Producer Ashok Amritraj is turning his focus to world of Alzheimer’s research. The United Nations goodwill ambassador is set to chair a study on aging, a joint project of the United States National Institutes of Health and India’s Ministry of Health and Family Welfare. The project will be funded through the nonprofit BrightFocus Foundation.
EXCLUSIVE: Independent streaming company Cinedigm has named Ashok Amritraj to its Board of Directors, effective immediately.
Amritraj is Chairman and CEO of Hyde Park Inc. and brings an exceptionally diverse resume that has seen him wearing the whites of Wimbledon, excelling as an award-winning producer and serving as a United Nations India Goodwill Ambassador.
Paramount Pictures has acquired the rights to iconic writer Richard Wright’s highly acclaimed, newly released novel, “The Man Who Lived Underground,” for Kenya Barris’s Khalabo Ink Society and Indian American Hollywood producer Ashok Amritraj’s Hyde Park Entertainment Group.
Ramin Bahrani is set to adapt, direct and produce the film adaptation of the novel Amnesty for Netflix. The film is based on the novel by White Tiger author Aravind Adiga and will also be produced by Ashok Amritraj for Hyde Park Entertainment. Bahrani’s partner Bahareh Azimi will also produce through their Noruz Films banner.
Nearly 50 years after its debut, the Rubik's Cube is ready for its big-screen close-up with a new movie in the works.
Producer Ashok Amritraj's Hyde Park Entertainment is teaming up with Endeavor Content for a feature based on the popular toy, according to Deadline.
Both Hyde Park and Endeavor are also teaming up with Glassman Media to develop a game show centering on the popular puzzle.
Move over, Beth Harmon.
The next classic game to win over major audiences in the manner of Netflix’s “The Queen’s Gambit” is the colorful 1980s fave, the Rubik’s Cube.
Hyde Park Entertainment Group, helmed by prolific action flick producer Ashok Amritraj, 64, and Endeavor Content have teamed up to produce a feature film based on the three-by-three brain teaser, according to Variety. Priya Amritraj, Amritraj’s daughter and Addison Mehr are signed up to executive produce the movie, which does not yet have a public release date.
Ashok Amritraj’s Hyde Park Entertainment Group and Endeavor Content are teaming for a big feature take of famed global-selling toy, the Rubik’s Cube.
Hyde Park is also partnering with Glassman Media (The Wall), an Endeavor Content Company, to create a game show based on the global brand.
BlacKkKlansman Oscar winner Kevin Willmott is set to write the feature story of Wimbledon tennis champion and African American civil rights activist Arthur Ashe, a project on which Ashok Amritraj’s Hyde Park Entertainment Group and Warner Music Group (WMG) are teaming.
It’s a project that’s close to Amritraj’s heart, the Hyde Park producer being a former Wimbledon pro himself. Hyde Park obtained the full support of the Arthur Ashe Estate in developing the film. Warner Music Group will help secure the music and provide creative guidance to the filmmakers, which plan to tap into the extraordinary works of the era by such artists as Aretha Franklin, Prince, Curtis Mayfield and others.
He was a professional tennis player, who represented India – the country of his birth – at Wimbledon and the US Open, before becoming one of Hollywood’s biggest players, producing films with stars from Cate Blanchett to Angelina Jolie. Now Ashok Amritraj is recalling his earlier career by making a major feature film about Arthur Ashe, the American athlete who became the only black man to win Wimbledon.
