MUMBAI: Hollywood movie channel Sony Pix will premiere the mega finale of the epic series The Hobbit. The Hobbit: the Battle of the Five Armies, adapted from...
Anyone who watches The Colbert Report knows host Stephen Colbert is obsessed with anything Tolkien. The director of the Lord of the Rings and The Hobbit...
MUMBAI: Warner Bros’ three Hobbit films have racked up over half a billion dollars in production costs, reports the AP, citing Kiwi financial filings that say...
MUMBAI: The Academy has shortlisted ten films to compete for the Oscar in the visual effects category at the 85th Academy Awards. The films are, The...
MUMBAI: After the dismal performance of Happy Feet Two at the box-office, six hundred of the 700 employees at the Sydney-based digital production studio Dr D...
MUMBAI: 20th Century Fox‘s Rise of the Planet of the Apes opened to $54 million at the domestic box office, 20 million more than the best...
MUMBAI: Twenty years after he made Jurassic Park, director Steven Spielberg has hinted of his return to making such films all over again. Speaking at the...
MUMBAI: The Cable and Satellite Broadcasting Association of Asia (Casbaa) has announced its strategic direction for 2007, as well as the results of 2006 Annual general...
MUMBAI: AsiaSat satellite system operator CEO Peter Jackson has been awarded with the Casbaa chairman’s award 2006 for outstanding contribution to the Asia Pacific multi-channel cable,...
MUMBAI: Satellite operator Asiasat has signed a launch contract with Sea Launch for the launch of Asiasat 5 aboard a Zenith-3SLB rocket on the Land Launch...
MUMBAI: Satellite operator Asiasat has signed a construction agreement with Space Systems/Loral (SS/L) to design and build Asiasat 5, a replacement satellite for Asiasat 2. Asiasat...
MUMBAI: Turner Brodcasting has announced that it has acquired the network premiere rights from NBC Universal for King Kong, with broadcast slated for 2008. TBS and...
For Asian satellite service provider Asiasat, the past year has been a period of expansion in a tight market. It recently announced the establishment of a...
MUMBAI: Asian satellite operator, Asiasat, has announced that it has established a new distribution platform. This new Multiple Channels per Carrier (MCPC) DVB platform will provide...
MUMBAI: The wizard behind The Lord of The Rings Oscar winning director Peter Jackson is suing Time Warner. His claim is that the media conglomerate did...
MUMBAI: Satellite operator Asiasat and LBisat which is a global satellite teleport operator and services provider have announced the signing of a new lease agreement. LBisat...
MUMBAI: Asiasat and Satlink Communications have launched a Multiple Channels per Carrier (MCPC) digital platform on Asiasat 2 satellite’s C-band coverage beam. Satlink provides end-to-end solutions...
MUMBAI: HBO has treat in store for its viewers. The English news channel will be premiering The Lord Of The Rings: The Two Towers for the...
MUMBAI: Satellite ground systems provider Integral Systems and Asiasat have signed a contract. As per this Integral will provide a single, consolidated primary satellite control system...
One of the most hotly contested battles being played out on Indian television screens at the moment is in the English movie space. It‘s basically a...
MUMBAI: The Cable & Satellite Broadcasting Association of Asia (CASBAA) has re-appointed Marcel Fenez, Asia Pacific Leader, Entertainment and Media Practice of PriceWaterhouse Coopers for his...
MUMBAI: Just in time when the last of the Lord of the Rings troika premiers on the big screen, HBO will air the first part The...
MUMBAI: Asian satellite commnuications service provider Asisat CEO Peter Jackson was voted the ‘Satellite Executive of the Year in Asia Pacific’, by the Asia-Pacific Satellite Communications...
HONG KONG: Satellite Telecommunications company Asiasat and Singapore’s MCN International have signed a lease agreement. As per this arrangement, the C-band capacity on AsiaSat 3S will...
MUMBAI: Finally there was good news for New Zealand director Peter Jackson in terms of award recognition. After being snubbed at the Academy Awards Jackson’s The...
HONG KONG: AsiaSat 4, the fourth satellite of Asia Satellite Telecommunications Company (AsiaSat), has arrived in Cape Canaveral, Florida, USA aboard a chartered heavy lift cargo...
Asia Satellite Telecommunications Company Limited (AsiaSat) has announced that its fourth satellite, AsiaSat 4 satellite will not launch this month, as scheduled earlier, due to manufacturing...