The US Copyright Claims board officially opened less than a month ago and there's already a highly suspicious claim on the docket. The unknown “Copyrights Protection” outfit filed a case against pirate streaming app HA Sports Studio 'on behalf' of Sky. However, Sky informs TorrentFreak that it has absolutely nothing to do with it.

Ever since the Centre notified the rules to establish a self-regulatory architecture for over-the-top (OTT) platforms, video streaming services went into a self-censorship mode for content to avoid litigation and woo mass-market subscribers.

Hengdian Entertainment, a listed company that straddles film and television production and cinema operation in China, has made an indicative offer of RMB3 billion ($446 million) to buy the Shanghai Xingyi Cinema Managements firm. If the deal goes through, Hengdian Entertainment would become the second largest cinema operator in China.

Paramount+ has the second-largest slate of original subscription video on demand titles ordered in the U.K. so far in 2022, ranking only behind Netflix, Ampere Analysis said in a Monday report.

The Brazilian city is the latest international locale to entice Hollywood to shoot locally as Netflix and other streaming giants expand worldwide with local language projects.

Recording industry group BPI has announced that its program to block pirate sites via court injunctions in the UK will expand to mobile networks, starting with industry leader EE. Tests on EE connections currently yield mixed results but given the complex nature of the UK's major mobile networks, coupled with the parameters of existing injunctions, plenty of questions remain unanswered.

Film trade analysts said Hindi movies released in the past few months such as Jersey, Runway 34, Jayeshbhai Jordaar and Anek were mid-sized titles with little spectacle value. That’s set to change in the second half with star-studded large-scale productions

Tesla CEO Elon Musk announced Friday that he will exit the $ 44 billion Twitter deal after the company failed to provide enough information about the number of fake accounts. Twitter immediately fired back, saying it would sue the Tesla CEO to uphold the deal.

A group of film companies is suing VPN provider VeePN at a federal court in Virginia. The VPN service is accused of various forms of copyright infringement. Among other things, they argue that VeePN 'promotes' the use of pirate sites and Popcorn Time, while its services were advertised on the popular torrent site YTS.mx.