For Endemol India, it has been a roller coaster ride. The international content creator has established itself as a leader in the reality TV genre and...
Two years back, Maya Entertainment Ltd. was in trouble with two of its business verticals in the red. What followed was a restructuring and the education...
MUMBAI: Denmark-based Zodiak Television has agreed to acquire 35 per cent stake in Indian production house Sol. The two parties have entered into a memorandum of...
MUMBAI: Microsoft Corporation India Pvt. Ltd., has announced aggressive geographical plans to strengthen its presence in India. It is slated to open offices in six additional...
MUMBAI: IBM in collaboration with Lotus unit introduces a set of social networking services that functions like a MySpace for office workers in a renewed challenge...
MUMBAI: Bollywood is all set to go mobile! Global roaming solutions provider Roamware, Hungama Mobile and the GSM Association have joined hands to launch a Mobile...
MUMBAI: Yash Raj Music has unveiled the music of Dhoom:2 in the DVD-audio format. Surround Sound and audiophiles can choose from the audio menu the format...
MUMBAI: For the Bollywood industry which is keen to tap the overseas market, there is good news. The Export-Import Bank of India (Exim Bank) is willing...
MUMBAI: The Dubai International Film Festival (Diff) has announced this year’s festival will honour Shah Rukh Khan, Oliver Stone and Nabil El-Maleh and for their outstanding...
MUMBAI: Shemaroo Video has released VCDs and DVDs of the Salmaan Khan-Shilpa Shetty starrer Shaadi Karke Phas Gaya Yaar. The film, directed by K.S Adhiyaman and...
MUMBAI: Shemaroo has released the album RK Films – The Immortal Collection on VCD. The album, which is a six VCD pack, is a collector’s item...
MUMBAI: Optimystix Entertainment’s format ‘Nirvana’ has been picked by Broadcast Magazine as one of the top five formats of Mipcom 2006. Whereas India is now a...
From being the first Indian production house to tie up with two international format owners to foraying into fiction, Optimystix has been experimental. The production house...
From being the first Indian production house to tie up with two international format owners to foraying into fiction, Optimystix has been experimental. The production house...
BANGALORE: Bharati Airtel has announced that their total mobile subscriber base has crossed three million in Karnataka. With this they claim to be the circle with...
In the 1990s when a rookie TV producer called Anurradha Prasad started B.A.G. Films — (some old hands in the company say the strange acronym stands...
A few days ago (Friday, 23 June) Aaron Spelling, who holds the Guinness World Record as the most prolific producer in television, passed away. The 83-year-old,...
MUMBAI: Prasad EFX, one of the largest Digital Post Production Studios in India, has executed more than 1200 VFX shots for the upcoming Hrithik Roshan starrer...
The Indian media and entertainment industry is expected to grow at 19 per cent compound annual growth rate to reach Rs 837.4 billion by 2010 from...
MUMBAI: Anurradha Prasad’s B.A.G Films is pursuing opportunities in new media avenues and also eyeing the animation frontier. The company has entered into a joint venture...
MUMBAI: ESPN Star Sports (ESS) has declared the month of May as the “Month of Finals”. The action series begins with soccer when Liverpool meets West...
MUMBAI: Production house Creative Eye Ltd has made a foray into sports marketing and celebrity management. The company has begun the innings by marketing the telecast...
BANGALORE: AVM Productions and Spirit Media (subsidiary of Suresh Productions and Rama Naidu Studios) have announced a Joint Venture (JV) to create an advanced state-of-the-art film...
MUMBAI: Complete Communications Corporation (CCCL), the parent company of television production firm Celador Productions and Celador International, has announced that it is making the worldwide intellectual...
MUMBAI: K Sera Sera is planning a production pipeline of 20 movies and has announced an investment outlay of Rs 2.5 billion over the next two...
Bollywood is becoming a game for the big boys. New upstarts like Sahara and UTV are pumping in money behind production and marketing to create mega...
MUMBAI: BBC Worldwide has announced a deal with M-Net that will see the South African entertainment and sports channel screen a range of television movies. The...
BANGALORE: Worldwide mobile phone sales totalled 816.6 million units in 2005, a 21 per cent increase from 2004, as the leading six vendors increased their share...
MUMBAI: K Sera Sera Productions Ltd has fixed the price band of Rs 64-70 for its public issue of 50,00,000 equity shares The IPO is scheduled...
MUMBAI: The Indian television Industry turned up in strength at the Fifth Indian Telly Awards Trade Technical Channel and Programming Nite to recognize and celebrate excellence...
MUMBAI: K Sera Sera Productions Ltd will enter the capital market on 16 February with a fresh public offer through a 100 per cent book building...
MUMBAI: Ekta Kapoor is finally shedding the ‘Soap Queen’ image as Balaji Telefilms is now seriously exploring the non-fiction segment for future growth. The production house...
MUMBAI: In a major restructuring move, Padmalaya Telefilms Ltd. board of directors have accepted the resignations of Atul Goel and Rajiv Garg as directors of the...
MUMBAI: Balaji Telefilms Ltd’s net profit rose 50.81 per cent to Rs 170.16 million in the quarter ended 30 September 2005 as against Rs 112.83 million...
MUMBAI: Shemaroo Films the film production division of home video firm Shemaroo has announced plans to produce several films. It had produced its first film Kuchh...
MUMBAI: Sri Adhikari Brothers Television Network Ltd has informed the Bombay Stock Exchange (BSE) that the Board of Directors of the Company has approved the stock...
MUMBAI: Sri Adhikari Brothers Television Network Ltd has informed the Bombay Stock Exchange (BSE) that the Board of Directors of the Company has approved the stock...
MUMBAI: Remember Balaji Telefilms chairman Jeetendra Kapoor saying that the listed company would not diversify into movies as it is a risky business? That may well...
MUMBAI: Sony Pictures Entertainment (SPE) recently announced its foray into Hindi films when the company signed a co-production deal with Sanjay Leela Bhansali for Saawariya (Beloved)....
MUMBAI: Venturing in movie production emerges to be a good proposition for television content providers. BAG Films Ltd has officially announced its entry into feature films....
MUMBAI: Warner Bros. Entertainment has realigned its businesses involved in the digital delivery of entertainment content to consumers to create the Warner Bros. Home Entertainment Group...
MUMBAI: B.A.G Films Limited has registered a 73 per cent jump in net profit to Rs 8.3 million in the quarter ended 30 September 2005. Sales...
MUMBAI: K Sera Sera Productions Ltd has associated with Sohail Khan Production for producing a movie tentatively titled Partner. The movie, to be made on a...
MUMBAI: Sony Pictures Entertainment (SPE) is making an entry into Hindi films. The company today announced that it had inked a deal with noted film director...
MUMBAI: SBS Broadcasting S.A. and PKS Media S.?.r.l, a company controlled by funds advised by two private equity firms, Permira and KKR, has declared that PKS...
MUMBAI: Fremantle International Distribution (FID) has signed a joint venture agreement with Bertelsmann’s music publishing business, Sony BMG to maximise opportunities in the expanding popular culture...
MUMBAI: Percept Picture Company (PPC) has plans of taking Indian cinema to a global platform and as a part of this initiative, the company has entered...
MUMBAI: BAG Films Limited had informed the National Stock Exchange (NSE) that it is planning to release two Hindi movies, one Punjabi and one Bhojpuri movie...
MUMBAI: Paramount Home Entertainment and Paramount’s television distribution entities have signed an agreement with Batjac Productions, the company founded by John Wayne, for worldwide DVD and...
MUMBAI: International format distributor Distraction Formats has announced its partnership with IRM (Interactive Rights Management Limited), an independent interactive rights and exploitation company. “By joining forces...