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ZEE5 Global launches first of four Bangladeshi originals

ZEE5 Global launches first of four Bangladeshi originals

-- 2020-10-29 18:26:33

ZEE5 Global has announced its entry into Bangladeshi productions after a successful launch of two Pakistani originals on its largest OTT platform for South Asian content. All these shows are available...

Bangladeshi artiste Arnob marries India's Sunidhi

Bangladeshi artiste Arnob marries India's Sunidhi

-- 2020-10-29 10:29:55

Shayan Chowdhury Arnob, the immensely popular and talented singer-songwriter with a fanbase spanning Bangladesh and West Bengal, got married Wednesday to Sunidhi Nayak, a fellow musician as well as al...

UK judge to give ruling on Nov 2 in Johnny Depp 'wife beater' case

UK judge to give ruling on Nov 2 in Johnny Depp 'wife beater' case

-- 2020-10-27 18:13:45

Hollywood star Johnny Depp will find out on Nov 2 the outcome of his libel action against a British newspaper which labelled him a "wife beater", a ruling which could have a lasting impact on the acto...

New African-made films challenge Hollywood stereotypes

New African-made films challenge Hollywood stereotypes

-- 2020-10-17 22:36:43

Producers of two African-made films premiering on Netflix this month believe their work will show there’s subscriber appetite for movies that go deeper than the Hollywood stereotypes that often...

Movie theatres to be opened from October 16

Movie theatres to be opened from October 16

-- 2020-10-14 17:22:23

The Information Ministry has given permission to all concerned to screen films in the country’s movie theatres from October 16, reports BSS. The ministry on Wednesday issued a circular permitti...

No more free Netflix trial for US viewers

No more free Netflix trial for US viewers

Reuters 2020-10-14 12:32:15

Netflix, the world's largest streaming service, said on Tuesday it has stopped offering free trials in the United States. “We’re looking at different marketing promotions in the US to att...

Top Bollywood producers file defamation lawsuit against TV channels

Top Bollywood producers file defamation lawsuit against TV channels

-- 2020-10-13 17:36:29

Bollywood’s top producers have filed a lawsuit against two television news channels for allegedly painting the film industry as ‘a den of drugs and crime’ following the death of a yo...

Walt Disney trying to boost streaming services

Walt Disney trying to boost streaming services

Reuters 2020-10-13 10:49:17

Walt Disney said on Monday it had restructured its media and entertainment businesses to accelerate growth of Disney+ and other streaming services as consumers increasingly gravitate to digital v...

Ananta Jalil removes rape comments video amid public outrage

Ananta Jalil removes rape comments video amid public outrage

-- 2020-10-11 18:47:39

Actor Ananta Jalil has removed a video from Facebook in which he called on women to dress modestly, blaming their clothing choices for inducing sexual advances amid countrywide protests over a recent...

Ananta Jalil draws controversy after blaming 'indecent clothes' for rape

Ananta Jalil draws controversy after blaming 'indecent clothes' for rape

-- 2020-10-11 16:31:55

Actor Ananta Jalil has called on women to dress modestly, blaming their clothing choices for inducing sexual advances amid countrywide protests over a recent spate of incidents involving rape and sexu...

Covid-19: Soumitra Chatterjee shifted to intensive care as health deteriorates

Covid-19: Soumitra Chatterjee shifted to intensive care as health deteriorates

-- 2020-10-10 12:12:08

Veteran actor Soumitra Chatterjee has been shifted to intensive care in a private hospital where he is undergoing treatment for Covid-19 after his health condition worsened, a senior doctor at the fac...

Movie-going could ‘become extinct’, Wonder Woman director warns

Movie-going could ‘become extinct’, Wonder Woman director warns

-- 2020-10-08 15:35:12

Wonder Woman director Patty Jenkins has said that movie-going is facing a real threat of extinction. Her new superhero movie has been delayed three times during the coronavirus pandemic, reports the...

Rock guitarist Eddie Van Halen dies at 65

Rock guitarist Eddie Van Halen dies at 65

Reuters 2020-10-07 12:57:05

Eddie Van Halen, the pioneering guitar player whose hard-rocking band emerged from the Sunset Strip music scene in Los Angeles in the early 1970s to stand at the top of rock ‘n’ roll for a...

Veteran Bengali actor Soumitra Chattopadhyay infected with coronavirus

Veteran Bengali actor Soumitra Chattopadhyay infected with coronavirus

-- 2020-10-06 12:34:52

Veteran Bengali actor and Dada Saheb Phalke winner Soumitra Chattopadhyay tested positive for the novel coronavirus. He has been admitted to Bellevue Nursing Home in Kolkata. His Covid-positive repor...

IPDC launches ‘Amader Gaan’

IPDC launches ‘Amader Gaan’

FE ONLINE DESK 2020-10-05 13:39:16

IPDC Finance Limited has launched 'Amader Gaan, a contemporary take on popular Bangladeshi folk music to mark the 50th year of independence of the country. The launching programme was held virtually...

Bollywood actor Sushant took his own life: Medical report

Bollywood actor Sushant took his own life: Medical report

-- 2020-10-03 18:37:23

No one killed Bollywood actor Sushant Singh Rajput - he took his own life, a medical report has concluded. The report by a team of experts from the country's premier All India Institute of Medical Sc...

Release of new James Bond movie pushed back again

Release of new James Bond movie pushed back again

-- 2020-10-03 14:24:01

The release of the new James Bond movie has been delayed again. The premiere of No Time To Die has already been moved from April to November due to the pandemic, reports the BBC. The movie has now b...

Half of Bangladesh movie theatres unlikely to reopen on Oct 16

Half of Bangladesh movie theatres unlikely to reopen on Oct 16

ISMAIL HOSSAIN 2020-10-03 10:26:19

Though the country's movie theatres are going to reopen on October 16 after almost six-month closure due to the Covid-19 pandemic, there are fears that many of them will not be opened anymore. Bangla...

“Rape allegations false, was in Sri Lanka then”

“Rape allegations false, was in Sri Lanka then”

-- 2020-10-02 19:33:29

Bollywood filmmaker Anurag Kashyap on Friday claimed that the rape allegations against him were "outright lie" as he was in Sri Lanka at the time, a day after he was grilled by police in Mumbai for a...

Top Bollywood actors face grilling in drug probe

Top Bollywood actors face grilling in drug probe

Reuters 2020-09-26 11:42:39

Some of Bollywood’s biggest actors are being questioned in a widening drug probe by federal agencies that has sent shockwaves through India’s beleaguered film industry and dominated prime...

Legendary singer SP Balasubrahmanyam dies at 74

Legendary singer SP Balasubrahmanyam dies at 74

-- 2020-09-25 16:26:19

Celebrated Indian singer SP Balasubrahmanyam has died at the age of 74 in a Chennai hospital after almost two months of treatment, according to the local media. SPB, as the beloved singer was popular...

Bollywood plagued by drug issue

Bollywood plagued by drug issue

-- 2020-09-24 11:02:54

Indian actor Kangana Ranaut, who has been vocally suggesting that there exists a ‘drug mafia’ in Bollywood, has tweeted, presumably, in response to the summons served to actors Deepika Pad...

Govt to reopen movie theatres from Oct 16

Govt to reopen movie theatres from Oct 16

-- 2020-09-22 10:20:36

After what would be almost exactly 7 months of shutdown since March 18, the movie theatres in Bangladesh are set to welcome moviegoers again from October 16, Information Minister Dr Hasan Mahmud discl...

2020 Emmy Awards: The key winners’ list

2020 Emmy Awards: The key winners’ list

REUTERS 2020-09-21 15:27:57

The annual Emmy Awards, celebrating the best in television, were handed out on Sunday in a virtual ceremony hosted by Jimmy Kimmel from Los Angeles. Following is a list of winners in key categories:...

PUBG Mobile Royale Pass Season 15 delivers sleek and customisable rewards

PUBG Mobile Royale Pass Season 15 delivers sleek and customisable rewards

FE Online Desk 2020-09-18 20:44:32

   PUBG MOBILE airdrops an unprecedented wardrobe of sleek new outfits and more in the highly-anticipated Royale Pass Season 15: “Beyond A.C.E.” Players can unlock eight brand-n...

Veteran actor Sadek Bachchu dies from Covid-19

Veteran actor Sadek Bachchu dies from Covid-19

-- 2020-09-14 13:12:30

Veteran actor Sadek Bachchu has died in hospital care from the Covid-19 illness at the age of 66. Bachchu breathed his last while taking treatment at Universal Medical College Hospital in Dhaka aroun...

Actor Sadek Bachchu put on life support

Actor Sadek Bachchu put on life support

-- 2020-09-13 13:54:22

Actor Sadek Bachchu, who has been suffering from the novel coronavirus, went on life support. The actor was put under the life support system at 5 pm on Saturday at Universal Medical College Hospital...

'Wonder Woman' movie sequel delayed two months to December

'Wonder Woman' movie sequel delayed two months to December

-- 2020-09-12 18:45:50

The Warner Bros movie studio on Friday postponed the debut of superhero sequel "Wonder Woman 1984" until Christmas Day as many theatres remain closed due to the coronavirus pandemic. The film starrin...

PUBG MOBILE 1.0 update delivers expansive gameplay enhancements

PUBG MOBILE 1.0 update delivers expansive gameplay enhancements

FE Online Desk 2020-09-09 20:21:52

  A new era is dawning in PUBG MOBILE, and players around the globe are invited to witness expansive improvements beginning for the world’s popular mobile game. Beginning with changes and...

Actor KS Firoz dies of Covid-19

Actor KS Firoz dies of Covid-19

-- 2020-09-09 11:54:09

Veteran actor KS Firoz has died from Covid-19 at the age of 76. He breathed his last while undergoing treatment at the Combined Military Hospital in Dhaka at 6:20 am on Wednesday, said his daughter N...