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    Reliance Jio partnership helps Netflix gain momentum in India: Report

    • 04.11.2020
    • Telecom.com

    In September this year, Netflix had partnered with Jio to launch a free mobile-only subscription plan for postpaid subscribers, starting at Rs 399 per month.

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    PUBG corporation confirms that it is now terminating its service access for users in India

    • 03.11.2020
    • Firstpost

    PUBG Mobile has terminated access for users in India from 30 October. The move comes two months after New Delhi banned the game over cybersecurity concerns.

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    Scam 1992 actor Pratik Gandhi on playing Harshad Mehta and transitioning from regional to national fame

    • 03.11.2020
    • Firstpost

    'When you play a character like Harshad Mehta, who is my first big character that has reached so many viewers, the audience thinks that is who I am. So my real challenge starts now. I want to create and consistently deliver characters filled with complex human emotions.'

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    FTII Student Film Wins Award at 2010 Cannes Festival

    • 03.11.2020
    • The Wire

    CatDog, a diploma film by students of the Film and Television Institute of India (FTII), Pune has won the first prize at Cinéfondation selection, the student’s section of the Cannes Film Festival of 2020. This was the only Indian entry to the awards, and competed with 1,952 entries from 444 global film schools.

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    COVID-19 Brutalizes AMC Theatres Quarterly Earnings, Losses Top $900 Million

    • 03.11.2020
    • Variety

    The world’s largest exhibitor suffered a brutal 90.9% drop in revenues during the most recent earnings period, with sales clocking in at $119.5 million. Losses hit $905.8 million or $8.41 cents a share.

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    What made ‘Kanchana’, the Tamil original of Akshay Kumar’s ‘Laxmii’, a blockbuster

    • 03.11.2020
    • The News Minute

    The Muni series, directed by actor-choreographer Raghava Lawrence, is among the most successful franchises in Tamil cinema. The first film was released in 2007, the second in 2011 and the last in 2019. Despite the long gaps in between, the franchise has stayed popular with audiences, spawning several more attempts at the horror comedy genre. If box-office collection reports are to be believed, the 2019 instalment collected over Rs 100 crore.

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    Hollywood’s Masked Killers Want You to Know How Hard Their Job Is

    • 03.11.2020
    • Vice

    The actors who played Jason Voorhees, Michael Myers and Leatherface discuss the misconceptions around playing Hollywood’s masked bogeymen.

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    BroadcastPro ME to host MENA OTT and Anti-Piracy conference this week

    • 02.11.2020
    • Broadcast Pro

    BroadcastPro ME will host the MENA OTT and Anti-Piracy conference this week from November 3 to 5 as part of its efforts to discuss how the media and entertainment industry is addressing the rising demand for streaming services in the Middle East and North Africa (MENA) and in parallel, countering piracy.

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    Korean movies choose Netflix over big-screen release

    • 02.11.2020
    • Entertainment Inquirer

    Some movie industry insiders view the possibility of reaching global audiences an important option that local distributors have when going straight to the global OTT platform.

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    Film producers versus multiplex operators; how to release films like Laxmii, Suraj Pe Mangal Bhari in theatres

    • 02.11.2020
    • Financial Express

    Why there is a need to relook at the current structure of the movie exhibition business.

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