Entertainment Industry Growth

Multiplex chains expect ticket price rise, strong box office in 2025

However, despite the hype created by Pushpa 2: The Rule, India's multiplex chains expect a moderate rise in ATP this year

Disney aims for $1 billion profit from its streaming biz in new fiscal year

The profit at Disney's direct-to-consumer division even exceeded the earnings from its film division, which scored $3 billion in global ticket sales this summer from the blockbusters Inside Out 2

Indoor amusement centres may occupy 11 mn sq ft space by 2028: Report

The entertainment category is increasingly being integrated into initial mall design phases by developers

The disappearing audience

Millions of people are joining the creator economy, adding to the babble of films, shows and funny videos. Where is the audience?

Recovery from just one platform like TV is impossible: Enterr10 TV MD

Manish Singhal talks about how did an unknown company from Indore force the Big Four (Star, Sony, Zee, and Viacom18) out of their top spots in general entertainment

The entertainment consumption story

The poor rates of growth and the fact that a large chunk of poor urban and rural India is switching to free TV are indicative of something

Goyal calls for self-regulation within entertainment industry on content

Commerce and industry minister Piyush Goyal on Thursday asked the entertainment industry to self-regulate content of programmes on televisions and over-the-top (OTT) platforms as some of them are beyond acceptable standards within the Indian cultural landscape. He said that some form of self-regulation and some levels of decency in the presentation of India, Indian families and culture needs to be there. "I do believe that some form of self-regulation within the media and entertainment industry is called for. On the one hand, we talk of our culture, rich tradition, our heritage, our family value systems and on the other hand, some of what we see on television and OTT platforms, certainly is beyond what is ordinarily acceptable standards within the Indian cultural landscape," the minister said. He wondered if any of the Indian families use the kind of language that is sometimes reflected on some of these OTT shows. "I do not know if it helps in sell your product any better. I suspec

Music finds its beat

All the action notwithstanding, the Indian music business remains tiny

From Times Group to Zee, Indian media business in the post-pandemic world

The post-pandemic list tells just one story - that of utter devastation

The rise of YouTube: Uploading many a dream to world's largest OTT

Google's YouTube has created an ecosystem that transcends entertainment, information or education

The truth about streaming video

In an overcrowded market or one with skewed regulation, ad-supported programming can quickly degenerate into poor quality, polarising or downright fake

Sun TV pre-tax profit drops by 40% to Rs 352 cr in Q1, revenue at Rs.606 cr

40% drop in revenue, largely due to absence of IPL and movie distribution

Coronarvirus intermission? More than 80% of film audience miss theatres

That and more is what 'Back to the Theatre', consulting firm Ormax Media's report on the 'Expected theatre-going behaviour in India post Covid-19,' states

Contagion: How coronavirus may change India's entertainment industry

Social distancing, future contagions to reduce theatre traction

Past decade for entertainment: Scale and diversity were the greatest story

The gestalt effect of all the changes in the last decade has brought India to a sweet spot. Can it leverage these to become a global storyteller?

Entertainment industry.grows 10.9% to Rs 1,436 billion.in 2017-18

The industry did feel the lingering effects of demonetisation, the implementation of the GST and the Real Estate (Regulation and Development) Act, slowing the pace of growth