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    Selling TV rights a challenge even for box-office hits as viewership dwindles

    • 04.10.2024
    • LiveMint

    Producers are struggling to sell satellite rights even for box-office hits, as television viewership has dwindled, hurt by the popularity of streaming platforms.

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    How 2024 became the year of re-released films

    • 04.10.2024
    • LiveMint

    On a muggy August afternoon, the entrance to the iconic Regal theatre in Mumbai is clogged. A hand-painted poster of Ramesh Sippy’s Sholay (1975) is mounted on the scaffolding, and a crowd has gathered to watch the film.

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    No country for old films

    • 04.10.2024
    • LiveMint

    Instead of offering easier access to our cinematic heritage, streaming has made it tougher than ever to find and watch classic Indian films in their original form.

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    MEA brings in more groups of influencers and content creators

    • 04.10.2024
    • Hindustan Times

    The initiative, the brainchild of the ministry’s external publicity division, has been backed by foreign secretary Vikram Misri and his predecessor Vinay Kwatra.

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    Kangana Ranaut’s Emergency producers ask for 2 weeks time to make CBFC-suggested cuts

    • 04.10.2024
    • Hindustan Times

    Zee Entertainment tells Bombay High Court that they have agreed to cuts suggested by CBFC for Emergency. Here's what happened.

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    Google to continue expanding capacity of India data centre zones

    • 04.10.2024
    • Telecom.com\EconomicTimes

    “Google Cloud India is one of the fastest growing regions of Google Cloud across the world,” Bikram Singh Bedi, vice-president and country managing director of Google Cloud, told ET in a virtual interview.

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    MPA unveils new research on the success of K-content

    • 04.10.2024
    • Indiantelevision

    New research prepared by Frontier Economics on behalf of the Motion Picture Association credits the South Korean government’s supportive policy environment and proactive efforts in copyright protection as key factors behind the growth and success of K-content.

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    Is govt. working on new rules to ‘beep out’ OTT profanities?

    • 04.10.2024
    • Indian Broadcasting World

    Government is working on guidelines for films and serials shown on OTT (Over the Top) which will require the platforms to “beep out profanity and blur explicit scenes,” sources said.

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    MPA Reports ‘Notorious’ Piracy Threats to U.S. Government

    • 04.10.2024
    • TorrentFreak

    The Motion Picture Association (MPA) has sent its latest overview of notorious piracy markets to the U.S. Government.

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    Facebook’s New Pivot to Video: An AI Mini-Movie Tool

    • 04.10.2024
    • The Hollywood Reporter

    The social platform will make its Reels content more "prominent," as its parent company reveals its own AI video tool Meta Movie Gen.

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