International investors are preparing to make an unprecedented onslaught on Bollywood this year, with several Hollywood studios and a group of London-listed funds looking to take a share of the world’s most prolific movie-making market.
Studio groups such as Sony Pictures Entertainment, Viacom – which controls Paramount Pictures – and Disney are working on new releases [...]

 
These are dynamic times for Hollywood’s overseas business. The studios’ international infrastructure is evolving to accommodate a trend that has been around for years and is poised to explode.
By the end of 2007, local-language releases such as The Orphanage (El Orfanato) in Spain, Saawariya in India and Dororo in Japan will each figure among the [...]

 
The cinema at the Grand Abu Dhabi Mall, in the capital of the United Arab Emirates, offers a choice of eight films. Six of them are Hollywood blockbusters such as Ridley Scott’s American Gangster. The city’s large Indian expatriate community may be tempted to see a Bollywood musical called Aaja Nachle. The only Arab-language film [...]

Ducking beneath a shower of bullets, three unshaven men in filthy overcoats jump out of a concealed forest dugout, dragging a heavy machine-gun and shouting commands to fellow rebels.A brutal battle ensues between Nazi soldiers and resistance fighters under the leaden sky, and in the din - replete with explosions - the cattle in a [...]

 
China has suspended imports of American films, US Commerce Secretary Carlos Gutierrez said here today, as he urged the mainland to lift a tight quota on foreign movies.
China allows just 20 foreign films to be shown in the country’s cinemas each year but it was not immediately known whether the halt on screenings was due [...]

 
Ronnie Screwvala is the front runner in the race to become Bollywood’s Jack Warner—the man who transformed parochial American cinema into its modern global form. Yet Screwvala is rarely picked out of a crowd in India, let alone in the United States. Still, Hollywood insiders know him well for producing the “The Namesake,” the groundbreaking [...]

 
Hollywood’s first big foray into Bollywood has received a bruising reception in India with websites that track box-office sales branding it a flop.
Sony Pictures’ co-production of locally made feature film Saawariya premiered in direct competition with locally produced Om Shanti Om, which stars the actor dubbed the “King” of Bollywood, Shah Rukh Khan, and [...]