AZURE Entertainment and Warner Bros. Announce Collaboration for Indian Remake of "Infernal Affairs"
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 the 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 evolving development slate of 6-8 properties at any given time.
Apart from the collaboration with Warner Bros., 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).
For Queries:
Sunir Kheterpal, Chief Executive Officer, AZURE Entertainment Pvt. Limited Sunir@iamazure.com
Deborah Lincoln, Warner Bros. Entertainment Deborah.lincoln@warnerbros.com