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

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) * Phantom Films (50% owned) * Big Home Entertainment – Home Video Division * Big Music – Record Label Division * BIG Star Entertainment Awards * Jump Games (ParadoX Studios) * Lava Bear Films * Riverstone Pictures * Reliance Big Pictures – Movie Production & Distribution Division *

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– Mobile Games Development Studio * Reliance Media Works Ltd ** Big ND Studios ** Big Synergy – 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

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

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into Global Road Entertainment in 2017 ** AutoMatik (joint venture with

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) ** IM Global Television – Television division * Codemasters (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 Codemasters. * 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 '' War Horse'', 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

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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, Phantom Films run by the likes of

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and

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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. Big Synergy, its other subsidiary, was responsible for shows like '' Bose: Dead/Alive'' with ALTBalaji and ''Yay kay hua Bro'' with

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* {{Authority control Entertainment companies of India Film distributors 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