Multiplex chain Inox Leisure Ltd (Inox) has announced the launch of its fifth multiplex in the city of Gurugram at Worldmark Mall located at Maidawas Road, which is one of the prime hub for IT and corporate parks. The new multiplex has five auditoria with a total of 904 seats, including 33 luxurious recliner seats. With this launch, Inox will expand its presence to 158

SVOD giant Amazon Prime Video will double down its investments in original content in 2022. In 2021, the platform launched 11 Originals and 50 direct-to-service movies. Having built a strong base in the Hindi original content space, the platform will also dial up on local language content in Tamil and Telugu.

ZEEL-owned video streaming platform ZEE5 expects the next wave of viewership growth to come from Tier 2 and 3 cities due to its strategy of investing in regional content in languages like Marathi, Tamil, Telugu, Kannada, and Bengali. It had recently forayed into the Punjabi market.

The Fifth Generation or 5G telecom services are set to be rolled out in selected cities in 2022. The cities include, Gurugram, Bangalore, Kolkata, Mumbai, Chandigarh, Delhi, Jamnagar, Hyderabad, Lucknow, Pune, and Gandhinagar.

Regional video streaming platforms that specialise in content in specific languages such as Bengali, Punjabi and Marathi, among others, said the year 2022 will see them raise their game with large-budget shows that target family audiences now watching web content on large-screen TVs.

Strike 3 Holdings is continuing its quest against alleged BitTorrent pirates in U.S. courts. The adult entertainment company is the only prolific 'copyright troll' still left in the country and over the past months has filed over 1,900 lawsuits. Most cases have already been closed, with many being settled outside of court.

Ever since the covid-19 pandemic began, fears of uncertainty have clouded sentiments for shares of multiplex companies PVR Ltd and Inox Leisure Ltd. Investors worry about the likely imposition of restrictions and the resultant impact on footfall. The latest source of distress is the Omicron variant of coronavirus.

The year “The Matrix” came out — 1999 — already had a very sci-fi sound to it. It was the year Prince had imagined as the run-up to the apocalypse, a premonition that would be echoed in the Y2K jitters. And 1999 is just such a cool number; it’s like the other side of the coin from 2001.

In 2020, Amazon teamed up with publisher Penguin Random House and authors including Lee Child and John Grisham to sue several pirate eBook sites operating out of Ukraine. After a tortuous legal process, a Washington court has awarded the maximum available statutory damages of $7.8 million