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Film promotions shift focus to small towns to boost audience engagement, revenue
1 week, 5 days ago

Film promotions shift focus to small towns to boost audience engagement, revenue

Live Mint  

Bollywood and southern language film stars are increasingly dashing off to small towns and collaborating with regional celebrities to promote their films, in a change of marketing strategy and aesthetics that previously catered to niche, urban sensibilities. This strategy mirrors international efforts where Hollywood films, such as the Avengers series, host premieres in non-traditional territories like Seoul to deepen market …

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Pooja Hegde on a Small Break After Guntur Kaaram Exit
1 year, 3 months ago

Pooja Hegde on a Small Break After Guntur Kaaram Exit

Deccan Chronicle  

Glam diva Pooja Hegde is not in a hurry to sign movies and just taking her own time to pick her next. Despite some fiasco with ‘Guntur Kaaram’, Pooja is unfazed and confident about bouncing back into the reckoning. A few months ago, there were rumors that Pooja Hegde would play a love interest to Sai Dharam Tej.“Nothing has been …

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September rejig: It’s advantage small Telugu films after ‘Salaar’ postpones its release
1 year, 3 months ago

September rejig: It’s advantage small Telugu films after ‘Salaar’ postpones its release

The Hindu  

Two Telugu films with an indie vibe, Ramanna Youth and Changure Bangaru Raja, will be released in theatres on September 15, and hope to cash in on the weekend leading up to the Ganesh Chaturthi holiday on September 18. Director Atlee and Shah Rukh Khan’s Jawan, still drawing the crowds in Hindi and Telugu versions, and the Telugu dubbed version …

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Nagarjuna is backbone of Annapoorna Studios, says Supriya
1 year, 3 months ago

Nagarjuna is backbone of Annapoorna Studios, says Supriya

Deccan Chronicle  

Actress-turned-producer Supriya Yarlagadda is quite happy to be associated with the content-based Kannada film 'Boys Hostel' and will release its dubbed version in the two Telugu states on August 26. Why such a reputed banner like Annapurna Studios is backing a small film like 'Boys Hostel'? Hence, Annapoorna Studios is backing the film in two Telugu states. A: We wanted …

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Small films make a big noise in Tollywood
1 year, 5 months ago

Small films make a big noise in Tollywood

Deccan Chronicle  

With ‘Baby’ drawing grand openings, it looks like the Telugu audience is game for content-based films these days. Telugu audiences equally patronized other small films like ‘Balagam’ and ‘Samajavaragamana’ to change the game in Tollywood, which was otherwise loaded with star-studded movies. “It is true that some producers are chasing good scripts over running behind big stars,” says producer Abhishek …

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AP, TS allow six shows of Adipurush; demand for 5th show for small films unaddressed
1 year, 5 months ago

AP, TS allow six shows of Adipurush; demand for 5th show for small films unaddressed

Deccan Chronicle  

Hyderabad: The Telangana and Andhra Pradesh governments have allowed six shows for the recent release ‘Adipurush’ while the demand of small films producers to grant a fifth show for small films in theatres still remains unaddressed. But the request of small film producers to permit an additional 2.30 pm show for their films in 1300-odd theatres in the two Telugu …

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Over 10 Tamil films eye direct OTT premiere as Kollywood industry remains divided on influx of digital platforms
3 years, 6 months ago

Over 10 Tamil films eye direct OTT premiere as Kollywood industry remains divided on influx of digital platforms

Firstpost  

During the first wave of Covid-19 last year, Tamil cinema witnessed a small number of films going the OTT way. After small films such as Andhagaaram and Mandela made waves on Netflix, bigger ones in the form of Nayanthara’s Netrikann, Vijay Sethupathi’s Tughlaq Darbar, Arun Vijay’s Border, the long-delayed Karthick Naren directorial Naragasooran are now in serious talks with leading …

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‘Godzilla vs. Kong’: Lured by a spectacle
3 years, 8 months ago

‘Godzilla vs. Kong’: Lured by a spectacle

The Hindu  

As you read this, Godzilla vs. Kong is already the biggest hit across the planet, including in India, China, the US, wherever cinemas are open, really. The debate that has been raging on for the last year, ever since Covid-19 began ravaging the world, and producers started giving their babies to OTT platforms for direct to digital premières, is about …

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