Adlabs Cinema Chain Follows Pyramid Saimira to U.S.

Indian entertainment conglomerate Adlabs Films (majority-owned by Reliance Anil Dhirubhai Ambani Group) plans to operate a 200-screen cinema exhibition chain in the U.S. that will show both Bollywood and Hollywood movies. Adlabs’ plan is to have a nationwide footprint covering 28 cities across the U.S. including the key desi hotspots on the East Coast, West […]

Song, Dance & Theft to Net Bollywood Films $208m Abroad

Indian movies will earn $208 million (Rs 850 crore) in 2007 in the overseas market, India’s Minister for Information and Broadcasting P.R.Dasmunsi told the country’s parliament on Wednesday. Last year, Indian movies are said to have earned $171 million in the overseas markets. Indian movies in Hindi, Punjabi, Tamil, Telugu, Kannada and other languages are usually […]

Reliance’s BigFlicks.com Goes Live;But Does it Matter?

Reliance – Anil Dhirubhai Ambani Group’s BigFlicks.com entertainment web site has gone live (albeit in alpha mode i.e. a kind of test version). BigFlicks’ selection of Indian entertainment content is supposed to include Bollywood and Indian regional movies, TV programs, movie songs and music videos. Currently, the content is mostly a sparse selection of Hindi, Telugu […]

Buffett Not to Rescue Wall Street Journal

Our second favorite Newspaper Wall Street Journal (NYT is our first love) is in deep waters Those of us looking for famed investor Warren Buffett to save the Dow Jones publishing group, which includes the fine Wall Street Journal (subscription required), from Rupert Murdoch’s grubby hands must now turn our sights elsewhere. At the annual […]

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