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  • Chennaiyin FC announce Nivia as official kit partner

    Chennaiyin FC announce Nivia as official kit partner

    MUMBAI: Two-time Indian Super League (ISL) champions Chennaiyin FC (CFC) has signed sports brand Nivia as the official kit partner on a multi-year deal, starting from the 2021-22 season.

    The Indian sports equipment manufacturer based in Jalandhar, Punjab has strong footprints in the football ecosystem in the country, as well as Asia. Nivia had associated with ISL in 2018 with a three-year multi-crore deal as the football league’s official ball partner. It has also worked with national football federations of India, Sri Lanka, and Bhutan.

    “We are excited to team up with Nivia, one of the most successful sports brands in the football ecosystem in India. This partnership clearly underlines our ascendancy within the sport and will help us widen our reach across Tamil Nadu through their distribution network. We are always keen to associate with brands that share the same passion for the sport as us and we welcome them to the Chennaiyin family,” CFC co-owner Vita Dani said about the partnership.

    With shared values and a compelling sporting proposition, coming together of both the brands will go a long way in helping Marina Machans tap the large and passionate football fan base from the region. This strategic partnership will also ensure the club explores various opportunities to develop football in the grassroots further alongside this indigenous brand.

    Nivia managing director Rajesh Kharabanda said, “The new season of the ISL is around the corner and Nivia is extremely proud to be kick-starting the association with the two-time champions, Chennaiyin FC. To manufacture the kits for them with the Dhrishti Bommai logo — the symbol of chasing away negativity and bringing the positivity — is an absolute honour. We hope this new collaboration between Chennaiyin FC and Nivia helps bring out the best. Finally, we wish the team all the best for the upcoming season and hope to have an extremely fruitful association over the coming few seasons.”

    Nivia will have exclusive retailing rights to CFC’s take-down and replica jerseys, adding pan-India merchandise reach for the franchise across retail and e-commerce channels. The collection will also comprise a fanwear selection of polo tees, shorts, trousers and boots, underscoring both brands’ desire to enhance the collaboration beyond a traditional sports sponsorship model. 

  • Sony & CFC partner for Chinese remake of ‘My Best Friend’s Wedding’

    Sony & CFC partner for Chinese remake of ‘My Best Friend’s Wedding’

    MUMBAI: Sony Pictures and China Film Co. (CFC) have joined hands to co-produce the Chinese remake of My Best Friend’s Wedding.

     

    The film, slated for release in China on Valentine’s Day 2016, features Shu Qi, Feng Shaofen, Song Qian aka Chinese singer and actress Victoria Song and Ye Qing.

     

    Sony’s original film, which released in 1997, starred Julia Roberts, Cameron Diaz, Dermot Mulroney and Rupert Everett.

     

    Shooting will begin in late July this year in London, Italy and Beijing.

     

    Alexi Tan will direct and produce the Chinese remake his company, Play Productions.

     

    In the film, Journalists Gu Jia and Lin Ran have grown up together as best friends. One day, Lin Ran calls Gu Jia from the UK telling her that he is getting married to someone he only just met, a wealthy Chinese girl who has been studying in the UK, and asks Gu Jia to be his “best man.” Gu Jia finally realizes that she loves him, not just as a friend, and sets out for London a few days before the wedding determined to win him back.

     

    Hong Jiu, Fu Linran and Alexi Tan wrote the script. Jiu has published several popular online novels including We Live Together.

     

    “We are delighted to be collaborating with Columbia Pictures on this exciting remake of what has become an international comedy classic,” said China Film Co., Ltd executive Ling Hong.

     

    Sony Pictures China head of production and strategic development Dede Nickerson added, “We are thrilled to be working with our partner China Film, Alexi and this incredible cast to create what is sure to be a hilarious and touching film for the Chinese audience.”

     

    Columbia Pictures is also currently in post-production on director Chen Kaige’s dark comedy Monk Comes Down the Mountain starring Wang Baoqiang, Aaron Kwok, Chang Chen, Chiling Lin, VanNess Wu and Fan Wei, based on the novel of the same name by Xu Haofeng. The film is currently in post-production and scheduled for release on 3 July, 2015.

     

    Sony has previously co-produced Kung Fu Hustle (2004) and Ang Lee’s Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon (2000). 

  • India-China ink maiden film co-production deal

    India-China ink maiden film co-production deal

    MUMBAI: Even as India Prime Minister Narendra Modi made his maiden visit to China to boost trade and relations between the two countries, Indian media and entertainment firm Eros International has signed its first ever Sino-Indian co-production deal with Chinese state owned production company Chinese Film Corporation (CFC).

     

    The two companies will co-produce the movie Da Tang XuanZang (Monk XuanZang), which is based on the life of a Chinese monk (Monk Xuanzang) and stars Chinese actor Huang Xiaoming, It will be directed by HuoJianq.

     

    With this, Eros International is the first Indian studio to associate with the Chinese government and co-produce an Indo-Sino film. The movie,

     

    The deal was announced in China in the presence of CFC head La Peikang, Eros International Media president – business development Kumar Ahuja and SAPPRFT (State Administration of Press, Publication, Radio, Film and Television of the People’s Republic of China) vice minister Tong Gang along with Xiaoming and Jianq.

  • Eve players stage giant online space battle

    Eve players stage giant online space battle

    MUMBAI: For five hours on 28 July about 4,000 players took part in the epic battle between two of the game’s biggest alliances.

     

    The two sides were fighting for control of resources within several of the game’s solar systems. Time was slowed down in the virtual universe to help servers cope with the huge numbers of players and ships.

     

    The battle pitted spaceships belonging to CFC against those from the test alliance in a region of space known as 6VDT. It ended in victory for CFC.

     

    Eve Online is a detailed space simulation that sees players fly spaceships through thousands of virtual star systems, seeking resources they can use to prosper. The resources can be found on planets and in asteroid fields or acquired through piracy or other underhand means. Ships vary in size from small trading vessels to giant capital ships.

     

    Erlendur Thorsteinsson, one of Eve Online’s developers, confirmed in his tweet that the battle was the biggest ever seen in the game. At its peak the battle involved 4,070 pilots and their ships.

     

    Game time was slowed to ten per cent of normal to lighten the load on servers working out who was shooting at whom. The pivotal moment in the battle took place two hours in, when CFC sent in a large fleet of capital ships – the most powerful in the game. Their arrival prompted many members of the test alliance to try to flee.

     

    By the end of the conflict, thousands of ships are believed to have been destroyed. Their destruction has a real-world cost as the game’s internal currency can be bought with real money.

     

    So far no-one has worked out the total value of the ships destroyed, but a far smaller battle earlier in 2013 laid waste to far fewer spacecraft that in total were estimated to be worth more than $15,000.

     

    The giant battle was the culmination of a long campaign by CFC to force the test alliance out of 6VDT.

     

    Some have speculated that it may be one of the first of a series of conflicts that seek to extinguish test.