Historical Epic Bestseller ‘The Anarchy’, About Rise Of East India Company, Set For Major TV Adaptation With India’s Siddharth Roy Kapur

MUMBAI — Three generations of Bollywood’s Bachchan family were hit by the coronavirus as former Miss World Aishwarya Rai Bachchan and her daughter on Sunday joined her father-in-law Amitabh and husband Abhishek in testing positive for the virus that causes COVID-19.Maharashtra state health minister Rajesh Tope said in a tweet that Aishwarya and her eight-year-old daughter had tested positive for the virus.It was not clear whether they had been admitted to hospital, as Amitabh, a legendary Indian

Chutney Popcorn followed the attempts of a young Indian lesbian to reconnect with her mother by acting as her sister’s pregnancy surrogate.

Sufjan Stevens has shared ‘My Rajneesh’, the B-side to last week’s 12-minute comeback single ‘America‘.The new track, clocking in at 10 and a half minutes to rival its A-side, is about the Rajneesh cult movement founded by Indian mystic Bhagwan Shree Rajneesh. The sect of Hinduism attracted controversy when they founded a utopian community in the US state of Oregon, which they militaristically patrolled.

Universal Music Group is partnering with India’s Desi Melodies, a leader in the recent wave of Punjabi music, in a global distribution deal that underscores the rapid growth in consumption of regional-language content in the emerging market. The deal announced Tuesday (July 7) will solidify both Universal and Desi Melodies’ position at the forefront of India

Gene Maddaus Senior Media WriterKanye West’s Yeezy, STX Entertainment, New Regency and Laemmle Theatres are among the companies that received loans from the Paycheck Protection Program, according to data released by the Small Business Administration on Monday.STX received $2-5 million on April 9, shortly before it announced it would merge with India’s Eros International.

John Hopewell Chief International CorrespondentDanish writer Karen Blixen, whose memoir “Out of Africa” and short story “Babette’s Feast” were both turned into Academy Award-winning films, is now the subject of another big-screen makeover with an adaptation of her short story “The Immortal Story” set to be penned by Argentina’s Daniel Rosenfeld and Lucía Puenzo.Argentine-French actor Nahuel Pérez Biscayart (“BPM (Beats per Minute)”) and Leonardo Sbaraglia (“Pain and Glory,” “Wild Tales”) have

Disney has been criticised for its on-screen representations of Native Americans and is being urged to pay reparations to advocacy groups.Shannon O’Loughlin, executive director of the Washington DC-based Association on American Indian Affairs, said Disney’s portrayal of native people in films such as Pocahontas (1995) “leaves a lot to be desired”.O’Loughlin told the PA news agency: “It is indicative of how invisible Native Americans are and how no-one really understands who Native Americans are,

Rebecca Davis editorMusic industry service provider Outdustry has this week launched Outdustry Songs, a new independent music publisher focused on China, with an exclusive sub-publishing deal with U.S. indie Reservoir.Founded in 2006, Outdustry provides specialist A&R, rights and marketing services, aimed at the China and India markets.

reopening travelers from 14 countries, but not America.American visitors will have to wait at least another two weeks because of rises in coronavirus cases stateside, according to the Tuesday announcement.

coronavirus crisis in England will be dramatised for television, in a new series from Michael Winterbottom.The filmmaker will be teaming up with production house Freemantle, as well as True Detective producer Richard Brown via his company Passenger.

Manori Ravindran International Editor“The Trip” helmer Michael Winterbottom is set to direct a series depicting the U.K.’s muddled response to the coronavirus crisis under Prime Minister Boris Johnson.Producer-distributor Fremantle is partnering with “True Detective” executive producer Richard Brown’s nascent production outfit Passenger and Winterbottom’s Revolution Films on the project, which will have a keen focus on Johnson, who was admitted to intensive care with COVID-19 in late March and

Through the Glass Darkly producer Autumn Bailey-Ford has secured the film rights to the YA novel I'm Not Dying With You Tonight from writers Kimberly Jones and Gilly Segal ahead of a planned movie adaptation. The timely novel, released in 2019, follows two teen girls — one black and one white — who have to confront their own assumptions about racial inequality as they rely on each other to get through a riot that has set their city on fire.

Naman Ramachandran Prolific Indian producer Siddharth Roy Kapur has acquired audio-visual rights to author and historian William Dalrymple’s bestselling novel on colonialism “The Anarchy: The Relentless Rise of the East India Company.”Set during 1599 to 1802, “The Anarchy” traces the ascent of The East India Company against the decline and fall of the Mughal Empire.

Tom Grater International Film ReporterUK cinema owners have been lobbying hard for the government to relax its current two-meter social distancing guidelines in time for their re-opening on July 4, and today they are set to hear that their campaign has been successful.PM Boris Johnson is expected to confirm that cinemas can re-open on that date in an address to parliament shortly, but crucially he will also outline that the country’s distancing rule will be trimmed to one meter, likely with

Tom Grater International Film ReporterUK cinema owners have been lobbying hard for the UK government to relax its current two-meter social distancing guidelines in time for their re-opening on July 4, and today they are set to hear that their campaign has been successful.PM Boris Johnson is expected to confirm that cinemas can re-open on that date in an address to parliament shortly, but crucially he will also outline that the country’s distancing rule will be trimmed to one meter, likely with

Naman Ramachandran The U.K.’s ChorMedia and Holmgard Ltd are adapting Joe Dever’s popular fantasy-adventure gamebook series “Lone Wolf” as a live-action interactive series.Set in the fictional world of Magnamund, the series follows the adventures of Lone Wolf — the last surviving member of the Order of the Kai, an ancient caste of warrior monks who have mastered various natural and supernatural abilities.The gamebook series spans 32 books that have sold over 12 million copies worldwide,