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| Infernal Affairs |
Mumbai
based AZURE Entertainment Pvt. Limited and Warner Bros. India today announced a
strategic collaboration to jointly invest in and produce an Indian remake of
“Infernal Affairs”. The 2002 Hong Kong Original is a cult film with global
recognition and was the film upon which the multi award-winning The Departed
(directed by Martin Scorsese in 2006) was based. This project is the first of a
two-picture deal between the two companies to jointly develop, produce and
distribute key titles from the coveted Warner Bros. library for the Indian
local film market.
Sunir
Kheterpal, CEO – AZURE Entertainment says, “It is a matter of pride for a young
company like ours to collaborate with Warner Bros. to jointly develop and
produce the local language adaptation of this amazing movie. We are thrilled to
be working with the Warner Bros. India team and cannot wait to get started.”
Denzil
Dias, Managing Director – Warner Bros. India said, “This is an exciting time
for us to be partnering in local language production with the team at AZURE,
who are passionate about film and storytelling, and ideally placed to adapt and
develop foreign language source material into Indian language remakes. We could
not have chosen a better title than Infernal Affairs to announce this
collaboration. We look forward to bringing great new Indian language films to
local and global audiences.”
AZURE
and Warner Bros. India are at an advanced stage of formalizing the director for
the proposed Hindi Remake of Infernal Affairs and shall soon make an official
announcement on the same. In near future, they will also announce the second Warner
Bros. title on which an Indian Remake shall be developed.
About
AZURE Entertainment
AZURE
Entertainment, owned and promoted by The Three Sisters: Institutional Office
(TTSIO), is a Mumbai based integrated Content Development and Production company.
The Company has a dual approach towards Content Development comprising
Acquisition of Foreign Language Remake Rights & Filming Rights to Books and
a more organic approach on Original Content Development whereby it focuses on
spectacular, big ideas. AZURE has an active and an evolving development slate
of 6-8 properties at any given time.
Apart
from the collaboration with Warner Brothers, AZURE’s current development slate
includes a tie-up with Rodar y Rodar for THE BODY (Spanish), Atresmedia for THE
INVISIBLE GUEST (Spanish), a Three Film Remake Deal with Gaumont (French), Quad
for HEARTBREAKER (French), Filming Rights to Sophie Kinsella’s global
bestseller, CAN YOU KEEP A SECRET? (UK) and Sushant Singh’s MISSION OVERSEAS
(India).
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