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  • Sardar Udham, Sherni, The Great Indian Kitchen among others nominated

    Nominees for Critics’ Choice Awards announced

    By Our Staff

     

    Motion Content Group of GroupM, in Collaboration with Film Critics Guild and Vistas Media Capital has come up the 4th edition of Critics’ Choice Awards to honour the talent in web series, short films and feature films.

     

    Said Anupama Chopra, Chairperson Film Critics Guild: “We are thrilled to announce the feature film nominees for the fourth edition of the Indian Critics’ Choice Awards.  Despite the challenges posed by the pandemic, the level of artistry and storytelling has not faltered. These awards are a celebration of that indomitable spirit of Indian cinema.”

     

    Added Prasanth Kumar, CEO – GroupM South Asia: “Despite the pandemic, 2021 witnessed incredible output with breakthrough performances. We at Critics’ Choice Awards believe that we truly are at the forefront in identifying and felicitating creators and their craft for the fabulous work put in. It is important to recognize talent and award them for their best efforts. We are delighted to present the nominations for the outstanding work done in 2021. We would like to thank filmmakers, directors, writers, and artists, who have worked extremely hard to give us compelling movies amid unprecedented competition.”

     

  • Motion will invest and partner with the world's leading talent, producers and distributors to fund, develop, produce and distribute premium content

    GroupM unveils content investment and rights management company, Motion

    By A Correspondent

     

    GroupM has announced the launch of Motion Content Group (Motion), a new global content investment and rights management company, to meet the ever-growing market demand for new economic models for premium content across the entertainment and media marketplace.

     

    Motion will invest and partner with the world’s leading talent, producers and distributors to fund, develop, produce and distribute premium content. It will also consolidate and diversify GroupM’s content investments and operations to-date, as well as utilise GroupM’s & WPP’s global network of relationships and content expertise for scale and competitive advantage.

     

    Richard Foster, currently the head of GroupM Entertainment, has been appointed CEO of Motion Content Group, which will be headquartered in London and Los Angeles.

     

    Said Martin Sorrell, CEO, WPP in a statement: “With new content companies such as Netflix and Amazon growing rapidly, the competition for premium content is heating up across the globe. WPP is investing in Motion Content Group to strengthen our content creation and distribution capabilities, to help meet evolving viewer needs, and to help advertisers continue to reach consumers in high qualitycontent environments.”

     

    Added Kelly Clark, GroupM CEO: “We have always used our global scale and reach to find innovative approaches that strengthen the media ecosystem for advertisers and media partners alike. Motion is a major commitment by GroupM to expand on these efforts.”

     

    And this is what Richard Foster, CEO, Motion Content Group had to say: “Our objective is to help create and support editorially and commercially vibrant premium content for the benefit of our content partners and advertisers. We will achieve this by continuing to invest into the content industry and lead the development of new models, commercial content structures and partnerships with media networks, platforms, talent, producers, and distributors.”