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  • Digital Short Film Festival commences in Film City, Noida

    Digital Short Film Festival commences in Film City, Noida

    NEW DELHI: The AAFT Festival of short Digital Films at Marwah Studio has created a record of sorts. 

     

    Throwing light on the same, Marwah Studio president Sandeep Marwah said, “We have created a world record by touching the 86th edition of our festival. There is no other festival in the World to reach to 86th edition so far.”

     

    “This is the only festival, which has given opportunity to more than 2000 directors from all over the world to showcase their debut film in the last 22 years,” added AAFT dean Kalyan Sarkar.

     

    The films that were screened during the festival were: Taj Mahal – Crown of Earth directed by Aamir Naqvi, Maa Ki Aankh by Hitesh Tandon, Bloody Red by Anjali,Sunaina by Parvesh Saini, Side Effects of Criticism by Alok Chaturvedi and Masoom by Nikhil Kapoor.

     

    “This is for the first time in the world that any film school has adapted a historical monument – A Wonder of The World – as a part of its syllabus for making and studying cinema,” Marwah added.

     

    AAFT also celebrated its curtain raiser a day before where Ecuador Ambassador Mentor Villagomez released the poster of the festival. He was also accompanied by Dr. Patricio Garces, Head of political and cultural affairs in the Ecuador Embassy.

  • Tabu replaces Rekha in UTV’s ‘Fitoor’ directed by Abhishek Kapoor

    Tabu replaces Rekha in UTV’s ‘Fitoor’ directed by Abhishek Kapoor

    MUMBAI: Director Abhishek Kapoor has put an end to all speculation and confirmed that actress Tabu has replaced Rekha in his upcoming movie titled Fitoor, which is being produced under the UTV Motion Pictures banner.

     

    Kapoor said, “Tabu’s wonderful performances in Indian and international shores are too many to be named. She is an actress who fearlessly goes against the tide and isn’t afraid to break stereotypes. I am honoured to have her in my film.”

     

    UTV Motion Pictures senior vice president Amrita Pandey added, “Tabu has been a part of the UTV family since The Namesake, and most recently in Haider. In both movies, her performance has been the emotional fulcrum of the narrative, and we are very happy to have a chance to work with her again in Fitoor.”

     

    The movie, which also stars Katrina Kaif, Aditya Roy Kapoor and Aditi Rao Hydari, is based on Charles Dickens’ novel Great Expectations.

     

  • 3D Guild formed; initiates 3D awards

    3D Guild formed; initiates 3D awards

    NEW DELHI: A new 3D Guild has been conceived to link professionals from all over the world who share a passion for 3D, in order to help them to work in concert, to push always further back the fascinating and sometimes surprising frontiers of 3D.

     

    Additionally the 3D Guild has also instituted a new award to recognize and honour the best productions and other masterpieces in 3D. The 3D Guild Award will be presented every year for the best films made globally in 3D.

     

    The award instituted by the new association 3D Guild will be given out on 17 December during the 3D Stereo MEDIA event, traditionally held in Li?ge, Belgium, since 2009. 

     

    The jury will meet in London in November to identify the first winners of the 3D Guild Award.

     

    A decision to this effect was taken by the 3D Guild in a meeting at the American Pavilion during the Cannes International Film Festival.

     

    The idea of creating a new association and a new award for 3D was initially proposed by the two organizers of this major internationally acclaimed event, Prof. Jacques G. Verly (University of Li?ge, School of Engineering) and Alain Gallez (Image & 3D Europe). They received full support from several key actors of 3D in Europe, and defined with them the details of the new association and award. They also consulted with the Advanced Imaging Society – formerly called the International 3D Society – to work synergistically with it, in the best interest of 3D worldwide. The new award was designed by a young Belgian designer Thien Vo.

     

    The 3D Guild was officially founded on 8 May, as an international non-profit organization, symbolically headquartered in the Capital of Europe, Brussels. Its 11 founding members come from Belgium, France, Germany, Poland, and the United Kingdom.

     

    The 3D Guild defines itself to be “an association of people for people,” devoid of any corporate influence. In the same spirit, the 3D Guild Awards will go to people, as opposed to content (even if the selection is based on the screening of content).

     

    The initial presidency of the Guild was entrusted to Prof. Verly, and the co-presidency to Angus Cameron (Vision3, UK) and Joséphine Derobe (Stereographer, FR).

     

    The 3D Guild will initially focus on the domains of entertainment (cinema, television, virtual/augmented reality, video games) and research, the latter cutting across all applications of 3D.

  • AFM sues six Hollywood studios for reusing soundtracks in movies

    AFM sues six Hollywood studios for reusing soundtracks in movies

    MUMBAI: The American Federation of Musicians of the United States and Canada (AFM) is suing six major studios for reusing film soundtrack clips in other films and television programs without appropriately compensating musicians.

     

    The studios named in the lawsuit are: Columbia Pictures, Paramount Pictures, Twentieth Century Fox, Universal City Studios, Walt Disney Pictures and Warner Brothers Entertainment.

     

    “Our agreements obligate the studios to make additional payments to musicians when soundtracks are reused and AFM members are entitled to receive the benefit of that bargain. Our efforts to resolve these contract violations and missing payments have been unproductive, so we are looking to the courts for relief,” said AFM International president Ray Hair.

     

    The studios have been pulled up for reusing previously recorded film soundtracks in violation of AFM’s collective bargaining agreement with the studios.

     

    The lawsuit cites numerous examples of the studios reusing film scores without paying musicians including:

    • Columbia using music from Karate Kid in an episode of the television series Happy Endings;

    • Disney using music from Beauty and the Beast and The Muppet Movie in the television series The Neighbors;

    • Fox using music from Titanic in the film This Means War;

    • Paramount using music from Up in the Air in the film Follow Me: The Yoni Netanyahu Story;

    • Universal using music from Bourne Identity in the television series The Office; and

    • Warner Brothers using music from Battle for the Planet of the Apes in the film Argo.

     

    The AFM is seeking award damages for all losses, including prejudgment interest.

     

    In April this year, the AFM had also sued the studios for allegedly breaching the guild agreement by recording film scores outside the US and Canada.

     

    Click here to read the complaint: 

  • Jackky Bhagnani justifies liquor mention in song lyrics

    Jackky Bhagnani justifies liquor mention in song lyrics

    MUMBAI: Actor Jackky Bhagnani has justified the use of liquor in the song ‘Lalla Lalla Lori’ from his upcoming film Welcome to Karachi. The actor said, “The song is only for you guys to have a good time. This is India, it is a secular country and if we can have alcohol openly then I do not see anything wrong if the songs are based on that.”

     

    Bhagnani, who was here to promote Welcome to Karachi, which is set to release on 29 May. The actor was answering a question on objections raised by the Central Board of Film Certification (CBFC).

     

    His co-stars in this action comedy are Lauren Gotlieb of ABCD fame, and Arshad Warsi. The film is directed by Ashish R. Mohan and produced by Vashu Bhagnani. The film has been shot in various locations of the United Kingdom and sets were recreated to resemble Karachi.

     

     The film revolves around two Indian men played by Warsi and Bhagnani, who reach Karachi in Pakistan without passports and gets trapped by the Taliban. The journey becomes adventurous and exciting in their quest to find a way back to India.

     

    Lauren said, “Working in Bollywood adds to my learning experience. When I came to India, I never thought I would get such amazing offers. ABCD taught me Hindi and now with this film I have learnt Urdu. And I am coming up with a very different avatar, that’s the best part.”

  • Vivek Oberoi to help develop Robotics Centre at Nagpur University

    Vivek Oberoi to help develop Robotics Centre at Nagpur University

    NEW DELHI: Actor Vivek Oberoi will be sponsoring and helping the funding of the Advanced Centre of Robotics at the Rashtrasant Tukodoji Maharaj Nagpur University

     

    According to the proposed plan, the centre will be named after Oberoi’s family.

     

    Oberoi wants the robotics centre to be world class and for that he is in touch with the American-based ASEA Brown Boveri (ABB), a robotic tech major, which will be the private partner and provide technical inputs and help set up the research centre. 

     

    Vice Chancellor SP Kane had met Maharashtra chief minister Devendra Fadnavis in Mumbai last week to discuss the research centre and introducing diploma courses in the university.

     

    Oberoi is expected to visit Nagpur along with ABB officials in the first week of June.

     

    When asked about this, Oberoi said, “Our goal is to create a world class centre of excellence for the youth of India who want to be at par with global industry standards in Robotics. We all know that Indian students have genius in their DNA and we want to provide them with a global platform. With guidance and cooperation from the world’s leading robotics company, ABB and the committed faculty at Nagpur University and VNIT, we are hopeful that our students will make India proud! Our dream is that our students lead the technological revolution through robotics applications, transforming India’s manufacturing sector and making our country a true world leader. I was inspired to take this initiative by our dynamic CM Shri Devendra Fadnavis when I met him at the Hannover Messe (technology fair) in Germany.” 

  • Andrey Zvyagintsev to head SIFF jury, Ishu Patel to lead animation jury

    Andrey Zvyagintsev to head SIFF jury, Ishu Patel to lead animation jury

    NEW DELHI: Russian film-maker Andrey Zvyganitsev will be the president of this year’s Golden Goblet Awards jury at the 18th Shanghai International Film Festival (SIFF).

     

    The Festival is being held from 13 to 21 June.

     

    Zvyagintsev won Best Screenplay at the 2014 Cannes Film Festival for Leviathan. The film was also nominated for Best Foreign Language Film at this year’s Academy Awards. The drama, about one man’s crusade against his small town’s corrupt mayor, will screen at the festival this year.

     

    The festival has also announced that this year’s Golden Goblet competition will have a Best Documentary and a Best Animation category. Malcolm Clarke and Ishu Patel will head the documentary and the animation jury, respectively.

     

    This year’s SIFF edition will also include a Takakura Ken retrospective held in association with the Motion Pictures Producers Association of Japan Inc and the Tokyo International Film Festival.

  • Dwayne Johnson’s ‘Shazam’ set to release before 2019

    Dwayne Johnson’s ‘Shazam’ set to release before 2019

    MUMBAI: The DC Comics adaptation Shazam will see the light of the day earlier than expected. Dwayne Johnson will be seen essaying the role of Black Adam, one of the villains in the movie.

     

    Back in October 2014, Warner Bros set the movie’s release date as 5 April, 2019. However, it’s not really surprising if the release date will be changed because Johnson had already teased about it in an interview at the 87th Academy Awards in February this year.

     

    Produced by Johnson, Hiram Garcia, Michael Uslan, Peter Segal and Michael Ewing, the movie centers on young Billy Batson, who finds himself gifted with the power of the wizard Shazam to fight against the forces of evil. No director has been tapped for the movie yet. 

  • Marketing coup: SRK, Aamir unveil Salman’s ‘Bajrangi Bhaijaan’ poster on Twitter

    Marketing coup: SRK, Aamir unveil Salman’s ‘Bajrangi Bhaijaan’ poster on Twitter

    MUMBAI: In a marketing and promotional coup of sorts, Salman Khan managed to pull off an unparalleled feat. The ‘Being Human’ star has managed to get his contemporaries Shah Rukh Khan and Aamir Khan to tweet the first look of his upcoming film Bajrangi Bhaijaan to their followers on Twitter.

     

    “I believe Being a brother is bigger than being a Hero. ‘Bhaijaan’ coming Eid 2015. How do u like the first look?” tweeted Shah Rukh Khan, the once arch nemesis of Salman.

     

    A few minutes later, Aamir Khan also took to the popular micro-blogging site Twitter to post the poster of Salman’s film with the caption ‘Coming soon…”

     

    While SRK has 13.2 million followers on Twitter, Aamir is close behind with 12.8 million followers. On the other hand, amongst the trio, Salman lags slightly behind with 12 million followers on Twitter. Between them, the Khan trinity has the capability to reach out to a fan base of a whopping 38 million followers. No doubt, this is a sure shot recipe for unmatched ‘low cost – maximum impact’ publicity. Now that’s called marketing!

  • Box Office: ‘Tanu Weds Manu Returns’ shines; ‘Piku’ marches forward

    Box Office: ‘Tanu Weds Manu Returns’ shines; ‘Piku’ marches forward

    MUMBAI: Tanu Weds Manu Returns has braved two vital IPL matches to put up decent weekend figures. The film, while not finding much favour as it went from A to B to C class screens, however, performed well at elite multiplexes improving over Saturday and Sunday over its comparatively weak opening of Friday. The film collected Rs 38.7 crore in its opening weekend and will need to continue the good run to break even.

     

    Anurag Kashyap’s Bombay Velvet met with total rejection from day one by moviegoers. The film ended its opening Friday with pathetically poor collections and failed to improve over the next two days. Monday onwards it was a free fall, collections deteriorating each day to put together a lowly Rs 21.65 crore for its first week. Earlier, when people in the trade cited a high-priced disaster, it was Razia Sultan. For this generation, it is Bombay Velvet. At least, Razia Sultan enjoyed some shelf value and curiosity, thanks to its music and popularity of stars.Bombay Velvet is utterly forgettable.

     

    Piku continued to maintain strong trends in its second week, too. Being a wholesome entertainer, it holds appeal to all which reflects on its box office collections. The film has added Rs 23.8 crore to its first week figure of Rs 41.42 crore and takes its two-week total to Rs 65.22crore. Adding another Rs 6.5 crore for its third weekend, the film’s 17-day tally stands at Rs 71.22 crore.

     

    Gabbar Is Back has managed to collect Rs 4.3 crore in its third week to take its three-week total to Rs 78.8 crore.