MUMBAI: Bill Pohlad and Bob Berney have launched a new motion picture distribution company, Apparition, which will acquire and release films. The new company’s initial slate includes The Tree of Life, written and directed...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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....

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...

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...

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...

MUMBAI: Google CEO Eric Schmidt has resigned from Apple’s Board of Directors, a position he has held since August 2006. "Eric has been an excellent board member for Apple, investing his valuable time, talent,...

MUMBAI: The National Constitution Center’s 2009 Liberty Medal will be awarded to filmmaker and humanitarian Steven Spielberg for his artistic and personal commitment to the preservation of human rights. Through his award-winning films, Spielberg...

MUMBAI: Twentieth Century Fox announced the casting of the principal roles of Diary Of A Wimpy Kid. Based on Jeff Kinney’s best-selling illustrated novel, the first in a series that has thus far sold...

Apple has launched the iTunes Store in Mexico (http://www.itunes.com/mexico) with a selection of Mexican and international music from all the major labels and hundreds of independent labels. Launching with a catalog of millions of...

DivX has inked distribution deals with Lionsgate & Paramount  that will enable online retailers to offer the Hollywood studios' films for secure download....

MUMBAI: Sony Pictures Home Entertainment (SPHE) has announced the promotions of Brian Gartland to executive director of retail promotions and Maria Nunez to director, retail merchandizing. The duo will report to Sony Pictures Home...

MUMBAI: Tiger Gate, the Asian media venture started by William Pfeiffer and Paul Presburger and backed by Lionsgate, has launched the action channel KIX and the thriller/horror/suspense channel Thrill to serve the pan-Asian marketplace...

MUMBAI: Warner/Chappell Music has signed a new agreement with Warner Bros. Records recording band Muse and songwriter / front-man Matt Bellamy, which will result in all of the group’s songs being administered through one...

MUMBAI: Predicto Mobile, home to nearly two million participants who cast votes via their mobile phones on news, entertainment and pop culture, is now garnering a celebrity fan base: actress Shannen Doherty was recently...

MUMBAI: Warner Music and 7digital.com have extended their partnership that will see high quality MP3 music downloads from Warner Music made available across Europe. Warner Music is the first major to sign a pan-European...

MUMBAI: Amazon Video On Demand has now been made available on Panasonic’s full line of 2009 VIERA CAST-enabled Blu-ray Disc players. Current owners of Panasonic’s 2009 Blu-ray Disc players automatically received a free software...

MUMBAI: On 7 January, a team of 22 officers from the Economic & Technological Crime Suppression Division (ECOTEC) headed by Commander General Visuth Vanichburta as well as Motion Picture Association (MPA) representatives, raided two...

MUMBAI: Steven Spielberg will direct as his next film a contemporary adaptation of Mary Chase’s Pulitzer Prize winning play Harvey, a co-production between Twentieth Century Fox and DreamWorks Studios. Harvey is the first screenplay...

MUMBAI: Jeff Junge has been promoted to senior vice president, business management, Warner Bros. Home Entertainment Group. Junge will continue to drive mergers and acquisitions for Warner Bros. Home Entertainment Group and unify strategic...

MUMBAI: EMI Music Publishing has struck a merchandising partnership with Transport For London (TfL), to create a new range of mugs and T-shirts featuring lyrics from songs about London. The range features lyrics written...

MUMBAI: Netflix, Inc. has inked an agreement with Disney-ABC Television Group that will make several of ABC’s most popular TV series available to be streamed instantly from Netflix. In its entirety, the deal will...

MUMBAI: The Closing Night Gala of The Times BFI 53rd London Film Festival will be the world premiere of Ecosse Films’ Nowhere Boy, the debut feature from British artist Sam Taylor-Wood. Nowhere Boy is...