Monthly Archive: February 2020

Game Developers Conference 2020 postponed from March due to Coronavirus scare

This year’s Game Developers Conference(GDC) has been postponed from March to summer. Due to the Coronavirus outbreak, there have been high-profile withdrawals by companies that had planned to attend GDC 2020. The event, which has run since 1988, was expected to take place from 16 March to...

Netflix announces partnership with six Japanese creators to develop Anime Originals

Netflix announced from Tokyo this week that it has partnered with six Japanese creators to develop original anime series for fans around the world, as part of the company’s continued effort to build on its best-in-class anime originals with deep creative roots in Japan. The six creators...

OTT platform ZEE5 joins hands with Alliance Broadband to spread wide in Eastern India

ZEE5 has collaborated with Alliance Broadband, the biggest Internet Service Provider (ISP) in Eastern India, to offer easy access to over 1.25 lakh hours of a wide variety of content across different genres in 12 languages to its customers on the platform. Alliance Broadband customers with Alliance...

Nickelodeon’s former president Cyma Zarghami returns to business with children’s content studio

Nickelodeon former president Cyma Zarghami, after leaving the company has returned to the business of creating content for kids. She recently launched MiMO Studio, a production company and consultancy that will put its initial focus on developing original movies based on properties she thinks will win over...

Bombay HC issues order for deferment of TRAI’s New Tariff Order 2.0

The Bombay High Court has asked the Telecom Regulatory Authority of India (TRAI) to look after instructions on deferment of the NTO (new tariff order) 2.0 similar to what they did in the 2017 regime before the Madras High Court. According to reliable sources, TRAI has to...

HBO Max signs Multi-Year deals with children’s author Mo Willems

HBO Max has announced an exclusive, multi-year deal with beloved children’s author Mo Willems, an Emmy Award-winning writer, New York Times best-selling author and illustrator, establishing Willems as HBO Max’s very first artist in residence. As part of this two-year deal, HBO Max has acquired streaming rights...

Succeeding Iger, Bob Chapek becomes the next CEO of Walt Disney

Disney CEO Bob Iger will be replaced by Disney Parks, Experiences and Products chairman Bob Chapek as CEO, effective immediately, the board of directors of Walt Disney Co. broke the news on Tuesday. Iger will stay on as executive chairman through the end of 2021, with a...

Disney- Pixar’s new animated film ‘Onward’ becomes its first film to showcase an LGBTQ character

Disney-Pixar’s Onward is going to be the first animated film from Disney to feature the first self-identified LGBTQ character. While Onward isn’t the first time Disney has featured its first LGBTQ character in its cinematic universe, it is the first animated film from The House of Mouse to have a character...

Popular kids show ‘Paw Patrol’ to be made into film, releasing in 2021

Leading global children’s entertainment company Spin Master is taking its powerhouse franchise PAW Patrol from the small screen to the big screen. The major motion picture animated feature film, a Spin Master Entertainment production in association with Nickelodeon Movies, will be distributed by Paramount Pictures. The film...

Popular 90’s TV show ‘Friends’ to make a comeback on HBO Max

All the Friends fans can rejoice, as the popular sitcom is coming back as the famous star cast has announced a reunion episode on their social media handles. They posted a Rolling Stone cover photo from the show’s early days. The newest episode will be available exclusively...