Film Production
Balaji Telefilms FY 2001-02 net surges 666% to Rs 290 million
The market was expecting good results but this good? The Jeetendra Kapoor family’s Balaji Telefilms posted a net profit of Rs 290.15 million for FY 2001-02 as compared to Rs 43.55 million in FY 2000-01 in its financial results announced today. That is a massive 666.25 per cent net profit jump over last year.
Net profit for the quarter ended 31 March 2002 was Rs 89.3 million compared to a net loss of Rs 21 million for the corresponding period last fiscal.
Total income has increased from Rs 147.7 million in the March quarter 2001 to Rs 348.7 million for the corresponding quarter in 2002 while total income for the year has increased from Rs 496.7 million in FY 2000-01 to Rs 1131 million for FY 2001-02.
The board has recommended final dividend of 50 per cent (Rs 5 per share) for the year ended 31 March 2002 (which includes 25 per cent [Rs 2.50 per share] interim dividend declared and paid during the year) on the paid-up equity share capital of the company, subject to the approval of shareholders at the ensuing annual general meeting.
The figures for the three months ended 31 March 2002 are not comparable with the corresponding quarter of the previous year due to change in the accounting policy, wherein the entire cost of production of serials in respect of which the company retains intellectual property rights (IPRs), was written off in the last quarter of the previous year, a company release states. The company continues to write off the entire cost of production of serials in the current year.
Film Production
Disney to cut 1,000 jobs under new chief executive
The entertainment giant’s freshly installed boss inherits a restructuring already in motion, with marketing and corporate roles bearing the brunt
CALIFORNIA: Walt Disney is preparing to slash up to 1,000 jobs in the coming weeks, the Wall Street Journal reported, as the entertainment giant’s freshly installed chief executive moves swiftly to trim fat and tighten the ship.
The cuts, less than 1 per cent of Disney’s global workforce of 231,000, will fall hardest on marketing and corporate roles. The planning, notably, began before D’Amaro formally took the top job in March, suggesting the new boss inherited a restructuring already in motion rather than one of his own making.
Driving the push is Asad Ayaz, Disney’s newly appointed chief marketing officer, who in January assumed command of a unified, company-wide marketing operation spanning film, television and streaming. His consolidation drive has been given a suitably cinematic internal name: Project Imagine.
The move is modest by Disney’s recent standards. Between 2023 and 2025, under former chief executive Bob Iger, the company eliminated roughly 8,000 positions across several brutal rounds of cuts, saving $7.5 billion, comfortably exceeding its own targets. As recently as June 2025, several hundred more jobs were axed across Disney Entertainment, hitting film and television marketing, publicity, casting, development and corporate finance.
Disney’s structural headaches are well-documented: shrinking streaming margins, a weakened box office, and fierce competition from Amazon and YouTube gnawing at its flanks. The company is merging its Disney+ and Hulu teams into a single app, has brought in consultants from Bain & Co to guide its broader cost strategy, and is betting heavily on digital growth.
The wider entertainment industry offers little comfort. Sony Pictures, Paramount and Warner Bros. Discovery have all taken the knife to their workforces in recent years, and further cuts loom if Paramount’s acquisition of Warner goes through.
For D’Amaro, the message is clear: there will be no honeymoon period. The magic kingdom still has some cost-cutting spells left to cast.
