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  • Shark Tank to get an Indian adaptation, set to air on Sony TV

    New Delhi: Critically acclaimed business-themed reality TV series Shark Tank is all set to get an Indian adaptation. The show will be aired on Sony TV, the channel has announced.

    The popular series produced by StudioNext shows entrepreneurs making business presentations to a panel of investors or ‘Sharks’ who decide whether to invest in their company or not.

    The Hindi GEC announced the launch of Shark Tank India on its social media handles and opened the registrations for young entrepreneurs to participate in the show. The promotional video features a young man from a middle-class family who aspires to start his business. He shares the idea with his family and friends, who then joke about “his big dreams”.

     

     

    “World ka no.1 business reality show Shark Tank aa raha hai India mein! Jahan Sharks, yaani India ke experienced businessmen, aapke business aur business idea ko parkhenge, taraashenge aur bada banayenge…” read the social media post, “Shark Tank India mein register karne ke liye SonyLIV app download ya update kare ya bio mein diye gaye link pe click kare.”

    People can participate in the show by downloading the SonyLIV app, where they can register online. They can also visit: https://sharktank.sonyliv.com/

    The show first aired on ABC in August 2009 and has had 12 successful seasons for far. The last episode aired on 21 May. ABC has renewed the series for its thirteenth season.

  • Disney UTV to make screen adaptation of Chetan Bhagat’s ‘Revolution 2020’

    Disney UTV to make screen adaptation of Chetan Bhagat’s ‘Revolution 2020’

    MUMBAI: Disney UTV is all set to direct the screen adaptation of Chetan Bhagat’s ‘Revolution 2020’. The studio has roped in Raj Kumar Gupta of Aamir, No One Killed Jessica and Ghanchakkar fame to direct a movie based on Bhagat’s novel ‘Revolution 2020’.

    This will be studios second adaptation of Bhagat’s novel, the first being Kai Po Che!, an adaptation of Bhagat’s ‘The 3 Mistakes of My Life’.

    It was during the pre-production of Kai Po Che! that Bhagat shared the draft of his latest book with the creative team at Disney UTV. The Studio saw the cinematic potential in the novel, which is high on drama and entertainment and at the same time hugely relevant to the youth of today.

    Disney UTV had snapped up the rights to the book, a few months before it was launched. The novel will be made into an epic drama with strong roles for the three main leads, who will play the characters of Gopal, Raghav and Aarti, whose destinies are intertwined.

    “We are really excited about working again with two incredibly talented individuals, with whom we’ve made some great movies. In the past, Raj Kumar Gupta directed powerful films like Aamir and No One Killed Jessica for us. And there’s Chetan Bhagat who we’ve had a great time working with on the immensely successful Kai Po Che! So we’re looking forward to bringing both of them together on ‘Revolution 2020’. Raj Kumar Gupta bringing his cinematic vision to Chetan Bhagat’s ‘Revolution 2020’ is something to look forward to,” Disney UTV senior creative director – Studios Rucha Pathak.

    “I am delighted to work with UTV again after Kai Po Che!, that not only did extremely well at the box office but also was considered one of the best films of the year. Raj Kumar Gupta is brilliant director, especially for a story like ‘Revolution 2020’, steeped in contemporary Indian realism with a strong emotional content. ‘Revolution 2020’ is an intense love story, in the backdrop of corruption in the education sector, which exists and affects millions of youth across the country. Set in Kota and Varanasi, the book has sold a million and half copies, and has held pan-Indian appeal, including in the smaller cities. I expect the film to do the same. I can’t wait for Gopal, Aarti and Raghav to be cast and come to life,” added author Chetan Bhagat.

    “I read Bhagat’s ‘Revolution 2020’ and was quite moved by it. It is a very simple and heartfelt story about being young, being confused, being in love, getting corrupt. I am looking forward to writing and directing this book for the screen,” said Raj Kumar Gupta
    The screenplay of the film is currently underway and it is expected to go on the floors mid 2014.

  • Om Puri joins Helen Mirren in Lasse Hallstrom’s ‘The Hundred-Foot Journey’

    Om Puri joins Helen Mirren in Lasse Hallstrom’s ‘The Hundred-Foot Journey’

    MUMBAI: The Indian actor has been cast in DreamWorks’ adaptation of Richard C Morais’ best-seller. Om Puri has starred in dozens of films but is best known stateside for East Is East (1999).

     

    The Hundred-Foot Journey follows an Indian family that moves to France and opens an Indian restaurant a hundred feet across the street from a Michelin-starred French restaurant. The ensuing battle between the eateries tests the power of family, loyalty and love.

     

    Helen Mirren, Manish Dayal, Charlotte Le Bon also star in director Lasse Hallstrom’s film, which is produced by Steven Spielberg, Oprah Winfrey and Juliet Blake. Steve Knight wrote the script. Disney will release the pic in the US on 8 August 2014.

  • Chris Weitz to helm the film adaptation of his post apocalyptic novel, The Young World

    Chris Weitz to helm the film adaptation of his post apocalyptic novel, The Young World

    MUMBAI: The end of the world phenomenon has always worked well at the box office and it seems the evident reason why apocalyptic themes attract the movie makers the most. After Dreamworks Animation acquired the rights of Francesca Haig‘s The Fire Sermon, Warner Bros won the rights to the post-apocalyptic book trilogy, The Young World after a heated auction on Friday.

    Chris Weitz, the filmamaker (New Moon) turned author of the The Young World would also helm the director‘s chair for the big screen adaptation of his book. The novel is the first in a trilogy and centres on teenagers surviving the post apocalyptic and catastrophic event killing everyone but those between the ages of 12 and 21. Ill- equipped to restore the society back to a working one, the teenage survivors of New York City must try to rebuild their world from the ground up.

    Weitz‘s novel will be published in 2013 by Little Brown while the film adaptation will be produced by Andrew Miano and co- produced by Depth of Field.

    Weitz who has recently directed 2011‘s A Better Life, has previously directed the film adaptation of the novel The Golden Compass, a major international hit, and the film adaptation of New Moon from the series of Twilight books (the film grossed more than $700 million worldwide).

    Chantal Nong brought the project into the studio and will oversee with Lynn Harris. Weitz is represented by WME and attorney Alex Kohner of Morris Yorn Barnes & Levine.

  • Christopher McQuarrie to finally helm the film adaptation of the miniseries ‘Unforgiven’

    Christopher McQuarrie to finally helm the film adaptation of the miniseries ‘Unforgiven’

    MUMBAI: The three-part British television drama series Unforgiven, written by Sally Wainwright in 2009 is being steered into a feature adaptation. Christopher McQuarrie has signed on to write, direct and produce the film adaptation of the miniseries, along with GK Films. Graham King, who‘s GK Films, has tried for several years to turn the television series into a film has finally got McQuarrie to return at the helm.

    Unforgiven which is a drama-thriller about the intrigue and violence that unfolds when the protagonist woman completes a 15-year prison stretch for the murder of two policemen who‘d come to evict her family from their farmhouse. Her hope is to live quietly and reunite with her troubled younger sister, but she unwittingly becomes a target for revenge.

    Suranne Jones played the lead in the mini, which was written by Sally Wainwright and directed by David Evans and was first broadcast on ITV & UTV in January 2009, and STV in 2012. The series won a British Royal Television Society award for Best Drama Serial in 2009 and a nomination for Jones as lead actress.

    McQuarrie who is represented by CAA, Key Creatives and attorney David Fox was originally going to direct the film adaptation after King bought it in 2010, with Angelina Jolie as the potential lead. However he left to direct Tom Cruise in Jack Reacher and the project was put on hold. Although McQuarrie is expected to direct Cruise in Mission: Impossible 5, Unforgiven has again become a priority project for him.

    Colin Vaines and Ken Kamins will be the executive producers alongside Nicola Shindler of Red Production Company and Wainwright of Sparkhouse Productions. Wainwright was also executive producer of the original mini.

  • Hoffman to feature in the film adaptation of Child 44 helmed by Daniel Espinosa

    Hoffman to feature in the film adaptation of Child 44 helmed by Daniel Espinosa

    MUMBAI: Philip Seymour Hoffman has been reportedly roped in Daniel Espinosa‘s film adaptation of Child 44. It is a thriller novel, one of Tom Rob Smith‘s bestseller and the first of the trilogy that revolves around a disgraced member of the Soviet Union military police during the Stalin era who investigates a series of child murders that connect to high members of the political party.

    Hoffman joins the extensive cast of Tom Hardy, Noomi Rapace, Gary Oldman and Joel Kinnaman in the movie. However the specific roles each actor is set to play remain undisclosed. Summit Entertainment plans to release the film sometime in 2014.

    The film adaptation which is being penned by Richard Price is being produced by Ridley Scott‘s Scott Free Productions along with Michael Schaefer and Greg Shapiro. Worldview Entertainment is co-financing the project. Christopher Woodrow, Molly Conners, Maria Cestone and Sarah Johnson Redlich are on board as executive producers with Douglas Urbanski.