All articles by Udita Jhunjhunwala – Page 3
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Bollywood.tv launches Bindies online film festival
South Asian cinema online platform, www.bollywood.tv, is launching an internet film festival for independent filmmakers, dubbed the Bollywood Indies (The Bindies). The online fest welcomes independent films in any Indian, Pakistani, Bangladeshi or Sri Lankan language, theme or flavour.The content will be uploaded, and made available for sales agents and ...
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Reliance forms joint venture with the Bachchan family
Just one week after news broke that Anil Ambani's Reliance Big Entertainment (RBE) is in talks to invest in DreamWorks, the Indian company has announced a joint venture with India's first family of Hindi cinema, the Bachchans. The tie-up covers the production of films, TV series, reality shows, internet and ...
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Hakim to head jury of Cinefan's Asian-Arab competition
The Osian's-Cinefan Film Festival has announced the juries for this year's tenth anniversary edition (July 10-20), which will feature four competition sections: Asian & Arab, Indian, First Features and In-tolerance. Leading Indonesian actress Christime Hakim will be president of the Asian & Arab competition jury. She has previously served on ...
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Adlabs acquires majority share in Malaysian cinema chain
Continuing with its global expansion plans, Adlabs Films, part of the Reliance Anil Dhirubhai Ambani Group, is set to acquire a majority and controlling interest in Malaysia's Lotus Five Star Cinemas. As per the agreement, Adlabs will operate the 51 screen cinema chain in Malaysia. The cinemas will be programmed ...
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Sony signs three-picture deal with Pritish Nandy
Sony Pictures Entertainment (SPE) Films India and Indian company Pritish Nandy Communications (PNC) have entered into a three-film first-look deal. 'All three films will be commercial blockbusters in thetrue Bollywood tradition with songs and dance etc,' PNC creative director told Screendaily.In a separate deal, SPE Films India has picked up ...
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Warner Bros planning Hindi remake of Wedding Crashers
Warner Bros has enlisted Mukesh Talreja and Nikhil Advani's Orion Pictures to produce a Hindi-language remake of its 2005 hit Wedding Crashers. The production house is currently in discussions with two leading Indian actors to reprise the roles played by Owen Wilson and Vince Vaughn. The director is also yet ...
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Warner Bros boards Indian title Saas Bahu Aur Sensex
Warner Bros India has announced its second local Indian film production, Shona Urvashi's sophomore effort Saas Bahu Aur Sensex (SBS).Principal photography on the film, produced by PLA Entertainment and Warner Bros, has been completed and post work has begun. The film is slated for release on September 12.Saas Bahu Aur ...
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Chak De India, Om Shanti Om lead IIFA technical awards
Yash Raj Films' Chak De India and Farah Khan's Om Shanti Om are the big winners at this year's International Indian Film Academy (IIFA) awards in the technical categories. Both films star Shah Rukh Khan. Chak De India bagged five awards including best cinematography (Sudeep Chatterjee), best editing (Amitabh Shukla), ...
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Om Puri appointed chairman of India's NFDC
Veteran actor Om Puri has been appointed chairman of the National Film Development Corporation (NFDC) by the Indian government. The term of the appointment is three years. In his new role Puri will look out for new talent in filmmaking, examine scripts and consider production and co-production opportunities for the ...
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Darjeeling Limited gets greenlight for India release
Wes Anderson's India-set Darjeeling Limited, initially scheduled to be released in India in January, is finally being released on April 25. The film hit a road-block when the Indian Censor Board denied a certification of the film citing inadequate permissions to shoot animal life. While the shots of animals in ...
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Warner Bros signs multi-picture deal with India's Ocher Studios
Warner Bros Pictures India is following its foray into the production of Hindi-language films with an exclusive multi-picture deal with South Indian-language film company Ocher Studios. Chennai-based Ocher Studios is headed by superstar actor Rajnikanth's daughter Soundarya. Warner Bros Pictures India and Ocher will produce and distribute live-action South Indian-language ...
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India's IIFA awards to be held in Bangkok
Now heading into their ninth year, the Indian International Film Awards (IIFA) are heading east to Bangkok. IIFA brand ambassador, Bollywood superstar Amitabh Bachchan, made the announcement of the destination city along with the list of nominations for the awards. IIFA is always held in a country outside of India. ...
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Indian effects house EyeQube opens its doors in Mumbai
Eros International's previously announced visual effects joint venture, EyeQube Studios, has officially commenced operations in Mumbai with two Hindi-language productions, Aladdin and Drona. A joint venture with visual effects talent Charles Darby, EyeQube occupies 20,000 square feet and uses Auto Desk's Maya for 3D work and The Foundry's Nuke as ...
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Eros strikes co-production deal with Nadiadwala Grandson
India's Eros International has entered into a four-picture co-productionagreement with local production house Nadiadwala Grandson Entertainment. The deal will encompass two unidentified projects directed by Siddharth Anand (Salaam Namaste), along with Kambakht Ishq, directed by Saabir Khan and featuring Akshay Kumar and Kareena Kapoor in the lead roles, which goes ...
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Eros International unveils bumper slate for 2008
India's Eros International seems to be on a roll. After a successful 2007 with hits such as Namastey London, Partner, Heyy Babyy and Om Shanti Om, Eros has announced that it plans to release 35 films in 2008. Some of them have already hit theatres, with varying response. Bombay To ...
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India's Pyramid Saimira makes production push
Indian exhibitor Pyramid Saimira is set to produce 52 films this year, via its production label Pyramid Saimira Production International, including ten Tamil-language films with an investment of $10m (Rs400m). Ten Tamil film producers will create these films on behalf of the company. This follows the completion of six films ...
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India's UTV restructures film division
UTV has restructured UTV Motion Pictures, its film production and distribution division, and promoted Siddharth Roy Kapur to CEO, UTV Motion Pictures.Previously Kapur was EVP Marketing, Distribution & Syndication, UTV Motion Pictures. He will continue to report to Ronnie Screwvala, CEO, UTV Software Communications and be responsible for spearheading the ...
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FICCI Frames: The 2008 line-up
The eighth edition of India's biggest convention on the entertainment business, Ficci Frames, will take place March 25-27 in Mumbai.Around 2,500 delegates from almost 20 countries are expected to attend some 30 seminars and panel discussions covering aspects of the media and entertainment industries - including films, television, digital entertainment, ...
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UTV lines up two films for Pakistan release
After securing a Pakistan release for Dhan Dhana Dhan Goal in November 2007, Indian production house UTV Motion Pictures has managed to get Race a Pakistan censor certificate.Aamir Khan's directorial venture Taare Zameen Par has also got censorship clearance 'on exceptional grounds' in Pakistan and is scheduled for a March-end ...
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India's film finance giants
Eros InternationalOne of the first Indian film companies to float on London's AIM when it raised $41m in June 2006, Eros has been expanding from its base of international distribution of Hindi films to become a vertically-integrated studio spanning production and distribution across theatrical, video, TV and new media platforms.It ...