Principal photography began on 13 July on Warner Bros. Pictures' Inception starring Leonardo DiCaprio, which is being directed by Christopher Nolan....

MUMBAI: BMG Rights Management will acquire the music publishing assets of certain affiliates of Crosstown Songs America. The transaction represents the first acquisition of music rights for BMG, the new global music rights management...

MUMBAI: Disney unveiled all new tween fashion lines inspired by Disney Channel smash hits Jonas and the Emmy-nominated Wizards of Waverly Place with the launch of a virtual fashion show video on the official...

MUMBAI: Universal Pictures has promoted the company’s U.K.-based international distribution head David Kosse, to president, international. Kosse built and has led the company’s international theatrical distribution efforts as the former president of Universal Pictures...

MUMBAI: Rentrak Corporation has added  a Blu-ray Disc "BD" component to the company’s existing Screen Media DVD revenue sharing program. Screen Media Ventures is one of the largest independent suppliers of high quality motion...

MUMBAI: Arqiva has agreed to acquire the platform assets of Project Kangaroo, the video-on-demand (VOD) platform developed by UKVOD LLP, a joint venture set up by BBC Worldwide, ITV and Channel 4. The acquisition...

MUMBAI: Universal Music Publishing Group chairman and CEO David Renzer and UMPG Nashville president Pat Higdon announced the signing of a worldwide publishing agreement with Keith Urban. UMPG will publish Urban’s catalogue throughout the...

MUMBAI: Nokia and Atlantic Records UK announced that rising electro-pop star, Little Boots will be appearing at this year’s Nokia Skate Almighty event. The collaboration will promote Little Boots’ top five debut album, Hands,...

Blizzard Entertainment & Legendary Pictures have signed Spiderman director Sam Raimi to direct the motion picture based on Warcraft....

MUMBAI: Barco has completed its 1,000th digital cinema projector installation in China. This again confirms Barco’s solid position in the Asian Pacific digital cinema market in general, and China in particular where the company...

MUMBAI: Aniboom, the world’s first virtual animation studio, has collaborated with Marvel Entertainment. Through the partnership, animators registered with the Aniboom community, which currently consists of nearly 8,000 professional-level animators, will have the opportunity...

MUMBAI: Merlin Entertainments (Merlin) is opening Madame Tussauds Hollywood, on 1 August. The $55 milion attraction is the ninth Madame Tussauds to open worldwide and fourth in the USA, joining sister attractions in New...

MUMBAI: Watchmen: The End is Nigh Part 2, the second of two episodic action videogames based on the Watchmen film, was launched on the Xbox 360 video game and entertainment system from Microsoft and...

MUMBAI: Warner Bros. Pictures’ Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince has taken a record-breaking opening, earning a worldwide box office gross of $394 million. The film brought in $158 million from the US and...

MUMBAI: Sony Pictures Home Entertainment has collaborated with CreateSpace, part of the Amazon group of companies, to release Star-ving, the online reality series from Crackle.com via CreateSpace’s DVD on Demand technology. The DVD will...

MUMBAI: Sony Pictures Home Entertainment (SPHE) and Redbox Automated Retail have signed a multi-year distribution agreement which will make SPHE new release, direct-to-video and catalog titles available to consumers through more than 17,000 Redbox...

Warner Bros. Pictures has surpassed the $1 billion threshold in domestic box office revenue for the tenth out of the past eleven years....

MUMBAI: Motion Picture Association of America, Inc. chairman and CEO Dan Glickman joined Commerce Secretary Gary Locke and the leaders of other copyright industry groups in releasing a new report from the International Intellectual...

MUMBAI: Non-Stop Music, a division of Warner/Chappell Music, has acquired the entire catalog of V-The Production Library, a London-based production music library. The deal gives the Emmy award-winning Non-Stop Music worldwide publishing rights to...

MUMBAI: As the world-famous Madame Tussauds prepares to open tomorrow, there is another accomplishment to celebrate – the completion of the landmark building that houses it. Located at the corner of Hollywood Boulevard and...

MUMBAI: Marvel Entertainment, Inc. has added Theo Paphitis to the company’s International Advisory Board. Comprised of business leaders from key international growth markets, the Advisory Board works with Marvel executives to explore opportunities for...

MUMBAI: Lionsgate has acquired the North American home entertainment distribution rights to No Greater Love, a touching story about faith and love. Under the terms of the arrangement, Lionsgate obtains the rights to distribute...

MUMBAI: YouTube has collaborated with Sundance Institute and American Honda to showcase in-depth, behind-the-scenes footage of the Sundance Institute Directors Lab in the YouTube Screening Room (www.youtube.com/ytscreeningroom). For a six week time period beginning...

MUMBAI: Shorts International, the short movie entertainment company, has launched ShortsHD on AT&T U-verse TV on channel 1789. ShortsHD is a unique entertainment channel dedicated to short movies. ShortsHD broadcasts 24-hours a day in...

MUMBAI: Warner Bros. Pictures and Legendary Pictures’ summer smash hit The Hangover has added another milestone to its record-breaking run. On 19 July, the Todd Phillips-directed comedy became the top-grossing R-rated comedy of all...

MUMBAI: Star COO Laureen Ong will be stepping down from her post in mid August. Upon Ong’s departure, the operational units under Ong will report directly to Star CEO Paul Aiello. Aiello said, "Laureen...

MUMBAI: Synergex Corporation has entered into an agreement to acquire the licensing, production, and distribution business as well as the video and music product pipeline of BrainWorks Entertainment. BrainWorks’ manufacturing, content licensing, and distribution...

MUMBAI: The UK Film Council is offering young British filmmakers an opportunity to take part in the London 2012 Olympic and Paralympic Games under the banner of Film Nation, announced as one of the...

MUMBAI: On 17 November, 2009, director J.J. Abrams’ Star Trek will debut as a three-disc Blu-ray with digital copy, two-disc DVD with digital copy and a single-disc DVD from Paramount Home Entertainment. Star Trek...

MUMBAI: Rich Peluso has joined Sony Pictures Home Entertainment as vice president of Affirm Films, SPHE’s faith label, which played a key role in helping to bring films like Fireproof and Facing the Giants...

MUMBAI: SM Cinema and DCI have decided to initiate the roll-out of DCinema installations in the Philippines. Through this move, SM revolutionizes the movie industry with the SM Digital Theater. Aside from having the...

New Potter film collected domestic gross of $58.18 million and international totals of $45.85 million combining to $104 million on Day 1....

MUMBAI: Jermaine Jackson, brother of the King of Pop Michael Jackson, who passed away unexpectedly two weeks ago, will attend the 2009 Save The World Awards, which will be held at the Nuclear Power...

MUMBAI: Barco has announced a new range of DLP Cinema based digital cinema projectors. From next year onwards the company will market a full range of 2K and 4K-ready projectors, meeting the needs of...

MUMBAI: IndiePix, the Internet-based distributor of independent films, has implemented watermarking technology to help reduce illegal DVD downloading, copying and selling. Watermarking technology uniquely protects the rights of the filmmaker while also respecting the...