Graphic India, a comic and animation company partly owned by Peter Chernin’s CA Media Group, will work with Disney Channel India on a 52-episode superhero series titled Astra Force in partnership with Bollywood icon Amitabh Bachchan. Astra Force is the story of a mythical hero, who, after an epic space...
Hooq Launches Video-on-Demand Services in India
Video-on-demand service Hooq, backed by Warner Bros., Sony Pictures and Singapore telecom’s Singtel launches this June. The ad-free service will broadcast Hollywood and Indian content at a monthly price of $3.20. “Hooq brings to India the biggest Hollywood catalog where customers can look forward to more than 5,000 Hollywood movies and...
Gotham Chopra's Animation Company Receives Peter Chernin Funding
According to The Hollywood Reporter, CA Media, the Asian investment arm of the Chernin Group, the media and entertainment-platform company led News Corp veteran Peter Chernin, is leading a new $2.8 million seed-financing round in Graphic India which produces digital comics and animation for the Indian market. The company plans...
India Cinema Advertising Grows 25% in 2014
GroupM's biannual advertising expenditure futures report for India, entitled This Year, Next Year, found that Indian cinema advertising recorded a 25 percent growth in 2014, touching revenues of $57 million. This sector is expected to grow by 20 percent to $68 million in 2015. The Hollywood Reporter says that according...
Disney's ABC Signs Indian Star Priyanka Chopra
According to The Hollywood Reporter, Bollywood's Priyanka Chopra, the Indian film actress, singer and former Miss World 2000, has signed a talent deal with ABC Studios which will develop a show or cast her in an existing project. The deal marks the first U.S. development pact for Chopra, who has...
India Myth: Is Bollywood Star Priyanka Chopra Being Cutesy? No!
The Wall Street Journal has a great blog post about Prime Minister Modi's "Clean India" campaign and the role of celebrity Priyanka Chopra in cleaning up a garbage infested area of the Mumbai neighborhood of Versova. It includes an 11 minute YouTube video. But my beef is with the implications...