Network 18 Declares Quarterly Results
29/07/2010 7:00am
UK Regulatory
TIDMIFC
RNS Number : 1153Q
Indian Film Company Limited (The)
29 July 2010
The Indian Film Company Limited
("IFC" or the "Company")
Network 18 Declares Quarterly Results for Quarter Ended 30 June 2010
The Indian Film Company Limited (AIM:IFC), a leading Bollywood film investment
company, announces that Network 18 Media and Investments Limited ("Network 18"),
the parent company of IFC, will be releasing its quarterly results to the BSE
and NSE in India tomorrow. These will be available on Network 18's website,
www.network18online.com.
The financial information presented in Network 18's quarterly results includes
information based upon IFC's management accounts which have been prepared on the
basis of Indian GAAP. The revenue figure being reported for IFC for the period
from 1 April 2010 to 30 June 2010 in Network 18's quarterly results is INR 8.75
Crores (GBP1.2 million).
Based upon IFC's management accounts prepared on the basis of IFRS, the revenue
figure for the quarter ended 30 June 2010 is GBP1.2 million.
The Network 18 quarterly results also include the following operational
highlights in respect of IFC:
· "It's a Wonderful Afterlife" a film by Gurinder Chadha of "Bend it like
Beckham" fame was released in the UK and India.
· The Company also released the Hindi dubbed version of "It's a Wonderlful
Afterlife" in India titled "Hai Marjaawan".
· The Company released three of its films on Home Video in India - "It's a
Wonderful Afterlife/ Hai Marjaawan", "Striker" and "Road Movie".
· The screenplay of the film "Road movie" has been selected for the
permanent Core Collection of the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences.
The screenplay was amongst 15 best screenplays selected from around the world at
the Cannes Film Festival (Atelier du Cannes) and was acclaimed for its whimsical
tone and its genre bending style.
For further information, please contact:
The Indian Film Company Limited
Manish Thukral
Tel: +91 226 629 1703
Grant Thornton Corporate Finance (Nominated Adviser)
Fiona Kindness/Salmaan Khawaja
Tel: +44 207 383 5100
Elara Capital Plc (Broker and Rule 3 Adviser)
Pooja Agrawal
Tel: +44 207 486 9733
Notes to Editors
The Indian Film Company (the "Company") is a specialist film investment company
which was admitted to trading on the AIM market in June 2007 and raised GBP 55
million in order to invest in a diverse portfolio of Indian films targeted at
the Indian audiences across varying genre, language and budgets.
The Company is part of the Network 18 Group, with the Network 18 Parties'
holding 80.38% of the Company's issued share capital and is managed by Film
Investment Managers (Mauritius) Ltd., which is jointly and equally owned by
Viacom Inc. and BK Media Mauritius PVT. BK Media Mauritius PVT is owned by
Raghav Bahl, the founder and controlling shareholder of Network 18.
The Company uses the services of STUDIO 18, India's largest vertically
integrated motion picture company, to distribute, exploit and market its bouquet
of in-house productions, co-productions and acquisitions. Studio 18 is part of
Viacom 18, a 50/50 joint venture set-up between Viacom and Network 18.
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