In the last few years, Reliance Big Entertainment, the Media and Entertainment Company of the Reliance Ada Group, has grown from strength to strength. Expanding its media investments in Hollywood, Reliance Big Entertainment has signed two separate development deals with Julia Roberts' Red Om Films and Brett Ratner's Rat Entertainment. With these two deals, Reliance Big Entertainment has established creative partnerships with nine leading Hollywood production entities. The initial seven deals with Nicholas Cage's Saturn Productions, Jim Carrey's Jc 23 Entertainment, George Clooney's Smokehouse Productions, Chris Columbus' 1492 Pictures, Tom Hanks' Playtone Productions, Brad Pitt's Plan B Entertainment, and Jay Roach's Everyman Pictures were announced during the Cannes Film Festival 2008 by Reliance Big Entertainment's Chairman Amit Khanna and President Rajesh Sawhney. All nine deals provide for the creation of a development silo for each of the production entities and the possibility...
- 2/7/2009
- by Bollywood Hungama News Network
- BollywoodHungama
Big Pictures, the motion pictures brand from Reliance Big Entertainment Ltd, brings two enthralling films back to back this March 2009. The suspense thriller ‘Sikandar’ starring Parzaan Dastur (of ‘Parzania’ fame) and Ayesha Kapoor (of ‘Black’ fame) and the supernatural thriller ‘13B’ starring R. Madhavan and Neetu Chandra, the first look of which would be unveiled with ‘Luck By Chance’, the directorial debut of Zoya Akhtar asserted to be released worldwide on 30th January, 2009. Big Pictures has a slate of 18 films for 2009 of which the three films above are planned for release in the first quarter.
Ecstatic about this New Year’s slate Rajesh Sawhney, President, Reliance.
Ecstatic about this New Year’s slate Rajesh Sawhney, President, Reliance.
- 1/27/2009
- by realbollywood
- RealBollywood.com
LOS ANGELES - Hollywood thrives on OPM ("other people's money"), but few folks were prepared last week for the stunner that an Asian-based conglomerate that sounds like it should be in the insurance business but is actually best known for textiles and supermarkets was in talks to fork over a half-billion dollars to buy into the town's most iconic, independent-minded movie machine, namely DreamWorks.
It definitely was a day of Holly goes Golly over Bolly when folks here found themselves stumbling over the name of the owner of Reliance ADA, one Anil Ambani, who, if all goes according to plan, might become as familiar a name here as Vivendi's Jean-Marie Messier or Sony's Akio Morita were in their day.
Fortunately, the company boasts a little subsidiary simply called Big Entertainment, which is the unit in talks with DreamWorks reps about an outright cash injection in the company set up 14 years ago by Steven Spielberg, David Geffen and Jeffrey Katzenberg. Other suitors might be circling the SKG bandwagon as well, but the Reliance offer almost certainly would represent the biggest chunk of whatever equity is needed to allow DreamWorks to again control its own destiny and presumably cut ties with current owner Paramount.
The latest speculation put the sum being waved about by the Indians even higher, but no one at either company was confirming those rumors. (Reliance is a multifaceted $70 billion colossus, split more or less in half between the two sons of Dhirubhai Ambani, Mukesh and Anil. The former got oil, gas and farming; the latter lords over telecommunications, banking and entertainment. The two reportedly feud.)
There already was a sign of the company's Tinseltown aspirations at May's Festival de Cannes, where Big Entertainment CEO Rajesh Sawhney unveiled plans to invest upward of $1 billion in the movies of top Hollywood actors including Tom Hanks, Brad Pitt, Nicolas Cage and George Clooney.
It definitely was a day of Holly goes Golly over Bolly when folks here found themselves stumbling over the name of the owner of Reliance ADA, one Anil Ambani, who, if all goes according to plan, might become as familiar a name here as Vivendi's Jean-Marie Messier or Sony's Akio Morita were in their day.
Fortunately, the company boasts a little subsidiary simply called Big Entertainment, which is the unit in talks with DreamWorks reps about an outright cash injection in the company set up 14 years ago by Steven Spielberg, David Geffen and Jeffrey Katzenberg. Other suitors might be circling the SKG bandwagon as well, but the Reliance offer almost certainly would represent the biggest chunk of whatever equity is needed to allow DreamWorks to again control its own destiny and presumably cut ties with current owner Paramount.
The latest speculation put the sum being waved about by the Indians even higher, but no one at either company was confirming those rumors. (Reliance is a multifaceted $70 billion colossus, split more or less in half between the two sons of Dhirubhai Ambani, Mukesh and Anil. The former got oil, gas and farming; the latter lords over telecommunications, banking and entertainment. The two reportedly feud.)
There already was a sign of the company's Tinseltown aspirations at May's Festival de Cannes, where Big Entertainment CEO Rajesh Sawhney unveiled plans to invest upward of $1 billion in the movies of top Hollywood actors including Tom Hanks, Brad Pitt, Nicolas Cage and George Clooney.
- 6/26/2008
- The Hollywood Reporter - Movie News
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