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  • ‘The Imitation Game’ wins best picture at Capri Hollywood Fest

    ‘The Imitation Game’ wins best picture at Capri Hollywood Fest

    MUMBAI: The 19th annual Capri, Hollywood International Film Festival, wrapped up in Italy and honoured the best of Hollywood movies released in 2014. The Imitation Game, distributed by the Weinstein Company, won the best picture. The film stars Benedict Cumberbatch as Turing, and is directed by Morten Tyldum, with a screenplay by Graham Moore. Tyldum scooped the best director award for the film which is loosely based on the biography Alan Turing: The Enigma by Andrew Hodges.

     

    Speaking about the award ceremony, Capri festival producer, Pascal Vicedomini said, “This year, Capri Hollywood was able to present the best of this cinematic season, many of which are contenders for year-end honors including the Golden Globes, the BAFTAs and the Academy Awards.”

     

    The best actor award went to Timothy Spall for the movie, Mr. Turner and there was a tie between Jennifer Aniston (Cake) and Amy Adams (Big Eyes) for Best Actress.

     

    Birdman received the Visionary Award while Boyhood picked up the Family Awary trophy.  Disney’s Big Hero 6 drew the Animated Movie of the Year prize.

  • Amy Adams breaks down while remembering Philip Seymour Hoffman

    Amy Adams breaks down while remembering Philip Seymour Hoffman

    MUMBAI: Hollywood actress Amy Adams, in the weeks leading into the Oscars, filmed an interview for Inside the Actors Studio, an American television program hosted by James Lipton. In between discussing her career and her Oscar-nominated role in American Hustle, Adams broke down when host James Lipton asked her about her recently deceased co-star Philip Seymour Hoffman. Hoffman died at the age of 46 from an apparent heroin overdose on 2 February. Adams and Meryl Streep were among many celebrities who attended his private funeral in New York City on 6 February.

     

    The 39-year old Adams worked with Philip Seymour Hoffman on two of her most acclaimed movies: Doubt, in 2008, and The Master in 2012. “I wish you all could get a chance to work with him,” she told the assembled students. “He was beautiful. He’s a beautiful spirit and he had this unique ability to see people; to really see them. Not look through them. He just really saw people”, she explained tearfully to the students in the audience. “I just really loved him, and I know so many people did,” Adams added through sobs, “I just don’t know how much more I can talk about it right now, sorry.”

     

    The actor then apologised and said she wouldn’t be able to go on talking about him.

     

    After making her mark in the industry with memorable appearances in films such as Junebug, Enchanted, Doubt, and The Fighter, Amy Adams discusses her multifaceted career leading up to her standout performance in Columbia Pictures’ American Hustle. Her lead role as a con-artist in the Academy Award nominated film earned Adam’s her first Golden Globe win and fifth Academy Award Nomination. Adams has been nominated for five Golden Globe Awards and six Screen Actors Guild Awards.

  • American Hustle gets ensemble award from Palm Springs Film Festival

    American Hustle gets ensemble award from Palm Springs Film Festival

    The cast of David O. Russell’s fictional movie based on the 1970s Abscam scandal will be feted 4 January during an Awards Gala at the  Palm Springs International Film Festival.

     

    The Ensemble Performance Award celebrates the film’s cast, which includes Amy Adams, Christian Bale, Bradley Cooper, Jennifer Lawrence, Jeremy Renner, Louis C.K., Michael Pena and Alessandro Nivola.

     

    “David O. Russell has created a viscerally powerful film,” said PSIFF chairman Harold Matzner. “American Hustle grabs you from the start and is populated by a group of eminently believable characters as brought to life by this brilliant cast.” The festival’s 25th edition runs January 3-13.

  • David O. Russell’s ‘American Hustle’ to close Dubai Film Fest

    David O. Russell’s ‘American Hustle’ to close Dubai Film Fest

    MUMBAI: David O. Russell’s American Hustle, starring Christian Bale, Amy Adams, Jeremy Renner, Bradley Cooper, Jennifer Lawrence, Louis CK and Robert De Niro has been chosen to close this years’ Dubai International Film Festival (DIFF).  The fest runs between 6-14 December.

     

    The 10th edition of DIFF, which is being held under the patronage of UAE vice president, prime minister and ruler Sheikh Mohammed Bin Rashid Al Maktoum will be the first festival to screen  American Hustle.

     

    Italia Films will release the Sony Pictures-backed film in the Middle East.

  • Ben Affleck to don Batman’s mask

    Ben Affleck to don Batman’s mask

    MUMBAI: The untitled movie by the Warner Bros’ is set to release on 17 July 2015. The sequel to Man of Steel has roped in Argo award winning star Ben Affleck.

    Warner Bros’ had previously released Argo and is also behind his next directorial movie Live by Night.

    Man of Steel director Zack Snyder has been asked to rework on Batman and not base it on theDark Knight series. Affleck will be seen with Henry Cavill who will play the role of Superman.  David Goyer will be scripting the movie.

    Amy Adams, Laurence Fishburne and Diane Lane who were a part of the first movie will also be seen in this. “We knew we needed an extraordinary actor to take on one of DC Comics’ most enduringly popular Super Heroes, and Ben Affleck certainly fits that bill,” said Warner Bros’ president of creative development and Worldwide Production Greg Silverman on the project.

  • The Master release preponed to 14 September

    The Master release preponed to 14 September

    MUMBAI: American film studio The Weinstein Company has preponed the release of its drama film, The Master, to 14 September from 12 October.
    The film starring Joaquin Phoenix, Philip Seymour Hoffman, Amy Adams and Laura Dern will release United States and Canada opening exclusively in New York and Los Angeles before having a wide nationwide release on 21 September.

    The Paul Thomas Anderson directed film is also likely to make a stop at the Toronto Film Festival which gets underway on 6 September.
    The company is moving Brad Pitt crime drama Killing Them Softly from 21 September to 19 October to accommodate The Master.