Theater owners say they are not rankled by the decision to take the filmed chronicle of the Broadway musical off the theatrical calendar.

On the eve of what would have been the 73rd Cannes Film Festival, IndieWire staffers discuss what the loss of the festival means to them.

Toho Cinemas, Japan’s biggest exhibition chain, has announced that it will reopen ten of its theaters in the 34 least affected prefectures, on May 15. A handful of independent theaters in these areas are back in business.

While there is no certainty about when shooting will resume in the film, television industries, FWICE took a call to begin serious meetings on the issue, chalking out guidelines once shooting begins.

The Joint Managing Director of PVR Ltd, talks about the extensive safety measures that have been conceived and put in place, to safely resume playing movies again after the pandemic.

Profits at Sony’s pictures division, which spans film, TV content and channels, climbed from $489 million in the previous financial year to $628 million in the year to March 2020. Revenues at the division climbed from $8.87 billion to $9.32 billion.

Online film piracy rose 62% in India in the last week of March compared to the last week of February 2020.

Just the hint that the world’s largest theater chain could be snapped up by the e-commerce giant was enough to leave investors salivating. Shares of AMC rocketed roughly 45% in early trading, topping out at more than $5.80.

Bharti Airtel, one of India’s largest integrated telcos, has selected Red Hat to build its new telco network cloud, designed to make it more efficient, flexible and future-ready to support core operations and enable new digital services.