Category: Hindi

MUMBAI: Adlabs, part of the Reliance Anil Dhirubhai Ambani Group, will release 3D Hollywood movie Journey to the Center of the Earth in Big Digital 3D at Adlabs’ cinema in Vashi, Navi Mumbai.

Hollywood studios are backing the new 3D format with animation hits like Disney’s Chicken Little and concert films like Miley Cyrus’ Hannah Montana and U2 in US and Europe.

Adlabs claims that it is bringing the experience to India with Big Digital 3D. Adlabs had also launched 6D cinema in Agra earlier this year through a partnership with Israel-based Cinema Park Network.

“The Big Digital 3D experience is a quantum leap from old analogue 3D that involved red-blue glasses or cumbersome headgear that gave you a headache,” said Adlabs Digital Cinema COO Patrick von Sychowski. “Within a few years most Hollywood blockbusters are expected to be made in digital 3D and we at Adlabs are bringing this experience to India for the first time.”

Based on the Jules Verne novel, Journey to the Center of the Earth is the first live-action feature film to be shot and released entirely in digital 3D.

MUMBAI:Hrithik Roshan starrer Krrish will be screened in the 13th Pusan International Film Festival.

It will be showcased as part of its segment ‘Superheroes in Asia‘ which will feature films like Gekko Kamen from Japan, Thailand‘s Mercury Man and Korea‘s Hong Gil Dong and retrospectives focusing on new wave films from Romania and classic Korean cinema.

The festival will kick off on 2 October in Haeundae, a Pusan neighbourhood.

Three Chinese films, Er Dong by Yang Jin, Jalainur by Zhao Ye and Routine Holiday by Li Hongqi, will also be screened.

The festival will close with the screening of I am Happy by Yoon Jong Chan. The movie is based on a Korean novel.

This year‘s festival will feature 315 films from 60 nations, of which 48 will be screened outside of their home country for the first time.

MUMBAI: Eros Pictures, in association with Boundscript Pictures, has announced the plan to make a sequel of Sujoy Ghosh’s yet to be released film, Aladin.

The sequel is slated to go on floors mid next year. The original cast, which had Amitabh Bachchan, Sanjay Dutt and Riteish Deshmukh, is expected to return for the sequel.

Eros‘ announcement comes ahead of Aladin‘s release. The company said it had a look at the first cut of Aladin and was confident that the sequel would work.

“We are very proud of Aladin as it is a 100 per cent Indian product and are very confident of its universal appeal among audiences. I am not worried about the fate of this product at the box office but we will continue to invest our faith in such cinema which can be watched across the globe and Aladin 2 will be a bigger challenge in every aspect as it will be many times more than Aladin 1,” said Eros International MD and chairman Kishore Lulla.

Added Eros International India president Sunil Lulla, “I am confident with Aladin, we have a Hindi film for a global audience. It is going to be a complete family entertainer with universal appeal as there is a little something for everyone – lots of magic and fantasy for the kids along with action adventure and romance for the youth. Adding to that, the film guarantees some of the best and most complex visual effects seen in Indian cinema, hence the sequel will be a bigger challenge with higher expectations.”

MUMBAI: UTV Motion Pictures has lined up four Tamil and two Telugu films.

MUMBAI: Eros International has acquired the worldwide rights of Samir Karnik’s Heroes and is set to release the film on 24 October.

Produced by Bharat Shah, the film stars Salman Khan, Priety Zinta, Sunny Deol, Bobby Deol, Mithun Chakraborty, Dino Morea, Sohail Khan, Vatsal Seth, Amrita Arora and Ria Sen.

Heroes revolves around the journey of two boys who travel a thousand miles “to meet their destiny and discover national pride”. The film has been shot across different locations in India including Delhi, Rajasthan, Himachal, Ladakh, Punjab and eastern India.

MUMBAI: Adlabs Films, the entertainment arm of Reliance Anil Dhirubhai Ambani Group, is stepping up to tap the international film processing markets, specifically the US, UK and Europe.

Already one of the biggest end-to-end digital post-production services provider in India, Adlabs feels there is potential to have a strong outsourcing model for Hollywood studios due to a low-cost advantage.

As a first step towards achieving this ambition, Adlabs has got “International Anti-Piracy Certification” by the UK body – FACT (Federation Against Copyright Theft). With the accreditation in place, Adlabs is hopeful of getting the foreign projects outsourced to its Film City premises in Mumbai.

“In the US, UK and other European countries, studios do not outsource processing because of piracy. Now after getting a certificate from an international body like FACT, studios and film-makers will know that they are dealing with a secure facility and we will be able to market ourselves better,” Adlabs motion picture processing and allied services president Shankar Dutta tells Indiantelevision.com.

The Adlabs facility in Mumbai has digital intermediate (DI), theatrical and video promo packaging, film scanning and film recording, visual effects and graphics, visual effects supervision, title design, HD and SD Telecine, HD and SD broadcast video tape mastering, DCI (digital cinema initiatives) compliant digital cinema encoding and mastering.

Also, there is a cost difference of at least 20-30 per cent between the US and Indian film processing market. “In India, the cost of film processing is substantially cheaper than it is in US. We will approach the studios in US and other countries to expand our operations,” Dutta adds.

Adlabs boasts of a state-of-art infrastructure and high production capacity. Dutta further adds, “We are working on 150 odd films. Our DI alone has a capacity of 100 films at a time. For us capacity is not a constraint and we are hoping to get all kind of projects.”

Although a large number of film service companies in the UK and Europe are accredited by FACT, this is the first time in FACT‘s 25-year history that it has accredited a company outside the UK or Europe.

Apart from Mumbai, Adlabs also has digital labs in Chennai and Kolkata.

MUMBAI: US media conglomerate Viacom has announced that Paramount Vantage will handle the international sales on Oscar winner Neil Jordan‘s latest film, Ondine.

Currently under production in Ireland, the film stars Colin Farrell (Miami Vice), Alicja Bachleda (Trade), and Stephen Rea (The Crying Game). The director of photography is Christopher Doyle. Vantage will handle the worldwide sales of the film excluding US, which will be represented by Creative Artists Agency (CAA).

The film tells the story of Syracuse, a local fisherman whose everyday life is transformed by a beautiful and mysterious woman whom he fishes from the sea.

Jordan says, “We feel we‘ve found the perfect home for the film with Paramount Vantage and I‘m pleased to be working with Colin Farrell again who brings tremendous depth to his characters. Ondine is an insanely romantic love story that exists within the realms of a fantasy world and pushes through the boundaries of the real world.”

MUMBAI: The Open Frame International Film festival, which begins from 12 September, is set to screen, “Divided Colours Of A Nation”, a documentary film directed by Umesh Aggarwal.

The festival that ends on 20 September will be held at Habitat Centre in New Delhi.

Produced by PSBT (Public Service Broadcasting), Divided Colours Of A Nation is a 60-minute film in English that focuses on caste-based reservation. It also aims to look into the status of education in the country.

Aggarwal’s last film, The Whistle Blowers, was awarded the National Award last year. It was a film on pesticides on packaged water and soft drinks. He is also producing a film called Underground Inferno for National Geographic Channel that will be released in November in 130 countries in 25 languages.

MUMBAI: Moserbaer Entertainment is set to release Righteous Kill, a psychological thriller starring Hollywood actors Robert De Niro and Al Pacino, across theatres in India on 12 September.

Righteous Kill, directed by Jon Avnet, has been penned by Russell Gewirtz of Inside Man fame and the cast of the film also features hip-hop star Curtis ‘50 Cent‘ Jackson (Get Rich or Die Tryin‘), Carla Gugino (American Gangster), John Leguizamo (Love In The Time Of Cholera) and Donnie Wahlberg (Saw II, III, IV).

Says Moserbaer Entertainment chief executive officer Harish Dayani, “The film is a thriller that transcends boundaries; and the Academy Award winners have come out with superlative performances. Hence, we are going all out to make Righteous Kill release in India a no-expenses spared effort.”

The movie is produced by Avi Lerner and Boaz Davidson of Millennium Films along with Randall Emmett, Daniel M. Rosenberg, Alexandra Milcham, Rob Cowan and Lati Grobman. Danny Dimbort, Trevor Short and George Furla are executive producers while Marsha Oglesby is the co-producer. Also, Brian Frankish is the line producer of the film.

MUMBAI: Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer Pictures (MGM) has signed director Vadim Perelman of House of Sand and Fog fame to direct Poltergeist.

Executive vice president production, Cale Boyter, and vice president production, Luke Ryan, are overseeing the project for MGM.

Boyter says, “We are excited to have Vadim direct Poltergeist, a title which already has a built-in movie-going audience. We look forward to having him lead the creative direction on this new character-based horror project that will utilise the original film as a jumping off point.”

Vadim Perelman is currently directing Ice, a drama pilot for the AMC cable network. He is also the executive producer of the project.