The satellite rights are the hefty amount paid by TV channels to producers for the right to show the film for the next 99 years.
'We didn't know where the story was going. But I knew I was telling the story of an extremely lonely journalist.'
'Just because a subject is uncomfortable for some and doesn't suit their political ideology, should a film not be made?'
'I used to be embarrassed and think what will my friends say if I wiggle my hips.' 'I used to seek comfort in the fact that Meena Kumari and Nutan couldn't dance.' 'I think that was a mistake.'
With the Rs 100 Crore Club assuming so much importance, the biggest commercial successes are the ones where action is the central element.
'We would love to have more players entering the market because that is how the business will grow.'
Debutant director Caarthick Raju talks about the success of Thirudan Police.
Audience turnout is crucial to most exhibitors, since their discussions with film producers hinge on how many people will return to movie halls in the weeks ahead.
'In the last seven years or so, many reigning heroes have stopped working with him because no matter how popular a star they are, irrespective of whether they are playing the lead, it eventually becomes an Amitabh Bachchan film!'
Neither DC nor LSG look like outfits that give you the vibe of a champion side
Gokhale, an artist equally at home in theatre, television and movies, acted in several Marathi and Bollywood films.
Subhash K Jha picks songs to celebrate Maha Shiv Ratri.
Sarika talks about her Club 60 co-star, who passed away this morning.
RIL is setting up infrastructure for a full-fledged horizontal e-commerce offering - internally called the New Commerce - to simultaneously launch pan-India by October-November.
Sukanya Verma's Super Filmi Week.
Mutliplexes want the gap between a film's release in theatres and on OTT to be doubled from 4 to 8 weeks.
Seven of Bollywood's big stars (Akshay Kumar, Ranveer Singh, Ajay Devgn, Varun Dhawan, Saif Ali Khan, John Abraham and Shahid Kapoor), who had 10 movies released with a collective budget of Rs 1,100 crore since December, could rustle up only around a third of that money at the box office.
The Big Sick is packed with delicious details, moments and scenes that makes the film stand apart as a smart rom-com, says Aseem Chhabra.
'Whenever we were low in energy and wanted support, we turned to him.' 'He has done a lot for me.' 'He did not leave any stone unturned to launch me.'
It was a quiet reopening with few people venturing warily to watch a mix of regional, English and Hindi reruns such as "Chhichhore", "Thappad", "Tanhaji" and "The Spy".
The question 'Who was/were behind Aditha Karikalan's killing?' will continue to remain a historic mystery despite Mani Ratnam setting out to unravel it in his own way, points out N Sathiya Moorthy.
As Sachin turns 50, Rediff brings you 50 fascinating facts about the God of Cricket.
'I wasn't getting the roles I wanted to play and the respect I thought I deserved as a senior actor, so I cut myself off from the industry for a while and moved to the US.'
Television actor Tunisha Sharma was founding hanging on the sets of a serial in Mumbai on December 24, one more instance of a showbiz aspirant allegedly taking the extreme step.
At Rs 2,000, you can gift yourself an awesome sensory experience for Diwali.
It is worth thinking about the deeper reasons that make people depend, often against their wishes, upon substances that ruin their health and their relationships, observes Chintan Girish Modi.
Smriti Mundhra's documentary The Romantics has many, many, gems about one of Bollywood's most successful film-makers and more importantly, his iconic father, Yash Chopra.
Kamal Haasan's controversial film Vishwaroopam is one of the biggest blockbusters in 2013.
Touted as the most expensive film in Malayalam cinema, the film offers little scope for Mohanlal to perform.
The cinema industry is staring at a loss of at least Rs 5,000 crore at the box office over the next six months if Omicron proves to be a spoiler.
'We have to scale down our theatre's seating capacity by tweaking the arrangement of seats.' 'We have to stop screening back-to-back shows to ensure that people do not bump into one another.'
'Amitji is not integral to my cinema, he is integral to cinema.'
Joginder Tuteja looks at the actresses, who waited patiently, and will now release their films in theatres this year.
'We didn't realise what a tsunami The Kashmir Files was going to be.'
'He is busy building an image on the social media as an anti-right-winger.' 'But remember: An actor is only good at what he was born to do,' observes Subhash K Jha.
'Even after Awaara Hoon and Mera Joota Hai Japani, between 1946 to 1963, there were plenty of upheavals in his career. My parents had moved into two rooms of a chawl, with an attached bathroom, by then, but life was hard, and often there was no food at home.'
'Apart from being total eye-candies, Saif and Shahid are very good actors. Saif is that classy man, who would open the door for you and pull chairs for you. Shahid would come to the sets with headphones on. He had a boyish charm.' Kangana Ranaut gets in Rangoon mode.
'We will see footfall returning to pre-COVID levels by January.'
'You can't make a film for yourself.' 'You have to make films for your audience.'
Mohanlal and Vijay starrer Jilla has shattered all previous box-office records in Tamil cinema. Director R T Neason talks about the success.
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