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Naman Ramachandran The burgeoning Asian webtoon market is set to expand further with the April launch of Graphic India’s Toonsutra, a comics platform for mobile devices.Toonsutra is differentiated, in that, in addition to standalone comics, it will offer exclusive original web comics based on hit Indian film and TV properties including S.S.

We're literally minutes away from finally getting to consume Zack Snyder's magnanimous version of Justice League, which has been a long time coming.

Lionsgate Play, the Mumbai-based streaming service operated by STARZ, unveiled its second original series Wednesday targeting the fast-growing India market. A college romance drama series, U Special will be headed up by veteran actor/writer/director Akarsh Khurana as showrunner.

In a first for its Indian operations, Amazon Prime Video will act as co-producer on upcoming Hindi movie Ram Setu, which will be led by superstar Akshay Kumar.

The movie is directed by Manjari Makijany, an Indian writer-director based in Los Angeles. She has also worked on Desert Dolphin, India’s first skateboarding feature, which will be released globally on Netflix in 2021. Vandana is seen here celebrating Diwali with her co-actors from Spin.

Gallery: Have you seen the 10 highest-grossing film franchises? (BANG Showbiz)Dev wrote the script with Paul Angunawela and John Collee for the film that has been partly inspired by the Hindu myth about the God Hanuman who is half man, half monkey. Filming had been sent to take place in India last year but had to be relocated to Indonesia due to the coronavirus pandemic.

The Oscars 2021 nominees announcement was historic in more ways than one. While diversity was at play, several artists like Viola Davis, Chloe Zhao, Riz Ahmed, Steven Yeun and Emerald Fennel made history with their nominations.

Naman Ramachandran Feature film project “The Catch” (Ghol), aims to juxtapose the Indian subcontinent’s troubled and violent history with the present day while telling a simple human tale.The film will follow Hussain Mirza, an impoverished trawler fisherman on the polluted Indian side of the Arabian Sea. When he strays across the unmarked marine border into Pakistani waters, he is imprisoned for years while his family was killed in the 2002 Gujarat pogrom.

Spin, Disney Channel's first original TV movie with an Indian American lead centered on Indian culture — and only ET has the exclusive scoop.  follows Rhea ('s Avantika), an Indian American teen who learns she has a passion for creating DJ mixes that blend the textures of her Indian heritage and the world around her.

Naman Ramachandran Indian government body, the National Commission for Protection of Child Rights, has sent a notice to Netflix calling on it to stop streaming “Bombay Begums,” on the grounds that the original series could incite “abuse and exploitation.”The notice, issued on Thursday, demands that Netflix stop streaming the series, which bowed on March 8, within 24 hours, and provide a detailed action report, failing which “the Commission will be constrained to initiate appropriate action”

EXCLUSIVE: MarVista Entertainment has acquired worldwide rights for the indie coming of age pic The Miseducation of Bindu directed by Prarthana Mohan and executive produced by Jay and Mark Duplass.

Elaine Low Senior TV WriterSony Pictures Entertainment has named Ravi Ahuja as chairman of Global Television Studios and its corporate development operations, where he will lead Sony Pictures TV’s domestic and international productions, the studio’s game show franchises and its India business, according to the company.Ahuja will also oversee the company’s corporate development and mergers and acquisitions alongside SPE chairman and CEO Tony Vinciquerra.“Ravi is an extraordinarily talented and

Priyanka Chopra, riding high on the strength of her starring and executive producing role in the Netflix hit White Tiger, is entering the restaurant business. She will be opening the Indian cuisine eatery SONA this month in New York City.

Hollywood's much loved couple Chrissy Teigen and John Legend are sending their fans across the continent into a frenzy. It all started when Chrissy shared a video on Instagram of herself grooving to some foot tapping Bollywood music.

has donned yet another hat! After being a successful actress, producer, author and entrepreneur, Priyanka Chopra Jonas is now a restaurateur. The actress took to social media to announce that she is now the proud co-owner of an Indian restaurant in New York.

Netflix has unveiled an enormous slate of 40 film and TV titles targeting the fast-growing Indian streaming market at a gala event held Wednesday in Mumbai. Dubbed "See What’s Next India 2021," the gathering was hosted by Netflix's top two executives in the country, Monika Shergill, vp of content for Netflix India, andSrishti Behl Arya, director of international original film.

Towards the end of last month, EXO-Ls were given the confirmed statement by SM Entertainment that beloved EXO member Chanyeol will be enlisting in the military on March 29. Chanyeol is now the fifth EXO member after Xiumin, D.O., Suho and Chen to enlist.

Naman Ramachandran In an unprecedented move Amazon Prime Video India has apologized for its Indian original series “Tandav,” some parts of which had offended members of the ruling Hindu nationalist dispensation.The series, created by Muslim filmmaker Ali Abbas Zafar, featured a scene in which a character, played by Muslim actor Mohammed Zeeshan Ayyub, portrayed the Hindu God Shiva. Amazon quickly edited the scene and Zafar apologized.