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  • Roku unveils Advertising Watermark to protect from ad spoofing

    Roku unveils Advertising Watermark to protect from ad spoofing

    Mumbai: Roku Inc on Thursday announced its Advertising Watermark free technology to help advertisers and publishers validate the authenticity of video ads originating on the Roku platform. Touted as the industry’s first authentication solution built for TV streaming, Roku’s Advertising Watermark gives marketers the confidence that their advertising spend is reaching real Roku users.

    “Today, device spoofing occurs when scammers pretend that a desktop or mobile device is a TV streaming device. Roku’s Advertising Watermark integrates with the Roku operating system to automatically verify publisher ad requests and impressions so that advertisers know they are reaching genuine Roku users,” said the statement. “While ad spoofing in TV streaming remains rare, this technology will help the industry deter bad actors and improve ad effectiveness.”

    Ad technology providers integrating Roku’s Advertising Watermark at launch include Basis Technologies, Google, Human, Innovid, and Magnite. Publishers using Roku’s Advertising Watermark to sell their own ad inventory include Discovery, Fox, and more. Additionally, OneView by Roku will be the first ad buying platform to offer ad inventory automatically validated by Roku’s Advertising Watermark.

    “As America’s top TV streaming platform, we are uniquely positioned to help the industry preempt device spoofing,” said Roku VP of product management Louqman Parampath. “This is powerful and free technology that will help advertisers accelerate their shift to TV streaming with even more confidence.”

    Human co-founder and CEO Tamer Hassan remarked, “Roku is moving the industry forward with a solution that combats spoofing across the ad supply chain before it becomes a major issue. Together in partnership with Roku, we are creating a collectively protected ecosystem that brings even more trust and quality in a world where all TV will be streamed.”

    “Roku’s Advertising Watermark assures our advertiser clients that they are buying genuine Discovery inventory on Roku devices. We’re excited that Roku has brought its data, operating system, and ad technology together to easily prevent ad spoofing,” added Discovery VP – programmatic solutions Bill Murray.

  • ‘Olive Kitteridge’ to premiere on Star World Premiere HD

    ‘Olive Kitteridge’ to premiere on Star World Premiere HD

    MUMBAI: In a bid to introduce some of the finest stories ever told, coupled with memorable, award-winning characters to audiences in India, Star World Premiere HD has introduced an internationally renowned television viewing format in India through its property Mini Series of the Month. As part of the property, the channel showcases a highly acclaimed, award-winning and star studded miniseries and this month, it will premiere the four-part mini-series Olive Kitteridge.

    The series will air on 4 and 5 February at 7 pm.

    Based on Elizabeth Strout’s Pulitzer Prize winning novel, Olive Kitteridge paints a portrait of the titular character, a middle-school Math teacher in the coastal town of Crosby, Maine and her marriage with Henry which spans 25 years. It takes the form of 13 short stories put together in the 4-part miniseries that are interrelated and follow Olive’s life as she goes about her daily routine and experiences problems of depression, bereavement, jealousy, and friction with family members and friends.

    The mini-series stars Oscar winner Frances McDormand as the misanthropic, strict, but well-meaning, retired schoolteacher along with Richard Jenkins of The Visitor, Dear John fame; Ken Cheeseman of Shutter Island fame, John Gallagher of The West Wing, Law & Order, The Newsroom fame, Peter Mullan of Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows fame, Zoe Kazan of What If, Ruby Sparks fame, Bill Murray of The Jungle Book’s Baloo fame and many more.

    At the time of its release, the mini-series bagged a whopping eight awards at the 67th Primetime Emmys 2015 including Outstanding Limited Series.

  • ‘Olive Kitteridge’ to premiere on Star World Premiere HD

    ‘Olive Kitteridge’ to premiere on Star World Premiere HD

    MUMBAI: In a bid to introduce some of the finest stories ever told, coupled with memorable, award-winning characters to audiences in India, Star World Premiere HD has introduced an internationally renowned television viewing format in India through its property Mini Series of the Month. As part of the property, the channel showcases a highly acclaimed, award-winning and star studded miniseries and this month, it will premiere the four-part mini-series Olive Kitteridge.

    The series will air on 4 and 5 February at 7 pm.

    Based on Elizabeth Strout’s Pulitzer Prize winning novel, Olive Kitteridge paints a portrait of the titular character, a middle-school Math teacher in the coastal town of Crosby, Maine and her marriage with Henry which spans 25 years. It takes the form of 13 short stories put together in the 4-part miniseries that are interrelated and follow Olive’s life as she goes about her daily routine and experiences problems of depression, bereavement, jealousy, and friction with family members and friends.

    The mini-series stars Oscar winner Frances McDormand as the misanthropic, strict, but well-meaning, retired schoolteacher along with Richard Jenkins of The Visitor, Dear John fame; Ken Cheeseman of Shutter Island fame, John Gallagher of The West Wing, Law & Order, The Newsroom fame, Peter Mullan of Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows fame, Zoe Kazan of What If, Ruby Sparks fame, Bill Murray of The Jungle Book’s Baloo fame and many more.

    At the time of its release, the mini-series bagged a whopping eight awards at the 67th Primetime Emmys 2015 including Outstanding Limited Series.

  • ‘The Jungle Book’ to premiere on three Star channels on 27 November

    ‘The Jungle Book’ to premiere on three Star channels on 27 November

    MUMBAI: Star Movies has been home to the biggest blockbusters that have enthralled audiences over the years. Star Movies and Star Movies Select HD are all set to bring the beloved childhood classic – Disney’s The Jungle Book to audiences in India.

    Some stories leave a lasting impression on our minds while some fade away. Jungle Book is the former; a story that has kept us spellbound with every adaptation, be it TV or film. Academy Award winning director Jon Favreau brings to life Disney’s The Jungle Book as a benchmark of how CGI films have developed over the years. Disney’s The Jungle Book will premiere on Star Movies, Star Movies HD and Star Movies Select HD on 27 November (Sunday,) at 1pm and 9pm.

    The film’s cast includes three Oscar winners: Ben Kingsley, Lupita Nyong’o and Christopher Walken; and an Oscar nominee: Bill Murray. Featuring Neel Sethi as Mowgli with voices from Ben Kingsley, Bill Murray, Scarlet Johansson, Idris Elba, Lupita Nyong’o and many more, the film rings true to Rudyard Kipling’s timeless tale. All the characters in the movie played an instrumental role in helping Mowgli make the jungle his home. Whether it was Raksha who took care of him as her own; Bagheera who protected him from the sinister Shere Khan or the free spirited Baloo- they formed a family like no other. Disney’s The Jungle Book is about values as much as it is about the grandeur of film-making.

    With a worldwide gross of over US$ 963.7 million, the film is the year’s highest grossing Hollywood film in India and second biggest grossing film of 2016 (Hindi and English including).

    Visually stunning, Jon Favreau’s re-telling of a classic pays tribute to the original adventure of one of your most beloved childhood stories.

  • ‘The Jungle Book’ to premiere on three Star channels on 27 November

    ‘The Jungle Book’ to premiere on three Star channels on 27 November

    MUMBAI: Star Movies has been home to the biggest blockbusters that have enthralled audiences over the years. Star Movies and Star Movies Select HD are all set to bring the beloved childhood classic – Disney’s The Jungle Book to audiences in India.

    Some stories leave a lasting impression on our minds while some fade away. Jungle Book is the former; a story that has kept us spellbound with every adaptation, be it TV or film. Academy Award winning director Jon Favreau brings to life Disney’s The Jungle Book as a benchmark of how CGI films have developed over the years. Disney’s The Jungle Book will premiere on Star Movies, Star Movies HD and Star Movies Select HD on 27 November (Sunday,) at 1pm and 9pm.

    The film’s cast includes three Oscar winners: Ben Kingsley, Lupita Nyong’o and Christopher Walken; and an Oscar nominee: Bill Murray. Featuring Neel Sethi as Mowgli with voices from Ben Kingsley, Bill Murray, Scarlet Johansson, Idris Elba, Lupita Nyong’o and many more, the film rings true to Rudyard Kipling’s timeless tale. All the characters in the movie played an instrumental role in helping Mowgli make the jungle his home. Whether it was Raksha who took care of him as her own; Bagheera who protected him from the sinister Shere Khan or the free spirited Baloo- they formed a family like no other. Disney’s The Jungle Book is about values as much as it is about the grandeur of film-making.

    With a worldwide gross of over US$ 963.7 million, the film is the year’s highest grossing Hollywood film in India and second biggest grossing film of 2016 (Hindi and English including).

    Visually stunning, Jon Favreau’s re-telling of a classic pays tribute to the original adventure of one of your most beloved childhood stories.

  • ‘The Monuments Men’ team get an access to Da Vinci’s ‘The Last Supper’

    ‘The Monuments Men’ team get an access to Da Vinci’s ‘The Last Supper’

    MUMBAI: The team of The Monuments Men got an unprecedented access to photograph the cast of the movie in front of one of the world’s greatest art masterpieces – Leonardo Da Vinci’s The Last Supper.

     

    This art masterpiece was in danger of being lost during WWII and was rescued by the Monuments Men as depicted in the film, so there is a direct correlation to the film. These images have been shot exclusively for Fox by Italian photographer Gianmarco Chieregato.

     

    It became possible because of the cooperation among the Italian Ministry for Culture and Tourism, the Milan’s Monuments, Fine Arts and Landscape Department, and Twentieth Century Fox, the film distribution company.

     

    “The Magificent Seven” in the snapshot are: the director, screenwriter, producer and star of the film George Clooney and co-stars Matt Damon, Jean Dujardin, John Goodman, Bill Murray, Bob Balaban, and Dimitri Leonidas. 

     

    The Last Supper by Leonardo Da Vinci is the set of one of the opening scenes of the film that will release on 21 February, because the bombing that endangered Leonardo’s masterpiece strongly contributed to the decision to set up the Monuments Men, a group of art critics, museum curators, and archivists, who towards the end of the Second World War, saved thousands of artworks from bombings, pilfering, looting and Nazi barbarity.

  • Clooneys Monuments Men to open at Berlin Film Fest

    Clooneys Monuments Men to open at Berlin Film Fest

    MUMBAI: George Clooney’s The Monuments Men that is set to release in February next year will make its international debut as part of the 64th Berlin International Film Festival.

     

    The movie stars George Clooney, Cate Blanchett, Matt Damon, Bill Murray, John Goodman, Jean Dujardin, Bob Balaban and Hugh Bonneville.

     

    This is the second film announced by the fest that kicks off on 6 February. Earlier, the organisers had announced the opening film The Grand Budapest Hotel that too is shot in Germany.

     

    The Monuments Men German-American co-production is based on a true story focused on an unlikely World War II platoon, tasked by the Allies with going into Germany behind enemy lines to rescue artistic masterpieces from Nazi thieves and returning them to their rightful owners.

     

    Two-time Oscar winner Clooney has been a frequent guest of the Berlinale as a producer, actor and director. The Monuments Men will be his second directorial appearance in the official program after Confessions of a Dangerous Mind at the Berlinale 2003.

  • Is The Monuments Men gunning for the Oscars?

    Is The Monuments Men gunning for the Oscars?

    MUMBAI:Sony Pictures is readying for the 18 December release of The Monuments Men – the Oscar-season sweet spot – with the latest trailer to drop.

     

    George Clooney directs and heads the cast of the thriller about a World War II platoon of art historians and museum directors tasked by FDR with going into Germany to rescue priceless art from the Nazis.

     

    Matt Damon, Bill Murray, John Goodman, Jean Dujardin, Bob Balaban, Hugh Bonneville, and Cate Blanchett also star.

  • Is ‘The Monuments Men’ gunning for the Oscars?

    Is ‘The Monuments Men’ gunning for the Oscars?

    MUMBAI:Sony Pictures is readying for the 18 December release of The Monuments Men – the Oscar-season sweet spot – with the latest trailer to drop. 

    George Clooney directs and heads the cast of the thriller about a World War II platoon of art historians and museum directors tasked by FDR with going into Germany to rescue priceless art from the Nazis. 

    Matt Damon, Bill Murray, John Goodman, Jean Dujardin, Bob Balaban, Hugh Bonneville, and Cate Blanchett also star. 

  • ‘The Monuments Men’ commences production in Germany

    ‘The Monuments Men’ commences production in Germany

    MUMBAI: Columbia Pictures and Twentieth Century Fox have announced that ‘The Monuments Men‘, a Smokehouse production directed by and starring George Clooney, has started production in Berlin, Germany. The action-thriller is written by Clooney and Grant Heslov, based on the book by Robert M. Edsel with Bret Witter. Clooney and Heslov also produce the film through their Smokehouse Productions. It is their first production since winning the Academy Award for Best Picture for their work on ‘Argo‘.

    Barbara A. Hall is executive producer. ‘The Monuments Men‘ is a co-production with Germany‘s Siebente Babelsberg Film, a subsidiary of Studio Babelsberg AG. Charlie Woebcken, Christoph Fisser and Henning Molfenter serve as co-producers. Sony Pictures will release the film domestically, with Twentieth Century Fox handling international territories.

    The film stars Clooney, Matt Damon, Bill Murray, Cate Blanchett, Jean Dujardin, Bob Balaban, Hugh Bonneville, and John Goodman.

    Based on the true story of the greatest treasure hunt in history, ‘The Monuments Men‘ focuses on an unlikely World War II platoon, tasked by FDR with going into Germany to rescue artistic masterpieces from Nazi thieves and returning them to their rightful owners. It would be an impossible mission: with the art trapped behind enemy lines, and with the German army under orders to destroy everything as the Reich fell, how could these guys – seven museum directors, curators, and art historians, all more familiar with Michelangelo than the M-1 – possibly hope to succeed? But as the Monuments Men, as they were called, found themselves in a race against time to avoid the destruction of 1000 years of culture, they would risk their lives to protect and defend mankind‘s greatest achievements.

    Clooney‘s crew on ‘The Monuments Men‘ includes director of photography Phedon Papamichael, ASC, Oscar nominated production designer Jim Bissell, Academy Award winning editor Stephen Mirrione, A.C.E., costume designer Louise Frogley, and five-time Oscar nominated composer Alexandre Desplat.

    ‘The Monuments Men‘ films in Germany and the UK through the end of June. It is scheduled for release in the US on 18 December, 2013.