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  • Seth MacFarlane and Charlize Theron learn ‘A Million Ways to Die in the West’

    Seth MacFarlane and Charlize Theron learn ‘A Million Ways to Die in the West’

    MUMBAI: This summer, Universal Pictures India gears up to take audiences on a joyride with their latest offering ‘A Million Ways to Die in the West.’ From the makers of the acclaimed 2012 fantasy-comedy ‘Ted’, this sure-shot entertainer sees the multi-faceted Seth MacFarlane don the director’s hat once again as he stars alongside the likes of Charlize Theron, Amanda Seyfried, Neil Patrick Harris and Liam Neeson. An adaptation of MacFarlane’s novel by the same name, the western comedy movie will release across Indian theatres in June.

     

    Set in the nineteenth century Arizona, ‘A Million Ways to Die in the West’ is the hysterical narrative of Albert (Seth MacFarlane), a sheep farmer whose lack of courage results in his withdrawal from a gunfight, thus losing his beloved girlfriend (Amanda Seyfried) who leaves him for another man. However, when a mysterious and beautiful woman (Charlize Theron) rides into town, she helps him discover his bravery and courage and they begin to fall in love. Albert begins to realize his true potential but when the woman’s husband (Liam Neeson), a notorious Outlaw arrives seeking revenge and demanding payback, the herder is forced to put his new found courage to test.

     

    Interestingly, enough MacFarlane, who has created some of the most popular content on television and film today, while also expanding his career in music and philanthropy, turned author with the novel ‘A Million Ways to Die in the West’ on which the movie is based. Boasting a stellar star-cast, and bringing together the best in Hollywood, the movie promises to be nothing short of a laughter riot expecting to emulate the success of the makers’ previous outing ‘Ted’, which took the box office by storm.

  • Aishwarya Rai and Freida Pinto bond in Cannes

    Aishwarya Rai and Freida Pinto bond in Cannes

    MUMBAI: It was an afternoon of fashion, beauty and bonding for L’Oréal Paris ambassadors Aishwarya Rai Bachchan and Freida Pinto at a special shoot for L’Oréal Paris at Cannes. It is the first time that Aishwarya and Freida are working together. Freida Pinto was quite excited to be doing a shoot with Aishwarya and immediately got up to greet and hug her when she came into the L’Oréal Paris Glamour Room at The Martinez. Both immediately got chatting about the festival and in fact Aishwarya was also heard gushing about her daughter Araadhya to Frieda.

     

    Aishwarya and Freida were both overheard discussing the unexpected delay in Aishwarya’s arrival at Cannes which resulted in her missing the first red carpet. Freida mentioned she was really happy to have gotten a chance to finally do a shoot with Aishwarya and couldn’t wait to see her L’Or Lumi?re inspired red carpet look.

     

    Speaking about Freida, Aishwarya said, “I always look forward to meeting L’Oréal Paris spokespeople at Cannes every year. I have met Freida for the first time in person. All of us L’Oréal Paris spokespeople are so different, but each one of us is worth it.”

     

    Both the ladies had quite the afternoon bonding over L’Oréal Paris and the Festival de Cannes. Freida Pinto attended the event on 17 and 18 May, while Aishwarya will walk the red carpet on 20 and 21 May.

     

  • 41st Student Oscar winners announced

    41st Student Oscar winners announced

    MUMBAI: 15 students have been selected as winners in the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences’ 41st Student Academy Awards competition.  They will arrive in Los Angeles for a week of industry activities that will culminate in the awards ceremony on Saturday, 7 June at 6 p.m. at the DGA Theater in Hollywood.  The medal placements – gold, silver and bronze – in the five award categories will be announced at the ceremony. 

     

    For the alternative category, the winners are “Oscillate,” Daniel Sierra, School of Visual Arts, New York and “Person,” Drew Brown, The Art Institute of Jacksonville, Florida. For the animation category, the winners include “Higher Sky,” Teng Cheng, University of Southern California; “Owned,” Daniel Clark and Wesley Tippetts, Brigham Young University, Utah and “Yamashita,” Hayley Foster, Loyola Marymount University, California.

     

    In the documentary category, the winners are “The Apothecary,” Helen Hood Scheer, Stanford University; “One Child,” Zijian Mu, New York University and “White Earth,” J. Christian Jensen, Stanford University.

     

    The winners in the narrative category include “Above the Sea,” Keola Racela, Columbia University, New York; “Door God,” Yulin Liu, New York University and “Interstate,” Camille Stochitch, American Film Institute, California. The winners who took home the coveted prize in the foreign category include “Border Patrol,” Peter Baumann, The Northern Film School, United Kingdom; “Nocebo,” Lennart Ruff, University of Television and Film Munich, Germany and “Paris on the Water,” Hadas Ayalon, Tel Aviv University, Israel.

     

    This year saw first-time honours go to Tel Aviv University, Israel, and The Northern Film School, United Kingdom, in the foreign competition.  Academy members voted the winners from a field of 49 finalists, announced earlier this month. The Academy established the Student Academy Awards in 1972 to support and encourage excellence in filmmaking at the collegiate level. The previous Student Academy Award winners have gone on to receive 46 Oscar nominations and have won or shared eight awards. They include John Lasseter, Pete Docter, Robert Zemeckis, Trey Parker and Spike Lee.

  • A single computer would have taken 450 years to create ‘Godzilla’, say filmmakers

    A single computer would have taken 450 years to create ‘Godzilla’, say filmmakers

    NEW DELHI: Gareth Edwards’ Godzilla, the newest iteration of the famed movie monster, is the tallest version to ever grace the screen coming in at 355 feet with a tail that spans 550 feet.

     

    It took 50,000 polygons to create the 3D model of thrashing purveyor of doom, which should explain the incredible amount of data that he is made of: it would take a single computer 445 years to render the monster.

     

    That means that one computer would have had to start work in 1569 to complete the film in time for its release.

     

    The film has several other impressive statistics that bode well for the upcoming film’s visual effects.

     

    According to The Creators Project, the $160-million blockbuster had 762 visual effects crewmembers working on its 960 shots. Four of those CGI artists were specifically tasked with creating Godzilla’s scales, and it took them six months to do so.

     

    The filmmakers were also keen on making Godzilla’s bark as big as his bite. His roar was recorded through a speaker array blasting 100,000 watts of sound in order to make it feel more real. The sound reverberates over three miles.

     

    The film stars Bryan Cranston in his first leading gig since Breaking Bad’s finale.

     

    The Movie Bit has made a video compiling all the statistics from both the production of the feature, as well as the nitty-gritty measurements of what this monster would look like if it were actually real.

     

    Godzilla may only have 60 teeth, but each canine is about 4-feet-long and 2-feet wide—about the size of a thin (and Hattori Hanzo-sharp) boogie board. It would take 90,000 tons of water to fill the monster to its brim.

     

    The Monster’s Stats: 

     

    Height: 355ft (108.2m) Godzilla’s towering height in the 2014 film—the tallest onscreen incarnation ever

    Tail: 550ft 4in (167.74m) Total length of Godzilla’s spiked tail

    Volume: 89,724 m3 Godzilla’s total volume in the 2014 film

    Volume: 90,000 tons Godzilla’s volume if filled with water

    Teeth: 1.73ft (53cm) Depth of Godzilla’s canine teeth at their widest point

    Teeth: 3.51ft (1.07m)  Length from the root to the tips of Godzilla’s canine teeth

    Teeth: 60 Teeth in Godzilla’s mouth

    Roar: 3 miles (4.83km) Approximate distance Godzilla’s roar reverberates. (100,000W Power of the 12-foot-high, 18-foot-wide speaker array from which the sound designers blasted Godzilla’s roar to record the sound in a “real world” context)

    Feet: 58ft (17.66m) Total width of Godzilla’s feet across the widest point

    Feet: 60ft (18.18m) Length of Godzilla’s footprint from toe to heel

    Fins: 89 Dorsal fins spiking down Godzilla’s back from his head to the tip of his tail

  • Sony Pictures to make Edward Snowden biopic

    Sony Pictures to make Edward Snowden biopic

    MUMBAI: Sony Pictures Entertainment has nabbed the film rights to Glenn Greenwald’s New York Times bestselling thriller, No Place to Hide: Edward Snowden, the NSA, and the U.S. Surveillance State, The Hollywood Reporter (THR) reports.

     

    In May 2013, Glenn Greenwald set out for Hong Kong to meet an anonymous source who claimed to have astonishing evidence of pervasive government spying and insisted on communicating only through heavily encrypted channels. That source turned out to be the 29-year-old NSA contractor Edward Snowden, and his revelations about the agency’s widespread, systemic overreach proved to be some of the most explosive and consequential news in recent history, triggering a fierce debate over national security and information privacy. As the arguments rage on and the government considers various proposals for reform, it is clear that we have yet to see the full impact of Snowden’s disclosures.

     

    Now for the first time, Greenwald fits all the pieces together, recounting his high-intensity 11-day trip to Hong Kong, examining the broader implications of the surveillance detailed in his reporting for The Guardian, and revealing fresh information on the NSA’s unprecedented abuse of power with never-before-seen documents entrusted to him by Snowden himself.

     

    Going beyond NSA specifics, Greenwald also takes on the establishment media, excoriating their habitual avoidance of adversarial reporting on the government and their failure to serve the interests of the people. Finally, he asks what it means both for individuals and for a nation’s political health when a government pries so invasively into the private lives of its citizens—and considers what safeguards and forms of oversight are necessary to protect democracy in the digital age. Coming at a landmark moment in American history, No Place to Hide is a fearless, incisive, and essential contribution to our understanding of the U.S. surveillance state.

     

    Michael G. Wilson (Octopussy) and Barbara Broccoli (Skyfall) will produce the politically themed drama with Elizabeth Contillon (Goosebumps) overseeing the film for Sony.

  • Steven Spielberg produced, Om Puri film trailer released

    Steven Spielberg produced, Om Puri film trailer released

    MUMBAI: Yahoo Movies has just released the first trailer of The Hundred Foot Journey, an upcoming motion picture adaptation of Richard C. Morrais’s New York Times bestseller. The film is produced by Academy Award winner Steven Spielberg (Schindler’s List) and Academy Award nominee Oprah Winfrey (The Color Purple).

     

    The film narrates the rise of Hassan Haji, the unlikely gourmand who recounts his life’s journey through the events of the film.

     

    Born above his grandfather’s modest restaurant in Mumbai, Hassan first experienced life through intoxicating whiffs of spicy fish curry, trips to the local markets, and gourmet outings with his mother. But when tragedy pushes the family out of India, they console themselves by eating their way around the world, eventually settling in Lumi?re, a small village in the French Alps.

    The boisterous Haji family takes Lumi?re by storm. They open an inexpensive Indian restaurant opposite an esteemed French relais (that of the famous chef Madame Mallory) and infuse the sleepy town with the spices of India, transforming the lives of its eccentric villagers and infuriating their celebrated neighbour. Only after Madame Mallory wages culinary war with the immigrant family, does she finally agree to mentor young Hassan, leading him to Paris, the launch of his own restaurant, and a slew of new adventures.

     

    The Hundred Foot Journey stars Academy Award winner Helen Mirren (The Queen), Manish Dayal (90210) as Hassal Haji and Filmfare Award winner Om Puri (Aakrosh).

  • Jennifer Lawrence plays punching pranks on ‘X Men Days of Future Past’ co-stars

    Jennifer Lawrence plays punching pranks on ‘X Men Days of Future Past’ co-stars

    MUMBAI: Oscar winner Jennifer Lawrence who reprises her role as the blue-skinned, shape-shifting mutant Mystique in X Men Days of Future Past releasing on 23 May has several highly physical fight scenes in the movie, and during promoting the movie, she admitted that fists were flying off-camera as well.

     

    The X Men Days of Future Past actor revealed that she was the on-set ringleader of the “circle game” — a schoolyard prank where you hold your thumb and index finger in a circle somewhere below your waist and if you can trick someone into looking down at it you get to punch them in the arm.

     

    Lawrence says, “I actually brought it to X-Men Days of Future Past from Hunger Games. We play it obsessively, and I brought it to these guys. They really liked it. And I am the best, thank you for asking.”

     

    Well the X men beaten by an X Woman!

  • Michael Douglas and Diane Keaton’s ‘And So It Goes’ trailer released

    Michael Douglas and Diane Keaton’s ‘And So It Goes’ trailer released

    MUMBAI: Yahoo Movies has just released the first trailer for And So It Goes. Academy Award and EMMY Award winner Michael Douglas (Wallstreet, Behind the Candelabra) and Academy Award winner Diane Keaton (Annie Hall, Something’s Gotta Give) star in Rob Reiner’s romantic dramedy about sex and aging called And So It Goes.

     

    The film follows Oren (Douglas); a self-centred realtor enlists the help of his neighbour (Keaton) when he’s suddenly left in charge of the granddaughter he never knew existed until his estranged son drops her off at his home.

     

    “I have sold houses older than you, and in a lot worse condition,” Oren tells her before claiming he meant it as a “compliment.”

     

    Reiner, director of seminal comedies When Harry Met Sally and This Is Spinal Tap, directed the film from a script by Academy Award nominated As Good as It Gets co-writer Mark Andrus.

     

    This film reunites Reiner with Douglas, who starred in Reiner’s The American President. The director’s last film was little-seen 2012 independent film, The Magic of Belle Isle, starring Morgan Freeman.

     

    Click here to watch the Trailer

  • ‘Call of Duty’ video game writer to pen ‘M:I 5’

    ‘Call of Duty’ video game writer to pen ‘M:I 5’

    MUMBAI: According to The Hollywood Reporter (THR), Paramount Pictures, Skydance and Tom Cruise Productions have tapped video game writer Will Staples (Call of Duty: Modern Warfare 3) to work on the script for the fifth Mission: Impossible film.

     

    Academy Award winner Christopher McQuarrie is attached to direct the film, which will see the return of Cruise as Ethan Hunt. Drew Pearce, who wrote Iron Man 3, was the previous writer attached, but that was before McQuarrie signed on.

     

    Staples’ previous work has been mostly in video games. He worked on Need for Speed: Rivals. He’s attached to several films in development, including Blood & Treasure, a starring and directing medium for Ben Affleck set up at Warner Bros. He also wrote Myth for Fox and the Jeremy Renner starrer King of Heists.

     

    Tom Cruise Productions, Paramount and J.J. Abrams’ Bad Robot are producing Mission: Impossible 5. The previous Mission Impossible: Ghost Protocol, released in December 2011, reinvigorated the franchise, grossing an outstanding $694.7 million worldwide.

  • Hasbro launches new ‘Transformers’ movie app

    Hasbro launches new ‘Transformers’ movie app

    MUMBAI: Transformers: Age of Extinction, the fourth instalment of Michael Bay’s movie series based on the Hasbro toy line, will soon be released in theatre, but the latest gunfire in the ongoing war between Autobots and Decepticons has already reached mobile devices with Thursday’s launch of the brand new Transformers: Age of Extinction official movie app.

     

    An artificial intelligence made from the spark of a Transformers bot has taken over your device. Discover clues about the upcoming Transformers: Age of Extinction movie, view exclusive content and compete in a worldwide battle for the future of Earth. Watch movie trailers and interviews for the Transformers: Age of Extinction movie while checking out character bios and meeting the newest bots. Download the Transformers Movie app now to complete missions and earn Energon points to help your side claim victory.