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  • Uday Shankar becomes president of 21st Century Fox, Asia

    Uday Shankar becomes president of 21st Century Fox, Asia

    Mumbai: Star India chairman and CEO Uday Shankar has been elevated to the position of president, 21st Century Fox (21CF), Asia, effective immediately.

    According to 21CF, in his new role, Shankar will lead the company’s video businesses across all of Asia, including Star India and Fox Networks Group, and work closely with 21CF leadership on key strategic initiatives in the region. He will continue to serve as chairman and CEO of Star India, a key driver of 21CF’s growth and one of India’s largest media and entertainment companies. Fox Networks Group Asia president Zubin Gandevia, who used to earlier report into 21st Century Fox president Peter Rice, will continue to oversee video brands across 14 markets and now report to Uday  under this realigned regional structure. 21CF’s film business in Asia will continue to report directly to 20th Century Fox Film chairman & CEO Stacey Snider.

    “Uday’s new role will enhance our strategic focus across all of Asia and enable us to further capture opportunities, building on the transformation Star India has driven in our most important growth market,” said Fox executive chairman Lachlan Murdoch and CEO James Murdoch in a joint statement.

    “Under Uday’s leadership, our India business has firmly established itself as a world-class asset with durable businesses across entertainment, sports, satellite distribution and OTT. His strategic vision has put 21CF at the forefront of content and distribution in one of the world’s fastest growing economies, and we are very fortunate to benefit from Uday’s expanded leadership at a global level,” they said.

  • DreamWorks in talks to acquire feature film rights to Stedman’s debut novel

    DreamWorks in talks to acquire feature film rights to Stedman’s debut novel

    MUMBAI: DreamWorks Studios co-chairman and CEO Stacey Snider has revealed that it is in exclusive talks to acquire the feature film rights to M.L. Stedman‘s debut novel "The Light Between Oceans".
    Heyday Films‘ David Heyman (Harry Potter series, Gravity) will produce the film adaptation along with Jeffrey Clifford. Rosie Alison, who brought the book into Heyday, will be the executive producer.
    The film is based on a remote Australian island in the years following World War I, where a lighthouse keeper and his wife are faced with a moral dilemma when a boat washes ashore with a dead man and a two-month-old infant. When they decide to raise the child as their own, the consequences of their choice are devastating.
    "M.L. Stedman has crafted a visually stunning and emotionally harrowing love story with a confounding moral dilemma at its center," said Stacey Snider in the media. "We were completely transfixed by the story and instantly imagined it as a sweeping, classic film. David Heyman is an ideal partner to bring Stedman‘s story to the screen," he added.
    "I was deeply affected by M. L. Stedman‘s powerful and primal story of human choices and their consequences," said Heyman. "It‘s a novel which tackles grand emotions, but everything is rooted within an intimate yet universal story of marital and parental love. I am excited to be working with such sympathetic partners in Stacey and the team at DreamWorks."
    ‘I‘m both thrilled and incredibly honored that filmmakers of the caliber of DreamWorks and David Heyman are combining their brilliance in plans to bring the book to the big screen," said Stedman.
    ‘The Light Between Oceans‘ was published in the United States in July 2012 by Scribner and has appeared on both the New York Times and USA Today‘s bestseller lists, and others internationally, as well as being selected as Amazon‘s Best Book of the Month for August. It is due to be translated into nearly 30 languages.
    Negotiations are being handled by Nick Marston of Curtis Brown in association with Sue Armstrong of Conville and Walsh.