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  • UTV kick-starts theatrical release of World Cinema with ‘Waltz with Bashir’

    MUMBAI: With the acquisition of 140 new titles this year for theatrical release, UTV World Movies has gone beyond television screens to take its audience on a cinematic journey.

    The channel has announced its foray into the theatrical release of its award-winning titles with the premiere of Waltz with Bashir, an Israeli animated film that will be followed by The Song of Sparrows and I Always Wanted To Be A Gangster and The Counterfeiters.


    Directed by Ari Folman, Waltz with Bashir is a personal account of the horrors of the 1982 Lebanon War. The film will have its premiere at the PVR Phoenix Mills on 29 July that will have a large number Bollywood celebrities including famous directors and stars attending.


    One of the film‘s producers, Roman Paul would join the celebrations that will have a large number of Bollywood celebrities including famous directors and stars attending.


    Announcing the launch of the first theatrical release, UTV World Movies Business Head Sameer Ganpathy said, “Being on television that caters to World Cinema for the last 18 months and in the home video business along with Shemaroo Entertainment for the last eight months, we felt that this was the best time to venture into theatrical release of films from this genre.”


    “Selected of the 700 films already in our library, these films are between one to two years old while a handful are old but cinematic gems,” Ganpathy adds.



    The winner of the best foreign film award at this year‘s Golden Globe Awards, the film was also nominated at this year‘s Academy Awards. The film has also bagged multiple film honours including a Golden Globe award for best foreign film, best animated feature award from the Los Angeles Film Critics Association and both the best picture award and best foreign language film award from the National Society of Film Critics.

  • FWICE wants ‘no work’ on Independence Day


    MUMBAI: The Federation of Western India Cine Employees (FWICE) has declared that no production activities like shooting, recording, post-production of films, serials, video albums, etc. should be held on 15 August, it being Independence Day.


    Any said activities logged on that day can put producers in unavoidable circumstances.

  • T-Series acquires music rights of ‘3 Idiots’


    MUMBAI: T- Series has bagged the music rights of 3 Idiots.
    The film produced by Vidhu Vinod Chopra and directed by Rajkumar Hirani.


    The film is based on a famous novel Five Point Someone by Chetan Bhagat has Aamir Khan, Kareena Kapoor, R.Madhavan, Sharman Joshi and Boman Irani in lead roles.


    The music of the film has been composed by Shantanu Moitra while lyrics are penned by Swanand Kirkire.


    The film is slated for release on 25 December.

  • Top officials from UTV motion pictures division resign

    MUMBAI: UTV‘s two senior executives from the motion pictures division have put in their papers.

    UTV Rampage Motion Pictures chief creative officer Ram Mirchandani and UTV Motion Pictures COO – production Alpana Mishra are serving their notice period till mid-August.


    “15 August will be my last day with the company,” she quips.


    Mirchandani, who has had a six-year stint with UTV, is planning to produce films independently though his newly established production house Rampage Motion Pictures.


    “Rampage Motion Pictures was set up three months back. I plan to produce commercially viable independent films under this banner,” says Mirchandani.


    “I will make an exit from UTV around 13 August, once the projects that I am associated with are released,” Mirchandani adds.

  • ‘Tum Mile’- first Bollywod film on natural disaster

    MUMBAI: Sony Music in association with Vishesh Films is the final stage of production of Tum Mile– a film that shows the city of Mumbai as never before. They have recently released the first-look poster of the film and have also come up with a theatrical trailer.

    The film shows the city of Mumbai engulfed by giant clouds on the night of 26 July, 2005. The film starring Emraan Hashmi and Soha Ali Khan is slated to release on 13 November.


    Says Sony Music Managing Director Shridhar Subramaniam, “Tum Mile is the first disaster movie in Bollywood of this scale. And it is quite necessary to showcase the scale, the canvas and the authenticity of the deluge to the audience. When it comes to entertainment, the first impression might not be the last one, but it definitely does a lot in carving setting up the project in audiences‘ minds.”


    Mahesh Bhatt agrees, “The idea behind the first-look poster and theatrical teaser is to showcase the true hero of Tum Mile which is the storm and the deluge. The fear lies in the unknown and its anticipation. Both these units make you feel the fear of the impending danger looming over the city.”


    “I think this is one of those few images that are both emotionally and rationally strong. It evokes fear while at the same time also flaunts the scale of the movie. Tum Mile being the first natural disaster movie in India on this scale – it was necessary to showcase the extent we have gone to re-create the Mumbai deluge. And it has to be seen to be believed,” adds Mukesh Bhatt.


    The first look image has been designed by Archan Nair. “The brief given to me was to show the city of Mumbai as never seen before. It had to showcase the wrath of nature and evoke awe and fear at the same time. It took me over 3 months, over 100 reiterations and over a 300 layers to create this image. At the end of it, I think it‘s worth the pain” Nair divulges.

  • Ultra releases home video of ‘Houn Javu De’

    MUMBAI: Ultra has releasd the home video of Houn Javu De!!

    Houn Javu De is a story about marriage, relationship and joint family and their passions and affections. The moral of the story is that ‘together we can fight all odds of life‘.


    Produced by A. R. Creation, the film directed by Vijay Saatghare on a story, screenplay and dialogue by Anil Pawar stars Bharat Jadhav, Ramesh Deo, Deepali Sayed, Ravindra Berde, Kishor Nandalaskar, Madhu Kambikar, Vijay Chavan, Giriraj and Jairaj Nair.

    The DVD costs Rs 199 while the CD costs Rs 99.

  • ‘Spider-Man’ director to helm film adaptation of ‘World of Warcraft’

    MUMBAI: Sam Raimi, director of Spider-Man, has been signed to make a film on the videogame, World of Warcraft, by Blizzard Entertainment and Legendary Pictures.

    “Raimi has, in the course of his career, clearly demonstrated himself to be a genius for developing and adapting existing fictional universes for mainstream audiences while staying true to the spirit of the original content,” the companies declared in a joint statement.

    In 1994 Warcraft made its debut as a real-time strategy game, based on a conflict between the Horde and the Alliance and was later developed into the multi-player online game, World of Warcraft, in 2004.

    The video game now holds the Guiness World Record as the most popular massively multi-player online game with more than 11.5 million monthly subscribers.

    The film will be produced by Charles Roven (of The Dark Knight fame).

  • Cinevision to distribute Anjum Rizvi’s next film

    MUMBAI: Cinevision has been assigned to distribute producer Anjum Rizvi‘s next film Fast Forward. The film will release on 7 August.

    Incidentally, Rizvi has also completed the shooting of a super-natural film, Flat, that has Sanjay Suri and Jimmy Shergill in the lead. The film that is in the post-production stage is expected to release in October-November.


    The producer is also in talks with Neeraj Vohra to make another film with him.

  • Sikkim Intl. short film festival to open with ‘Fear Lies Within’

    MUMBAI: The Sikkim International Short Film Festival has shortlisted a short film Fear Lies Within written and directed by Sikkim based journalist, BP Bajgain for the Agyaat Short film contest.

    The short film was submitted to the amateur filmmakers‘ category. The film would also participate in the 11th Mumbai International Film Festival for documentary, short & animation films that is scheduled in February next year and also at the Commonwealth Film Festival scheduled in April next year at Manchester, United Kingdom.

  • Percept Picture Company readies first of eight horror films

    MUMBAI: The horror genre will get a boost in Bollywood with Percept Picture Company (PPC) readying a slate of movies under the Horrorotainment brand.

    PPC plans to roll out eight films in this genre over three years, made each on a budget between Rs 80-100 million. The first in the pipeline is 8, made in association with Glorius Entertainment.


    A youth-oriented horror film, 8 will be directed by noted special effects director Wilson Louis. Says PPC chief executive Navin Shah, “Today it is the youth who rules the box-office and horror films are extremely to their liking. Our research department has found out that besides reading horror stories, the youth is attracted to the horror-genre may it be through TV serials or films.”


    Why the name 8? “You see when you write the figure 8 you start at a point and taking a curve end up at the same point. That is life. The story of our film is similar. In fact before arriving at the title, we did a market survey and all the respondents okayed it,” says Shah.


    All the horror films will be made under the Percept Horrorotainment banner. “We are already working on Grrr, a film directed by Priyadarsan, that involves the Tiger. It is akin to numerous creature films like Annaconda, Lake Placid and Deep Rising,” avers Shah.