The fourth quarter ticket sales for US films in India were up 114 per cent on a year earlier while Bollywood’s box office take rose only 34 per cent. Hollywood superheroes encroach on Bollywood’s local dominance, as in the past American films struggled to make a splash in India, where Mumbai based Bollywood and other…
South Korean film Parasite has been named the best picture at 2020 Oscars becoming the first non-English language film to take the top prize beating 1917 and Joker. Parasite won four awards while Sam Mendes’s 1917 took three. Renee Zellweger won the best actress for playing Judy Garland in Judy, Joaquin Phoenix was named the…
A couple of months ago, the heads from 18 small British telecoms companies met at a London bank to discuss investment, strategy, and mergers. In the meeting, they were asked if they thought the Chinese could eavesdrop through back doors in Huawei equipment all 18 hands went up. One of the bankers then asked, if…
A string of flops have left the US box office down 6 per cent in the year to date. Several independent new films release are threatened with extinction as superheroes and sequels dominate the box office as streaming diminishes the box office appeal. Despite the release of Avengers, Endgame, the highest grossing film in history,…
Scooby-Doo an American franchise with several animated television series produced from 1969 is 50 years. Joe Ruby and Ken Spears created the original series Scooby-Doo, Where Are You! For Hanna-Barbera Productions in 1969. The basic story, of classic Scooby-Doo cartoons, has entertained three generations of children and today, the Franchise is cclebrating 560 years aired…
Russi Taylor famous for the voice of Minnie Mouse for more than 30 years has died aged 75. Russi provided the shrill, simpering tones of the Disney character in several TV series and in films including Who Framed Roger Rabbit and Mickey, Donald, Goofy: The Three Musketeers which entertained millions of children and adults worldwide.…
For decades record companies used people’s desire for a tune as licence to print money were facing catastrophe. In April the IFPI – the global body of the recording industry –released its latest annual Global Music Report. For the consecutive year, revenues were up to total of $19.1bn from a low of $14.3bn in…
Canadian firm Sunrise Records has bought 100 stores, securing 1487 jobs, the collapsed music chain HMV, beating competition from Sport Direct owner Mike Ashley. But 27 stores will close, resulting in 455 redundancies. Sunrise Records CEO Doug Putman, said he was “ delighted to acquire the most iconic music and entertainment business in the UK”.…
76th Golden Globe award on Sunday Colman was named the best actress in a musical/comedy for her role as Queen Anne in The Favourite, Bale won for Playing ex-US Vice President Dick Cheney in Vice and he thanked “Satan” for inspiration for his role, Madden and Whishaw won TV awards for their roles in…
This Christmas HMV has fallen victim slump in sales on the UK high street and customer changing habits including music streaming, and is filing for administration for the second time in six years, as shopper footfall dropped 3.1 per cent on Boxing Day compared with last year. His Master’s Voice, started trading in 1921, has…