Movies

Adlabs Launches Mobile Ticketing - 0 Comments
Posted By Nikhil Pahwa - Mon 05 Nov 2007 06:01 AM PST

PVR Cinemas launched mobile ticketing over a year ago; now, another cinema chain Adlabs has announced the launch of a mobile ticketing application. The app has been powered by Tagit,…

GV Films Modifies Demerger Scheme; What Happened To Their Webcasting Portal? - 1 Comment
Posted By Nikhil Pahwa - Fri 05 Oct 2007 02:31 AM PST

BSE list GV Films had earlier approved its demerger into three entities: GV Films, GV Studio City and GV New Media Technologies. They intend to transfer their webcasting operations to…

Rajshri Media Adds Animation Content; To Release Manorama Six Feet Under On 28th - 0 Comments
Posted By Nikhil Pahwa - Thu 27 Sep 2007 04:25 AM PST

Rajshri Media has added animation content to it’s portal Rajshri.com that already features Bollywood films, TV shows and short film content, reports AnimationXpress.com. I just checked and animation content on…

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Sony Co Provides Content For Digital Distribution To Proposed BPCL Theatres - 0 Comments
Posted By Nikhil Pahwa - Thu 20 Sep 2007 10:38 PM PST

Seems very strange, but Bharat Petroleum Corporation Ltd (BPCL) is setting up cinema halls at its highway fuel stations. Cinemata, a Sony (NYSE: SNE) Entertainment Television company will be providing…

Online Film Fest: PassionForCinema; Buzz18 Ties Up With PNC - 4 Comments
Posted By Nikhil Pahwa - Wed 19 Sep 2007 03:49 AM PST

Cinema fansite and blog Passionforcinema (PFC) has announced the launch of PFCOne, an online film festival which will be judged by directors Anurag Kashyap, Sudhir Mishra, Nishikant Kamat, Suparn Verma,…

SeventyMM Plans To Offer Movie Downloads - 4 Comments
Posted By Nikhil Pahwa - Wed 12 Sep 2007 09:37 PM PST

Rumors of an acquisition by Reliance ADA Group haven’t subsided yet (some discussion on the topic here), and Bangalore based online movie rental co SeventyMM has announced that they’re considering…

Updated: Reliance To Invest $100 Million Over Five Years In BigFlicks - 6 Comments
Posted By Nikhil Pahwa - Wed 29 Aug 2007 08:49 PM PST

Some addons to the story we’d done earlier on BigFlicks. As per the official announcement, BigFlicks isn’t just online play. As we had first reported in March, the company will…

Moser Baer Has Trouble Getting Tamil Titles For DVD Release - 0 Comments
Posted By Nikhil Pahwa - Tue 28 Aug 2007 04:27 AM PST

A number of content providers have mentioned to me their frustration in dealing with a fragmented film industry in south India when it comes to video content. Things are a…

Reliance’s BigFlicks.com Offers Movies For Streaming, Purchase, Rent - 3 Comments
Posted By Nikhil Pahwa - Mon 27 Aug 2007 08:22 AM PST

Reliance Entertainment’s video content site BigFlicks.com is live, albeit in alpha. After we’d broken the story in March about Reliance entering the home video business, I thought BigFlicks was going…

Titlematch To Provide UTV Films On-Demand In North America - 0 Comments
Posted By Nikhil Pahwa - Mon 27 Aug 2007 02:26 AM PST

AIM listed UTV Motion Pictures Plc has inked a deal with TitleMatch Entertainment Group for making its film library via Titlematch’s DVD On-demand service in North America. Films to be…

Goldstone Acquires IPTV Rights To 3500 Video Titles From Echelon Studios - 0 Comments
Posted By Nikhil Pahwa - Mon 20 Aug 2007 08:08 PM PST

Goldstone Technologies, and IPTV content provider has signed a deal with LA based Echelon Studios for over 3500 video titles for its video-on-demand content service, reports Business of Cinema. The…

UFO Moviez Digitizes Movies From R.K. Films For Digital Distribution - 0 Comments
Posted By Nikhil Pahwa - Sun 12 Aug 2007 09:14 PM PST

Digital Cinema Co UFO Movies has digitized movies by R.K. Films, including ‘Bobby’, ‘Satyam Shivam Sundaram’, ‘Ram Teri Ganga Maili’, ‘Prem Rog’ ‘Heena’ and others in digital wide screen format.…

UTV To Debut Two Movies Online - 0 Comments
Posted By Rafat Ali - Sat 04 Aug 2007 12:50 AM PST

UTV, after releasing few movies in an exclusive deal with Rajshri, has now decided to go broader: it has tied up with three Indian portal, Rajshri.com, Bigflicks.com, and Indyaondemand.com, to…

Shekhar Kapur Eyes 32 Percent Returns From New Media Fund - 3 Comments
Posted By Anupama Chandrasekaran - Tue 31 Jul 2007 12:57 AM PST

In an interview with Knowledge@Wharton, Wharton Business School’s business journal, filmmaker and businessman Shekhar Kapur said he expects his newly launched $500 million media and entertainment fund to generate at…

Rajshri Media Makes Bow Barracks Forever Available For Download - 1 Comment
Posted By Nikhil Pahwa - Mon 30 Jul 2007 03:06 AM PST

Rajshri Media, which has so far premiered home production Vivah and a few movies from UTV, has now inked a deal with Pritish Nandy Communications (PNC) for making Anjan Das’…

Questions On Movie Based Microsites - 1 Comment
Posted By Nikhil Pahwa - Thu 19 Jul 2007 04:33 AM PST

A few weeks ago, around the launch of the Harry Potter movie, AOL India created a microsite, and Zapak hosted a game. Now, around South Indian movie Kireedam, Zapak has…

Shemaroo Licenses Video Content Rights To Goldstone For Digital Distribution - 0 Comments
Posted By Nikhil Pahwa - Thu 19 Jul 2007 03:12 AM PST

Shemaroo Entertainment has entered into a five year agreement with Goldstone Technologies, licensing over 500 Hindi movies, regional films and also non movie content, reports Equity Bulls. Shemaroo will promote…

GV Films Gets Approval For Demerger; Separate Company For Webcasting - 0 Comments
Posted By Nikhil Pahwa - Tue 17 Jul 2007 09:08 PM PST

Chennai based GV Films has informed Bombay Stock Exchange that their board of directors has approved the demerger of the company into three entities: GV Films, GV Studio City and…

Animation Dimensions Creating Animated Feature Films - 0 Comments
Posted By Nikhil Pahwa - Fri 13 Jul 2007 04:19 AM PST

Animation Dimensions has announced the launch of a number animated features over the next five years - a live action film called “Aiyyaiyyo Balle Balle”, a Hindi film “Mighty Babies”…

Eros To Invest $33 Million In Joint Venture With Tamil Film Distributor Ayngaran - 0 Comments
Posted By Nikhil Pahwa - Thu 12 Jul 2007 04:15 AM PST

This just in: Eros International and Tamil film distributor Ayngaran have formed a joint venture - Ayngaran International - in which Eros has 51 percent controlling stake, and will be…

Eros To Distribute Bollywood Content In the US Via TitleMach - 1 Comment
Posted By Nikhil Pahwa - Tue 10 Jul 2007 11:36 AM PST

Eros Entertainment Inc, which produces and distributes Bollywood movie content, has inked a deal with TitleMatch Entertainment Group for making its catalogue of movies available throught TitleMatch’s DVD On-demand service.…

UTV To Release “Fear” Online - 2 Comments
Posted By Nikhil Pahwa - Thu 05 Jul 2007 08:10 AM PST

Director Vikram Bhatt’s film Fear, being distributed by UTV is expected to be released on the Internet in August - and strange as its sounds, it’s slated for an online…

Updated: Web18s Entertainment Portal Buzz18; Still In Beta - 0 Comments
Posted By Nikhil Pahwa - Wed 04 Jul 2007 10:04 PM PST

Update: The portal has been de-cloaked and is now accessible - here. Some sections, like blogs are also live now. (Originally posted on 2007-06-24 07:12 PM PST) TV18 will soon…

Maharishi Group’s Picasso To Invest $9 Mln In Animation Education, Production - 2 Comments
Posted By Anupama Chandrasekaran - Mon 02 Jul 2007 08:03 PM PST

Delhi-based Picasso Digital Media Private Limited, which is promoted by the Maharishi Group, plans to invest around Rs $9 million, or about Rs 36 crore, in animation education and production…

Kerala Filmmaker Sights Audience For Pocket-Sized Films - 0 Comments
Posted By Anupama Chandrasekaran - Sun 01 Jul 2007 09:27 PM PST

What do you call a film format of just three simple shots without optical or computer graphic effects, no shot longer than 40 seconds, with the maximum length of the…