Compact Disc - Updates
Compact Disc India Ltd (CDI) has informed BSE that the Company has joined hands with ‘WhiteLight Entertainment’, the maker of Jurassic Park and Schindler’s List fame to produce a movie titled ‘Playing with the Enemy’.
Based on the World War II Drama, the movie is a co-production with WhiteLight Entertainment which has to its credit blockbusters like Jurassic Park, Schindler’s List, Minority Report, The Lost World, Twister, Casper, Rain Man, The Flintstones, etc. The movie revolves around a baseball player who finds redemption in teaching German Prisoners of War how to play Baseball.
CDI is proud to be associated with WhiteLight Entertainment, the world’s largest and most profitable production house. It has to its credit 33 Academy Award nominations, 19 Academy Awards including two for the Best Picture and a total Box office collection of $ 4 billion for the fourteen movies they have produced so far. This association reflects confidence in CDI’s ability to co-produce the biggest film any Indian producer has ever made so far, a project worth US $ 30 million.
The gross estimated worldwide revenues from ‘Playing with the Enemy’ are $ 318.20 million and the net estimated income / profits are $ 121 million. The movie will start production in May 2008, is slated to release in the first quarter of year 2009.
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