PVR, Inox jump 8% each as West Bengal allows operations from Oct 1West Bengal Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee said musical, dance and magic shows would be permitted in the state from next month.
28 Sep, 2020, 01.11 PM IST
Exhibitors seek PM's help to stop OTT release of films meant for theatresSingle screens and multiplexes had since mid-March stopped screening in the wake of the COVID-19 pandemic. More than 9,000 single screens a...
12 May, 2020, 09.09 PM IST
Prohibiting dubbed serial on TV violates Competition Act: SCA bench of Justices A K Sikri and Abhay Manohar Sapre said this while allowing an appeal of the Competition CCI against an order of the COM...
15 Mar, 2017, 06.48 PM IST
Production houses in Bengal revising content to bring in novelty to their releasesChander Pahar was not just the first Bengali film to be shot in South Africa with a budget of Rs11 crore but also the highest grosser at th...
02 Apr, 2016, 05.25 PM IST
Tollywood dials Mamata for help, wants subsidies, tax benefits for single-screen theatresThe team will submit a document next month to Mamata Banerjee, detailing the crisis and highlighting the kind of help that the industry nee...
25 Jan, 2016, 06.32 PM IST
Tollywood cries out for tax breather as single screen theatres gather dustMore than 200 single-screen cinemas in West Bengal downed their shutters over the past three years as hardly any Bengali film crossed Rs 2 ...
14 Sep, 2015, 10.19 AM IST
Corporates join Tollywood bandwagon, Bengali film budgets rise to about 5-6 timesThe rising budgets that overseas shoots entail reflect the increasing interest of corporate investors in Bengali mainstream cinema.
02 Jan, 2014, 06.59 PM IST