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  • Steve Jobs’ biopic to release this April

    Steve Jobs’ biopic to release this April

    MUMBAI: jOBS, the biopic of Steve Jobs, will premiere on the closing night of the Sundance Film Festival later this month before it releases internationally in April this year.

    Said Tom Ortenberg, CEO, Open Road “jOBS is certain to resonate with audiences, and we are thrilled to partner with Five Star Feature Films to bring this film to theatres.”

    The biopic stars Ashton Kutcher, Dermot Mulroney, Josh Gad, Lukas Haas, JK Simmons and Matthew Modine.

    Open Road Films will release the film on behalf of Mark Hulme‘s Five Star Feature Films that is marketing the film.

  • Leornado DiCaprio to receive Santa Barbara honour

    Leornado DiCaprio to receive Santa Barbara honour

    MUMBAI: Leonardo DiCaprio is set to receive an honour at the upcoming Santa Barbara International Film Festival in California for his contribution to cinema.

    The 38-year-old star will attend a special ceremony on 1 February to receive the prestigious Award.

    Said Santa Barbara International Film Festival executive director Roger Durling, “We are thrilled to be honouring Leonardo DiCaprio with the American Riviera Award in a year where he has shown us another layer of his immeasurable talent. His performance in Django Unchained reaffirms that he is the most relevant actor of this generation.”

    DiCaprio joins the likes of earlier recipients including Sandra Bullock, Annette Bening, Tommy Lee Jones, Forest Whitaker, Philip Seymour Hoffman, Kevin Bacon and Mickey Rourke.

    The festival, which will commence from 24 January, will be held till 3 February this year.

  • 2013 would be a year of sequels in Hollywood

    2013 would be a year of sequels in Hollywood

    MUMBAI: Hollywood is preparing to dish out sequels of Iron Man, Die Hard, The Hunger Games, Thor and The Fast and the Furious in 2013.

    Robert Downey Jr starrer Iron Man has already released two sequels while Bruce the Willis starrer Die Hard has four. The new film titled A Good Day to Die Hard will see Willis reprise his famous cop role of John McClane.

    The Hunger Games, based on American writer Suzanne Collins trilogy novel was widely appreciated by the audience after its release this year. Next movie is novel‘s second part The Hunger Games: Catching Fire.

    The Fast and the Furious, an action film which has six films in its franchise will release its seventh part with Vin Diesel.

    American superhero film Thor starring Chris Hemsworth is returning to the screens again with Thor: The Dark World.

    Other the follow-up movies like Despicable Me, Monsters Inc and The Smurfs are also lined up for release this year.

  • Gangster Squad to release worldwide on 11 January

    Gangster Squad to release worldwide on 11 January

    MUMBAI: Warner Bros is all set to release Josh Brolin, Ryan Gosling and Sean Penn-starrer Gangster Squad on 11 January.

    Directed by Ruben Fleischer, Gangster Squad is a stylish retelling of events surrounding the LAPD‘s efforts to take back their nascent city from one of the most dangerous mafia bosses of all time. Ruthless, Brooklyn-born mob king Mickey Cohen (Sean Penn) runs the show in this town, reaping the ill-gotten gains from the drugs, the guns, the prostitutes and-if he has his way-every wire bet placed west of Chicago.

    And he does it all with the protection of not only his own paid goons, but also the police and the politicians he has under his thumb. It‘s enough to intimidate even the bravest, street-hardened cop…except, perhaps, for the small, secret crew of LAPD outsiders led by Sgt. John O‘Mara (Josh Brolin) and Sgt. Jerry Wooters (Ryan Gosling), who come together to try to tear Cohen‘s world apart.

    The screenplay was written by Will Beall, based on the book Gangster Squad by Paul Lieberman. The film is produced by Dan Lin, Kevin McCormick and Michael Tadross. The executive producers are Ruben Fleischer, Paul Lieberman and Bruce Berman.

    The film stars Josh Brolin and Ryan Gosling and Academy Award winner Sean Penn. It also stars Oscar nominee Nick Nolte, Emma Stone, Anthony Mackie, Giovanni Ribisi, Michael Pe?a, Robert Patrick and Mireille Enos.

    The film is being distributed worldwide by Warner Bros. Pictures, a Warner Bros. Entertainment Company, and in select territories by Village Roadshow Pictures.

  • PGA announces nominations for 26 January awards

    PGA announces nominations for 26 January awards

    MUMBAI: The Producers Guild of America (PGA) has announced the nominations of both the motion picture and long-form television for the 24th Annual Producers Guild Awards.
    Films like Argo, Zero Dark Thirty, Lincoln and Les Miserables made the list. While some thought films like The Avengers, The Master or The Dark Knight Rises might be nominated, but they lost out to Beasts of the Southern Wild, Moonrise Kingdom and Skyfall.
    Last year‘s PGA nominees saw three films miss the Oscar cut. They were Bridesmaids, The Girl With The Dragon Tattoo and The Ides of March. Instead Extremely Loud, Incredibly Close and The Tree of Life were nominated in their place.
    All 2013 Producers Guild Award winners will be announced on 26 January.

  • Fifteen films hog ADG excellence awards nominations

    Fifteen films hog ADG excellence awards nominations

    MUMBAI: Fifteen films, divided among three different categories, have been nominated for the 17th annual Art Directors Guild (ADG) Excellence in Production Design Awards. The nominees were announced on Wednesday.
    The nominees for best period design include four entries that depict life in the 19th century — Anna Karenina, Django Unchained, Les Miserables and Lincoln — as well as Argo.
    In the contemporary film category, the fight is between Flight, Skyfall, The Best Exotic Margiold Hotel, The Impossible and Zero Dark Thirty.
    Among the fantasy films, the ADG nominated Cloud Atlas, Life of Pi, Prometheus, The Dark Knight Rises and The Hobbit: An Unexpected Journey.
    The honors recognize production design in nine categories of film, TV and commercials and music videos.
    The ceremony is set to take place on 2 February.

  • Tarantino wishes to work with Johnny Depp, Meryl Streep and Michael Caine

    Tarantino wishes to work with Johnny Depp, Meryl Streep and Michael Caine

    MUMBAI: Noted director Quentin Tarantino wants to work with superstar Johnny Depp. The 49-year-old director, who has done films like Reservoir Dogs, Pulp Fiction and Kill Bil‘, said that Depp features on his wish list of actors that he would love to work with, it is reported.
    "We would love to work together. We have talked about it for years. Not that we get together and talk about it for years, but from time to time. We‘re obviously fans of each other. It just needs to be the right character.
    I just need to write the right character that I think Johnny would be the right guy to do it with. And if he agrees, then we‘ll do it. And then it‘ll be magical. I haven‘t written the perfect character for him as of yet but maybe someday I will," the director has been quoted to have said.
    The Django Unchained helmer is also keen to work with Meryl Streep as well as Michael Caine.

  • Sony and MGM gung ho about Skyfall crossing $1 billion mark

    Sony and MGM gung ho about Skyfall crossing $1 billion mark

    MUMBAI: Happiness refuses to die down at the Sony and MGM headquarters as their latest James Bond-starrer Skyfall has rung in 2013 by crossing the $1 billion mark in global ticket sales.
    Directed by Sam Mendes, the film reached the milestone on Sunday when its worldwide tally hit $1 billion, by far the best showing of any Bond film not accounting for inflation.
    The film, that has grossed $289.6 million domestically and $710.6 million internationally, has become the highest grossing film in Sony‘s history and the first to jump $1 billion.
    Otherwise too, Skyfall continued to break records in the UK during the weekend when it grossed $1.4 million for a total take of $161.6 million and become the first film ever to cross the 100 million pound mark.
    The film, from Eon Productions, is the 23rd installment in the iconic British spy franchise. Skyfall also stars Javier Bardem, Judi Dench and Ralph Fiennes.
    Skyfall is the third movie of 2012 to cross $1 billion in worldwide ticket sales after Disney and Marvel‘s The Avengers ($1.51 billion) and Warner Bros‘ The Dark Knight Rises ($1.08 billion). Including Skyfall, only 14 films have grossed $1 billion or more.

  • Bond beats Jake Sully’s record at the UK BO

    Bond beats Jake Sully’s record at the UK BO

    MUMBAI: Skyfall, the latest offering form the James Bond franchise has beaten all other films to become the first to cross the ?100 million at the UK box office.

    The film stars Daniel Craig as James Bond in this 23rd instalment of the British spy’s adventures and was released on 26 October. Its total collections stand at ?100.46 million. The movie has generated more than $1 billion in ticket sales worldwide.

    This makes Skyfall the most successful U.K. release in history. It has overtaken James Cameron’s Avatar which had a lifetime gross of $151.3 million (?94 million) over the course of its 11 months in release in U.K.

    The movie follows Bond as his loyalty to M tested as her past comes back to haunt her. This is Craig’s third stint as James Bond.

  • Jennifer Garner crowned ‘Celebrity Mother’

    Jennifer Garner crowned ‘Celebrity Mother’

    MUMBAi: Actress Jennifer Garner has been crowned ‘Celebrity Mother of the Year‘ by popular magazine Today‘s Parent Magazine.

    The 40-year-old mother of three kids with Ben Affleck – Violet, 7, Seraphina, 3, and Samuel, 10 months – won Today‘s Parent Magazine‘s poll by ‘a landslide‘, reported ET online.

    The magazine listed reasons such as how Garner appears relatable yet still "gorgeous and put-together," and also noted her honesty about being overwhelmed and exhausted as a mother of three.