The chain was initially targeting to reach the 1,000 screens milestone by 2020 but the impact of the COVID-19 pandemic, which resulted in a complete closure of cinema halls and continuing restrictions on audience capacity.
The revival of cinemas will depend on the content on offer, says PVR Ltd Joint Managing Director Sanjeev Kumar Bijli, confident that the culture of watching movies in theatres hasn’t changed and the sector will be back to pre-Covid numbers in the next financial year.
When the opening weekend of “Black Widow” fell below expectations, theater owners were suspicious that it didn’t match the well-attended Thursday night preview. That’s because, as reported by TorrentFreak, “Black Widow” was the most pirated movie in the world for three weeks following its July 9 debut.
The government on Wednesday launched a programme to support 300 IT start-ups under which it will provide seed funding, mentorship and market access with a view to creating 100 unicorns out of the selected start-ups.
Open digital ecosystems will unlock opportunities worth $700 billion for India by 2030, across sectors like healthcare, agriculture, MSME education, urban governance, as per a report by ONI and BCG.
To recall, 36 companies, including Nokia, Jabil, Cisco, Flex, Foxconn, among others have applied for incentives worth Rs 12,195 crore earmarked for MSME, local, and global gear makers over a period of five years.
The television was the original ‘Family Device’. If you grew up in a large family, the television was the device that brought the entire family together.
Founded in China in 2010, iQiyi International is an on-demand video streaming service providing pan-Asian entertainment. It offers ad-supported and VIP subscription services, streaming drama series, movies, variety shows, and animé, all with local languages and subtitles. iQiyi is currently available in 191 countries with more than 106 million subscribers worldwide.
The Internet Service Providers (ISPs) are trying loads of combinations of benefits to attract the subscribers and these include more speeds, unlimited data, free add on benefits like OTT subscriptions among many more. However, there is one benefit which broadband companies have not yet become used to and is very rarely seen. Perhaps, the only big name in the industry which is offering the Internet Protocol Television (IPTV) is Reliance Jio.
Last year, Zee Entertainment's digital arm ZEE5 launched Zee5 kids and Discovery's streaming service discovery+ introduced a genre devoted to kids content earlier this year.