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  • Lionsgate Play exclusively brings 2024 BAFTA Awards to your screens

    Lionsgate Play exclusively brings 2024 BAFTA Awards to your screens

    Mumbai: Award season is in full swing, and we love to watch our favourite stars grace red carpets and our screens. From the Golden Globes, Critics’ Choice to the Primetime Emmys, Lionsgate Play the ‘Home of Global Awards’, brought an international trifecta of awards to India this January and is going to light up your February with yet another evening of razzmatazz. The 2024 BAFTA Awards are set to stream LIVE and exclusively on the platform this 18 February giving fans a window into British Hollywood royalty. With one of the most unique ways to ensure fair wins, the BAFTAs boast a three-tiered system – a longlist of potential nominees, voting and finally the announcement of winners! This year the 2024 BAFTAs are hosted by pop culture icon David Tennant, who looks to entertain with his comical and charismatic mannerisms.

    As the greatest night in British Cinema approaches, the nominations are here and they do not disappoint. Here’s taking a look at some of the key categories them:

    BEST FILM

    “Anatomy of a Fall” — Marie-Ange Luciani, David Thion

    “The Holdovers” — Mark Johnson

    “Killers of the Flower Moon” — Dan Friedkin, Daniel Lupi, Martin Scorsese, Bradley Thomas

    “Oppenheimer” — Christopher Nolan, Charles Roven, Emma Thomas

    “Poor Things” — Ed Guiney, Yorgos Lanthimos, Andrew Lowe, Emma Stone

    DIRECTOR

    “All of Us Strangers,” Andrew Haigh

    “Anatomy of a Fall,” Justine Triet

    “The Holdovers,” Alexander Payne

    “Maestro,” Bradley Cooper

    “Oppenheimer,” Christopher Nolan

    “The Zone of Interest,” Jonathan Glazer

    SUPPORTING ACTOR

    Robert De Niro, “Killers of the Flower Moon”

    Robert Downey Jr., “Oppenheimer”

    Jacob Elordi, “Saltburn”

    Ryan Gosling, “Barbie”

    Paul Mescal, “All of Us Strangers”

    Dominic Sessa, “The Holdovers”

    LEADING ACTRESS

    Fantasia Barrino, “The Color Purple”

    Sandra Huller, “Anatomy of a Fall”

    Carey Mulligan, “Maestro”

    Vivian Oparah, “Rye Lane”

    Margot Robbie, “Barbie”

    Emma Stone, “Poor Things”

    LEADING ACTOR

    Bradley Cooper, “Maestro”

    Colman Domingo, “Rustin”

    Paul Giamatti, “The Holdovers”

    Barry Keoghan, “Saltburn”

    Cillian Murphy, “Oppenheimer”

    Teo Yoo, “Past Lives”

    Watch the 77 BAFTA Awards exclusively on Lionsgate Play on 18 February 

  • Warner Bros. Pictures’ ‘Gravity’ returning to wide release on 17 January

    Warner Bros. Pictures’ ‘Gravity’ returning to wide release on 17 January

    MUMBAI: Following months of overwhelming critical and audience acclaim and numerous year-end awards, Warner Bros Pictures is bringing Alfonso Cuarón’s cinematic achievement Gravity back to big screens in the US. The film, which stars Sandra Bullock and George Clooney, will be re-released on more than 900 screens on 17 January 2014, it was announced today by Warner Bros Pictures Domestic Distribution President Dan Fellman.

     

    Originally released on 4 October 2013, Gravity instantly became a favourite of both critics and audiences. It has since become one of the most honoured films of the year, most recently bringing a Golden Globe Award for Best Director to Alfonso Cuarón. The film has also received 11 BAFTA Award nominations and 10 Critics’ Choice Award nominations, both including Best Picture, Best Director and Best Actress (Bullock). It has also won Best Picture awards from several prestigious critics organisations, including the Los Angeles Film Critics Association, and has been included on 395 critics’ and critics groups’ top ten lists, as well as being named one of the AFI’s ten best films of the year. It was also announced as the year’s best reviewed film by the website Rotten Tomatoes.

     

    In addition, the talents behind the film have been recognised by their peers, with a Directors Guild of America Award nomination for Cuarón; a Producers Guild of America Award nomination for David Heyman and Cuarón; a Screen Actors Guild Award nomination for Bullock; a American Society of Cinematographers Award nomination for Emmanuel Lubezki; an Art Directors Guild Award nomination for Andy Nicholson; and an American Cinema Editors’ Eddie Award nomination for Cuarón and Mark Sanger.

     

    Gravity has also been a smash hit at the box office, earning more than $670 million worldwide and counting, with most moviegoers opting to view it in 3D. In making the announcement, Fellman stated, “We are thrilled by the many accolades for Gravity, which has generated renewed word-of-mouth and interest in seeing the film, whether for the first time or to experience it again. We wanted to give audiences everywhere another opportunity to see it the way it was meant to be seen—on the big screen.”

     

    Academy Award winners Sandra Bullock (The Blind Side) and George Clooney (Syriana) star in Gravity, a heart-pounding thriller that pulls one into the infinite and unforgiving realm of deep space. The film is directed by Oscar nominee Alfonso Cuarón (Children of Men).

  • Quentin Tarantino mulls rewriting history in next

    Quentin Tarantino mulls rewriting history in next

    MUMBAI: Following the success of his film Django Unchained, director Quentin Tarantino has said that he wants to make another film in which ‘history is re-written‘.

    It has been reported Tarantino is planning the new film in the style of Django Unchained and Inglourious Basterds. “This rewritten history theme begs a trilogy, it begs to have a third movie on this theme. I haven`t decided about what yet, but I wouldn`t be surprised to do another,” he has been quoted.

    Tarantino won the award for best original screenplay at the BAFTA awards.

  • Daniel Craig, Tarantino to be handed BAFTA awards on 7 November

    Daniel Craig, Tarantino to be handed BAFTA awards on 7 November

    MUMBAI: The British Academy of Film and Television Arts Los Angeles has announced the winners of this year‘s Britannia Awards, to be handed out in a ceremony on November 7.
    The winners of this year‘s prizes include Daniel Craig (the latest James Bond) and director Quentin Tarantino, whose Western Django Unchained is soon to hit theaters.
    The creators of South Park, Trey Parker and Matt Stone, will receive the prestigious Charlie Chaplin Britannia award for Excellence in Comedy.
    In the world of video games, Will Wright, the brain behind SimCity and The Sims, will be honoured.
    BBC and BBC America will both broadcast the ceremony.

  • Nick, CBBC competing for channel of the year at the Bafta Awards

    Nick, CBBC competing for channel of the year at the Bafta Awards

    MUMBAI: The British Academy of Film and Television Arts (Bafta) has announced the nominees for the British Academy Children’s Film and Television Awards. The show takes place on 26 November, 2006.

    CBBC, CBeebies, Nickelodeon UK and Nick JR UK are competing for the channel of the year trophy. For film of the year the nominees are The Choronicles Of Narnia: The Lion, The Witch And The Wardrobe, Harry Potter And The Goblet Of Fire, Pirates Of The Carribean: Dead Man’s Chest and Wallace And Gromit: The Curse Of The Were-Rabbit.

    For best entertainment show the nominees are The Basil Brush Show, Raven, Top Of The Pops Reloaded and Tricky TV – Vanessa

    In addition children below the age of 16 can vote for their favourite film. The nominees include Cars,
    Chicken Little and The Chronicles Of Narnia.

  • Britain’s television exports growing from strength to strength

    Britain’s television exports growing from strength to strength

    MUMBAI: British trade body Pact has put out a report on the state of Britain’s television industry.

    Revenues from the export of British television programs rose 21 per cent in 2005 to £632 million. The business was particularly strong in western Europe.
    The top British shows that found acceptance abroad were the Bafta Awards which aired in India on Star World, and Granada natural history documentaries Chimps – The Dark Side and Wild Sex.

    Other British hits include Midsomer Murders, Wild At Heart – the ITV drama starring Amanda Holden – and the business based reality show The Apprentice. Television sales to the US rose by 10 per cent , while there was an 85 per cent growth in western Europe. Agatha Christie’s Marple also featured in the Top 20.

    There was a 31 per cent increase in exports to Germany following a 14 per cent decrease in 2004, while sales to Spain rose by four per cent. The sale of TV formats rose by a healthy 60 per cent to £42 million last year.

    Straight television sales accounted for the bulk of the revenues, with £275 million, a 25 percent increase. Licensing revenues brought in £159 million, a 20 percent gain. Home video/DVD revenues were up 14 percent to £99 million. However, revenues from co-productions fell by four per cent to £52 million.