Reliance Entertainment (formerly known as Reliance BIG Entertainment) is a wholly owned subsidiary of the Reliance Anil Dhirubhai Ambani Group handling its media and entertainment business, across content and distribution platforms.

 

The key content initiative 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.

 

History

Reliance ADA Group acquired Adlabs Films Limited in 2005, one of the largest entertainment companies in India, which has interests in film processing, production, exhibition & digital cinema.

 

Reliance BIG Entertainment made an entry into the FM Radio business through Adlabs Radio Big 92.7 FM. Having won 45 stations in the bidding, BIG 92.7 FM was India’s largest private FM radio network with 12 radio stations across the country as on 28 February 2007, with more being launched in the following months.

 

Big Cinemas is India’s largest cinema chain with over 516 screens spread across India, Nepal,US, Malaysia and Netherlands. The chain caters to over 35 million consumers. BIG Cinemas has established leadership in film exhibition in India with 253 screens and accounts for 10 to 15% of box office contributions of large movies.

 

Subsidiaries

• Reliance Broadcast Network Limited

o Big 92.7 FM - Radio Division

o Big CBS - General Entertainment Channel Division

o Big Live - Events and BTL Activations Division

o Big Street - Out of Home Advertising Division

o Big Digital - Digital Content Development, Internet Radio and New Media Division

o Big Productions - TV Production Division

o Big Broadcasting - TV Broadcasting Division

• Reliance MediaWorks Ltd

o Big ND Studios -

o Big Synergy - Non Fiction TV Production Division

o Reliance MediaWorks (formerly Lowry Digital)

o BIG Cinemas - Movie Multiplex Chain

• Reliance Big Pictures - Movie Production & Distribution Division

• Big TV - Direct To Home Satellite TV Division

• Big Music - Record Label Division

• BIGFlix - Online Retail & Distribution Division

• Bigadda - Online Social Networking Division

• DreamWorks Pictures (50% owned)

• Zapak - Digital and Online Gaming Division

• Jump Games (ParadoX Studios)

• Big Animation (AniRights Infomedia)

• Big Home Entertainment - Home Video Division

• Codemasters (50% owned)

• Reliance Media Works Studio - Filmcity Mumbai

• BIG Star Entertainment Awards

 

RMW Studio

Reliance MediaWorks (RMW) studio, spread across seven acres, will have eight stages built to stringent acoustical and structural specifications.

 

It has already attracted Hollywood's attention. Legendary filmmaker Oliver Stone, who got a preview of the studio during his visit, had said, "After what I have seen here, there is a possibility of me coming back to make a movie here, after all." Films such as Chronicles of Narnia and Mission: Impossible – Ghost Protocol (in which the Vancouver Convention Centre in Canada will stand-in for India) can now be shot at RMW studios. J Scott Carter of Los Angeles-based Wylie-Carter Architects, which is building the facility, says, "RMW's expanding global capabilities allow 24/7 production partnerships with the best producers in the business, and direct digital tie-ins with production teams in Europe, Asia, and North America." Reliance MediaWorks has already spent over  100 crore on the first phase of the studio, which has three super silent 'sync sound' capable stages.

 

Productions

Indian Cinema

Bollywood

• Karzzzz

• Ghajini

• Singh Is Kinng

• Paa

• Raavan

• Kites

• Singham

• Ekk Deewana Tha

• Shagird

• Double Dhamaal

• Bodyguard

• Dangerous Ishhq

• Makkhi (Telugu Dub)

Tamil Cinema

• Singam

• Raavanan

• Osthe

• Singam 2

Telugu Cinema

• Money Money, More Money

• Adhinayakudu

• Devudu Chesina Manushulu

Kannada Cinema

• Ijjodu

Malayalam Cinema

• Kutty Srank

Bengali Cinema

• Deewaana starring Superstar Jeet and Srabonti

• Businessman starring Superstar Jeet and Shubhashree

 

International Cinema

Hollywood

• The Help (co-production with DreamWorks Pictures, Participant Media and Imagenation Abu Dhabi)

• Real Steel (co-production with DreamWorks Pictures)

• Jesus Henry Christ (co-production with Red Om Films)

• Fright Night (co-production with DreamWorks Pictures)

• Cowboys & Aliens (co-production with Universal Studios, DreamWorks Pictures and Relativity Media)

• Scream 4 (co-production with Dimension Films)

• The Fighter (co-production with Paramount Pictures, Relativity Media and Mandeville Films)

• I Am Number Four (as Reliance BIG Entertainment, co-production with DreamWorks Pictures and Bay Films)

• War Horse (co-production with DreamWorks Pictures and Amblin Entertainment)

• Dredd 3D (as Reliance BIG Pictures, co-production with Lionsgate, IM Global, DNA Films, IMAX and Entertainment Film Distributors)

• People Like Us (co-production with DreamWorks Pictures)

• Lincoln (co-production with DreamWorks Pictures and 20th Century Fox)

 

Latest happenings

• The company forayed into the largely untapped video rental market in India by acquiring BIGFlix and started further expansion.

• The company plans to launch TV Channels.

• On 15 July 2009, Reliance Big Entertainment and Steven Spielberg announced a joint venture with a funding of $ 825 million.

• Recently, Big 92.7 FM launched a radio station in Singapore considering 8% of the population residing there is Indian.

• On April 5, 2010, they acquired a 50% stake in Codemasters.

• On May 28, 2010, they achieved the first ever Bollywood cross-over into the Hollywood Box Office market in the opening weekend "Top Ten" list after releasing Kites.

• The studio is co-producing director Steven Spielberg's upcoming film War Horse which is due for worldwide release in Christmas. Many other future projects from the director also have Reliance Entertainment as a major producer.

• In January 2012, it was announced that Reliance DreamWorks movies garnered 11 Oscar nominations.