Location, Location, Location
Entertainment, sports and brand licensing firms WildBrain Cplg and WildBrain Ltd. have brokered location-based entertainment (Lbe) deals on behalf of Peanuts Worldwide for “Peanuts,” “Teletubbies” and “In the Night Garden” with China’s Max-Matching Entertainments. These are expected to lead to the opening of family entertainment centers and IP-themed hotel rooms for each brand in Beijing, in Zhongshan City, Guangdong and a third city yet to be announced. These will roll out over the next five years.
The moves come at a time when WildBrain Cplg is expanding its Asia-focused teams. These include the Los Angeles-based veteran licensing executive, Kevin Suh who is former president of themed entertainment & consumer products at Paramount Pictures. Suh was also a senior executive at the Motion Picture Association of America and a lawyer in California. Shanghai-based Evi Sari joins as VP of Lbe in Apac and the Gcc. She was previously...
Entertainment, sports and brand licensing firms WildBrain Cplg and WildBrain Ltd. have brokered location-based entertainment (Lbe) deals on behalf of Peanuts Worldwide for “Peanuts,” “Teletubbies” and “In the Night Garden” with China’s Max-Matching Entertainments. These are expected to lead to the opening of family entertainment centers and IP-themed hotel rooms for each brand in Beijing, in Zhongshan City, Guangdong and a third city yet to be announced. These will roll out over the next five years.
The moves come at a time when WildBrain Cplg is expanding its Asia-focused teams. These include the Los Angeles-based veteran licensing executive, Kevin Suh who is former president of themed entertainment & consumer products at Paramount Pictures. Suh was also a senior executive at the Motion Picture Association of America and a lawyer in California. Shanghai-based Evi Sari joins as VP of Lbe in Apac and the Gcc. She was previously...
- 9/7/2023
- by Patrick Frater
- Variety Film + TV
Pakistan has banned Saim Sadiq’s critically-acclaimed film Joyland, saying that it contains “highly objectionable material”.
Joyland is a fictional story set in Lahore about a middle-class family in which a wheelchair-bound yet severe patriarch rules over his two sons and daughters-in-law.
He wants his kids to give him grandchildren, but that all changes when his younger son Haider falls in love with Biba, an intersex dancer who he works for.
The film, which also happens to be Pakistan’s official entry for the 2023 Oscars, was granted a certificate allowing it to be screened by the Pakistani authorities in August this year.
However, objections to the film’s content have since been raised.
“Written complaints were received that the film contains highly objectionable material which do not conform with the social values and moral standards of our society and is clearly repugnant to the norms of ‘decency and morality’ as...
Joyland is a fictional story set in Lahore about a middle-class family in which a wheelchair-bound yet severe patriarch rules over his two sons and daughters-in-law.
He wants his kids to give him grandchildren, but that all changes when his younger son Haider falls in love with Biba, an intersex dancer who he works for.
The film, which also happens to be Pakistan’s official entry for the 2023 Oscars, was granted a certificate allowing it to be screened by the Pakistani authorities in August this year.
However, objections to the film’s content have since been raised.
“Written complaints were received that the film contains highly objectionable material which do not conform with the social values and moral standards of our society and is clearly repugnant to the norms of ‘decency and morality’ as...
- 11/14/2022
- by Peony Hirwani
- The Independent - Film
The sub-head of the book reads “The Rise and Rise of Eastern Pop Culture”, and the narrative, largely focused on ‘Bollywood’, is hasty in its attempts to reach a conclusion, but is enthralling nonetheless.
The post Book Review: Fatima Bhutto’s “New Kings Of The World” Is An Engaging, Simplistic Narrative of Bollywood, Dizi, and K-Pop appeared first on Film Companion.
The post Book Review: Fatima Bhutto’s “New Kings Of The World” Is An Engaging, Simplistic Narrative of Bollywood, Dizi, and K-Pop appeared first on Film Companion.
- 12/11/2019
- by Prathyush Parasuraman
- Film Companion
Meghan Markle is making her voice heard.
The Suits star has worked as United Nations ambassador, visited Rwanda with World Vision Canada, visited India on a trip to support women and girls living in slum communities and most recently wrote a powerful essay on combating the stigma surrounding menstruation for Time.
This month, in Vanity Fair U.K., she’s being honored for her philanthropic work in a feature that highlights several other big names who straddle the line between the Hollywood world and the humanitarian one, such as Cher and Emma Watson.
In her own photograph, Markle poses with Mary Robinson,...
The Suits star has worked as United Nations ambassador, visited Rwanda with World Vision Canada, visited India on a trip to support women and girls living in slum communities and most recently wrote a powerful essay on combating the stigma surrounding menstruation for Time.
This month, in Vanity Fair U.K., she’s being honored for her philanthropic work in a feature that highlights several other big names who straddle the line between the Hollywood world and the humanitarian one, such as Cher and Emma Watson.
In her own photograph, Markle poses with Mary Robinson,...
- 3/31/2017
- by Diana Pearl and Patrick Gomez
- PEOPLE.com
The director of Viceroy’s House argues that her film about India’s partition of 1947, far from ignoring the freedom struggle, celebrates it
Bhutto on Viceroy’s House: ‘I watched this servile pantomime and wept’
Fatima Bhutto, in reviewing my film Viceroy’s House, has every right to express her opinion about it. Everyone sees history through their own lens; some only see what they want to see. My film is my vision of the events leading up to India’s partition. It is not the first and it will not be the last interpretation, and I am delighted that it is provoking such heated public debate.
What saddens me is that a film about reconciliation should be so wilfully misrepresented as anti-Muslim or anti-Pakistan.
Continue reading...
Bhutto on Viceroy’s House: ‘I watched this servile pantomime and wept’
Fatima Bhutto, in reviewing my film Viceroy’s House, has every right to express her opinion about it. Everyone sees history through their own lens; some only see what they want to see. My film is my vision of the events leading up to India’s partition. It is not the first and it will not be the last interpretation, and I am delighted that it is provoking such heated public debate.
What saddens me is that a film about reconciliation should be so wilfully misrepresented as anti-Muslim or anti-Pakistan.
Continue reading...
- 3/3/2017
- by Gurinder Chadha
- The Guardian - Film News
Dubai, Nov 15: Pakistani author Fatima Bhutto has shot down rumours that she had turned down a role in a big-budget Bollywood film.
The 31-year-old writer laughed and said that it was one of the funniest stories that she heard but it is patently and spectacularly untrue, the Gulf News reported.
Bhutto has made her debut as a novelist with 'The Shadow of the Crescent Moon', after having been a non-fiction writer.
Published by Penguin, the novel is set in Mir Ali, a small town in the troubled tribal region of Waziristan, close to the Afghan border.
She wanted the town, the epicenter of the story, to be.
The 31-year-old writer laughed and said that it was one of the funniest stories that she heard but it is patently and spectacularly untrue, the Gulf News reported.
Bhutto has made her debut as a novelist with 'The Shadow of the Crescent Moon', after having been a non-fiction writer.
Published by Penguin, the novel is set in Mir Ali, a small town in the troubled tribal region of Waziristan, close to the Afghan border.
She wanted the town, the epicenter of the story, to be.
- 11/15/2013
- by Ketali Mehta
- RealBollywood.com
A documentary about Benazir Bhutto, which premiered in London last night, makes for gripping but troublingly partial viewing
"Zulfikar Ali Bhutto: Executed, 1979. Shahnawaz Bhutto: Murdered, 1985. Mir Murtaza Bhutto: Assassinated, 1996. Benazir Bhutto: Assassinated, 2007."
This chilling roll call, which appears on the front cover of Fatima Bhutto's politicial memoir, Songs of Blood and Sword, reads like a trailer for a Hollywood thriller – so incredulous, that it couldn't possibly be true. But you can't make this stuff up.
Murder, corruption, assassination, exile and family feuds: if ever there was a political story that makes for superbly gripping viewing, it's definitely the Bhutto story. And now it's finally been translated to screen in Bhutto, a documentary film put together by an American political-consultant-turned director and production team.
At a time when both Pakistan's flood calamity and precarious politics dominate the global media landscape, Bhutto provides a condensed and comprehensive glimpse...
"Zulfikar Ali Bhutto: Executed, 1979. Shahnawaz Bhutto: Murdered, 1985. Mir Murtaza Bhutto: Assassinated, 1996. Benazir Bhutto: Assassinated, 2007."
This chilling roll call, which appears on the front cover of Fatima Bhutto's politicial memoir, Songs of Blood and Sword, reads like a trailer for a Hollywood thriller – so incredulous, that it couldn't possibly be true. But you can't make this stuff up.
Murder, corruption, assassination, exile and family feuds: if ever there was a political story that makes for superbly gripping viewing, it's definitely the Bhutto story. And now it's finally been translated to screen in Bhutto, a documentary film put together by an American political-consultant-turned director and production team.
At a time when both Pakistan's flood calamity and precarious politics dominate the global media landscape, Bhutto provides a condensed and comprehensive glimpse...
- 8/27/2010
- by Huma Qureshi
- The Guardian - Film News
Architect Norman Foster and author Margaret Atwood to spearhead partial tie-up between festivals
Norman Foster and Margaret Atwood are to star in a collaboration between two of Edinburgh's largest festivals as part of a new initiative to expand the reach and audience of the city's international book festival.
In a joint project with the Edinburgh film festival this August – the first on this scale attempted by two of the city's 12 annual festivals – Foster and Atwood will be amongst a number of prominent guests exploring the different techniques film-makers and writers use for biographies.
The events will be staged at the Filmhouse cinema complex, where this year's film festival is now taking place, as part of plans by the new director of the city's international book festival, Nick Barley, to develop an event based for nearly 30 years in a "tented city" in the gardens of Charlotte Square in the city's Georgian New Town.
Norman Foster and Margaret Atwood are to star in a collaboration between two of Edinburgh's largest festivals as part of a new initiative to expand the reach and audience of the city's international book festival.
In a joint project with the Edinburgh film festival this August – the first on this scale attempted by two of the city's 12 annual festivals – Foster and Atwood will be amongst a number of prominent guests exploring the different techniques film-makers and writers use for biographies.
The events will be staged at the Filmhouse cinema complex, where this year's film festival is now taking place, as part of plans by the new director of the city's international book festival, Nick Barley, to develop an event based for nearly 30 years in a "tented city" in the gardens of Charlotte Square in the city's Georgian New Town.
- 6/17/2010
- by Severin Carrell
- The Guardian - Film News
Bakhtawar Bhutto Zardari, the elder daughter of slain former Pakistani premier Benazir Bhutto and President Asif Ali Zardari, is quietly documenting her pain in the world of music. While her fiery cousin Fatima Bhutto makes headlines by her memoir on the Bhutto dynasty, Bakhtawar has released nine songs, mostly in her mother’s memory, and one on the many dead members of the Bhutto family. Bakhtawar’s musical talent first got noticed when she released a song, I’ll take the pain away, on the internet on her mother’s first death anniversary. A student at Edinburgh University, Bakhtawar, 20, wrote on her webpage: “It ...
- 5/13/2010
- Hindustan Times - Cinema
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