MUMBAI: As part of the growth of its motion picture business, filmed entertainment studio Lionsgate has closed a theatrical slate financing deal. The deal creates a funding entity, LG Film Finance I, LLC, which...

The first 24-hours of pre-sales activity for Michael Jackson's This Is It has resulted in record-breaking sales throughout the world....

MUMBAI: The latest addition in the New Zealand Federation Against Copyright Theft’s public education drive aims to spread the anti-piracy message at the cinema this school holiday season. Children watching the latest releases at...

MUMBAI: Warner Home Video (WHV) will be releasing Harry Potter: Wizarding World, the second DVD game from the franchise. Based on the second three Harry Potter films – Harry Potter: Wizarding World, Harry Potter...

MUMBAI: Grammy-nominated entertainer Omarion makes his long awaited return to the scene with the announcement of a new album and label imprint, Starworld Entertainment, through EMI Label Services. The multi-platinum superstar will release his...

MUMBAI: Universal Music Publishing Group (UMPG) has signed GRAMMY award-winning, Hollywood composer and Oingo Boingo co-founder Danny Elfman to a worldwide publishing deal. The deal encompasses the entire Oingo Boingo catalogue, as well as...

MUMBAI: Award-winning producer Mark Burnett will take the reins as executive producer of People’s Choice Awards 2010, the awards show where fans honor their favorites in movies, music and television. Actor, singer and entrepreneur...

MUMBAI: The deadline to submit entries in the Live Action Short Film, Animated Short Film and Foreign Language Film categories to be considered for the 82nd Academy Awards is on 1 October. Complete entries...

MUMBAI: On 24 September, following a seven month-long investigation by the Motion Picture Association (MPA), 30 officers from the Economic and Cyber Crime Division (ECOTEC) of the Royal Thai Police, with the assistance of...

MUMBAI: Screen Actors Guild has elected Ken Howard as its president and Amy Aquino as secretary-treasurer. Both will serve two-year terms beginning 25 September. Ballots were mailed to 99,485 paid-up SAG members on 25...

MUMBAI:  Digital Rights Group (DRG) has signed an exclusive development deal with Absolutely Productions, the independent production company owned by a group of the UK’s comedy and drama writers, performers and producers. The three-year...

MUMBAI: Asia’s largest integrated resort in Singapore, Resorts World Sentosa, has created not one, but TWO world’s firsts in collaboration with DreamWorks Animation SKG, Inc. within its Universal Studios Singapore theme park. Themed after...

National Geographic Home Entertainment inks deal with Warner Home Video to distribute Nat Geo documentary programs in the People's Republic of China....

MUMBAI: Thomson, through its Technicolor Business Group, will now be offering both digital cinema image detection watermarking solutions available on the market, Cinefence and Nexguard, both offered by Civolution. "By providing our customers with...

MUMBAI: In celebration of the 10th anniversary of her debut on the music scene, Jive Records is releasing Britney Spears The Singles Collection on 24 November. To launch the special package a brand new...

MUMBAI: On 12 October, the first new Michael Jackson song to emerge since the world mourned the loss of this musical icon will be released – a brand new single entitled This Is It....

MUMBAI: Lionsgate has acquired worldwide distribution rights to the latest film by Academy Award-winning writer and director Stephen Gaghan. This is Gaghan’s first film since Oscar-winning Syriana. Gaghan will direct and produce the film,...

MUMBAI: ITV Studios Global Entertainment has acquired the international distribution and format rights to Fox Reality Channel’s original series Househusbands of Hollywood. Househusbands of Hollywood is the 10×1 hour series produced by the multi-award...

TV audiences watching every major North American broadcast & cable outlet will see an exclusive, 2-minute scene from 2012 as part of this simultaneous roadblock....

Two-thirds of Americans (67%) say they will decrease spending on entertainment and eating out at restaurants according to Harris Interactive....

MUMBAI: Warner Bros. Interactive Entertainment has launched Scooby-Doo! First Frights in stores now on Wii, PlayStation 2 computer entertainment system and Nintendo DS in North America, marking the first Scooby-Doo! game published by the...

MUMBAI: MIPCOM and the Mobile Entertainment Forum (MEF) announce their partnership at MIPCOM 2009. MEF, the global trade association for the mobile media industry, will bring its expertise to MIPCOM with a line up...

MUMBAI: Fox Mobile Studios (FMS), a unit of Fox Mobile Group, has developed Brainstorm, an eight-episode scripted comedy series optimized for viewing on both mobile and online platforms that revolves around Altoids, The Curiously...

MUMBAI: Sony Pictures Entertainment has promoted John Fukunaga to executive vice president, legal affairs. He will report to Sony Pictures Entertainment senior executive vice president and general counsel Leah Weil. Fukunaga returns to SPE’s...

MUMBAI: Artificial Life, Inc has inked an agreement to produce an interactive game application for music artist Robbie Williams on the iPhone and iPod touch platform. The application will feature Robbie Williams’ new music...

MUMBAI: AmieStreet.com, the new music retailer and discovery service, has signed an agreement with Sony Music Entertainment to sell music from the major label’s vast catalog of legendary artists. The deal covers both current...

MUMBAI: Akihiko (Kiko) Washington has been promoted to executive vice president, worldwide human resources of Warner Bros. Entertainment. Washington now serves in an expanded role, responsible for managing the company’s worldwide human resources operation,...

MUMBAI: Sony Pictures Releasing International has promoted Alex Kostich as vice president, creative advertising. Kostich is responsible for SPRI’s print advertising campaigns internationally, overseeing one sheets, newspaper advertisements and collateral marketing material. He reports...

MUMBAI:  Hasbro, Inc has appointed key executives at the company’s newly formed Hasbro Studios, which is based in Los Angeles. Hasbro Studios president Stephen J. Davis will lead the "virtual" studio, which will produce...

MUMBAI: EPIX has launched its new initiative – EPIX Megaplex, which will deliver the industry’s most expansive online collection of movies to EPIX subscribers at epixhd.com. EPIX Megaplex will deliver to its subscribers an...

MUMBAI:  Lionsgate scored across all home entertainment revenue channels this past week with the release of the Lakeshore Entertainment produced Crank 2 High Voltage, which sold nearly 1.4 million DVD units in its first...

MUMBAI: Belltower Entertainment has acquired the motion picture, literary and life rights to produce Smokescreen, based on Robert Sabbag’s best-selling book of the same name. An action-adventure, Smokescreen tells the  true life tale about...

MUMBAI: This year’s Screenwriters’ Festival in Cheltenham has announced a roll call of many of the biggest names in the film and television industry, including the scriptwriters for Slumdog Millionaire, Mamma Mia and Dr...

In a rather shocking departure, The Walt Disney Studios chairman Richard (Dick) W Cook has stepped down from his position after 38 years of being in the company....