温沙公爵有新金主：Anil Ambani，这位人兄资产约136亿美元， 而他的哥哥正是印度首富Mukesh Ambani（这两天新闻：一家6口却有500人服务、住在 价值10亿美元的超级大楼）。 看来就算票房不好 也能钓到超级大凯子？(而且年龄比女王小1岁) Madonna Has A New Billionaire Backer Feb. 25 2011 - 7:08 pm | 4,574 views | 1 recommendation | 0 comments By CLARE O'CONNOR Indian billionaire Anil Ambani doesn’t mess around when deciding where to invest his fortune in Hollywood. When the Mumbai-based mogul decided to get into the movie game, he went straight to the top, committing $825 million to fellow billionaire Steven Spielberg‘s Dreamworks production house in 2009. Now, his firm’s movie arm Reliance Big Entertainment is betting on another high-profile director, of sorts: Madonna. The Financial Times reports that IM Global, a Reliance-controlled film distributor, has the rights to the Material Girl’s ‘W.E’, based on the scandalous relationship between England’s King Edward VIII and American socialite Wallis Simpson. The FT quotes IM Global’s CEO describing his firm’ s relationship with Ambani’s Reliance, and it sounds like a pretty great deal for the agency: “We’ve been acting as a conduit for Reliance , using its money and its balance sheet,” says Stuart Ford, chief executive, a former entertainment lawyer who left London 12 years ago to work for Harvey Weinstein’s Miramax. This isn’t Madonna‘s first directorial outing; she helmed a film called ‘ Filth and Wisdom’ in 2008. It would be charitable to say it wasn’t exactly met with rave reviews. However, as the FT notes, the Edwardian era is all the rage right now: ‘The King’s Speech’, the story of Edward VIII’s brother George VI, is predicted to clean up in Sunday’s Academy Awards. Still, if Madonna’s movie is more ‘The Next Best Thing‘ than ‘The King’s Speech’, Ambani won’t lose much sleep: he’s hedged his bets and secured development deals with more consistently bankable stars like Tom Hanks, Brad Pitt and George Clooney, according to the FT. --

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