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  • Horrible Bosses 2 sets Thanksgiving release date

    Horrible Bosses 2 sets Thanksgiving release date

    Mumbai: With a recurring cast the New Line movie is slated to release on 26 November 2014. With 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. Only one other movie is releasing on the same day, Fox animated ‘Home’. Another movie releasing near the date is Lionsgate’s ‘The Hunger Games: Mockingjay’ on 21 November.

     

    A lot is expected from the second installment since the first one got more than $200 million worldwide. It was directed by Seth Gordon. Filming will begin in November this year. John Daley and Jonathan Goldstein will be scripting the sequel as well.

  • Gregory Plotkin to direct Paranormal Activity 5

    Gregory Plotkin to direct Paranormal Activity 5

    Mumbai: Gregory Plotkin, who served as the editor and co-producer of the last three paranormal activity movies, is all set to have his directorial debut with the fifth installment of the popular horror series.

     

    He has also worked on another movie called ‘Paranormal Activity: The Marked ones’, due to release in January next year.

     

    With a long list of credits as an editor or assistant editor on films such as ‘The Insider’ and ‘The Break-up’, he now gets to be a lead behind the camera.

     

    The story is being written by Jason Pagan and Andrew Deutschman. Plotkin is repped by WME and Circle of Confusion. Jason Blum and Oren Peli are producers.

  • Katie Holmes to be part of The Giver

    Katie Holmes to be part of The Giver

    Mumbai: Katie Holmes has finalised a deal to be a part of ‘The Giver’, a drama from the Weinstein Company and Walden Media. The movie is directed by Phillip Noyce.

     

    Brenton Thwaites plays the lead role in the movie that talks about a world where there is no sickness, racism or conflict.

     

    Thwaites plays the role of a young boy who is selected for his life service as Receiver of Memories with ‘The giver’ (Jeff Bridges) who is an old man teaching the boy to use his unique gifts of the senses.

     

    Meryl Streep plays the society’s chief elder, an authoritarian woman who assigns young kids tasks to do.  Holmes will be playing the mother of Thwaites. Her role is that of a strict obeyer of the rules of the society that can be named as an antiseptic society.

     

    Michael Mitnick has scripted the adaptation and will be shot in South Africa.
    The movie is eying a budget of around $25 million.

  • Jennifer Lawrence and Gary Ross team up for East of Eden

    Jennifer Lawrence and Gary Ross team up for East of Eden

    MUMBAI: A deal has been finalised between Universal Pictures and Imagine Entertainment’s Brian Grazer with the John Steinbeck estate to recreate the novel ‘East of Eden’ written by John Steinbeck.

    It will also see ‘Hunger Games’ team of Jennifer Lawrence and Gary Ross together again.

    Apparently, two movies will be made on the book. The pair is also going to be seen together in ‘Burial Rites’. The picture will go on floor for production after Ross directs his movie ‘Peter and the Starcatchers’. Lawrence also has two movies lined up- ‘The Hunger Games: Catching fire’ and ‘American Hustle’.
    The film’s executive producer is Anna Culp. The book deal was made by RWSG’s Agency’s Geoff Sanford, Jill Gillett and Elizabeth Winick Rubinstein.

  • Codeblack acquires Frankie and Alice starring Halle Berry

    Codeblack acquires Frankie and Alice starring Halle Berry

    MUMBAI: The label under Lionsgate-Codeblack Films has got the rights for the movie ‘Frankie and Alice’ for North America. The movie is set to release in April next year.

     

    The movie stars Halle Berry and is about a woman with a multiple personality disorder and how she copes with it. Although the film debuted at Cannes 2010, it was halted after that. Directed by Geoffrey Sax it also stars Stellan Skarsgard, Phylicia Rashad and Chandra Wilson.

     

    Codeblack focuses on movies for the African-American market. The movie is produced by Vincent Cirrincione and Berry. Berry also got a Golden Globe nomination for the psychological drama, which released for a limited audience in December 2010.

     

    Halle Berry is known for her roles in ‘Catwoman’, James Bond and the ‘X men’ series. Superhero sequel ‘Captain America: The Winter Soldier’ and crime drama ‘Dom Hemingway’ are also slated to open in theaters in April 2014.

  • Lionsgate and OddLot sign a pact

    Lionsgate and OddLot sign a pact

    MUMBAI: The two giants will be coming together for a multi-film deal commencing with Johny Depp starrer Mortdecai. The other movie the two are working on is Draft Day.

     

    The deal is to co-finance and distribute the films.

     

    OddLot has emerged as one of the most influential financing and production companies and currently has Rosewater in the bag that is Jon Stewart’s directorial debut.

     

    The deal was negotiated by Sean Kisker, David Friedman and Jean Chi from Lionsgate and Bill Lischak, Michael Nathanson, Aaron Michiel and Natalya Petrosova from OddLot.
    Mortdecai is set to begin its production end of the year while Draft Day is still under process.

  • Image Entertainment acquires thriller Odd Thomas

    Image Entertainment acquires thriller Odd Thomas

    “Director Stephen Sommers’s spectacular style and extraordinary vision translates so well to the big screen for this material,” said Bromiley. “We are proud to distribute the film and introduce the magical world of Odd Thomas to a wider audience.”

     

    The deal was negotiated by Bromiley, Mark Ward and Jess De Leo on behalf of Image Entertainment and Paul Hudson on behalf of the filmmakers.

     

    Dean Koontz is an American author, known for his bestselling suspense thrillers. Fourteen of his novels reached the number one position on the New York Times hardcover and paperback bestsellers lists, including Odd Hours, Midnight, The Bad Place, Cold Fire, Hideaway, Dragon Tears, Intensity, Sole Survivor, From the Corner of His Eye, One Door Away From Heaven, The Husband, Relentless, What the Night Knows and 77 Shadow Street. Koontz is one of only a dozen writers that have achieved this milestone. His books have been published in 38 languages and he has sold over 450 million copies to date.

     

    Recent Image Entertainment releases include The Colony with Laurence Fishburne, Bill Paxton and Kevin Zegers, Paradise with Julianne Hough, Russell Brand, Octavia Spencer and Holly Hunter, written, directed and produced by Diablo Cody and the upcoming The Adventurer: The Curse of the Midas Box starring Michael Sheen, Lena Headey, Sam Neill and Aneurin Barnard and Rage starring Nicolas Cage and Danny Glover.

  • The Dumb and Dumber duo is back

    The Dumb and Dumber duo is back

    MUMBAI: And now the moment a few of you might have been waiting for: Here’s the first look of the stars on the set of Dumb And Dumber To:  Jeff Daniels, hot off his Best Actor Emmy win on Sunday, and Jim Carrey, hot off – well, Kick-Ass 2 and The Incredible Burt Wonderstone.

    The duo appears to have lapsed easily back into those lovable knuckleheads Harry and Lloyd, a mere two decades after New Line’s Dumb And Dumber grossed a quarter-billion dollars worldwide. Universal is shepherding the madness this time around. There is no word yet on a release date.

    Dumb and Dumber was a 1994 American buddy comedy film starring Jim Carrey, Jeff Daniels and Lauren Holly. It was written and directed by the Farrelly brothers, and was their directorial debut. The film followed the cross-country trek of Lloyd Christmas and Harry Dunne, two good-natured but incredibly moronic friends who were trying to return a briefcase full of money to its owner.

    The film was released on 16 December 1994. While initial reception towards Dumb and Dumber was mixed, it was a commercial success and has developed a cult following in the years since. The success of Dumb and Dumber launched the career of the Farrelly brothers and helped advance Carrey’s. The movie spawned an animated TV series, a 2003 prequel, and now this sequel, slated for a 2014 release.

  • Catherine Deneuve to receive European Film Academy Lifetime Achievement Award

    Catherine Deneuve to receive European Film Academy Lifetime Achievement Award

    MUMBAI: Catherine Deneuve, whose decades-long career has made her a prominent name in French cinema, will receive the Lifetime Achievement Award from the European Film Academy.

     

    Her roles in Jacques Demy’s The Umbrellas of Cherbourg in 1964 and Repulsion by Roman Polanski in 1965 catapulted her to stardom, and since then she has gone on to work with industry heavyweights such as the late Spanish filmmaker Luis Bunuel in Belle de Jour and Tristana, French director and screenwriter Jean-Pierre Melville in Un Flic and Andre Techine in Ma Saison Preferee and Les Voleurs.

     

    Deneuve earned her first Cesar in 1981 for her role in The Last Metro by Francois Truffaut, and received another Cesar and an Oscar nomination for her role in Regis Wargnier’s Indochine. Her other accolades include a Volpi Cup at the Venice Film Festival and a Berlin Silver Bear.

     

    Deneuve has also delved into Hollywood, having guest starred in TV series Nip/Tuck and appearing in a sex scene with Susan Sarandon as a bisexual vampire in Tony Scott’s 1983 film The Hunger.

     

    Recently, she starred in Berlin competition title On My Way and will appear in Andrew Techine’s L’homme que l’on aimait trop and Benoit Jacquot’s Trois Coeurs. She will be an honorary guest at the 26th European Film Awards Ceremony on 7 December in Berlin.

  • Futuristic Jodie Foster-Matt Dimon starrer Elysium set for Friday release

    Futuristic Jodie Foster-Matt Dimon starrer Elysium set for Friday release

    NEW DELHI: Elysium, a futuristic science fiction action drama directed by Neill Blomkamp (writer, director District 9) which is reflective of the situation today is being released in Hindi and English on 27 September.

     

    The 109-minute film stars Matt Damon, Jodie Foster, Sharlto Copley, Alice Braga, Diego Luna, William Fichtner, and Wagner Moura.

     

    In the year 2159, two classes of people exist: the very wealthy, who live on a pristine man-made space station called Elysium, and the rest, who live on an overpopulated, ruined Earth.

     

    The people of Earth are desperate to escape the planet’s crime and poverty, and they critically need the state-of-the-art medical care available on Elysium – but some in Elysium will stop at nothing to enforce anti-immigration laws and preserve their citizens’ luxurious lifestyle.

     

    The only man with the chance to bring equality to these worlds is Max, an ordinary guy in desperate need to get to Elysium.  With his life hanging in the balance, he reluctantly takes on a dangerous mission – one that pits him against Elysium’s Secretary Delacourt and her hard-line forces – but if he succeeds, he could save not only his own life, but millions of people on Earth as well.