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Naman Ramachandran Ajay Bijli, the managing director of India’s largest multiplex chain PVR Inox, has unveiled plans for the group’s growth. The merger of the PVR and Inox chains concluded in February and the merged entity now operates 1,683 screens in 360 sites across 115 cities throughout India and parts of Sri Lanka. Bijli has been accorded the honor of delivering the exhibition keynote address at the international day of CinemaCon, Las Vegas (April 24-27) in recognition of his role as a thought leader in the theatrical exhibition space. Despite a vast and flourishing film industry that produces more than 1,600 films annually and a population of 1.4 billion, India has only 8,700 screens, compared to China, which boasts more than 80,000 screens for a similar population size.

Climate change could lead to an increased health threat in Scotland from mosquitoes.

Fox Corp. CEO Lachlan Murdoch is dropping his defamation claimagainst Australian news site Crikey over a column that connected him to the January 6th attack on the Capitol.

Patrick Frater Asia Bureau Chief The Indian Film Festival of Los Angeles is expanding its efforts to engage the industry side of the business and in June will host its inaugural IFFLA Industry Day. The festival was founded in 2002 and, now in its third decade of operation, has pivoted to a strategy of year-round programming and events. The center piece of the IFFLA Industry Day will be a pitch competition that involves selected emerging and established film and TV writers and directors who pitch their upcoming project to a panel of executives from different sectors of the industry. The executives and a live public audience will provide feedback and heighten the sense of discovery. The winner will receive a $10,000 development grant.

East Ayrshire Council boss Eddie Fraser says that the council has listened to parents as it bids to avoid a repeat of last year's fight over its ASN summer programme.

Humza Yousaf has revealed the SNP has still not paid back the full amount of a loan from Peter Murrell, its former chief executive.

A woman who was allegedly fired by her boss for 'being sick' has told of her cunning plan that got revenge. One woman has told her story of being 'sacked' after falling increasingly unwell at work.

Gene Maddaus Senior Media Writer TV production in Los Angeles dropped sharply in the first three months of 2023, amid industry retrenchment and general concern about a strike, according to a new report from FilmLA. Overall, on-location production days fell by 24%, compared to the first quarter of 2022. Most of the decline was in TV, which fell 35.8% over the same period. “The numbers are more dire than we thought they would be,” said Paul Audley, president of FilmLA. FilmLA has been reporting year-over-year declines for the last three quarters, as the post-COVID production surge has wound down. But Audley noted that studios are also reassessing their content strategy, and there is now the fear of a WGA strike, which has put some decisions about future production on pause.

EXCLUSIVE: Shout! Factory on Wednesday announced their promotion of longtime senior executive Michael Ribas to Senior Vice President of Marketing and Product Management. 

DEALSHipgnosis has acquired the writer’s share of performing rights income related to the catalogue of songwriter David Foster. “David is recognised globally as one of the greatest songwriters and producers of all time”, says CEO Merck Mercuriadis. “He is the songwriters’ songwriter and the producers’ producer.

Netflix Co-CEO Ted Sarandos said the company will likely spend roughly $17 billion on content in 2024, steady with 2023 levels.

A former Tory Scotland Secretary is under investigation by the parliamentary standards watchdog over his use of stationery. David Mundell is under investigation by Parliament's standards commissioner Daniel Greenberg for his use of "Use of facilities [stationery] provided from the public purse".

K.J. Yossman Earlier this year ITV Studios, which reps shows ranging from “Love Island” to “Schitt’s Creek,” revealed it was merging its global distribution and entertainment arms. On Tuesday afternoon, Ruth Berry, the woman who was appointed to lead the now joint arms, set out the strategy behind the move during a keynote discussion at Mip TV in Cannes. “I think we’re bringing together the formats and the finished programming businesses to create a singular multi-genre multi-brand multi-dimensional commercial business to the heart of the studio,” Berry explained. “Be that deficit financing and licencing rights to brilliant scripted slates, rolling out new formats like ‘My Mum, Your Dad’ and ‘Scared of the Dark,’ merchandising ‘Schitts Creek’ products, selling ‘Love Island’ water bottles, moving into the Metaverse, you know, all these things, having them in one place.”

The introduction of a controversial recycling scheme has been postponed for another 10 months following a massive backlash from businesses.

Six men have been arrested following police raid on a property in Fife as part of drugs probe.

Humza Yousaf has denied the SNP is being run in a "criminal way" after the party's treasurer was today arrested by Police Scotland.

A police investigation has been launched after the sudden death of a woman at a Scots beach.

While it wasn’t always her plan to join the family business, Raessa Lea is fifth generation to work at Manchester-based Towing Solutions Ltd and has embraced her role leading the business and helping it grow over the years.

MipTV on Sunday, sharing in a dead heat the Buyers Coup de Coeur at the first MipDoc International Buyer Screenings.  A bold experiment, the Screenings saw MipTV allocate he prime market real estate of mid Sunday afternoon traditionally reserved for a drama showcase to documentaries, taking in features, TV specials and series.  In industrial terms the winners could hardly be more different. “The Caravan” is made by Cabal Films, a small Barcelona independent; the three-episode “Prison Project” is produced by Sweden’s SVT in co-production with other public broadcasters in Finland (Yle), Norway (NRK) and Denmark (DR).

Where Pep Guardiola is concerned it is usually a case of 'don't mention the subs'. The Manchester City manager rarely takes kindly to be quizzed on his strategy when it comes to replacements, responding with either a heavy dollop of sarcasm or a response that suggests he does, actually, know best.

Nick Vivarelli International Correspondent Producer Timur Savci co-heads prolific Turkish shingle Tims & B that a decade ago made “Magnificent Century” the Ottoman costume drama that spearheaded the country’s TV boom. Savci and his team are currently at the MipTV market in Cannes with their new show “Modern Woman” (pictured above) in which a young working woman in Turkey who is single and stuck in between Eastern and Western lifestyles. It’s the first time they’ve fully financed the first season of a series and taken it to market as a readymade. Global Agency is selling. The Tims co-chief, his partner Burak Sağyaşar, and the company’s director of international operations Selin Arat spoke exclusively to Variety about working with Netflix and Disney+, putting “Century” on the Metaverse, and why they’ve made “Modern Woman” themselves so they can hold on to their IP.