MUMBAI: Eros International Media has appointed Ram Mirchandani as chief creative officer(CCO) of Eros India. He will be joining the company on 1 November.Mirchandani recently stepped...
MUMBAI: A film about an eccentric teen who believes he‘s the reincarnation of Russian revolutionary Leon Trotsky has won the audience prize at a Japanese festival....
MUMBAI: Actor, director Ricky Gervais has been selected to host of the 67th annual Golden Globe Awards to be held in California on 17 January. Gervais...
MUMBAI: Michael Haneke‘s The White Ribbon beat a selection of films including Jacques Audiard‘s A Prophet, Jane Campion‘s Bright Star, Jessica Hausner‘s Lourdes and Luca Guadagnino‘s...
MUMBAI: Samuel Goldwyn Films has lapped up the US theatrical rights of Brian Baugh‘s To Save a Life. It will partner with Outreach Films and New...
MUMBAI: Big Home Video has partnered with Universal Pictures International BV to release Gladiator on blu-ray disc. The limited two disc-edition is priced at Rs 1999....
MUMBAI: The 6th annual 24 FPS Awards, organized by Maya Academy of Advanced Cinematics (MAAC) will be held at the SRPF Grounds in Mumbai on 6...
MUMBAI: Fans of Michael Jackson have launched a campaign to boycott his forthcoming film This Is It. The online protest – called ‘This is NOT It‘,...
MUMBAI: Lou Jacobi, to play comic roles and winning praise in dramatic ones too in his long career in theatre and films expired at the age...
MUMBAI: ContentFilm International (CFI) has acquired the worldwide sales rights of action thriller The Fallout to be directed by Xavier Gens who had earlier directed Hitman....
MUMBAI: The Motion Picture Association (MPA) and China Film Copyright Association (CFCA) in an understanding (MOU) have decided to work in close collaboration particularly on illegal...
BANGALORE: Karnataka’s Ranga Shankara’s creative director Arundhati Nag today unveiled the Ranga Shankara Theatre Festival, 2009. Fest 2009, the sixth such for Ranga Shankara will be...
MUMBAI : T-Series‘ latest venture Patiala House is expected to go on the floors on 21 December. The film, starring Akshay Kumar, will have Anushka Sharma...
MUMBAI: The legislative wing of the Government of Israel has approved a law that would encourage production of foreign films in Israel through a tax benefit...
MUMBAI: UK-based Power and New Zealand‘s Screentime, both predominantly television companies, have teamed to produce the disaster epic Ice, set in 2020.Ice draws on worldwide fears...
MUMBAI: Warner is in final negotiations with writers Austin Winsberg and Heath Corson to acquire a pitch centering on a peacock. Trevor Engleson and Nicholas Osborne...
MUMBAI: British composer Andrew Lloyd Webber is said to have been diagnosed with prostate cancer. A statement from the composer‘s spokesman says that the condition had...
MUMBAI: South Korea‘s CJ Entertainment has agreed to co-finance the English-language animated feature film Dino Mom and is also planning a wide 2010 release in the...
MUMBAI: After a weak opening on Friday and Saturday, Ajay Devgan‘s All The Best has picked up dramatically to garner a producer-share of around Rs 170...
MUMBAI: Eros Entertainment‘s Aladin will be the first ever Hindi film to kick off the South Asian International Film Festival (SAIFF) in New York. The film...
MUMBAI: Walt Disney Studios Motion Pictures (WDSMPI) International‘s Spanish arm has had to postpone the release of its horror film Saw VI nationwide in Spain because...
MUMBAI: UK-based Handmade PLC has announced its intention to get into partnership with the Duchess of York, Sarah Ferguson, mainly to focus increasingly on the children‘s...
MUMBAI: IFC Films has acquired US rights of writer-director Ruba Nadda‘s Cairo Time starring Patricia Clarkson and Alexander Siddig.The romantic drama follows the love affair between...
MUMBAI: Ray Winstone and Temuera Morrison will star in Tracker, a thriller that starts shooting soon in New Zealand.The UK-New Zealand co-production is an action thriller...
MUMBAI: The shortened release window on DTH is beginning to have its impact on the multiplex business. The airing of Sohail Khan‘s Main Aurr Mrs Khanna...
MUMBAI: Reliance MediaWorks Ltd (formerly known as Adlabs Films) has posted a 80 per cent increase in its income from operations for the second quarter over...
MUMBAI: The second Whistling Woods International Institute in India will come up in Hyderabad. The Government of Andhra Pradesh has allotted over 20 acres of land...
MUMBAI: DreamWorks Studios, a motion picture company led by Steven Spielberg and Stacey Snider in partnership with Reliance ADAG, has acquired the filming rights of the...
MUMBAI: Man Shu Sum Resigning from his position as CEO of Mark Burnett Productions‘ Singapore-based Asian arm, Man Shu Sum has joined MediaCorp Raintree Pictures as...
MUMBAI: Bill Mechanic and Adam Shankman will produce the 82nd Academy Awards telecast next year, Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences (Ampas) president Tom Sherak...
MUMBAI: Jackie Chan, Andy Lau and Nicholas Tse will head the cast of $29.28m action epic Shaolin that makes the film to be authorised to shoot...
MUMBAI: Roger Mincheff has been appointed as senior vice president Branded Entertainment for digital content at Fox Filmed Entertainment. He will report to Fox Filmed Entertainment...
NEW DELHI: Even as the Kerala High Court today stayed the publication of the results of the selection of the Indian Panorama for the International Film...
MUMBAI: Following up this year‘s Cannes Palme d‘Or win for The White Ribbon, Michael Haneke is already drafting his next project. The director is working on...
MUMBAI: Lars Von Trier‘s feature film Antichrist has won this year‘s Nordic Council Film Prize. The prize, worth about $70,000, (DKK 350,000), will be shared between...
MUMBAI: UK-based distributor Momentum Pictures and Paramount Pictures International have struck a six-film deal by which the latter will book the films while Momentum will handle...
MUMBAI: Tiger Hu Chen, the stuntman associated with The Matrix series, has been tipped to star in a Chinese-language action drama Kung Fu Man. Also starring...
NEW DELHI: President Pratibha Devisingh Patil today said even as cinema was a very powerful medium for conveying messages, this imposed a great responsibility on everyone...
MUMBAI: Cinepolis, the world‘s fifth largest movie theatre circuit, has entered into a three-year agreement with Mukta Movies Distributors, the distribution arm of Mukta Arts, for...
MUMBAI: Akshay Kumar will soon be seen in a Hollywood film directed by The Final Destination director David Ellis. It will be a mainstream film catering...
MUMBAI: Lightning Entertainment has lapped up the international sales rights of Tarantula Productions‘ police thriller Verso excluding Switzerland.Lightning co-president Rich Goldberg will commence sales at AFM...
MUMBAI: The Hollywood Film Festival has announced five nominees for the year‘s Hollywood Awards‘ annual ‘Hollywood World Award‘. The nominees are Jane Campion‘s Bright Star, Luca...
MUMBAI: Moving away from Warner Bros Graham King has diverted his filmmaking priorities to Sony after signing a three-year, multi-film output deal with Sony Pictures Worldwide...
MUMBAI: With its aim to combat piracy, the Spanish government has decided to launch a new film commission that will focus on protecting intellectual property rights....
MUMBAI: The Mumbai Film Festival (MFF) that commences in the metropolis from 29 October is set to showcase 200 films from 56 countries. While Academy-Award Winning...
BANGALORE: Max Mueller Bhavan Bangalore (MMBB) has planned a double film feature next week with Dr. Peter Zimmermann. The film scholar will present a seminar on...
MUMBAI: Following the global success of films such as Slumdog Millionaire, Monsoon Wedding, Bride & Prejudice, Salaam Namaste and Chak De! India, Australian actor-producer James Vegter...
MUMBAI: The Osian‘s Cinefan Film Festival will honour noted lyricist-writer-director and poet Gulzar with the 2009 Lifetime Achievement Award for Cinematic Contribution. The presentation will take...
MUMBAI: Excel Entertainment‘s Karthik Calling Karthik, starring Ritesh Sidhwani and Farhan Akhtar, is slated to release on 12 February next year. The film is a tale...
MUMBAI: PVR Pictures has announced the appointment of Deepak Sharma as head its global distribution. Sharma was earlier the executive vice-president and director with Zee Entertainment...

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