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  • Iron Man 3 to be made in China

    Iron Man 3 to be made in China

    MUMBAI: The Walt Disney Company China, Marvel Studios and DMG Entertainment have decided to co-produce Iron Man 3 in China.
    Under the arrangement, DMG Entertainment will make an investment in the production of the film, manage the Chinese co-production process and jointly produce the film in China.
    “We look forward to working alongside DMG to bring Iron Man to the Chinese marketplace in a significant way. We are confident that Marvel’s stories will continue to be enjoyed by Chinese audiences, and adding a local flavour, and working with our new local partner, will enhance the appeal and relevance of our characters in China’s fast-growing film marketplace” said Marvel Studios general manager of operations and finance Rob Steffens.

    The Chinese portion of Iron Man 3’s production will run through DMG Entertainment in coordination with Marvel Studios’ production and creative teams. It will also distribute the film in China in collaboration with the China unit of the Walt Disney Company China.
    “The popularity of the Marvel franchise globally creates a huge opportunity to deliver fans yet another action packed film,” said, The Walt Disney Company, Greater China managing director Stanley Cheung. “The co-production of Iron Man 3 in China is testimony to the importance of this audience to Disney and the local industry capability to deliver a blockbuster title,” he added.
    Iron Man 3, the third film in the billion-dollar plus franchise from Marvel, stars a returning cast including Robert Downey Jr., Gwyneth Paltrow and Don Cheadle.
    Iron Man 3 is produced by Kevin Feige and executive produced by Alan Fine, Stan Lee, Louis D‘Esposito, Charles Newirth, Victoria Alonso, Stephen Broussard and Dan Mintz.

    The film, releasing in the US on 3 May, is being distributed by Walt Disney Studios Motion Pictures in all territories worldwide other than in China and Germany/Austria.

  • Bill Murray may do Ghostbusters 3

    Bill Murray may do Ghostbusters 3

    MUMBAI: Bill Murray has said that he might feature in a third instalment of the Ghostbusters franchise.
    The film, which director Ivan Reitman along with writers and stars of the films Harold Ramis and Dan Aykroyd, have been trying to develop for the last few years, has already been devoid of Sigourney Weaver with her turning down the film without Murray on board.

    Murray, who had sworn off the film earlier, seems to have softened to the idea of reprising his role as Dr Peter Venkman.
    There is no definitive word yet on how far negotiations on Ghostbusters 3 have progressed.
    Murray, who in recent years has taken on more serious or offbeat roles, will next be seen in Wes Anderson‘s Moonrise Kingdom.

  • Titanic storms China; grosses $88.2 million overseas

    Titanic storms China; grosses $88.2 million overseas

    MUMBAI: Going by the grand opening of Titanic 3D in China, the film took on the role of No. 1 box office champ in the foreign theatrical circuit. It grossed $88.2 million from 9,889 venues in 69 overseas territories covering more than 100 countries.
    In fact, the film tally of $58 million drawn from 3,500 sites in China accounted for the lion‘s share of the total weekend intake thus giving its distributor 20th Century Fox‘s its biggest opening gross in the market ever.

    According to 20th Century Fox , the film‘s six-day China bow was 32 per cent more than the total market gross of the original Titanic in China in 1998 of $44 million.
    The epic love story with the background of the Titanic, now in its second round of foreign release also chalked up notable numbers in Russia ($2.75 million from 972 sites).
    A No. 2 second weekend in the UK drew $2.9 million from 508 locations, while Italy contributed $2.7 million from 389 sites and France drew $2.6 million from 362 spots. Germany came in with $2.2 million from 497 locations.
    The foreign gross total for Titanic 3D stands at $146.4 million over two rounds, which, when combined with the original‘s overseas run, puts the offshore total tally at $1.4 billion. Worldwide, Titanic has pushed past the $2 billion mark.
    Opening at just about half the total of Titanic 3D was Universal‘s Battleship based on a Hasbro naval combat game about sea warfare with an alien armada. Debut weekend take from 26 offshore markets came to $58 million collected from 4,950 situations. The film ranks No. 2 on the weekend.
    Also opening on the foreign circuit on the weekend was Lionsgate‘s The Cabin In The Woods. Playing at some 800 situations in four markets, the horror film grossed an estimated $3.4 million with a No. 3 bow in the UK providing $2.5 million from 412 screens.
    Third on the weekend was Warner Bros.‘ Wrath of the Titans, the foreign circuit‘s box office champ for the prior two weekends. This time the 3D action fantasy co-starring Sam Worthington, Liam Neeson and Ralph Fiennes grossed $16 million from some 9,000 screens in 63 markets.

  • Jolie in talks to star in The Counsellor

    Jolie in talks to star in The Counsellor

    MUMBAI: Angelina Jolie is in negotiations to star in director Ridley Scott‘s upcoming narco-thriller The Counselor.

    The 36-year-old actress will most likely play a small role in the upcoming film just a few weeks after her partner Brad Pitt was said to have a discussion for another small role in the same film, it is understood.

    It is possible for Jolie to join Scott‘s project as she will not begin filming her next film Maleficent until late June or early July. Scott himself has scheduled a June start for the film.

    The Counselor, which is described as No Country for Old Men on steroids, follows a respected lawyer who thinks he can dip a toe in to the drug business without getting sucked down.

    It is said that Michael Fassbender is being tapped to star in the male lead.

  • Cameron moving to New Zealand

    Cameron moving to New Zealand

    MUMBAI: James Cameron is moving to New Zealand with his family where he wants to run a farm and help build the local film industry. Cameron, who directed blockbusters like Terminator 2: Judgment Day, Titanic and Avatar, has purchased 250 hectares and applied for residency.
    Speaking on Skype from an expedition at sea, Cameron told ONE News he had bought a block of land near Featherston.
    Cameron said moving Downunder had been his long cherished dream after he fell in love with the countryside and people during time here in 1994.
    The Oscar-winning director said he will be turning to the community for advice.

  • Vodka O organizes short film fest

    Vodka O organizes short film fest

    MUMBAI: Vodka O has launched a short film competition for budding filmmakers.

    The organizers have promised that the winning film would be shown at the Sydney Film Festival, with its screening on the 12 days of the festival and also on SFF TV at Martin Place between 6 and 17 June. It will also run on the brand‘s Facebook page and on YouTube.
    The winner will also gain full rights to use the film in his folio, as well as be introduced to special guests at the Opening Night Celebration Party.
    Vodka O will also throw the winner their own private screening party.
     

  • Warner acquires filming rights of Roger Hobb novel

    Warner acquires filming rights of Roger Hobb novel

    MUMBAI: Beating out several other interested parties, Warner Bros. has acquired filming rights of Roger Hobbs‘ novel The Ghostman. The deal for the thriller is said to be in the low six figures.

    Leonardo DiCaprio‘s Appian Way Productions was among the suitors interested in acquiring rights to the novel, according to a source.
    The Ghostman centers on a man who aids bank robbers in disappearing after they pull off their heists. Hobbs‘ novel will be released by Knopf in September 2013.
    The film also stars Ryan Gosling and Sean Penn.
    The film will be produced by Kevin McCormick under his Langley Park Pictures banner.

  • Film Movement acquires US rights of Hitler’s Children

    Film Movement acquires US rights of Hitler’s Children

    MUMBAI: Film Movement has acquired the domestic distribution rights of Hitler‘s Children, an Israeli documentary about the descendants of top Nazi officials including Adolf Eichmann, Hermann Goring, Heinrich Himmler and Hans Frank.

    The documentary, which has been lauded at several Jewish film festivals around the world, introduces audiences to the children, grandchildren, nieces and nephews of these infamous men.

    Many of these descendants have spent their lives trying to divorce themselves from their Nazi lineage, including Niklas Frank, son of Hans Frank and godson of Adolf Hitler (Hitler was childless). Niklas Frank has spent his life speaking out against his father, often touring Germany to lecture about him and the Nazi regime.
    Bettina Goring also is profiled in the documentary. The great-niece of Hermann Goring, Hitler‘s second in command, she lives in voluntary exile in Santa Fe, N.M.. Both she and her brother decided to be sterilized as to end their family line.

    The film will open in New York in the third quarter of 2012 with a limited national roll out to follow.

    It will premiere day and date on VOD.

  • Tom Hanks, Emma Thompson in Saving Mr Banks

    Tom Hanks, Emma Thompson in Saving Mr Banks

    MUMBAI: Tom Hanks and Emma Thompson have been signed to play pivotal roles in a film based on Disney‘s Mary Poppins titled Saving Mr Banks.

    The film, scripted by Kelly Marcel, details how Walt Disney spent 14 years coaxing PL Travers, the Australian author of Mary Poppins, to adapt her books about the magical nanny.
    Travers resisted for a long time because she feared Disney would make an animated adaptation. The studio finally made a live-action movie in 1964 that starred Julie Andrews and Dick Van Dyke. But the film was not without the animated sequences that turned Travers off from working with Disney again.

    The studio picked up the Black List script earlier this year and later signed John Lee Hancock to direct.

    Hanks is currently shooting for Sony‘s true-life tale Captain Phillips about a captain who dealt with Somali pirates during the hijacking of the Maersk Alabama. Thompson, who will be seen in Men in Black III has done a voice over in Pixar‘s Brave.

  • Spielberg’s Jaws to release on Blu-Ray on 14 August

    Spielberg’s Jaws to release on Blu-Ray on 14 August

    MUMBAI: Steven Spielberg‘s Jaws that shattered box office records in 1975 debuts in high definition this August with improved picture, an expanded sound mix and a collection of in-depth bonus materials.
     
    It releases on Blu-ray on 14 August on Universal Studios Home Entertainment According to a press release issued by Universal, Jaws was restored from the original camera negative after researching and evaluating all of the existing film elements, which included inter-positives, 35mm prints and other materials.
     
    Using New York‘s Cineric restoration facility, Universal scanned the negative "through a liquid gate process that eliminates surface scratches." The files of this scanned film were transferred to servers at Universal Studios Digital Services, where technicians of the studio‘s balanced colour, removed dirt and scratches and otherwise repaired any damage on a frame-by-frame basis.

    The 1975 film joins a collection of 13 that Universal is digitally re-mastering and restoring to commemorate the studio‘s 100th Anniversary celebration.