MUMBAI: Pyramid Saimira Theatre Ltd will be adding 36 theatres in Andhra Pradesh in the West Godavari and Nizam areas. With this acquisition, the company has added 23,000 seats in Andhra Pradesh. The company has acquired the distribution rights for the mega Rajnikanth movie Sivaji for the Nizam territory. Pyramid Saimira Theatre Ltd chairman V Natarajan said, "We are extremely happy to expand in Andhra Pradesh, which is a pivotal market to us. All the that PSTL has acquired are of good quality with superior features like OTS and AC. In fact, PSTL has already digitized more than 10 theatres and will digitize all the theatres in its network. We plan to invest Rs 1 billion (Rs 100 crores) in the state of Andhra Pradesh for infrastructure improvement and digitization, amongst other developmental activities, in the current fiscal year." The company has plans to construct over 25 multiplexes in the state of Andhra Pradesh, for which, theatre and land identification is going on. Pyramid Saimira Theatre is keen on purchasing close to 100 single screen theatres in the next two years in the state. As part of their content fund and production effort, the company will produce more than six Telugu films this year, through its newly formed subsidiary Pyramid Saimira Productions Ltd. The company also plans to purchase around 20 films this fiscal year in Andhra Pradesh, for which, talks are on with producers. Pyramid Saimira expects more than Rs 120 million (Rs 12 crores) as revenue in the Nizam area alone, through the exhibition and distribution of Sivaji. Rate this Very Poor Poor Average Good Excellent [Rating :: Good]
The much awaited film of Tamil Nadu is nearing release. After several postponements from April 12 to May 8 then to May 17 and finally postponed to the release date of May 26. The last three dates are all add up to the magic number of Shankar's, 8. This release date was confirmed by Ayngaran International (the international distributor) and AVM (the producer). The reason for the latest postponing of the film was due to the background score of the film being incomplete, A. R. Rahman (music director) is currently working on this.

This will be Rajinikanth's 100th Tamil language film. The film has big names Shankar (director of the 8 Filmfare Award winning Anniyan), AVM (the largest producer of films in Tamil Nadu), A. R. Rahman (word recognized due to his work in the Bombay Dreams musical) and the "Superstar" of Tamil cinema Rajinikanth.

Pyramid is expecting over Rs. 120 million in the Nizam area of Andra Pradesh from the films ticket sales. So far it has been estimated that over Rs. 1 billion has been invested in the film.