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    ‘The Lord of the Rings’: Everything You Need to Know About Amazon’s Big Money Adaptation

    • 08.07.2020
    • IndieWire

    Production of Amazon’s long-awaited, multi-season television adaptation of J.R.R. Tolkien’s “The Lord of the Rings” will take place in New Zealand.

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    India will bounce back with a vengeance: Amitabh Kant

    • 08.07.2020
    • The Economic Times

    According to Kant, every crisis can be turned into an opportunity and India must identify 12-13 sunrise sectors in which it can leapfrog to become global champions to achieve sustainable high growth and create jobs.

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    FICCI Frames 2020: Star’s Uday Shankar on how advertising revenue is the biggest bane of the Indian M&E industry

    • 08.07.2020
    • Financial Express

    From dependency on advertising revenue, standing of Indian content business to lack of talent training facility, Shankar highlighted the issues faced by the industry.

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    Coronavirus | Govt. to come up with SOP for shooting films: Javadekar

    • 08.07.2020
    • The Hindu

    Incentives planned to facilitate the faster resumption of film production.

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    India’s only OTT platform for Maharashtrian audience Planet Marathi set for launch

    • 08.07.2020
    • creative

    The platform is the brainchild of filmmaker and producer Akshay Bardapurkar of Planet Marathi, actor Pushkar Shrotri, and music composer Aditya Oak.

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    Netflix Donates $625K to Sam Mendes’ New Fund to Help U.K. Theater Workers

    • 07.07.2020
    • The Hollywood Reporter

    London's famed West End district, as well as regional theater companies around the country, have been closed since March 16 due to the pandemic.

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    Singapore Cinemas Poised to Reopen With ‘Peninsula’ Among First Releases

    • 07.07.2020
    • Variety

    Major cinema chains announced that they will reopen their doors from July 13, following an announcement from the Infocomm Media Development Authority. Some independents said they would reopen on July 15.

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    Huawei, ZTE should not be allowed to participate in 5G rollout in India: CAIT

    • 07.07.2020
    • Telecom.com

    Trader's body CAIT on Sunday urged the government to not allow Chinese firms Huawei and ZTE to participate in 5G network rollout in India, raising concerns on data security.

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    U.K. Government to Offer New Quarantine Rules Exemption for Leading Hollywood Actors, Productions

    • 07.07.2020
    • IndieWire

    British Culture Secretary Oliver Dowden spoke with Tom Cruise last weekend about production plans for "Mission: Impossible 7" moving forward.

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    ‘Better Days’ Wins Top Prize at Online Edition of Udine Festival

    • 07.07.2020
    • Variety

    Derek Tsang’s youth drama “Better Days” was awarded the top prize, a Golden Mulberry, at the Festival of Far East Film in Udine, northern Italy. The festival was largely online, and the prizes selected by an audience which both viewed the films and voted electronically.

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