From Sarpatta Parambarai, Drishyam 2, and Soorarai Pottru to Minnal Murali, Malik, Narappa, and Mookuthi Amman, several South Indian movies skipped their theatrical releases during the Covid-19 era early this decade and premiered straight on OTT platforms. Yet, it is doubtful whether any other film generated as much anticipation as director Karthik Subbaraj’s Dhanush-led Jagame...
3 min readKochiJun 18, 2026 08:19 AM IST At a time when the film business is growing more uncertain by the day, and nothing but a well-promoted good movie can guarantee solid returns, producers are increasingly gravitating towards a revenue-sharing model, believing it will ease losses if a project fails to impress the audience. Although...
Jeff Bezos Anthropic CEO Dario Amodei, OpenAI CEO Sam Altman, Meta CEO Mark Zuckerberg and many other top executives from technology industry as well as outside have forecasted a ‘doomsday’ picture of Artificial intelligence (AI) wiping away millions of jobs. Amodei has repeatedly called on the US government to prepare for high unemployment. Till a...
Palantir CEO Palantir CEO Alex Karp has sharply criticised the leading AI companies Anthropic and OpenAI, telling CNBC that the enterprise customers are dissatisfied with how frontier labs operate. “It’s not just the man and woman on the street that is unhappy with the frontier labs, it’s in private, every single enterprise we deal with,”...
Oil prices continued to tumble in early trade on Thursday after the United States and Iran signed an interim agreement aimed at ending the Iran war, reopening the Strait of Hormuz, and waiving US sanctions on Tehran’s oil. The move is seen as a step towards resolving what has been described as one of the...
US President Donald Trump signed the much-anticipated US-Iran peace deal memorandum of understanding (MoU) during a dinner with French President Emmanuel Macron at the G7 summit in Versailles on Thursday. As Trump sat beside Macron, US secretary of state Marco Rubio handed him the agreement. Before putting pen to paper, Trump remarked, “This was not...
Shubman Gill (ANI Photo) NEW DELHI: India captain Shubman Gill revealed that he had a double century in his sights after producing a scintillating 154 against Afghanistan in the second ODI on Wednesday, saying he had set himself a target before the series to bat deep and convert starts into match-defining scores.Gill overcame oppressive conditions...
Shubman Gill (L) and Ishan Kishan (R) stitched a 224-run partnership during the second ODI between India and Afghanistan. (ANI) TimesofIndia.com in Lucknow: It is no secret that Team India‘s head coach Gautam Gambhir is a strong believer in the left-right batting combination.The foundation of India’s T20I template has been built around that principle. With...
US President Donald Trump digitally signing peace deal in France and Iranian President Masoud Pezeshkian US President Donald Trump and Iranian President Masoud Pezeshkian have virtually signed a 14-point memorandum of understanding (MoU) aimed at ending hostilities between the two countries, reopening the Strait of Hormuz and launching negotiations on a broader agreement covering sanctions...
Rohit Sharma Rohit Sharma became only the fifth Indian batter to complete 14,000 runs in List A cricket during India’s second ODI against Afghanistan on Wednesday.The former India captain reached the milestone during a quick 48 off 39 balls. His innings included six fours and two sixes and came at a strike rate of over...
