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SonyLIV to air new film 'Wonder Woman' on 18th November

 



Directed by Anjali Menon, it stars Parvathy Thiruvothu, Padmapriya and Amrutha Subhash.

SonyLIV, the video streaming platform owned by Sony Pictures Networks, will stream a new film, Wonder Woman, on November 18. Directed by Anjali Menon, it stars Parvathy Thiruvothu, Padmapriya and Amrutha Subhash.

On video streaming services around Rs. The cost was expected. 17% growth to over Rs 1,920 crore to create original content for India in 2021. 1,400 crores were spent in 2019. This comes after the services saw a sharp increase in viewership during the 2020 lockdown.

Increase in expenditure including platform games to Rs. 30,000 crore during 2021-25, according to the latest report by FICCI-EY Media and Entertainment Industry. Investing in original content makes sense as viewers are learning to pay for the content they consume. In 2020, 29 million subscribers paid for 53 million OTT video subscriptions (not counting subscriptions bundled with data plans), a figure projected to reach 39 million subscribers in 2021 for 71 million subscriptions.

The growing viewership of streaming platforms during the two years of the pandemic has helped double the income of actors playing large roles in web shows and from less than 10% pre-pandemic, 50% of production costs on streaming services from the industry Till now has helped in getting the wage bill. said the experts.

While the total cost of original production has gone up in the same period, actors have been the biggest gainers, with foreign streaming firms like Netflix, Prime Video and Disney+ Hotstar more than happy to shell out big bucks for now-popular faces in web shows.


Some of the biggest names headlining web series can make up to Rs. 10 cr to Rs. 15 crores per season even though there is no box office barometer to gauge his success. Next step of web stars Rs. 5 crore to Rs. 8 crores.

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