MUMBAI: The Weinstein Company (TWC) has signed a deal with the Writers Guild of America (WGA). TWC is the latest to have reached such a deal...
MUMBAI: The Motion Picture Association (MPA) has announced that Hong Kong High Court judge J Wright has ordered the forfeiture of five VCD lines, each worth...
MUMBAI: Chak De! India bagged the Best Film Award while Taare Zameen Par walked off with six key awards, including Best Director (Aamir Khan), Best Story...
MUMBAI: Excel Home Videos has released two of the Disney‘s popular titles – Ratatouille and Pirates of the Caribbean at World‘s End, on DVDs. The latest...
MUMBAI: Oscar winner Sean Penn has been named president of the jury of the 61st Festival de Cannes 2008. “In the last few years, it seems...
MUMBAI: The Writers Guild of America (WGA) and the Tom Cruise and Paula Wagner-run United Artists Films (UA) have reached a mutually beneficial independent agreement. UA...
MUMBAI: Palador Pictures has struck a deal with Indiaplaza.in for promoting world cinema DVDs. As per the deal, DVDs of foreign language films will have three...
MUMBAI: Encouraged by the performance of the Bengali film Anuranan in Kolkata, Shemaroo will release the Hindi version across the country on 18 January 2008. The...
NEW DELHI: In a unique technique, the film Halla Bol which is the voice of the inner consciousness is being publicized in each important city with...
MUMBAI: Big Music and Home Entertainment has released the audio of Al Risalah, the blockbuster movie on the times and teachings of the Prophet of Islam....
MUMBAI: In 2007, Universal Pictures set a new box-office record in the nearly 100-year history of the studio with global theatrical grosses totalling $2.133 billion for...
MUMBAI: The Aneez Bazmee-directed comic caper Welcome has grossed more than $4.5 million (Rs 180 million) at the international box-office in just two weeks and is...
MUMBAI: The Sixth Pune International Film Festival (PIFF), which will kick off on 10 January, will showcase over 170 films. The weeklong festival will be inaugurated...
MUMBAI: Tangerine Digital Entertainment marks its entry into the motion picture space by acquiring the worldwide rights of Mithya, the latest production from Planman Motion Pictures....
MUMBAI: Aamir Khan‘s directorial debut Taare Zameen Par (TZP) being distributed by UTV Motion Pictures in the overseas market, has opened to standing ovations and great...
MUMBAI: Adlabs Films has allotted 1.6 million equity shares to convert Zero Coupon Foreign Currency Convertible Bonds (FCCB) aggregating 1, 62, 50,000 euros (or Rs 881.7...
NEW DELHI: A feature film is to be produced on the freedom struggle centered round the character of legendary freedom fighter Tatya Tope by the government...
MUMBAI: Jason Spivak has joined Sony Pictures Home Entertainment (SPHE) in the US as senior VP, strategic development. Additionally, Noam Meppen has been promoted to VP,...
MUMBAI: In a victory for the major Hollywood studios, a federal judge in Los Angeles terminated an ongoing lawsuit against the operators of TorrentSpy.com in favour...
MUMBAI: The American Film Institute (AFI) has announced the year’s AFI Moments of Significance.These seven noteworthy events were determined to have had an impact on the...
MUMBAI: Percept Picture Company (PPC), a part of Percept Holdings, is pumping in Rs 300-350 million for Hanuman 3, a 3-dimensional movie. Hanuman 3 is slated...
MUMBAI: Welcome, which is being distributed worldwide by The Indian Film Company (IFC), has grossed Rs 571.8 million in its opening week. In India, Welcome has...
MUMBAI: Hollywood major Warner Bros tops international box office in 2007, with a revenue of $2.15 billion. The $2-billion figure this year represents the company‘s second-highest...
MUMBAI: Shemaroo Entertainment releases two Hollywood films Crime & Punishment and The Effects of Magic in home video format. This follows Shemaroo‘s foray into distribution of...
When you sign on Rakhi Sawant, you get some unpredictable behaviour as partof the package. Star Plus, when it invited item girl Rakhi and beau Abhishek...
MUMBAI: Aamir Khan‘s directorial debut film Tare Zameen Par (TZP) is declared tax-free in Delhi in view of the message it conveys. TZP is about children...
MUMBAI: HSBC Investments (Singapore) Ltd. has increased its stake to 9.10 per cent in The Indian Film Company (IFC), a specialist film investment firm where TV18...
MUMBAI: Shyam Benegal is directing a film based on the life of Gautama Buddha. Mumbai-based Beyond Dreams Entertainment Ltd and Colombo-based Light of Asia Foundation are...
MUMBAI: Shree Ashtavinayak Cine Vision has raised $33 million (approximately Rs 1.32 billion) via foreign currency convertible bonds (FCCBs), with an option to raise an additional...
MUMBAI: Veteran Bollywood producer-director G P Sippy of Sholay fame passed away last night. He was 93. Sippy, who has been suffering from age-related ailments for...
MUMBAI: Entertainment brand creator and distributor FremantleMedia and RTL Group have announced plans to launch a new € multi-million German film studio project via its German...
MUMBAI: In-Film advertising company Vision Enterprise is foraying into the film and TV software productions business under the banner of Bollywood PR Productions. Vision Enterprise has...
MUMBAI: Media major UTV Motion Pictures will launch its music label, with the music release of Ashutosh Gowariker‘s Jodhaa Akbar next week. Music for the film,...
MUMBAI: Adlabs Cinemas, a part of the Reliance Anil Dhirubhai Ambani group’s Adlabs Films, opened its second multiplex in Meerut. Adlabs already has one cinema in...
MUMBAI: Hindi film icon Amitabh Bachchan‘s mother Teji Bachchan passed away today. She was 93. She had been ailing since the past four years and was...
MUMBAI: The first result is out! The keenly awaited leave-your-brains-at-home comedy, Welcome, appears to have stolen the march over competition, taking a rocket opening in the...
NEW DELHI: The government needs to do its bit for dying cinema in the eastern region and earmark a certain budget exclusively for them, though the...
NEW DELHI: A video spot on the crime of human trafficking in India, One Life, No Price is to precede every show of the Akshay Kumar-Katrina...
MUMBAI: Anees Bazmee’s Welcome is releasing today in the UK and UAE. This is a corollary of a last-minute decision made by the distributors, Studio 18...
MUMBAI: Commenting on the allegations made by Ram Gopal Varma wherein he stated that he has formally terminated an MOU with Super Cassettes Industries Ltd for...
MUMBAI: Shringar Films Ltd (SFL), the 100 per cent subsidiary of the Shringar Cinemas Ltd, has tied up with the real estate firm Housing Development and...
MUMBAI: Oscar winning filmmaker Peter Jackson, MGM chairman and CEO Harry Sloan, New Line Cinema co-chairmen and co-CEOs Bob Shaye and Michael Lynne have jointly announced...
MUMBAI: Big FM is launching a talkathon Taare Baat Karein Sitare Se across its 32 FM stations, wherein listeners will get an opportunity to catch actor...
MUMBAI: The celebrated Oscars are in for difficult times this year. As the Writers Guild of America‘s strike shows no sign of abating, shows like the...
MUMBAI: Eros-controlled EyeQube Studios is roping in 250 visual effects artists including animators, designers, matte painters and developers, for its upcoming projects. The artists will go...
MUMBAI: Already firmly in the saddle as lead actress it is interesting to note that Mallika Sherawat continues to be seen as a one song wonder...
NEW DELHI: Satyajit Ray‘s Pather Panchali and Aparajito have found a place in a new book by an American-based Indian journalist on 99 Remarkable Films of...
MUMBAI: Interactive Television has acquired the on-screen media rights for 11 Fun Cinemas multiplexes. All advertising deals in any of the 11 Fun Cinemas screens will...
BANGALORE: Pyramid Saimira Productions International Ltd (PSPIL) has announced the launch of a mega Kannada film project titled Omm, starring all the three sons of the...
MUMBAI: Indian Films-Studio 18 and their worldwide distributors have gone aggressive with the release of the commercial mega comedy Welcome, which is releasing in several places...