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    ‘Never Have I Ever’ is changing the conversation about South Asian women in the entertainment industry, says actor Richa Moorjani

    • 16.05.2020
    • The Hindu

    On a #LockdownWithWeekend Instagram Live session on May 12, Moorjani also chats about her lifelong love for kathak and her love for the women in all verticals of ‘Never Have I Ever’.

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    Out-of-Work Crewmember Group Delivers Free Groceries to Freelancers: “We’ve Been Programmed to Adapt on a Dime”

    • 16.05.2020
    • The Hollywood Reporter

    Feed the Freelancers, born out of one assistant director's feelings of uselessness amid the coronavirus production shutdown, has now delivered food boxes to more than 1,000 individuals and is expanding into multiple states.

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    Amazon India Execs On Indian Films Skipping Theatrical (Exclusive)

    • 15.05.2020
    • The Hollywood Reporter

    With the country's cinemas shuttered by the novel coronavirus pandemic, seven major movies, including Amitabh Bachchan's 'Gulabo Sitabo,' are forgoing a theatrical release to stream globally on Prime Video in a major shakeup of the status quo.

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    Producers Guild of India: Disappointing to see statements calling for retributive measures against producers who take movies to OTT platforms

    • 15.05.2020
    • Mumbai Mirror

    The statement further said, "This is a time for the entire film industry to come together with empathy and support for the difficult predicament each segment finds themselves in - from producers, distributors, exhibitors, daily wage earners and technicians, to the thousands of people whose livelihoods are in some way dependent on our industry.

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    How filmmaking is becoming creatively productive during the lockdown

    • 15.05.2020
    • Business Insider

    Taj Ali Naqvi, Director Films & Production, Isobar writes about how filmmaking is adapting itself to changing times, with more and more people experimenting with different ways of telling stories.

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    CINTAA Chairperson Amit Behl: The SAG-AFTRA Will Work Closely On SOP

    • 15.05.2020
    • Mid Day

    Virologists on sets, guidelines on intimacy CINTAA spokesperson attending the 20-country meeting that aims to set rules for shoots post-pandemic on what new normal could look like.

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    Hollywood’s Top Innovators: 21 People Shaping the Future of Entertainment

    • 15.05.2020
    • The Hollywood Reporter

    From the team that made the cross-network 'One  World: Together  at  Home' broadcast possible to the director who cut production costs by acquiring a high school, THR spotlights the boundary-pushers  reinventing how content is created, developed and distributed.

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    Amazon Acquires Amitabh Bachchan’s ‘Gulabo Sitabo’

    • 14.05.2020
    • The Hollywood Reporter

    Directed by Shoojit Sircar the movie also stars Ayushmann Khurrana and is the streamer's most aggressive move in Bollywood to date.

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    Hansal Mehta: I find OTT platforms liberating

    • 14.05.2020
    • The Indian Express

    Filmmaker Hansal Mehta on keeping himself busy during the lockdown, and films releasing directly on OTT platforms.

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    Inside HBO Max, the $4 Billion Bet to Stand Out in the Streaming Wars

    • 14.05.2020
    • Variety

    The investment is the biggest bet to date made by AT&T to realize the promise of its $85.4 billion acquisition of Time Warner.

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