MUMBAI: Reliance ADA Group has signed a deal with DreamWorks SKG to start a new $1.5 billion company, completing Steven Spielberg‘s exit from Paramount Pictures and...
MUMBAI: The historic Hollywood cinema El Capitan is up for sale for $ 31 million. Located opposite the Kodak theatre on Hollywood Boulevard where the Oscars...
MUMBAI: Studio 18, the international distributors of Kidnap, has advanced the release date of the film to Wednesday, 1 October in the UK/Ireland, US/Canada and the...
MUMBAI: Eros International has already invested over $200 million in approximately 60 content deals. The company anticipates further content deals including expanding beyond Hindi and Tamil...
MUMBAI: Mukta Arts has acquired 51 per cent controlling stake in the Chennai-based VAS (value added service) company, Coruscant Tec. The deal also allows Mukta Arts...
MUMBAI: Actress Nicole Kidman has signed up to produce and star in a new action film, The Eighth Wonder. The movie is based on an action...
NEW DELHI: Children of the Pyre, a docu-feature shot in Varanasi by Delhi-based filmmaker Rajesh Jala, has been awarded the audience award for the Best Feature...
MUMBAI: Fox Star Studios, a recently set up joint venture company between Twentieth Century Fox and Asian media company Star, is set to distribute in India...
MUMBAI: The release date of Billoo Barber, Shahrukh Khan’s home production, has been postponed to February 2009 as some sequences and songs are yet to be...
MUMBAI: Pyramid Saimira has launched its first theatre in China and plans to invest $30 million over six months through its local joint venture partner Longzhe...
MUMBAI: British film Slumdog Millionaire has bagged the Cadillac People‘s Choice Award at the 33rd Toronto International Film Festival (TIFF). The TIFF awards were announced at...
MUMBAI: Disney animation executive Andrew Millstein has been named Walt Disney Animation Studios GM in the US. Industry effects production veteran Jim Morris will take on...
MUMBAI: Shyam Benegal‘s latest venture, Welcome to Sajjanpur, is set to be screened in the competition section of World Cinema at the London Film Festival, to...
MUMBAI: Maya Entertainment Limited (Mel) is foraying into films with Ramayana – the Epic. The 3D animation film is being made on an investment of $4-5...
MUMBAI: Eros Pictures, the film production arm of Eros International, has entered into a co-production venture with Sohail Khan Production. While any specific project has not...
MUMBAI: After setting up an animation studio in Mumbai six months back, Koffee Break Pictures, the producer of My Friend Ganesha, has expanded its capacity. The...
MUMBAI: Adlabs, part of the Reliance Anil Dhirubhai Ambani Group, will release 3D Hollywood movie Journey to the Center of the Earth in Big Digital 3D...
MUMBAI:Hrithik Roshan starrer Krrish will be screened in the 13th Pusan International Film Festival. It will be showcased as part of its segment ‘Superheroes in Asia‘...
MUMBAI: Eros Pictures, in association with Boundscript Pictures, has announced the plan to make a sequel of Sujoy Ghosh’s yet to be released film, Aladin. The...
MUMBAI: UTV Motion Pictures has lined up four Tamil and two Telugu films. The production house is set to release Poi Solla Poram, a Tamil remake...
MUMBAI: Eros International has acquired the worldwide rights of Samir Karnik’s Heroes and is set to release the film on 24 October. Produced by Bharat Shah,...
MUMBAI: Adlabs Films, the entertainment arm of Reliance Anil Dhirubhai Ambani Group, is stepping up to tap the international film processing markets, specifically the US, UK...
MUMBAI: US media conglomerate Viacom has announced that Paramount Vantage will handle the international sales on Oscar winner Neil Jordan‘s latest film, Ondine. Currently under production...
MUMBAI: The Open Frame International Film festival, which begins from 12 September, is set to screen, “Divided Colours Of A Nation”, a documentary film directed by...
MUMBAI: Moserbaer Entertainment is set to release Righteous Kill, a psychological thriller starring Hollywood actors Robert De Niro and Al Pacino, across theatres in India on...
MUMBAI: Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer Pictures (MGM) has signed director Vadim Perelman of House of Sand and Fog fame to direct Poltergeist. Executive vice president production, Cale Boyter, and...
NEW DELHI: Eminent film critic Aruna Vasudev, who recently stepped down as founder-director of the Osian’s-Cinefan Festival of Asian and Arab Cinema, was felicitated for services...
MUMBAI: Eros International will release Drona in cinemas across UK and worldwide on 2 October. Directed by Goldie Behl and produced by Eros International and Rose...
MUMBAI: The standoff between the Screen Actors Guild in the US and the Alliance of Motion Picture and Television Producers (AMPTP) continues. In a bid to...
MUMBAI: Reliance ADAG‘s BigFlix.com is planning to add 5000 movie titles to its Video-on-Demand (VoD) platform by the end of this fiscal. Bollywood will comprise 65...
MUMBAI: Multiplex chain operator Fame Cinemas has organised a “Four play theatre festival” this September. The plays, which are to be shown at Fame Malad, include...
MUMBAI: Hollywood director Steven Spielberg is meeting Reliance Communications chairman Anil Ambani in New York to finalise what‘s expected to be up to a $1.2 billion...
NEW DELHI: Hindi films dominated the 54th National Film Awards for 2006. While Rajkumar Hirani‘s Lage Raho Munnabhai won four awards, Vishal Bhardwaj’s Omkara took three....
MUMBAI: Pyramid Saimira Theatre, the distribution and exhibition arm of the Pyramid Saimira Group, has acquired the distribution rights for three movies – Saroja in Tamil,...
MUMBAI: Sahara One Motion Pictures has acquired the global distribution rights for the forthcoming film EMI for Rs 375 million. The film is slated to release...
NEW DELHI: Thespian Dilip Kumar, the legendary Lata Mangeshkar and veteran actress Saroja Devi will receive the Lifetime Achievement Awards to commemorate the 60th anniversary of...
MUMBAI: Multiplex chain operator PVR Ltd. will invest Rs 2.5 billion to add 200 screens within five years. The ramp up plan will include a foray...
MUMBAI: The Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences has announced that 2 September 2008 is the last day for filmmakers to submit their short subject...
MUMBAI: Adlabs Cinemas, part of the Reliance Anil Dhirubhai Ambani Group, has launched its third cinema in Salem. Adlabs Kailash Prakash will be located at Kalarampatti...
MUMBAI: The 54th National Film Awards 2006 will be presented by President Pratibha Patil on 2 September. Veteran filmmaker Tapan Sinha will also be conferred with...
MUMBAI: M Night Shyamalan‘s The Happening, co-produced by UTV Motion Pictures and 20th Century Fox, has collected approximately $162 million at the box office. The film,...
MUMBAI: Online entertainment site Jaman.com, has announced a deal to distribute a large collection of premium titles from Lionsgate. This deal makes hundreds of movies from...
MUMBAI: Film production and distribution company Shree Ashtavinayak Cine Vision (SACV) is investing Rs 800 million and will be releasing four films this fiscal. The films...
MUMBAI : Compact Disc India (CDI) has posted a net profit of Rs 83.5 million for the quarter ended 30 June, 2008 up 109 per cent...
MUMBAI: Reliance’s Big Pictures is set to release Rock On!!, directed by Abhishek Kapoor, on 29 August. The star cast of the film includes director-turned-actor Farhan...
MUMBAI: Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer Studios (MGM) said on Monday that it is “not for sale”, countering a media report that the owners were looking to sell the movie...
NEW DELHI: Twelve films, including one each from China and Israel, have received awards in four categories in the Fifth We Care Film Festival on Disability...
MUMBAI: Unlike the Indian cinema industry, which has brands like the Khans and the Bachchans participating in marketing stints to promote the end product that would...
MUMBAI: Shemaroo has released Phoebus Media and Anushvi Prodcutions‘ 2D animated feature ‘Dashavatar‘ on VCDs and DVDs. Dashavatar explores the origin and the dynamism of the...
MUMBAI: Professionals from both the film and animation industry are set to have their first joint interaction at the Animation Xpress Animated Feature Forum (AFF), which...

