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Big Cinemas opens new theatre in the US
MUMBAI: Adlabs Films USA is opening a new theatre in Niles, IL under their brand ‘Big Cinemas‘. The new 5-screen complex has an auditorium capacity of 1,300 seats per showing in 26,549 sq. feet of space. The movie theatre in Chicago will start free previews from 22 May and the opening happens on 29 May, the company said.
The theatre is Dolby Digital Surround and High Gain wall-to-wall screens. It introduces the ‘Ebony Lounge‘ a full service restaurant and bar featuring night menu till 2 am. Additional services and features for customers include online advance ticketing, ticketing kiosks and customer reward programmes.
The programme calendar would include latest Bollywood films, along with Tamil, Telugu, Malayalam, Kannada, Bengali, Marathi and Punjabi films as well as World Cinema from different ethnicities such as Korean, Chinese and Polish. It will also be showing live telecasts of cricket matches and other events.
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Rashmika Mandanna, Shanaya Kapoor and Naila Grrewal climb IMDb’s Indian celebrity rankings
Upcoming films and returning shows are driving fan interest across Bollywood and streaming
MUMBAI: Bollywood’s popularity contest has a new weekly scorecard, and the numbers are telling. IMDb’s Popular Indian Celebrities list for this week places Shanaya Kapoor at number six, buoyed by buzz around her film Tu Yaa Main. Naila Grrewal slots in at seven on the back of the returning comedy series Maamla Legal Hai, while Rashmika Mandanna climbs to eighth, riding mounting anticipation for Cocktail 2.
The list, available exclusively on the IMDb app for Android and iOS, tracks trending Indian entertainers and filmmakers each week, drawing on data from more than 200m monthly visits to the platform worldwide.
Further down the rankings, Raaka is keeping two of its biggest names in the spotlight. Deepika Padukone holds 11th position, with Allu Arjun close behind at 13th, as the film continues to find traction with audiences.
The list offers fans a weekly pulse on who is breaking through, who is holding steady, and who is fading. It is a barometer as unsparing as the box office itself.
