Daniel Alves Martins

 Netflix’s Co-CEO Ted Sarandos has warned an audience of Indian filmmakers that they “ain’t seen nothing yet” in terms of the streamer’s goals in the nation. Sarandos was in Mumbai for a fireside talk with acclaimed Indian director Sanjay Leela Bhansali, who is developing the vast new series Heeramandi for Netflix. Sarandos said India is the fastest growing Netflix market in the world and the business will continue to bet significantly on originals from the country. Friday at a different Economic Times event, Sarandos declared that a larger portion of Netflix's $16.8B content budget will go to India. 28 of the 100 original Netflix films produced in India last year. Heeramandi is expected to be a significant turning point in Netflix's India strategy. The eight-part television series, which began filming in June of last year, will explore the tales of courtesans and reveal the secret cultural reality of Heeramandi, a glittering area in pre-independent India. One of the cast membe...

 Exclusive: Scream VI, from Paramount and Spyglass Media, debuted today with what appears to be a franchise high of $37M domestically. Scream 3 from 2000 had the previous highest opening for a Scream film, grossing $34.7M domestically. There are other elements raising the temperature, not the least of which is Jenna Ortega's star power on Wednesday. Clearly. Fans were also happy with the previous film, which with a $30M 3-day opening last year and a final domestic gross of $81.6M, $140M WW, further underlined the power of horror at the box office during the epidemic. Scream VI, which debuts on March 10 and follows the Ghostface killings from Woodsboro to New York City, is directed by Matt Bettinelli-Olpin and Tyler Gillet and produced by William Sherak, Paul Neinstein, and Vanderbilt at Project X Productions. The screenplay was written by Guy Busick and James Vanderbilt. Together with Hayden Panettiere, Courteney Cox, and Ortega, Melissa Barrera, Jasmin Savoy Brown, Jack Champion, ...