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  • ShemarooMe now available on Mi TV Offering Quality Entertainment on the Big Screen

    ShemarooMe now available on Mi TV Offering Quality Entertainment on the Big Screen

    MUMBAI: India’s leading content house Shemaroo Entertainment Limited today announced the integration of its high-quality OTT video streaming platform ShemarooMe on Patchwall on Mi TV – the leading television brand by global technology leader, Xiaomi. As part of the deal, Patchwall users can now access ShemarooMe’s vast content library spread across different categories including Bollywood, Devotion, Regional, Kids to name a few.

    Through this partnership, over 2 million Mi TV customers in India will get access to ShemarooMe’s vast content library and deliver an extra-immersive experience to the consumers. The wide range of content available on ShemarooMe laced with finest video and audio technology offered within Patchwall promises a unique experience to its users.

    Commenting on the association, Mr. Zubin Dubash, COO Digital, Shemaroo Entertainment Ltd. said, “According to industry reports – A boom in the sales of high-definition Smart TVs indicates that consumers are willing to invest in quality experience. As a large set of audience enjoys watching digital content on the big screen, the integration of ShemarooMe on Mi TVs boosts customer experience and bolsters the brands’ wide content offering.”

    Eshwar Nilakantan, Category Lead – MiTV, Xiaomi India said, “With our content first philosophy, we hope to bring each Mi TV user a unique experience with a personalized interface. All this and much more is possible with PatchWall inbuilt into each MiTV. Shemaroo has been synonymous with groundbreaking content for the digital medium and we are extremely proud to have brought them on-board with their high-quality immersive content offerings for all our Mi Fans. We hope to build great properties together. MiTV offers over 700,000 hours of content and Shemaroo is a very important partner who share similar brand philosophies as Xiaomi in terms of disrupting industries”

  • ‘Scary Stories to Tell in the Dark’ heads for the big screen

    ‘Scary Stories to Tell in the Dark’ heads for the big screen

    MUMBAI: Alvin Schwartz’s classic spooky tale collection, Scary Stories to Tell in the Dark, can soon be watched as a film. Reportedly, after a competitive bidding for the project, some of the scariest short stories will be adapted in to screenplay.

     

    Sean Daniel, one of the producers of The Mummy franchise along with Jason Brown of Sean Daniel Company and Elizabeth Grave of 1212 Entertainment will produce the film. CBS Films has got the rights for the film. Patrick Melton and Marcus Dunstan, who are known for their Saw horror movies, will be writing the screenplay of the movie.

     

    The book was initially published in 1981 and went on to sell seven million copies.

  • DC’s Batman and Superman to unite on the big screen

    DC’s Batman and Superman to unite on the big screen

    MUMBAI: Riding on the success of Man of Steel, director Zack Snyder has decided to have a clash of the two supermen in the next Warner Bros movie. A young batman and superman will be seen together in the movie which is slated to release in 2015.

    Henry Cavill from Man of Steel will be playing superman again while the person to play batman is under consideration.

    The announcement came as a surprise to all at San Diego Comic-Con 2013. Snyder is co-writing the story with David Goyer, who will then write the screenplay for it. “Let‘s face it, it‘s beyond mythological to have Superman and our new Batman facing off, since they are the greatest Super Heroes in the world” said an excited Snyder.

    The new film brings back Charles Roven and Deborah Snyder as producers. This time, Christopher Nolan and Emma Thomas are serving as executive producers, along with Benjamin Melniker and Michael E. Uslan.

    The film is based on the Superman characters created by Jerry Siegel and Joe Shuster and Batman character by Bob Kane.

    Man of Steel collected $630 million at the worldwide box office. Other details are not yet revealed.

  • Comic hero Archie Andrews to debut on the big screen

    Comic hero Archie Andrews to debut on the big screen

    MUMBAI: The fictional illustrative comic characters Archie Andrews and Jughead Jones are all set to debut on the big screen in a live action family comedy brought out by Warner Bros as reported by Deadline.
     
    The big screen adaption shall see the Pitch Perfect director Jason Moore and Glee writer-producer Roberto Aguirre-Sacasa come on board.
     
    Archies Comics which were launched in the early 1940s will be produced as a coming-of-age comedy by the Warner-based Roy Lee and Dan Lin. This comes an as effort to appeal to the fans of the wholesome Andy Hardy movies.
     
    The script is being written by Aguirre-Sacasa who is also writing a Little Shop of Horrors remake for Warner Bros. In the past he‘s also written the scripts for MGM‘s remakes of Carrie and The Town that Dreaded Sundown.
     
    The comedy plot of the adaption would revolve around Archie facing a "teenage midlife crisis" and his quest to find a purpose in his life before graduation.
     
    The comic book stories are set in the fictional small town of Riverdale with Archie Andrews portraying an upbeat high school student along with his friends Veronica Lodge, Betty Cooper, Reggie Mantel and Jughead Jones.

  • Big screen, star studded adaption of French Novella-‘The Little Prince’

    Big screen, star studded adaption of French Novella-‘The Little Prince’

    MUMBAI: The star studded cast comprising of James Franco, Rachel McAdams, Jeff Bridges, Marion Cotillard, Benicio Del Toro and Paul Giamatti have been brought on board to voice the characters of the big screen adaption of Antoine de Saint-Exupery‘s French novella The Little Prince. The film adaption of the classic children‘s book will see a brilliant voice cast with three Oscar winners including Bridges, Cotillard and Del Toro.
     
    The film adaption will be directed by the Kung Fu Panda director, Mark Osborne and is being produced by Onyx Films‘ Aton Soumache along with Dimitri Rassam. Soumache had also produced the stylish 2006 animated film Renaissance. While there is speculation that the Melrose studio would be involved as the film‘s U.S. distributor, the official statement regarding the same hasn’t been declared.

    The film’s story will centre on a pilot who crash-lands in the Sahara desert and comes across a little boy who says he is a prince fallen to Earth from his home on an asteroid. As the pilot repairs his plane, the little prince amuses him with stories about his homeland and the foolish inhabitants of nearby asteroids. It shall also include societal criticism, remarking on the strangeness of the adult world.
     
    While Bridges will voice the protagonist pilot, it was not revealed which roles the other actors were taking on.
     
    The French book Le Petit Prince was first published in 1943 and translated into over 250 languages. Its philosophical nature had appealed to both adults and children making it the most read and most translated book in the French language, and was voted the best book of the 20th century in France.

  • Real life tale of Bruce Lee headed for big screen

    Real life tale of Bruce Lee headed for big screen

    MUMBAI: QED International in association with Groundswell Productions has set forth to tell the story of Bruce Lee through a film titled Birth of the Dragon.

    The film has been inspired by the true-life duel between Lee and Wong Jack Man who was China‘s most famous kung fu Master. The no-rules fight took place in San Francisco in 1965, when the city‘s Chinatown was controlled by Hong Kong triads.

    Scribes Christopher Wilkinson and Stephen Rivele have been asked to pen the tale. The writers are using this true incident as a jumping-off point for a wider-canvas action film in which Wong and Lee team up to battle a band of Chinatown gangsters.

    The film will be produced by QED CEO Bill Block and Groundswell‘s Michael London along with Wilkinson and Rivele. “Stephen Rivele and Chris Wilkinson have taken a little-known chapter in the life of Bruce Lee and used it as a jumping-off point for a bold, exciting story about the making of an international legend,” said sources.

    Wilkinson and Rivele are best known for writing bio pics. The duo‘s credits include Nixon, the 1995 drama directed by Oliver Stone and 2001‘s Ali, directed by Michael Mann.

  • Kiefer Sutherland indicates plans to make ‘24’ into a movie

    Kiefer Sutherland indicates plans to make ‘24’ into a movie

    MUMBAI: The action packed show 24 which airs in India on AXN and in the US on Fox is going to make the transition to the big screen.

    In an interview to the BBC, the star of the show Kiefer Sutherland said, “We’re working on the film. We are really excited about it.”

    On BBC One’s film show Friday Night with Jonathan Ross Sutherland spoke about his Golden Globe award-winning role as counter terrorist agent Jack Bauer in the show. Each season of the show takes place in a 24 hour period. Each episode represents an hour in Bauer’s life.

    Filming will start next year. The shoot, he says, will take place in London and Prague.