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  • Fame launches properties in Baroda and Bengaluru


    MUMBAI: Fame Adlabs has launched two multiplexes, one in Baroda and the other at Bengaluru.


    ‘Fame Property’ located at the Seven Seas Mall in Fatehganj, Baroda, is a 4-screen multiplex that has a total of 1,116 seats which include 25 leather recliners. The newly open multiplex not only offers the best of sound and picture quality but it is also the first multiplex in the city to introduce the concept of Luxury Cinema.


    The ‘Fame Multiplex’ in Bengaluru is located at the Forum Value Mall in Whitefield, is a 5-screen property. The plex has a total of 781 seats spread over 5 screens that includes exclusive 51-seater Gold Class Screen with the Gold Lounge.


    With the introduction of Fame Forum Value Mall, Fame now has the privilege of owning three properties in the Garden City. Fame Property is the third Fame multiplex in Gujarat.

  • Nandita Das is CFSI chairperson

    NEW DELHI: Actor-director Nandita Das has been appointed chairperson of the Children’s Film Society of India (CFSI) for a period of three years.

    Das succeeds social activist and actor Nafisa Ali who had to resign following her nomination as a candidate from Lucknow for the Samajwadi Party.


    Ali served CFSI for just under six years. In addition to acting in films  , Das recently made her debut as a director
    with Firaaq.


  • Toronto Intl Film Festival to premiere 2 Bollywood flicks

    MUMBAI: Yash Raj Films production Dil Bole Hadippa and Ashutosh Gowariker‘s What‘s Your Rashee? will be screened at the Toronto International Film Festival (TIFF) this year.

    The event will run from 10-19 September.


    Produced by Aditya Chopra and directed by debutant Anurag Singh, the movie casts Shahid Kapoor and Rani Mukherjee as the lead protagonists.


    What‘s Your Rashee?, meanwhile is based on the Gujarati novel “Kimball Ravenswood” by Madhu Arya. The film is a romantic comedy starring Priyanka Chopra and Harman Baweja.

  • Donal Logue to star in FX P.I. pilot

    MUMBAI: Donal Logue is set to star in Terriers, FX‘s comedic hour-long pilot from The Shield creator Shawn Ryan and Ocean‘s Eleven writer Ted Griffin.
    The project centers around Hank (Logue), an ex-cop who partners with his best friend to launch a P.I. business where the duo, both with maturity issues, solve crimes while trying to avoid danger and responsibility.

    Hank is an affable, talkative fellow who‘s not always the best liar but is adept at adopting different personas to find out information. He is alarmed by what he perceives as signs of his encroaching senility.

    Griffin has written the script for Terriers.


    Logue, who most recently co-starred on NBC cop drama Life and in the 2008 Fox film Max Payne.

  • Big Home Video releases all ten seasons of ‘Friends’ on DVD

    MUMBAI: Big Home Video has released all the ten seasons of Friends on DVD.

    The collection includes all 236 episodes from the award-winning series in a beautiful collector‘s box – perfect to gift or own.


    While the complete series collection, comprising 60 DVDs, is priced at Rs 9,999, the season-based DVD box-set, consisting of 6 DVDs, costs Rs 1,299.


    Also, for the single season sets, a collection of 4 episodes each, DVD singles are available at Rs 299 each while VCD singles cost Rs 149.


    Friends defined a decade of television through its wondrous humour, unforgettable characters and captivating moments. The Emmy award-winning Friends stars Matthew Perry (Chandler), Matt LeBlanc (Joey), Courtney Cox-Arquette (Monica), Lisa Kudrow (Phoebe), Jennifer Aniston (Rachel), and David Schwimmer (Ross).


    Friends: The Complete Series Collection also includes commentaries, behind-the-scenes featurettes, gag reels and trivia quizzes.

  • Excel, Fox release ‘Max Payne‘ on DVD

    MUMBAI: Excel Home Video has partnered with 20th Century Fox Home Entertainment to release Max Payne on DVD, priced at Rs 399.

    Directed by John Moore, the movie is based on the 2001 best selling video game from Rockstar Games.


    The movie showcases Mark Wahlberg as the lead actor who wants to take revenge from those who had killed his family and goes into a dark underworld to find the truth.

  • Disney’s 3D film ‘G-Force’ knocks off ‘Harry Potter’ from top spot

    MUMBAI: Disney‘s 3D action film G-Force has taken an opening of $ 32.2 million at the North American box-office knocking Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince out of the top spot in its second weekend.

    G-Force released across 3,697 theatres. Averaging $8,697 per-theatre, the PG-rated action-adventure about guinea pig government spies connected with family audiences and took advantage of higher-priced tickets from its 1,600 3D locations.


    G-Force releases in India in English and other regional languages on 9 October.

  • LA County Museum of Art pulls plug on retrospectives

    MUMBAI: For four decades, the Los Angeles County Museum of Art has fed film aficionados a steady diet of movie classics — retrospectives that included works from Roman Polanski, Cary Grant, Ernst Lubitsch and, in a current series, James Mason. But the museum‘s weekend film programme was losing both money and its audience, seeing which LACMA has decided to pull the plug on its cinematic centerpiece.

    Before there were local film festivals nearly every week and mass merchants such as Target stocking art-house hits like A Room With a View and Gosford Park on their DVD shelves, LACMA‘s series was one of the few places area movie lovers could find Hollywood classics and foreign-language standouts. Screenings often included appearances by and conversations with distinguished filmmakers and legendary actors and actresses.


    The museum said that it was not abandoning its commitment to films and filmmakers but instead wanted to rethink its approach to the art form, and would look for potential donors to underwrite an unspecified future film program that is curated like any other part of the museum‘s exhibits.
    “It‘s not that people don‘t love film here, but it‘s hard,” said the museum‘s director Michael Govan adding, “We are getting diminishing audiences. This is a good time since we are shrinking to spend time thinking and rethinking. We do have to stem our losses.”


    Govan did not say when the museum‘s revamped film programming would debut but suggested that there could be some new film programming next spring. The last weekend screening, The Classic Films of Alain Resnais will be held from 2 to 17 October.

  • Tarantino’s latest for Chicago Intl. Film Fest

    MUMBAI: Quentin Tarantino is bringing his latest film Inglourious Basterds to Chicago next month as a fundraiser for the Chicago International Film Festival.Cinema

    /Chicago, that presents the festival will give Tarantino its Career Achievement Award at its 2009 Summer Gala
    on August 18 at the AMC River East theatre, followed by a screening of his comedy-tinged Nazi-hunting adventure film that opens on 21 August.

    The program will include a montage of the filmmaker‘s works that include Reservoir Dogs, “Pulp Fiction and Kill Bill — as well as what‘s sure to be an entertainingly off-the-cuff acceptance speech from the fast-talking director.

  • NDTV Lumiere gets Chennai viewers to experience thrillers

    MUMBAI: NDTV Lumi?re and Alliance Francaise of Madras have organised ‘Experience Thrillers‘, a five day film-festival showcasing the best in horror, suspense, mystery adventure and crime from 5 to 9 August.

    Presented by Roca in association with Ford Fiesta- Go Fida, the film festival will be held in Chennai with a new film screened twice a day at 7 and 9 p.m.

    ‘Experience Thrillers‘ kicks off with The Orphanage, a spine-chilling thriller and Spain‘s official entry for the 2008 Academy Awards. Directed by award-winning young filmmaker Juan Antonio Bayona and produced by the renowned Guillermo Del Toro, the thriller stars Spanish actress Bel?n Rueda and Geraldine Chaplin, grand-daughter of Charlie Chaplin.


    Watch desire and vengeance meet in a musical thriller The Page Turner or get caught in the twisting tale of fate and fatality in Crossed Tracks, where nothing is what it seems. Be a part of an escape with Quim in King of the Hill and discover a terrible secret hidden in the woods with Shiver.

    Says NDTV Lumi?re Business Head Dhruvank Vaidya, “Chennai has a very loyal and passionate audience for world cinema and we are delighted to bring ‘Experience Thrillers‘ to them. This film festival will showcase some of the best films in the thriller genre in world cinema. We are proud to partner with the Alliance Francaise of Madras for this festival and are happy that our sponsors- Roca and Ford are associating with this premium offering. “

    Tara Rhine from Alliance Francaise of Madras adds, “After the extremely successful Louis Malle film festival with NDTV Lumiere last year, we are proud to co-host ‘Experience Thrillers‘ this year. The festival has some of the finest films from the NDTV Lumiere catalogue and we are sure that like the last time, audiences in Chennai would relish this opportunity as well. We will continue collaborating with NDTV Lumiere for such film festivals on a regular basis.”