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Taylor Swift is continuing to keep Swifties guessing!

During the surprise songs portion of her final show at Accor Stadium in Sydney, Australia on Monday (February 26), Taylor performed two songs: “Forever & Always” from Fearless (Taylor’s Version) and “Maroon” from Midnights.

She followed up the piano performance by grabbing her guitar to sing a mash-up of songs about complicated relationships: “Would’ve, Could’ve, Should’ve” from Midnights and “Ivy” from Evermore.

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Taylor performed the songs in her green surprise songs dress, one of the four-color options she has worn throughout The Eras Tour. The other three dresses of the same design are in maroon, green and yellow.

Some Swifties have theorized that the dress colors provide hints as to the kinds of surprise songs she will play during a particular show.

The guess is that when Taylor wears her yellow version of the dress,...

Taylor Swift's concert movie, The Eras Tour (Taylor's Version), will feature five additional performances not included in the theatrical or digital releases. The streaming release on Disney+ will include the song "cardigan" and four undisclosed acoustic songs from the surprise songs section of the show. Fans are eagerly anticipating the streaming release of The Eras Tour and are hoping for the inclusion of popular songs like "Death by a Thousand Cuts" and "New Romantics."

Taylor Swift: The Eras Tour (Taylor's Version), the streaming version of the singer-songwriter's concert movie, will feature four additional acoustic performances that didn't make the theatrical or digital release cuts. In the wake of Taylor Swift's 13th Grammy win, Disney announced that it had secured exclusive streaming rights to The Eras Tour movie. So far, the limited theatrical release of The Eras Tour broke box office records by earning upwards of $261.6 million worldwide. Even though...

Taylor Swift is now the artist with the most wins for Album of the Year as she earns her fourth trophy, thanks to Midnights.

On Sunday, the Eras Tour singer took the stage to celebrate the accolade. She’s now won the Grammy for Album of the Year for LPs Fearless in 2010, 1989 in 2016, Folklore in 2021, and now, Midnights in 2024.

Swift took the stage, accompanied by her producer and “one of my best friends” Jack Antonoff, describing him as a “once in a generation producer” as she accepted the award, and thanked her collaborators.

In Maroon, veteran character actor Manav Kaul plays an associate college professor whose wife goes missing, and it's not too long before his sanity goes along with her. Manav Kaul plays Saurabh, an associate professor of literature at a liberal arts college in India. One night he comes home to find his wife missing. After calling around to her friends and workplace he places a call to the police to report her absense, and this is when things start getting really strange in the new feature from first time director Pulkit that premiered at Mumbai's Jio Mami event in October and landed in North America for its Us premiere at the South Asian International Film Festival in New York last week. Saurabh reports his wife's...

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Exclusive/Film Bazaar: Sales and representation agency’s launch slate includes Maroon, Half-Ticket, Raakshas.

Producer Vivek Kajaria (Fandry) has launched a film sales and representation agency, Basil Content, which aims to connect filmmakers and producers with distribution and film festivals in India and overseas.

The company is co-founded by Sanjay Ram, a former festival programmer and production executive, and has also appointed former Osian’s Cinefan programmer Rajat Goswami as director of acquisitions.

Titles on the company’s debut slate include Pulkit’s Maroon [pictured], Ananya Kasravallis’ Chronicles Of Hari, Samit Kakad’s Half-Ticket, Brahmanand S Siingh’s documentary Kaagaz Ki Kashti and Dnyanesh Zoting’s Raakshas, which was produced by Kajaria.

Described by the founders as a new style international sales agency, Basil Content is involved in festival strategy, PR, marketing and consultation, in addition to sales. It has also tied up with digital aggregator FilmKaravan to strengthen digital distribution of its slate.

“There are no...

Exclusive/Film Bazaar: Indian actor Abhay Deol has set up a banner to acquire critically-acclaimed Indian independent films and work with online platforms to give them a straight-to-digital worldwide release.

The new venture, Abhay Deol Presents, has already acquired three titles – Aditya Vikram Sengupta’s Venice 2014 title Labour Of Love; Payal Sethi’s award-winning short Leeches; and Brahmanand S. Siingh’s documentary Kaagaz Ki Kashti, about Ghazal singer Jagjit Singh, which received a standing ovation when it premiered at Mumbai Film Festival last month.

“As an actor I’ve always wanted to balance mainstream and non-mainstream work but realised there needed to be changes in the distribution system for independent films to happen,” said Deol whose acting credits include indie titles Shanghai and Dev D. “Now digital is here, independent filmmakers finally have a platform, so I decided to take the plunge and explore this space.”

Deol is currently assembling a distribution team to exploit the titles...