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With Disney eager to expand its presence in India, the Walt Disney Co. has made an offer to buy the shares in Indian media conglom UTV that it doesn't already [...]

The Eye may be late to the India party, but CBS Studios Intl. has partnered with a biggie--Reliance, which is becoming an 800-pound gorilla on the subcontinent's showbiz scene, with [...]

Relativity Media is establishing a beachhead in India. The company announced Wednesday it is partnering with India's Fuse Capital to form Mumbai-based Relativity Media India. RMI will handle distribution for [...]

LONDON Two Hollywood toppers emphasized the need for global networks to localize to compete in international markets, at an industry confab in India. Sony Pictures Television s Andy Kaplan, prexy [...]

Steven Spielberg has revealed that DreamWorks is prepping a film to shoot in Kashmir, on the Indo-Pakistan border, with its Indian partner Reliance Entertainment. Spielberg was in Mumbai as the [...]

India's 820 billion rupees ($15 billion) media and entertainment industry is projected to double to $30.4 billion by 2017, according to the annual trade report released by research company KPMG [...]

LONDON Feevee Star India, a subsidiary of Rupert Murdoch's News Corp., has pacted with Bollywood star Ajay Devgn for global broadcast rights for all his fills for the next six [...]

LONDON Endemol India and producer Eros Intl. announced Tuesday an alliance to co-produce three features as well as original TV programming. The features will have a combined budget of $18.5 [...]

MUMBAI Media measurement company Rentrak has signed with Asian research firm Majestic Market Research to collect Indian box office grosses for its Intl. Box Office Essentials service. India is a [...]

MUMBAI Underlining the growing importance of the Indian market, several senior Hollywood execs are making the trek to Mumbai for Frames, the country's annual media and entertainment convention, which runs [...]

LONDON The National Basketball Assn. has signed a three-year exclusive carriage deal in India with MSM's sports channel Sony Six, which launched in April. ESPN Star Sports was the NBA's [...]

LONDON Revenue from India's media and entertainment industries is expected to grow 17% to reach $37.6 billion by 2016, according to a PricewaterhouseCoopers report. Revenues for 2011 stood at $17.2 [...]

India and Spain have inked a co-production pact designed to improve co-operation between the two countries in feature films, docus and toonpics. The agreement provides a legal framework for the [...]

INDIA Zee Entertainment Enterprises has appointed Bhaskar Das as chief exec of its digital and news businesses. He will also be in charge of Web portal India.com and report to [...]

Indian multihyphenate Yash Chopra, who directed and produced a series of blockbusters starting with 'Daag,' 'Deewar' and 'Kabhi kabhie,' died Sunday in Mumbai following a bout of dengue. He was [...]

LONDON The People's Choice Awards is spreading outside North America for the first time in its 37-year history, with a local version planned for India. Via its license distribution partner [...]

LONDON International companies with stakes in TV stations in India--including Viacom, News Intl., CBS, Fox, Discovery, Sony and National Geographic--are welcoming the government decision to up the cap on foreign [...]

LONDON The Indian government has paved the way for increased international investment in the country's booming TV sector, raising the caps for foreign ownership from 49% to 74%. Each deal [...]

LONDON Indian film and entertainment services company Reliance MediaWorks, part of billionaire Anil Ambani's Reliance conglom, is re-organizing its business in India, the U.S., the U.K. and Malaysia. The company [...]

LONDON While the West wrung its hands over the three-day power outage in many parts of India, the biggest impact on the sub-continent's media and entertainment biz was in the [...]

LONDON The inherently flawed nature of India's TV ratings system has been thrown into sharp relief by New Delhi Television's lawsuit, filed in the New York State Supreme Court, against [...]

LONDON International film services company Reliance MediaWorks, part of Indian billionaire Anil Ambani's conglom, is raising $107 million to pay down debt, it announced Wednesday. It is planning a rights [...]

LONDON India's Viacom 18 Media, which is a joint venture between Indian media conglom Network 18 and Viacom, has tapped Sudhanshu Vats as group CEO to replace Haresh Chawla, who [...]

CA Media, the investment division of Peter Chernin's The CherninGroup, has acquired 49% of Endemol India. Deal, announced Thursday, is financed from Chernin's recent sale of a $200 million minority [...]

Bollywood giant Eros Intl. has filed for a U.S. initial public offering of $250 million. The company will de-list from London's Alternate Investment Market and will list on the New [...]

U.S. TV and film execs threw in their rupees' worth on the opening day of India's entertainment biz confab Ficci-Frames. MPAA chairman and CEO Chris Dodd, who delivered the three-day [...]

Indian actor and director Joy Mukherjee died in Mumbai on Friday after being admitted to a hospital with respiratory issues. He was 73. Mukherjee was bota into a film family. [...]

Indian shingle Trigno Media has acquired the Hindi-language remake rights for helmet Josh Appignanesi's U.K. laffer 'The Infidel.' The 2010 pic was released in 22 territories and grossed some $4.5 [...]

India's 728 billion rupees ($14.5 billion) media and entertainment industry is projected to double in size to $29 billion by 2016, according to a report to be released this week [...]

MUMBAI -- Big CBS Networks, a joint venture between CBS Studios Intl. and India's Reliance Broadcast Network, is bowing in Sri Lanka. Its channel bouquet--Big CBS Prime, Big CBS Love [...]

Sony Pictures Entertainment has decided not to release helmer David Fincher's 'The Girl With the Dragon Tattoo' in India. Pic was due to go out in January but was postponed [...]

Indian film multihyphenate Dev Anand died in London on Sunday following a heart attack. He was 88. Known as one of the triumvirate of superstars who ruled Hindi cinema in [...]

Indian multi-hyphenate Bhupen Hazarika died of multiple organ failure in Mumbai on Saturday. He was 85. Hazarika was a singer, poet, composer, filmmaker, author and journalist who made it his [...]

Helmer Roger Spottiswoode ('Tomorrow Never Dies') is putting together the last pieces of financing for a pic on Indian mathematical genius Srinivasa Ramanujan in India. Based on a script by [...]

LONDON -- Viacom 18, a joint venture between Viacom and India's Network 18 group, announced Tuesday plans to launch Comedy Central in India by the end of the year. However, [...]

Helmer Bennett Miller's 'Moneyball,' toplining Brad Pitt, will open the 13th Mumbai Film Festival, which will close with Charles Martin Smith's 'Dolphin Tale.' Other India premieres include Lars Von Trier's [...]

Helmer Jagmohan Mundhra, popularly known as Jag Mundhra, died Sept. 4 in Mumbai following a cardiac arrest. He was 62. Mundhra debuted in 1982 with the Hindi-language thriller 'Suraag'; two [...]

Mara Pictures, a boutique distrib focusing on South Asian-themed films, has acquired U.K. theatrical rights for helmer Anurag Kashyap's 'That Girl in Yellow Boots.' The Hindi-, English- and Kannada-language film [...]

Indian studio Eros Intl. has struck a 100-film deal with Myanmar broadcaster Family TV, as well as inking pacts for Japan and Romania. Family TV will have access to box [...]

Bollywood actor Shamsher Raj Kapoor, popularly known as Shammi Kapoor, died in Mumbai on Sunday of kidney failure. He was 79. Kapoor hailed from an entertainment family. His father was [...]

Bangladeshi director Tareque Masud, 54, and ATN News CEO Ashfaque Munier, 52, known as Mi shuk Munier, died Saturday in a car crash near Dhaka. Masud's wife, Catherine--a producer, writer [...]

Hollywood distributors and India's multiplexes are in a standoff over revenue sharing, which is forcing films to release in single-screen cinemas. Distribs and multiplexes used to take an equal share [...]

The decks have been cleared for the TV joint venture between Indian conglom Reliance and the RTL Group, a division of German giant Bertelsmann. India's foreign investment promotion board has [...]

Indian conglom Reliance has appointed Ashok Ganapathy to a newly created post as chief exec of multinational multiplex chain Big Cinemas. Ganapathy will head the loop's global business and will [...]

Filmmaker Mani Kaul, who was in the vanguard of the Indian new wave movement of the '70s, died Thursday in Delhi of cancer. He was 66. Kaul was a graduate [...]

LONDON Debutant writer-director Abhinav Kashyap's 'Dabanng' was the big winner Saturday night at the Intl. Indian Film Academy awards, picking up 10 honors including film, screenplay and music. The awards [...]

The Walt Disney Co., India, and Indian studio UTV Motion Pictures have joined hands to co-produce a slate of Disney-branded films aimed at family audiences. Disney and UTV will share [...]

Endemol India is moving into features, have produced local versions of Endemol's global reality TV formats. First up will be 'Traffic,' a Hindi-language remake of the Malayalam-language hit of the [...]

Viacom 18 Motion Pictures will handle the release of Paramount pies in India. Pact with Paramount Pictures Intl., announced Wednesday, kicks off July 1 with helmet Michael Bay's 'Transformers: Dark [...]

Indian actress Sujatha died April 6 in Chennai, India, following a heart attack. She was 58. Thesp, who was raised in Sri Lanka, debuted as the lead in the Tamil-language [...]