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  • ‘Captain Phillips’ based on true story releases this Friday

    ‘Captain Phillips’ based on true story releases this Friday

    NEW DELHI: Captain Phillips, an action thriller that has already won rave reviews on the festival circuit in parts of the world, is being released in Indian theatres on 18 October.

    Directed by Paul Greengrass (The Bourne movies), it stars Tom Hanks, Barkhad Abdi, and Catherine Keener in stellar roles

    The 134-minute film has been certified with a U/A certificate.   

    Columbia Pictures’ action-thriller Captain Phillips stars two-time Oscar winner Tom Hanks in the true story of Captain Richard Phillips and the 2009 hijacking by Somali pirates of the US-flagged MV Maersk Alabama, the first American cargo ship to be hijacked in two hundred years.

    The film is directed by Oscar nominee Paul Greengrass, from a screenplay by Billy Ray and based upon the book, A Captain’s Duty: Somali Pirates, Navy SEALs, and Dangerous Days at Sea, by Richard Phillips with Stephan Talty. The film is produced by Scott Rudin, Dana Brunetti, and Michael De Luca.

    The trailer can be seen via this link: http://youtu.be/RORUYFWzE2A

  • Kate Beckinsale to be a part of ‘The Face of an Angel’

    Kate Beckinsale to be a part of ‘The Face of an Angel’

    MUMBAI: A drama directed by Michael Winterbottom will soon see Kate Beckinsale be a part of the crew alongside Daniel Bruhl and Cara Delevingne.

    Scripted by Paul Viragh, the film is based on the book ‘Angel Face’ by Barbie Nadeau with a plot loosely based on Amanda Knox. Amanda Knox was an American woman who was convicted to killing a mate along with her boyfriend in Italy and served four years in prison before the conviction was overturned.

    Beckinsale will play a journalist in the movie while Delevingne is playing a suspect and Bruhl is a documentary film maker.

    The film will start production in Italy, backed by BBC films and produced by Melissa Parmenter.

  • Chris Pine finalises deal for ‘Horrible Bosses 2’

    Chris Pine finalises deal for ‘Horrible Bosses 2’

    MUMBAI: After it came to be known that Colin Farrell would not be starring in the sequel of Horrible Bosses, new bosses were on the lookout by New Line. A father-son duo were being looked at to be even more horrible than Farrell, who did a splendid job in the first movie.

    Chris Pine has agreed to be one of the bosses in the movie. Christopher Waltz was also approached for the movie but he has turned down the offer.

    Sean Anders and John Morris are directing the movie that will see actors Jason Bateman, Jason Sudeikis and Jamie Foxx in the sequel as well. More roles are yet to be filled for the movie that will release next year on 26 November.

    The first movie turned out to be a box office hit collecting over $200 million worldwide and was directed by Seth Gordon.

  • Hriday responds to Woody Allen’s decision on Blue Jasmine India release

    Hriday responds to Woody Allen’s decision on Blue Jasmine India release

    MUMBAI: Woody Allen directed Blue Jasmine was set to be released in India two weeks ago but in the last moment was called off since the director did not want to comply with anti- smoking regulations of the country.

    Now NGO Hriday (Health Related Information Dissemination Amongst Youth) has responded to Allen’s claim that smoking messages in the movie distracts people. In the letter addressed to Allen, they said that many big movies have complied with the norms and have done well at the box office including The Hobbit, Django Unchained as well as Bollywood production houses like UTV motion pictures and Karan Johar productions also started complying with the rules as soon as they came into effect.

    They also said that a study conducted by them showed that youngsters exposed to smoking scenes in movies were twice as likely to try it. They also said that ‘several countries require censor of contents before screening films to confirm to their laws and cultural sensitivities globally’.

    Blue Jasmine was to be released by PVR Pictures. The movie has been critically acclaimed regarding Kate Blanchett’s performance. Let’s see whether Allen responds to the mail and consents to release the movie so that Indians don’t have to miss a good one.

  • Is ‘The Monuments Men’ gunning for the Oscars?

    Is ‘The Monuments Men’ gunning for the Oscars?

    MUMBAI:Sony Pictures is readying for the 18 December release of The Monuments Men – the Oscar-season sweet spot – with the latest trailer to drop. 

    George Clooney directs and heads the cast of the thriller about a World War II platoon of art historians and museum directors tasked by FDR with going into Germany to rescue priceless art from the Nazis. 

    Matt Damon, Bill Murray, John Goodman, Jean Dujardin, Bob Balaban, Hugh Bonneville, and Cate Blanchett also star. 

  • The Hunger Games: Catching Fire gets India release date as 29 November

    The Hunger Games: Catching Fire gets India release date as 29 November

    MUMBAI: This November, Universal Pictures will bring The Hunger Games: Catching Fire to India as it gets a date set for 29th. Starring Jennifer Lawrence, Liam Hemsworth and Josh Hutcherson, the dark adventure is the sequel to the first one – The Hunger Games.

    The movie directed by Francis Lawrence will be released in four languages – English, Hindi, Tamil and Telugu. This movie follows the characters’ life post the first movie. After they have returned home from the Annual Hunger Games they have to leave their family and close friends. Now the Capitol is preparing for the next edition of the games.

    The movie will release only one week post the worldwide launch which is on 22 November. The first movie became a blockbuster hit worldwide and the third and fourth in the series are already in the making, slated for releasing in the next two years.

  • 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…

    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.