Netflix Strikes Multi-Year Series Partnership With India’s Excel Entertainment

Sony Pictures Films India has set out a calendar of 17 releases for the next 12 months, including local Hindi, regional and international fare.

Netflix finally snagged its first major scripted series Emmy after The Crown won the Outstanding Drama Series category.

William Earl Netflix is celebrating its first Emmys series wins with the trophies for “The Crown” for Outstanding Drama Series and “The Queen’s Gambit” for Outstanding Limited or Anthology Series at the 2021 ceremony on Sept. 19.Netflix was nominated for the most Emmys out of any network this year, with 29 nods.

EXCLUSIVE: Netflix is teaming up with filmmaker Vishal Bhardwaj on the spy thriller Khufiya.

Patrick Frater Asia Bureau ChiefNoted producer and director Vishal Bhardwaj is directing Indian star Tabu in spy thriller film “Khufiya” for multinational streaming firm Netflix.Inspired by true events and based on the espionage novel “Escape to Nowhere” by Amar Bhushan, the film’s story follows Krishna Mehra, an operative at Indian spy agency Research and Analysis Wing, better known as R&AW.

Comcast NBCUniversal has made its first-ever Global Talent Partnerships deal with two-time NBA MVP Stephen Curry’s Unanimous Media production company; a multi-year pact which will span first-look development deals with Universal Studio Group for scripted and unscripted TV projects and DreamWorks Animation.

As we discover far too often, history loves to repeat itself – in the NFL and otherwise.

There’s no doubt in the world that Margaret Qualley is one of the “next big thing” actors.

Strictly Come Dancing has been announced ahead of the show’s return this autumn. Clockwise from top left: Tilla Ramsay, AJ Odudu, Greg Wise and Sarah DaviesThe dance competition will return to BBC One on 18 September with a full-length series, having aired for a shorter run of episodes last year due to the pandemic.

Naman Ramachandran Netflix has signed a multi-year partnership with “Unorthodox” creator Anna Winger’s production company Airlift Productions to develop and produce international drama series.The first project under the partnership will be “Transatlantic” (working title), a drama series set during the 1940 refugee crisis in Marseilles, France, inspired by the true adventures of the Emergency Rescue Committee and Julie Orringer’s 2019 novel, “The Flight Portfolio.” The series is created by

Naman Ramachandran Indian studios T-Series and Reliance Entertainment have partnered for a slate of more than 10 films with a total investment of INR10 billion ($136.2 million). The films will be across across genres and will be a mix of big budget tentpoles as well as mid and small budget films.

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Naman Ramachandran Ritesh Sidhwani and Farhan Akhtar’s Excel Entertainment has signed a multi-year partnership with Netflix, which will kick off with two series.As revealed by Variety, “Queen of the Hill,” set in the 1960s, chronicles the dynamic relationship between two ambitious women that will change their city forever.“Dabba Cartel” is a story of five housewives who run a high stakes secret cartel.Excel also has “Eternally Confused And Eager For Love,” which is in the teen romance space, in

Netflix has inked a multi-year first look deal with actress and producer Vanessa Kirby (The Crown), and her production company, Aluna Entertainment.

Brian Steinberg Senior TV EditorElle Duncan faces a tricky task each time she shows up on ESPN in the early evening.The hosts of the network’s morning editions of “SportsCenter” come armed with highlights from the games that took placed the night before. But when Duncan appears to co-anchor the 6 p.m.

Naman Ramachandran “The Empire” is easily Disney Plus Hotstar’s biggest budgeted Indian series to date and was also a mammoth undertaking for showrunner Nikkhil Advani.The series is based on Alex Rutherford’s bestselling “Empire of the Moghuls” novels, a racy, fictionalized version of the history of the Moghul empire, which dominated South Asia from 1526 to 1720.

Cynthia Littleton Business EditorVeritas Entertainment Group has optioned the rights to the upcoming novel “Dava Shastri’s Last Day” with an eye toward a premium series adaptation as a “Succession”-style dynastic saga revolving around an ultra-wealthy Indian family.The book set for release Nov. 30 by Hachette’s Grand Central Publishing is the debut from Kirthana Ramisetti, a former entertainment journalist for New York Daily News and Newsday.

EXCLUSIVE: In a highly competitive situation, Paramount+ has won rights to and will be developing Yellow Bird, a one-hour drama series based on Sierra Crane Murdoch’s Pulitzer Prize finalist Yellow Bird: Oil, Murder and a Woman’s Search for Justice in Indian Country. The project hails from Reservation Dogs co-creator Sterlin Harjo and writer-director Erica Tremblay, Beau Willimon and Jordan Tappis’ Westward Productions and Michael London’s Groundswell Productions (Snowfall).

Naman Ramachandran Netflix India has revealed a first look and trailer for “Call My Agent: Bollywood,” the Indian adaptation of popular French series “Dix Pour Cent.”The series is produced by Applause Entertainment in association with Banijay Asia.