21st Century Fox Company CHief Operating Officer James Murdoch and Uday Shankar, CEO of Fox's Star India, met Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi in New Delhi. Details of what was discussed at the meeting are not available. According to The Hollywood Reporter, Star India operates more than 40 networks, reaching...
News Corp invests $30 million in Online Real Estate Company
Media giant News Corp, controlled by Australian-American Rupert Murdoch, announced an investment in India: it has paid $30 million for a 25 percent stake in Elara, which runs the Indian real estate portal PropTiger.com, which has sold more than $1 billion in property through its platform to date, and also offers real estate...
Lady Gaga to visit India, and maybe to record a song
Simi Garewal, (known in the West as the courtesan Kamala in Conrad Rooks' Siddhartha, 1972) currently hosts India's Most Desirable on News Corp.'s Star network channel Star One. Lady Gaga was a guest, in her first appearance on an Indian talk show, “I have seen a few Bollywood films and...
Hollywood spikes presence in India
Years ago, only a small sliver of Indian who lived in large metro cities and had a western inclination would see Hollywood movies, which typically arrived years late and were not dubbed locally. Subsequently VCD and DVD piracy affected the long lead market as well. All that has changed now,...