POGO and Cartoon Network to launch three new home-grown comedies
POGO and Cartoon Network, channels under WarnerMedia Entertainment Networks Asia Pacific, are ramping up original India productions with three new home-grown animation comedies. POGO has commissioned both Titoo and Lambuji Tinguji, produced by Cosmos Maya, and Cartoon Network will air Bandbudh Aur Budbak, from Paperboat Studios. Speaking about the new content,...
Post Office Studios partners with Asian Paints for their new campaign ‘Colour Next’
Post Office Studios, a leading animation and new media technology company based in Mumbai, has partnered with Asian Paints to conceptualise and produce five animated films for their campaign ‘Colour Next 2020’. The campaign was released at India Design ID 2020, the country’s most definitive design and...
Leading International TV content market, MipTV called off due to Coronavirus scare
MIPTV, one of the leading international television conferences and markets, stands cancelled due to concerns related to the coronavirus (Covid-19). The organising committee, Reed MIDEM, has also announced that besides MIPTV, MIPDoc and MIPFormats and Canneseries 2020 have been cancelled. The event was scheduled between 30 March...
Stardock releases a new political game ‘The Political Machine 2020’
Stardock released its new political strategy/simulation game, The Political Machine 2020. The PC strategy game allows players to choose a candidate and run for President against either a computer opponent or a candidate controlled by another person over the Internet. Candidates include current Democratic front-runners Joe Biden, Elizabeth...
Dubai KHDA releases comics to spread awareness of Coronavirus
Dubai’s education regulator, the Knowledge and Human Development Authority (KHDA), through Twitter, shared an informative comic for kids (and adults) to expel any fears they may have about the COVID-19 outbreak. Originally published by the American National Public Radio (NPR) two days ago, the eight-page comic is...
China postpones the release of Disney’s ‘Mulan’ due to Coronavirus scare
Walt Disney has announced to have postponed the release of Mulan in China due to Coronavirus (COVID-19). In FY19, Disney grossed $11.1 billion revenue from its movie releases. While 2020 also had a few big releases, it wasn’t expected to match The House of Mouse’s performance last...
‘Riverdance’ to be made into an animated film
The famous Eurovision 1994 interval act, Riverdance, is soon to be in cinemas as an animated musical comedy. Production companies, Aniventure and Cinesite Animations, along with River Productions are currently in post-production stages of a new movie called Riverdance. The movie will be released in cinemas later this...
Skyesports to host the first ‘Skyesports Premiere League’
In a first in the country, Skyesports will be hosting a Premier League tournament in Association with Good Gamer Corp for esports this May. The tournament’s first season, with a huge prize pool, will kickstart with PUBG Mobile, with 300 Pro players spread across 16 cities. The...
Marvel President Kevin Feige to voice Thanos-like character in ‘The Simpsons’
Marvel Studios president Kevin Feige, who launched the studio’s money-minting franchise Marvel Cinematic Universe (MCU), is set to make his acting debut with an upcoming episode of The Simpsons. The episode, titled Bart the Bad Guy, will see Feige voice the character of Chinnos, a parody of...
ZEE5 wins ‘India’s Most Desired Video Streaming Brand’ Title in TRA’s report
ZEE5 has been named as ‘India’s Most Desired Video Streaming Brand’ as per TRA’s recently-released Most Desired Brands 2020 report. India witnessed a digital explosion 2016 onward due to the rapid increase in smartphone uses and cheaper internet. Since then, digital content consumption, leisure binge-watching has become...