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About 300 locals worked on Crazy Rich Asians including production crew and a dozen local actors, while landmarks such as Marina Bay Sands and Merlion Park were featured

As part of the restructuring, Netflix will combine its small and mid-sized picture productions units, cut a few jobs, scale back its output to ensure high quality titles and centralise decision-making

According to his friends and associates, he was rushed to a hospital last night for kidney and related ailments, but failed to survive and breathed his last early this morning

The film will follow Honey Singh's meteoric rise in mainstream Bollywood music and his fall as the landscape eventually changed due to market dynamics

Actor Sameer Khakhar, best known for playing the lovable drunk Khopdi in the classic 1980s TV serial "Nukkad", died at a hospital here in the early hours of Wednesday due to multiple organ failure. The actor, who was most recently seen in the Prime Video series "Farzi" and moved to the US in the 1990s for a few years to become a software developer, was 71. Sameer Khakhar was admitted to MM Hospital in Borivali in suburban Mumbai on Tuesday morning following respiratory issues, his younger brother Ganesh Khakhar told PTI. "He had respiratory problems since yesterday and later became unconscious. We called the doctor at home and were asked to hospitalise him. He was admitted to the intensive care unit of MM Hospital," he said. "Slowly and gradually, he suffered multiple organ failure. He was unconscious and then he collapsed. He passed away at 4.30 am today," Ganesh Khakhar added. The last rites were conducted at a Borivali crematorium in the presence of his family and some friends

Multiverse dramedy "Everything Everywhere All at Once" emerged as the big winner at the 95th Academy Awards, taking home the coveted best picture trophy along with awards for its star cast --Michelle Yeoh, Ke Huy Quan and Jamie Lee Curtis. Yeoh became the first Asian woman to win the best actress trophy, while Brendan Fraser returned to centre stage with his best actor award for his role as an overweight reclusive professor in "The Whale". Filmmaking duo Daniel Kwan and Daniel Scheinert, known as the Daniels, won for both directing and original screenplay for "Everything Everywhere All at Once". "Naatu Naatu", the peppy, foot-tapping chartbuster from SS Rajamouli's Telugu blockbuster "RRR", created history by becoming the first Indian track to win the Academy Award in the best original song category.

The movie claimed seven awards overall, including three of the four acting Oscars for stars Michelle Yeoh, Ke Huy Quan and Jamie Lee Curtis

"Everything Everywhere All At Once" came in the Oscar favourite, and it's winning like one, too. Michelle Yeoh, Ke Huy Quan and Jamie Lee Curtis all won acting honours while the filmmaking duo known as the Daniels, Daniel Kwan and Daniel Scheinert won for both directing and original screenplay. Yeoh became the first Asian woman to best actress, taking the award for her lauded performance in "Everything Everywhere All at Once". The 60-year-old Malaysian-born Yeoh won her first Oscar for a performance that relied as much on her comic and dramatic chops as it did her kung fu skills. She's the first best actress win for a non-white actress in 20 years. "Ladies, don't let anyone ever tell you you're past your prime,: said Yeoh, who received a raucous standing ovation. In winning best director, the Daniels both 35 years old won for just their second and decidedly un-Oscar bait feature. They're just the third directing pair to win the award, following Robert Wise and Jerome Robbins ("W

The actor bagged the honour for his comeback role in the film 'Everything Everywhere All at Once'. The actor made history as the first Vietnam-born actor to win an Oscar

In the film, Curtis portrays tax inspector Deirdre Beaubeirdre as well as the character's alternate-universe counterparts

Indian climate change documentary "All That Breathes" could not register a win at the 95th edition of the Academy Awards, losing out to Daniel Roher's "Navalny". The Shaunak Sen-directorial was nominated in the segment alongside All the Beauty and the Bloodshed, Fire of Love, and A House Made of Splinters. "Navalny" is a documentary film that revolves around Russian opposition leader Alexei Navalny and events related to his poisoning. The award was presented to the team of the American production by actor Riz Ahmed and musician Questlove. "All That Breathes" is a Delhi-set documentary which follows two siblings, Mohammad Saud and Nadeem Shehzad, who have devoted their lives to rescuing and treating injured birds, especially black kites. The critically-acclaimed film previously won the 'World Cinema Grand Jury Prize: Documentary' at the 2022 Sundance Film Festival and the Golden Eye award for the best documentary at the 2022 Cannes Film Festival. This is the second upset for India

For the first time, the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences has created a crisis team to respond to any mishaps

Wide acclaim for his portrayal of Tevye helped make him, according to one newspaper, Israel's most famous export since the Jaffa orange

"We analysed those films, the intentional cinematic language and in what way it was reflecting the country's history and the zeitgeist of the times"

Can single screens be resuscitated?

Sharp rise in global cinema revenues expected by 2026

This ability to unlock the va­lue of small, difficult-to-discov­er and interesting films is what ProducerBazaar hopes to ach­ieve at scale

Viewing engagement up 30%, revenue 25% in India

If the last few years dented his persona, Pathaan has shown it was just a fleeting phase

Inox Leisure Ltd posted profit before exceptional items and tax for the third quarter, as movie buffs returned following a string of hits and splurged on pricier tickets and in-theater purchases