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  • IFC’s ‘Road, Movie’ to premiere at Toronto fest

    MUMBAI: Dev Benegal‘s Road Movie will be premiered at the Toronto International Film Festival (TIFF) this year. The event will begin on 10 September and will run for over ten days.
    The film, presented by the Indian Film Company (IFC) will be screened as a special presentation at the Winter Garden Theatre on 18 September. The special presentation screenings showcase high-profile films featuring major stars and directors from around the world.

    Said Indian Film Company CEO Sandeep Bhargava, “We are extremely delighted that TIFF has chosen our film to premiere at the festival. The selection of our film is an endorsement of our vision to back high-quality international cinema.”

    Produced by Susan B Landau and Ross Katz, Road Movie‘s screenplay has been penned by Benegal and talks about Vishnu, a restless young man, who rejects his father‘s faltering hair oil business and hits the road with a moving cinema (bioscope).

    The film stars Abhay Deol, Tannishtha Chatterjee and Satish Kaushik in lead roles and is slated to hit the theatres next year.

  • Jesse Williams picks up role in ‘Grey‘s Anatomy‘

    MUMBAI: Jesse Williams who has starred in films like Brooklyn‘s Finest, Greek, Crush Landing, The Hotness Monster, Spring Broke and Hotness Monster among others has been cast in ABC‘s serial Grey‘s Anatomy.

    The actor, best known for his role in The Sisterhood of the Traveling Pants 2 and ABC‘s Greek will appear next in The Cabin in the Woods that is being directed by Drew Goddard and Antoine Fuqua‘s Brooklyn‘s Finest.

  • Michael Bay picks up rights of teen sci-fi franchise

    MUMBAI: Michael Bay known for his direction of Transformers has finalised his next sci-fi franchise. His production company has picked up the rights to I Am Number Four, the first in a series of six books about nine aliens who escape to earth before their planet is destroyed written by James Frey.

    Frey, who co-wrote the series with Jobie Hughes, came into prominence in 2006 when his best-selling ‘memoir‘ A Million Little Pieces took the centre stage on accusation of being fabricated.


    The film follows a particular alien who takes the form of a high school student.

  • ‘Betty Blue’ director to head Busan Film Fest Jury

    MUMBAI: French director Jean-Jacques Beineix is to head the competition jury at this year‘s Pusan International Film Festival (PIFF).

    The director will be at the helm of a five-member panel that will judge the festival‘s ‘New Currents Award‘ given to a promising Asian filmmaker.


    The 62-year-old Beineix is best known for his film Betty Blue that was nominated for best foreign film at the 1987 Academy Awards.

  • Mike Sandejas’ film to attend three international film fests

    MUMBAI: Director Mike Sandejas has announced that his film Dinig Sana Kita will be part of three international film festivals in the next three months.

    These are the Toronto International Film Festival (TIFF), which will run from 10 to 19 September; the Hawaii International Film Festival, that will be held from15 to 25 October and the Brussels Film Festival that will be take place from 3 to 8 November.


    Title If I Knew What You Said in English the film is described by Raymond Phathanavirangoon as a breath of fresh air.
    Sandejas would attend TIFF with his lead stars Zoe Sandejas and Romalito Mallari.


    Dinig had its theatrical release on Aug. 26. This exercise was to release the film goes to festivals.

  • Fame Cinemas adds two screens in Ghatkopar plex

    MUMBAI: Fame Cinemas has added two screens in Fame Ghatkopar in the Neelyog Mall.

    With this, Fame Ghatkopar has a total of four screens with a total capacity of 1268 seats.

    The new screen 3 has a total of 345 seats while screen 4 has a total of 289 seats.

    Says Fame Cinemas COO Rishi Negi, “The main objective of adding 2 more screens is that we wanted to give our patrons more options of movies to choose from and to showcase more shows.”

  • Festival of films on Indian art by Benoy Behl this week

    NEW DELHI: A total of 13 films on Indian art and culture by renowned art historian and filmmaker Benoy K Behl, a majority of them made for Doordarshan, are being screened in a two-day festival in the capital.

    The festival will be inaugurated by Information and Broadcasting Minister Ambika Soni later this week.

    A Journey Within is being presented by the India International Centre on 29 and 30 August. The films include some rarely seen pieces of art in India and some rarely documented monuments.

    The films include ‘5,000 years of sculpture’ in two parts, ‘Pan-Asian Art (The tradition of classic paintings in China, Japan, Sri Lanka, Burma, Thailand and Indonesia), ‘The Confluence of Cultures’ (The art of the Mughal court (Akbar period), ‘Development of the Modern Idiom’ in two parts, ‘2,000 years of paintings’ ‘The art of India’, and ‘The Dance of Shiva’ (Chola Temples). The films will be followed by discussions.


    Behl is a film-maker, art-historian and photographer who is known for his tireless and prolific output of work over the past 25 years. He has made a 100 documentaries on art history, taken over 34,000 photographs of Asian monuments and art heritage, his exhibitions have been warmly received in 24 countries around the world and he holds the Limca Book Record for having traveled to all corners of India.

    His films, including 26 documentaries on ‘The Paintings of India’ and 26 documentaries on ‘The Sculpture of India,’ have been nationally telecast on prime time in India, as well as repeat telecasts. The vastness of Behl’s documentation presents a wide and new perspective in understanding the art of India and Asia.

    The festival presents a selection from Behl’s renowned series of films on Indian art history.



  • Remo D‘souza to direct Vashu Bhagnani film

    MUMBAI: After completing his film Do Knot Disturb that is set to release on 2 October, Vashu Bhagnani is already planning his next film.

    To be directed by choreographer Remo D‘Souza, the film will star Jackky Bhagnani along with Sanjay Dutt.


    D‘Souza had earlier directed a few music videos and also a Bengali film Lal Paharer Kotha.


    The film is likely to go on floors by the end of October.

  • Maggie Grace in Fox’s spy thriller

    MUMBAI: Maggie Grace in all probability will join Tom Cruise and Cameron Diaz in an yet untitled Fox‘s spy thriller to be directed by James Mangold.

    The film is being produced by Mangold‘s partner Cathy Konrad along with Todd Garner, Steve Pink and Joe Roth.


    The project centers on a lonely woman (Diaz) whose seemingly harmless blind date suddenly turns her life upside-down when a super spy (Cruise) takes her on a violent worldwide journey to protect a powerful battery that holds the key to an infinite power source.


    Grace essays the role of Diaz‘s sister, who is getting married and excited that Diaz will take the place of their late father and walk her down the aisle.



    Grace recently wrapped playing the female lead opposite Adrien Brody and Forest Whitaker in Sony‘s The Experiment and is currently shooting for Flying Lessons.

  • Spielberg to make film of Crichton’s ‘Pirate Latitudes’

    MUMBAI: After DreamWorks Studios acquired its filming rights, Steven Spielberg has decided to produce the late Michael Crichton‘s unpublished novel Pirate Latitudes and may even direct it.

    Spielberg is reuniting with screenwriter David Koepp on the high profile project after both of them worked together in Indiana Jones And The Kingdom Of The Crystal Skull, War Of The Worlds and Jurassic Park.

    The late Crichton was in the process of writing Pirate Latitudes before his death last November. And when his assistant found the manuscript, he approached Harper Collins who is publishing the novel. It will be released on November 24 this year.

    Spielberg turned Crichton‘s Jurassic Park and The Lost World into hit films and he also worked with the late author on the TV series E.R.