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    A New Bollywood Movie Plays Into Transphobic Stereotypes, Yet Again

    • 09.11.2020
    • Vice

    Hindi movies routinely depict transgender characters as extremely violent or self-deprecating.

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    An entire movie theatre to yourself and your family, PVR Cinemas introduce private screening

    • 08.11.2020
    • Yourstory

    The services will enable customers to book an entire auditorium of PVR Cinemas for a small gathering at a preferred date and time, starting from Rs 1,999.

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    Notes from attending a ‘digital’ film festival: Wider audience, less footfall, and hope for sustenance of cinema

    • 08.11.2020
    • Firstpost

    This year marked my seventh New York Film Festival (NYFF), but it was the first one I attended from 8,000 miles away.

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    Mank review round-up: David Fincher’s ‘love letter to Hollywood’ is ‘lusciously evocative and immersive’

    • 08.11.2020
    • Firstpost

    David Fincher's Mank has been receiving praise across the board, particularly on the technical front, with critics calling it 'dazzling craftsmanship'

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    In book on early Indian cinema, a look at the romance and risk that went into filmmaking

    • 08.11.2020
    • Scroll

    Debashree Mukherjee’s ‘Bombay Hustle: Making Movies in a Colonial City’ studies the the transition from silent films to the talkies.

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    With theatres reopening, film trade analysts weigh in on audience footfall and scope for tentpole releases

    • 08.11.2020
    • Firstpost

    Film trade experts are confident that the movie-going business will bounce back with the release of event films, but caution that single screens will have to maintain top-notch hygiene precautions in order to survive.

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    PVOD vs. Streaming Is the Real Battle for First-Run Movies — Not Theaters vs. Home

    • 08.11.2020
    • Indiewire

    Exhibitors need to look beyond COVID to understand that their best chance for survival lies with embracing VOD, rather than ignoring it.

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    No legal void to regulate TV news content: Centre to Bombay High Court

    • 07.11.2020
    • Economic Times

    Additional Solicitor General (ASG) Anil Singh told a bench that there existed adequate statutory as well as self-regulatory mechanism for the media, including TV news channels, to follow while printing or broadcasting any news items.

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    Telangana High Court gives green signal for Ram Gopal Varma’s movie ‘Murder’

    • 07.11.2020
    • The News Minute

    According to the court order, the movie can go ahead without using the actual names of Amrutha, Pranay, Maruthi Rao and others.

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    Braving low turnout during pandemic, city theatres to screen films in truncated manner

    • 07.11.2020
    • India TV News

    Owners of some single-screen Kolkata theatres who were mulling suspension of screening from Friday due to low turnout at reopened cinema halls, reversed their decision, saying the show will go on in a truncated manner, after their counterparts in Mumbai decided to open doors to viewers despite risks.

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