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    Court finds prima facie copyright infringement by web-series Singardaan, asks makers to prepare to share profits

    • 06.06.2020
    • Cinestaan

    Writer Shamoil Ahmed Khan had complained that the copyright of his story, Singardaan, had been violated to produce a web-series of the same name for the OTT platform Ullu.

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    Live TV Streaming Reaches Canada as Netflix Alternative

    • 05.06.2020
    • The Hollywood Reporter

    The country's first virtual MVPD, RiverTV, is looking to break a virtual pay TV monopoly by legacy cable and teleco giants.

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    India gets its first LGBT-focused OTT platform

    • 05.06.2020
    • Moneycontrol.com

    Targeting three to four million subscribers in the first year of its operations, EORTV’s focus area is creating originals, focused on stories of the LGBT community.

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    Credit outlook negative for film production, print media, TV broadcasting: ICRA

    • 05.06.2020
    • Outlook India

    New Delhi, Jun 4 (PTI) Ratings agency ICRA on Thursday said the credit outlook for film production and exhibition, print media and television broadcasting segments is negative due to the impact of the coronavirus pandemic, while the same is stable for distribution platform operators and over-the-top platforms.

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    Basu Chatterjee, torchbearer of Hindi ‘middle-of-the-road’ cinema, passes away

    • 05.06.2020
    • The Hindu

    The filmmaker was at the helm of the light-hearted, middle class, family dramas that emerged as a parallel narrative to the more mainstream ‘Angry Young Man’ movies

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    WarnerMedia to Offer Ad Inventory to Social Justice Groups

    • 05.06.2020
    • The Hollywood Reporter

    The media giant also says it will expand its content innovation program OneFifty "with an additional $500k to seed issue-focused creative ideas from communities who often go unheard."

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    HBO Max Launch Reveals Impressive Library, Potential Netflix Challenge (Analysis)

    • 04.06.2020
    • Variety

    While presented as a branch of the existing HBO brand, it’s more accurately a WarnerMedia behemoth effort that unites the conglomerates many properties (plus a few original efforts) in one convenient place — that is, if you can figure out how to get it, let alone whether or not you already have access to it.

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    Shoojit Sircar on ‘Gulabo Sitabo’ and why there should be a change in Indian cinema

    • 04.06.2020
    • The News Minute

    The director’s much-awaited 'Gulabo Sitabo', with Amitabh Bachchan and Ayushmann Khurrana in the lead, is set to release on Amazon Prime Video on June 12.

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    Cannes reveals 2020 Lineup: ‘French Dispatch,’ ‘Ammonite,’ ‘Aya and the Witch’

    • 04.06.2020
    • The Hindu

    There is no festival this year, but President Pierre Lescure and General Delegate Thierry Fremaux announced the pick of 56 films for 2020 that will receive the Cannes 2020 label.

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    Lilly Wachowski Shares How ‘Matrix’ Franchise Was Inspired by “Rage” and “Oppression” Before Transition

    • 04.06.2020
    • The Hollywood Reporter

    The filmmaker and Showtime's 'Work in Progress' producer reflects on trans community members sharing the importance of her films in their own coming-out journeys: "I’m extraordinarily grateful that I could offer that to people."

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