The president of the Producers Guild of India on the pandemic, the rise of OTT platforms and the film industry’s current existential crisis.
The tech company announced that it has invested $33 million in GNI and supported more than 1,000 news organizations across Asia-Pacific.
It has managed to add another four million subscribers on a net basis globally between January and March, which is lower than the forecast of six million.
It took a deadly pandemic to get much deadlier, but it has happened: in a significant first for a big budget film, Salman Khan’s Radhe will get a simultaneous release in theatres and the streaming platform Zee5, the platform announced on Wednesday. The film will also get a pay-per-view release on satellite TV.
According to the latest report by the platform titled ‘Short-form video- The Rise of Made in India digital content’, Indian short-form apps have onboarded around 30-35% new users over the past year.
“Movies aren’t going anywhere. The in-theater experience is like nothing else," Rivkin said. "It went from 11.4 billion here in North America to literally zero overnight.”
The Bureau of Indian Standards (BIS) on 20 Nov 2020 established standards for personal data protection for businesses in India to adopt.
Industry leaders weigh in on whether the findings of the BARC TV Universe Estimates 2020 on the kids genre is a positive sign for the category.
Payne announced three projects in Round 1 of the Australia-India Cyber and Critical Technology Partnership (AICCTP) Grant Programme, a USD 12.7 million programme over four years.
From Rs 19,100 crore in 2019, the world’s largest film producing industry now stands at Rs 7,200 crore, thanks to the pandemic.