signs Landon Jr. to produce & direct movie
MUMBAI: Stereo Vision Entertainment, Inc. has signed Michael Landon Jr. to produce and direct its faith-based feature film Three Dimensions Of Jerusalem. Stereo Vision CEO Jack Honour said, "Three Dimensions Of Jerusalem has been...
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Disney to join NBC Universal, News Corp as equity owner of Hulu
MUMBAI: The Walt Disney Company through a subsidiary of ABC Enterprises Inc. has agreed to join NBC Universal, News Corporation and Providence Equity Partners as a joint venture partner and equity owner of Hulu,...
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Warner Music UK appoints Chatterjee as commercial innovation director
MUMBAI: Warner Music UK has appointed Raoul Chatterjee to the newly created role of director, commercial innovation, Warner Music UK (WMUK). Effective from 5 May, Chatterjee will report to WMUK SVP, commercial and operations...
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Revlon signs actress Jessica Biel as brand ambassador
MUMBAI: Revlon, Inc. has appointed Jessica Biel as the new global brand ambassador. Biel joins Revlon’s star-studded lineup of accomplished, modern and glamorous women including Academy Award winning actresses Halle Berry and Jennifer Connelly,...
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Regal Entertainment Group offers Harry Potter themed gift card
MUMBAI: Regal Entertainment Group has partnered with Warner Bros. Pictures to offer a collectible Harry Potter movie gift card. The gift card is themed after Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince, which is slated...
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MPAA welcomes govt focus on worldwide IP protections
MUMBAI: An annual report on worldwide intellectual property rights released by the United States Trade Representative will bring welcomed attention to efforts to protect creative content around the world, Motion Picture Association of America,...
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Pixar & Games Workshop experts to address Arena animation seminar
MUMBAI: Animation and gaming experts Anthony Christov, who is the art director at Pixar and Games Workshop co-founder Ian Livingstone will be in India to present Perspectives, a series of nationwide seminars organized by...
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It’s raining honours for Mallika Sherawat
MUMBAI: After becoming the first Bollywood celebrity to have a milkshake named after her at the hotspot ‘Millions of Milkshakes’ in Hollywood city, Mallika Sherawat has now become the latest recipient of the prestigious...
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Dev Anand’s recording studio to shut for renovations
An apartment building to come up at Anand Recording Studio in Bandra. Ground floor to be retained for studio....
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E-City Ventures to roll 150 Talkie Town screens by 2011 end
E-City Ventures launched its value cinema brand Talkie Town in Mumbai; to roll 150 Talkie Town screens by 2011....
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BIG Animation forays into education with BIG AIMS
Reliance's BIG Animation has forayed into the education field; launches BIG Animation Infotainment and Media School.<br /> ...
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Producers, multiplexes to meet on 5 May over rev share
Producers, distributors will meet the national multiplex chains on 5 May to settle the issue of revenue sharing for movies.<br /> ...
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