Tag: Alfred Molina

  • HBO to exclusively premier ‘Show Me A Hero’ in India

    HBO to exclusively premier ‘Show Me A Hero’ in India

    MUMBAI: Show Me A Hero is a six-part miniseries which will explore the concepts of home, race and community while following the lives of elected officials, bureaucrats and citizens in Yonkers, N.Y. The show stars James Belushi, Winona Ryder, Clarke Peters, Jon Bernthal, LaTanya Richardson-Jackson, Daniel Stern, Bob Balaban, Alfred Molina, Catherine Keener, Oscar Isaac, Carla Quevedo, Ilfenesh Hadera, Natalie Paul, Dominique Fishback, Terry Kinney and Michael Stahl-David.

    In episode 1, Nick Wasicsko becomes the youngest big-city mayor in America, but at what cost? Even before he is inaugurated, the obligation to build public housing in the white neighborhoods of Yonkers looms over his newadministration

    In episode 2, all hell breaks loose as the Yonkers mayor and City Council are given an ultimatum by a federal judgeweary of further delay.  Meanwhile, public housing residents trapped in the deteriorating projects of West Yonkerswatch and wait as the white residents of East Yonkers make clear just how opposed they are.

    Show Me a Hero first and second episodes air in India on Monday, August 17. The subsequent four parts of the miniseries will debut on Monday, August 24 & Monday, August 31, with two episodes back-to-back from 10 p.m. onwards on HBO Defined, 100% ad- free.

  • Depp’s Rango to receive Hollywood animation award

    Depp’s Rango to receive Hollywood animation award

    MUMBAI: Johnny Depp‘s film Rango is all set to receive the 2011 Hollywood Animation Award.
     
    The film, directed by Gore Verbinski, will be honoured at the at the 15th annual Hollywood Film Festival‘s gala ceremony on 24 October in Beverly Hills.
     
    “It is a great pleasure to recognize Rango as the recipient of our animation award. This piece of cinematic treasure borders on surrealism and Rango will be a classic for generations to come,” said, the Hollywood Film Festival founder and executive director Carlos de Abreu has been quoted to have said.


    The 48-year od Depp voiced for the titular lizard character in the film that also has the voices of Isla Fisher, Abigail Breslin, Alfred Molina, Bill Nighy, Harry Dean Stanton, Ray Winstone and Timothy Olyphant.