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GP, Robi come under govt fire over 'uncensored' web series

GP, Robi come under govt fire over 'uncensored' web series

-- 2020-06-25 19:11:11

The government has taken Grameenphone and Robi to task, asking the mobile telecom operators to explain why they were hosting "uncensored" and "indecent" video content on their platforms and networks,...

Bollywood actor Sushant Singh Rajput commits suicide

Bollywood actor Sushant Singh Rajput commits suicide

-- 2020-06-14 15:40:08

Actor Sushant Singh Rajput has committed suicide at his residence Mumbai. The actor’s representative and Mumbai Police have confirmed the news. The Kai Po Che actor was 34 years old, reports th...

Christopher Nolan’s ‘Tenet’ set to release on July 31

Christopher Nolan’s ‘Tenet’ set to release on July 31

-- 2020-06-13 16:30:42

The closely watched arrival of Christopher Nolan's big-budget sci-fi espionage film ‘Tenet’ will finally happen on July 31, Warner Bros. announced Friday, reports AP. The studio said it w...

Bollywood music composer Wajid Khan dies from Covid-19

Bollywood music composer Wajid Khan dies from Covid-19

-- 2020-06-01 14:13:59

Renowned F, known as one-half of the music director duo Sajid-Wajid, died on Monday in a Mumbai hospital due to multiple health complications at the age of 42. The singer was recently tested positive...

Musicians in lockdown rage against industry machine

Musicians in lockdown rage against industry machine

-- 2020-05-28 16:43:30

Lockdown bans on live performances have left many British musicians on the breadline, fuelling a campaign for them to get a bigger share of the profits from streaming their songs online. “I&rsq...

Apple secures deal for Scorsese's next film starring DiCaprio, De Niro

Apple secures deal for Scorsese's next film starring DiCaprio, De Niro

Reuters 2020-05-28 09:42:22

Apple has secured a deal for Hollywood veteran Martin Scorsese’s next film, “Killers of the Flower Moon,” US media reported on Wednesday, citing sources. “Killers of the Flowe...

Venice Film Festival will go ahead in September: Veneto governor

Venice Film Festival will go ahead in September: Veneto governor

REUTERS 2020-05-25 13:08:01

The Venice Film Festival will go ahead as scheduled at the beginning of September, Luca Zaia, the governor of the region around the Italian city, said on Sunday as the spread of the new coronavirus in...

Drive-in movie stages make a comeback in US

Drive-in movie stages make a comeback in US

Reuters 2020-05-24 17:30:00

The drive-in movie, dismissed by many as a relic of an earlier time in America, is making a comeback as entertainment seemingly designed for the coronavirus era. Beth Wilson, who owns the Warwick Dri...

Musician Azad Rahman dies at 76

Musician Azad Rahman dies at 76

-- 2020-05-16 19:26:36

Azad Rahman, a composer, music director, singer and winner of National Film Awards, has died at the age of 76. Azad passed away in a Dhaka hospital around 4:45 pm on Saturday, film producer Gazi Kibr...

Amazon Prime snags Bollywood premieres, angering theatre owners

Amazon Prime snags Bollywood premieres, angering theatre owners

-- 2020-05-15 18:18:33

Amazon Prime Video, Amazon's streaming service, will screen several new Indian films originally meant for theatrical release this month, sparking protests from cinema owners as the novel coronavirus o...

ZEE5 Global brings together top Bangla artistes

ZEE5 Global brings together top Bangla artistes

FE Online Desk 2020-05-13 16:57:48

Amid the global pandemic comes a song of hope, of looking forward to a better day. ZEE5 Global brings alive again the ever-popular folk song “Abar Jombe Mela” in an all-new format rendere...

Filmmaker Rana Hamid dies

Filmmaker Rana Hamid dies

-- 2020-05-10 13:31:25

Film producer, director and censor board member Rana Hamid died of cancer at a hospital in the capital on Saturday night. He had been suffering from stomach cancer and kidney related complications fo...

Rare Bob Dylan lyrics could fetch $19,000 in sale

Rare Bob Dylan lyrics could fetch $19,000 in sale

-- 2020-05-06 20:26:37

A 1966 manuscript, on which a young Bob Dylan typed and wrote lyrics for a track on his “Blonde on Blonde” album and another song he later abandoned, went on sale at Sotheby’s auctio...

Tom Cruise to shoot a movie in space

Tom Cruise to shoot a movie in space

-- 2020-05-06 16:38:22

Tom Cruise has a reputation for action-packed movies, even doing his own stunts. But he could soon be taking things to the next level - teaming up with NASA to film a movie in space. Cruise, 57, is...

Madonna claims she has COVID-19 antibodies

Madonna claims she has COVID-19 antibodies

-- 2020-05-02 15:22:27

American pop icon Madonna announced via social media on Friday that she has tested positive for COVID-19 antibodies, hinting she has immunity against the disease. However, medical experts said the po...

Coronavirus shatters silver screen dreams for India's Bollywood

Coronavirus shatters silver screen dreams for India's Bollywood

REUTERS 2020-05-01 12:00:39

India’s film industry, purveyor of song-and-dance spectacles to millions, will take at least two years to recover financially from the coronavirus pandemic, which is threatening big-ticket proje...

Veteran Bollywood actor Rishi Kapoor dies

Veteran Bollywood actor Rishi Kapoor dies

-- 2020-04-30 10:38:45

Actor Rishi Kapoor has died at 67 after a two-year-long battle with cancer. Rishi breathed his last at the Sir HN Reliance Foundation Hospital in Mumbai. His wife and actor Neetu Kapoor was by his si...

Bollywood actor Irrfan Khan dies at 54

Bollywood actor Irrfan Khan dies at 54

-- 2020-04-29 12:49:20

Actor Irrfan Khan has died at the age of 54, after being admitted to Mumbai’s Kokilaben Dhirubhai Ambani Hospital on Tuesday, where was under observation for colon infection. The actor in 2018...

Streaming films eligible for Oscars for a year

Streaming films eligible for Oscars for a year

-- 2020-04-29 11:05:26

Movies that debuted on a streaming service without a theatrical run will be eligible for the Oscars, but only for this year. The Academy of Motion Pictures Arts and Sciences on Tuesday announced the...

Star-studded coronavirus concert to be aired

Star-studded coronavirus concert to be aired

-- 2020-04-18 16:03:04

A star-studded special concert is to be live-streamed and broadcast on TV to support frontline workers tackling the coronavirus outbreak. The One World: Together At Home show will see more than 100 a...

Television channel to air digital Pahela Baishakh celebration programme

Television channel to air digital Pahela Baishakh celebration programme

-- 2020-04-13 14:28:38

All television channels will air a programme to digitally celebrate Pahela Baishakh, the first day of Bangla calendar. The programme of the Cultural Affairs Ministry will be broadcast by all channels...

Disney Plus racks up 50m subscribers in five months

Disney Plus racks up 50m subscribers in five months

-- 2020-04-09 13:01:55

Disney's new video streaming service has reached more than 50 million subscribers since its launch five months ago. When Disney Plus last announced viewing figures in February it had reached 26.5 mil...

Japanese comedian Ken Shimura dies from coronavirus

Japanese comedian Ken Shimura dies from coronavirus

REUTERS 2020-03-30 11:03:11

Japanese comedian Ken Shimura, who had been hospitalised after being infected with the new coronavirus, has died, public broadcaster NHK reported on Monday. He was 70. Shimura, one of the country&rsq...

Polish composer, conductor Krzysztof Penderecki dies at 86

Polish composer, conductor Krzysztof Penderecki dies at 86

-- 2020-03-29 20:04:00

Krzysztof Penderecki, an award-winning conductor and one of the world’s most popular contemporary classical music composers whose works have featured in Hollywood films like “The Shining&r...

Harvey Weinstein tests positive for coronavirus in prison

Harvey Weinstein tests positive for coronavirus in prison

-- 2020-03-23 12:35:25

Former movie producer Harvey Weinstein, who is serving a prison sentence for sexual assault and rape, has tested positive for the coronavirus, according to the head of the state corrections officers u...

Indian singer Kanika Kapoor sued for coronavirus negligence

Indian singer Kanika Kapoor sued for coronavirus negligence

-- 2020-03-21 11:43:22

An FIR was lodged against singer Kanika Kapoor by Lucknow's Chief Medical Officer (CMO) Narendra Kumar Agarwal, at the Sarojini Nagar Police Station, late on Friday night under Sections 188 (disobedie...

‘Game of Thrones’ star Kristofer Hivju tests positive for coronavirus

‘Game of Thrones’ star Kristofer Hivju tests positive for coronavirus

-- 2020-03-17 14:22:01

Kristofer Hivju, best known for playing the formidable, bearded Tormund on ‘Game of Thrones,’ is the latest actor to test positive for the coronavirus. Hivju revealed the diagnosis in an...

Tom Hanks, Rita Wilson leave hospital after coronavirus treatment

Tom Hanks, Rita Wilson leave hospital after coronavirus treatment

-- 2020-03-17 11:02:40

Oscar-winning actor Tom Hanks and his wife, Rita Wilson, have left a hospital in Australia’s Queensland state five days after testing positive for the coronavirus, People magazine reported on Mo...

Disney sends ‘Frozen 2’ to streaming for housebound families

Disney sends ‘Frozen 2’ to streaming for housebound families

-- 2020-03-14 13:59:33

The Walt Disney Co will release ‘Frozen 2’ on Disney Plus several months early to give families cooped up by the coronavirus a welcome distraction — and give its streaming service a...

Tom Hanks tests positive for coronavirus

Tom Hanks tests positive for coronavirus

Reuters 2020-03-12 10:43:13

Oscar-winning actor Tom Hanks and his wife, actress Rita Wilson, have both tested positive for coronavirus in Australia, the actor said on Twitter. Hanks said that he and Wilson, who are both 63, wer...