PVR Pictures grabs 'Fox Catcher'

Red carpets, cameras, glitz  and  glamour and its rich diversity contributes to the Cannes Film Festival being more than just a festival but a forum that appreciates and encourages the art of filmmaking worldwide. With Bollywood’s leading ladies and veterans attending the annual film carnival, the Festival de Cannes is making headlines in India.

PVR Pictures, the distribution arm of the largest cinema exhibition company in India, is proud to announce that this year at the Festival de Cannes it has bagged the acclaimed movie Fox Catcher, which is a film based on the real-life murder of Olympic wrestler Dave Schultz. Director Bennett Miller, whose previous film Moneyball 

On this occasion, Sanjeev Kumar, Joint Managing Director, PVR Limited, said, “PVR believes in not only providing a world class standard of cinema watching experience to the audiences but it equally emphasises on quality content that is acknowledged globally for its viewers. Indian patrons are opening up to recognise global cinema with quality subject matter. This is a very good time for the industry and the Indian audience has a lot to look forward to in the coming months.”

PVR Pictures has even in the past given its audience the most stupendous line up of films, offering globally acclaimed movies and this year brought to the country films like ‘American Hustle’, ’The Wolf of the Wall Street’, ‘12 years a Slave’, ‘Her’, Nebraska, Lone Survivor, ‘Dallas Buyers Club’ to name a few; which were major nominations at the Oscars, being testament to, bringing to the new class of cine goers, content driven films.

With its path breaking effort, PVR Pictures has been instrumental in recognizing the gap with respect to the demand and supply of discerning cinema and has successfully been able to contribute in developing the cinema viewing patterns by attracting a growing number of Indian audiences towards quality cinema.

PVR has a decade long association with international film festivals like Oscars and now it is becoming a leading exhibitor of French Rivera through Cannes. With a vision to showcase content- led movies, PVR is leaving no stones unturned to meet these demands of discerning cinema goers and hence contributes immensely in developing high quality content cinema along with world class movie watching experience.