UFO Moviez

UFO Moviez
Public
Industry Technology Service, ITeS
Founded 2004
Founder Mr. Sanjay Shankar Gaikwad (Managing Director (Executive Non-Independent Director))
Mr. Narendra Hete
Headquarters Mumbai, Maharshtra
Area served
 Worldwide
Key people

Mr. Kapil Kumar Agarwal
(Joint Managing Director (Executive Non-Independent Director))

Mr. Ashish Malushte (CFO)

Mr. Deepak Ranjan (Chief – Advertisement Sales)

Mr. Rajesh Mishra (CEO - Indian Operations)

Mr. Sanjay Chavan (Chief Technical Officer)

Mr. Siddharth Bhardwaj (Chief Marketing Officer - Head of Enterprise Sales)

Mr. Sushil Agrawal (Chief – Corporate Affairs)

Mr. Vishnu Patel (CEO - Special Projects)

Mr. Pankaj Jaysinh (COO)

Ms.Mitalee Patel (Chief Content Officer)

Mr. Sameer Chavan (Company Secretary & Compliance Officer)
Website www.ufomoviez.com

UFO Moviez India Limited is India’s largest digital cinema distribution network and in-cinema advertising platform (in terms of numbers of screens). UFO operates India’s largest satellite-based, digital cinema distribution network using its UFO-M4 platform, as well as India’s largest D-Cinema network. UFO-M4 is a satellite-based, E-Cinema movie delivery platform. “E-Cinema” is a commonly used term to describe various technologies used to digitally deliver movie content other than through D-Cinema.[1] Since its inception, UFO Moviez has so far enabled release of over 10,000 films in 22 languages on its UFO M4-Platform & DCI Network and has conducted over 21 million shows till 18th December 2015. As on December 31, 2015, UFO Moviez' global network, along with our subsidiaries and associates, spans 6,636 screens worldwide, including 4,984 screens across India & Nepal and 1,652 screens across the Middle East (UAE, Bahrain, Qatar, Oman, Kuwait, Lebanon and Jordan), Israel, Mexico and the USA services by its subsidiary Scrabble Entertainment Ltd. [2] Scrabble’s international deployment includes UAE, Bahrain, Qatar, Oman, Kuwait, Lebanon, Jordan and Israel. Post successful deployment in India and the above mentioned countries, Scrabble has rolled out DCI solutions in the United States of America and Mexico through associates.[3]

History

UFO Moviez received a certificate of incorporation dated June 14, 2004. 3i Digital Media (Mauritius) Limited and P5 Asia Holding Investments (Mauritius) Limited have made investments in UFO[4] In 2011, UFO made investments in SDS and DCI solution provider Scrabble Entertainment Limited.[5]

Core Business

Theatrical Business

UFO-M4 is UFO's satellite-based, E-Cinema movie delivery platform. UFO-M4 platform provides an end-to-end platform for the satellite delivery of movies (excluding movies from the major Hollywood studios that created the D-Cinema standard format), to exhibitors across India, which then exhibit the movies using UFO's digital cinema equipment.[6]

Advertising Business

UFO Moviez has created a pan India, high impact in-cinema advertising platform with generally long-term advertising rights to 3,726 screens, with an aggregate seating capacity of approximately 1.78 million viewers and a reach of 1,898 locations across India, as on December 31, 2015. Their in-cinema advertising platform enables advertisers to reach a targeted, captive audience with high flexibility and control over the advertising process. The in-cinema advertising platform also allows small exhibitors who otherwise are not able to effectively monetise their advertising inventory due to their limited scale and reach to receive a greater share of advertisement revenue than they are able to using traditional advertising methods.

== Other Synergetic Business Initiatives ==

Caravan Talkies

Caravan Talkies is a synergetic business initiative that leverages on UFO’s strengths to access movie content, impressive advertiser client base and digital distribution capabilities. It is an open movie viewing experience for India’s rural population situated in media dark areas. A sundown show is played at villages typically at a weekly marketplace. Each caravan visits seven villages a week in a close circuit. Caravan Talkies remains operational for eight to nine months a year except during monsoons. They are currently expanding their fleet of caravans to cover approximately around 300 beset routes across India (excluding South India). This business offers advertisers a unique opportunity to market and reach out to their audience on a captive platform.

Club Cinema

Club Cinema provides movie screenings of recently released films in clubs and community centers at private screens, such as remote industrial townships, corporate auditoriums, educational institutions and other leisure and entertainment complexes.

IMPACT

Under an exclusive arrangement with Impact Media Exchange Limited, UFO Moviez is marketing an electronic ticketing platform known as the Integrated Media Pact, or “IMPACT”, to improve transparency, efficiency and accountability in movie screening industry. The transactions on IMPACT are captured on a real time basis as it is connected via satellite to a centralized Network Operation Centre. IMPACT mediates the transactions between exhibitors on one hand and distributors on the other, ensuring that ticketing transactions and movie screenings are transparent. IMPACT has been designed to ultimately act as a settlement exchange for various stakeholders of the movie screening industry.

Awards and Recognition

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References

  1. ↑ . www.sebi.gov.in Retrieved on 2014-12-22.
  2. ↑ . Retrieved on 2014-12-22.
  3. ↑ . Retrieved on 2014-12-22.
  4. ↑ - http://www.sebi.gov.in. Retrieved on 2014-12-22.
  5. ↑ www.sebi.gov.in. Retrieved on 2014-12-22.
  6. ↑ . Retrieved on 2014-12-22.
  7. ↑ . Retrieved on 2014-12-22.

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