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

Reliance Group Reliance Group (stylized as ReLIΛNCe) is an Indian conglomerate, headquartered in Mumbai, India. The company, which was formed after Dhirubhai Ambani's business was divided up, is headed by his younger son Anil Ambani. Reliance Group has ...

, 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 Storyteller Distribution Co., LLC, doing business as Amblin Partners, LLC., is an American independent entertainment production company. It develops and produces films under the Amblin Entertainment and DreamWorks Pictures banners, as well as ...

) (investor, 20%) **

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– Family-Friendly Label **

DreamWorks Pictures DreamWorks Pictures (also known as DreamWorks SKG and commonly referred to as DreamWorks) is an American film studio and Film distribution, distribution label of Amblin Partners. It was originally founded on October 12, 1994, as a live-action a ...

– Mature Label **

Amblin Television Storyteller TV Distribution Co., LLC, doing business as Amblin Television, is the television production division of Amblin Partners. It was established in 1984 by Amblin Entertainment as a small-screen production arm for Steven Spielberg's ''Am ...

– Television Division ** Storyteller Distribution Co. LLC – Copyright Holder * Reliance Animation (formerly BIG Animation) – (Airtight Info media) * Reliance Home Video & Games – Home Video Division * Reliance BIG Music – Record Label Division *

BIG Star Entertainment Awards The Big STAR Entertainment Awards was an annual award show presented by Reliance Broadcast Network Limited in association with STAR India to honour personalities from the field of entertainment across movies, music, television, sports, theatr ...

* Jump Games (ParadoX Studios) *

Lava Bear Films Lava Bear Films is a production and film financing company producing three to five projects annually that are specifically designed for the global marketplace. The company was founded in 2011 by David Linde who was CEO until October, 2015 when Pa ...

* Riverstone Pictures * Reliance Games – Mobile Games Development Studio * Reliance Media Works Ltd ** Reliance

ND Studios ND Studios is a film and television production studio located in Karjat, Maharashtra a north suburb of Mumbai. Established in 2005, it is owned by Nitin Chandrakant Desai . Apart from films, it is also the location reality TV series, ''Bigg Bos ...

** Big Synergy – Non Fiction TV Production Division **

Reliance MediaWorks Reliance MediaWorks Limited (RMW) is a film and entertainment services company and a member of the Reliance Group. The company is one of India's film and entertainment services companies with a presence across several media businesses includin ...

(formerly

Lowry Digital Lowry Digital is a digital film restoration company based in Burbank, California. John D. Lowry (2 June 1932 – 21 January 2012) was a Canadian film restoration expert and innovator who founded Lowry Digital Images in 1988. Company History ...

) * Reliance Media Works Studio – Filmcity

Mumbai Mumbai ( ; ), also known as Bombay ( ; its official name until 1995), is the capital city of the Indian state of Maharashtra. Mumbai is the financial capital and the most populous city proper of India with an estimated population of 12 ...

Talenthouse Talenthouse was a social network site owned by Talenthouse AG, a public company based in Switzerland that also owns other services including EyeEm, Ello, Jovoto, Zoopa, and Creative Commission. History Talenthouse was co-founded in 2009 by C ...

* Window Seat Films * Digital Domain

Former

IM Global IM Global, LLC was an American independent film and TV production company. The company was founded by Stuart Ford in April 2007 and operating in international film, television and music production, as well as sales and international distribution ...

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

Open Road Films Open Road Films, LLC (formerly known briefly as Global Road Entertainment) is an American independent film production and distribution company based in Los Angeles, California. It was founded by Tom Ortenberg on March 26, 2011, as a joint ven ...

into

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in 2017 ** AutoMatik (joint venture with

Entertainment One Lionsgate Canada is a Canadian entertainment company and a subsidiary of Lionsgate Studios. Based in Toronto, the company is primarily involved in the acquisition and production of films and television series. The company began on June 1, 1973 ...

) ** IM Global Television – Television division *

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(29% owned until January 2021) *

Phantom Films Phantom Studios (formerly Phantom Films) is an Indian film production and distribution company established by Madhu Mantena, Anurag Kashyap, Vikas Bahl, and Vikramaditya Motwane. It was founded in 2011 by all four of them, and was cited as t ...

– sold to

Madhu Mantena Madhu Varma Mantena (born 8 May 1975) is an Indian film producer and entrepreneur involved in the production and distribution of films across Hindi, Telugu, and Bengali cinema. Career Mantena founded a music label as a teenager, which he the ...

and Sheetal Talwar in 2022; renamed to Phantom Studios

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

Steven Spielberg Steven Allan Spielberg ( ; born December 18, 1946) is an American filmmaker. A major figure of the New Hollywood era and pioneer of the modern blockbuster, Spielberg is widely regarded as one of the greatest film directors of all time and is ...

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

's film ''

War Horse The first evidence of horses in warfare dates from Eurasia between 4000 and 3000 BC. A Sumerian illustration of warfare from 2500 BC depicts some type of equine pulling wagons. By 1600 BC, improved harness and chariot design ...

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

Reuters Reuters ( ) is a news agency owned by Thomson Reuters. It employs around 2,500 journalists and 600 photojournalists in about 200 locations worldwide writing in 16 languages. Reuters is one of the largest news agencies in the world. The agency ...

, 15 November 2014

Films

Bengali

Hindi

Punjabi

Tamil

Telugu

Kannada

Malayalam

English

French

Spanish

References

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* {{Authority control Entertainment companies of India Film distributors of India Film production companies of India Film production companies based in Mumbai Mass media companies based in Mumbai Indian companies established in 2005 Entertainment companies established in 2005 Mass media companies established in 2005 Reliance Group subsidiaries Producers who won the Best Feature Film National Film Award Producers who won the Best Film on Other Social Issues National Film Award 2005 establishments in Maharashtra