Reliance Entertainment Pvt Ltd is an Indian media and entertainment company. It is a division of

Reliance Group Reliance Anil Dhirubhai Ambani Group or popularly known as Reliance ADA Group or simply Reliance Group is an Indian conglomerate, headquartered in Mumbai, India. The company, which was formed after Dhirubhai Ambani's business was divided up, ...

, 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

Current

* Storyteller Holding Co., LLC ( Amblin Partners) (investor, 20%) **

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– Family-Friendly Label **

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– Mature Label ** Amblin Television – Television Division ** Storyteller Distribution Co. LLC – Copyright Holder ** * Reliance Animation (formerly BIG Animation) – (Airtight Info media) *

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(50% owned) * Big Home Entertainment – Home Video Division *

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– Record Label Division * BIG Star Entertainment Awards * Jump Games (ParadoX Studios) *

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* Riverstone Pictures * Reliance Big Pictures – Movie Production & Distribution Division * Reliance Games – Mobile Games Development Studio * Reliance Media Works Ltd ** Big ND Studios **

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– Non Fiction TV Production Division ** Reliance MediaWorks (formerly

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) * Reliance Media Works Studio – Filmcity

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* Window Seat Films * Digital Domain

Former

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– 80% sold to Tang Media Partners in 2016; merged with

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into

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in 2017 ** AutoMatik (joint venture with

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) ** IM Global Television – Television division *

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(29% owned until January 2021)

History

* Reliance forayed into the largely untapped video rental market in India by launching BIGFlix. * The company plans to launch TV Channels. * On 15 July 2009, Reliance and

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announced a joint venture with funding of $825 million. * Big 92.7 FM launched a radio station in Singapore considering 8% of the population residing there is Indian. * On 5 April 2010, Reliance acquired a 50% stake in

. * On 28 May 2010, the company achieved the first ever Hollywood box office market with the release of ''

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''. * Reliance co-produced director Steven Spielberg's film ''

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'', which was released worldwide on Christmas Day in 2011. Many other projects from the director also have the company as a producer. * In January 2012, it was announced that Reliance DreamWorks movies garnered 11 Oscar nominations. * In November 2014, the company announced plans to begin the acquisition process of the North American and European mobile game studios of

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in early 2015.Exclusive: India's Reliance Entertainment plans to acquire Western game studios in 2015

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, 15 November 2014

Films

Bengali

Hindi

Punjabi

Tamil

Telugu

Kannada

Malayalam

English

French

Spanish

Web series and TV

One of its subsidiaries,

run by the likes of

Vikramaditya Motwane Vikramaditya Motwane (born 6 December 1976) is an Indian film director, producer and screenwriter who works in Hindi cinema. He is known for films like '' Udaan'' (2010), ''Lootera'' (2013) and '' AK vs AK'' (2020). His directorial debut '' ...

and

Anurag Kashyap Anurag Kashyap (born 10 September 1972) is an Indian filmmaker and actor known for his works in Hindi cinema. He is the recipient of several accolades, including four Filmfare Awards. For his contributions to film, the Government of France a ...

is actively contributing to web series. They are currently developing two more web series for Amazon; ''Stardust'' and ''Vish Puri'', the former being directed by Motwane himself and the latter will be helmed by Ashwiny Iyer Tiwary.

, its other subsidiary, was responsible for shows like '' Bose: Dead/Alive'' with

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and ''Yay kay hua Bro'' with

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References

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