ITV

Category: Movies

  • Veer collects Rs 410 million globally in opening weekend

    MUMBAI: Eros International‘s latest release Veer has garnered a worldwide box-office collection of Rs 410 million in its opening weekend.


    While the India collection accounts to Rs 320 million, the movie has earned Rs 90 million overseas.


    An Anil Sharma film, Veer, starring Salman Khan, Mithun Chakraborty, Jackie Shroff and debutant Zarine Khan was released with 1,300 in India and a further 236 prints overseas.


    Said Eros International Media Ltd SVP, India Distribution Nandu Ahuja, “With Salman‘s huge fan base in India and overseas, we were confident that Veer would be a huge draw. With the opening weekend followed by the Republic Day holiday teamed with Salman‘s star power, we are looking forward to the film‘s positive run at the box-office.”


    Veer is a saga of bravery and drama, treachery and love. Set in the nineteenth century, the film is the story of a warrior clan, the Pindharis, who become sworn enemies with the King of Madhavgarh, Rajasthan after the latter betrays them joining hands with the British for a full-blooded Pindhari slaughter.


    The bravest, the toughest, the strongest of the Pindharis is Veer who takes on the might of the British Empire, the conniving King of Madhavgarh as well as his own jealous tribesmen.


    The movie is distributed by Eros International globally.
     

  • Mumbai International Film fest from 3 to 9 Feb

    MUMBAI: The Films Division and Ministry of Information & Broadcasting will organize the 11th edition of MIFF (Mumbai International Film Festival for Documentary, Short and Animation Films) from 3 to 9 February at the National Centre for the Performing Arts (NCPA), Nariman Point, Mumbai.


    The festival that began in 1990, held with the active support of the Government of Maharashtra, is a competitive biennial event which has gained recognition on par with renowned International Film Festivals like Leipzig, Berlin, Oberhausen, Cracow, Tampere etc.


    The competition section in the MIFF has screenings of retrospectives and special packages, Spectrum India, jury‘s retrospectives seminars and open forum during this year‘s festival.


    This year the award money has also been enhanced from this MIFF in each category and the total award money now is Rs 2.27 billion along with Golden /Silver conches in different categories of competition.


    The Dr V Shantaram Lifetime Achievement Award will be awarded to an Indian filmmaker for his/her contribution to documentary film movement, with cash award and trophy.
     

  • TimePass Media launches digiplex project

    MUMBAI: TimePass Media Private Limited has announced the launch of their cinema exhibition project to install over 5000 digital 3D cinema halls across small towns and rural India in the next two years.


    The company also aims to cover each of the 600,000 villages of India under its entertainment exhibition network in the next next years.


    In this regard, the company has lined up commitments of over Rs 6.5 billion for a unique ‘Local Partnership‘ model that will finance and nurture local entrepreneurs and make them owners of The TimePass Digiplex.” 


    Quoting India‘s UN representative Nirupama Sen, Krishnan said, “India is on the cusp of a demographic dividend. By 2020, compared to China‘s 35 years, the average age of the Indian citizen will be under 30 and the majority of these young people will be in tier III, IV cities, small towns and villages which forms the real India.”


    TimePass Media‘s launch of the Digiplexes in small towns and rural India will fulfil the need by providing mainstream big screen entertainment combined with rich multimedia based vocational training in a youth-friendly environment.

  • Zelda Rubinstein no more

    MUMBAI: Zelda Rubinstein, the 4-foot-3-inch lady artiste best known as Tangina, the psychic who tries to calm a family inhabiting a haunted house in Poltergeist, the 1982 horror film, has expired at the age of 76.


    Her agent, Eric Stevens said that Rubinstein died on Wednesday at a Los Angeles hospital adding that she had recently suffered a heart attack.


    Rubinstein made her film debut in the 1981 comedy Under the Rainbow and went on to play roles in Sixteen Candles, Southland Tales, Teen Witch and TV show Picket Fences.


    She was later seen in both the Poltergeist sequels.


    Rubinstein also appeared as the mother figure in a high-profile mid-1980s AIDS public awareness campaign and was an outspoken activist for the rights of little people.

  • Nicholas Hoult in next edition of Mad Max

    MUMBAI: Nicholas Hoult is to feature in Fury Road, the new Mad Max film by series writer-director George Miller.


    Zoe Kravitz, Teresa Palmer and Adelaide Clemens are also in negotiations to join the cast of the film.


    The film, set a short while after the story detailed in 1985‘s Mad Max Beyond Thunderdome, which keeps Mad Max, the character originally played by Mel Gibson, relatively young.


    Details are being kept quiet, but it is known that Hoult‘s character is named Nux. Kravitz, whose character‘s name is Five Wives, Palmer and Clemens are in a convoy being chased by bad guys.


    Charlize Theron and Tom Hardy are to star in the film, the shooting of which is expected to be held in Australia this summer.


    Hoult made his feature debut in About a Boy and starred in the British series Skins. His work in A Single Man earned him a BAFTA nomination. The actor will appear in Warners‘ remake of Clash of the Titans.

  • DreamWorks picks filming rights of Eat, Sleep, Poop

    MUMBAI: DreamWorks has picked up the filming rights of Eat, Sleep, Poop: A Common Sense Guide to Your Baby‘s First Year for producers Walter Parkes and Laurie MacDonald to adapt into a feature comedy.


    This is the first partnership between Dreamworks and Parkes/MacDonald‘s new development fund with Imagenation Abu Dhabi.


    Matt Allen and Caleb Wilson, who penned the Vince Vaughn-Reese Witherspoon comedy Four Christmases are on board to write. 


    Poop is a guidebook by Beverly Hills-based pediatrician Scott W. Cohen. The first book of a planned series is a common sense guide for parents with newborns. It also follows Cohen‘s experiences raising his own child, which in many ways defied much of what he learned in medical school and ultimately altered how he advises his patients.


    One of Cohen‘s patients was the wife of Chris Fenton, a principal at comedy production outfit H2F and a father of three-year-old twins. The doctor pitched a book idea to Fenton, who then put the writer in touch with a lit agent and the deal with Scribner was struck.
    Fenton brought up the book during a lunch with Parkes/MacDonald exec Anson Avellar, who squired the idea away to his bosses. Before long, a pre-emptive bid was in the works.


    Non-fiction guidebooks on birthing and parenthood are hot in Hollywood. Two weeks ago Lionsgate and Phoenix Pictures teamed to bring pregnancy series What to Expect When You‘re Expecting to the big screen.


    Scribner is set to launch the book on 30 March.

  • Warner Bros Intl Film Acquisitions names Galano as president

    MUMBAI: Warner Bros International Film Acquisitions has named Camela Galano as its president.


    To be based in Burbank and reporting to Warner Bros executive vice-president of international Richard Fox, Galano will work closely with distribution executives in the studio‘s various distribution business units as well as in-country executives to maximise exhibition opportunities and best exploit the films across all windows.


    Galano, who for many years served as president of New Line International, will be responsible for acquiring rights across all media to English-language third party productions.


    Galano said, “Warner Bros has built the industry‘s premiere distribution business. I feel privileged to have the opportunity to work alongside Veronika Kwan-Rubinek, Ron Sanders, Jeff Schlesinger and all of the distribution executives and their teams throughout the company to acquire films that will truly augment the studio‘s films.”


    Having spent more than 20 years at New Line Cinema, Galano most recently served as president of New Line International Releasing, where she oversaw and managed the release of New Line films in more than 120 territories for Warner Bros Pictures International.


    She played a crucial role in international territory sales on the Lord Of The Rings trilogy and also handled international distribution of such franchises as Austin Powers, Blade and Rush Hour, as well as Seven and Wedding Crashers among others.
     

  • PVR defers acquisition of DLF’s cinema biz

    MUMBAI: In a bid to end speculation over the proposed acquisition deal, Delhi-based cinema exhibition major PVR Ltd said Wednesday that the completion of DLF’s DT Cinemas has been deferred till 15 February due to pending compliance issues.


    In a filing to the BSE, PVR said that the two parties have mutually agreed to extend the deadline for completing the deal until 15 February 2010.


    As part of an acquisition deal signed in November 2009, PVR was supposed to acquire DLF Group‘s cinema business in a stock-and-cash deal. 


    The multiplex operator was to make a payment of Rs 202 million and to issue 2.56 million shares to DT Cinemas representing 10 per cent of the fully diluted paid up share capital of PVR Ltd on a preferential basis for the acquisition.


    However, the company said that the issue of preferential shares was subject to completion of certain pending compliances by DT Cinemas and the deal could be terminated if the acquisition conditions were not satisfied within 60 days of signing the agreement unless the period was mutually extended.

  • Reliance gets Final Destination on home video

    MUMBAI: Reliance Big Home Video has released the home video of The Final Destination.


    The film is available on DVD (English) at Rs 599. The VCD in English costs Rs 299 while the VCD in Hindi is priced at Rs 99.


    Directed by David R Ellis, the film stars Bobby Campo, Shantel Vansanten and Mykelti Williamson among others.


    The film is an innovative tale of the friends‘ fierce fight to keep themselves and others alive. The final installment in the franchise begins with a strange premonition which causes friends to abandon their day at the speedway, just before a crushing pileup hurtles cars into the bleachers with fiery consequences.


    The film‘s DVD comes with an additional bonus disc that contains the 3D version of the movie for which Big Home Video has released a 2-disc DVD edition with four pairs of 3D glasses each that would be available for a limited time period. Bonus features on the DVD include additional/deleted scenes.


    As part of the marketing campaign, the DVD release will be supported by a week-long radio campaign across nine cities that include Mumbai, Delhi, Bangalore, Hyderabad, Chennai, Kolkata, Ahmedabad, Pune and Chandigarh.

  • Sony releases MJ’s This Is It on home video

    MUMBAI: Sony Pictures Home Entertainment has released Michael Jackson‘s This Is It on home video for the viewing pleasure of the entertainer‘s fans.


    The film documents Michael‘s creative genius. This most awaited film is special because it is rich with he performing his most renowned and recognised songs while offering such a unique, never-before-seen perspective on his artistry.


    Kenny Ortega and the filmmaking team did a brilliant job of capturing Michael creating a masterwork and it‘s a genuine thrill to see audiences respond to the film as they have.


    This Is It offers Jackson fans and music lovers worldwide a rare, behind-the-scenes look at the performer as he developed, created and rehearsed for his sold-out concerts. Covering the months from March through June, 2009, the film has been produced with the full support of the Estate of Michael Jackson and drawn from more than 100 hours of behind-the-scenes footage, featuring Jackson rehearsing numerous songs for the show.


    In raw and candid detail, Michael Jackson‘s This Is It is the last documentation of Michael Jackson in action, capturing the singer, dancer, filmmaker, architect, creative genius, and great artist at work as he and his collaborators move toward their goals of London, the O2, and history.


    The Blu ray edition costs Rs 999. The collectors edition of the DVD that has interviews, backstage footage, exclusive footage, live concert footage, exclusive picture of MJ, merchandised T-shirts etc costs Rs 999, the regular DVD costs Rs 499 while the VCD costs Rs 299.