Word: anill
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: all
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...supposedly situated abroad. Trade analyst Nahta says there is also a concerted but underhand attempt by producers to break the existing workers' union. "They say the federation bullies them and dictates terms. So they're trying to break this monopoly and create an alternative union," he says. But Anil Nagrath, secretary of the Indian Motion Pictures Producers Association, argues that the demand that producers employ only union members stifles the industry's creativity. "They [the workers' union] want to restrict all creative freedom. How will I make a film if I can't decide which junior artist to employ? They...
...bolster regulation of the industry. That could reduce Ho's leverage, but analysts say Amax's financing power still gives him an advantage. "Once you've got the kind of critical mass Ho's got, it will be difficult to dislodge him as a true contender in Macau," says Anil Daswani, Citi's head of gaming research in Hong Kong. Ho "has invented a product that will be difficult to replicate...
...critics, who said faster action could have headed off a major refugee crisis. But his reputation as a soldier's general survived. He personified the old-fashioned, scotch-in-the-officers'-club army culture that India inherited from the British. Manekshaw will be remembered, according to retired Lieut. Colonel Anil Bhat, as "a person who made India stand tall...
...banned in India by angry politicians who said it perpetuated negative stereotypes.) Now Spielberg may be going back to the subcontinent - not for a new movie but for cash, thanks to a reported tie-up with Reliance Big Entertainment, part of the sprawling conglomerate run by Bombay-based billionaire Anil Ambani. The deal, first reported by the Wall Street Journal last week, would see Reliance providing between $500 million and $600 million to Spielberg's Dreamworks SKG, financing that would allow Dreamworks to split from Viacom Inc's Paramount Pictures...
...would need to get out of its troubled marriage with Paramount, ensure its independence and still make six or so movies a year. Meanwhile, Reliance, which runs huge telecommunications and financial services businesses in India (and shouldn't be confused with Reliance Industries Ltd., another massive conglomerate owned by Anil Ambani's even richer brother Mukesh), gets an entry into Hollywood and some of the biggest names in the business. "If they [Reliance] identify a particular segment as high-growth they go all-out for it," says Smita Jha, an analyst at PricewaterhouseCoopers (PWC). "This has as much...