The Indian Institute of Creative Technologies (IICT) has signed a Memorandum of Understanding with the Visual Effects Society (India Section), marking a strategic step toward advancing India’s Animation, Visual Effects, Gaming, Comics, and Extended Reality (AVGC-XR) sector through stronger industry-academia collaboration.
The global entertainment industry is undergoing widespread layoffs as major companies like Disney, Paramount, Warner Bros Discovery, Netflix, and Sony restructure operations. Driven by streaming disruption, declining traditional revenues, and cost pressures, thousands of jobs have been cut across studios, TV networks, gaming, and digital media divisions.
FAST ecosystem players including smart TV manufacturers, OS providers, and content aggregators argue that excessive regulation could stifle innovation in a nascent but consumer-friendly segment
The NHRC in its March 24 notice to the ministry had raised alleged non-compliance of the Digital Personal Data Protection (DPDP) Act by digital platforms. Digital services industry grouping Internet and Mobile Association of India (IAMAI), in a letter to the NHRC, argued that its intervention was premature, since several provisions of the DPDP Act would come into force only next year.
Priced from Rs 49 a month, the add-on pack gives JioHotstar subscribers access to the HBO Max hub and the platform’s full international catalogue
According to media consulting firm Ormax, 65% of Dhurandhar’s audience on OTT had already watched the
film in a theatre.
Allu Arjun joins southern stars in cinema ownership, a trend that bolsters brand equity and audience connection. Despite potential benefits, the exhibition business faces challenges such as high operational costs and the need for balanced content programming.
So far, California, New York and Georgia declined in filming counts while the Garden State saw gains.
Prasar Bharati has launched a nationwide call for programme proposals, offering content creators structured entry into All India Radio through revenue-sharing, sponsored, and gratis content models.
HBO has secured a Digital Millennium Copyright Act (DMCA) subpoena requiring X Corp. to reveal the identity of a user accused of posting spoilers from unaired Euphoria Season 3 episodes. According to TorrentFreak, this move indicates a more assertive legal approach to leaks ahead of the show’s release.