MUMBAI: Shemaroo Entertainment has released Shadow on the home video.
Directed by Rohit Nayyar, the film casts Nasser Khan as the lead protagonist. The other actors in the movie include Milind Soman, Hrishitaa Bhatt, Sonali Kulkarni and Sachin Khedekar.
While the VCD is priced at Rs 99, the DVD costs Rs 199.
The DVD also has additional features like ‘making of the film‘ and ‘interviews‘.
MUMBAI: Shooting of Oliver Stone‘s Wall Street 2 has begun. The film produced by Edward R. Pressman stars Michael Douglas.
Wall Street 2 is a story about money at all costs – and the people who will do anything to get ahead. It captures the reality that from Main Street to Wall Street everyone is intoxicated by the aura of wealth, the perception of power, and the promise of entrée into the most exclusive
The film will release on 23 April, next year.
MUMBAI: The Kansas International Film Festival (KIFF), began Friday at the Glenwood Arts theater in Overland Park.
The festival has always been strongest in its documentary division (one guy with a camera can make a great documentary; fictional films require a lot more money and labor), but this year nonfiction filmmakers have outdone themselves.
Most of the documentaries screening at KIFF have been in the works for several years, meaning they were begun during the Bush administration. These documentaries come in all shapes and colors. Some are overtly irate.
The opening-night film, Michael Moore’s Capitalism: A Love Story was admired by all. Revered and despised in equal measure, Moore has built a career on holding some of America’s most cherished values the automobile, the health care system, gun ownership, post-9/11 patriotism up to his satirical light.
MUMBAI: Dick Cook, the chairman of Walt Disney Studios, resigned late Friday following struggles with profitability, creative focus and a shifting relationship with other Disney units.
Cook, who started at the Walt Disney Company 38 years ago as a theme park monorail driver, said in a statement that he had been contemplating a move for some time.
Under Cook, the studio also showed a reluctance to adopt a new focus on companywide franchises. Hit Disney Channel properties and stars, for instance, were not immediately embraced for their feature potential.
No successor has yet been named. Cook’s departure left some megawatt producers with a sudden void. “I’m completely shocked — as is literally everybody I’ve spoken to,” said Scott Rudin, whose production company has a first-look deal with Disney.
“I’ve collaborated with him on so many movies — since “Sister Act” — and have only ever adored him as a friend and as a boss. Dick has single-handedly made possible some of the very best things that have happened to me in my career.”
with “Old Dogs,” a comedy that stars John Travolta and Robin Williams.
MUMBAI: A Los Angeles judge has said that Michael Jackson‘s mother, Katherine Jackson can challenge the administrators of his estate without losing her share in a lucrative family trust, it is gathered.
Attorneys of Jackson’s mother have said that she wants a greater say in the way her son’s estate estimated to be worth about $400 million is administered. It was not immediately known if she would now formally lodge a challenge.
It may be recalled that Jackson appointed his longtime attorney John Branca and music executive John McClain as executors of his estate in a 2002 will. Katherine Jackson‘s attorneys had asked the Court to suggest whether she could make the challenge without violating a “no contest” clause in the family trust.
The family trust provides Katherine Jackson, 79, with 40 percent of the estate, the singer‘s three children with another 40 per cent and children‘s charities with 20 per cent.
According to Friday‘s court documents, Judge Mitchell Beckloff ruled that Katherine Jackson would not violate the no contest trust clause by mounting a challenge.
MUMBAI: Aided by a speedy clearance from the Indian government, foreign filmmakers are increasingly turning to India for shooting of their movies.
The Information and Broadcasting Ministry has already approved 17 foreign movie projects this year.
In 2008, the I&B Ministry had cleared 27 foreign film productions to shoot in different locations of India. This is similar to 2007, but higher from the figure of 22 projects in 2006.
The Indian government has, thus, granted approval to 93 foreign film productions over the last three years.
While 33 productions are of UK based organisations, 17 are of US origin. The other productions relate to France, Canada, Netherlands, Germany, Japan, Russia, Georgia, Italy, Israel, Bangladesh and Pakistan among others.
The Oscar winning film Slumdog Millionaire was granted permission in the year 2007 under the original title of “Q&A”. The celebrated movie A Mighty Heart, featured at the Cannes Film Festival, was approved for shooting near Pune in 2006 with the star cast of Angelina Jolie.
Goa, Jaipur, Ludhiana, Pune, Panchmarhi, Mumbai, Thane, Madh Island, Versova, Hyderabad and Ahmedabad are some of the preferred locations for foreign film shoots in India.
The I&B Ministry has streamlined the procedure for granting permissions for shooting in India. The permission process normally takes not more than three weeks. The production houses are required to apply for permission of feature films in India to the I&B with details of their chosen locations and the script of the production.
NEW DELHI: The Mumbai High Court will hear a petition on 19 September challenging the grant of a censor certificate to the film Baabarr on the plea that it was a negative portrayal of a particular community and was likely to lead to ‘public disharmony’.
The public interest litigation by Anwar Hussein Mukeri against director Ashuu Trikha, producer Ridhi Sidhi films, Union of India, State of Maharashtra and Central Board of Certification says the film should not have been issued even an ‘adults only’ certificate.
Released on 4 September, the film is about the faction fights between two criminal gangs in Uttar Pradesh and how a twelve-year old gets embroiled in the underworld.
The petitioner says certain characters and incidents are clearly identifiable with real life personalities and screening of the film may lead to ‘public disharmony‘. The director and producer have been accused of showing the ugly side of an entire community. It is alleged that the film has tried to show that woman and children of the families are involved in crime and entire areas where the community lives is part of the underworld.
The grant of a censor certificate to a film showing children involved in crime has also been challenged in the petition.
MUMBAI: In a unique initiative that will help bond a Bollywood film release in the US and the growing South Asian Diaspora, Star India, in partnership with StateFarm and UTV Motion Pictures, has launched ‘Main Aurrr Mrs Khanna Meet the Stars‘ contest.
The contest comes with a prize for two to travel to Mumbai and meet Kareena Kapoor and Salman Khan, the lead cast members of the upcoming film.
Said UTV Motion Pictures North American head Lokesh Dhar, “We are proud to partner with Star, which is effective in reaching our core audience in the US.”
Ronnie Screwvala, Main Aurr Mrs. Khanna is a film with a simple story, highlighting the belief in the institution of marriage and life-long commitment in today‘s time and age.
Slated for worldwide release on 16 October, the film stars Salman Khan, Kareena Kapoor, Sohail Khan, Govinda and Preity Zinta in a special appearance.
MUMBAI: Julia Roberts is in New Delhi with the cast and crew to shoot her film, Eat, Pray, Love.
Based on Pushcart Prize winner Elizabeth Gilbert‘s spirituality/travel memoir, Eat, Pray, Love recently wrapped up its shooting schedule in New York after a stint in Italy.
In the film, Roberts plays Gilbert. The shooting, though being kept in wraps, is expected to start soon at an ashram near Gurgaon on the Delhi-Jaipur National Highway 8, close to Delhi‘s Indira Gandhi
International Airport. A few scenes will also be filmed at Pataudi Palace about 60 kilometres from Delhi.
Other actors who are also likely to participate in the shoot will be Oscar nominated Richard Jenkins and Viola Davis, Javier Bardem, Billy Crudup, James Franco and Luca Argentero.
Directed by Ryan Murphy and produced by Columbia Pictures, Brad Pitt‘s Plan B Entertainment and Roberts‘ Red Om Films, Eat, Pray, Love is scheduled to release in 2011.
MUMBAI: A protest over a Toronto International Film Festival spotlight on Tel Aviv cinema has galvanized the globe‘s creative community.
From Cairo to Calgary, artists can often be divided on their Middle East views but most agree on the need to draw the line between cultural expression and political advocacy.
Increasing numbers of Hollywood stars have spoken out for or against the festival‘s critics, who say the Tel Aviv program boosts Israel‘s tarnished image eight months after its devastating bombing raids in the Gaza Strip.
Said the Toronto Declaration, signed earlier this month by 65 artistes, including actresses Jane Fonda and Julie Christie and musicians David Byrne and Harry Belafonte and writers such as Alice Walker and Wallace Shawn, “We protest that TIFF, whether intentionally or not, has become complicit in the Israeli propaganda machine.”
Since then, 1,500 have added their names to the document, including 60 Israelis. The letter denounces the TIFF focus on Tel Aviv as being subverted by “the Israeli propaganda machine.”