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    Netflix Reaches Out to Lebanon With Relief Fund and Local Films Package

    • 24.10.2020
    • Variety

    The $500,000 relief fund set up by Netflix in collaboration with the Arab Fund for Arts & Culture (AFAC) will be open for applications starting next week. It will provide financial support in the form of individual grants worth $2,000 per grant, a sum that, especially given Lebanon’s current economic constraints, is worth plenty more locally than it would be in the U.S.

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    “Who Can Tell Whose Stories?” Is the Wrong Question Hollywood Should Be Asking (Guest Column)

    • 24.10.2020
    • The Hollywood Reporter

    Deaf filmmaker Delbert Whetter details why the entertainment industry is looking at inclusion the wrong way.

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    What Happens After China Takes the Global Box Office Crown?

    • 24.10.2020
    • Variety

    Michael Nathanson, senior analyst at MoffettNathanson, and one of Wall Street’s most respected media and entertainment researchers, says North American theatrical revenues may never return to their pre-COVID levels.

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    China’s Ant Group releases digital copyright platform on AntChain

    • 23.10.2020
    • Cointelegraph

    The platform is just the latest product in the fintech’s long-evolving blockchain solutions.

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    HBO Max Hits 28.7 Million Subscribers in Q3, Warner Bros. Revenue Down 28%

    • 23.10.2020
    • Variety

    AT&T touted the growth of WarnerMedia’s HBO Max premium streamer, with activations more than doubling in the third quarter to 8.6 million. All told, 28.7 million customers were eligible to get HBO Max at the end of Q3.

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    Maharashtra to come out with policy for entertainment sector, to extend industry status

    • 23.10.2020
    • Hindustan Times

    In the wake of the announcement by the Uttar Pradesh government to set up a film city in Noida, Maharashtra government has announced that it will formulate a policy for the entertainment sector as well as declare rebate in shooting charges and expedite the procedure of extending industry status to the sector.

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    Exclusive: Government starts private consultation to amend Copyright Act

    • 23.10.2020
    • Medianama

    An amendment of the Copyright Act could have significant ramifications for technology policy — issues like digital rights management, online piracy, statutory licensing, intermediary liability, and live performances online are issues that the industry may push to formalise changes in.

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    Media, Entertainment Sector To Grow Over 10% till 2024, Says PwC India

    • 23.10.2020
    • Bloomberg Quint

    The sector's growth, which would be like a K-shaped bifurcated recovery, is on the horizon led by over-the-top, online advertising, video/games/e-sports, music and podcasts, PwC India said in the report released on Thursday.

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    ‘Joker,’ ‘Mulan,’ ‘Watchmen’ Among HPA Awards Nominees

    • 23.10.2020
    • The Hollywood Reporter

    'Insecure' and 'IT: Chapter 2' each landed three nominations for the 15th annual event celebrating achievement in color grading, editing, sound and visual effects.

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    Netflix to offer free access for a weekend to attract more users in India

    • 22.10.2020
    • Economic Times

    Global streaming giant Netflix is planning to offer free access to all Indian non-subscribers for one weekend, as it chalks out various strategies to attract more subscribers to its platform in a country that is famously price sensitive and yet has an insatiable need for content.

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