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  • Spider-Man: Turn off the Dark to call quits at Foxwoods Theatre

    Spider-Man: Turn off the Dark to call quits at Foxwoods Theatre

    MUMBAI: The Broadway musical will end its run in January as Spider-Man: Turn off the Dark will call it quits at the Foxwoods Theatre, a little over three years since its first problem-plagued preview. The production will announce its closure this week.

     

    Spider-Man: Turn Off the Dark, the most expensive show staged on Broadway, had a rocky start with cast injuries during high-wire stunts and opening night delays.

     

    The show has been running below its breakeven point for weeks, even though it is among the top shows in attendance figures.

  • Oprah Winfrey to be honoured at Santa Barbara Film Festival

    Oprah Winfrey to be honoured at Santa Barbara Film Festival

    MUMBAI: It is going to be a proud moment for all Oprah Winfrey fans. The famous anchor of the Oprah Winfrey Show will honoured at the Santa Barbara International Film Festival which commences from 30 January 2014.

     

    Winfrey, 59, will be given the ‘Montecito Award’ in recognition of her critically-acclaimed performance in Lee Daniels’ The Butler. The ‘Montecito Award’ is traditionally bestowed to stars who have given standout acting performances throughout their careers.

     

    Last year, Lincoln star Daniel Day-Lewis was honoured with the ‘Montecito Award’.

     

    The festival will conclude on 9 February 2014.

  • Jennifer Hudson takes the Hollywood walk of fame

    Jennifer Hudson takes the Hollywood walk of fame

    MUMBAI: Jennifer Hudson became the first American Idol contestant to have her prints on the Hollywood walk of fame. She came seventh in the third season of the show but went on to garner accolades such as The Academy Award and the Grammy.

     

    Music legend and Clive Davis honoured the singer with the award. Apart from singing, she has also dribbled in acting making her debut in 2006’s Dreamgirls as well as Sex and the city. She has performed at instances such as Super Bowl XLIII, American Idol, and The Oprah Winfrey Show.

     

    She is the 2512th person to be awarded the Hollywood walk of fame. She has also recorded her third album to be released in 2014.

  • Javier Bardem may play the villains role in Warner Bros Peter Pan

    Javier Bardem may play the villains role in Warner Bros Peter Pan

    MUMBAI: Javier Bardem, the baddie from Skyfall and No Country For Old Men may soon be playing another negative character. Reports suggest that the actor has been approached by Warner Bros. for the role of the lead villain, Blackbeard for its untitled Peter Pan project.

     

    The actor was recently seen in Ridley Scott’s The Counselor along with his real-life wife Penelope Cruz and among others like Michael Fassbender, Cameron Diaz and Brad Pitt. He will next be seen in The Gunman with Sean Penn and Idris Elba.

     

    Warner Bros. is also in talks with Joe Wright to direct the film from the Jason Fuchs script. While till now the plot details are being kept under wraps, the announcement has garnered a lot of attention. The film is certain to bring back the characters created by Scottish novelist and playwright J. M. Barrie about a boy who can fly and never ages.

  • Anton Yelchin, Ashley Greene to star in indie horror comedy

    Anton Yelchin, Ashley Greene to star in indie horror comedy

    MUMBAI: Anton Yelchin, who starred in Star Trek Into Darkness and The Twilight Saga’s Ashley Greene will star in Joe Dante’s indie horror-comedy, Burying the Ex.

     

    To produce the film, Nicolas Chartier’s Voltage Pictures has come aboard.

     

    Alan Trezza has written the story of the film in which the lead characters – Max (Yelchin) and Evelyn (Greene) move in together as their relationship takes a nose dive. But soon Max discovers that Evelyn quite controlling and manipulative. However, he’s too scared to break up with her. When fate steps in and Evelyn dies in an accident, newly-single Max prepares to move on with Olivia (Daddario). His romantic life becomes complicated when Evelyn rises from the grave and sets out to get her boyfriend back, even if that means turning him into one of the undead.

     

    The production of the movie is scheduled to start on Monday in Los Angeles.

  • Fifty Shades of Grey release date postponed

    Fifty Shades of Grey release date postponed

    MUMBAI: The release of the highly anticipated film adaptation of Fifty Shades of Grey has been extended by six months. The film was originally intended to release on 1 August 2014, but now the film will hit theatres in February 2015 on the same weekend as Valentine’s Day.

     

    The delay has probably happened because after Charlie Hunnam dropped out of the male lead role, the shooting was put back.

     

    Now, Jamie Dornan will be portraying the role of Christian Grey, opposite Dakota Johnson.

     

    The British actor has earlier worked in BBC drama The Fall and US fantasy series Once Upon A Time.

     

    Published in 2011, Fifty Shades of Grey follows the sexually charged relationship between billionaire Grey and college student Anastasia Steele.

  • Morgan Freeman comes out in Ben Afflecks support

    Morgan Freeman comes out in Ben Afflecks support

    MUMBAI: Ever since actor Ben Affleck decided to play Batman, he has been attacked with some of the most critical remarks of his career. In fact even a petition began on the Change.org website calling for his removal currently as Batman for the sequel to Superman reboot Man of Steel 2.

     

    However, slowly the industry is coming forward to support the actor. This time, it is actor Morgan Freeman, who has come out to talk in his support. The 76-year-old actor thinks that Affleck will surely fit the Batman’s role and asked the critics and fans to give him a chance to portray the much demanding role.

     

    “It’s a franchise! It’ll stand on its own merits, and you can’t really say anything until he’s done it. The pre-judging was strange. Give him a shot!” Freeman said in a statement.

     

    The next installment of the series will be the first film ever where Batman and Superman will come up on the big screen together. Henry Cavill has already been finalized for the role of Superman in the sequel.

  • Lunch Box among four Indian films competing for 7th Asia Pacific Screen Awards

    Lunch Box among four Indian films competing for 7th Asia Pacific Screen Awards

    NEW DELHI: ‘Goopy Gawaiyaa Bagha Bajaiyaa’ by Shilpa Ranade, the animation film which is opening the International Children’s Film Festival of India, is among the 39 films from 22 countries will compete in the 7th Asia Pacific Screen Awards (APSA) in Brisbane on 12 December.

    A total of four Indian films including Ritesh Batra’s Lunch Box are among the nominated films for the awards.

    The jury headed by Indian director Shyam Benegal, are South Korean director Kim Tae-yong,Sri Lankan actress Malini Fonseka, Turkish actor Tamer Levent, Swiss director Christoph Schaub and Hong Kong producer Albert Lee.

    For the first time there are nominations from Bangladesh, Jordan and Saudi Arabia. They come within the event’s broad definition of “Asia Pacific” that includes 70 territories with a combined population of 4.5 billion.

    Hany Abu-Assad’s Omar (pictured) from Palestine received the most nominations. It is shortlisted for Best Feature Film as well in addition to nominations for actor Adam Bakri and cinematographer Ehab Assal.

    The country with the most nominations is Japan, with six nominations in five categories, including Best Feature Film for Kore-eda Hirokazu’s family drama Like Father, Like Son.

    The five other Best Feature nominations are Bangladesh’s Television, Sri Lanka’s With You, Without You Oba nathuwa oba ekka, Australia’s The Turning Point and Iran’s The Past (Le Passé).
     

  • Fox International productions, Ivanhoe Pictures in co-finance deal for Asian films

    Fox International productions, Ivanhoe Pictures in co-finance deal for Asian films

    MUMBAI: Production company Ivanhoe Pictures was launched in Toronto earlier this year by Ivanhoe Capital Corporation principal Robert Friedland, GreeneStreet president and co-founder John Penotti, and Beijing-based Ray Chen, founder and chairman of Beijing Premiere Media Company. At launch, the company said it would finance and produce film and TV projects that have broad global audience appeal, initially seeding opportunities in America and Asia, focusing on China, India, Korea and Japan.

     

    Fox International Productions, which has a lucrative local-language business in Asia and elsewhere, is now teaming with Ivanhoe in a four-year, multi-picture co-financing deal for homegrown movies in India, Korea, China, Japan and Taiwan. The pact will kick off with Ivanhoe investing in 10 FIP-produced films in varying stages of production. The investment from Ivanhoe signifies the strength of FIP’s local-language business which is also active in Latin America and Europe.
     

  • Warner Bros gets Rupert Sanders to helm ‘Napoleon’

    Warner Bros gets Rupert Sanders to helm ‘Napoleon’

    MUMBAI: Warner Bros has signed Rupert Sanders to direct Napoleon, a Scarface-style look at the French leader that will be produced by Gianni Nunari. Jeremy Doner is the scribe and Niija Kuykendall will oversee for the studio.

    This comes a day after the studio tapped Joe Wright to direct Pan. Sanders made his feature directing debut on Universal’s Snow White And The Huntsman, which grossed near $400 million worldwide. He’s got 90 Church with that studio and producer Joe Roth, and he’s developing Juliet for Sony and New Regency, with Charles Roven producing, as well as the screen adaptation of the Frederick Forsyth thriller The Kill List for producers Steve Schwartz, Paula Mae Schwartz and Nick Wechsler.