Reliance launches Bollywood portal - BigOye.com

January 2, 2009 · Filed Under Reliance Entertainment · 2 Comments 


Reliance ADAG’s Big Entertainment has launched a Bollywood centric entertainment portal called Bigoye.com. This portal has news, interviews, movie reviews, celebrity blogs, games and movie rentals services all rolled into one. This portal directly competes with Hungama’s Bollywoodhungama.com (previously IndiaFM) and also the latest launch by Percept Knorigin i.e. Cinecurry. It’s no surprise that BigOye has tied up with sister concerns like Bigadda, Bigflixs and Zapak for content.
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‘Ghajini’ grossed $4M overseas in its inaugural weekend

January 2, 2009 · Filed Under Reliance Entertainment · Comment 


BIG Pictures, which had won overseas distribution rights, in a release, said the film opened with USD 0.92 million in the West Asia, highest opening weekend for a Hindi film. Followed by North America with USD 1.4 million, the second highest opening weekend for a Hindi film in 2008 and Australia raking in Australian Dollar 254,000. In all it was released in 22 countries, Big Pictures, owned by Reliance BIG Entertainment of the Anil Dhirubhai Ambani group said.
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Big Pictures plans to release 18 films in 2009

December 23, 2008 · Filed Under Reliance Entertainment · Comment 


Reliance Big Pictures has chalked out a 18-movie slate for 2009 release, defying scale back plans announced by some other big film producers.

Being part of the mega plan to produce 70 movies over three years, Big Pictures will roll out 11 Hindi films in 2009 while the other seven films will be in five regional languages.
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Big Pictures plans to release ‘Ghajini’ in 22 nations

December 22, 2008 · Filed Under Reliance Entertainment · 1 Comment 


Reliance Big Pictures, the motion pictures brand of Reliance Big Entertainment, is set to release the Aamir Khan starrer Ghajini internationally across 300 cinemas in 22 countries.

Produced by Geetha Arts, the film will see a simultaneous release in India and globally on 25 December.

The key markets across which Reliance’s Big Pictures will distribute Ghajini overseas include the UAE with 36 prints, the US and Canada with 112 prints and the UK with 65 prints.
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Reliance BIG Entertainment Ltd: Kunal Kohli in three-movie

December 12, 2008 · Filed Under Reliance Entertainment · Comment 


Announcing this on Thursday, a RBEL spokesperson said that Kohli, who had earlier directed hits like ‘Hum Tum’, ‘Fanaa’ and ‘Mujhase Dosti Karoge’, would direct two of these movies himself and would be the creative producer for the third.
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BigFlix gets 80,000 registered membership in first year

November 25, 2008 · Filed Under Reliance Entertainment · Comment 


In an exclusive interview with FE’s Pritha Mitra Dasgupta, the COO of Bigflix, Kamal Gianchandani said that Bigflix will break even this financial year. Bigflix.com, the online and offline movie rental business of the Reliance Anil Dhirubhai Ambani Group (ADAG), has completed a year of operations. In just one year, it has managed to get a registered membership base of 80,000.
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Greystripe, Zapak to launch Ad-supported Games in India

November 7, 2008 · Filed Under Reliance Entertainment · Comment 


Zapak Digital Entertainment, India’s largest online gaming site and a part of the Reliance Anil Dhirubhai Ambani Group, has teamed up with Greystripe to offer Greystripe’s more than 900 ad-supported mobile games to its users.
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Reliance plans to launch online ad exchange - Kyphy.com

November 4, 2008 · Filed Under Reliance Entertainment · Comment 


kyphy.comReliance BIG Entertainment is planning to launch an advertising marketplace called “Kyphy”. Kyphy will “create an automated advertising exchange to enhance the efficiency of both buying and selling inventory.”
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AdLabs to demerge it radio business into Reliance Unicom Ltd

October 31, 2008 · Filed Under Reliance Entertainment · Comment 

anil-big-adlabsAnil Dhirubhai Ambani Group promoted Adlabs Films Ltd on Friday said the company has approved a scheme of arrangement envisaging de-merger of its radio business into Reliance Unicom Ltd.

The face value of equity share of Reliance Unicom Ltd, which shall be issued pursuant to the scheme to the shareholders of Adlabs Films Ltd in consideration for the proposed demerger, was inadvertently mentioned as ‘Rs 10′ each instead of ‘Rs 5′ each, due to a typographical error, it said in a filing with the Bombay Stock Exchange.
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BIGFlix.com ties with BookMyShow.com to offer free trail on movie rentals

October 30, 2008 · Filed Under Reliance Entertainment · Comment 


BIGFlix.com, a part of Reliance BIG Entertainment Ltd, Anil Dhirubhai Ambani Group company, and India’s largest online and offline movie rental service joins hands with BookMyShow.com, India’s premier Entertainment ticketing website, to offer movie rental services at your doorstep. The alliance will offer all bookmyshow.com users a free BIGFlix.com membership. The membership will be for a period 14 days, and will be able to rent and watch unlimited movies of his choice delivered/picked-up free at his home.
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