India’s Reliance Entertainment Inks Exclusive Deal With ‘The Girl On The Train’ Remake Director Ribhu Dasgupta & Launches Joint Venture Film Hangar

Laetitia Eido, the French actress known to fans of Netflix's Israeli drama Fauda as Dr. Shirin El Abed, has signed on to co-star in Nhiem, a new high-end television series set during the Vietnam War from New Zealand director Roger Donaldson (The World's Fastest Indian) and German production group Carte Blanche International.

Patrick Frater Asia Bureau ChiefVeteran animation executive Steven Wendland has been appointed as president of Discreet Arts USA, the newly-launched offshoot of Indian animation firm Discreet Arts. The new unit is based in Burbank, California.He is expected to expand the company’s work-for-hire business while also developing a slate of original productions.

EXCLUSIVE: Mumbai-based Abundantia Entertainment, which has credits including the Amazon series Breathe and follow-up Breathe: Into The Shadows, has taken rights to the Indian young adult book Along Came A Spyder.

Naman Ramachandran Indian actors Ali Fazal (“Death on the Nile”) and Richa Chadha (“Gangs of Wasseypur”) have launched production outfit Pushing Buttons Studios.The company, set up with a view to tell stories rooted in the Indian ethos for a global audience, will kick off with “Girls Will Be Girls,” the only Indian selection of the 10 projects chisen for the Berlinale Talents Script Station program this year.Written and to be directed by Shuchi Talati, the film is set in an elite boarding

Naman Ramachandran Monika Shergill, VP, content, and Srishti Behl Arya, director, international original film, Netflix India, are buzzing.

Jamie Lang It’s been eight years since twin brother directing duo Ramon and Silvan Zürcher’s “The Strange Little Cat” caught the eye of audiences around the world, playing at major festivals in Turkey, India, Argentina, Portugal and beyond.

We recently caught up with Grace and Frankie alum Martin Sheen who got candid and opened up about his upcoming and much-anticipated film Judas and the Black Messiah. The film is slated to release in India on March 5 and has been critically acclaimed by the global audience.

Starz's Lionsgate Play streaming app has set its first original Indian series, a remake of Lionsgate Television's Casual comedy. The Indian version will be directed by Kunal Kohli, the Bollywood helmer of Hum Tum and Fanaa, and will star Lara Dutta and Prateik Babbar.

Mónica Marie Zorrilla Ray Halbritter, an Oneida Indian Nation Representative, CEO of Oneida Nation Enterprises, and a trustee of the Academy of Motion Picture Arts & Sciences Museum, has launched Standing Arrow Productions, a privately-funded, independent film and TV production company aimed at increasing the representation and championing the narratives of Native American and Indigenous peoples on screen.

Naman Ramachandran Top Indian actor Nawazuddin Siddiqui, star of series “Sacred Games” and several other Netflix originals, and a regular at Cannes, is currently wrapping feature film “Sangeen” in London.Written and directed by Jaideep Chopra (“2016 the End”), the film, which also stars Elnaaz Norouzi (“Sacred Games”), is a two-handed thriller largely set in one room.

Steve McQueen's BBC and Amazon anthology series Small Axe has been racking up awards — along with some confusion. The series that follows West Indian immigrants in London comprises five short films, varying in length from 64 minutes to 128 minutes.

Priyanka Chopra Jonas has gone through a lot to get to where she is today. The 38-year-old actress, whose memoir, , is out now, tells ET's Rachel Smith about the obstacles she faced, including bullying, racism and sexism, and how overcoming them led to her success. As a child in India, Priyanka writes in her book that she was jokingly called out by her uncle for her skin color, which was darker than that of her family members.

Jay Weissberg The sunbaked, drought-stricken terrain of southeast India is a major determinant of the action in P S Vinothraj’s beautifully crafted, precisely plotted debut, “Pebbles.” Taking a simple premise with all the focus and penetration of a perfectly constructed short story, the writer-director transforms the drama of a young boy dragged between villages by his abusive alcoholic father into a larger, unforced statement about toxic patriarchy, limited resources, and the silent, enduring