Global box office this year overtook 2020’s COVID-stricken total of $12 billion at the end of August. It is now forecast to reach $20.2 billion in 2021, according to analysis firm Gower Street Analytics.
Tata Sky CEO Harit Nagpal feels that there is a need for transparent dialogue between the Indian regulators and industry players where the goal should be to find a middle path.
As theatres across the country open their door for patrons again, a producer-director explains how much has changed in Bollywood.
News Broadcasters Federation (NBF), a lobbying body of TV news channels in India, has written to the Broadcast Audience Research Council (BARC) India exhorting the ratings agency to immediately re-start releasing data related to news TV channels.
Direct OTT release has made the metrics more holistic.
Record label and Bollywood major T-Series, along with tycoon Anil Ambani’s Reliance Entertainment Ltd. have agreed to jointly develop more than 10 features over the next 36 months.
Multiplexes expand F&B services as theatrical revenues remain low.
Telecom, DTH operators are now partnering with OTT players to emerge as a one-stop destination for all entertainment content.
It further stated that Asia Pacific will have 69.8 crore SVOD subscriptions by 2026, up from 50.2 crore at end-2021.
Animated film ‘Encanto’ will get a 30-day exclusive theatrical release starting Nov. 24.