MUMBAI: A pop icon synonymous with creative collaboration from his early days as lead singer of the 1980s group Culture Club to his current work with David Hoyle (The Divine David), Boy George has...
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Police and AFACT seize 35,000 pirated DVDs in Sydney
MUMBAI: Police and investigators from the Australian Federation Against Copyright Theft (AFACT) seized 35,000 pirated DVDs in simultaneous raids across Sydney’s south-west. Twenty two police officers from the Campsie, St George and Fairfield local...
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Tata Sky crosses four million subscriber base
MUMBAI: DTH service provider Tata Sky has crossed the four million subscriber mark in less than three years of launch. Tata Sky is now boasts of the second largest subscriber base in India after...
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Image Entertainment inks deal with DISH Network for PPV, VOD
MUMBAI: Image Entertainment, Inc has signed an agreement with DISH Network, L.L.C., a subsidiary of DISH Network Corporation to provide Pay-Per-View (PPV) and Video-On-Demand (VOD) entertainment programming to the more than 13.584 million DISH...
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Shemaroo releases 4-DVD pack of Akira Kurosawa films
MUMBAI: Shemaroo World Cinema has released a four-DVD pack of films of Japanese filmmaker Akira Kurosawa. The collectors pack includes Kurosawa films namely Rashomon, Ran, The Quiet Duel and Madadayo. It also comprises a...
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Marvel partners Old Navy to take Super Heroes back-to-school
MUMBAI: To help celebrate the 70th anniversary of its founding in 1939, Marvel Entertainment, Inc. has partnered with Old Navy for a back-to-school promotion launching in all stores in the US and Canada in...
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‘Women are much better at multi-tasking’: Shahid Kapur
MUMBAI: Actor Shahid Kapur who outcharms his contemporaries as far as wooing the female fans or his female co-stars goes, is all praises for women. He says that no man can beat a woman...
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News Corp filmed entertainment revenues down 8%
Filmed entertainment segment reported Q4 operating income of $203 million, which is 8% below the $220 million reported for the same period a year ago....
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Paramount Digital Entertainment teams up with Mountain Dew
MUMBAI: Paramount Digital Entertainment has collaborated with Mountain Dew on Circle of 8, an original interactive thriller produced by Milchan/Van Eyssen. Circle of 8 is a studio-quality episodic thriller that invites audiences to participate...
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Robbie Williams to release new single on 12 October
MUMBAI: Robbie Williams will be releasing his new single Bodies on 12 October, followed by his new album Reality Killed The Video Star on 9 November. The album will be released on EMI’s Virgin...
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Movado replaces Twinkle Khanna with Harbhajan as ambassador
Movado, the upscale Swiss watch company, has replaced Twinkle Khanna with cricketer Harbhajan Singh as its brand ambassador....
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Sagar Bellary to direct Tusshar Kapoor in Double Jhol
Double Jhol will be directed by Bheja Fry director Sagar Bellary and will be produced by Smita Thackeray; Tusshar Kapoor to play double role....
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Abbas-Mustan celebrate Genelia D’Souza’s birthday
MUMBAI: Director duo Abbas-Mustan and Studio 18, co-producers of the forthcoming Life Partner, along with director Rumi Jaffery, celebrated Genelia D’Souza’s birthday at Mehboob Studio in Mumbai on Wednesday, 5 August. D’Souza features opposite...
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Kodak awards 2 WWI students for outstanding cinematography
MUMBAI: Two students of Whistling Woods International (WWI) won the Kodak Film School Competition. Aazin Printer and Pratik Deora, both cinematographers from the July 2009 batch of WWI, have won this award. Printer is...
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Fox Star acquires worldwide rights of My Name Is Khan
Fox Star Studios has acquired the worldwide rights of Karan Johar directed My Name Is Khan starring Shah Rukh Khan and Kajol....
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Star Player premieres two Star Plus shows online
MUMBAI: For the first time in India, two television series premiered on the Internet first before they were aired on television. On 5 August, 2009, two Star Plus shows, Aap Ki Kachehri (Season 2),...
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DivX inks deal with European download-to-own stores for films
MUMBAI: After signing deals with Hollywood studios Lionsgate and Paramount Pictures, DivX, Inc has now inked agreements with three European download-to-own (DTO) stores allowing them to sell premium Hollywood content in the DivX format...
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T-Series to pre-load music on pen drives & micro-chips
Music company T-Series is looking at pre-loading music on pen drives and memory chips; to begin with Blue, which has music composed by AR Rahman....
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Twentieth Century Fox & BR Films amicably settle lawsuit
The copyright infringement case that was filed by Hollywood studio Twentieth Century Fox on B.R Films, has now been amicably resolved....
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