MUMBAI: The Fourth Annual Asia Pacific Screen Awards (APSA) will be held on Thursday, 2 December, 2010.   Thirty seven films representing 16 countries and territories were nominated in the 2009 APSAs, with winners...

MUMBAI: Country music superstar Gretchen Wilson will perform a special rendition of the U.S. National Anthem followed by a performance of the Canadian anthem by vocal quartet the Canadian Tenors at the 2010 NBA...

MUMBAI: Online video company Dailymotion and EMI are partnering to deliver EMI’s library of music videos to Dailymotion’s Web video site, mobile site and iPhone app and the Dailymotion channel on Internet connected TVs....

MUMBAI: The UK Film Council has appointed Tanya Seghatchian as head of its new Film Fund.   The new role will see Seghatchian heading up a single, unified film fund, which will work with...

MUMBAI: SKY CEO Jeremy Darroch will deliver a keynote address at MIPTV on Wednesday, 14 April.   Darroch has been at the forefront of Sky’s transformation from a pay television company into a highly...

The Indian Film Festival of Los Angeles (IFFLA) has awarded the first IFFLA Film Fund Development Grant to writer/director Kranti Kanade....

Spider-Man will swing into theaters worldwide in 3D on 3 July, 2012. The film, which is still untitled, will begin production later this year; to be directed by Marc Webb....

MUMBAI: Pixar Animation Studio’s Up has won the Best Animated Feature honor at the 37th Annual Annie Awards.   Walt Disney Animation Studios won six Annies overall including three for its feature The Princess...

MUMBAI: Samsung Electronics’ fully transportable external hard drive Samsung S2 Portable will be pre-loaded with the movie Michael Jackson’s This Is It.   Timed with the DVD and Blu-ray Disc release of Michael Jackson’s...

MUMBAI: Modern Times Group (MTG) has acquired 50% of Raduga Holdings S.A. from Continental Media S.A. for an undisclosed consideration in cash.   Raduga is the sole owner of LCC DaoGeoCom, which operates Russian...

MUMBAI: The Government Information Office (GIO) and Taipei customs, with the support of the Taiwan Foundation Against Copyright Theft (TFACT), representing the Motion Picture Association (MPA) in Taiwan, have launched measures to deter the...

MUMBAI: A team of four enforcement officers from the Ministry of Domestic Trade, Cooperatives and Consumerism (MDTCC) assisted by officers from the Malaysian Communications and Multimedia Commission (MCMC), Cybersecurity Malaysia as well as the...

MUMBAI: The Motion Picture Association (MPA) today received a Certificate of Merit from the World Customs Organization (WCO) in recognition of its outstanding contribution over the past years in collaborating with the Hong Kong...

MUMBAI: Music merchandising company Bravado has signed Rihanna, Mariah Carey, Alicia Keys and Whitney Houston to create merchandise in support of their recent album releases and concert tours.   All four artistes will be...

MUMBAI: Warner Bros. Pictures and Legendary Pictures will release Clash of the Titans in 3D worldwide on 2 April, 2010. The film will simultaneously be released in 2D.   Warner Bros. Pictures president domestic...

MUMBAI: Hasbro Studios has named animation industry veteran Kathy Page to serve as vice president of production. She will oversee physical production of programming produced by Hasbro Studios. Much of the content produced by...

MUMBAI: Imax Corporation and Russian exhibitor Rising Star Media have inked an agreement to expand their relationship by installing two more digital Imax theatre systems by spring 2010.   The deal follows a successful...

MUMBAI: Warner Bros. International Film Acquisitions has appointed Camela Galano as president.   She will report to Warner Bros executive vice president international Richard Fox.   Galano will be responsible for acquiring the rights...

MUMBAI: Christie has concluded the framework purchasing agreement for 300 Christie Solaria series projectors with FTT, its German integration and service partner headquartered in Düsseldorf.   The Christie Solaria series consists of three new...

MUMBAI: Universal Music Group (UMG) will further expand its line-up of direct-to-consumer mobile content and services for music fans through an agreement with mobile publishing platform Netbiscuits.   As part of this agreement, UMG...

MUMBAI: Arts Alliance Media (AAM) has reached an agreement with Denmark Digital, to convert around 60 screens across the country to digital. The total value of the deal will exceed $9.3 million.   AAM...

MUMBAI: Videogame publisher Atari and developer Cryptic Studios, have launched the new PC MMO, Star Trek Online.   Taking place in the year 2409, players have the opportunity to become a high ranking Starfleet...

MUMBAI: Walt Disney and Pixar Animation Studios celebrated a milestone Oscar year as the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences announced five Oscar nominations today for UP (from Disney-Pixar), including a coveted spot...

MUMBAI: Netflix, Inc has inked a number of deals with distributors of independent film that will give Netflix members the opportunity to instantly watch hundreds of new indie titles in addition to the trove...

MUMBAI: OWN: The Oprah Winfrey Network has acquired the rights to Family Affair, an independent feature length documentary film written and produced by Chico David Colvard. Family Affair, an intensely personal documentary that examines...

MUMBAI: Pop star Beyonce won the maximum awards at the recently held Grammy Awards ceremony. She took home six awards. Beyonce has set a new record for the most awards won in a single...

MUMBAI: The Nate Berkus Show will debut in first-run syndication in the Fall on the ten NBC Local Media television stations with a series co-produced by Harpo Productions and Sony Pictures Television (SPT) and...

MUMBAI: THQ Inc and Sony Pictures Consumer Products, Inc. signed two multi-year licensing agreements granting THQ the exclusive worldwide rights to develop and publish video games based on Sony Pictures Television’s game show properties,...

MUMBAI: Tom Kring, the creator and executive producer of Heroes, is set to receive the 2010 Pioneer Prize at the International Digital Emmy Awards, which take place on 12 April, during MIPTV.   Heroes’...