International Insider: India’s New Power Player; ‘Gladiator II’ Goes Global; McQueen’s Powerful Message
deadline.comFriends, Romans, Insider fans! Lend my your ears. Jesse Whittock here, back with the latest international film and TV news in the week Gladiator II released and Disney’s Indian plans came to fruition. Disney & Reliance tie the knot: India has been gearing up for a new big kid on the block for over a year now, when news Disney might be selling its operation in the country to industrial giant Reliance first emerged.
We’ve watched on as Sony and ZEE Entertainment Enterprises made a hash of their planned union, and wondered if the same might befall the House of Mouse and Mukesh Ambali’s giant business.
However, the complex agreement involving the likes of former Disney India boss Uday Shankar, James Murdoch and more has (relatively) smoothly moved through the stages of a deal.
Yesterday, just as Disney was announcing fourth quarter financials, the company released the news that the deal was done. A new player had formed, albeit with all the boardroom shenanigans, no-one had found the time to name the thing.
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