MUMBAI: Arts and Exhibitions International (AEI) has reached an agreement with John Branca and John McClain, the co-Special Administrators of Michael Jackson’s estate, to develop a touring exhibition of personal effects and items from...

MUMBAI: Universal Music Australia (UMA) has signed an exclusive distribution agreement with the US based Savoy Label Group (SLG) which includes Denon Classics, SLG Records, 429 Records and Savoy Jazz. UMA is Australia’s leading...

MUMBAI: Music merchandising company Bravado has entered into an agreement with the estate of Michael Jackson to be the exclusive manufacturer and distributor of merchandise for one of the most successful, prolific and iconic...

MUMBAI: The Gramophone Listening Room is officially launching with some of the greatest names in the world of classical music: Sir Simon Rattle, the great Berliner Philharmoniker and EMI, a company that has a...

MUMBAI: Multiple Grammy Award-winning singer and songwriter Norah Jones will release her fourth studio album on Blue Note Records this November. Jones wrote nearly all of the songs in the past two years since...

MUMBAI: EMI Music Publishing has completed an agreement with top music executive and hitmaker Antonio "L.A." Reid to form the L.A. Reid Music Publishing Company, a joint venture to sign new songwriters. The global...

MUMBAI: Walmart will be offering the new Miley Cyrus album The Time of Our Lives on Hollywood Records from 31 August, 2009, at Walmart stores and Walmart.com. The Time of Our Lives, which will...

MUMBAI:  Sony Computer Entertainment Inc. (SCE) unveiled the new PlayStation3 computer entertainment system, featuring a streamlined form factor with a 120GB Hard Disk Drive (HDD). The new PlayStation3 (PS3) system will become available in...

MUMBAI: Time Warner and The Nielsen Company have signed a new multi-year agreement. The agreement is the first of its kind in that it brings together all the Nielsen services subscribed to by all...

Due to the anticipated demand for this film, tickets for the two-week presentation will go on sale in most cities beginning on Sunday, 27 September....

MUMBAI: Tom Sherak has been elected president of the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences by the organization’s Board of Governors. Sherak, who is beginning his seventh year as a governor representing the...

MUMBAI: The British Academy of Film and Television Arts (BAFTA) installed Dolby 3D Digital Cinema in its London headquarters’ showpiece theatre at 195 Piccadilly. The Princess Anne Theatre sits at the heart of the...

MUMBAI: Screen Actors Guild and the Alliance of Motion Picture and Television Producers (AMPTP) reached agreement on the terms of new, two-year contracts covering Screen Actors Guild members working in Television Animation and Basic...

MUMBAI: Universal Music Group has entered into a long-term music monitoring and information deal with BigChampagne, the online music measurement company, for North America. As part of this deal, BigChampagne will provide UMG’s market-leading...

MUMBAI: Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer Inc. (MGM) has formed the office of the CEO. Mary Parent, chairperson for Worldwide Motion Picture Group, and Bedi A. Singh, president, finance and administration & CFO have been named members of...

MUMBAI: The subscription video-on-demand (SVOD) service, Disney Family Movies, has partnered with content providers Comcast, Charter, Cox, AT&T U-verse, Suddenlink and Verizon FiOS to offer a special preview nationwide from 3 – 7 September....

MUMBAI: Disney Interactive Studios announced that Spectrobes: Origins, the third installment of Disney’s monster battle video game franchise, is now available across North America exclusively for the Wii system from Nintendo. Spectrobes: Origins lets...

MUMBAI: Officers from the Saitama Prefectural police headquarters and Kawagoe police station, Saitama Prefecture, assisted by investigators from the Japan and International Motion Picture Copyright Association (JIMCA), raided and arrested Takayuki Hamaura, a 28...

MUMBAI: Time Warner Inc. and YouTube have signed an online video distribution agreement that will give consumers access to an extensive variety of high-quality, short-form content owned by Time Warner, including clips from movies,...

MUMBAI: MySpace is planning to social music discovery service iLike. The acquisition brings together two companies who share a common vision revolving around social discovery and distribution of quality content. "The iLike acquisition advances...

MUMBAI: Redbox Automated Retail filed a suit in Delaware Federal Court against Warner Home Video on 18 August, 2009, to protect consumers’ rights to access new release DVDs.  Redbox filed the action in response...

MUMBAI: Carmike Cinemas, Inc has signed an agreement with Stephen Benson, Principal of Blackrock, LLC, to build a 12-screen theatre with 2,600 seats to be located in the Capps Landing development in Opelika, AL....

MUMBAI: Dolby Laboratories, Inc. showcased the first netbook computers incorporating Dolby Headphone technology. The new Lenovo IdeaPad S12 and S10-2 are lightweight, ultraportable PCs that offer an equally enthralling surround sound experience as desktop...

MUMBAI: Turner Classic Movies (TCM) and Bloomingdale’s have partnered on a major, multi-faceted initiative celebrating the fashion of Hollywood’s leading men and leading ladies. Lights, Camera, Fashion will bring the art of film fashion...

MUMBAI: Warner Music UK has engaged the services of Jeremy Marsh as vice-chairman of Warner Bros Records UK. He will report to Warner Music UK CEO and Warner Bros Records UK chairman Christian Tattersfield....

MUMBAI: In a time when price, quality and value are top of mind with consumers, Walt Disney Studios Home Entertainment (WDSHE) has extended its Blu-ray Combo Pack initiatives worldwide, providing extended utility of DVD...

MUMBAI: The United States District Court for the District of Delaware has allowed Redbox to pursue the Antitrust suit against Universal Studios Home Entertainment. The court has denied Universal Studios Home Entertainment’s motion to...

MUMBAI: Blockbuster Inc. plans to feature the Blockbuster OnDemand movie download service in select Motorola phones, giving Motorola access to the Blockbuster OnDemand service and furthering Blockbuster’s digital strategy by providing its library of...

MUMBAI: Come October and Warner Home Video (WHV) will engage solely in direct relationships with kiosk and mail-order subscription vendors. Through a direct relationship, WHV can ensure that its titles are available through a...

MUMBAI: HDNet Movies will present a special Sneak Preview of the dark comedy World’s Greatest Dad, starring Robin Williams and written and directed by Bobcat Goldthwait on 19 August. A thoughtful but outrageous comedy...

MUMBAI: Warner Bros. Digital Distribution (WBDD) has expanded its digital film offerings through new and existing agreements with Oscilloscope Laboratories, Gravitas Ventures, Wolfe Video, First Look Studios, Full Moon Features, MarVista Entertainment, Image Entertainment...

MUMBAI: Goozex, Inc., the online video game trading community, launched its movie trading service extension. The site now allows users to trade their Blu-Ray, DVD, HD-DVD and UMD films with other members, and receive...

MUMBAI: Slumdog Millionaire writer Simon Beaufoy is one of the finalists for the 2009 Humanitas Prize, which honors writers whose work affirms the dignity of the human person and reveals our common humanity. The...

MUMBAI: Virginia Davis, who appeared in Walt Disney’s pioneering Alice films, passed away at age of 90. The Walt Disney Co. said Davis passed away at her home Saturday in Corona, California, from natural...

Motion Picture Association of America member studios have won a breach of contract lawsuit against Chinese DVD player manufacturer Nanjing Wanlida Technology....

MUMBAI: Among the many highlights on Black Gives Way To Blue, the new album from Alice In Chains, is a special guest performance by Elton John. The two rock legends collaborated on the album’s...

MUMBAI: Will Ferrell, Brad Pitt and Jonah Hill will star alongside Tina Fey in DreamWorks Animation SKG’s upcoming theatrical release, Oobermind, which is scheduled to hit theaters on 5 November, 2010. Will Ferrell assumes...

MUMBAI: Lionsgate has acquired the US and Canadian distribution rights to Kick-Ass, the action-comedy from writer/director Matthew Vaughn. Based on the best-selling comic by Mark Millar and John Romita Jr., Kick-Ass stars Nicolas Cage, Aaron...

MUMBAI: Universal Music Group Distribution (UMGD) has expanded its relationship with INgrooves. As part of this expansion, INgrooves will now handle the distribution of all mobile products on behalf of all of UMGD’s major...

MUMBAI: Warner Music Group and Cisco have expanded their relationship into a strategic agreement in which WMG will use the Cisco Eos social entertainment platform to power many of its artist Web sites. Eos...

MUMBAI: ION Television has acquired over 40 new A-list feature film titles through multiple theatrical film deals with NBC Universal Domestic Distribution (NBCU) and Warner Bros. Domestic Television Distribution (WBDTD). The newly acquired titles...

MUMBAI: Xbox 360 Arcade will soon see an increase in price. Microsoft has issued official notice to UK retail to increase the recommended retail price of the Xbox 360 Arcade in the UK. The...