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Mumbai: Former MGM film executives Michael De Luca and Pam Abdy have been appointed co-chairpersons and CEO of Warner Bros. Pictures Group. They replaced longtime studio...
With international successes and critically acclaimed hits such as “The Tudors,” “Vikings” and the hotly anticipated forthcoming series “Billy the Kid,” English screenwriter and producer Michael...
Mumbai: Amazon has completed its $8.45 billion acquisition of movie studio Metro Goldwyn Mayer (MGM) recently. MGM is the studio behind franchises such as ‘James Bond’...
KOLKATA: Content is the engine of the streaming economy. Recognising this, the streamers have been going through a dizzying series of acquisitions and mergers. The latest...
KOLKATA: US tech giant Amazon is in talks to acquire the “Bond studio” MGM to bolster its ambition in the streaming media, according to reports. The...
NEW DELHI: Iconic Hollywood studio MGM has appointed two investment banks to explore the prospect of a sale, The Wall Street Journal has reported. For the...
MUMBAI: Netflix global marketing chief Stephen Bruno has exited the company, according to reports. The veteran will join MGM and will be named chief marketing officer...
MUMBAI: Warner Brothers, Sony Pictures, and 20th Century Fox are among the Hollywood studio majors fighting for the rights to distribute ‘Bond 25’. Universal Pictures, Times...
MUMBAI: Adobe has unveiled its new Adobe Advertising Cloud, the industry’s first end-to-end platform for managing advertising across traditional TV and digital formats. Combining capabilities from...
MUMBAI: Former president of worldwide business affairs and operations for Sony’s Motion Picture Group and veteran Hollywood finance authority Andrew Gumpert has joined Paramount Pictures as...
MUMBAI: Former president of worldwide business affairs and operations for Sony’s Motion Picture Group and veteran Hollywood finance authority Andrew Gumpert has joined Paramount Pictures as...
MUMBAI: Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer Inc. (MGM) is acquiring full control of United Artists Media Group (UAMG), in which reality TV producer Mark Burnett owned a 23 per cent interest...
MUMBAI: The star of cinema’s golden era and the first person ever to win back-to-back Oscars, Luise Rainer, 104, died of pneumonia on 30 December at...
BENGALURU: Earning more than US$350 million, The Hobbit: The Battle of the Five Armies has bagged the top position at the international box office. The announcement...
NEW DELHI: Eminent filmmaker Francis Ford Coppola who made the iconic The Godfather has said cine craftsman Satyajit Ray was a major influence in life. ...
NEW DELHI: Jack Hudson has landed the role of the Biblical character Judah in MGM and Paramount Pictures remake of the 1959 classic Ben Hur that...
MUMBAI: The MediaPro split is known to all. With Star and Zee setting up their affiliate sales teams for their respective channels, a few networks that...
MUMBAI: Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer (MGM)’s chairman and CEO Gary Barber and president of motion picture group Jonathan Glickman announced on 31 March that it is currently in the...
MUMBAI: MGM and Paramount have come together to re-envision the classic Greek tale of the legend of Hercules starring Dwayne Johnson (The Scorpion King, Fast & Furious) as the...
MUMBAI: Amazon and Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer Studios (MGM) are getting into a content licensing partnership that will see Prime Instant Video streaming past seasons of MTV’s Teen Wolf, along...
MUMBAI: Time Warner’s Turner Broadcasting System has bagged the television rights to The Hobbit: The Desolation of Smaug. TNT already has rights to Peter Jackson’s first...
MUMBAI: US TV network Epix which is a JV between Viacom, MGM and Lionsgate has announced key findings of a survey, conducted by global consumer research...
MUMBAI: Thanks to a $48.8 million weekend at some 11,800 locations in 73 territories, Twilight Saga: Breaking Dawn Part 2 has now become the biggest-grossing franchise...
MUMBAI: Seizing the No. 1 box office spot offshore for the third consecutive round, Skyfall, with a weekend tally of $89 million from 12,850 locations in...
MUMBAI: Gary Barber and Roger Birnbaum have announced that Birnbaum will transition to an exclusive producer role at the US studio MGM while Barber will become...
MUMBAI: Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer Pictures, Columbia Pictures, Passion Pictures and Red Box Films have announced their new feature documentary ‘Everything Or Nothing: The Untold Story Of 007‘ directed...
MUMBAI: Ann Rutherford, who played the sweetheart in the long-running Andy Hardy series and Scarlett O‘Hara‘s youngest sister in Gone With the Wind, has expired. She...
MUMBAI: This year‘s Cannes Film Festival will celebrate 50 years of the James Bond franchise by screening five classic 007 films. The films that will...
MUMBAI: Sam Raimi, the filmmaker who got his start with Evil Dead, is all set produce the remake of the 1982 film Poltergeist for MGM. The...
MUMBAI: Dimension Films has taken off its next Halloween 3D from the release calendar this year. The wing of Weinstein Co. has confirmed that the film...
MUMBAI: Ending its bankruptcy, Metro-Goldwyn Mayer (MGM) has closed a $500 million revolving credit facility. The revolving credit facility replaces a term loan and a smaller...
MUMBAI: MGM has named Dene B. Stratton as its chief financial officer according to the studio‘s co-chairmen and CEOs Gary Barber and Roger Birnbaum. Stratton, who...
When Pix launched four years back, it had to be content with library movies. Now the English movie channel has evolved into a stage where it...
There is no shake-up at the top in the English movie channel space but a grim battle is being waged at the lower level as the...
MUMBAI: Home entertainment major Excel Home Videos earned two Awards for India at the Twentieth Century Fox Awards for Excellence in Home Entertainment. This is...
For Excel Home Video, it is time to expand as big companies like Anil Ambani’s ADAG are planning an entry. The firm recently added MGM to...
MUMBAI: Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer Studios, Inc. (MGM ) President, Domestic Distribution Clark Woods was chosen to receive the Variety Boys and Girls Club of Queens’ 2007 Humanitarian Award...
MUMBAI: United Artists (UA), the studio founded by movie greats Douglas Fairbanks, Charlie Chaplin, Mary Pickford and D.W. Griffith some 85 years ago and responsible for...
MUMBAI: Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer Studios Inc. (MGM) has added more programming from MGM’s television library to iTunes Store. The 22 half-hour episodes from the first season of the...
MUMBAI: Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer Studios Inc. (MGM) chairman and CEO Harry Sloan, in delivering a keynote address to delegates at the MIPCOM global television market at Cannes, predicted...
MUMBAI: Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer Studios Inc. (MGM) is teaming with the G4 television network, Brooksfilms Limited, and Berliner Film Companie GmbH (Berliner) on the US release of a...
MUMBAI: Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer Studios Inc. (MGM) is reinvigorating its worldwide television distribution operation, hiring senior management and bringing a number of new high profile programs to buyers...
MUMBAI: Film and TV company Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer Studios Inc Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer Studios Inc (MGM) has announced it has made current episodes of the hit science fiction/adventure series Stargate...
NEW DELHI: The government is likely to exempt English movie channels from sourcing 15 per cent of their total weekly programming from India. “We realize that...
MUMBAI: The MGM Channel will be broadcast to subscribers across sub-Saharan Africa via the new DTH platform, My TV. The MGM Channel will join networks such...
MUMBAI: It was announced today by producers Michael G. Wilson and Barbara Broccoli, Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer Inc.and Sony Pictures Entertainment, that the 22nd James Bond adventure will be...
MUMBAI: Turner Broadcasting System (TBS) has teamed up with South Korea’s media group JoongAng Ilbo (JAI) to launch Cartoon Network Korea. The agreement was signed by...
MUMBAI: Revitalised by the recent reinvigoration of its motion picture distribution and marketing organisation as well as by the formation of its new media division, Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer...
MUMBAI: Oliver Stone will receive the first annual Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer (MGM) Leo The Lion Award on 21 May at the Cannes Film Festival. The award will be...
MUMBAI: MGM Interactive and Eon Productions have awarded Activision the rights to develop and publish interactive entertainment games based on the James Bond license through 2014....
