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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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    Nazarband filmmaker Suman Mukhopadhyay: ‘No art can be created if the artist isn’t politically aware’

    • 07.11.2020
    • Firstpost

    Suman Mukhopadhyay — actor, filmmaker, playwright, and theatre director — talks about his film Nazarband's premiere at the recently concluded Busan Film Festival; Kolkata as a character in the story; and if all art is political.

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    Cinedigm Reports 27% Fiscal Second Quarter Digital Sales Growth in Transactional and Ad-Based Video On Demand

    • 07.11.2020
    • Businesswire

    Strong Digital Transactional Sales on Amazon, Which Grew 78%, Drove Much Of This Growth.

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    Inside the Groundbreaking ‘Star Trek: Discovery’ Episode With Trans and Non-Binary Characters

    • 07.11.2020
    • Variety

    The latest episode of “Star Trek: Discovery” includes a storyline that viewers have almost certainly never seen before on a major television series: A romance between a non-binary character, a human named Adira, and trans character, a Trill named Gray. What’s more, Adira and Gray are played respectively by the non-binary actor Blu del Barrio and the trans actor Ian Alexander.

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    Dilwale Dulhania Le Jayenge returns to Mumbai’s Maratha Mandir eight months after coronavirus shutdown

    • 06.11.2020
    • Firstpost

    The news of Dilwale Dulhania Le Jayenge returning to Maratha Mandir comes after the Maharashtra government allowed the reopening of cinema theatres and multiplexes outside containment zones from 5 November.

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    Indian film business has reason for worry as overseas cinemas close again

    • 06.11.2020
    • Livemint

    While the UK Parliament has approved a month-long lockdown in England to prevent the spread of covid-19, cinemas in Malaysia have temporarily shut down due to rising cases, lack of new film releases and low footfall.

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