MUMBAI: Sony Corp has posted a net loss of $386 million in the first quarter ended in March as compared to a profit of 35 billion yen in the year-earlier period. The company’s total...

MUMBAI: Sony Pictures Imageworks will soon be launching an open source development program. Imageworks chief technology officer Rob Bredow said that five technologies will be released initially. Imageworks’ production environment, which is known for...

MUMBAI: Video game and entertainment software retailer GameStop Corp has launched its Casual Digital Store at www.gamestop.com/casual. The GameStop Digital Store, powered by download provider RealNetworks, Inc., enhances the online game download experience in...

MUMBAI: Universal Pictures has signed director Judd Apatow for a three film deal. Apatow’s latest movie Funny People released today (31 July) and stars Adam Sandler and Seth Rogen. It has been produced and...

MUMBAI: Global music merchandising company Bravado has entered into an agreement to manufacture and distribute merchandise for one of the most successful, prolific and iconic bands of all time, The Rolling Stones. The agreement...

MUMBAI: Universal Music Classical Management & Productions (UMCMP) and First Classics GmbH have inked an innovative long-term agreement for organizing concerts in the field of classical music. With First Classics, the chart-topping classical stars...

MUMBAI: PutItOn.com, an online portal enabling artists from four artistic disciplines to display their talents and gain worldwide exposure, has kicked-off its first annual film festival, The PutItOn Picture Show. The film festival is...

MUMBAI: Pyramedia has undertaken an initiative aimed at contributing to building a sustainable film industry within the Gulf region. The media production company headquartered in Abu Dhabi provided two trainers, as part of their...

MUMBAI: Principal photography is under way on Dark Castle Entertainment’s action adventure The Losers, which will be distributed worldwide by Warner Bros. Pictures. The film is based on the comic book series published under...

MUMBAI: TiVo president and CEO Tom Rogers will deliver a keynote speech on 7 October at the 25th edition of MIPCOM, the world’s entertainment content market, which takes place in Cannes from 5 –...

MUMBAI: Sony Pictures Animation will release Cloudy With A Chance of Meatballs simultaneously at Imax theatres with the film’s wide release on 18 September, 2009. Cloudy With A Chance of Meatballs is an adaptation...

MUMBAI: DreamWorks Animation SKG, Inc reported a seven per cent drop in both revenue and net income driven by poor overseas ticket sales for its latest film, Monsters vs. Aliens. The company reported total...

MUMBAI: Yahoo! and Microsoft have inked a 10 year agreement that will improve the web search experience for users and advertisers, and deliver sustained innovation to the industry. Microsoft will now power Yahoo! search...

US media giant Viacom has seen a drop in its profits due to the impact of the economic downturn and drop in box office revenues....

MUMBAI: Warner Bros. Interactive Entertainment and Ludia Inc. have inked a deal to create and distribute videogames based on the hit reality TV dating shows The Bachelor and The Bachelorette, from Warner Horizon Television...

MUMBAI: On 27 July, Hong Kong’s deputy district judge M. Chow handed out Hong Kong’s stiffest ever penalty for movie piracy distribution at the conclusion of a three year investigation and prosecution of an...

MUMBAI: Disney’s 3D action film G-Force has taken an opening of $ 32.2 million at the North American box office knocking Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince out of the top spot in its...

MUMBAI: The Chronicles of Narnia: The Voyage of the Dawn Treader, the third in the series of films based on the bestselling books by C.S. Lewis, has begun principal photography on location in Queensland,...

MUMBAI: Fontana, the independent distribution arm of Universal Music Group (UMG), tops the national independent albums chart this week with three albums in the Top 10 and six albums in the Top 15, according...

MUMBAI: Universal Publishing Production Music (UPPM) has acquired the publishing assets of French production music company, Kapagama S.A. UPPM serves the business that creates, produces, and licenses music for use in film/TV, advertising, broadcast...

MUMBAI: UTV’s Ignition Entertainment and SNK PlayMore have launched The King of Fighters XII for the Xbox 360 and PlayStation3 computer entertainment system. The King of Fighters XII is rated T for Teen and...

MUMBAI: HBO original and award-winning programming, as well as their extensive movie collection  is now available to Comcast On Demand customers who subscribe to HBO. "Comcast customers will be the first to enjoy the...

MUMBAI: Golden Village Multiplex will be screening Michael Jackson’s Moonwalker on 30 July, 2009. Being the first re-release in Asia on a brand new print, the film will be screened at GV VivoCity for...

MUMBAI: BT has signed an agreement with Sony Pictures Television for video-on-demand rights to a range of new and classic movie titles for its digital TV service, BT Vision. BT Vision customers can now...

MUMBAI: Imax Corporation and Taiwan exhibition chain VieShow Cinemas have signed an agreement to open six additional Imax theatres in Taiwan, following the strong results at its first Imax location at the Sun VieShow...

MUMBAI: EMI Music has announced a number of senior digital executive appointments within its central marketing organization and in its regional marketing teams. These executives – whose backgrounds include experience in music, technology and...

MUMBAI: Joining a select club of music notables, Virgin Records’ A Fine Frenzy marks a milestone in its close online relationship to its fans, as the band surpasses 1 million-plus Twitter followers. To celebrate...

MUMBAI: Paramount Pictures release Transformers: Revenge of the Fallen: The Imax Experience, directed by Michael Bay and executive produced by Steven Spielberg, has crossed the $40 million box office milestone worldwide after its fourth...

MUMBAI: Pennsylvania’s film tax credit has helped to attract a major motion picture production company to the state to shoot an action-thriller starring award-winning actor Denzel Washington. Unstoppable, which will be directed by Tony...

MUMBAI: Orphan, a horror movie distributed by Warner Bros., is about an evil adopted child and is continuing to draw criticism from nationwide adoption groups and organizations urging movie going patrons to boycott the...