MUMBAI: Vinnie Chase and his posse are coming back to Hollywood. “It’s a go. love you all,” tweeted director Doug Ellin today about the Entourage movie. Deals for Adrian Grenier, Kevin Dillon, Jerry Ferrara and Kevin Connolly have been reached.
Working with Warner Bros, producers Mark Wahlberg and Steve Levinson stepped in to close the offers this weekend.
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The film actually wasn’t scheduled to start filming until around January, when Piven is on break from his ITV/PBS series Mr. Selfridge.
MUMBAI: The latest teaming of Martin Scorsese and Leonardo DiCaprio will hit theaters just in time for an Oscar run. Paramount‘s The Wolf Of Wall Street is opening December 25.
It originally was scheduled for 15 November. The studio cleared the Christmas Day slot last week when it moved the Chris Pine starrer Jack Ryan: Shadow Recruit to 17 January.
It’ll be a busy holiday at the megaplex, with Wall Street going up against openers including Universal’s Keanu Reeves actioner 47 Ronin, Warner Bros’ aging-boxer comedy Grudge Match, Ben Stiller’s take of The Secret Life Of Walter Mitty for Fox, Open Road’s Justin Bieber docu Believe and the Weinstein Company’s August: Osage County.
MUMBAI: Vinnie Chase and his posse are coming back to Hollywood. “It’s a go. love you all,” tweeted director Doug Ellin today about the Entourage movie. Deals for Adrian Grenier, Kevin Dillon, Jerry Ferrara and Kevin Connolly have been reached.
Working with Warner Bros, producers Mark Wahlberg and Steve Levinson stepped in to close the offers this weekend.
The film actually wasn’t scheduled to start filming until around January, when Piven is on break from his ITV/PBS series Mr. Selfridge.
NEW DELHI: Veteran South Korean director Im Kwon-taek whose films have featured in retrospectives in India, has announced his 102nd film: Hwajang – which in Korean means both “make-up” and “cremation”.
Im was recently featured in a retrospective at this month’s Busan International Film Festival. He said the film is based on Kim Hun’s 2004 short story, From Powder to Powder. A well-regarded English translation was published in 2007 in the expanded edition of the anthology Land of Exile: Contemporary Korean Fiction.
The blackly comic short story is about a middle-aged advertising executive’s infatuation with a healthy young woman in his company while his wife is dying from cancer. The story draws a contrast between the beauty products his company markets to hold back ageing and the inevitability of death and decay.
The role of the advertising executive will be played by An Seong-gi, a regular collaborator of Im. The actresses who will play his wife, daughter and mistress have yet to be announced. The film, which is produced by Myung Films, is expected to start shooting in December.
NEW DELHI: Even as India continues to produce the largest number of films, China has shown a major growth with total box office revenue for the first nine months of the year at RMB16.4 billion (US$2.7 billion), a year-on-year growth of 34.9 per cent.
With a market share of approximately 58 per cent, domestic films continue to rule the market with RMB9.56 billion (US$1.57 billion) in total revenue, a year-on-year growth of 93.8 per cent, according to China’s State Administration of Press, Publication, Radio, Film and Television (SAPPRFT) in the third quarter box office statistics.
Five of the top ten grossing films of the first nine months of the year are domestic films that include Journey to the West: Conquering the Demons (RMB1.24 billion), So Young (RMB 715 million), American Dreams in China (RMB 538 million), Finding Mr. Right (RMB 518 million) and Tiny Times 1 (RMB 488 million).
Opening at the end of September, Young Detective Dee: Rise of the Sea Dragon has already surpassed American Dreams as the third top grossing domestic film of the year. By last week, it had taken RMB 583 million.
Several major releases set for December are expected to further lift domestic films:
Benny Chan’s The White Storm, Feng Xiaogang’s Personal Tailor, Alan Yuen’s Firestorm, and Ding Sheng’s Police Story 2013.
Foreign films made RMB 6.87 billion (US$1.13 billion) in total revenue, a year-on-year decline of 5.2 per cent. This represents somewhat of a recovery over the summer. In the first half of the year, foreign films were recorded as experiencing a year-on-year decline in box office revenue of 21.3 per cent.
The top five grossing foreign films of the first nine months of the years — three of which were in cinemas during the third quarter are: Iron Man 3 (RMB 751 million), Pacific Rim (RMB 694 million), Furious 6 (RMB 412 million), The Croods (RMB 394.8 million) and Man of Steel (RMB 394.6 million).
MUMBAI: Multivision Multimedia, one of the biggest independent film distribution houses in the Indian subcontinent, is gearing up to release the new comic caper Last Vegas in Indian theatres on 22 November, 2013. The upcoming comedy will see Hollywood legends Robert De Niro, Michael Douglas, Morgan Freeman and Kevin Kline share screen space for the very first time.
Directed by Jon Turteltaub, Last Vegas follows the lives of Billy (Michael Douglas), Paddy (Robert De Niro), Archie (Morgan Freeman) and Sam (Kevin Kline), who have been best friends since childhood. So when Billy, the group’s sworn bachelor, finally proposes to his thirty-something girlfriend, the four head to Las Vegas with a plan to stop acting their age and relive their glory days. However, upon arriving, the four quickly realise that the decades have transformed Sin City and tested their friendship in ways they never imagined. Sin City has had its own coming-of-age but it’s these guys who are taking over Vegas, and how! What follows is a comedy packed with laughs, wit and a heart-rending perspective on friendship.
Speaking on releasing Last Vegas in India, Multivision Multimedia distribution head Sunil Udhani said, “Last Vegas brings together Hollywood royalty in form of Michael Douglas, Robert De Niro, Morgan Freeman and Kevin Kline for this sure-shot entertainer. With talent that has a combined six Oscar win and films that have grossed nearly $16 billion at the box office, we are confident that this movie will take Indian fans on a laughter-inducing joy ride.”
MUMBAI: The Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences is making significant changes to simplify its electronic voting system, which got almost as much flack last awards season as the Obamacare website is currently receiving. The changes involve reducing the number of passwords required, making the VIN number assigned to each member invisible to users and making it easier to change passwords.
The changes, developed over the past eight months since e-voting was used by the Academy for the first time to determine winners of the 85th Oscars, come in response to gripes from members who found the online voting website, offered as an alternative to a traditional paper ballot, difficult to navigate.
The Academy also is encouraging its members to log on to their member accounts on Monday to pay their annual dues and to register how they wish to vote this year, either electronically or by paper ballot. The email outlined the improvements that have been made to the online voting process.
The biggest change to e-voting this year is that members will now be able to use a single user name and password for both sites. Also, the Academy is making it easier to change passwords.
In spite of last year’s e-voting challenges, the Academy eventually reported, at an unprecedented all-members meeting on 4 May that there had been record voting-participation of 90 per cent in large part because of e-voting.
MUMBAI: The new CEO of Focus Features, Peter Schlessel, he has decided to make it a priority to speed up Elton John’s biopic Rocketman. Tom Hardy stars as the legendary singer in the movie. Schlessel has also co-founded FilmDistrict, a distribution entity that has bagged the rights to Rocketman which Elton John is executive producing.
Michael Gracey will be shooting the movie in fall 2014 with an original screenplay by Lee Hall. John will be re-recording many of his iconic hit songs to match the movie’s pace. Hamilton Shaw and David Furnish are producing the movie from Rocket Pictures while Lawrence Bender on behalf of financier at AI Film.
Len Blavatnik is also executive producing along with AI Film CEO Aviv Giladi and Schlessel. International sales are being handled by Good Universe.
MUMBAI: Michael Arndt is no longer a part of Star Wars: Episode VII. Lawrence Kasdan and JJ Abrams have taken over the scriptwriting duties. Abrams is also directing the movie.
Arndt had been writing Star Wars since more than a year, the Episode VII. In October 2012, Disney announced it was buying Lucasfilm as well as it was planning a new movie in the series. A release date of 2015 was planned. Arndt was officially hired to write in late 2012.
The latest movie also has many newcomers in the films filling the post of DOP, production designer, costume designer, sound designer etc.
Arndt won an Oscar for his script for Little Miss Sunshine and he also wrote The Hunger Games: Catching Fire and Toy Story 3.
MUMBAI: Jamie Dornan is all set to play Christian Grey in the film adaptation of the superhit novel, Fifty Shades of Grey that is expected to go on floor in November.
Universal Pictures and Focus Features’ adaptation of the book was to have Charlie Hunnam as the lead earlier, who backed out of the project more than a week ago. Negotiations with Dornan are in progress.
Dornan is the star of the UK series The Fall and is also known for playing The Huntsman in ABC’s Once Upon A Time. Dakota Johnson will be the female lead for the movie. A release date of August 1, 2014 has been set. If the first movie does well, then Dornan could stay on for the rest of the movies in the series as well.
Juno Temple and Frank Grillo were also offered roles but they too turned it down. Dornan has been in the news earlier for dating Kiera Knightley for a while.