Americans have been enchanted by India's Priyanka Chopra on the ABC Television prime time hit, Quantico. Soon an Indian female will hit the big screens of Hollywood. Ahead of the 17th International Indian Film Awards held in Madrid, Spain this year, Bollywood super-star Deepika Padukone disclosed in an interview with...
Jungle Book: Highest Grossing Hollywood Film in India
Walt Disney’s The Jungle Book has become the highest-grossing Hollywood release ever in India, a country where 90% of the box office grosses go to films that are home grown. . After only 12 days in release in the country, the movie has grossed $24.6M This release is the most...
Authorized Hollywood Movie Remakes Gain Ground in India
Hollywood’s 2011 martial arts drama Warrior, has been remade as Brothers, a co-production between Lionsgate and Endemol India's Eyedentity Motion Pictures. According to The Hollywood Reporter, Rentrak ranked Brothers in the 10th spot among the top 10 international releases for the weekend of August 15. The movie collected a total...
Disney Channel Co-produces Indian Superhero Series
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...