Language interpretation
Facilitating of oral or sign-language communication between users of different languages
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| September 28 2024 | Dunki received multiple nominations at the International Indian Film Academy Awards, including Best Actress for Taapsee Pannu and Best Lyricist nominations for Javed Akhtar and Swanand Kirkire with IP Singh. |
| February 15 2024 | Dunki film premiered on Netflix, making the movie available for digital streaming to a wide audience. |
| 2023 | Dunki became the highest grossing comedy film of the post-pandemic era and the eighth highest grossing Indian film and fifth highest grossing Hindi film of the year. |
| 2023 | Sofia Coppola directs Suntory's 100th anniversary tribute video, featuring Keanu Reeves and incorporating scenes from Lost in Translation and her father's original Suntory advertisement. |
| December 21 2023 | Dunki was theatrically released worldwide, starring Shah Rukh Khan, Taapsee Pannu, Boman Irani, and Vikram Kochar, with Vicky Kaushal in an extended cameo. |
| December 17 2023 | Promotional event held in Dubai |
| December 5 2023 | Release of film's trailer 'Dunki: Drop 4' |
| November 2 2023 | Release of film's first teaser 'Dunki: Drop 1' on Shah Rukh Khan's 58th birthday |
| June 2023 | Kino Lorber announced the upcoming release of the film on Ultra HD Blu-ray with a new 4K scan. |
| June 20 2023 | Blu-ray and DVD release by Warner Bros. Discovery Home Entertainment |
| June 16 2023 | Amazon Prime Video began streaming the film in Canada |
| May 9 2023 | The film was released digitally |
| April 2023 | Final filming schedule took place in Kashmir, covering Srinagar, Pampore, Sonamarg, Thajwas glacier, and Pulwama, including a song sequence choreographed by Ganesh Acharya. Filming was wrapped up in Sonamarg. |
| April 2023 | Film production wrapped up after sporadic shooting in various locations including Mumbai, Jabalpur, Kashmir, Budapest, London, Jeddah, and Neom. |
| January 2023 | An underwater sequence featuring Shah Rukh Khan was filmed in Mumbai. |
| December 2022 | A three-day filming schedule occurred in Jabalpur, Madhya Pradesh. |
| December 2022 | Guy Ritchie revealed the film's title had been changed from 'The Interpreter' to 'The Covenant', and was later officially titled 'Guy Ritchie's The Covenant' to distinguish it from the 2006 film of the same name. |
| November 2022 | A 12-day filming schedule took place in Saudi Arabia, including locations in Jeddah, Neom, Riyadh, with shots of Al Rajhi Grand Mosque and Al-Hukm Palace. |
| October 2022 | A specific bike sequence featuring Shah Rukh Khan was filmed in Mumbai. |
| October 2022 | Boman Irani joined the cast of the film Dunki. |
| July 2022 | International filming began in Budapest and London, continuing through August. |
| June 2022 | Mumbai schedule of filming concluded, preparing for international locations. |
| April 2022 | Principal photography for the film commenced, with shooting taking place in multiple locations. |
| April 2022 | Film Dunki was officially announced. |
| April 2022 | Principal photography for Dunki commenced in Mumbai, marking the start of film production. |
| January 2022 | Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer acquired U.S. distribution rights to the film, then titled 'The Interpreter', planning distribution through United Artists Releasing, with STXfilms co-financing and handling international sales. Amazon Prime Video also acquired some international distribution and post-theatrical streaming rights. |
| 2021 |
The Sparrow
Scott Frank announced plans to adapt The Sparrow as a miniseries for FX, with Johan Renck potentially directing and Frank, Renck, and Mark Johnson signed as executive producers.
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| 2021 | The Writers Guild of America ranked the film's screenplay as the 19th greatest of the 21st century. |
| October 2021 | Jake Gyllenhaal was cast to star in an untitled film to be directed by Guy Ritchie, co-written with Ivan Atkinson and Marn Davies. |
| August 2021 | Screenplay for Dunki was completed. |
| January 2021 | Taapsee Pannu was cast as the female lead, marking her first onscreen collaboration with Shah Rukh Khan. |
| 2020 | Manu escapes from a hospital in London and seeks help from Advocate Puru Patel to return to India, discovering her visa request is nearly impossible due to her previous asylum claim. |
| 2020 | During the COVID-19 pandemic, Fink-Hooijer led the digitalization of interpretation services by scaling up multilingual interpretation in hybrid meetings through new digital platforms and technologies, which was considered a 'watershed moment' for the interpretation profession. |
| November 2020 | Rajkumar Hirani approached Shah Rukh Khan to collaborate on the film, narrating the story during the COVID-19 lockdown. |
| 2019 |
The Sparrow
SETI program at Arecibo Observatory discovers radio broadcasts of music from the vicinity of Alpha Centauri, initiating the first interstellar mission organized by the Society of Jesus.
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| 2018 | Ahmed carries an injured Kinley through mountainous Afghan terrain, evading Taliban pursuers and receiving help from sympathetic locals, ultimately delivering Kinley to safety at Bagram. |
| 2018 | Kinley and Ahmed are attacked during a raid near Bagram Air Base, with Taliban reinforcements killing everyone except them. They escape on foot, killing several Taliban fighters. |
| 2018 | Ahmed Abdullah, a former Taliban-affiliated interpreter, saves Kinley's team from an ambush by a Taliban unit, earning Kinley's respect after revealing he defected when the Taliban murdered his son. |
| March 2018 | During the War in Afghanistan, U.S. Army Special Forces Master Sergeant John Kinley's unit is ambushed by a Taliban truck bomb attack at Lashkargah, resulting in the death of his previous interpreter. |
| 2016 |
Telephone interpreting
France-based company Teleperformance announces plans to buy LanguageLine Solutions for $1.52 billion.
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| 2016 | The film was ranked number 22 on the BBC's 100 Greatest Films of the 21st Century, based on a poll of 177 critics. |
| 2016 | Florika Fink-Hooijer was appointed as Director General of the European Commission's DG Interpretation, and established the first ever Knowledge Centre on Interpretation. She emphasized the need to adapt interpretation services to new technologies and potential artificial intelligence developments. |
| 2014 |
The Sparrow
AMC announced plans to develop a television adaptation of The Sparrow.
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| 2013 |
Telephone interpreting
Language Lines Services acquires Pacific Interpreters.
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| December 2013 | CATTI expanded its translation and interpreting tests to include multiple languages: English, French, Japanese, Russian, German, Spanish, and Arabic, conducted nationwide. |
| November 2013 | CATTI expanded translation and interpreting tests to multiple languages including English, French, Japanese, Russian, German, Spanish, and Arabic across China. |
| 2012 |
Telephone interpreting
Industry analyst firm Common Sense Advisory projected the telephone interpreting market would grow to $1.2 billion, representing a 70% increase from 2007.
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| December 7 2010 | Lost in Translation released on Blu-ray. |
| December 7 2010 | Film released on Blu-ray format. |
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