European Commissioner for Competition Margrethe Vestager. The European Union’s anti-trust regulator has filed complaints against six major Hollywood studios and Britain’s Sky TV pay channel for allegedly using movie licenses to block access to their content in the bloc’s 28 nations. “We believe that this may be in breach of EU competition rules,” EU Competition Commissioner Margrethe... 

New Zealand calls on Hobbit makers to pay back $56 million subsidy Following the tremendous box office success of The Hobbit film a New Zealand official has called on the moviemakers to repay the $56 million (NZ$67 million) subsidy they received from the country’s taxpayers to fund shooting in New Zealand. The first movie in Peter Jackson’s upcoming trilogy based on J.R.R.Tolkien’s best-selling... 

Oscar-nominated screenwriter Peter Morgan, will pen the biopic telling the life story of Playboy founder Hugh Hefner. The movie about Hugh Hefner will be released by Warner Bros. The writer behind The Queen and Frost/Nixon movies, currently in talks with producer Jerry Weintraub, The Hollywood Reporter says. 86 year-old Hefner has already held a meeting with the screenwriter and then posted on his... 

A Swedish court has thrown out a request for a retrial by the four men behind The Pirate Bay website. The four were found guilty of promoting copyright infringement in April and face jail sentences and hefty claims for damages. The Pirate Bay’s lawyers called for a retrial when it emerged that one of the judges in the case belonged to several copyright protection groups. The Swedish court said...