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YouTube Premium and YouTube Music have launched in India, where the video giant counts roughly 250 million monthly users.

The YouTube Music offers two iterations -- an ad-free version and a paid subscription service dubbed YouTube Music Premium that provides offline and background consumption of official songs as well as covers by digital creators. YouTube Music Premium is priced at 99 rupees -- or roughly $1 -- per month. YouTube notes that recommendations within YouTube Music are personalized, and subscribers can also search the platform via genre ('Bollywood Hotlist'), mood ('Upbeat Hindi Retro'), or artist ('Featuring Drake'). Paid members can also download up to 100 songs with a so-called Offline Mixtape feature.

Additionally, YouTube Premium -- priced at 129 Rupees, or roughly $2 per month -- is available across India as well, where subscribers can watch YouTube videos ad-free as well as access its original programming catalog complete with standout series like Cobra Kai and Bts: Burn The Stage.

The film version of the Lincoln Center Theater production of Rodgers and Hammerstein’s musical The King And I: From The London Palladium is on course for $2.5M box office from its November 29 global release via Trafalgar Releasing.

This would be the biggest box office haul for a stage play or musical released in cinemas this year. More than 135,000 moviegoers bought tickets for the screening worldwide and encore screenings are now planned for the UK and in global markets. The $2.5M figure includes previews and pre-booking for encores.

In the UK the film reached the number one spot last night, with more than double the box office of the second-best film Fantastic Beasts: The Crimes of Grindelwald.

The Tony award-winning production opened on Broadway in 2015. The show transferred to the London Palladium in June this year, with the three original Broadway lead actors — Kelli O’Hara, Ken Watanabe and Ruthie Ann Miles...