Monthly Archive: May 2020
Paramount Pictures announces sequel of ‘Sonic the Hedgehog’
Paramount Pictures and SEGA SAMMY are limbering up for a sequel to hybrid live-action/CG video game adaptation Sonic the Hedgehog. Oscar-nominated animator Jeff Fowler (Gopher Broke) will return to direct, as will scriptwriters Pat Casey and Josh Miller (Golan the Insatiable). The project is currently in development, so...
Studio Eeksaurus collaborates with WHO for informative video for Mothers
Studio Eeksaurus collaborated with WHO and PMNCH for an informative animated guide. The studio has a long-standing relationship with the World Health Organization (WHO) and Partners of Maternal, Newborn and Child Health (PMNCH). The bodies approached the studio for an informative animation project for breastfeeding mothers in...
Disney World to open gates for Magic Kingdom and Animal Kingdom
Disney World will reopen its gates, ending a long closure of the park that left the Walt Disney Company reeling. The Disney theme park, which employs around 70,000 people, plans to begin a phased reopening on 11 July for its Magic Kingdom and Animal Kingdom parks. Disney...
Warner Bros. And Marvel to re-release films in China after Lockdown
Marvel is going to re-release The Avengers and Iron Man 3 in Hong Kong theatres from today, 28 May till 10 June. This decision is taken by the industry to attract wary audiences after the COVID-19 lockdowns were lifted earlier this month. As reported by The Hollywood Reporter, Marvel has joined...
ViacomCBS launches reusable face masks with Nickelodeon characters
ViacomCBS Consumer Products has announced to have made agreements with multiple global licensees to create face masks featuring iconic characters from many popular Nickelodeon properties. The characters featured are SpongeBob SquarePants, which is available now at the SpongeBob Shop, as well as PAW Patrol, Blue’s Clues &...
Gaelstone Media acquires ‘80s classic character ‘Panda Khan’
Gaelstone Media Group, the studio known for the upcoming Amazon Prime Original Series Action Mice, announced its full acquisition of the classic ’80s character Panda Khan — well-known to nostalgia lovers who remember him as a regularly featured character in the Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles comic book crossovers. Toy...
Sony LIV launches version 2.0 with a new logo and interface
OTT platform SonyLIV, from the house of Sony Pictures Networks (SPN) India, has launched SonyLIV 2.0 – a brand new logo and interface, refreshed user experience, enhanced brand identity and new premium content. The phased rollout of SonyLIV 2.0 will complete in an estimated duration of three...
‘Doctor Strange’ director Scott Derrickson to direct‘Labyrinth’ sequel
Genre filmmaker Scott Derrickson has reportedly passed on returning to the Marvel Cinematic Universe just yet to direct Doctor Strange 2, instead opting to enter a different otherworld as the director of TriStar Pictures’ sequel of Jim Henson ’80s cult classic Labyrinth. Derrickson — whose directing credits also include...
Cosmos-Maya announces next animation series on Chulbul Pandey
Cosmos-Maya has announced its next animation magnum opus to be inspired by Chulbul Pandey, the iconic cop popularised by Salman Khan in the Dabangg film franchise, produced by Arbaaz Khan. Announced yesterday on Eid, the series will feature the lead character as his own self and not...
Netflix announces upgrade on Basic and Standard plans
Netflix has announced to offer free one-tier upgrades to a more expensive plan for the first 30 days of one’s subscription, through another new promo. Only available to new Netflix subscribers, the offer applies to the basic Rs. 499 and standard Rs. 649 plans, which means one...