The most popular artists, songs and albums of the month, 3 month, 6 months and year [#1-#48]

Rintu Thomas and Sushmit Ghosh’s debut feature “Writing With Fire,” the only Indian film in the Sundance world cinema documentary competition, shines a light on a unique, women-only news collective in small-town northern India. The documentary follows the women behind news organization Khabar Lahariya as they make the transition from print to digital, shooting stories […]

AT&T said “Wonder Woman 1984” helped HBO Max double activations — to 17.2 million — in the fourth quarter of 2020. But a 21% decline in Warner Bros. revenue for Q4, as well as other COVID-related impacts, pulled the down company’s revenue down and earnings for the quarter. At the end of 2020, WarnerMedia had […]

Big Hit Entertainment, the management company behind K-pop sensation BTS, is to make its first significant acquisition since going public in mid-October. It will inject $63 million (KRW70 billion) into YG Entertainment, the agency that is behind Blackpink, Treasure and recently-renewed brother and sister folk music act AKMU. BHE and its media arm beNX will […]

In today’s Global Bulletin, the National Theatre shares details on its upcoming “Romeo and Juliet” feature adaptation, HBO Europe and ITV commission documentaries on COVID-19 and the Irish mother and baby home scandal respectively, Oble acquires Start series “Gold Diggers” and “A Good Man” to sell globally and Channel 4 announces three new digital series […]

“Master,” starring South Indian box office darling Vijay, will make its streaming debut on Amazon Prime Video worldwide on Jan. 29. The film released Jan. 13 in India in Tamil, Telugu, Kannada and Hindi language versions, over the Pongal holiday frame. Despite restricted 50% occupancy due to the ongoing coronavirus pandemic, the film saw audiences […]

Watch the Congolese refugee's Tiny Desk quarantine concert, filmed in a Paris bar.

The mad scramble by Asian streamers and broadcasters to secure Korean TV drama content continued with the announcement by Viu that it is poised to deliver another original series. The Hong Kong-based pan-Asian streamer is poised to release period romantic drama “River Where the Moon Rises” on Feb. 15, 2021. In Korea, it will be […]

Netflix has acquired Indian director Chaitanya Tamhane’s Venice and Toronto winner “The Disciple,” executive produced by Alfonso Cuaron, and will release it exclusively on the platform. The Marathi-language film follows a singer who devotes his life to becoming an Indian classical music vocalist, diligently following the traditions and discipline of the old masters, his guru […]

Eros STX Global Corporation’s streaming platform Eros Now is launching a Premium Video On-Demand ‘First Day, First Show’ service in India. It will kick off in March with STX Films’ Gerard Butler title “Greenland.” Other STX Films titles that will be made available on PVOD on Eros Now over the next 18 months include “Horizon […]

WarnerMedia has acquired “There Is No I in Threesome,” a New Zealand-made documentary about a couple exploring an open relationship, and set is as an HBO Max Original. It will have its world premiere at the WarnerMedia Lodge at the Sundance Film Festival and begin streaming on Feb. 11, shortly before Valentine’s Day. A theatrical […]

Tom Stevens, bassist for the Los Angeles rock quartet the Long Ryders, a key member of the so-called “Paisley Underground” scene of the 1980s, died on January 24, according to an announcement from the band. No cause of death was cited; he was 64. While the group, heavily influenced by Gram Parsons, the Byrds, Buffalo […]

Brothers Osborne have established themselves as a duo well versed in country’s traditional roots and equally unafraid of exploring the genre’s rocking, progressive edge. Recently, in a December-recorded conversation for NPR’s World Cafe, TJ and John Osborne sat with Jesse Scott — the program’s Nashville correspondent — and discussed the dynamic of playing alongside a...