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  • CNN-IBN indian of the year: entertainment nominees revealed

    CNN-IBN indian of the year: entertainment nominees revealed

    MUMBAI: CNN-IBN is back again with one of the biggest and the most credible awards in the Indian media, CNN-IBN Indian of the Year 2013, in association with GMR, where the iconic inspirational faces of India in the present calendar year are recognized. A highly distinguished jury panel comprising of personalities bestowed with the most prestigious Padma honours choose the winners across five different categories: Politics, Sports, Entertainment, Business and Public Service.

    CNN-IBN unveils the nominees in the entertainment category of ‘CNN-IBN Indian of the Year’. The contenders for the 8th edition of the upcoming award includes renowned celebrities like Deepika Padukone for reinventing herself as a leading lady and delivering a slew of hits in 2013, Farhan Akhtar for his full-bodied performance in Bhaag Milkha Bhaag, Hrithik Roshan for creating the India’s most successful superhero movie through Krrish, Kapil Sharma for creating the most successful standup comedy show ever, that has a universal appeal across audiences, Shah Rukh Khan for producing and starring in one of the Hindi cinema’s biggest blockbuster, Chennai Express and last but not the least Team Lunchbox for the sensitive and skillfully mounted film that has piqued the west’s appetite for the Indian Cinema.

    Don’t forget to catch the Entertainment Nominees on Wednesday, 11th December @10.30 PM & repeat telecast on Thursday, 12th December @12:30 noon only on CNN-IBN.

    To nominate, please visit https://www.facebook.com/indianoftheyear/app_1439162886303532
    For more, you can also visit the official website IndianoftheYear.com.

  • ‘Chennai Express’ halts on &pictures

    ‘Chennai Express’ halts on &pictures

    MUMBAI: Did you get a reminder call from Shah Rukh Khan to watch Chennai Express on &pictures? Following the success on Zee TV which garnered 19,541 TVTs, Shah Rukh Khan and Rohit Shetty’s gigantic blockbuster, Chennai Express will now halt on &pictures on 23 November at 8:00 pm.

    The new Hindi movie channel is pulling all stops to make this premiere an even a bigger success than Zee TV. The channel has devised an interesting digital mechanism to promote the premiere of this blockbuster film.

    “It is the first of its kind initiative on Hindi movie genre space,” asserts Zeel marketing head (national channels) Akash Chawla. “It is a challenge now for &pictures. When there is a platform as big as Zee TV and when there is a movie as big as Chennai Express and the ratings are as big as what they had come when it was last aired, it makes it that very important for the newly launched &pictures. The challenge for us it to come up with a strategy that is new and different from what was used the last time it was telecast on Zee TV.”

    “But in terms of the way in which we are building Chennai Express on the channel is aggressive and different. While we are very aggressive on the traditional medium, a lot of hoardings are up in Bombay and for print we are digging deep into the markets also. The brand &pictures is very different as compared to Zee TV so the tonality of the promotion is extremely different as compared to what you saw on Zee. A complete blend of mass media and digital in a big way.”

    The brand &pictures is very different as compared to Zee TV, says Akash Chawla

    So what are the innovations? Breaking new ground, a unique IVRS (Interactive Voice Response System) model has been created. Through this, viewers can just give a missed call on this toll free number 18001035515 and get a reminder about the movie on their phones in Shah Rukh Khan’s own voice. It works like an alarm clock wherein one can set a reminder about the telecast of the movie and receive a call on the D-Day. The channel is promoting this number on-air as well as on social media.

    Interestingly, Brandlogist, a digital creative agency based in Delhi has been roped in for these innovations.

    There’s more good news for all movie bloggers and travel freaks! Tapping again into the digital media, the channel is sending four lucky bloggers on the actual Chennai Express train. The group of bloggers will take the train from Mumbai and will go to Chennai and while they travel, they will tweet and write on various forums with regards to their actual travel experience happening on the Chennai Express with the &pictures hashtag. This is another novel way that the movie is going to be promoted via blogging community. Actual experiences and pictures will also be uploaded real-time.

    With the help of the blogging community associated with Indi Bloggers, these bloggers from Mumbai and Delhi will get to win this experience on the Chennai Express train.  A page on Indi Blogger will track the entire journey from start to finish in real time. There will also be a live feed of their tweets, blogs and pictures on social media.

    Over and above the digital initiatives, an aggressive marketing strategy has been initiated on other mediums including TV, Radio, Print, Outdoor, OOH and Cable.

    At present, the new channel has its official Twitter page with twitter handle @AndPicturesIN and boasts of more than 4,300 followers. The page is buzzing with tweets and re-tweets related to Chennai Express with hashtags #chennaiexpressandyou. It has also launched its official Facebook page which has more than 57,000 likes.

  • Encore! PVR repeats blockbuster results for Q2-2014

    Encore! PVR repeats blockbuster results for Q2-2014

    BENGALURU:  Indian motion picture exhibition, production and distribution house PVR Limited (PVR) repeated, actually bettered by far, its Q1-2014 stellar results during Q2-2014. PVR’s consolidated revenue for quarter ended 30 September 2013 stood at Rs 367.1 crore up 89 per cent as compared to Rs 193.6 crore during the corresponding period of last year and nine per cent more than PVR’s consolidated revenue for Q1-2014 which was Rs 337.3 crore.

     

    Consolidated profit after tax (PAT) at Rs 27.7 crore up by 71 per cent as against of Rs 16.1 crore in the September quarter last year (Q2-2013), and more than double the PAT of Rs 13.6 crore in Q1-2014.

     

    The company says that it has delivered a strong financial and operational performance in the quarter especially given that there were only two big releases – Chennai Express and Bhaag Milka Bhaag in the quarter as compared to five big films (Ek Tha Tiger, Barfi, Bol Bachan, Dark Knight  and Amazing Spiderman) a year-ago. The company also says that footfalls increased by eight per cent to 1.66 crore in the quarter while average ticket prices rose by four per cent as against same period last year.

     

    NOTE : (1) The board of directors in the meeting held on 15 June 2013, approved the composite scheme of amalgamation (Scheme) for the merger of Cine Hospitality Private Limited its wholly owned subsidiary and Cinemax India Limited along with its subsidiaries companies, namely , Nikmo Entertainment Limited, Odeon Shrine Multiplex Limited, Vista Entertainment Limited, Growel Entertainment Limited and Cinemax Motion Pictures Limited with the Company from the appointed date of 1st April 2013. As per the proposed Scheme, which is subject to approval of shareholders, creditors and regulatory authorities, the minority shareholders of Cinemax India Limited will receive equity shares of PVR Limited in the swap ratio of four equity shares of PVR Limited against seven equity shares of Cinemax India Limited. Further, SEBI, NSE & BSE have given their NOC in the current quarter and 7 December 2013 has been fixed by the Hon’ble High Court, New Delhi for holding the meeting of members and creditors of the Company.

     

    (2) The company in Oct 2013 entered into an agreement for sale of Anupam multiplex property located at Saket, New Delhi for a total consideration of Rs 52 crore. The sale and property is in line with company’s strategy to maintain an asset light business model.  The sale will release substantial capital to fund the future projects and enable the company to improve its Return on Capital Employed says PVR.1

     

    Let us look at the figures reported by PVR Limited for Q2-2014
    Exhibition Business

     

    PVR

    PVR’s standalone revenue of Rs 237.94 for Q2-2014 was 32 per cent more than the Rs 179.87 crore for Q2-2013 and 13.75 per cent more than the Rs 209.18 crore for Q1-2014.

     

    Expense for Q2-2014 at Rs 192.58 crore was 33 per cent more than the Rs 145.26 crore of Q2-2013 and 11 per cent more than the Rs 173.16 crore of Q1-2013.
    It’s EBIDTA for Q2-2014 at Rs 45.36 crore (Margin 19.1 per cent) as compared to the Rs 34.61 crore (Margin 19.2 per cent) for Q2-2013 and Rs 36.02 crore (Margin 17.2 per cent) for Q1-2014.111

     

    PVR’s standalone PAT for Q2-2014 at Rs 21.83 crore was 46 per cent more than the Rs 14.96 crore of Q2-2013 and more than a third (up 34 per cent) of the Rs 16.25 crore in Q1-2014.

     

    Cinemax

     

    Revenue for Q2-2014 from Cinemax at Rs 111.77 crore was five per cent lower than the Rs 117.44 crore for Q2-2013 and three per cent more than the Rs 108.62 crore for Q1-2014.

     

    Expense for Q2-2014 at Rs 84.43 crore was three per cent lower than the Rs 87.15 crore of Q2-2013 and 1.3 per cent lower than the Rs 85.52 crore of Q1-2014.
    EBIDTA for Q2-2014 was Rs 27.34 crore (24.5 per cent); for Q2-2013 – Rs 30.9 crore (25.8 per cent) and Rs 23.09 crore (21.3 per cent) for Q1-2014.

     

    Q2-2014 PAT at Rs 13.08 crore was 17 per cent lower than the Rs 15.81 crore of Q2-2013, but over 2 and half times (2.52 times) of the Rs 5.19 crore of Q1-2014.
    PVR says that Cinemax ATP was flat on account of harmonising of ticket pricing on weekdays and weekends in accordance with PVR pricing strategy and tax free Marathi films played in the western circuit.

     

    Food and beverage revenues grew by 25 per cent over corresponding quarter of previous year on account of success of the various strategic initiatives taken by the company. A 42 per cent growth in Sponsorship revenues reflected strong continuing positive performance year on year.

     

    PVR chairman cum MD Ajay Bijli said, “The strength of the film line up for the second half coupled with our solid first six months performance underpins our confidence that we are on track with our plans for the full year. We have maintained the position as the leading multiplex player in India and in this quarter we will surpass an important milestone of 400 screens in India.”

  • King Khan takes Zee to top spot on GEC chart: Week 43

    King Khan takes Zee to top spot on GEC chart: Week 43

    MUMBAI: It seems the 40 crore acquisition of Zee TV has paid off. The channel’s biggest acquisition Chennai Express worked wonders for the channel. In the week 43 of TAM TV ratings, Zee TV has finally overtaken Star Plus, thanks to the biggest blockbuster of the year which the channel premiered on 20 October that earned 19,541 TVTs.

     

    It has notched up the channel’s ratings taking its tally to 505,442 GVT’s (409,304). Second placed, Star Plus shed and marked at 492,849 GVTs (517,048). Colors is at the third position earning 423,584 GVTs (384,496).

     

    Life OK’s position was constant at number four with 334,635 GVTs (316,904). Sab is at number five with 331,674 GVTs (319,214) and Sony remains stable at number six with 281,638 GVTs (292,327). Sahara One continues to be at the bottom of the chart with 36,323 GVTs (32,081).

     

    Coming back to the chart topper, Zee TV’s fictional offering Qubool Hai witnessed a drop and scored 4,998 TVTs (5,412). Pavitra Rishta generated 4,419 TVTs (4,736). Sapne Suhane Ladakpan Ke secured 4,843 TVTs (4,660). Period drama Jodha Akbar noted 8,299 TVTs (8,551), while drama series, Do Dil Bandhe Ek Dori Se registered 4,412 TVTs (4,726). The new sitcom Bh se Bhade generated 2,856 TVTs. The channel recently launched its reality dancing show, DID 4 which registered 6,075 TVTs.

     

    Star Plus ranked second in the rating, but its popular show, Diya aur Baati Hum fared well with 10,367 TVTs (9,981), Yeh Rishta Kya Kehlata Hai scored 7,347 TVTs (6,819), Pyar Ka Dard Hai generated 7,178 TVTs (6,878) and Saathiya registered 7,474 TVTs (7,007). Epic series, Mahabharat witnessed a rise and scored 5,530 TVTs (4,815). Saraswati Chandra scored 5,170 TVTs (6,009).

     

    Interestingly, Colors’ longest running fiction series Balika Vadhu saw a huge rise in its ratings and marked 7,735 TVTs (5,767), Madhubala – Ek Ishq Ek Junoon scored 4,305 TVTs (4,230) and Uttaran reported 3,722 TVTs (3,663). Comedy Nights with Kapil maintained its stability and registered 5,250 TVTs (5,228). It’s much hyped adaptation of the international 24 starring Anil Kapoor witnessed a rise and scored 3,050 TVTs (2,776). And its popular reality show, Bigg Boss scored 4,587 TVTs (4,246).

     

    Fourth placed, Life OK’s top mythological series Mahadev scored 3,759 TVTs (3,316). Do Dil Ek Jaan stood at 1,719 TVTs (1,711), Savdhan India rated 2,577 TVTs (2,563). Shapath generated 3,699 TVTs (3,460) and Ek Boond Ishq noted 2,749 TVTs (2,673). Reality series The Bachelorette India stood at 2,052 TVTs (1,875).

     

    Sab’s fiction show, Taarak Mehta Ka Ooltah Chashmah continues to lead among all its other shows with 8,161 TVTs (7,224). Chidiya Ghar saw a rise and rated 3,852 TVTs (3,386). Lapataganj generated 2,217 TVTs (2,189) and Baalveer registered 2,904 TVTs (2,750). It was a roller-coaster ride for other fiction shows as well.

     

    Sony, which is at number six, saw a rise and recorded 5,009 TVTs (3,229) for its longest running crime series CID, Crime Petrol too saw a rise and registered 3,947 TVTs (2,940). The channel’s historical show Maharana Pratap witnessed 2,772 TVTs (2,680). KBC garnered 3,570 TVTs (3,796). Other fiction shows either held on to their viewership or dipped marginally during the week.

     

    In the movie channel genre, Zee Cinema reported 195,223 GVTs (205,828); Star Gold witnessed a rise and registered 190,414 GVTs (179,697) and Movies OK scored 124,887 GVTs (116,200). On the other hand, &pictures garnered 67,725 GVTs (64,687), Zee Anmol rated 52,731 GVTs (52,080) and Max scored 198,492 GVTs (199,906).

     

    Let’s see what’s in store for the channels in the coming weeks.

  • Besharam to get the widest release with 3,600 screens

    Besharam to get the widest release with 3,600 screens

    Shahrukh and Deepika starrer Chennai Express set a record by booking 3,500 screens in India. And now Ranbir Kapoor’s much awaited film Besharam is set to create a new record by releasing in 3,600 screens in India, leaving Chennai Express behind in the race.

     

    This will make Ranbir Kapoor’s comedy action drama the biggest release in Bollywood till date.

     

    However, Reliance Entertainment distributor head Utpal Acharya is slightly disappointed since they were looking out for 4,000 screens but the Telugu movie Attarintiki Daredi which has already released had already gained popularity in Andhra Pradesh, Tamil Nadu and other southern states.

     

    Besharam is slated to hit the big screens on a Wednesday i.e 2 October and will also star Ranbir’s parents – Rishi Kapoor and Neetu Kapoor along with Pallavi Sharda playing the female lead.

  • ‘Besharam’ to get the widest release with 3,600 screens

    ‘Besharam’ to get the widest release with 3,600 screens

    MUMBAI: Shahrukh and Deepika starrer Chennai Express set a record by booking 3,500 screens in India. And now Ranbir Kapoor‘s much awaited film Besharam is set to create a new record by releasing in 3,600 screens in India, leaving Chennai Express behind in the race.

    This will make Ranbir Kapoor‘s comedy action drama the biggest release in Bollywood till date.

    However, Reliance Entertainment distributor head Utpal Acharya is slightly disappointed since they were looking out for 4,000 screens but the Telugu movie Attarintiki Daredi which has already released had already gained popularity in Andhra Pradesh, Tamil Nadu and other southern states.

    Besharam is slated to hit the big screens on a Wednesday i.e 2 October and will also star Ranbir‘s parents – Rishi Kapoor and Neetu Kapoor along with Pallavi Sharda playing the female lead.

  • Madras Caf fails to rake in the moolah, collects Rs 18 crore

    Madras Caf fails to rake in the moolah, collects Rs 18 crore

    Madras Cafe, starring John Abraham directed by Shoojit Sircar of Vicky Donor fame, opened low on Friday but managed to do better on Saturday and Sunday, especially at select multiplexes in Metro cities. However, public response failed to match that of the critics thus the slide is inevitable on days to follow. The film has collected Rs 18 crore for the opening weekend.

     

    Once Upon A Time In Mumbai Dobaara, a story about underworld rivalry borne out of love for same girl, fails on all counts from casting to scripting. The film, which opened on 15 August holiday and took Rs 34.6 crore for the four day weekend, could add only little over Rs 14 crore for the other four days to close its first week with Rs 48.8 crore, the best figures coming from Bombay Circuit. The film is a sequel to Once Upon A Time In Mumbaai (2010) but has failed to cash in on the success of the first installment.

     

    Chennai Express starring Shah Rukh Khan and Deepika Padukone sustains well with the advantage of a weak opposition in its second week. The film collects Rs 36.7 crore in its second week to take its two week tally to Rs 178.7 crore.

     

    B.A. Pass collects Rs 45 lakh in its third week and takes its three week total to Rs 7.05 crore.

     

    Ramaiya Vastavaiya adds Rs 10 lakh for the fifth week to take its five week total to Rs 26.07 crore.

     

    Bhaag Milkha Bhaag has added Rs 1.1 crore in its sixth week taking its six week tally to Rs 106.35 crore.

  • Now, Shah Rukh Khan is just a phone call away

    Now, Shah Rukh Khan is just a phone call away

    MUMBAI: In this era of social engagement with audiences and fans alike Bollywood’s King Khan, Shah Rukh Khan, takes one step ahead to reach out to his fans and become the first celeb to enable all his Indian fans to ‘Dial to follow him on Twitter’.

    Riding on the success of Chennai Express, in response to the love and affection shown by his fans worldwide SRK announced a groundbreaking global integration with Twitter India and ZipDial in which everyone living in India can follow and engage with him on Twitter via SMS.

    Effective immediately, anyone with a mobile phone in India can follow @iamsrk on Twitter by dialing (or giving a missed call) at 09015500555. The experience works for 100 per cent of mobile users in India on any phone, any operator network and is completely free, irrespective of whether they have a Twitter account or data-enabled phone.

    On calling the number this is the text message that is received – Thanks for dialing. Enjoy my Tweets by SMS. To reply to me or see my photos, just follow me on Twitter. Love, Shah Rukh Khan; followed by his latest tweet.

    Commenting on the integration, Shah Rukh Khan said, “I have always believed in the power of technology and use it in various ways to further my connection with my audience. In recent years, Twitter has been a magical place for me to engage with my fans. I hope all my fans in India will avail this new service to connect with me. I thank ZipDial and Twitter India for helping me inaugurate this innovation and help bring together my entire national audience who don’t access Twitter. Very soon I hope to also expand this to multiple countries, languages and platforms.”

    Twitter’s India market director Rishi Jaitly said, “Twitter is the world’s leading real time information network where hundreds of millions of people follow the people and organisations that interest them. In India, Twitter among other things brings our users closer to their favourite stars and icons. We are pleased to see Shah Rukh Khan and ZipDial use the Twitter platform in this way.”

  • Rohit Shetty and Reliance MediaWorks partner again for ‘Chennai Express’

    Rohit Shetty and Reliance MediaWorks partner again for ‘Chennai Express’

    Mumbai 21st August 2013: Reliance MediaWorks (www.reliancemediaworks.com) has again partnered with film director Rohit Shetty for his latest offering ‘Chennai Express” which released in August 2013. Reliance MediaWorks provided solutions for services in visual effects, Digital intermediate (DI) and Digital Cinema Mastering for the film. The Company also worked on SD telecine for the rushes and HD color correction for the promo deliveries in various formats across delivery platforms. The processing lab also worked on negative processing & the final release prints of the film.

    Chennai Express is about a man’s journey from Mumbai to Rameshwaram and what happens along the way after he falls in love with the daughter of a don. The film top lines Shah Rukh Khan and Deepika Padukone and is produced by Red Chillies Entertainment and UTV Motion Pictures.

    The Team at Reliance MediaWorks has delivered 68 minutes of 1300 Visual Effects shots along with an elaborate colour grading Digital Intermediate (DI). The Reliance MediaWorks DI team included colorist Makarand Surte, Sr. Line Producer Dilesh Gupta, who were ably supported by the entire DI team

    Mr. Naveen Paul – Creative Head for VFX, Reliance MediaWorks said “It has been a privilege and a challenge to work with the combination of Rohit Shetty and Shah Rukh Khan, on Chennai Express. The duo gave us a free hand to execute their vision. It has been an absolute honour for us to be associated with such dedicated team of professionals who allowed the free flow and interaction of ideas and creativity.” Naveen credits his team comprising Pankaj Kalbende, Ranadheer Reddy, Abrez Mohammed, Vinoth Ganesh along with others who worked on executing and delivering the result.

    We would like to thank the team at Red Chllies and Rohit Shetty for their support and trust in our capabilities, Added Nishit Shetty, Vice President, Operations, Reliance MediaWorks.

  • OUATIMD fails to cash in on Independence Day release

    OUATIMD fails to cash in on Independence Day release

    MUMBAI: Once Upon A Time In Mumbai Dobaara starring Akshay Kumar, Imran Khan and Sonakshi Sinha could reap only limited benefit of its release on 15th August holiday as the screens available to it were limited. Thereafter, as the reports were unfavourable, the film could not grow over the weekend. The film ended its four-day weekend with Rs 34.6 crore.

    Chennai Express starring Shah Rukh Khan and Deepika Padukone has become the biggest weekend grosser as well as setting a fantastic record for the biggest first week collections. With paid previews included the film has set a new benchmark of Rs 142 crore for week one. With the week’s new release not enjoying favourable reports, the film will stand to gain in its second week run.

    B A Pass has been able to sustain through its second week. The film collected Rs 1.25 crore in second week to take its two week total to Rs 6.6 crore.

    Ramaiya Vastavaiya has added a symbolic Rs 12 lakh in its fourth week taking its four week total to Rs 25.97 crore.

    D-Day has finally remained much below its merits, managed a meagre Rs 10 lakh in its fourth week taking its four week total to Rs 19.6 crore.

    Bhaag Milkha Bhaag the biopic on the great Indian athlete Milkha Singh also called “the flying sikh” starring Farhan Akhtar and Sonam Kapoor has collected Rs 2.5 crore in its fifth week to take its five week tally to Rs 105.25 crore.