Anil Ambani group firm Reliance Big Entertainment on Sunday made its foray into Hollywood, with the announcement of development deals with celebrities including Angelina Jolie, Julia Roberts, Brad Pitt and Nicolas Cage. Reliance Big Entertainment, the media and entertainment company of the Reliance ADA Group, said that it will provide development funds to eight Hollywood production houses. sources said the investment would be in the range of US$ 500 million to US$ one billion
Uday Chopra will head the company as its CEO. Their first film -- a comedy -- stars Olivia Wilde and Jason Bateman.
The Indian film industry is now luring foreign producers too for investment. Many Hollywood movies are now being outsourced to the country for visual effects. Major Hollywood studios like Viacom, NBC, Universal, Dream Works, besides Warner Bros., Sony and Disney have also made investments in India's entertainment sector. According to a Ficci report, Indian entertainment and media industry is poised to grow at an annual rate of 18 per cent by 2011 faster than its counterparts.
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Brad Pitt's World War Z figures at number 10. Read on to see which film made it to the top spot.
They may be surrounded by good looking men all the time in their line of work, but these hotties have clearly reserved the dishiest of the lot for themselves.
Here's what Hollywood stars have been up to.
Justin Timberlake and Jessica Biel have been named 'Hollywood's Buffest Couple' by In Touch magazine. The duo has beaten couples like Gisele Bundchen and Tom Brady and High School Musical's lovebirds Zac Efron and Vanessa Hudgens to land at number one in the list, reports Contactmusic.
Hollywood celebrity sightings at the ongoing film festival.
While the New York Stock Exchange is usually filled with testosterone-driven men, it sometimes does see Hollywood actors, models and sport stars.
China has reportedly banned Hollywood movies to protect its own film industry.
Currently, the Rs 20-crore (Rs 200 million) company makes three types of products: collectors' items, edged weapons for the world's elite armed forces and replicas for Hollywood movies.
'People don't know even 20 percent of what I did.'
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The actress has bagged the central role in Unveiled, a noir thriller.
The Baywatch star is in negotiations to join A Kid Like Jake and Isn't It Romantic.
Heston rose to fame in the 1950s with starring in movies like Ben Hur, for which he won an Oscar. He played Moses in the Ten Commandments. Known for his political activism, Heston was a high-profile supporter of civil rights leader Martin Luther King Jr. He was also President of the National Rifle Association from 1998 to 2002.
Catch one of Mammootty's career best works, Oscar-winner Michelle Yeoh and more on OTT this week.
Here's what your favourite Hollywood stars have been up to.
The high-profile denizens of Mumbai and other celebrities will soon have a new place to hang out. Planet Hollywood, the US-based theme restaurant, is planning its debut in India by setting up a floating restaurant around the Mumbai harbour.
Here's what your favourite Hollywood stars have been up to.
Siddharth Anand's artistry bespeaks an upbringing filled with GI Joes, plastic combat boots and plastic bayonets, fake punching noises and fake sounds of gunshots, rudely interrupted by an adult voice saying, 'Beta, all this is good, but try bringing in some feelings too', observes Sreehari Nair.
Gwyneth Paltrow lands the top spot as the best dressed celebrity in a People magazine poll.
Iranian officials in February dismissed Argo as pro-CIA, anti-Iran propaganda.
The A-list cast of Christopher Nolan's Oppenheimer left the film's London screening midway in solidarity with the strike called by the Hollywood actors union.
She is the first person to win Album of the Year four times, with her latest prize for Midnights.
Here's what your favourite Hollywood stars have been up to.
Forbes brings out its annual list of top earning singers.
'I have trained Ravish Kumar, Virender Sehwag, Harbhajan Singh, Irfan Pathan...' 'But if I approach somebody for work, I never get it.'
The 75th Emmys saw a lot of fashion, but even more talent.
Brad Pitt's Hollywood treatment of Formula One will take the sport's already surging popularity to another level, Lewis Hamilton predicted.
The Indian film industry joined hands with Hollywood on Wednesday to counter piracy.
On April 11, Hollywood star Jeremy Renner attended the premiere of his series Rennervations in Los Angeles.
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