MUMBAI: The Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences’ Monday Nights with Oscar program will present a special afternoon screening of King: A Filmed Record… Montgomery to Memphis on 21 January at the Academy...

MUMBAI: Glu Mobile Inc. has launched the Ice Age: Dawn of the Dinosaurs game for mobile handsets worldwide. This game marks Glu’s third mobile title based on Fox Mobile Entertainment’s Ice Age franchise and...

MUMBAI: Memoirs of an Imperfect Angel, the new album by international superstar Mariah Carey, is scheduled to arrive on 25 August in the US and on 24 August internationally. The first new single pick...

MUMBAI: Disney Consumer Products (DCP) and ASUS have collaborated to develop the Disney Netpal, a netbook computer for children. Developed with parents and kids in mind, the Disney Netpal by ASUS is durable, with...

MUMBAI: ScreenPlay Inc., a provider of one promotional video content catalogs has expanded its ScreenPlay Passport Content Management System to include delivery of customized media assets to 19 countries in 12 languages. ScreenPlay acquires...

MUMBAI: Telecom Express, a provider of interactive services to UK media companies, and IMImobile, have launched IMEXmobile. The joint venture company has been set-up to provide major UK media groups with an end to...

MUMBAI: RealD has partnered with Austrian cinema chain Cineplexx GmbH to add RealD 3D capabilities to 100 of its nearly 200 screens. The rollout will begin immediately on 15 screens upgraded with RealD 3D...

MUMBAI: Universal Republic Records has promoted Tom Mackay to executive vice president of A&R. Formerly, he served as senior vice president of A&R for the label. In this expanded role, Mackay will be responsible...

As part of a plan to restructure itself into a more innovative, efficient, and entrepreneurial business, MySpace will reduce its staff by nearly 30 per cent....

MUMBAI: LG Mobile Phones will be launching a comprehensive multi-discipline marketing campaign for the DreamWorks Pictures and Paramount Pictures’ upcoming film – Transformers: Revenge of the Fallen. The tie-in campaign includes a customized television...

Imax Corporation and China's privately owned media group Huayi Bros. Media Corporation Ltd have inked a co-production deal for three films....

MUMBAI: Warner Bros. Pictures and Legendary Pictures’ new comedy The Hangover took the top spot at the UK box office this weekend. This is the biggest opening 15 certificate film in the UK to...

There are now over 5,000 digital 3D screens worldwide & the companies that are installing 3D equipment in theaters are rapidly expanding....

MUMBAI: As consumers spend more time playing in immersive gaming environments, marketers and game publishers have been struggling to compare campaign results because different measurement methodologies are used by different platforms. To establish a...

MUMBAI: RRsat Global Communications Network Ltd. will be providing uplink and connectivity services for the new Fashion TV Paris High Definition channel – FTV HD, over North America and to DISH Network (NASDAQ: DISH)...

MUMBAI: Nearly 40 years and over 100 million albums sold since he signed his first traditional music publishing deal, Dave Stewart, one of the most respected and accomplished artists, producers and songwriters in modern...

MUMBAI: After a pair of diamond earrings and a necklace estimated to be worth approximately £250,000, were found missing post a photo shoot, actress Lindsay Lohan is to be questioned by police for the...

MUMBAI: Stereo Vision Entertainment, Inc, a film production company focused on producing high-quality, low-cost, polarized 3D feature films, has a received a two year extension from Capitol Films on its three picture distribution deal,...

MUMBAI: Virgin Media and Universal Music unveiled plans for a new digital music service designed to bring about a rapid and permanent change in the way UK consumers buy and listen to music. The...

MUMBAI: Tim Bevan will be the new chair of the UK Film Council. Bevan, who is co-founder and co-chairman of Working Title Films, will take over from outgoing chairman Stewart Till. The appointment is...

MUMBAI: Southeast Asian telecom operator SingTel has launched a new service in Singapore that lets mobile subscribers download music files and videos. Developed with Universal Music, SingTel is expecting the web-based facility called AMPed...

MPAA chairman & CEO Dan Glickman called for an open market for foreign movies in China, in line with the country's pro-business approach....

MUMBAI: On 9 June, officers from the Anti Internet Piracy Teams of Hong Kong Customs & Excise Department (HKC&ED) raided two residential addresses and confiscated the FTP servers of a major Hong Kong based...

Priced at $280, the Nokia 5530 XpressMusic is a compact device that uses a touch interface for accessing people and content on the homescreen....

MUMBAI: News Corp outdoing president Peter Chernin has tapped Universal Pictures production executive vice president Dylan Clark as the head of his company’s film division. Clark, who has been with Universal Pictures for eight...

MUMBAI: HIGH, a new movie-advertising agency has launched in Los Angeles. Specialising in providing key art (movie posters), taglines and online media at affordable prices; HIGH aims to provide studio-quality key art to filmmakers...

MUMBAI: Warner Bros. Television has tapped Erin Gough Wehrenberg as its new senior vice president, comedy development. In her position, Gough Wehrenberg will supervise the day-to-day operations of WBTV’s primetime comedy series development group,...

MUMBAI: Jack Nicholson, Warren Beatty, Annette Bening, Matthew McConaughey, Tobey Maguire, Martin Sheen, Oliver Stone, Benicio Del Toro, and Kathleen Turner were among those honoring Michael Douglas at the 37th AFI Life Achievement Award...

Peter Morgan, Neal Purvis and Robert Wade will be the screenwriters of the 23rd James Bond adventure, which will star Daniel Craig yet again....

MUMBAI: Hip-hop’s first lady, Queen Latifah, will be  hosting the My Black Is Beautiful Post Show at the Shrine Auditorium  at the BET Awards ’09 on 28 June  . The special will capture and...

MUMBAI: Cinemeccanica and Barco have signed another digital cinema deployment deal in France. Both companies have signed a contract with Cinéville for the installation of thirty Barco 2K digital cinema projectors in five multiplexes....

MUMBAI: S2BN Entertainment will be releasing the Rolling Stones’ The Biggest Bang Blu-ray, featuring over three hours of high-definition video and uncompressed digital 5.1 surround sound. The Biggest Bang Blu-ray features more than 30...

MUMBAI: Gravitas Ventures, a licensor and programmer of content across Video On Demand (VOD) platforms, has inked a partnership with theatrical distribution company specializing in classics and foreign language art films Kino International. Under...

MUMBAI: Building on its 18-month alliance with Netflix, Inc, LG Electronics has introduced yet another industry first with two new series of Full HD 1080p HDTVs with Netflix instant streaming software embedded directly in...

MUMBAI: Disneynature has acquired the North American and Mexican distribution rights to the new underwater film OceanWorld 3D, the first feature-length nature documentary ever filmed and released in 3D. The film is presented by...

MUMBAI: Disney – ABC International Television (DAIT), Asia Pacific, has set an integrated distribution structure for the Asia Pacific region aimed at accelerating international growth. Under this structure, the portfolios of Disney Channel and...

MUMBAI: Television on-demand company TVN Entertainment Corp has entered into a long-term agreement with Time Warner Cable to deploy the TVN VOD platform in support of Time Warner Cable’s VOD initiatives. Under the terms...