India is coming to Hollywood, and planning to stay.

The India-based Reliance MediaWorks -- a division of the media giant Reliance Group that has funded DreamWorks -- is moving its headquarters to Los Angeles and looking to expand within the industry in production services.  

“The objective is not to be small, but to be a big, industrial-sized player,” said Reliance MediaWorks CEO Anil Arjun, in an interview with TheWrap. ‘We don’t want to position ourselves as a company driven out of India. We want to be based out of L.A. We’re a large, global entity.”

Having surged to $200...

Gregory O’Hara, the head of JPMorgan Chase’s special investment group and once a rising star at the bank, is leaving, TheWrap has learned.

"He's going to do something different," said Joe Evangelisti, a spokesman for the bank.

O'Hara (pictured far left) had risen to be chief investment officer of the special investments group, but angered JPMorgan Vice Chairman James Lee (pictured far right) when he associated with Michael Ovitz to take over IMG, three individuals with knowledge of the situation told TheWrap. The deal was attemped as IMG CEO Teddy Forstmann lay dying of cancer. 

“Jimmy Lee took him out. IMG was the final straw,” said one of...

In the space of a couple of days, Hollywood and its content creators lost the public relations war over Internet piracy SOPA legislation -- which now appears poised to crumble into a million bits of dust.

Wow.

The messaging industry never had control of the message.

The tech guys found a simple, shareable idea -- the Stop Online Piracy Act is Censorship -- made it viral, and made it stick.

Hollywood had Chris Dodd and a press release. Silicon Valley had Facebook.

It shouldacoulda been a fair fight. But it wasn’t.

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It seems...

Rarely is the power of filmmaking so starkly evident as with the release last August of three innocent men convicted of the murders of three eight-year-old boys in 1993.

“Paradise Lost 3: Purgatory” is the third – count ‘em – in a series of documentaries starting in 1996 by Joe Berlinger and Bruce Sinofsky, backed by Sheila Nevins at HBO, to chronicle the injustices perpetrated by the Arkansas judicial system against the men who became known as the West Memphis Three.

The filmmakers refused to give up. HBO declined to move on. The public pressure and national scrutiny meant that this travesty -- a betrayal of the young murder victims and a horror story for the wrongly convicted -- would not be ignored.

Damian Echols, Jason Baldwin and Jesse Misskelley were freed in August after 18 years in prison under an obscure statute that...