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Netflix buys rights to create animated series based on Roald Dahl's books

The deal covers 16 different properties, including lesser-known works like 'Esio Trot,' 'The Enormous Crocodile,' and 'Billy and the Minpins'

Vishal Bhardwaj to serve as showrunner on Netflix's 'Midnight's Children'

The novel was also adapted as film in 2013 by Indo-Canadian filmmaker Deepa Mehta with Rushdie writing the screenplay

YouTube to make new exclusive shows, movies free for users from 2020

YouTube's paid option will still remove ads from originals as well as all other videos, and it comes with music streaming privileges

From Bachchan to Bhandarkar, Bollywood remembers 26/11 Mumbai attack

As many as 164 people were killed and over 300 injured after an attack masterminded by the Pakistan-based Lashkar-e-Taiba was orchestrated in Mumbai on November 26, 2008

Wedding to reception: Deepika Padukone, Ranveer Singh's not-to-miss photos

After a dreamy destination wedding, Ranveer Singh and Deepika Padukone celebrated their marriage with close friends and family at Bengaluru's Leela Palace hotel

Big brands are lining up for a slice of Ayushmann Khurrana's fan base

Khurrana's online appeal seems to have worked because a few digital brands have jumped on to the bandwagon

Love for Bollywood: How a sheikh's fancy desire has led to a London lawsuit

Sheikh is accused of reneging on an agreement to pay a businessman to set up introductions with 26 Indian film stars including Shah Rukh Khan for $1.5 million per meeting

Capturing a larger-than-life personality like Freddie Mercury on celluloid

Charismatic and irresistibly charming, Malek brings to life Mercury in the most surreal manner, brilliantly fusing arduous beginnings at home

Ancillary revenue to help YRF tide over 'Thugs of Hindostan' debacle

The film finished its opening weekend, an extended four-day festive weekend at that, with Rs1.23 bn in domestic box office collection

Ranveer Singh-Deepika Padukone wedding: Shallow stories of a deep affair

Any high-profile event these days is also a fast-action marketing exercise for brands

Carnatic singer T M Krishna to perform at AAP's event in Delhi on Saturday

Krishna will perform at the event -- 'Awam ki Awaz' -- hosted by the Delhi government at the Garden of Five Senses at 6.30 pm on Saturday

Lost and found: 90-year old Disney film 'Neck-n-neck' retraced in Japan

Walt Disney and Ub Iwerks created Oswald the Lucky Rabbit in 1927, and it was Disney Studios' first character to have its own show

'Thugs of Hindostan' tanks: Biggest day-1 grosser becomes 'biggest shocker'

The star-studded cast of Amitabh Bachchan, Aamir Khan, Katrina Kaif couldn't help pull people to the cinemas. The film minted Rs 1.33 bn in 5 days, which is way behind the Rs 3 bn budget of the film

Remembering Stan Lee: A man as extraordinary as the characters he created

A superhero in his own right to Marvel fans around the world, Stan had the power to inspire, to entertain and to connect

From Chris Evans to Hugh Jackman, Hollywood bigwigs mourn Stan Lee's death

Stan Lee revolutionized pop culture as the co-creator of iconic superheroes characters such as Spider-Man, Thor and The Hulk

Marvel Comics legend, pop culture icon Stan Lee dead at 95

Lee, the face of comic book culture in the United States, died early Monday in Los Angeles, according to reports

'Thugs of Hindostan' already losing steam? Day 2 brings in Rs 280 million

'Thugs of Hindostan' is based on Philip Meadows Taylor's 1839 novel 'Confessions of a Thug'

Family life

Lily Franky as the paterfamilias becomes a character you root for by the end of this clever, humane, compassionately directed and faultlessly acted movie

'Thugs of Hindostan' nets record Rs 522 mn on Day 1 amid bad reviews galore

Despite critics thrashing it in their reviews, advance bookings and festive-period release have helped the film garner a record opening-day collection

Rajinikanth slams AIADMK for demanding scene cuts in Vijay-starrer 'Sarkar'

The makers of 'Sarkar' had agreed to remove 'objectionable' scenes and 'mute' an apparent reference to the late J Jayalalithaa