Movies
Carnival Cinemas offers rewards for movie ticket
Mumbai: Multiplex chain Carnival Cinemas, founded by Dr. Shrikant Bhasi, on Friday announced that moviegoers will receive assured gifts after booking movie tickets on www.carnivalcinemas.com. The company added that a few lucky winners will get a chance to win free hampers.
With the aim of encouraging consumers to book their tickets online through the website, Carnival Cinemas aims to establish a strong connection with moviegoers by engaging them through its unique reward activations. The company is consistently setting benchmarks of pioneering innovation across the Indian exhibition.
This reward campaign initiative is designed to ensure that the customers have the best experience possible. It aims to increase the excitement and anticipation for the upcoming movies. This consumer promotional offer will be available at all Carnival Cinemas theatres across India.
The reward will be inclusive of free products, vouchers, and food & beverages. Additionally, a lucky winner will be chosen in every show at Carnival Cinemas at their IMAX Wadala theatre.
On launching the offer for the patrons, Carnival Cinemas director and CEO Vishal Sawhney stated, “We are excited to announce the launch of our new promotional offer for our patrons! With this new scheme, our patrons can enjoy easy and convenient booking options through our website—www.carnialcinemas.com—and at the same time be rewarded for the same. We hope that our patrons will find this new scheme interesting. At Carnival Cinemas, we believe that the consumer is the most important aspect of our business. We strive to provide an excellent experience for every customer who visits our theatres by offering a variety of films to choose from, goodies and services. Our goal is to ensure that each and every person who walks through our doors has a great time and leaves with a smile on their face. We are committed to providing the best possible service and making sure that our customers are happy.”
Hollywood
Utopai Studios partners Huace to deploy PAI for long form content
Deal includes revenue sharing as Huace adopts AI engine across global ops
MUMBAI: Lights, camera… algorithm, the script just got a silicon co-writer. In a move that signals how storytelling itself is being re-engineered, U.S.-based Utopai Studios has partnered China’s Huace Film & TV Co. Ltd. to bring artificial general intelligence into the heart of long-form content creation.
At the centre of the deal is PAI, Utopai’s cinematic storytelling system, which Huace will deploy as a core engine across its production pipeline from development and creative iteration to global localisation. The partnership includes a large-scale annual usage commitment from Huace, alongside a usage-based revenue-sharing model, underscoring both ambition and commercial confidence on both sides.
For Huace, one of China’s largest film and television companies, the bet is not on automation alone but on scale with control. With distribution spanning over 200 countries and a presence across more than 20 international platforms, including Netflix and YouTube, the company brings a vast content ecosystem where even marginal efficiency gains can translate into significant output shifts. Its extensive TV IP library further positions it as fertile ground for AI-assisted storytelling workflows.
The choice of PAI follows what Huace described as a rigorous evaluation of existing AI tools, many of which remain limited to fragmented use cases such as video generation or editing. What tipped the scales, according to the company, was PAI’s ability to handle long-form narrative complexity maintaining continuity, structure, and creative coherence across entire story arcs rather than isolated clips.
Utopai, for its part, is using the partnership to anchor its international expansion strategy, pitching PAI as an enterprise-ready system built for customisation, privacy, and regulatory adaptability across markets. That positioning becomes particularly relevant as global media companies increasingly scrutinise how AI integrates into proprietary workflows.
The timing is notable. Earlier this month, Utopai upgraded PAI to support three-minute 4K video generation and advanced multi-shot sequencing features designed to tackle one of AI storytelling’s biggest hurdles: consistency across scenes.
What emerges is not just another tech collaboration, but a glimpse into how the grammar of filmmaking could evolve. Because if stories were once crafted frame by frame, the next chapter might just be coded scene by scene.
