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  • Tom Cruise and Joseph Kosinski team up for Go Like Hell

    Tom Cruise and Joseph Kosinski team up for Go Like Hell

    MUMBAI: The movie Oblivion saw the coming together of Hollywood stars Tom Cruise and director Joseph Kosinski. Now, they have patched up for another upcoming movie, Go Like Hell for 20th Century Fox.

     

    The movie is a battle between Ford and Ferrari for dominance in the sports car market. Based on the book Go Like Hell: Ford, Ferrari and their Battle for Speed and Glory at Le Mans written by A J Baime, the flick is being produced by Lucas Foster and Alex Young.

     

    Cruise will be portraying Carroll Shelby who teamed up with Henry Ford II and Ford executive Lee Lacocca who challenged Ferrari in 1966 by developing the Ford GT40. The project has been under development since 2011. Michael Mann was supposed to direct the movie then and Brad Pitt was being considered for the lead role in the movie.

     

    Cruise will next be seen in Edge of Tomorrow to be released on June 6, 2014. Oblivion collected $286 million over the world.

  • George Clooneys The Monuments Men pushed to 2014

    George Clooneys The Monuments Men pushed to 2014

    MUMBAI: The movie based on World War II tale was set to be released on December 18. But The Monuments Men starring George Clooney has now been pushed further to early 2014, without giving an exact date.

     

    The film produced by Sony apparently has been unable to complete its visual effects. Composer Alexandre Desplat has also not recorded the score. The thriller is about a platoon of art historians and museum directions having the task of rescuing priceless art from the Nazis.

     

    The film will now not be eligible for the 2014 Oscar race. George Clooney has the task of juggling two movies at the same time- The Monuments Men and Disney’s Tomorrowland.

  • Homelands Damian Lewis will star alongside Nicole Kidman in Queen Of The Desert

    Homelands Damian Lewis will star alongside Nicole Kidman in Queen Of The Desert

    MUMBAI: Damian Lewis, who has won Golden Globes and Emmys for his work as POW-turned-terrorist Nicolas Brody in Showtime’s Homeland, is near a deal to star opposite Nicole Kidman in director Werner Herzog’s Queen Of The Desert. The UK-born Lewis won’t have to hide his homegrown accent for the feature: He will play Lt. Col. Charles Doughty-Wylie, an unhappily married English war hero who engages in a turbulent affair with Gertrude Bell (Kidman), with whom he exchanged love letters with from 1913-1915 until he was killed in active duty at Gallipoli. Production is scheduled to begin in December.

     

    Queen Of The Desert refers to Bell, the iconic explorer, writer, archeologist and attaché for the British Empire who is credited with helping to catalyse the formation of the Middle East at the dawn of the 20th century. Nick Raslan is producing through his Palmyra Films banner along with Cassian Elwes and Michael Benaroya. Benaroya Pictures banner is financing the film.

  • Dharmashala International Filmfest to showcase features, shorts and documentaries

    Dharmashala International Filmfest to showcase features, shorts and documentaries

    NEW DELHI: ‘The Lunch Box’ by Ritesh Batra and ‘Tasher Desh’ by Qaushiq Mukherjee are among the Indian films while The Act of Killing (Denmark) by Joshua Oppenheimer and With You Without You (Sri Lanka) by Prasanna Vithanage are among the films at the Second Dharmashala International Film festival later this week.

     

    Organised by White Crane Arts and Media; the festival from 24 to 27 October in McLeod Ganj, Dharamshala, will showcase feature films, documentaries and short films.

     

    A new section ‘Art and Film’ has been introduced at the festival in collaboration with Vienna-based Thyssen-Bornemisza Art Contemporary Foundation this year to feature art films made by international artists Sean Snyder, Wael Shawky, Marine Hugonnier, Omer Fast, Walid Raad and Rabih Mroué.

     

    The Best of recent Indian Shorts curated by filmmaker Umesh Kulkarni will also be showcased. Jennifer Baichwal and Edward Burtynsky’s Watermark will make its world premiere at the festival.

     

    The other Indian films are Filmistaan (Nitin Kakkar); Gulabi Gang ( Nishtha Jain), Fandry (Nagraj Manjule), Crossing Bridges (Sange Dorjee Thongdok), Jai Bhim Comrade (Anand Patwardhan), and To Let the World In (Avijit Mukul Kishore).

     

    The international films are The Strange Little Cat (Germany) by Ramon Zürcher; Ai Weiwei: Never Sorry (Germany) by Alison Klayman; Pussy Riot: A Punk Prayer (UK/Russia) by Mike Lerner, Maxim Pozdorovkin; Lasting (Poland) by Jacek Borcuch;Lore (Australia) by Cate Shortland; The Rocket (Australia/Laos) by Kim Mordaunt; Thursday Till Sunday (Chile) by Dominga Sotomayor Castillo; Neighbouring Sounds (Brazil) by Kleber Mendonça Filho; Menstrual Man (Singapore) by Amit Virmani;Bushido Man (Japan) by Takanori Tsujimoto; Piercing Brightness (UK) by Shezad Dawood; Roots (Japan) by Kaoru Ikeya; and La Voz De Los Silenciados (USA) by Maximón Monihan.
    A large number of the filmmakers or their representatives are expected to attend the Festival.

  • Indian Navy watches Tom Hanks Captain Phillips

    Indian Navy watches Tom Hanks Captain Phillips

    MUMBAI:  Captain Phillips, the movie that has taken the world by storm, has even caught the attention of the Indian Navy now. At a special request, Sony Pictures organised a special screening for the Indian naval officers, including the Commander-in-Chief, Western Naval Command, Shekhar Sinha in Mumbai on the official India release date of 18 October.

     

    With very few movies being made on this very relevant and current subject, the theme of Captain Phillips seems to have found a connection with the officers as it deals with the hijack of a container ship and the kidnapping of its captain by Somali pirates. Captain Phillips is based on real life story of Captain Richard Phillips who was held captive by four Somali Pirates in 2009.

     

    Two-time Oscar winner Tom Hanks plays the role of Richard Phillips in the movie. The movie which was recognised as one of the best movies of 2013 by Rolling Stone magazine is directed by Paul Greengrass.

     

    Sony Pictures India MD Kercy Daruwala said, “An extensive local word-of-mouth programme for the film has built excitement for this film. We are confident that the film is a commercial entertainer as well as a critical success and are expecting great things for this film in In

     

    Commander- in- Chief, Western Command – Indian Navy, Vice Admiral Shekhar Sinha commented on the film saying, “Captain Phillips is an amazing movie. The film is a realistic portrayal of a hostage situation. Captain Richard Phillips’ character played by Tom Hanks is also very inspiring.”

     

    Captain Phillips recounts the true-life ordeal of Richard Phillips, the captain of a US-flagged cargo ship, the MV Maersk Alabama, sailing with a 20-man crew and 17,000 metric tons of cargo that was bound for Kenya in April 2009 when it was abducted by Somali pirates. The movie is already being pronounced as Oscar-worthy (especially for Tom Hanks’ portrayal) and received a standing ovation at the New York Film Festival recently.

  • Film based on Stephen Kings novel attracts 40 million viral views

    Film based on Stephen Kings novel attracts 40 million viral views

    NEW DELHI: The Carrie viral “Telekinesis” video has been wildly successful on YouTube with nearly 40 million views since its launch last week.

     

    The thriller horror film Carrie directed by Kimberly Peirce with a screenplay by Roberto Aguirre-Sacasa and based on the book by Stephen King will hit the silver screen on 10 January.

     

    It stars Chloë Grace Moretz, Judy Greer, Portia Doubleday, Alex Russell, Gabriella Wilde, Ansel Elgort, and Julianne Moore.

     

    A re-imagining of the classic horror tale about Carrie White, a shy girl outcast by her peers and sheltered by her deeply religious mother, who unleashes telekinetic terror on her small town after being pushed too far at her senior prom.

     

    Watch the video at http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VlOxlSOr3_M

  • American Film Market 2013 to screen 402 films from 51 countries

    American Film Market 2013 to screen 402 films from 51 countries

    NEW DELHI: American Film Market 2013 will screen 402 films, including 321 market premieres and 75 world premieres, from 51 countries.

     

    Films in 30 languages will be screened for more than 8,000 buyers and industry professionals from more than 70 countries, according to Independent Film & Television Alliance, AFM managing director and executive VP Jonathan Wolf.

    The market is being held from 6 to 13 November in Santa Monica in California by the Independent Film & Television Alliance.

     

    Films premiering include the works of Zach Braff, Abigail Breslin, Pierce Brosnan, James Caan, Nicolas Cage, Helena Bonham Carter, Jessica Chastain, Viola Davis, Judi Dench, Gerard Depardieu, Richard Dreyfuss, Jesse Eisenberg, Chiwetal Ejoifor, Idris Elba, Dakota Fanning, Jenna Fischer, James Franco, Bill Hader, Josh Hartnett, Val Kilmer, Ben Kingsley, Mila Kunis, Cory Monteith, Thandie Newton, Haley Joel Osment, Daniel Radcliffe, Emma Roberts, Peter Sarsgaard, Amy Smart, Emma Thompson, Stanley Tucci, Kanye West, Jay Z and many more.

     

    Films making their market premiere include: Kiss Me (American Cinema International) starring Jenna Fischer, Emily Osment, Missi Pyle and John Corbett; Around the Block (Arclight Films) starring Christina Ricci, Hunter Page-Lochard and Mark Coles Smith; Le Grand Cahier (Beta Cinema) starring Laszlo Gyemant, Andras Gyemant, Piroska Molnar, Ulrich Thomsen, Ulrich Matthes and Sabin Tambrea; McCanick (Bleiberg Entertainment) starring David Morse, Cory Monteith, Mike Vogel, Ciaran Hinds, Tracie Thoms and Rachel Nichols; Cas and Dylan (Breakthrough Entertainment) directed by Jason Priestley, starring Richard Dreyfuss and Tatiana Maslany; The F Word (Entertainment One) starring Daniel Radcliffe, Zoe Kazan, Adam Driver and Rafe Spall; World Petank Tour (Europa Corp) starring Gerard Depardieu, Atmen Kelif, Edouard Baer, Daniel Prevost, Virginie Efira and Roschdy Zem; The Young and Prodigious T.S. Spivet (Gaumont) starring Helena Bonham Carter, Kyle Catlett, Callum Keith Rennie and Judy Davis; Young Detective Dee: Rise of the Sea Dragon (Huayi Brothers) starring Mark Zhao, Angelababy Yang and Carina Lau; The Sea (Independent) starring Ciaran Hinds, Charlotte Rampling and Rufus Sewell; Some Velvet Morning (International Film Trust) starring Stanley Tucci and Alice Eve; Walking with the Enemy (Koan Inc.) starring Ben Kingsley and Jonas Armstrong; Half of a Yellow Sun (Metro International Entertainment) starring Thandie Newton and Chiwetel Ejoifor; The Disappearance of Eleanor Rigby: Him & Her  (Myriad) starring Jessica Chastain, Viola Davis, James McAvoy, William Hurt, Isabelle Huppert, Ciaran Hinds and Bill Hader; Mandela: Long Walk to Freedom (Pathe International) starring Idris Elba and Naomie Harris; God Only Knows (Synchronicity Entertainment) starring Ben Barnes, Toby Jones, Leighton Meester and Harvey Keitel.

     

    Additional market premieres include Palo Alto (Pathe International) starring Emma Roberts, James Franco and Val Kilmer; Philomena (Pathe International) starring Judi Dench and Steve Coogan; Love Punch (SND M6 Group) starring Pierce Brosnan and Emma Thompson; Tar (Spotlight Pictures) starring James Franco, Mila Kunis, Jessica Chastain, Zach Braff, Henry Hopper and  Bruce Campbell; Before the Winter Chill (TF1 International) starring Daniel Auteuil, Kristin Scott Thomas, Leila Bekhti and Richard Berry; C.O.G. (The Exchange) starring Jonathan Groff, Denis O’Hare and Corey Stoll; Made in America (The Exchange)directed by Ron Howard, starring Jay Z and Kanye West; Night Moves (The Match Factory) starring Jesse Eisenberg, Dakota Fanning and Peter Sarsgaard; Two Night Stand (The Solution Entertainment Group) starring Miles Teller, Analeigh Lipton and Jessica Szohr; and Joe (West End Films) starring Nicolas Cage and Tye Sheridan.

  • ‘Franklin & Bash’ renewed for fourth season at TNT

    ‘Franklin & Bash’ renewed for fourth season at TNT

    MUMBAI: TNT has renewed Franklin & Bash for a fourth season. The summer drama, which wrapped its third season in August, will be back with another run of 10 original episodes as part of the Turner-owned network’s summer lineup.

     

    The legal dramedy, which stars Mark-Paul Gosselaar and Breckin Meyer as young, unconventional attorneys, will join fellow summer scripted originals, including Falling Skies, Perception, Rizzoli & Isles and Major Crimes.

     

    The renewal for the former bubble series comes as TNT is ramping up its original fare in a bid for year-round scripted programming.

  • Brie Larson hopes to star opposite Mark Wahlberg in ‘The Gambler’

    Brie Larson hopes to star opposite Mark Wahlberg in ‘The Gambler’

    MUMBAI: Brie Larson is in talks for the female lead opposite Mark Wahlberg in the Paramount’s remake of the 1974 drama The Gambler that starred James Caan.

     

    Rupert Wyatt is directing the movie, which focuses on Jim Bennett, a college literature professor, being played by Wahlberg, whose vices cause his life to spiral out of control.

     

    Larson repped by Gersh and ROAR will play one of Bennett’s students with whom he’s in love.

     

    Irwin Winkler and Robert Chartoff are producing the film.

  • Weinstein Company to distribute ‘Macbeth’

    Weinstein Company to distribute ‘Macbeth’

    MUMBAI: The Weinstein Company has closed a deal for distributing a new version of Macbeth that will star Michael Fassbender and Marrion Cottilard. It is being directed by Justin Kurzel that has the original lines but the visual will be scaled up.

     

    The film is produced by Iain Canning and Emile Sherman. Fassbender comes off from 12 Years a Slave while Cottilard replaced Natalie Portman this year for the role of Lady Macbeth.

     

    TWC had been bidding for it against Fox Searchlight. Shooting is to commence early next year. Jacob Koskoff and Todd Louiso have written the script. The Shakespeare drama has been made several times.