The Minister for Information and Broadcasting Anurag Thakur on Monday said India’s aim is to build an enriching filming ecosystem in India and a future-ready industry where digital innovations would further help local talent and stories to be pitch-forked into the international arena
Attuned to the festival’s objective of promoting and nurturing of content and creators from across the world, Prime Video participated in specially-curated initiatives at the event
P2P release group EVO has built quite a reputation for being the first to release pirated copies of screeners and popular movies online. The group is well-known for its steady and prolific release schedule, but last Friday things went quiet. EVO's mysterious absence fuels rumors of a potential bust, but nothing is confirmed thus far.
Analysts believe that FWA service is not just going to help drive broadband penetration in the country, but will also help telcos to increase their revenues from the home and small medium business market. They said that FWA is going to be complementary to telcos’ fiber roll out in the country.
Leading lights of the Indian entertainment industry discussed the impact of streaming platforms in the period after COVID-19 at a panel on the concluding day of the Film Bazaar market in Goa.
Currently, the Indian federal government reimburses up to 30% of qualifying production expenditure to a maximum of INR20 million ($244,000). An additional 5% to a maximum of INR5 million ($61,100) is granted to productions employing 15% or more manpower in India. The minimum qualifying production expenditure spending threshold is INR25 million ($305,500).
Cord-cutter homes are currently estimated to be a minuscule 0.5 million and will continue to remain insignificant by 2026 according to the latest CII KPMG report released recently
Russia was a significant presence at India’s recently concluded Film Bazaar market in Goa, with Roskino and Moscow Export Center occupying two pavilions. There were 14 Russian production companies represented at the Moscow Export Center pavilion. Roskino, operating under the umbrella brand ‘Russian Content Worldwide,’ featured more than 30 films, series and animations from 10 content producers. Both entities sent detailed catalogs of films, series and animation to Bazaar delegates ahead of the event with a view to achieving Indian and Asian sales.
Pirate movie and TV show apps are extremely popular, with some proving more popular than others. For developers of these higher-profile apps, a large audience is a dream come true. The downside features more attention from anti-piracy groups, ACE in particular. Popular Android applications TeeTV, BeeTV and CyberFlix, have popularity all wrapped up, but the hard bit comes next.
Speaking during an online discussion, the minister said the National Data Governance Framework Policy has provision for handling anonymisation of data -- which is not part of the draft Digital Personal Data Protection (DPDP) bill 2022.