Reliance Entertainment, the media and entertainment arm of the Anil Dhirubhai Ambani Group, is likely to bid for Hollywood studio Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer (MGM), the Economic Times paper said, citing an unnamed person with knowledge of the development.

Time Warner Inc on Wednesday said it will buy NDTV Imagine Limited (Imagine) from NDTV Networks Plc, an indirect subsidiary of NDTV Ltd for $126.5 million, further expanding its international reach.

Reliance MediaWorks, previously Adlabs Films, has partnered Los Angeles-based In-Three to set up an India-based facility that will convert 2D films and videos into 3D to tap growing global demand for 3D films.

Broadcaster New Delhi Television Ltd said on Thursday its unit will buy back 26 percent stake from media firm NBC Universal.

Disney-ABC International Television Asia Pacific, the international distribution arm of Walt Disney Company, said it has entered into a multi-year content deal with Zee Entertainment Enterprises Ltd (Zee).

India's leading media and entertainment firm UTV Software Communications announced Thursday that it has entered into a pact with US-based global business news and information provider Bloomberg to form a premier business and financial news network in India, underscoring the intense competition ...

The global leader in business news and information, Bloomberg, and the promoters (founders) of India's leading integrated media and entertainment enterprise, UTV, announced, Thursday, that they will collaborate on a television channel to deliver unsurpassed real-time business, economic and poli...

Just as its greatest characters were at times as flawed and human as they were superhuman, Marvel Entertainment has over the years seen its powers wax and wane.

Toymaker Hasbro Inc may end up one of the biggest losers after Walt Disney Co agreed to buy Marvel Entertainment, as it loses out on a rich source of content for its new TV channel and faces much tougher licensing negotiations in the long term.

Walt Disney Co on Monday agreed to buy Marvel Entertainment Inc for $4 billion in the biggest media deal of the year, banking on Marvel's roster of superheroes to broaden its lineup of movie franchises that appeal to boys.

Disney's $4 billion purchase of "Iron Man" moviemaker Marvel Entertainment signals a possible wave of media industry consolidation, but the cash to do deals may come from India or China, not Hollywood or Wall Street.

India's animation industry is expected to hit $1 billion by 2012 and the gaming industry would touch $830 million then, aided by increased outsourcing and a growing domestic market, a report released on Wednesday said.

Media and entertainment conglomerate Zee Entertainment Enterprises Ltd (ZEEL) has posted a 43 percent drop in net profit for the quarter ended June 30, 2008 attributing it to decline in advertising revenues.

Director Steven Spielberg's DreamWorks Studios could receive $825 million in film financing to begin producing movies starting this year, Reliance ADA Group which is involved in deal talks said on Wednesday.

Network 18 Media & Investments Ltd said on Friday its board has approved raising Rs 205 crore via qualified institutional placements.

Founders of direct-to-home operator Dish TV India Ltd on Monday sold 5.8 percent in the company to fund their share of the rights issue, sending its shares tumbling as much as 16 percent.

A clear mandate for India's ruling coalition, indications of an economic revival and hopes of regulatory reforms will boost prospects for media firms, according to a report by Media Partners Asia (MPA). The left-of-centre Congress coalition won a second term after a clear victory over the we...

Thomson Reuters Corp reported a stronger-than-expected quarterly profit and affirmed its expectation that revenue will grow in 2009.

"When I die there will be a final waltz playing in my head," Oscar-winning French composer Maurice Jarre once said, according to several newspapers reporting his death in March.