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Spider-Man creator to make new superhero for India!
Washington, Dec 23 : Stan Lee, co-creator of some of the world's leading superhero characters like Spider-Man, X-Men, Fantastic Four, Iron Man, Daredevil, Hulk and Thor will be launching an original superhero for the Indian market.
Multi-media company Pow! Entertainment's Lee, will develop the new superhero with a team of Indian artists working at Liquid Comics, a leading creator of Indian character franchises, the two firms announced Thursday.
It will initially launch as a series of downloadable web & mobile comics distributed throughout India on Liquid's recently announced 'Graphic India' platform and www. graphicindia. com website.
Indian artist's new animated web series launched in US
Washington, Dec 20 : A digital entertainment company founded by three Indian Americans is launching a new animated web series by noted filmmaker John Woo created with writer Garth Ennis and Indian artist Jeevan J. Kang.
Liquid Comics, founded by Sharad Devarajan, Gotham Chopra and Suresh Seetharaman, have joined Tiger Hill Entertainment to launch the first four episodes in a 13 episode animated web series from Woo, maker of "Mission Impossible 2", "Face-Off" and "Red Cliff".
The animated series is an adaptation of the graphic novel, "Seven Brothers," created by Woo, with writer Garth Ennis and Indian artist Jeevan J. Kang.
‘Hit potential equation’ may predict a ‘hit’ song
Washington, Dec 17 : Scientists have argued that predicting the popularity of a song may well be feasible by using state-of-the-art machine learning algorithms.
Tijl de Bie and his team of researchers from the University of Bristol’s Intelligent Systems Laboratory looked at the official UK top 40 singles chart over the past 50 years. Their aim was to distinguish the most popular, peak position top five, songs from less popular singles, peak position 30 to 40.
‘Breaking Dawn – Part 1’ tops US weekend box office with $139.5m revenue
Washington, Nov 21 : ‘The Twilight Saga: Breaking Dawn – Part 1’ opened with a huge 139.5 million dollars on its first weekend at the US box office, with a worldwide launch of 283.5 million dollars.
According to Hollywood. com, the domestic total gives the newest addition to the ‘The Twilight Saga’ the second-best debut weekend for the franchise, after the 142.8 million dollars launch for 2009’s ‘The Twilight Saga: New Moon’, the Washington Post reported.