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EXCLUSIVE: Major Mumbai-based production outfit Reliance Entertainment has expanded its stable by establishing a joint venture with filmmaker Ribhu Dasgupta, Film Hangar, through which he will exclusively make movies for Reliance. Dasgupta is in-demand having recently helmed the Indian remake of The Girl On The Train…

EXCLUSIVE: Russian director and producer Timur Bekmambetov, whose creation of the innovative Screenlife format has spawned hit movies such as Profile and Unfriended, is setting his sights on India by striking a partnership with local players Graphic India and Reliance Entertainment. Bekmambetov and Graphic India…

Today in Hong Kong, Global Road Entertainment parent Tang Media Partners unveiled a series of steps it’s taking as it looks to capitalize on China’s rapid growth, and as it promoted a so-called “dual-core” strategy. Among notable moves, and along with its partners and backers China Everbright and Tencent, TMP has…

Family feature animation Norm Of The North has been set for an April debut in China. Under a deal between producer Splash Entertainment and Shanghai-based Yang Yang Pictures Corp, the latter will serve as a major investor for the release, which will be handled by Chinawood Media Corp on the mainland as well as in Hong…

DreamWorks financier Reliance Entertainment is partnering with India’s Phantom Films, a leading production outfit formed by four of the country’s brightest indie filmmakers; Anurag Kashyap among them. The 50/50 joint venture is designed to leverage the Phantom talent base while giving the company access to Reliance’s…

Steven Spielberg‘s international tour of newsy tidbits continues. Speaking to France's Canal Plus recently, the filmmaker dropped info about his development of a Napoleon miniseries based on a screenplay by Stanley Kubrick. Yesterday, Spielberg was in India to talk about Lincoln, meet with the local industry and…

The New York Times reports that after a long negotiation, DreamWorks is re-upping its deal with India-based Reliance. But with a plan to streamline its production pace down to 3-to-5 movies per year. Neither the renewal nor the tightening of purse strings are a surprise as it was widely expected since before the…

Yahoo says that it has exclusive online rights to the sci-fi adventure series Electric City, which will be shown in several parts beginning in 2012 supported by “a deeply immersive and interactive online experience that enhances the drama, mystery and intrigue of the series.” Electric City will be available in several…

Walking With Dinosaurs 3D from BBC Earth Films, Evergreen Films and Reliance Pictures is the latest to use the Fusion 3D system from James Cameron and Vince Pace’s Cameron Pace Group. The fact-based CGI/live-action feature will combine photorealistic backdrops and animation from Oscar-winning Animal Logic (Happy Feet)…

Emanuel Nunez has exited CAA. Nunez is the financing wiz who helped put bring offshore companies into Hollywood, particularly at a time in 2008 when those companies decided to bet on specific talent. He was a key point person on making the match between DreamWorks partners Steven Spielberg and Stacey Snider with…