Shonda Rhimes, creator of “Bridgerton” and the upcoming prequel series “Queen Charlotte: A Bridgerton Story,” is known for creating powerful screen stories that center women (particularly, women of color) and a diverse range of characters of all gender, racial, ethnic and sexual identities.
New York is poised to dramatically increase its film tax incentive from $420 million a year to $700 million, as it looks to stave off competition from New Jersey and Georgia. Gov. Kathy Hochul announced an agreement Thursday night on a $229 billion budget, after weeks of negotiations with state lawmakers.
With more web traffic than Netflix and Disney, pirate streaming site Pobre.tv was hugely popular in Portugal. A few days ago the site mysteriously went offline without any word from its operators. No anti-piracy agency has taken credit either, but ACE says that it obtained several disclosure orders related to the site in recent weeks.
Some of the world's largest pirate sites, offering movies, TV shows and anime for free, are reportedly operated from Vietnam. The statistics are nothing short of extraordinary and measured in billions of visits per year. Fmovies, Bmovies, Bflix and 9anime are just a few of the sites causing problems for rightsholders. Despite U.S. concerns, Vietnam seems unwilling to pull the plug.
“The United States on several occasions and in various fora raised IP concerns regarding this report and the Data Protection Bill, 2021,” it said, adding that the improved draft Digital Personal Data Protection Bill took steps to address concerns from the previous draft s concerns from the previous draft.
Paramount Global is rolling out a new diversity reporting platform that has the potential to fill in major gaps in metrics on its television productions for everyone from writers and directors to wardrobe stylists and stunt workers. On the corporate side, Paramount has already been publishing diversity data for its full-time employees — but productions, which typically include workers hired by third-party companies, lacked a universal system to access and analyze those same metrics and proved more challenging.
Women in the Hindi film industry, both in front and behind the camera, have broken the “glass ceiling” and have entered every male bastion, actor Raveena Tandon said yesterday during a panel discussion at the ‘National Conclave on Mann Ki Baat @100’ in New Delhi.
The consultation stage of Australia's Copyright Enforcement Review has revealed the movie and TV industries' latest anti-piracy demands. The submissions are a rollercoaster ride; site-blocking measures collapsed visits to pirate sites, legal consumption increased significantly, yet 51% of pirates "are not impacted by site blocking at all" so DNS blocking is required.
Gaurav Banerjee, head of content at Disney+ Hotstar, India, has revealed the streamer’s growth strategy in the country. Banerjee was speaking at Indiantelevision.com’s annual industry event, The Content Hub, in Mumbai on Tuesday, in conversation with the organization’s founder, CEO and editor-in-chief Anil Wanvari. The thrust is to expand original programming in languages beyond Hindi, Banerjee said.
At the Content Creation: No More Formulas panel, Shobha Sant, head of content alliances at Jio Studios, broke down the process behind the selection of its 100-title slate. Sant said that the selection was the result of five years of very a definite plan in terms of understanding audience segmentation and what people are watching.