Disney+ is bringing another facet of the Imax theater experience to the living room: The streamer plans to add support for enhanced Imax signature sound by DTS for a select batch of Marvel movies and other titles in 2023.
After a forgettable 2022 that brought barely half the revenues of pre-pandemic years, the Hindi film industry is placing hopes on the first quarter of the New Year, with four big movies lined up for release.
After Netflix launched an ad-supported subscription service in November of last year, series creators are demanding more money from the streaming giant. According to Jeremy Zimmer, president of the US’ United Talent Agency, this strategy “changes the game” in terms of how the streamer should compensate creative talent, according to the IANS.
At least three major torrent sites are currently exposing intimate details of their operations to anyone with a web browser. TorrentFreak understands that the sites use a piece of software that grabs brand-new content from other sites before automatically uploading it to their own. A security researcher tried to raise the alarm but nobody will listen.
Over the last few years, India’s over the top (OTT) media services sector has more than doubled in size. According to the Ormax OTT Audience Sizing Report 2022, the Indian OTT audience universe now stands at 424 million people. In India, 119 million of these are active paid OTT subscriptions and increased by 20 per cent between 2021 and 2022.
India is drafting new rules to limit the amount of time children can spend on a gaming app, and may also mandate gaming companies to submit anonymised reports on such usage, people in the know told ET. The intent, they said, is to check addiction to gaming, especially among children. The new provisions are likely to be a part of the upcoming Digital India Act.
The Indian media and entertainment (M&E) industry may log 12-14% year-on-year increase in revenues to ₹1.6 lakh crore in fiscal 2024, against 16% growth expected this fiscal, according to a latest report by rating agency CRISIL.
The health ministry is consulting the information & broadcasting ministry and other key stakeholders on issuing a notification to OTT platforms such as Netflix, Amazon Prime and Hotstar to carry anti-tobacco warning messages like we see in movies screened in theatres and TV programmes.
Gaming firms that do not comply with the new rules will lose their safe harbour and can be prosecuted, said Minister of State for Electronics and IT, Rajeev Chandrasekhar.
Just Google and Facebook ad mop up from India amounted to Rs 41,115 crore in FY22. Twitter India does not give a separate India advertising split, so it hasn’t been included in the sample.