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Reliance MediaWorks partners with US firm to create digital production pipeline
MUMBAI: Reliance MediaWorks has partnered with visual effects house Digital Domain to create a digital production pipeline that will enable the Anil Ambani-controlled company to pick up work on big-ticket Hollywood projects.
Reliance will own the studios in Mumbai and London while Digital Domain, which recently handled visual effects work for “Transformers: Dark of the Moon‘, will manage the facilities. The studios will offer post-production services for movies, TV shows and commercials.
“We could currently work on projects worth $10-15 million. With this pact in place, we can take up much larger projects of even $100 million. With Digital Domain‘s partnership, we can work on entire films and not be restricted with a few shots.,” Reliance MediaWorks chief executive officer Anil Arjun told Indiantelevision.com.
As per the deal, RMWL‘s studios in Mumbai and London will connect to Digital Domain Productions‘ Los Angeles facility through the fibre optic network of the company. This will help in round-the-clock work as the Los Angeles, Mumbai and London studios will have advantage of time zone differences.
Reliance MediaWorks will set up a new studio at its Media BPO in Navi Mumbai and deploy an additional team of up to 650 artists available for projects allied with Digital Domain Productions.
The studios will cater to motion pictures, television, commercial, and stereo 3D conversion for catalogue projects from August 2011 in phases.
In London, Digital Domain will co-locate a visual effects team within RMWL‘s UK facility.
Said Arjun, “We are excited about visual effects and 3D entertainment opportunity. RMWL has the scale, technological expertise and highly trained artists which can be combined with Digital Domain‘s pedigree, proprietary tools and ability to create visual effects that challenge imagination, to offer comprehensive and seamless VFX and stereo 3D conversion solutions to global clients.”
RMWL will start working on the partnership projects from August and will at least take on 4-5 big-ticket projects with Digital Domain in the first year itself.
Digital Domain Productions CEO Cliff Plumer said, “Filmmaking has become a global enterprise and a partnership with Reliance MediaWorks will allow our clients to realise the benefits of a digital production pipeline that makes efficient use of resources and talent located around the world. By expanding Digital Domain‘s presence worldwide, we are able to further strengthen our business capabilities in California and abroad.”
Digital Domain Productions has recently filed for a $115 million IPO with US regulators.
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Jio Studios unveils AI-powered Krishna teaser at NAB Show 2026
Global first look of Krishna uses Galleri5 AI pipeline on Azure, Historyverse slate as Jio’s Dhurandhar crosses Rs 3,000cr worldwide.
MUMBAI: Krishna has just dropped a divine teaser and this time the gods are powered by silicon, not just scripture. Jio Studios and Collective Studios’ Historyverse stole the spotlight at the NAB Show 2026 in Las Vegas with the world’s first teaser for their upcoming theatrical feature Krishna, directed by Manu Anand. The big reveal happened during Microsoft’s keynote “Powering Intelligent Media, From AI Experimentation to Real-World Impact,” where the film’s AI-native production pipeline took centre stage alongside Collective Artists Network’s in-house platform, Galleri5.
At the heart of this mythological spectacle lies a fresh cinematic workflow built by Galleri5 on Microsoft Azure’s advanced AI and cloud infrastructure. Forget bolting AI onto traditional VFX or animation, this is an end-to-end, production-grade system woven into every layer: world-building, character creation, shot design and final output. Yet the storytelling remains firmly director-led, emphasising emotional depth, stillness, music and performance rather than pure spectacle. The result? Large-format theatrical cinema rooted in Indian history and culture, but conceived in ways that were simply not possible before.
Collective Artists Network runs Galleri5 natively on Azure, leveraging Microsoft Foundry and cutting-edge AI tools to handle film, episodic and advertising workflows in a secure enterprise environment. Microsoft highlighted Collective as a “Frontier” organisation successfully moving AI from pilot projects to real production-scale deployment in cinema. The technology is also on display at Microsoft’s NAB booth in the West Hall (Booth W1731).
Jio Studios (Media & Content Business, Reliance Industries), president Jyoti Deshpande said the project advances the studio’s mission to take Indian stories global with scale, ambition and authenticity, “With Krishna, we are embracing cutting-edge AI-led filmmaking while democratising these tools to make them more accessible, intuitive and cost-effective for storytellers everywhere.”
Collective Artists Network founder & group CEO Vijay Subramaniam added, “We’re using technology developed in India to carry our culture and history to audiences worldwide at a scale never seen before.”
Microsoft, vice president for telco media & entertainment, gaming Silvia Candiani noted that the media industry has reached an inflection point, “AI is no longer about experimentation but delivering real impact at production scale… By building AI-native creative systems on Microsoft Azure, Collective exemplifies how storytellers can unlock new formats, move faster and realise a true return on intelligence while keeping human creativity at the centre.”
Krishna forms part of Historyverse, Collective Studios’ ambitious slate of history and culture-driven IPs. The slate draws from iconic figures and traditions that shaped the Indian subcontinent, including stories inspired by Kali, Karna and Durga. It builds on the already-released Mahabharat: Ek Dharmayudh series, showing how ancient narratives can be reimagined for modern screens.
Jio Studios, India’s leading content studio and the media and content arm of Reliance Industries, continues its blockbuster run. The studio’s Dhurandhar franchise led by Dhurandhar and Dhurandhar: The Revenge has become the first Indian film series to cross Rs 3,000 crore worldwide. It also delivered three consecutive years of India’s highest-grossing Hindi films: Stree 2 (2024), Dhurandhar (2025) and Dhurandhar: The Revenge (2026). In just eight years, Jio Studios has assembled a library of over 160 films and series, with more than 60 titles winning over 500 awards. Other notable successes include Laapataa Ladies (India’s official Oscar entry 2025), Stree, Article 370, Shaitaan and Mrs.
The NAB unveiling marks another step in Jio Studios and Collective’s push to blend Indian storytelling talent with frontier technology proving that the future of cinema may well be both ancient in spirit and thoroughly modern in execution. For audiences who love epic tales with a fresh twist, Krishna promises to deliver divine drama, this time with a little help from the cloud.
