Two decades after scoring a surprise holiday season global hit with Love Actually, British filmmaker Richard Curtis is bidding to repeat the trick with his first foray into animation. The 68-year-old writer and director has co-adapted his own trilogy of children’s books, and commandeered longtime friend Ed Sheeran into contributing an original song, to bring … Read more
Disney+ Hotstar has unveiled the trailer for The Legend of Hanuman Season 5. This season promises to captivate audiences with stunning visuals, compelling graphics, and a storyline deeply rooted in themes of loyalty and bravery. As Hanuman takes on his powerful Panchmukhi avatar, viewers will be drawn into an exhilarating journey that showcases his immense … Read more
Disney+ Hotstar announced The Legend Of Hanuman Season 5 on Friday, where Hanuman embarks on a different avatar, set to intrigue the audiences with stunning visuals, compelling graphics and a storyline deep-rooted in themes of loyalty and bravery. Sharad Kelkar and Sanket Mhatre to return with The Legend Of Hanuman season 5 on October 25 … Read more
Want to slow down and chill in this pleasant and agreeable autumn weather? Here are our recommendations for some of the best things to do in Hong Kong this weekend. 1. Therapeutic Sound Meditation for Better Sleep Join therapeutic sound practitioner Billy Leung at Be Earth yoga studio on Friday evening from 7.15pm to 9.15pm … Read more
In a city that is too often unjustly stereotyped as favouring the new, the Hollywood studio reminds us of how much history – and, specifically, pop-culture mythmaking – is rooted in and around Los Angeles. There in these spaces, you might see a spot where US actor James Dean once stood, roll past the house … Read more
The Union Cabinet on Wednesday approved a proposal to set up the National Centre of Excellence (NCoE) for Animation, Visual Effects, Gaming, Comics and Extended Reality (AVGC-XR) on lines of the IITs and IIMs to anchor the animation ecosystem in the country. Aimed at positioning India as a content hub for providing state-of-the-art content, thereby … Read more
Léa Paquette’s graduation gala in April was awkward to say the least. Recent 3D-animation graduates dressed to the nines, mingled in a room of industry professionals in downtown Montreal, exchanging LinkedIn profiles and polite smiles while everyone desperately tried to ignore the CGI elephant in the room: there’s no work. When they got into school, … Read more
Award-winning singer Yemi Alade has been selected to record and perform the theme song for the highly anticipated Cartoon Network’s Nigerian superhero animation, the Iyanu superhero animated series deeply rooted in Nigerian culture and mythology, which will debut in 2025. It marks the second time the singer who previously worked on Beyoncé’s Lion King: The … Read more
Astronomers using the James Webb Space Telescope (JWST) have imaged a planet that is, relatively speaking, in our galactic backyard — and that fresh data has led to new details about this massive “cold” Jupiter. The gas giant exoplanet has the unceremonious name of Epsilon Ind Ab. Epsilon (or “Eps”) is the fifth letter in the Greek … Read more
Civic Studios, a Mumbai and London-based media company focused on social impact narratives, is spearheading the animation feature Schirkoa: In Lies We Trust, by Ishan Shukla. The film, premiered at the 2024 International Film Festival of Rotterdam, won the prestigious NETPAC award for Best Asian Film. Karan Johar, Anurag Kashyap, Shekhar Kapur and Piyush Mishra … Read more
