Video game titan Ubisoft this week announced a deal with Netflix to create shows based on its hit “Assassin’s Creed” franchise. The first project by the French-based video game group and the leading television streaming service is a series intended to be “an epic, genre-bending live action adaptation” of the game franchise, according to the […]
Ridiculed once again in a film featuring fictional Kazakh journalist Borat Sagdiyev, the ex-Soviet state of Kazakhstan has embraced the joke this time round and adopted Borat’s catch phrase to try to attract tourists. “Borat Subsequent Moviefilm: Delivery of Prodigious Bribe to American Regime for Make Benefit Once Glorious Nation of Kazakhstan,” a follow-up to […]
Indian streaming service Eros Now issued an apology on Thursday to its Twitter followers — on the very platform where it posted its inappropriate Navratri ads — when the Internet backlashed against the campaign, deeming it “vulgar” and offensive. Owned by motion picture production company Eros International, the service found itself recalling its suggestive posters, […]
Sony heralds in their support for the nation-sweeping Black Lives Matter movement with launch of new PlayStation (PS) theme for gamers. The wildly popular gaming console has released a new static theme on the PS Store called the “Black Lives Matter Theme” available for free download. Hued in colours black and yellow, the user interface […]
A Thai court on Tuesday ordered the suspension of an online TV station critical of the government, which has accused it of violating emergency measures aimed at ending three months of protests. Voice TV had also been found to have breached the Computer Crime Act by uploading “false information,” digital ministry spokesman Putchapong Nodthaisong told […]
Disney+ has plussed out with the wording of its updated disclaimer, owning up to past errors that racialized its era-bygone characters — and now, subtly adding a new layer to its warnings to all its ‘negative’ content. The streaming platform has rephrased its initial “outdated cultural depictions” warning — in use since November 2019 with a 12-second, cannot-be-skipped […]
Liam Neeson’s thriller “Honest Thief” limped to first place at the domestic box office, debuting at $3.7 million. Those ticket sales, among the lowest ever to land at No. 1, came in slightly ahead of Christopher Nolan’s “Tenet” and Robert De Niro’s family comedy “War With Grandpa.” “Tenet,” now in its seventh week of release, […]
The controversy over an advertisement by Indian jewellery brand Tanishq shows us how broken we are. Tanishq put out an advertisement that promotes religious, cultural harmony and all hell broke loose in the troll republic. How dare Tanishq show anything that promotes love, mutual respect among communities? Boycott calls on twitter followed. Tanishq was branded […]
Dexter, one of America’s best known TV serial killers, is on his way back. Cable network Showtime said on Wednesday it had given the go-ahead to a 10-episode revival of “Dexter,” with star Michael C. Hall once again playing blood splatter specialist Dexter Morgan who works with the Miami police department and moonlights as a […]
Amid the ongoing TRP (Television Rating Point) scandal, Broadcast Audience Research Council (BARC) board is all set to review its current standards of measuring, and pause the rating of news channels with immediate effect. The exercise would cover all Hindi, Regional, English news and business news channels. Starting with the ‘News Genre’, BARC will not […]
Japanese game developer Sega celebrates its 60 years with a release of several ‘freebie’ games on popular game-community base, Steam. “To celebrate, we will mark each of those years with a day of exciting content to give you, our players, an insider’s look at what has made Sega what it is today,” the company said […]
