BIG Cinemas

BIG Cinemas
Type Public
Industry Entertainment (Cinema Chain)
Founded 2001
Headquarters Mumbai, Maharashtra
Key people Ashok Ganapaty,CEO, Reliance MediaWorks
Tushar Dhingra,COO,BIG Cinemas
Ashish Saksena, COO, BIG Cinemas,
Parent Reliance MediaWorks Ltd
Website Official Site

BIG Cinemas, a division of Reliance MediaWorks Ltd (formerly known as Adlabs Films Limited) and a member of Reliance ADA Group is India’s largest cinema chain with over 515 screens in India, US, Malaysia and the Netherlands. The company accounts for 10 to 15% of box office contributions of large movies.

BIG Cinemas also operates in the United States, and the circuit accounts for about 30-35% of Hindi features box office collections and over 70% of Tamil and Telugu box office collections from the US. In Malaysia, the company now has 66 screens that play Hollywood features as well as Chinese and Tamil films to cater to the 1.5 million Tamil population. The company is also working towards establishing a presence in Netherlands and has associated with Pathe Theatres to begin screening Indian movies.

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Awards

BIG Cinemas was awarded the “Retailer of the Year” honor at the Reid & Taylor Awards for Retail Excellence for 2 consecutive years and has also been awarded ‘International Exhibitor of the Year 2008’ by CineAsia 2008 at Macau.

Screens

Name Location Established No. of screens Seating City
INDIA
Anjali BIG Cinemas 2009 3 1071 Aurangabad
Bharath BIG Cinemas Bharath Mall 2006 4 1113 Mangalore
BIG Cinemas Goldspot BIG Cinemas 2008 4 1200 Hyderabad
Triveni BIG Cinemas Triveni Complex 2009 3 1000 Anantapur
BIG Cinemas Payal Jhankar Sangeet and Darpan 2008 4 500+221+546+500=1767 Allahabad
BIG Cinemas Rave 3 [1] 2002 3 Kanpur
BIG Cinemas Rave@Moti 2007 3 1085 [2] Kanpur
Metro BIG Cinemas Metro BIG Cinemas 1938 6 Mumbai
KG BIG Cinemas Bangalow road, Race Course 2008 5 2253 [3] Coimbatore
BIG Cinemas Paras Downtown Square 2008 4 Zirakpur
BIG Cinemas RDB 4 Kolkata
BIG Cinemas Himalaya Mall 4 Ahmedabad
BIG Cinemas Rani Paradaise Tanjore 1
BIG Cinemas Priya Tenali 2007 2 Tenali
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UNITED STATES
BIG Cinemas Capitol 8 Parkway Plaza Mall 2002 8 1500 Madisonville, KY
BIG Cinemas Oak Tree Rd 2008 Edison, NJ
Big Cinemas Towne 3 The Alameda 2009 3 462 San Jose, CA

Big cinemas Wadala, Imax, 5

References

  1. ^ http://74.125.153.132/search?q=cache:xhovkTHMnK0J:www.adlabsfilms.com/news_23.html+http://www.adlabsfilms.com/news_23.html&cd=1&hl=en&ct=clnk&gl=in
  2. ^ ":: Adlabs cinemas launches second property in pune ::". Bigcinemas.com. 2007-07-12. http://www.bigcinemas.com/IN/kanpurpress.html. Retrieved 2010-12-31. 
  3. ^ ":: Adlabs Cinemas comes to Coimbatore ::". Bigcinemas.com. 2005-04-24. http://bigcinemas.com/IN/pressrelease_Coimbatore.html. Retrieved 2010-12-31. 

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