After bagging the Sony Vaio endorsement, actress Kareena Kapoor has now been signed on as the brand ambassador of Sony Ericsson mobile phones....
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I&B ministry bans FTV for 10 days for telecasting indecent content
Ministry of Information & Broadcasting has prohibited transmission & re-transmission of FTV Channel for 10 days with effect from 12 March on any platform throughout the country....
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Digital cinema group secures $660 million to upgrade US & Canada theatres
Digital Cinema Implementation Partners has completed its financing transactions for the deployment of digital projection systems to 14,000 movie theatre screens....
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Madonna inks JV with Iconix Brand to launch fashion lines
MUMBAI: Madonna and Iconix Brand Group have formed a joint venture company called MG Icon LLC, which will be owned 50% by Iconix and 50% by an entity controlled by Madonna and Guy Oseary....
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Disney & Jerry Bruckheimer Films’ Prince of Persia to released on 28 May
MUMBAI: Action-adventure Prince of Persia: The Sands of Time, from Jerry Bruckheimer Films, directed by Mike Newell and starring Jake Gyllenhaal, will be released on 28 May, 2010. The movie will be simultaneously released...
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UNAIDS appoints Preity Zinta as goodwill ambassador
MUMBAI: Actress Preity Zinta has been appointed as the Goodwill Ambassador for the Joint United Nations Programme on HIV/AIDS (UNAIDS) in India. As UNAids Ambassador, Zinta will raise awareness on HIV prevention, treatment, care...
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Cinemark to expand digital & 3D installations post DCIP funding
MUMBAI: Cinemark Holdings, Inc has completed the Digital Cinema Implementation Partners, LLC (DCIP) financing transactions, which are expected to cover the cost of conversion for a large portion of the company’s US screens. DCIP...
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Amole Gupte plays a UP gangster in With Love to Obama
MUMBAI: Director actor Amole Gupte who played a Maharashtrian Mafioso in Vishal Bharadwaj’s Kaminey will now be playing a UP gangster in Subhash Kapoor’s With Love To Obama. His character in the film is...
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FICCI ties up with Holland as partner country for FRAMES 2010
MUMBAI: FICCI has tied up with Holland as the partner country for its upcoming annual media and entertainment conference FRAMES 2010, which will be held in Mumbai from 16 – 18 March. This partnership...
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IMAX & CJ CGV Co ink joint venture deal for 15 theatres in Korea
MUMBAI: Korean theatre exhibitor CJ CGV Co has signed an agreement to install up to 15 new digital IMAX theatre systems, with the rollout scheduled to begin later this year. The deal also includes...
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Kannada director Anup S Bhandari to make film on Veerappan
MUMBAI: Kannada director Anup S Bhandari will soon be making a film on Veerappan. Bhandari is a hardware engineer who is passionate about films. He has recently completed directing a short international film...
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‘I stepped into the film industry as an individual & not as somebody’s son or grandson’ – Ranbir Kapoor
In a chat with Businessofcinema.com, Ranbir Kapoor talks about his last film Rocket Singh, his perspective on certain things in life and his forthcoming films....
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Worldwide box office gets major boost from 3D films in 2009
Global box office receipts reached an all time high of $29.9 billion in 2009, an increase of 7.6% over 2008 and almost 30% from 2005....
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T-Series acquires music rights of five films from Shree Ashtavinayak
T-Series has acquired music rights of five films from Shree Ashtavinayak namely Golmaal 3, Khatta Meetha, Tees Maar Khan, Kunal Kohli's next & Run Bhola Run....
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Disney to produce Telugu movie starring Siddharth & Shruti Haasan
Disney's Telugu movie to star Siddharth & Shruti Haasan and will be produced by K. Raghavendra Rao and directed by Prakash Rao Kovelamudi; to be dubbed in Tamil....
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Conax to offer advanced global TV platform with TiVo software
MUMBAI: TiVo Inc and Conax have partnered to offer a next generation DVB set-top box platform for deployment by television operators around the world. Through this partnership, the companies will put the TiVo® experience,...
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Film4 HD to launch exclusively on Virgin Media
MUMBAI: Virgin Media announced the upcoming launch of Film4 HD and E4 HD on its digital TV platform. Virgin Media’s digital TV customers will be the first to watch Film4 in glorious High Definition...
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Starsmith signs worldwide publishing deal with Warner/Chappell UK
MUMBAI: Warner/Chappell UK has inked a worldwide publishing agreement with Starsmith, the producer, composer, songwriter, performer and re-mixer, whose real name is Finlay Dow-Smith. The deal covers Starsmith’s acclaimed collaborations with other artists, as...
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LG Electronics 3D TV enters Indian market
MUMBAI: LG Electronics (LG) will introduce 3D LCD TVs in India via a partnership with Valuable Group. LG 3D TVs will be deployed in venues where cricket fans gather, including public bars and restaurants...
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Electronic Arts signs publishing deal with 38 Studios
MUMBAI: Electronic Arts Inc has inked an agreement with 38 Studios, LLC to publish the company’s first video game, an epic single-player role-playing game codenamed Project Mercury. 38 Studios is the creative enterprise of...
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Shah Rukh Khan’s KKR team ties up with energy drink XXX
Shah Rukh Khan's Indian Premier League cricket team Kolkata Knight Riders (KKR) has tied up with XXX energy drink as its principal sponsor....
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Sun Direct to telecast IPL matches in HD format on Max
Sun Direct will telecast Indian Premier League matches in HD on Max. This is for the first time in India that the matches will make its appearance in HD TV format....
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UFO Moviez to screen IPL matches ad-free in theatres
MUMBAI: UFO Moviez will screen the DLF IPL 2010 matches live in multiplexes and single theatres all across India in High Definition format without advertisements. Sachin Tendulkar signed the first theatre ticket for the same. To...
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Shemaroo releases Aamir Khan’s popular films on home video
MUMBAI: Shemaroo Entertainment has released a bouquet of actor Aamir Khan’s popular films and songs on DVDs and VCDs to celebrate the eve of the actor’s 45th birthday on 14 March. Khan’s films on Shemaroo’s DVD and VCD include...
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Aarya Babbar to star in Farah Khan’s Tees Maar Khan
MUMBAI: Aarya Babbar has been signed on for Farah Khan’s Tees Maar Khan. He will be seen as a village inspector in the movie. Babbar says, "I am extremely excited that am shooting...
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DAR Motion Pictures’ Marathi film directed by Manjrekar to release in April
MUMBAI: DAR Motion Pictures and actor – director Mahesh Manjrekar unveiled the first look of their maiden Marathi production Lalbaug Parel. The film has been shot simultaneously in Hindi and Marathi with two separate negatives, and...
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Harishchchandrachi Factory to Open Phuket Film Festival 2010
MUMBAI: Director Paresh Mokashi’s debut film, Harishchchandrachi Factory will be the opening film at the second edition of the Phuket Film Festival which runs 4 – 13 June at Phuket, Thailand . Director Mokashi will be attending the festival. ...
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Airtel digital TV to premiere Ishqiya on PPV
MUMBAI: Airtel digital TV will premiere Shemaroo Entertainment’s Ishqiya on its Pay-Per-View (PPV) service. This movie features Naseeruddin Shah, Arshad Warsi and Vidya Balan and will be available from 13 March, 2010 for a...
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Hilary Duff signs multi-book deal; first book titled Elixir
MUMBAI: Hilary Duff has signed a world rights deal with Simon & Schuster Books for Young Readers to publish her first-ever young adult fiction series. The first novel in the multiple-book series, entitled Elixir,...
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PlayStation signs deal with six Hollywood studios for HD movies
Sony has inked deals with six Hollywood studios to offer high definition (HD) movies for purchase and rental on the PlayStationNetwork video delivery service....
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Auditude and Dailymotion ink advertising agreement
MUMBAI: Auditude has inked a video advertising agreement with Dailymotion.com. Under the new deal, Auditude will work with Dailymotion’s catalog of more than 12 million videos. Dailymotion attracts 66 million unique monthly visitors and...
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Korn/Ferry felicitates influential SA women executives in Media & Entertainment
MUMBAI: Korn/Ferry International, announced its list of the most Influential South Asian (SA) Women Executives in the Media and Entertainment Industry. The list was created to honor women executives of South Asian background...
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Tanuja Chandra to direct romantic film; casts Rajeev Khandelwal
Tanuja Chandra, who started her career with the TV series Zameen Aasmaan & chose a hard hitting subject for her debut film - Dushman, is set to direct a romantic film....
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