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  • Nicole Kidman to be lead in The Silent Wife

    Nicole Kidman to be lead in The Silent Wife

    MUMBAI: An adaptation of the novel by A.S.A Harrison will be produced by Nicole Kidman in which she herself will star in. Paula Mazur and Mitchell Kaplan have teamed with Kidman and Blossom Films to produce it. Kidman owns Blossom Films.

     

    The story is about an affluent Chicago couple who have been together for 20 years living a stable life. However, the husband is cheating on the wife while Kidman’s priority is to take care of him. The deal was made with Harrison’s estate.

     

    Kidman is popular for her roles in Moulin Rouge!, The Hours, Batman Forever and Far and Away. Kidman is repped by CAA and Media Talent Group.

  • Angry Birds movie gets two directors

    Angry Birds movie gets two directors

    MUMBAI: The popular phone game is all set to be made into a feature film and directed by Clay Kaytis and Fergal Reilly. It will be based on the game by Rovio Entertainment.

     

    Kaytis has an experience of 19 years and has recently worked on the animation Tangled as well as Wreck-It Ralph. The upcoming Frozen also has his name to the list.

     

    Reily has been with Sony for nearly 10 years and has served as storyboard artist on the likes of Hotel Transylvania, Cloudy With A Chance Of Meatballs as well as its sequel. He was also head of story at Sony Pictures Animation.

     

    It will be a directorial debut for both of them as well as the first feature for Rovio. It is producing the pic in-house.

     

    John Cohen is producing it along with Catherine Winder while David Maisel is executive producing. Jon Vitti is writing the script.

  • Horrible Bosses on the lookout for new a new Boss

    Horrible Bosses on the lookout for new a new Boss

    MUMBAI: The first movie opened to some spectacular reviews with Colin Farrell getting named as the worst boss in the movie. However, in the sequel, New Line is trying to find a replacement who can be an even worse boss than Farrell.

     

    Apparently, they have checked out Chris Pine and Christoph Waltz to play a father and son duo of Horrible Bosses in the upcoming flick. However, rumours are that Waltz hasn’t agreed but Pine has.

     

    The movie also has a new director- Sean Anders. The cast is Jason Bateman, Jason Sudeikis and Charlie Dey. It’s produced by Brett Ratner and Jay Stern while John Cheng and John Rickard are exec producers.

     

    The first movie collected an astonishing $200 million worldwide and was directed by Seth Gordon. The sequel is to be written by John Daley and Jonathan Goldstein who worked on the first one as well.

  • World Film Premiere Festival to coincide with International Film Expo in Manila

    World Film Premiere Festival to coincide with International Film Expo in Manila

    NEW DELHI: A World Premiere Film Festival is to be launched by the Film Development Council of the Philippines (FDCP) in June next year to coincide with the annual International Film Expo (IFX)

     

    The inaugural edition will host 25 to 30 feature films including a 12-film competition and a programme of films from ASEAN countries. Organisers expect that the competition films will be world premieres or, at least, Asian premieres.

     

    The festival has already struck a partnership with the Shanghai International Film Festival, which will next year screen a programme of films from the Philippines. The Manila event will be hosted either before or after SIFF.

     

    WPFF will be hosted at SM Mall of Asia and at the new SM Aura in Metro Manila’s Taguig City, which includes a 449-seat IMAX screen.

     

    The festival also hopes to introduce a distribution component so that films have a life after the festival.

     

    According to FDCP Head Briccio G. Santos, he is already in talks with various embassies in Manila – including those of Italy and Spain – to secure films to broaden the range of foreign films reaching local cinemas.

  • Doug Liman plans Captain Phillips in a sub with Ridley Scott

    Doug Liman plans Captain Phillips in a sub with Ridley Scott

    MUMBAI: Doug Liman is in talks with Fox and producers Ridley Scott and Simon Kinberg to direct Narco Sub, the script by David Guggenheim. The plot: After a captain’s son is kidnapped by a drug cartel, he is blackmailed into piloting a broken down rebuilt sub from South America to the US, carrying 20 tons of cocaine.

     

    It sounds a bit like Captain Phillips. Scott and Michael Schaeffer will produce with Kinberg. Resolution is working on Liman’s deal.

  • Brenton Thwaites gets lead role in Gods of Egypt

    Brenton Thwaites gets lead role in Gods of Egypt

    MUMBAI: Brenton Thwaites, newbie in Hollywood has got another movie added to his portfolio. After bagging a role in The Giver, he will be next seen in Gods of Egypt. Gerard Butler who has a part in Game of Thrones will be seen in the movie as well.

     

    Alex Proyas is set to direct the movie along with Summit Entertainment period epic film. Scripted by Burk Sharpless and Matt Sazama, the movie is about Egyptian gods in which Thwaites will be playing a human thief.

     

    Thwaites also has Prince Charming opposite Angelina Jolie in Maleficent. He has just done two movies – Ride and The Signal. Thwaites is repped by Dan Spilo at Industry Entertainment and WME.

     

    The 23 year old actor did some popular shows in Australia, his home country such as Home and Away.

  • Salma Hayek to star in How to make love like an Englishman

    Salma Hayek to star in How to make love like an Englishman

    MUMBAI: Mexican bombshell Salma Hayek has joined in the lead trio of the movie How to make love like an Englishman along with Pierce Brosnan and Jessica Alba. Tom Vaughn will direct the sexually charged romantic comedy.

     

    Scripted by Matthew Newman, the movie has Brosnan playing a university professor who finds his ideal match in Hayek. So he decides to give up the pleasures that he is indulging in. However he meets Hayek after he has impregnated Alba who is Hayek’s stepsister and a student.

     

    Produced by Richard Lewis, Beau St Clair and Kevin Frakes, the movie is a co-production between Palmstar Media Capital, Southpaw Entertainment, Irish Dreamtime and Envision.

     

    Brosnan is exec producer along with Raj Brinder Singh, Lisa Wilson, Myles Nestel and Remington Chase. The film is funded by Merced Media Partners and Palmstar.

     

    Pierce Brosnan has got another film lined up for him- I T.

  • China Oscars to see Hollywood fraternity

    China Oscars to see Hollywood fraternity

    MUMBAI: China’s Huading awards are set to see some high profile Hollywood actors such as Quentin Tarantino, Nicole Kidman and Nicholas Cage. The award night is to be held at Macau on 7 October.

     

    The award show is based on voting for top athletics and entertainment talent and is a type of Chinese Oscars. Sam Worthington from Avatar, Jeremy Irons and Matthew Perry from F.R.I.E.N.D.S are the other stars that are to be seen at the event.

     

    Hong Kong auteur Wong Kar Wai and Jackie Chan will be the representatives of China.

     

    The awards event was set up in 2007 by Media Company Global Talents Media group in Beijing and is held many times a year to honour talents in various fields.

  • Blue Jasmine release in India cancelled

    Blue Jasmine release in India cancelled

    MUMBAI: Blue Jasmine was to release last weekend in India but the hope was denied as director Woody Allen refused to comply with anti-tobacco norms in the country. According to the Indian government rule, anti-tobacco ads are displayed before movies are screened and a text message is inserted while a smoking  scene is taking place on screen, for all Indian as well as foreign movies.

     

    The movie was to be released by PVR cinemas. According to a statement made by PVR Pictures COO Deepak Sharma, Allen is said to have told that when the message is shown, the audience’s attention is diverted to it rather than to the scene.

     

    Blue Jasmine is a critically acclaimed movie that stars Cate Blanchett as a wealthy socialite who is struggling to fit into reality once her husband is caught for financial fraud.

     

    Previously, another movie faced release issues – The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo – due to censor board wanting to delete a few scenes from the movie.

  • Daniel Radcliffes Horns acquired by Dimension & RADiUS-TWC

    Daniel Radcliffes Horns acquired by Dimension & RADiUS-TWC

    MUMBAI: Dimension and RADiUS-TWC have acquired US rights to Horns, the Alexandre Aja-directed thriller that stars Daniel Radcliffe, Juno Temple, Max Minghella, Joe Anderson, Kelli Garner, Heather Graham, David Morse, Kathleen Quinlan and James Remar.

     

    The deal was for multiple millions, rivaling the largest deals made for the other Toronto films.

     

    Keith Bunin wrote the script, based on the novel by comic book author Joe Hill. The logline: After being blamed for the death of his longtime girlfriend (Temple), a small-town guy (Radcliffe) awakens one morning to find a pair of horns growing from his head. The film was produced by Red Granite Pictures founders and producing partners Riza Aziz and Joey McFarland in addition to Mandalay’s Cathy Shulman. Aja is also a producer.

     

    Dimension chief Bob Weinstein and RADiUS-TWC co-presidents Tom Quinn and Jason Janego have been working on this deal since the festival. It was certainly a talked-up title that several distributors pursued. They haven’t figured out the release configuration but are looking at 2014.

     

    “I enjoyed working with Alex Aja on Piranha 3D,” said Weinstein. “I think he’s made a masterful film in Horns, and I’m thrilled to continue our relationship.”

     

    RADiUS co-presidents Quinn and Janego, who confirmed the deal, called the film “a devilish wild ride. Visionary director Alexandre Aja delivers one of the coolest and most daring genre titles we’ve seen in quite some time. While Daniel Radcliffe’s flawless turn as ‘IG’ is sure to go down as one of the great anti-heroes of all time. We couldn’t be more excited to work with Alexandre, Joe, Riza, Joey and Cathy on this terrific film.”