Reliance Entertainment (formerly known as Reliance BIG Entertainment) is a division of the Reliance Anil Dhirubhai Ambani Group handling its media and entertainment business, across content and distribution platforms.
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[]
- Reliance Animation (formerly BIG Animation) - (Airtight Info media)
- Big Home Entertainment - Home Video Division
- Big Music - Record Label Division
- Codemasters (60.41% owned)
- Jump Games (ParadoX Studios)
- Riverstone Pictures
- Reliance Big Pictures - Movie Production & Distribution Division
- Reliance Broadcast Network Limited
- Big 92.7 FM - Radio Division
- Reliance Games - Mobile Games Development Studio
- Reliance Media Works Ltd
- Big ND Studios
- Big Synergy - Non Fiction TV Production Division
- Reliance MediaWorks (formerly Lowry Digital)
- Reliance Media Works Studio - Filmcity Mumbai
- Talenthouse
Former[]
- Storyteller Holding Co., LLC (Amblin Partners) (investor, 20%, spin-off in 2022)
- Amblin Entertainment - Former Family-Friendly Label (spin-off)
- DreamWorks Pictures - Former Mature Label (became owned by DreamWorks Holdings SKG in 2022)
- Amblin Television - Former Television Division (spin-off in 2022)
- Storyteller Distribution Co. LLC - Former Copyright Holder (spin-off in 2022 and renamed as Amblin Distribution)
- IM Global - 80% sold to Tang Media Partners in 2016; merged with Open Road Films into Global Road Entertainment in 2017
- AutoMatik (joint venture with Entertainment One)
- IM Global Television - Television division
- BIG Star Entertainment Awards
- Lava Bear Films
History[]
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- Reliance forayed into the largely untapped video rental market in India by launching BIGFlix.[1]
- The company plans to launch TV Channels.[2]
- On 15 July 2009, Reliance and Steven Spielberg announced a joint venture with funding of $825 million.[3]
- Big 92.7 FM launched a radio station in Singapore considering 8% of the population residing there is Indian.[4]
- On 5 April 2010, Reliance acquired a 50% stake in Codemasters.[5]
- On 28 May 2010, the company achieved the first ever Bollywood cross-over into the 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.[6]
- In January 2012, it was announced that Reliance DreamWorks movies garnered 11 Oscar nominations.[7]
- 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.[8]
- in 2022, Lionsgate Holdings bought the company from Reliance Anil Dhirubhai Ambani Group, renaming Reliance as Lionsgate India in March 2024.
- in 2026, Lionsgate India announced to distribute films from Mishmash Pictures for Indian distribution only.
Films[]
Main films[]
- Singh Is Kinng
- 1920
- Ghajini
- Paa
- 3 Idiots
- Kites
- Double Dhamaal
- Singham
- Desi Boyz
- Don 2
- Talaash: The Answer Lies Within
- Zanjeer
- Besharam
- Commando: A One Man Army
- Holiday: A Soldier Is Never Off Duty
- Bobby Jasoos
- Singham Returns
- Hawaizaada
- Wazir
- Ghayal Once Again
- Te3n
- Kaabil
- Commando 2
- Naam Shabana
- Golmaal Again
- Elmo's World: The Movie
- Aiyaary
- Bhavesh Joshi Superhero
- Namastey England
- World War
DreamWorks Pictures[]
- I Am Number Four (2011)
- The Help (2011)
- Fright Night (2011)
- Real Steel (2011)
- Cowboys & Aliens (2011)
- War Horse (2011)
- People Like Us (2012)
- Lincoln (2012)
- The Fifth Estate (2013)
- Delivery Man (2013)
- Need for Speed (2014)
- The Hundred-Foot Journey (2014)
- Bridge of Spies (2015)
- The Light Between Oceans (2016)
- The Post (2017)
- 1917 (2019)
- The Turning (2020)
- Stillwater (2021)
- Easter Sunday (2022)
- The Good House (2022)
- The Last Voyage of the Demeter (2023)
- Distant (2024)
- How to Train Your Dragon (2025)
- The Passion of the Christ (TBA)
- Apocalypto (TBA)
- Hacksaw Ridge (TBA)
- The Kidnapping of Edgardo Mortara (TBA)
- Niro Ionik: Vagabond (TBA)
- Hitman: Agent 47 (TBA)
- Battlefield District Aliens (TBA)
Amblin Entertainment[]
- The BFG (2015)
- A Dog's Purpose (2017)
- The House with a Clock in Its Walls (2018)
- A Dog's Journey (2019)
- The Fabelmans (2022)
- The Raids: The Brick Mansions (TBA)
Little Witch Pictures/DreamWorks Animation/Sony Pictures Animation/Nickelodeon Movies/Warner Bros. Pictures Animation[]
- Kung Fu Wa!: The Movie (2024)
- Learning with Pibby: The Movie (2024)
- The Tish Tash Movie (2024)
- The New Panty & Stocking with Garterbelt Movie (2025)
- Trulli Tales: The Movie (2027)
- FriendZSpace (TBA)
- Birdman (TBA)
- Little Witch Academia: The Movie (TBA)
Web series[]
- Jio Dhan Dhana Dhan
- Moon River
References[]
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- ↑ Anil Ambani meets Spielberg; to provide Rs 4,000 cr for films The Economic Times.
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- ↑ Exclusive: India's Reliance Entertainment plans to acquire Western game studios in 2015. Reuters, 15 November 2014