'Maybe it's time for Plan B for the film industry.'
'Great western directors have been making films in India for the last 40 years,' Hollywood script Paul Schrader says.
A company executive said that the Anil Ambani group is still keen on foraying into television broadcasting business. The top-line of broadcasters was shrinking in the December-ended quarter on the back of economic slowdown and the consequent slowdown in advertising revenues, said the latest Ficci & KPMG report.
The mobile games will be available globally and the price points will vary from market to market. For instance, in India Jump Games will operate in two models pay-per-play and perpetual download.
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Boman Irani will be making his debut in Telugu films with Atharintiki Daaredi.
Jump Games, a leading publisher and developer of games across mobile platforms and a part of Reliance Entertainment, announced their mega deal with the most popular football club in the world -- Manchester United Football Club as their official mobile games partner.
What started as a trickle three years ago has now hit big time with music companies putting more and more songs on iTunes. "Three years back, when we started off, Bollywood filmmakers were not very bullish about promoting music content on a global platform. Under iTunes' world category of songs, Bollywood certainly features in the top three," said Neeraj Roy, CEO, Hungama Mobile. The company has been responsible for making Bollywood music available on iTunes.
Zapak.com and Jump Games, the two gaming divisions of Reliance Entertainment, has signed on cricket ace Ishant Sharma to create and host an online game based around the cricketer while Jump Games would create a mobile game for him.The game allows the player to step into the cricketer's shoes and play as him where he bowls five overs to an opponent batsman. The game is set against the backdrop of a packed international cricket stadium, with the crowd cheering him on.
Small-budget films seem to be raking in the moolah for production houses. Little wonder that filmmakers like Ghai, Mahesh and Mukesh Bhatt and Pritish Nandy have over the years stuck to making small-budget films in the range of Rs 10-15 crore (Rs 100-150 million).
The Reliance Anil Dhirubhai Ambani Group is poised to take another leap forward in the film arena with the launch of BigFlicks.com
Reliance ADA Group announced the launch of its online casual gaming portal Zapak.com on Saturday.
ADAG's push in film production will be through a new subsidiary of Reliance Entertainment, named Big Motion Pictures Ltd.
Reliance Entertainment, controlled by the Anil Dhirubhai Ambani Group, is divesting a 5 per cent equity stake at an enterprise value of $1.5 billion (about Rs 6,000 crore).
According to the actor the film is an action entertainer but can be watched by the entire family.
Reliance Infocomm will roll out its enterprise and convergence business in the US by 2005, after they become operational in India by the first quarter of 2004.
'It's like as if God was telling us that we have not spent time with each other despite being siblings, so now you have to spend time and talk.'
MSM has sole rights for the event and the order has directed Internet Service Providers to block hundreds of webpages hosting videos and clips related to the FIFA 2014 World Cup.
Defence Ministry says the report is being verified, maintaining that neither Indian nor French government had any say in the decision.
'Whenever a cop film is made, people will either draw comparisons with Dabangg or Singham. If the look and part is serious, then Singham. If entertaining, then Chulbul Pandey.'
'I have a goal that one day, before audiences walk into a theatre, they will think that it's a Taapsee Pannu film and so, it will be worth their time and money.'
Prasad alleged there was pressure for extraneous considerations and 'bribe' for not finalising the Rafale deal during the UPA rule.
Ghayal Once Again starts out wobbly but gains substantial momentum till interval point, only to go completely haywire in its latter half, writes Sukanya Verma.
We will do 7-8 high-end games for global markets every year, Manish Agarwal, CEO, Reliance Games
Meet the man behind MS Dhoni: The Untold Story.
'We may have played a small part, but being a part of the film that has won the prestigious award Palme d'Or is definitely a great honour.' Suresh Balaje and George Pius, who own the Wide Angle Creations, were the line producers on the French film Dheepan that won the top prize at the Cannes International Film Festival.
Indian Ambassador to the United States Dr S Jaishankar told Rediff.com's Aziz Haniffa that it was "a very nice meeting and President Barack Obama was extremely cordial."
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