MUMBAI: RightsFlow, a provider of mechanical licensing, accounting and royalty payment services for companies that sell or distribute music worldwide, announced the completion of a $1.5 million Series A financing round with Originate Ventures...
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Apparition to release Sony Pictures’ Black Dynamite in the US
MUMBAI: Sony Pictures Worldwide Acquisitions Group’s Black Dynamite will be released by Apparition in the US on 16 October. The announcement was made jointly today by SPWAG President Steve Bersch and Apparition’s Bob Berney....
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Kaminey in trouble over ‘Apna Haath Jagannath’
MUMBAI: The recently released Kaminey is in trouble. Puri Shankaracharya Nishchalanand Saraswati of Puri has demanded a ban on the film for denigrating Lord Jagannath. The protests against the movie started soon after its...
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Thums Up rolls out new ad featuring Akshay Kumar
MUMBAI: Thums Up has launched it’s new communication featuring its brand ambassador Akshay Kumar in a new TV commercial. The communication takes the ‘I will do Anything for my thunder’ attitude to the next...
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Christie & Time Antaeus launch China’s largest D-Cinema deployment
MUMBAI: Time Antaeus Media Group, a Chinese digital cinema industry leader, has selected Christie as its partner for its digital cinema deployment in China. This marks the country’s most extensive commercial effort to install...
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Shilpa Shetty’s film and TV production house gains pace
Shilpa Shetty is eager to kickstart her production house; plans reality shows on television, approached Bipasha Basu for action thriller film....
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Big Pictures CMO Saurabh Varma quits; Girish Shah takes over
Reliance BIG Pictures chief marketing officer Saurabh Varma has resigned from the company. RADAG head of branding Girish Shah takes over....
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Sony Music & Experience Hendrix sign licensing deal
MUMBAI: Sony Music Entertainment and Experience Hendrix L.L.C. have signed a catalog licensing deal to set the stage for a worldwide campaign to make all of Jimi’s extraordinary music, including classics, never before heard...
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Filmmakers throng for sneak peek of James Cameron’s Avatar
MUMBAI: Fox Star Studios, which will be releasing James Cameron’s 3D movie Avatar in December, held a special sneak peek of the movie yesterday. An exclusive 20 minutes of Avatar was screened at Imax...
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Jagmohan Mundhra completes Mumbai schedule of Chase
MUMBAI: The cast and crew of the film Chase were recently shooting the climax of the film at an outdoor set in Film-city. The scene being canned was a was fight-sequence between actors Rajesh...
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Network 18 to retain Indian Film Company’s AIM listing
Network 18 Holdings informs independent directors that it does not plan to cancel the company's quotation on AIM if it acquires more than 75 per cent of shares in future....
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Karan Johar styles Sonam Kapoor
MUMBAI: Sonam Kapoor has been told to lay off her designer gowns. The two film old actress who has a penchant for dressing up in international known designers’ outfits, will have to give it...
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MTV expands programming with new original movies
MTV to redefine the creative canvas with a diversity of content in a variety of formats. Feature films for TV is the next natural step of progression for the channel....
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Daniel Craig to star in Morgan Creek Productions’ Dream House
MUMBAI: Daniel Craig has signed on to star in the Morgan Creek psychological thriller Dream House, it was announced by Morgan Creek Productions co-chairmen James G. Robinson and Rick Nicita. Craig will play a...
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Tom Cruise starrer Valkyrie released on home video
MUMBAI: Excel Home Videos and MGM Home Entertainment has released the Tom Cruise starrer Valkyrie on DVD. Valkyrie chronicles one of the most heroic but least known episodes of WWII, the July 20 Plot...
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Lata Mangeshkar to sing for a Bengali film after 17 years
Lata Mangeshkar will be lending her voice for a Bengali film after 17 years. Movie is titled Ami Bhalo Laga Bhalobasha. The film has actress Rituparna Sengupta in the lead role....
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Screen Actors Guild members ratify cable live action contract
MUMBAI: Screen Actors Guild’s members have approved a two-year successor contract to its Basic Cable Live Action agreement by a vote of 93.71 per cent per cent to 6.29 per cent per cent. The...
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NovaVision to showcase 200 new shows at MIPCOM
MUMBAI: NovaVision’s new programme PopCorn TV ‘World’s Best Comedy Show’ will be ready for release for the MIPCOM 2009. No less than 200 half hour shows have been produced by Novavision in the last...
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Dev Benegal’s Road, Movie to premiere at Toronto Intl Film Festival
MUMBAI: The Indian Film Company’s Road, Movie, will be premiered at the 2009 Toronto International Film Festival (TIFF). In May, the Company signed a deal with international sales agent Fortissimo Films to sell the...
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Glickman welcomes justice dept’s funding to combat IP crime
MUMBAI: Motion Picture Association of America, Inc. (MPAA) chairman and CEO Dan Glickman welcomed the Department of Justice’s announcement that more than $1.9 million in grants for criminal intellectual property (IP) enforcement will be...
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Shiney Ahuja case transferred to Sewree fast-track court
MUMBAI: Bollywood actor Shiney Ahuja has spent nearly two months in jail for allegedly raping his domestic help. The actor, who continues to remain at the Arthur Road Jail, was arrested after his domestic...
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Fame Cinemas adds two screens to Ghatkopar property
Fame Cinemas has added two more screens to its Ghatkopar property in Neelyog Mall. Fame Ghatkopar now houses four screens....
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UTV Movies to premiere Karzzzz on 30 August
MUMBAI: Urmila Matondkar and Himesh Reshammiya starrer Karzzzz will be premiered on UTV Movies on 30 August at 8 pm. Directed by Satish Kaushik, Karzzzz is a remake of the 1980 Subhash Ghai’s Karz,...
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