Prime Video’s “Panchayat” Season 3 was the most viewed show in India in the first half of 2024, according to a mid-year report by Ormax Media. The rural comedy-drama yoked in 28.2 million viewers. Netflix’s “Heeramandi: The Diamond Bazaar” secured the second spot with 20.3
Cannes Grand Prix winner Payal Kapadia (“All We Imagine as Light”); U.S. actor Tim Blake Nelson; Italian actor Luca Marinelli; and Belgian producer Diana Elbaum have been recruited for jury duty by the Locarno Film Festival. They will join the main jury of the prominent
U.K. free-to-air broadcaster ITV is set to stream the British South Asian independent feature film “Little English” on its ITVX platform. “Little English,” recently nominated for best feature film at the U.K.’s National Film Awards, marks the directorial debut of renowned theater practitioner Pravesh Kumar.
Hot from its multi-territory success with “How to Make Millions Before Grandma Dies,” Thai film studio GDH559 set out a powerful production and releasing slate for the coming year. Significantly, four of its next five releases have LGBT themes. Released in April, “Grandma” earned THB339
The Venice Film Festival has unveiled the lineup of projects for Venice Immersive, the Extended Reality (XR) section of the event. The program, which will include 63 projects from 25 countries, takes place on the island of Lazzaretto Vecchio from Aug. 29 to Sept. 7.
Online gambling is a huge part of the casino world, but there is a small percentage of players who worry about its security — welcome, cryptocurrency casinos. It’s 2024, and although crypto casinos are nothing new, there is a wide range of some of the
StarkWare has verified the first zero-knowledge (ZK) proof on the Bitcoin. It’s part of the core Starknet developer’s plans to scale Bitcoin for mass adoption. StarkWare has achieved a historic feat by completing the first zero-knowledge proof verification on the Bitcoin network, according to the
With fewer eligible series — a consequence of both last year’s strikes and of a general post-Peak TV contraction — it seemed unlikely that the Emmys (the second such ceremony this year!) would provide much in the way of surprises. Perhaps, though, awards-watchers shouldn’t have