'I never imagined that there would come a day when the NBA game would be seen and heard by Indian fans in their own language.'
The $385 million acquisition of TEN Sports is set to make Sony Pictures Networks a major cricket broadcaster in Asia as it seeks to expand its Twenty20-dominated portfolio. Sony Corp-owned SPN holds broadcast rights for the annual cash-rich Indian Premier League Twenty20 cricket tournament while also having the rights for the domestic leagues in South Africa and the West Indies.
The four south Indian languages grew by 7% while regional languages within the Hindi speaking markets (such as Bhojpuri, Bangla, Marathi, etc) grew by 26%.
Are you looking forward to Bollywood's new love stories?
The film marks the second-most successful opening for leading man Shahid Kapoor after Shaandaar.
In 2015, e-commerce contributed significantly to the growth in television advertising revenues.
Urvi Malvania reveals STAR India's big plans for IPL-11.
Best vs Best. Tiger vs Tiger. Star India, BCCI team up for a high decibel campaign for the cricket jamboree.
Teams play safe, retain star players, total purse at Rs 148 crore versus Rs 198 crore last year
Coffee Board of India has signed on P V Sindhu, P Gopichand and Prabhas and Rana Daggubatti from the Baahubali star cast as brand ambassadors
'It's happened many times, all these lovely aunties come to me and say, 'Beta, whenever you come onscreen, you make us laugh even before saying a dialogue'.'
Franchise films will continue to dominate the calendar, with big-ticket movies like Avengers: Infinity War, Aquaman, Dark Phoenix, Deadpool 2, Black Panther.
Star's maths is simple: It expects to make something close to Rs 40 billion from the two properties in the first year (2018) itself, which is pretty close to its break even point
Gyan Correa's film has not made it to the nine films that were short-listed for the 86th Annual Academy Awards.
For a little over two weeks, a group called 'Guardians of Peace' released a new bit of leaked information about Sony almost every day.
People mag has announced its verdict. Your turn now!
The current broadcasting platforms believe the road ahead for Netflix might not be a cakewalk
OTT players like Netflix, Hotstar, and Voot are keen to find a common currency to measure viewership numbers and improve advertising options as well as content. Urvi Malvania reports.
United States President Barack Obama on Wednesday vowed to relentlessly hunt down terrorists from Pakistan to the streets of Paris and called on Congress to approve new war powers against Islamic State militants.
The film will finalled release on September 20.
Former Censor Board chief and Julie 2 producer Pahlaj Nihalani takes on the film industry.
Mythological and historical shows are lapped up not just by the young, but equally by grown men and women.
Movies like Jungle Book, Conjuring 2 helped Hollywood capture its biggest share of the Indian box office this year. Can Bollywood keep up? Urvi Malvania reports.
He was blessed with celestial ability, a once-in-a-generation player destined to pull India out of its hockey inertia and lay down for it a new, exciting, path of greatness. Then he was shot and unsure if he would walk, let alone play hockey again. Dhruv Munjal hopes Soorma, the biopic on Sandeep Singh's life, will bring him back where he belongs -- in the spotlight.
'And Tina, that girl inside that woman, wants to try different things.'
It is all about hitting the ball high and timing it right.
New players from India and abroad have caught the attention of brand managers.
A lowdown on what's happening in Hollywood.
'Any Muslim who shows even the slightest hint of revolutionary thought is marked as 'infected'.' 'At that point, he is taken to the nearest Detention Centre where a procedure called Reconditioning awaits him.' 'Areas with a high Muslim population have been designated as Scheduled Religion Zones.' 'To be an active participant in this social cleansing ritual, there is only one prerequisite: You have to be an undying patriot whose friend and family is his country.'
We will do 7-8 high-end games for global markets every year, Manish Agarwal, CEO, Reliance Games
'Tis the season for hope and for forecasts. So here we look at the things we want and hope will be granted in 2015.
India scored at the recently-concluded Telluride Film Festival, reports Aseem Chhabra.
'The IPL is by the biggest sports property in the country and having it will give any digital video player an edge.'
Director Ritesh Batra discusses his film, The Lunchbox, which releases this week.
Aseem Chhabra is heartbroken that India overlooked the acclaimed film, The Lunchbox, as its Oscar nominee.
An upcoming film on Mohammad Azharuddin promises to be a potboiler, though not a true biopic.
The journey of the digitally restored version of The Apu Trilogy is packed with dark stories and years of near detective work by those determined to preserve some of Satyajit Ray's finest works.
Aseem Chhabra picks his favourite movies from the Telluride Film Festival.
It is always wonderful to discover a gem of film at an international film festival. It is even more exciting when that film is from India.
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