A year after getting acquired, Viki is looking to expand, starting with Bollywood
Viki wants to expand to around 40 content genres from around the world, and it’s starting with Bollywood movies.
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Spuul wants to become Bollywood’s Netflix, thanks to a secret weapon: offline viewing
Spuul streams Indian movies to audiences worldwide. But with many users struggling with limited bandwidth, the company now added an option for offline viewing.
How India’s favorite TV show uses data to change the world
Satyamev Jayate, one of India’s highest-rated television shows, is using data as a means to effect meaningful change. The show’s producers are aggregating and analyzing the millions of messages they receive on controversial issues to do everything from planning future episodes to pushing for political change.
YouTube Piggybacks BlinkBox, Others To Kick Off UK Movie Ambitions
When YouTube launched a US TV section in April 2009, with shows from CBS (NYSE: CBS), it came along with a Movies section, with flicks from…
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YouTube Piggybacks BlinkBox, Others To Kick Off UK Movie Ambitions
When YouTube launched a US TV section in April 2009, with shows from CBS (NYSE: CBS), it came along with a Movies section, with flicks from…
YouTube’s Rental Store Now At ‘Hundreds’ Of Videos And Counting
YouTube’s video rental store — which started out with five Sundance Film Festival titles in January — now has “hundreds” of movies, TV sho…
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Exhibitor Fame India Surges On Block Deal; Temasek Has Sold, Says Report
Exhibitor Fame India (Formerly Shringar Cinemas Ltd) rose 4.95% to close at Rs30.75 even as the benchmark Sensex closed down 0.53%, or 88 po…
Star Channels On Mimobi.tv; Simultaneous Digital Music Release For ‘Blue’
Broadcaster Star India has introduced two of its channels on Mimobi.tv, a mobile TV portal. Hindi GEC Star One and Tamil GEC Star Vijay will…
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Industry Moves: A.P. Parigi Joins Eros International As Group CEO; Didn't Retire Afterall
A.P. Parigi, who, two weeks ago, said he was leaving the Times Group as he had turned 60 and wanted to pursue other interests in life, has j…
Updated: Bollywood Standoff Ends After Rs300 Crore Of Losses
After 14-hour-long negotiations that ended this morning at 2:30am, Bollywood producers and multiplex owners have reached an agreement on the…
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Balaji Stock Downgraded After First Ever Quarterly Loss; Realizations, Commissioned Hours Drop
Balaji Telefilms Ltd, the Mumbai-based producer of television software, posted its first quarterly loss yesterday. The company swung from a…
Talks Between Producers, Multiplexes Fail; Films Coming Soon To A Single Screen Cinema Near You
Negotiations this afternoon failed to resolve the month-long impasse in India’s Hindi film industry, where Bollywood producers and multiplex…
News Roundup: Reliance Big TV Seeking To Sell Stake; Videocon DTH In May, Multiplex Trouble
Business Standard reports that Reliance Big TV, the direct-to-home service of the Anil Dhirubhai Ambani Group, is in talks with a clutch of…
Canaan Partners Invests In Bollywood Portal, Chakpak.com; Possibly Around $5 Million
It’s a boomtime investment during a slowdown. Bollywood portal Chakpak.com which hopes to make money from advertising and merchandising has…
Shemaroo Ties Up With IMA For Mobile Distribution; To Invest Rs 200 Cr This Fiscal
Shemaroo Entertainment, the studio, distribution and production conglomerate has tied up with the Israel Mobile and Communication Associatio…
Apple To Formally Launch iTunes In India
Apple (NSDQ: AAPL) is close to formally launching its iTunes store in India states this BS report. A truncated version of the India store, f…
Babelgum Launches Bollywood Channel With WEG India Pictures
P2P TV platform Babelgum is adding what it says is the largest collection of online Bollywood films to its catalogue. Its Colours Of Bollywo…
Valuable Group Acquires MovieBeam; To Integrate with BOX Networks?
The Sanjay Gaikwad led Indian tech-media group Valuable Group has announced the acquisition of MovieBeam. The release claims the acquisition…
BigAdda Launches Mobile Blogging Application With Big B(eta)
Its hard to resist a headline like that. Reliance ADAG’s love affair with the Bachchan’s continues, this time in the form a mobile blogging…
Eros New Media Revenues Up 16.9% To 113.8 Crores
Eros International, the film production and distribution giant, posted 47% rise from 2007 in pre-tax profits $45.5 million. Its sales were 7…
Eros Does 100 Movie Streaming Deal With Jaman
Jaman, the international online and video service which is trying to develop a niche in Bollywood/Indian content, has done a large size cont…
Kolkata Knight Riders Ties Up WIth Contests2Win; Shah Rukh Khan To Blog
Kolkata Knight Riders has tied up with Contests2win.com for its website, Kolkataknightriders.com. According to the release, 6 contests are c…
Jaman To Open Mumbai Office; To Launch Ad-Supported Video Streaming
I met Gaurav Dhillon, Founder and CEO of Jaman, on the sidelines of FICCI Frames last month. Jaman (named after an Indian fruit) is a commun…
TinselVision.com To Target India
Video streaming co TinselVision has expanded its online content distribution arrangements with STAR India and other licensors to include str…
Race On YouTube; Om Shanti Om On Google Video
While writing the previous story on Saavn providing content to Verizon (NYSE: VZ), I did a search on YouTube for the UTV channel, looking fo…
Saavn Provides Bollywood Content To Verizon Wireless
Saavn is providing Bollywood content to Verizon Wireless (NYSE: VZ), as a part of their V Cast Video service in the US. Content includes ful…
Yet Another Bollywood Site: STAR Launches Starboxoffice.com
This appears to be a day for entertainment websites – and I wonder if we’re headed for a glut of some sort: It appears that STAR TV has laun…
Onyx Takes Hungama, YRF To Court Over IPR Claims
The Kareena Kapoor – Saif Ali Khan starrer Tashan (English: Style) appears to be running into hot water with Onyx dragging Hungama and Yash…
Jaman Screens Short Films From Bollywood Directors; How Are Short Films Doing Online?
Jaman, a World Cinema community, has launched Jaago, a compilation of four short films – Migration, Blood Brothers, Positive and Prarambha -…
Eye On New Media Revenues, Indian Producers Want Copyright Life Extended
Eying revenues from new revenue streams like the Internet, mobile and with the advent of multipleses, FICCI and Bollywood production compani…
VSNL, YRF To 'Premiere' Chak De On Web
[by Cerius Shah] Yash Raj Films (YRF) and VSNL (now Tata Indicom Broadband) have tied up for the web premiere of the SRK starrer Chak De Ind…
After Tinselvision, Shemaroo Provides Content To WatchIndia
Shemaroo Entertainment will provide its library of film content to WatchIndia on pay-per-view, a video content startup targeting the Indian…
On Saregama’s Music Store; Need For An Independent Aggregator; Meta Search For Music?
Saregama’s online store has gone live, with an initial database of 40,000 songs. The tracks are priced at Rs. 12 each, and Saregama has plan…
Earnings: New Media Accounts For 11 Percent Of Eros’ Revenues For H1 2007
London AIM listed Eros International has reported a turnover of $34.6 million for the six months ending 30th September 2007 (H1 2007), up 58…
Shemaroo And B4U Provide Content To Tinselvision; Non-Exclusive Content As A Differentiator
After a tie-up with Yash Raj Films, video-on-demand startup Tinselvision has inked a distribution deal with Shemaroo Entertainment. The deal…
Tinselvision Gets Second Round Funding Of Over $3 Million
A fresh influx of more than $3 million in funding for Tinselvision, a video-on-demand (VoD) service targeting South Asian communities in the…
Nokia Preloads Sholay In N81, N95 8GB; Ties Up For Om Shanti Om Content
We’ve mentioned before that content appears to be emerging as a differentiator among handset manufacturers in India; Nokia (NYSE: NOK) has l…
SingTel's mioTV adds EROS Movies To Its On Demand Portfolio
We’d written a few days ago about the deal between SingTel’s mio TV and Indian broadcaster NDTV. mio TV has also just announced a content de…
Virgin Comics Signs Up Actress Priyanka Chopra For Comics, Films, Games
After signing up cricketer Sachin Tendulkar, Virgin Comics has now signed up Bollywood actress Priyanka Chopra for a new superhero character…
Xbox Live With Local Indian Content To be Launched On Nov 5
Come November 5 and Microsoft (NSDQ: MSFT) India will launch its xBox Live with local content thanks to a tie up with UTV. [via Business Sta…
MSN India Redesigns Web Site, Adds More Entertainment News
MSN India has a new design for its home page with options of a wide or narrow layout and of changing the colour of the page. [via agencyfaqs…
WatchIndia To Offer Yash Raj Films Via Pay-Per-View
Internet broadcaster WatchIndia, which launched its online entertainment channel just this year, has tied up with Yash Raj films to offer Bo…
Bollywood, Education Take Front Seat For MSN India
Microsoft (NSDQ: MSFT) India’s Country Manager Jaspreet Bindra doesn’t foresee MSN being the best horizontal portaI, according to this agenc…
Indian Content Sold Overseas Valued At $200 Mln – E&Y
The total value of Indian content sold outside India is about $200 million and it could grow over 20 percent every year, according to Ernst…
TV Roundup:Zodiak TV Eyes 35% Stake In Sol, BBC To Launch Web Site For Intl Consumers, Zoom Revamps
— Indiantelevision.com reports Denmark-based Zodiak Television has agreed to acquire 35 per cent stake in Indian production house Sol. Und…
Tinselvision To Add Yash Raj Films; Rajshri Wants No DRM
After signing up the likes of STAR and ZEE, TinselVision is believed to have signed up Yash Raj Films for video-on-demand content, reports B…
Shemaroo Strikes Deal With BPL Mobile For 15 Min Mobile Movies
Film production and animation company Shemaroo Entertainment will soon start streaming 15-minute versions of existing Bollywood movies at Rs…
Citigroup Underwrites Eros International's $100 Mln Acquisition Financing Facility
London-listed Bollywood film producer Eros International Plc. has arranged a $100 million, 5-year acquisition financing facility from Citigr…
Titlematch To Provide UTV Films On-Demand In North America
AIM listed UTV Motion Pictures Plc has inked a deal with TitleMatch Entertainment Group for making its film library via Titlematch’s DVD On-…
Mauj Gets Mobile Content Rights To Ram Gopal Verma Ki Aag
Mauj has tied up with Ram Gopal Verma and Adlabs Films for mobile content for the Bollywood film Ram Gopal Verma Ki Aag, reports Indiainfoli…
Jump Games Signs Up Bollywood Actress Bipasha Basu
Gaming’s star fixation continues: Jump Games, a Reliance ADA Group company, has signed up Bollywood actress Bipasha Basu in a two year deal…
Shekhar Kapur Eyes 32 Percent Returns From New Media Fund
In an interview with Knowledge@Wharton, Wharton Business School’s business journal, filmmaker and businessman Shekhar Kapur said he expects…
Earnings: UTV Net Profit More Than Doubles Helped By Gaming Acquisition
Media and entertainment company UTV Software Communications Ltd (UTVSOF.BO, UTVSOF.NS) posted a 168 percent jump in Q2 earnings as a jump in…
Eros To Distribute Bollywood Content In the US Via TitleMach
Eros Entertainment Inc, which produces and distributes Bollywood movie content, has inked a deal with TitleMatch Entertainment Group for mak…
Earnings: Eros Posts 76 % Jump In Profits, Plans VoD Bollywood Channel with BSkyB
AIM-listed Bollywood producer Eros International (SEA:EROS), which reported a 76 percent jump in full-year profits, is planning a Bollywood…
Updated: Web18s Entertainment Portal Buzz18; Still In Beta
Update: The portal has been de-cloaked and is now accessible – here. Some sections, like blogs are also live now.
(Originally posted on 2…
Bollywood Channel Launched On Maxis’ Network By Hungama Mobile
Bollywood content reseller Hungama Mobile has launched a Bollywood channel called “Bollywood Express” on Maxis’ mobile network in Malasia, r…
TinselVision To Provide Zee Content Via Web Video Service
TinselVision, a video-on-demand service targeting South Asian communities in the US, UK and Canada, has tied up with ZEE TV USA, the intern…
Turner Ropes In 3 Indian Production Houses For Animation Foray
U.S.-based Turner Entertainment Networks tied up with three Indian production houses – Miditech, Graphiti Multimedia and Famous Studios – to…
Yash Raj Films To Open Up Song Video Downloads For Audiences Abroad
Starting today, Bollywood fans abroad will be able to buy their favorite Yash Raj Film song video through the YRF Web site, according to thi…
Sivoo Inks Deals With Optus Media And Madhu Entertainment For Video Content
On-demand Internet TV network Sivoo has inked deals with Optus Media and Madhu Entertainment and Media, which gives it access to South Asian…
Disney Forms JV With Yash Raj Films For Animated Features
Disney has partnered with Yash Raj Films to create Disney branded animated films, reports WSJ (subscription required). As per Yash Raj Films…
Saavn Brings Bollywood Content To Joost
Saavn, an online Bollywood community operated by Bollywood content distributor BODVOD has inked a deal with Internet TV service Joost, repor…
ITN On Brings Bollywood Video News To UK Mobiles
In a bid to reach out to the Asian population in the UK, mobile content provider ITN On has launched a programme called ‘Bollywood Insider’…
MSN Offers Localized Email Addresses
Microsoft has tied up with the Bollywood movie ‘Shoot out at Lokhandwala’, and as a part of that campaign, is offering custom email ids at L…
Tips Pairs Up With YouTube For Bollywood Channel, No Revenue Sharing Deal
Just a few days after Bollywood producer Eros International’s move, comes news that music company Tips Music is also setting up its channel…
Eros Ties Up With YouTube
If you cannot beat ’em, join ’em.
While Indian music company T-Series sent a legal notice to Google regarding the presence of copyrighted…
T-Series Gets Interim Stay Order From Delhi High Court Against Santabanta.com
ContentSutra has learned that the Delhi High Court has granted Super Cassette Industries (T-Series) an interim stay order, restraining India…
Rajshri.com To Premiere UTVs “Life In A…Metro”; Plans 90 Episode Series For Internet Audience
UTV Motion Pictures will premier “Life In A…Metro” online on May 11, the same date as the films theatrical release, at Rajshri.com. “Life…
TV18 Group To Float A New Film Company; Plans $110-Million AIM Listing
The TV18 Group is floating a new film entity in the UK. The company – christened The Indian Film Company – will raise $110 million from Lond…
BODVOD Provides Bollywood Content To Time Warner And Comcast
Bollywood film distribution company BODVOD will be providing on-demand content to Time Warner Cable and Comcast. BODVOD holds rights to film…
Ronnie Screwvala-Advised India Media Fund Raising $150 Million From London’s AIM
This is probably the first time a media fund focused on India being raised in London’s Alternative Investment Market (AIM). India Media Fund…
UTV Premieres Hattrick Online at Rajshri.com
UTV Motion Pictures will premier its film ‘Hattrick’ tomorrow at noon on broadband portal Rajshri.com. This is the second premiere for a Bol…
Adlabs Premiers “First Look” Of Film Marigold On Mobile
Adlabs Films has premiered a “first look” (sneak preview?) of its soon-to-be-launched co-production Marigold on mobile phones at the 3GSM Wo…
Bollywood Movies Premiered At 3GSM
Two films, Zahir and Matriomony, both a part of filmmaker Sanjay Gupta’s compilation of 10 stories Dus Kahaniyan were premiered at the 3GSM…
Contests2Win’s Bollywood Site: Bollywood Badshah
Contests2Win has launched a site called Bollywood Badshah, an attempt at social media based on Bollywood. They’ve got blogs, polls, contests…
Lachlan Murdoch In Talks To Acquire 30% In Percept Picture Company: Report
As media mogul Rupert Murdoch recently distributed $100 million of shares to each of his six children, one of his sons Lachlan Murdoch may h…
US Entertainment Portal Desi Hits Gets $1 Million From Draper Fisher Jurvetson, Trident Capital
San Francisco-based South Asian entertainment channel Desi Hits has received $1 million in Series A round funding from Draper Fisher Jurvets…
Bollywood Channel Tries To Capitalize On Shilpa Shetty’s Fame
Bollywood actress Shilpa Shetty’s been in the headlines for the past month or so, and it seems Bollywood.tv is looking to capitalize on it b…
Arzoo.com Signs Up Boxing Champion; Yatra Takes The Bollywood Route
Sabeer Bhatia’s travel portal, Arzoo.com will be sponsoring world boxing champion MC Mary Kom, according to a release at Agencyfaqs. The spo…
British Telecom Plans Internet TV With Bollywood Content
BT Vision, the Internet arm of British Telecom is planning an Internet TV service with Bollywood content, reports the Telegraph. BT isn’t co…
Eros In Deal With Mauj Telecom For Distributing Bollywood Content
Leading bollywood distributor and entertainment company Eros International has signed a license deal with Mauj Telecom to distribute its fil…
Eros, Intel To Launch On-Demand Bollywood Content On Broadband Soon; Debut Movie "I See You"
Eros International and Intel will soon kickstart their on-demand, broadband-delivered bollywood content service. The companies have announce…
Aksh OptiFibre Plans To Bring Friday Release Of Bollywood Flicks On IPTV
Cinema houses may need to worry. Aksh Opticfibre, which is one of MTNL’s partners in IPTV sercices, plans to bring bollywood movies directly…
How Attractive Is US Market For Bollywood Content
Here is why US is an attractive market for bollywood content. Vinod Bhat, co-founder of on-demand video service BODVOD, says in an interview…
The Effect Of Moser Baer's DVD Pricing On Various Stakeholders
Just to take off from what Sahad has posted about Moser Baer entering the Home Video Entertainment space, I think there are some points that…
Moser Baer Launches Hindi Movie DVDs At Rs 38; Plans To Acquire 40% Of Indian Movie Content Rights
This will not be music to the ears of the growing band of online DVD rental companies. Leading optical disk manufacturer Moser Baer is launc…
Updated: Bollywood Betting Heavily On Internet, Gaming For Promotions
An overview of Bollywood using the Internet to engage new audiences, and probably prevent the youth from tuning off can be read here, at the…
UFO Moviez To Raise Private Equity; Mandates Ernst & Young
United Film Organizers (UFO) Moviez, a digital cinema company and a subsidiary of Apollo International Ltd, is seeking private equity to the…
Dhoom2 And Other Bollywood Films Being Broadcast Illegally On Google Video
Dhoom2, it seems is being broadcast illegally on Google Video, here. The quality of the video is awful, and probably not worth downloading…
Pyramid Saimira IPO Opens On Dec 11; Price Band Rs 88-100
Pyramid Saimira, Chennai-based digital cinema chain, will raise Rs 84.4 (about $19 million) from capital markets via an IPO. The company’s i…
Shemaroo In Talks For IPTV, DTH Deals
Shemaroo VP Hiren Gada has told Indiantelevision.com, that they’re in talks with players in the market to offer titles via DTH and IPTV, and…
Bollywood Meets Hollywood: Eros Picks Up Stake In Singapore’s VOD Channel Anytime
Leading international bollywood distributor Eros International has invested an undisclosed amount in ANYTIME, Singapore-based Video on-Deman…
BODVOD To Put Bollywood Content On Google Video
BODVOD, an on-demand distributor of Bollywood content in the US, will be making content available on Google video, under the name Saavn. Ini…
Rajshri.com Served Up Over 1 Mn Video Streams In 7 Days
Have you been able to view any of the content at Rajshri.com? For some reason, I’ve only been able to access the audio part of the videos be…
Bollywood Directors Karan Johar And Govind Nihalani To Make Animated Films
Bollywood director Karan Johar is planning to make an animated film, with the typical Bollywood song and dance. The film will be produced by…
News Corp, Walt Disney In Race For UTV
News Corp and Walt Disney have started a race to acquire a stake in bollywood production house UTV Software Communications. Australia-based…
Ballmer Launches Revamped Versions of Kumble’s StumpVision And YashrajFilms.com
Microsoft CEO Steve Ballmer launched the new verions of two websites on Thursday. One is spinner Anil Kumble’s StumpVision, which is being r…
“Rajshri.com is a multiplex with unlimited seats” – Rajjat A. Barjatya, MD, Rajshri Media
Rajjat A. Barjatya, MD, Rajshri Media (P) Ltd is the man steering his family’s film production and distribution business towards the digital…
Rajshri Media Launches Broadband Entertainment Portal; VIVAH To Premiere Online
Rajshri Media, the digital media arm of bollywood production and distribution house Rajshri Productions, has launched a broadband portal Raj…
UTV Films, BODVOD In Distribution Pact
BODVOD, a distributor of bollywood movies, music and television content in the US, has announced a distribution deal with UTV Films. UTV wil…
Spiel Studios Signs Up Bollywood Actor Arshad Warsi For Mobile Game
Spiel Studios has bagged exclusive rights to develop and distribute mobile games based on Bollywood actor Arshad Warsi. Mohit Sureka, CEO of…
TV18 Group Floats Studio 18 To Foray Into Movie Production & Distribution
Business Standard: TV18 group is venturing into film production. Network 18, the holding company of the TV18 Group, has launched a new compa…
Munnabhai Bot-vertising On Windows Live Messenger
MSN India has introduced chat bots, with the first being the Munnabhai Bot. There are contests, MSN India plans to launch other such bots in…
Paradox Studios Signs Up Sameera Reddy For Mobile Games
At a time when marketing heavyweights like Brittania MD & CEO Vinita Bali are calling the use of brand ambassadors in advertising “lazy mark…
Reliance Entertainment To Invest $100 Million In Online Gaming, Cafes; Targets Diwali Launch
Exchange4media.com: Anil Ambani’s Reliance Entertainment clearly thinks it’s big game. The group is planning an investment of over $100 mill…
Will Smith Signs $30-Million Film Deal With UTV Entertainment
Vibe.com: Hollywood actor Will Smith’s production company Overbrook Entertainment has signed a $30-million deal with Sony Pictures and UTV E…
Bollywood Movie “Aap Ki Khatir” on Fropper.com
Actress Priyanka Chopra seems to be doing a lot of “datevertising”: Earlier there was the “A day with Priyanka Chopra” auction at ebay, for…
Pyramid Saimira Plans $150-Million Film Fund; To Back Kamal Hasan Venture
The Economic Times: Chennai-based digital movie chain Pyramid Saimira Theatre is setting up a $150 million fund which will invest in venture…
US Indian Portal WahIndia Gets Angel Funding; To Set Up Office In Mumbai
Updated below: WahIndia, a US-based online media and social networking company targeted at Indian community, has received an undisclosed amo…
Bollywood Coming Of Age, Yash Raj Films Announces Rate Card For Use Of Content
Bollywood is getting organised and corporatised. Yash Raj Films has announced a rate card for the use of its content. There are two categori…
Promax BDA Conference Day One: “Changing Platforms Without Missing The Train”
As Rafat mentioned in the previous post, it’s high time we got to see live TV feeds from any parts of the world sitting in our living room -…
Krrish Breaks Records Grossing $22.5 Million In Two Weeks
Business Standard: The bollywood is coming of age. Krrish, the sequel to Koi Mil Gaya and a Hrithik Roshan starrer, has grossed over Rs 100…
UFO Moviez Claims KRRISH Is A Huge Digital Hit
The latest bollywood flick KRRISH seems to have struck it big not just via traditional cinema exhibition but also through digital screening.…
Eros International Raises $42 Million From London’s AIM; Market Cap = $330 Million
FinanceAsia.com: It was supposed to be an $100-million IPO according to the earlier reports. Anyway, bollywood distributor Eros Internationa…
Compact Disc Maker Moser Baer To Foray Into Entertainment Business
DNA: Being only in the cyclical, commoditised business of CDs and DVDs may not be a great idea. So why not try some new growth areas like en…
Paradox Studios Signs Up With Bollywood Actor Madhavan
The Economic Times: Mumbai-based game development company Paradox Studios has signed a world wide contract with bollywood actor Madhavan to…
Eros International’s London IPO To Open On July 4
The Telegraph (London): Here are some details of the forthcoming IPO of bollywood distributor Eros International, which we have been trackin…
Pyramid Saimira In Talks With UTV Software, Rajshree And Others For Content
The Economic Times: UTV Software Communications and Chennai-based digital theatre chain Pyramid Saimira Theatre are in talks for a content s…
TV18’s Raghav Bahl To Set Up Movie Production House
Indiantelevision.com: Why I admire the TV18 group is that it’s the most aggressive media group in India. They are well entrenched in the TV…
Bollywoodcountry.com Launched
NowRunning.com: Here is a new bollywood site – Bollywoodcountry.com. It has the usual stuff – interviews, movie reviews, previews, gossip, n…
Adlabs Films In Tie Up With Hyde Park Entertainment For Hollywood
Indiantelevision.com: Adlabs Films Ltd is venturing into Hollywood through a tie-up with AshoK Amritraj’s Hyde Park Entertainment Group. The…
Eros’ Grand Plans
Business Standard: Bhuvan Lall has written a column on Eros Entertainment, the largest global distributor of Hindi films. Eros is one of our…
GV Films Plans To Sell Webcasting Division Including Internet Rights To Films
Indiantelevision.com: Chennai-based GV Films Ltd. plans to sell its webcasting division including rights to 6000 movies. The price is report…
Eros, Movielink Tie Up For Internet Distribution Of Bollywood In US
Press Release: Movielink, a leading U.S.broadband video-on-demand (VOD) download service, and EROS International, a prominent international…
Pyramid Saimira To Invest Rs 350 Crore In Digital Theatre Chain; Plans 2000 Screens
The Economic Times: Chennai-based Pyramid Saimira said that it will invest Rs 350 crore to set up the country’s largest digital theatre chai…
Content Licencing To Remain A Key Issue For IPTV Rollout
Light Reading: Here is a nice story on what could be the key issues faced by IPTV carriers when they start to acquire content rights.
“Conte…
Rajshri Media Launches Bollywood Classics On Mobile
Rajshri Media, the digital media arm of bollywood production house Rajshri Group, has launched content related to “some of the biggest block…
Suresh Productions Buys 35% In FXLabs For $3 Million
Business Standard: Hyderabad-based Suresh Productions, a telugu film production house which is a part of Rama Naidu Studios, has bought a 35…
Eros’ Kishore Lulla On How Broadband Distribution Will Change Bollywood Biz
Variety.com has an interview with Kishore Lulla, Chairman of Eros International, the world’s largest bollywood distribution house in the wor…
Bollywood Director, Venture Investor Mahesh Murthy Floats Website To Fund Film
Indiantelevision.com: Here is an interesting way to make and finance a movie. Bollywood director Shashanka Ghosh and VC-cum-search marketing…
Bollywood Distributor Eros Plans $100 Million IPO, To Fund New Media Plans
Indiantelevision.com: A global distributor and creator of bollywood content, Eros International, plans to raise $100 million through a listi…
BR Films Working On An Animated Film On Krishna
The Times of India: After the recent box office success of Hanuman, India’s first full length animated film, here is another one being plann…
Chennai Cinema Chain Pyramid Saimira Plans Digitisation
The Hindu: Pyramid Saimira Theatre Ltd, a Chennai-based cinema hall chain, is looking at digitisation of its existing cinema halls and is al…
JV Formed For Post-Production Film Processing
Business Standard: AVM Productions, a leading film production house in Chennai, has joined hands with Spirit Media to set up a joint venture…
C Sivasankaran Invests $26.6 Million In Sahara One Media
Indiantelevision.com: NRI businessman C Sivasankaran is picking up 14.98 per cent stake in Sahara One Media & Entertainment (a leading TV an…
