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  • ‘Avengers: Age Of Ultron’ nets Rs 46 crore in five days

    ‘Avengers: Age Of Ultron’ nets Rs 46 crore in five days

    MUMBAI: Marvel’s Avengers: Age Of Ultron has already created box office records across the globe with stupendous collections.

     

    In India, the movie has seen collections of Rs 46 cores in its first five days’ run at the box office.

     

    Trade sources claim that the film amassed approximately a Friday opening of Rs 10.98 crore coming after unprecedented advance openings and theater bookings. Saturday’s figures were pegged at Rs 11.85 crore net, whereas Sunday’s collections stood at Rs  13.17 crore taking the total three-day collection to Rs 35.74 crore.

     

    The movie’s weekday collections have also been rock steady with a trade figure of Rs 5.4 crore on Monday and Rs 4.6 crore on Tuesday.

     

    Avengers: Age Of Ultron saw a limited release of 1500 screens across India, lesser than Fast and Furious 7, which had 2500 screens.

  • Animated Dolby film ‘Silent’ wins two Daytime Emmy Awards

    Animated Dolby film ‘Silent’ wins two Daytime Emmy Awards

    MUMBAI: Dolby Laboratories’ short animated film Silent won two Daytime Emmy Awards at the National Academy of Television Arts and Sciences’ Daytime Creative Arts Emmys ceremony.

     

    Created in conjunction with Moonbot Studios and CAA Marketing, a division of entertainment and sports agency Creative Artists Agency (CAA), Silent represents the evolution of film technology from the silent-film era to the present day. The three-minute film celebrates how storytellers, inventors, and technology work together to create magic in the cinema.

     

    Silent won a Daytime Creative Arts Emmy in Outstanding Special Class Animated Program (executive producers: William Joyce and Vince Voron; producers: Lampton Enochs, Trish Farnsworth-Smith, and Angus McGilpin) and Outstanding Directing in an Animated Program (directors: Limbert Fabian and Brandon Oldenburg)

     

    “We’re elated that Silent was recognized so richly by the Academy, and we celebrate this achievement with our partners at Moonbot Studios and CAA Marketing,” said Dolby Laboratories vice president and executive creative director Vince Voron.

     

    Silent is an animated short film featuring Morris Lessmore from Moonbot Studios’ 2012 Academy Award winning short film The Fantastic Flying Books of Mr. Morris Lessmore. In Silent, Lessmore and his fellow street performer, The Kid, dream of bringing their picture-and-sound show to life. When they discover a magical contraption inside an old theatre, they embark on a cinematic adventure of sight and sound, traveling through movie history to find the audience they have always wanted.

     

    The two Daytime Creative Arts Emmy Award wins mark a first in the creative category for Dolby.

  • Paramount to distribute ‘Selma’ DVD in every US high school

    Paramount to distribute ‘Selma’ DVD in every US high school

    MUMBAI:In celebration of the home entertainment debut of director Ava DuVernay’s inspirational and Academy Award-winning epic Selma, Paramount Home Media Distribution will send a copy of the DVD free of charge to every high school in the US, both public and private.

    In addition, teachers can receive free companion study guides to help further illuminate the remarkable historical events depicted in the film.

    “Our Selma filmmaking journey has had many highlights, but to me, the response from students and educators has been the most magnificent part of the experience. To think that this triumphant story of dignity and justice will be available to every high school in this country is a realization of many dreams and many hopes. I applaud Paramount on this extraordinary effort, and salute the teachers who will provide classes and context on the work of Dr. King and his comrades to the young minds of our nation. The response from students and teachers to our ‘Selma for Students’ initiative was overwhelmingly positive and we are delighted to be extending the campaign,” said DuVernay.

     Paramount Pictures president, worldwide distribution and marketing Megan Colligan added, “During the film’s theatrical run more than 300,000 young people were able to see the film for free. By providing DVDs to all of the high schools in the country, we hope to reach all 18 million high school students with the film’s powerful and inspiring story. With many of these students preparing to vote for the first time in next year’s elections, it is especially fitting that they witness the bravery and fortitude of those who fought to establish the Voting Rights Act of 1965.”

    Selma won the Academy Award and the Golden Globe Award for Best Original Song for “Glory” by Common & John Legend. The film was nominated for an Academy Award for Best Picture and Golden Globe Awards for Best Picture, Best Actor and Best Director.

    From Paramount Pictures, Pathe, and Harpo Films, Selma, a Plan B, Cloud Eight Films, and Harpo Films production in association with Ingenious Media, tells the incredible story of how Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. led the epic march from Selma to Montgomery to secure equal voting rights in an event that forever altered history.

    The film is produced by Christian Colson, Dede Gardner, Jeremy Kleiner, and Oprah Winfrey. The film is executive produced by Brad Pitt, Cameron McCracken, Diarmuid McKeown, Nik Bower, Ava DuVernay, Paul Garnes and Nan Morales. The film is written by Paul Webb.

  • ‘Avengers: Age Of Ultron’ nets Rs 36 crore in opening weekend

    ‘Avengers: Age Of Ultron’ nets Rs 36 crore in opening weekend

    MUMBAI: Marvel’s Avengers: Age Of Ultron is on its path to break box office records with a record-breaking three day opening collections.

     

    Trade and industry expert sources claim that the film, which opened to glowing critical reviews, amassed approximately a Friday opening of Rs 10.98 crores coming after unprecedented advance openings and theater bookings.

     

    Saturday’s figures were pegged at Rs11.85 crores net, and adding to the grand tally was Sunday’s collection of Rs 12.91 crores taking the total three day collections to Rs 35.74 crores.

     

    Trade experts peg this as the highest three-day Hollywood film box office collection till date in India and is almost three times bigger than 2012’s Avengers.

     

    Avengers: Age Of Ultron’s box office performance was despite it being a non-holiday weekend. The movie saw a limited release on 1500 screens across India, which is lesser than Fast and Furious 7 that released across 2500 screens.

  • Family calls Amy Winehouse documentary misleading

    Family calls Amy Winehouse documentary misleading

    MUMBAI: Just a few weeks before the world premiere of the Amy Winehouse documentary titled Amy, the family of the late singer has spoken out strongly against it.

     

    The Hollywood Reporter recently reported that the family wanted to “disassociate themselves” from Amy, directed by British filmmaker AsifKapadia, of the Sennafame, the 2010 documentary about late Formula 1 driver AyrtonSenna.

     

    “They feel that the film is a missed opportunity to celebrate her life and talent and that it is both misleading and contains some basic untruths,” the family’s spokesperson told The Hollywood Reporter, adding that there were allegations made in the doc against the family and management that were “unfounded and unbalanced.”

     

    The late singer’s family further opines, “The narrative is formed by the testimony of a narrow sample of Amy’s associates, many of whom had nothing to do with her in the last years of her life. By misunderstanding the condition and its treatment, the film suggests, for instance, that not enough was done for Amy, that her family and management pushed her into performing or did not do enough to help her.”

     

    Speaking to The Sun, Winehouse’s father Mitch Winehouse claimed that he “felt sick” when he first saw the film. “Amy would be furious. This is not what she would have wanted. I am painted as being an absent father during her last years. It gives the impression the family weren’t there,” he said.

     

    Mitch Winehouse also claimed that the filmmakers “had a pretty good idea of the film they wanted to make from the off” and on Monday told BBC radio that he would look to “sue for damages” if the film cut screened at Cannes was shown to misrepresent him.

     

    In response to the allegations, the filmmakers claimed they came on board with the “full backing of the Winehouse family” and approached the project with “total objectivity.”

     

    “During the production process, we conducted in the region of 100 interviews with people that knew Amy Winehouse; friends, family, former partners and members of the music industry that worked with her,” they said. “The story that the film tells is a reflection of our findings from these interviews.”

  • Frank Miller to pen next Batman saga for DC Comics

    Frank Miller to pen next Batman saga for DC Comics

    MUMBAI: Iconic Batman writer and artist Frank Miller will write the conclusion of The Dark Knight Returns saga.

     

    The Dark Knight III: The Master Race is the sequel to Miller’s 1986 classic The Dark Knight Returns and its 2001-2002 follow-up series Batman: The Dark Knight Strikes Again.

     

    Miller will be joined by writer Brian Azzarello on the eight-issue comic book periodical, to be published twice a month under the DC Comics imprint. Marking the 30th anniversary of The Dark Knight Returns original series, this periodical is slated for publication beginning in late Fall 2015.

     

    “Batman remains my favorite comic book hero and a sequel to Dark Knight is going to be daunting, but we’ll do our best,” said Miller.

     

    “We are thrilled to have Frank back home at DC writing Batman. The story he and Brian have crafted is an astounding and triumphant conclusion to this seminal body of work which influenced and shaped generations of readers and creators alike,” added DC Entertainment co-publishers Dan DiDio and Jim Lee.

     

    Azzarello said, “It’s been an amazing experience collaborating with Frank these past six months. I think we have an epic story that these characters truly deserve.”

     

    Artists for the project have yet to be announced.

     

  • Sony Pictures Entertainment to animate Spider-Man

    Sony Pictures Entertainment to animate Spider-Man

    MUMBAI: On 20 July, 2018, directors Phil Lord and Christopher Miller will be taking Spider-Man back to his graphic roots with the first-of-its-kind animated Spider-Man feature.

     

    The film will exist independently of the projects in the live-action Spider-Man universe, all of which are continuing.

     

    Lord and Miller are masterminding the project, writing the treatment and producing the film.

     

    As previously announced, Spider-Man will next appear in a live-action Marvel film from Marvel’s Cinematic Universe (MCU). Sony Pictures will thereafter release the next installment of its $4 billion Spider-Man franchise, on 28 July, 2017, a live-action film being produced by Kevin Feige at Marvel and Amy Pascal, who oversaw the franchise launch for the studio 13 years ago.

     

    The animated film from Lord and Miller, dated 20 July, 2018, has Avi Arad, Matt Tolmach, and Pascal also serving as producers.

     

    Spider-Man, embraced all over the world, is the most successful franchise in the history of Sony Pictures, with the five films having taken in more than $4 billion worldwide.

  • Christian Bale, Brad Pitt, Ryan Gosling, Steve Carell cast in ‘The Big Short’

    Christian Bale, Brad Pitt, Ryan Gosling, Steve Carell cast in ‘The Big Short’

    MUMBAI: In a casting coup of sorts, Paramount Pictures’ has roped in Christian Bale, Brad Pitt, Ryan Gosling and Steve Carell to star in The Big Short.

     

    The movie is being produced by Paramount Pictures along with New Regency and Plan B Entertainment. It will be directed by Adam McKay. The film also stars Melissa Leo and Marisa Tomei. 

     

    The film’s screenplay is written by McKay, from a script by Charles Randolph, based on Michael Lewis’ bestselling non-fiction book The Big Short: Inside the Doomsday Machine. 

     

    The Big Short is the remarkable true story of the genius contrarian investors who, recognizing just how insane the housing bubble had become, figured out how to “short” the market prior to the financial collapse of 2008.

     

    Rounding out the cast is Tracy Letts, Hamish Linklater, John Magaro, Byron Mann, Rafe Spall, Jeremy Strong and Finn Wittrock.

     

    Pitt, Dede Gardner and Jeremy Kleiner will produce the movie via their Plan B Entertainment banner.  Production has begun in New Orleans.

  • Jury of the 68th Festival de Cannes announced

    Jury of the 68th Festival de Cannes announced

    MUMBAI: The jury for the 68th Festival de Cannes will see seven key figures in world cinema from Canada, Spain, the United States, France, Mali, Mexico and the United Kingdom.

     

    This year, directors, screenwriters and producers Joel Coen and Ethan Coen have been named as the two presidents of the Jury.

     

    Along with the Coen brothers, the Jury will thus be made up of nine distinctive voices – four women and five men – each with the same voting rights.

     

    Their task will be to decide among the films in competition and select the prize winners, culminating in the Palme d’or, which will be announced on stage during the festival closing ceremony on 24 May.

     

    The jury members are: Rossy de Palma (actress – Spain), Sophie Marceau (actress, director – France), Sienna Miller (actress – United Kingdom), RokiaTraoré (composer, singer-songwriter – Mali), Guillermo del Toro (director, writer, producer – Mexico), Xavier Dolan (director, writer, producer, actor – Canada) and Jake Gyllenhaal (actor – United States).

  • Imax & Warner Bros extend multi-film deal through 2020

    Imax & Warner Bros extend multi-film deal through 2020

    MUMBAI: Imax Corporation and Warner Bros. Pictures have entered into a multi-picture agreement to release up to 30 films from the studio’s slate through 2020 as a continuation of the companies’ longstanding partnership.

     

    Under the agreement, Imax will be part of a number of high-profile tentpoles from Warner Bros. Pictures, including The Man from U.N.C.L.E. , In the Heart of the Sea, Batman v Superman: Dawn of Justice, the Tarzan movie, the King Arthur movie, Suicide Squad, Geostorm, Fantastic Beasts and Where to Find Them, Jungle Book: Origins, and Godzilla 2.

     

    The deal also encompasses a number of upcoming DC tentpoles, as well as future LEGO movies, including The LEGO Movie Sequel.

     

    “We’ve had an incredible partnership with Warner Bros. for more than 10 years, which has helped Imax filmgoers enjoy Warner movies around the world. We’re excited and grateful to extend that partnership,” said Imax CEO Richard L. Gelfond.

     

    “With this multi-picture deal, Imax and Warner Bros. continue a lengthy and substantial partnership, which is invested in bringing the highest-quality entertainment to the most awe-inspiring cinematic experience. But at its core, this deal enriches and broadens Imax’s relationship with key filmmakers, who have always been a top priority for Warner Bros. in bringing the most compelling cinema to audiences around the world,” added Imax Corp senior executive vice president and Imax Entertainment CEO Greg Foster.

     

    Warner Bros. Pictures president, domestic distribution Dan Fellman said, “Imax provides an immersive moviegoing experience that is unparalleled. We have an exciting and extremely diverse slate and look forward to giving audiences the opportunity to see a variety of films on the largest possible canvas.”

     

    Warner Bros. Pictures president, international distribution Veronika Kwan Vandenberg said, “We are thrilled to continue our partnership with Imax on these much-anticipated projects and more to come. Increasingly over the years, international audiences are opting to watch movies on large-format screens, taking advantage of the premium visual and sound quality offered by Imax.”

     

    The Imax release of each film will be digitally re-mastered into the image and sound quality of The Imax Experience with proprietary Imax DMR (Digital Re-mastering) technology.