Reliance Entertainment
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Reliance Entertainment is a wholly owned subsidiary of the Reliance Anil Dhirubhai Ambani Group
handling its media and entertainment business, across content and distribution platforms.
The key content initiative are across Movies, Music, Sports, Gaming, Internet & mobile portals, leading to direct opportunities in delivery across the emerging digital distribution platforms: digital cinema, IPTV, DTH and Mobile TV.
Reliance BIG Entertainment made an entry into the FM Radio business through Adlabs Radio Big 92.7 FM. Having won 45 stations in the bidding, BIG 92.7 FM was India’s largest private FM radio network with 12 radio stations across the country as on 28 February 2007, with more being launched in the following months.
Big Cinemas is India’s largest cinema chain with over 516 screens spread across India, US, Malaysia and Netherlands. The chain caters to over 35 million consumers. BIG Cinemas has established leadership in film exhibition in India with 253 screens and accounts for 10 to 15% of box office contributions of large movies.
It has already attracted Hollywood's attention. Legendary filmmaker Oliver Stone
, who got a preview of the studio during his visit, had said, "After what I have seen here, there is a possibility of me coming back to make a movie here, after all." Films such as Chronicles of Narnia and Mission Impossible 4 (in which the Vancouver Convention Centre in Canada will stand-in for India) can now be shot at RMW studios. J Scott Carter of Los Angeles-based Wylie-Carter Architects, which is building the facility, says, "RMW's expanding global capabilities allow 24/7 production partnerships with the best producers in the business, and direct digital tie-ins with production teams in Europe, Asia, and North America." Reliance MediaWorks has already spent over 100 crore on the first phase of the studio, which has three super silent 'sync sound' capable stages.
Reliance Anil Dhirubhai Ambani Group
Reliance Anil Dhirubhai Ambani Group is one of India's largest conglomerates, headquartered in Navi Mumbai, India. The company, which was formed after Dhirubhai Ambani's business empire was divided up, is headed by his younger son Anil Ambani. It has a market capitalization of US$ 15 billion,...
handling its media and entertainment business, across content and distribution platforms.
The key content initiative are across Movies, Music, Sports, Gaming, Internet & mobile portals, leading to direct opportunities in delivery across the emerging digital distribution platforms: digital cinema, IPTV, DTH and Mobile TV.
History
Reliance ADA Group acquired Adlabs Films Limited in 2005, one of the largest entertainment companies in India, which has interests in film processing, production, exhibition & digital cinema.Reliance BIG Entertainment made an entry into the FM Radio business through Adlabs Radio Big 92.7 FM. Having won 45 stations in the bidding, BIG 92.7 FM was India’s largest private FM radio network with 12 radio stations across the country as on 28 February 2007, with more being launched in the following months.
Big Cinemas is India’s largest cinema chain with over 516 screens spread across India, US, Malaysia and Netherlands. The chain caters to over 35 million consumers. BIG Cinemas has established leadership in film exhibition in India with 253 screens and accounts for 10 to 15% of box office contributions of large movies.
Subsidiaries
- Reliance Broadcast Network Limited
- Big 92.7 FM - Radio Division
- Big CBS - General Entertainment Channel Division
- Big Live - Events and BTL Activations Division
- Big Street - Out of Home Advertising Division
- Big Digital - Digital Content Development, Internet Radio, Push Pull SMS and New Media Division
- Big Productions - TV Production Division
- Big Broadcasting - TV Broadcasting Division
- Reliance MediaWorks LtdReliance MediaWorks LtdReliance MediaWorks Ltd is film and entertainment services company based in Mumbai. Reliance MediaWorks operates BIG Cinemas, India's largest cinema chain with over 550 screens spread across India, the United States, Malaysia, Nepal and Netherlands...
- Big ND Studios -
- Big SynergyBIG SynergyBIG Synergy a Indian television production company, headed by Siddhartha Basu. Established in 1989, Big Synergy is an acknowledged leader in factual entertainment in India...
- Non Fiction TV Production Division - Reliance MediaWorks (formerly Lowry Digital)
- BIG CinemasBIG CinemasBIG Cinemas, a division of Reliance MediaWorks Ltd and a member of Reliance ADA Group is India’s largest cinema chain with over 515 screens spread across India, US, Malaysia and Netherlands and caters to over 40 million consumers.BIG Cinemas has established leadership in film exhibition in India...
- Movie Multiples Chain
- Reliance Big Pictures - Movie Production & Distribution Division
- Big TVBIG TVReliance Digital TV is one of the largest Indian pay TV providers, providing direct broadcast satellite service—including satellite television, audio programming, and interactive television services—to commercial and residential customers in India. It uses MPEG-4 digital compression technology,...
- Direct To Home Satellite TV Division - Big MusicBig MusicBig Music is an Indian record label owned by Anil Ambani. It is a part of Reliance BIG Entertainment, a subsidiary of Reliance Anil Dhirubhai Ambani Group....
- Record Label Division - BIGFlixBigflixBIGFlix, a part of Reliance BIG Entertainment is the largest Video-on-Demand and currently the largest online - offline movie rental service in India. As of November 2011, BigFlix has shut down it's DVD rental division and will only offer streaming movies. The decision was taken abruptly and has...
- Online Retail & Distribution Division - BigaddaBIGADDABIGADDA is a social networking website owned by Reliance Entertainment, part of the Reliance Anil Dhirubhai Ambani Group. It claims to be the largest and the fastest growing youth networking site in India....
- Online Social Networking Division - DreamWorks PicturesDreamWorksDreamWorks Pictures, also known as DreamWorks, LLC, DreamWorks SKG, DreamWorks II Distribution Co., LLC, DreamWorks Studios or DW Studios, LLC, is an American film studio which develops, produces, and distributes films, video games and television programming...
(50% owned) - ZapakZapakZapak.com is a privately-held, online gaming portal, with browser games in India , promoted by the Anil Dhirubhai Ambani Group's subsidiary company Reliance Big Entertainment...
- Digital and Online Gaming Division - Jump Games (ParadoX Studios)
- Big Animation (AniRights Infomedia)
- Big Home Entertainment - Home Video Division
- CodemastersCodemastersThe Codemasters Software Company Limited, or Codemasters is a British video game developer founded by Richard and David Darling in 1986...
(50% owned) - Reliance Media Works Studio - Filmcity MumbaiMumbaiMumbai , formerly known as Bombay in English, is the capital of the Indian state of Maharashtra. It is the most populous city in India, and the fourth most populous city in the world, with a total metropolitan area population of approximately 20.5 million...
RMW Studio
Reliance MediaWorks (RMW) studio, spread across seven acres, will have eight stages built to stringent acoustical and structural specifications.It has already attracted Hollywood's attention. Legendary filmmaker Oliver Stone
Oliver Stone
William Oliver Stone is an American film director, producer and screenwriter. Stone became well known in the late 1980s and the early 1990s for directing a series of films about the Vietnam War, for which he had previously participated as an infantry soldier. His work frequently focuses on...
, who got a preview of the studio during his visit, had said, "After what I have seen here, there is a possibility of me coming back to make a movie here, after all." Films such as Chronicles of Narnia and Mission Impossible 4 (in which the Vancouver Convention Centre in Canada will stand-in for India) can now be shot at RMW studios. J Scott Carter of Los Angeles-based Wylie-Carter Architects, which is building the facility, says, "RMW's expanding global capabilities allow 24/7 production partnerships with the best producers in the business, and direct digital tie-ins with production teams in Europe, Asia, and North America." Reliance MediaWorks has already spent over 100 crore on the first phase of the studio, which has three super silent 'sync sound' capable stages.
Latest happenings
- The company forayed into the largely untapped video rental market in India by acquiring BIGFlixBigflixBIGFlix, a part of Reliance BIG Entertainment is the largest Video-on-Demand and currently the largest online - offline movie rental service in India. As of November 2011, BigFlix has shut down it's DVD rental division and will only offer streaming movies. The decision was taken abruptly and has...
and started further expansion.
- The company plans to launch 20 TV Channels.
- In April 2008, Reliance Big Entertainment acquired DTS Digital Images, a digital film restoration company based in Burbank, California.
- On 15 July 2009, Reliance Big Entertainment and Steven SpielbergSteven SpielbergSteven Allan Spielberg KBE is an American film director, screenwriter, producer, video game designer, and studio entrepreneur. In a career of more than four decades, Spielberg's films have covered many themes and genres. Spielberg's early science-fiction and adventure films were seen as an...
announced a joint venture with a funding of $ 825 million.
- Recently, Big 92.7 FM launched a radio station in Singapore considering 8% of the population residing there Singapore is Indian.
- The company joined hands with the Amitabh BachchanAmitabh BachchanAmitabh Bachchan is an Indian film actor. He first gained popularity in the early 1970s as the "angry young man" of Hindi cinema, and has since appeared in over 180 Indian films in a career spanning more than four decades...
family for a JV worth 1500 crores.
- On January 15, 2010, Reliance reportedly joined the bidding for MGMMetro-Goldwyn-MayerMetro-Goldwyn-Mayer Inc. is an American media company, involved primarily in the production and distribution of films and television programs. MGM was founded in 1924 when the entertainment entrepreneur Marcus Loew gained control of Metro Pictures, Goldwyn Pictures Corporation and Louis B. Mayer...
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- On April 5, 2010, they acquired a 50% stake in CodemastersCodemastersThe Codemasters Software Company Limited, or Codemasters is a British video game developer founded by Richard and David Darling in 1986...
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- On May 28, 2010, they achieved the first ever Bollywood cross-over into the Hollywood Box Office market in the opening weekend "Top Ten" list after releasing "Brett RatnerBrett RatnerBrett Ratner is an American film director, film producer and music video director. He is best known for directing the Rush Hour film series, The Family Man, Red Dragon, X-Men: The Last Stand, and Tower Heist. He was also a producer on the Fox drama series, Prison Break.- Early life :Ratner was...
presents Kites (film)Kites (film)Kites is a 2010 Bollywood film directed by Anurag Basu and produced by Rakesh Roshan, that stars Hrithik Roshan, Bárbara Mori, Kangana Ranaut, and Kabir Bedi. The film was released in India and in North America on May 21, 2010. Its 208-theater opening in North America made it the largest Bollywood...
: The Remix".
- The 2009 Malayalaam flick Kutty Srank, produced by Reliance Big Pictures, was adjudicated the best film of the year at the 57th National Film Awards57th National Film AwardsThe 57th National Film Awards is presented to the best of Indian Cinema released during the year 2009.Couple of new awards has been introduced for Location Sound Recordist and Sound Designer in the Audiography category, for Background Score in addition to the existing award for Best Music Direction...
instituted by the Indian Government.
- On January 10, 2011, RMW opened its Hi-tech Film Studio in Filmcity, MumbaiMumbaiMumbai , formerly known as Bombay in English, is the capital of the Indian state of Maharashtra. It is the most populous city in India, and the fourth most populous city in the world, with a total metropolitan area population of approximately 20.5 million...
made with an investment of rupees 100 crores. It is termed to be among the most hi-tech studios in the world.
- The studio is co-producing legendary director Steven Spielberg'sSteven SpielbergSteven Allan Spielberg KBE is an American film director, screenwriter, producer, video game designer, and studio entrepreneur. In a career of more than four decades, Spielberg's films have covered many themes and genres. Spielberg's early science-fiction and adventure films were seen as an...
upcoming film War HorseWar Horse (film)War Horse is a 2011 British-American war drama film directed by Steven Spielberg and is intended for release in the United States on 25 December 2011 and in the United Kingdom on 13 January 2012...
which is due for worldwide release in Christmas. Many other future projects from the director also have Reliance Entertainment as a major producer.