Reliance Entertainment Pvt. Ltd. is an Indian media and entertainment company. It is a division of Reliance Group, handling its media and entertainment business, across content and distribution platforms. The company was founded on 15 February 2005, as two entities, namely Reliance Big Entertainment and BIG Pictures. Four years later the two companies were merged into Reliance BIG Pictures in 2009, and the company's name was changed to Reliance Entertainment the following year.[citation needed]
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Formerly | Reliance BIG Entertainment (2005–2009), BIG Pictures (2005–2009), Reliance BIG Pictures (2009–2010)[citation needed] |
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Company type | Division |
Industry | |
Founded | 15 February 2005 |
Headquarters | Mumbai, Maharashtra, India |
Area served | Worldwide |
Key people | Anil Ambani (chairman) Tina Ambani (director) |
Products | |
Parent | Reliance Anil Dhirubhai Ambani Group |
Website | Reliance Entertainment |
The key content initiatives are across movies, music, sports, gaming, Internet & mobile portals, leading to direct opportunities in delivery across the emerging digital distribution platforms: digital cinema, IPTV, DTH and mobile TV.
Subsidiaries
Current
- Storyteller Holding Co., LLC[1] (Amblin Partners) (investor, 20%)
- Amblin Entertainment – Family-Friendly Label
- DreamWorks Pictures – Mature Label
- Amblin Television – Television Division
- Storyteller Distribution Co. LLC – Copyright Holder
- Reliance Animation (formerly BIG Animation) – (Airtight Info media)
- Reliance Home Video & Games – Home Video Division
- Reliance BIG Music – Record Label Division
- BIG Star Entertainment Awards
- Jump Games (ParadoX Studios)
- Lava Bear Films
- Riverstone Pictures
- Reliance Games – Mobile Games Development Studio
- Reliance Media Works Ltd
- Reliance ND Studios
- Big Synergy – Non Fiction TV Production Division
- Reliance MediaWorks (formerly Lowry Digital)
- Reliance Media Works Studio – Filmcity Mumbai
- Talenthouse
- Window Seat Films
- Digital Domain
Former
- IM Global – 80% sold to Tang Media Partners in 2016; merged with Open Road Films into Global Road Entertainment in 2017
- AutoMatik (joint venture with Entertainment One)
- IM Global Television – Television division
- Codemasters (29% owned until January 2021)[2][3]
- Phantom Films – sold to Madhu Mantena and Sheetal Talwar in 2022; renamed to Phantom Studios[4]
History
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- Reliance forayed into the largely untapped video rental market in India by launching BIGFlix.[5]
- The company plans to launch TV Channels.[6]
- On 15 July 2009, Reliance and Steven Spielberg announced a joint venture with funding of $825 million.[7]
- Big 92.7 FM launched a radio station in Singapore considering 8% of the population residing there is Indian.[8]
- On 5 April 2010, Reliance acquired a 50% stake in Codemasters.[9]
- On 28 May 2010, the company achieved the first ever Hollywood box office market with the release of Kites.
- Reliance co-produced director Steven Spielberg's film War Horse, which was released worldwide on Christmas Day in 2011. Many other projects from the director also have the company as a producer.[10]
- In January 2012, it was announced that Reliance DreamWorks movies garnered 11 Oscar nominations.[11]
- In November 2014, the company announced plans to begin the acquisition process of the North American and European mobile game studios of DreamWorks Studios in early 2015.[12]
Films
Bengali
Hindi
Punjabi
Year | Name | Cast | Note(s) |
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2012 | Ajj De Ranjhe | Aman Dhaliwal, Gurleen Chopra | Drama Film |
Tamil
Year | Film | Cast | Note(s) |
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2009 | Yavarum Nalam | R. Madhavan, Neetu Chandra | Psychological Horror Film |
2010 | Singam | Suriya, Anushka Shetty | Action Film |
2011 | Yuvan Yuvathi | Bharath, Rima Kallingal | Romantic Film |
Osthe | Silambarasan, Richa Gangopadhyay | Remake Of Dabangg | |
2012 | Naan Ee | Sudeep, Samantha Akkineni, Nani | Fantasy Action Film |
2013 | David | Vikram, Jiiva, Isha Sharvani | Drama Film; partly dubbed |
2016 | Irudhi Suttru | R. Madhavan, Ritika Singh | Sports Action-Drama Film |
2019 | Dev | Karthi, Rakul Preet Singh | Based On Road Adventure |
NGK | Suriya, Rakul Preet Singh | Political Action Film | |
Game Over | Taapsee Pannu | Psychological Thriller Film | |
2021 | Aelay | Samuthirakani | Comedy Drama film |
Mandela | Yogi Babu | Comedy Drama film | |
Jagame Thandhiram | Dhanush | Action Thriller film | |
2024 | Baazigar | Action Crime Drama Film | |
Telugu
Kannada
Year | Name | Cast | Note(s) |
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2010 | Ijjodu | Aniruddha Jatkar, Meera Jasmine | Drama Film |
2015 | Rana Vikrama | Puneeth Rajkumar, Anjali, Adah Sharma | Action Thriller Film |
Malayalam
Year | Name | Cast | Note(s) |
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2010 | Kutty Srank | Mammootty, Kamalinee Mukherjee | Drama Film |
English
French
Year | Name | Cast | Note(s) |
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2017 | To the Top | Kev Adams, Vincent Elbaz | Comedy-drama film |
Spanish
Year | Name | Cast | Note(s) |
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2010 | Kites | Hrithik Roshan, Bárbara Mori | Romantic Action Thriller Film |
Web series and TV
One of its subsidiaries, Phantom Films run by the likes of Vikramaditya Motwane and Anurag Kashyap is actively contributing to web series. They are currently developing two more web series for Amazon; Stardust and Vish Puri, the former being directed by Motwane himself and the latter will be helmed by Ashwiny Iyer Tiwary.
Big Synergy, its other subsidiary, was responsible for shows like Bose: Dead/Alive with ALTBalaji and Yay kay hua Bro with Voot.
References
External links
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