Broadcasting company TV Today Network said it has decided to write off nearly Rs 273 cr of accumulated losses at its Mail Today newspaper business and merge it with the parent company for better synergies. TV Today Network runs one of India’s most popular television network, including the channels India Today and Aaj Tak. The […]
PVR Cinemas, India’s largest cinema exhibition company, said it has decided to set up 16 new 4D theaters at its most popular theaters in Delhi, Gurgaon, Bengaluru, Mumbai, Chandigarh, Pune and other cities. The 4D theaters — which include moving seats and other effects — will be set up with the help of CJ 4DPLEX, […]
Post production services company Prime Focus Limited said it will raise Rs 330 cr by selling warrants, mostly to its promoter group. The company would issue 31 mln warrants, taking the total diluted equity base of the company to 330 mln from 299 mln. The warrants are being issued at Rs 106 each compared to […]
DD Free Dish has become the second free DTH service to offer a free HD channel on its platform after ABS Free Dish. ABS has been transmitting an HD channel — Trace Sports — for over a year. The channel can be viewed by anyone with an MPEG4 Ku band satellite receiver. Now, Doordarshan’s DTH […]
Radio Jockey Sooraj of 98.6 FM, a Malayalam Radio station in Qatar, has announced that he is stepping down from his role at the station following a social media outcry over his comments supporting three Muslim girls who danced publicly at an AIDS awareness function in Kerala. Following the usual style of his Facebook videos, […]
Bollywood actor Shashi Kapoor has passed away. He was 79 years old, and was the youngest son of Raj Kapoor, the tallest actor of early Indian cinema. Kapoor has been keeping unwell for several years. The actor died in the Kokilaben hospital in Mumbai today. He was undergoing a routine dialysis. The news was confirmed […]
Eros International Media announced its next film Haathi Mere Saathi, a remake of the 1971 film of the same name starring Rajesh Khanna. It will be shot on a large canvas in three languages — Hindi, Telugu and Tamil, and directed by Prabhu Solomon of Kumki and Mynaa fame. “With shooting commencing in Thailand in […]
According to sources, Edit II Productions, which produces the massively successful Hindi comedy Bhabhiji Ghar Par Hain for &TV, is likely to produce another comedy ‘Jijaji Chhat Par Hain‘, this time for SAB TV. &TV, for the record, is a brand of Zee Entetainment, while SAB TV is owned by Sony Pictures. Unlike Bhabhiji, which […]
The Supreme Court again refused to stop the movie Padmavati, urging the Central Board of Film Certification to do its job. It rejected a public interest litigation today filed by a Delhi-based lawyer. “We are not going to prejudge the issue,” said the court today. It pointed out that it cannot step into the shoes […]
PVR Limited, India’s largest theater chain, said it agreed to acquire a minority stake in US-based luxury restaurant-and-theater company iPic-Gold Class Entertainment, LLC. The US company operates 16 luxury theaters with 121 screens across 10 States in the United States, PVR said. Ajay Bijli, Chairman and Managing Director of PVR, will join the board of directors of […]
PVR, India’s largest movie chain, said viewers can now watch any movie they want — including oldies, small-time and independent flicks and documentaries — by voting for them on movie-on-demand app VKAAO from Bookmyshow. When a certain number of app users sign up for a screening at a particular time and theater, the movie theater […]
Hindu Janajagruti Samiti, an online organization that aims to bring back ancient Hindu rules in India, said it “won’t tolerate” mistakes in films, referring to errors in the film Padmavati. It did not specify what action it plans to take. Joining the protests by Rajput organizations of Rajasthan, the Samiti said it was outrageous to […]
Chennai-based Sun TV continued to report decent overall growth in the July-September quarter as well, but advertising sales continued to lag behind peers such as Zee Entertainment. The company has been ‘suffering from’ poor advertisement growth in the last couple of years, even as players like Zee Entertainment have reported double digit year-on-year improvements. The […]
Jagran Prakashan reported disappointing results for the September quarter, continuing the trend of print and newspaper companies struggling in recent quarters. Total revenue from operations fell to Rs 566.55 cr for the three months ended September, down from 591.33 cr in the previous three months. However, compared to the same period a year ago, operating […]
Star India, India’s biggest broadcasting company, has threatened to pull out its channels from Tata Sky, India’s biggest distributor of television content. Tata Sky is a joint venture between Tata Group and Rupert Murdoch’s 21st Century Fox, which also owns Star India. Unlike in case of Star, Fox owns only a minority stake of around […]
Two of India’s top satellite-based cinema feed providers, UFO Moviez and Qube Cinema Technologies, have decided to merge to take advantage of higher scale. The merger ratio and valuation will be 63.6% for UFO and 36.4% for Qube Digital. Currently, UFO supplies its movie feeds to around 4,000 screens while Qube provides its feed to […]
Reliance Digital TV, the DTH arm of the Anil Ambani Group, is scheduled to shut down next month, according to the photo of an advertisement that allegedly appeared in a regional newspaper. The DTH service has around 5 mln (50 lakh) subscribers. “This is a notice to all subscribers of Reliance Digital TV,” the advertisement […]
PVR Cinemas, India’s largest theater chain, has launched a new loyalty program to retain, attract and reward high-value customers. The program, known as PVR Privilege, will entitle its members to get reward points for all their spends, and these points can in turn be used to buy tickets and food. The program offers reward points […]
Tata Elxsi, the hardware design company from the Tata stable, has tied up with Unity Technologies to set up a center that will develop solutions based on the Unity visualization engine. The Unity platform is arguably the most widely used engine for developing mobile phone games and can also be used to develop 2D and […]
Reliance Industries refused to deny or confirm media reports about its telecom unit Jio being in talks to acquire cable operator Den Networks. Shares of Den Networks, one of India’s largest cable networks, are up 6.2%, having opened higher on the news. “We are unable to comment on media speculation and rumors and it would […]
