Reliance Entertainment

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.

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

History

• 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]

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