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  • Two successful lives, two friends, and yet a bunch of regret on the table. Watch the premiere of Youth only on &PrivéHD

    Two successful lives, two friends, and yet a bunch of regret on the table. Watch the premiere of Youth only on &PrivéHD

    MUMBAI: You will always come across people who have achieved everything in life and yet regret decisions made in the past. &PrivéHD, premium destination of nuanced cinema brings to you a delightful story of a retired orchestra conductor as they come across series of repent in spite of a successful life. Watch the Academy Award Nominee movie, Youth as it premieres on Saturday, August 10, at 1 PM and 9 PM.

    Directed by BAFTA award winner Paolo Sorrentino, the movie features the Academy Award Winning stars like Michael Canine, Rachel Weisz, and Jane Fonda who essays the roles of Fred Ballinger, Lena Ballinger and Brenda Morel respectively. Amongst the stars, Academy Award Nominee Harvey Keitel dawns the role of Mick Boyle. Two old friends, Fred Ballinger and Mick Boyle visit a hotel at the foot of the Alps for a vacation with their family. Mick entertains the guests while he gathers upon his thought to finish the screenplay for what he imagines to be his last movie. Fred has no intention of resuming his musical career, but someone wants at all costs to hear him conduct again.

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  • Sony BBC Earth gives you a sneak-peek into the Magical World of Blue Planet II

    Sony BBC Earth gives you a sneak-peek into the Magical World of Blue Planet II

    MUMBAI: The multiple Emmy and BAFTA award-winning series ‘The Blue Planet’ is all set to WOW the audience with a brand-new season. Blue Planet II is a breathtaking journey into one of the greatest, yet least known parts of our planet – the Oceans.

    Narrated by series presenter Sir David Attenborough, the 5-minute video features some of the most awe-inspiring highlights from Blue Planet II as well as exclusive scenes that will not feature in any of the seven episodes, which are set for a broadcast early next year for the Indian viewers only on Sony BBC Earth.

    What’s also to look forward to in the trailer is the beautiful track, titled ‘Ocean Bloom’ composed by Radiohead, one of the world’s most acclaimed rock bands and Hans Zimmer, one of the planet’s most successful movie and TV composers.

    The team behind Blue Planet II has spent four years mounting 125 expeditions, visited 39 countries, and filmed off every continent and across every ocean to provide a new perspective towards the little-known world of oceans and marine habitats.

    Catch the visual delight on www.facebook.com/SonyBBCEarth, 

  • NBC resurrects cult favourite TV series, Heroes

    NBC resurrects cult favourite TV series, Heroes

    MUMBAI: An iconic series that still commands a rabid fan base, Heroes will return to the network in 2015 as an event miniseries with original creator and executive producer Tim Kring (Touch) at the helm, it was announced on 23 February by National Broadcasting Company (NBC) Entertainment President Jennifer Salke.

     

    NBC has ordered 13 episodes for a new stand-alone story arc entitled Heroes: Reborn, with all details of storylines and characters being kept under wraps. “The enormous impact ‘Heroes’ had on the television landscape when it first launched in 2006 was eye-opening,” said NBC Entertainment President Jennifer Salke in a press statement.

     

    “Shows with that kind of resonance don’t come around often and we thought it was time for another instalment. We’re thrilled that visionary creator Tim Kring was as excited about jumping back into this show as we were and we look forward to all the new textures and layers Tim plans to add to his original concept. Until we get closer to air in 2015, the show will be appropriately shrouded in secrecy, but we won’t rule out the possibility of some of the show’s original cast members popping back in.”

     

    The original series chronicled the life-changing stories of a series of unrelated ordinary people who discovered they had superhuman abilities. As the saga unfolded, they learned they were part of a grand plan that brought them together to change the world.

     

    With the return of Heroes: Reborn, NBC will launch a digital series prior to the 2015 premiere that will introduce the characters and new storylines. This leveraging of social media is being used as a way for fans to re-engage with what was one for the true pioneers in multiplatform storytelling.

     

    The iconic science fiction series, which ran on NBC from 2006-10 and was an immediate hit, ranked as television’s #1 new drama with an average audience of 14.5 million viewers during its initial season. The show was Golden Globe-nominated in its first year of eligibility for best drama series; it won the BAFTA Award for best international series, the AFI Award, the Academy of Science Fiction, Fantasy & Horror Films Saturn Award, two People’s Choice Awards and the Television Critics Association Award for Program of the Year.

     

    In India, Heroes aired on STAR World and FX India.

  • And the 2014 BAFTA Award goes to…

    And the 2014 BAFTA Award goes to…

    MUMBAI: At London, on Sunday 16 February, at the EE British Academy Film Awards (BAFTA), 12 Years a Slave was named Best Film with Chiwetel Ejiofor (Dancing On the Edge) winning Leading Actor. The Awards were hosted by Stephen Fry (Alice in Wonderland, Sherlock Holmes: a Game of Shadows) and held at London’s Royal Opera House.  Gravity won six awards: Outstanding British Film, Original Music, Cinematography, Sound and Special Visual Effects with Alfonso Cuarón (Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban) winning for Director.

     

    American Hustle won three BAFTA Awards: Original Screenplay for Eric Warren Singer (The International) and David O. Russell (The Fighter), Make Up & Hair, and Supporting Actress for Jennifer Lawrence (The Silver Linings Playbook). Production Design and Costume Design were awarded to The Great Gatsby.

     

    Leading Actress was presented to Cate Blanchett (Elizabeth, The Monuments Men) for playing the title role in Blue Jasmine – her third BAFTA win – and in his feature film debut Barkhad Abdi won Supporting Actor for Captain Phillips. Director and Writer Kieran Evans received the award for Outstanding Debut by a British Writer, Director or Producer for his first feature film Kelly + Victor.

     

    Adapted Screenplay was awarded to Jeff Pope (Mrs. Biggs) and Steve Coogan (Alan Partridge) for Philomena, Steve Coogan also produced and starred in the film. The Great Beauty won the award for Film Not in the English Language and the BAFTA for Editing went to Rush.

     

    The Act of Killing received the Documentary award and Frozen took home the BAFTA for Animated Film. The EE Rising Star Award, voted for by the public, was presented to Will Poulter (The Chronicles of Narnia: The Voyage of the Dawn Treader, The Millers). Sleeping with the Fishes won the British Short Animation award and the British Short Film award was presented to Room 8.

     

    Director Peter Greenaway whose films include The Draughtsman’s Contract and The Cook, The Thief, His Wife & Her Lover received the award for Outstanding British Contribution to Cinema. The Fellowship, the highest honour the Academy can bestow, was presented to Helen Mirren (The Queen) by HRH The Duke of Cambridge.

  • Argo wins BAFTA award

    Argo wins BAFTA award

    MUMBAI: Iran hostage drama Argo won three awards including best-picture, at yesterday‘s British Academy Film Awards.

    Ben Affleck was named best director for the film based on a real story of a long shot plan to rescue a group of American diplomats from Iran after the 1979 Islamic Revolution and the film also took the editing trophy.

    Quipped George Clooney, one of the producers of Argo,”I don‘t know what you‘re going to do for a third act.”

    Daniel Day-Lewis won the best-actor trophy for Lincoln – the only prize out of 10 nominations for Steven Spielberg‘s historical biopic. Emmanuelle Riva, the 85-year-old French film legend, was named best actress for Michael Haneke‘s poignant old-age portrait Amour. It also was named best foreign-language film.

    On the other hand, Les Miserables won four awards including best supporting actress for Anne Hathaway. James Bond adventure Skyfall won trophies for best music and best British film.

    Meanwhile, Suraj Sharma, who was nominated in the EE Rising Star Award for his role on Life Of Pi, lost the trophy to actress Juno Temple. Juno, the actress of The Atonement was clearly more popular than Sharma as the rising star trophy is the only award at BAFTA that is decided by public vote.

  • BBC on-demand service for archive programmes set for trial early next year

    BBC on-demand service for archive programmes set for trial early next year

    MUMBAI: A limited consumer trial of the BBC Archive in the UK is set to begin early next year, and is expected to last up to six months.

    The BBC Archive is the BBC’s proposed service that would make parts of its repository of previously broadcast TV and radio content – an estimated one million hours of TV and radio programmes – available, on a public service basis, to licence fee payers on-demand via bbc.co.uk.

    The trial for the BBC Archive is being undertaken in order to gather evidence about consumer demand for free archive content and its ability to create public value. It will make available 1,000 hours of content drawn from a mix of genres to a closed user environment of 20,000 triallists.

    A limited amount of content – 50 hours – of both TV and radio programmes will be available in an open environment for general access. The results of the trial will inform the BBC’s future proposition for a public service archive service on bbc.co.uk, which will require approval from the BBC Trust.

    BBC director of Future Media and Technology Ashley Highfield says, “As part of our commitment to making our public service content more personal, more convenient and more relevant for all our audiences, we are developing a portfolio of services to offer licence payers access to the BBC’s archive. To this end, we are planning a limited trial of the BBC Archive early next year to learn more about interaction with the BBC’s archive content on-demand via bbc.co.uk, and the public value that it delivers. Our goal is to turn the BBC into an open cultural and creative resource for the nation.”

    The BBC’s future proposition for an archive service on bbc.co.uk will also encompass the BBC’s Creative Archive, which has already completed a successful 18-month pilot, which concluded in September.

    The Creative Archive pilot released selected BBC television and radio content in five successive national campaigns and four regionally-based campaigns. It generated a significant level of engagement from licence fee payers with nearly 100,000 regular users, and a Bafta award for technical innovation.

    The Creative Archive pilot enabled people to re-edit, use and share appropriately cleared content for their own, non-commercial creative purposes within the terms of the Creative Archive Licence Scheme in partnership with other organisations (ITN Source; British Film Institute; Channel 4; Open University; Museum, Libraries and Archive Council; Teachers’ TV; and Community Channel).

    The intention would be to make selected BBC content available under the scheme within the proposed BBC Archive service, across bbc.co.uk and also within a third party web portal with partner organisations.

    The BBC Archive would be an extension of the BBC’s seven-day catch-up on-demand proposals (including BBC iPlayer) which are currently undergoing a Public Value Test.

    Subject to the licence fee settlement, the public service archive proposition will be further developed in light of the trials before being submitted for approval to the BBC Trust in the second half of 2007.

    The trial of the BBC Archive is specifically designed to test audience demand for public service archive content and how they want to access it.