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MUMBAI: Netflix is celebrating ten years in India with a slick anniversary film voiced by Shah Rukh Khan, a nostalgic sprint through a decade that rewired...
MUMBAI: A cinematic storm is brewing online following the Netflix premiere of Hindi cinema behemoth Dhurandhar. The Aditya Dhar directed epic, which recently smashed box office...
MUMBAI: When pop culture meets perfume, sparks are bound to fly. Luxury lifestyle brand Kimirica has unveiled a fragrance-first collaboration with Netflix and Shondaland’s global hit...
UK: The aerial is losing its grip. As broadband becomes the default way Britons watch television, the UK is edging towards a decisive, and divisive, question:...
MUMBAI: If 2025 had a remote control, India clearly knew where to point it. From spy thrillers and small-town comedies to reality television and global blockbusters,...
MUMBAI: The American television industry’s production decline accelerated in 2025, with the total number of original series falling for the third consecutive year, according to research...
MUMBAI: Two suitors, one studio and a regulator pressing pause. European Union antitrust authorities are preparing for an unusual side-by-side review of rival takeover bids for...
Washington: Warner Bros. Discovery has slammed Paramount Skydance’s latest $30/share takeover bid, claiming over 93 per cent of its shareholders have rejected what it called an...
NEW YORK: Paramount Skydance has gone on the offensive against Warner Bros Discovery, calling its amended merger with Netflix an admission of weakness and still a...
NEW YORK: In the high-stakes poker game for Warner Bros Discovery, there’s one guaranteed winner: the bankers. While Netflix and Paramount Skydance slug it out over...
DELHI: At 1 AM, 23-year-old Priya Sharma is glued to her phone, bingeing a revenge thriller in 90-second episodes. She is far from alone. Over 80...
MUMBAI: India is no longer Netflix’s great white hope—it’s the real deal. The world’s most populous country has become the streaming giant’s number two market for...
LOS ANGELES: Netflix has stopped apologising. The company that once dismissed advertising, theatrical releases and live sports with the zeal of a reformed smoker is now...
NEW YORK: Streaming tightened its grip on television in December 2025, capturing a record 47.5 per cent of total TV viewing and eclipsing the previous high...
CALIFORNIA: Netflix ended 2025 with a muscular show of financial strength, pairing double-digit revenue growth with swelling margins, surging advertising income and a sharpened focus on...
California: Netflix has rewritten the script on its proposed takeover of Warner Bros. Discovery, amending the deal to an all-cash transaction in a move designed to...
LOS ANGELES: Even in its afterlife, Stranger Things refuses to go quietly. Weeks after the Netflix juggernaut bowed out with a glossy farewell documentary, the internet...
MUMBAI: Eros International Media Ltd has moved the Bombay high court against filmmaker Aanand L Rai and his production banner Colour Yellow Media Entertainment LLP, alleging unauthorised...
WASHINGTON DC: Donald Trump quietly placed a bet on Hollywood’s balance sheet. Financial disclosures released by the White House showed the president bought corporate bonds issued...
CALIFORNIA: Netflix has struck a landmark global Pay-1 licensing agreement with Sony Pictures Entertainment, securing exclusive worldwide streaming rights to Sony’s feature films after their full...
NEW YORK: A Delaware judge has declined to put Paramount Skydance’s lawsuit against Warner Bros. Discovery on a fast track, dealing an early setback to Paramount’s...
California: Netflix is turbocharging the shift to ad-supported streaming. Usage of cheaper, advert-backed tiers climbed across major platforms between Q4 2024 and Q3 2025, with Netflix...
CALIFORNIA : Netflix is preparing to go all-cash to seal a blockbuster takeover of Warner Bros Discovery’s studios and streaming business, as resistance mounts from politicians,...
New Delhi: The Office of the principal scientific adviser to the government of India and the ministry of information and broadcasting have joined hands with Netflix...
LOS ANGELES: The popcorn is ready and the lawyers are out. In a move that has sent shockwaves through Tinseltown, Paramount has officially filed a lawsuit...
LOS ANGELES & NEW YORK: Hell hath no fury like a suitor spurned. Paramount Skydance is pulling no punches after Warner Bros. Discovery rebuffed its $30-per-share,...
CALIFORNIA: Netflix has thrown its full weight behind Warner Bros. Discovery’s board, endorsing its unanimous decision to stick with the Netflix merger and rebuff Paramount Skydance’s...
New York: Warner Bros. Discovery has drawn a hard line. Its board has unanimously rejected Paramount Skydance’s hostile tender offer, branding it inferior, risky and value-destructive,...
MUMBAI: Amar Kondekar has quietly but decisively put his stamp on Jio Creative Labs. One year into his role as head of brand services and business...
MUMBAI: While Hindi cinema churns out its usual fare of high-octane spectacles and star vehicles, a parallel universe of Indian cinema has been quietly collecting accolades...
SINGAPORE: Forget the remote control. Asia-Pacific’s couch potatoes are voting with their thumbs — and the verdict is brutal for old-school television. Media Partners Asia’s annual...
CALIFORNIA: On the night of January 1, 2026, all hell broke loose in Hawkins and the Upside Down (parallel dimension in Stranger Things) when Vecna rose from the ashes. In...
NEW YORK, LOS ANGELES: The new year may not bring great news for Paramount Skydance, if a Reuters report is to be believed. The news agency,...
MUMBAI: Lord Yama is keeping a close watch on India’s pay TV’s door, though from a distance, India’s pay-television industry, once the swaggering overlord of 151...
MUMBAI: The year 2025 proved Indian streaming has evolved from adolescence into aggressive adulthood. The market surged to approximately Rs 37,940 crore ($4.44 billion), with YouTube...
MUMBAI: In Hollywood, even the fine print can steal the show. Larry Ellison has now walked into the spotlight, personally backing Paramount Skydance’s blockbuster bid with...
NEW YORK: Paramount and Netflix have delivered knockout performances in November’s streaming battle, each posting double-digit growth that has reshuffled the media distributor rankings and left...
From mass sackings to AI anxiety, streaming wars to regulatory sledgehammers, 2025 was one of corporate pain—with the government playing enforcer, disruptor and occasional clown MUMBAI:...
NEW YORK & LOS ANGELES: Hollywood’s latest battle royale is heating up. Paramount, now owned by Skydance Corp, has fired back at Warner Bros Discovery’s board...
NEW YORK: Paramount Skydance is getting the Hollywood brush-off. On 17 December Warner Bros Discovery (WBD) told shareholders in no uncertain terms to reject Paramount’s $108.4...
NEW YORK: According to a Reuters report, Warner Bros. Discovery is preparing to tell its shareholders to politely but firmly turn down a hostile takeover bid...
NEW YORK & LOS ANGELES: Netflix has pulled off a coup in the podcasting wars, securing exclusive video rights to more than 15 of iHeartMedia’s top...
NEW YORK: Netflix has moved to steady nerves in Hollywood after unveiling its $82.7 billion acquisition of Warner Bros Discovery, promising to preserve theatrical releases and...
SAN FRANCISCO: From delivering avocados to delivering narratives, Dani Dudeck is trading supermarket aisles for streaming dominance. Netflix has poached the Instacart veteran as its new...
NEW YORK: David Ellison isn’t playing nice anymore. The chairman and chief executive officer of Paramount Skydance continues with his full-throated assault on Warner Bros. Discovery,...
INDIA: Tata Play Binge has expanded its regional catalogue by adding two OTT services, Ultra Play and Ultra Jhakaas, pushing its total app count to 36...
MUMBAI: The hand-wringing has begun. JioStar, India’s broadcasting colossus, is supposedly staring into the abyss: haemorrhaging money on cricket rights, throttled by advertising bans on online...
MUMBAI: Netflix is betting the house on Hollywood heritage. At the UBS Global TMT conference on 8 December 2025, co-chief executives Theodore Sarandos and Gregory K....
MUMBAI: In what can only be described as the streaming industry’s biggest power grab, Netflix has outmanoeuvred Paramount and Comcast to snap up Warner Bros Discovery’s...
LOS ANGELES & NEW YORK: Hollywood loves a good plot twist, and Paramount Skydance has just delivered a blockbuster. Days after Netflix waltzed off with a...
