Oscar

Author initiates legal action against Dharma Productions, Netflix over Oscar contender Homebound; alleges infringement

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Journalist and author Puja Changoiwala has initiated legal action against Karan Johar and Adar Poonawalla’s Dharma Productions Private Limited, along with Netflix Entertainment Services India LLP, for allegedly plagiarising her 2021 novel Homebound. She will file a suit in the Bombay High Court over the Neeraj Ghaywan film of the same name, starring Ishaan Khatter, … Read more

How Oscar contender ‘Arco’ imagines not one climate apocalypse but two

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The most impressive part of French animated sci-fi epic “Arco,” which took the top prize at the Annecy International Animation Film Festival, is its imaginative world-building. In fact, first-time director Ugo Bienvenu conjures not one but two apocalyptic climate futures for his 2D time-travel odyssey, produced by actor Natalie Portman and distributed by Neon in … Read more