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  • Bond film ‘Spectre’ to release in India on 20 November in four languages

    Bond film ‘Spectre’ to release in India on 20 November in four languages

    NEW DELHI: The latest in the films on James Bond 007, Spectre, is slated for release in India on 20 November in four languages namely English, Hindi, Tamil, and Telugu.

     

    Directed by Sam Mendes, the film stars Daniel Craig, Ralph Fiennes, Ben Whishaw, Naomie Harris, Rory Kinnear, Christoph Waltz, Léa Seydoux, Monica Bellucci, David Bautista and Andrew Scott.            

     

    Spectre follows the release of Skyfall, the biggest Bond film of all time, which took in $1.1 billion worldwide. 

     

    A cryptic message from the past sends James Bond on a rogue mission to Mexico City and eventually Rome, where he meets Lucia Sciarra (Bellucci), the beautiful and forbidden widow of an infamous criminal. Bond infiltrates a secret meeting and uncovers the existence of the sinister organisation known as Spectre.

     

    Meanwhile back in London, Max Denbigh (Scott), the new head of the Centre for National Security, questions Bond’s actions and challenges the relevance of MI6, led by M (Fiennes). Bond covertly enlists Moneypenny (Harris) and Q (Whishaw) to help him seek out Madeleine Swann (Seydoux), the daughter of his old nemesis Mr White (Jesper Christensen), who may hold the clue to untangling the web of Spectre. As the daughter of an assassin, she understands Bond in a way most others cannot.

     

    Presented by Sony Pictures Entertainment, the film has been produced by EON Productions Limited.

  • The first look of Horrible Bosses 2 is now on YouTube

    The first look of Horrible Bosses 2 is now on YouTube

    MUMBAI: Warner Bros. Pictures has finally released the trailer of its forthcoming Hollywood comedy film –Horrible Bosses 2, on YouTube. The film which is directed by Sean Anders after the departure of the first film’s director Seth Gordon due to scheduling issues, features Jennifer Aniston, Jamie Foxx, Chris Pine, Christoph Waltz, Kevin Spacey, Jason Sudeikis, Jason Bateman and Charlie Day.

     

    According to international reports, the first installment of Horrible Bosses received largely positive reviews and made $210 million at the box office.

     

    Click here to watch the trailer…

  • Horrible Bosses on the lookout for new a new Boss

    Horrible Bosses on the lookout for new a new Boss

    MUMBAI: The first movie opened to some spectacular reviews with Colin Farrell getting named as the worst boss in the movie. However, in the sequel, New Line is trying to find a replacement who can be an even worse boss than Farrell.

     

    Apparently, they have checked out Chris Pine and Christoph Waltz to play a father and son duo of Horrible Bosses in the upcoming flick. However, rumours are that Waltz hasn’t agreed but Pine has.

     

    The movie also has a new director- Sean Anders. The cast is Jason Bateman, Jason Sudeikis and Charlie Dey. It’s produced by Brett Ratner and Jay Stern while John Cheng and John Rickard are exec producers.

     

    The first movie collected an astonishing $200 million worldwide and was directed by Seth Gordon. The sequel is to be written by John Daley and Jonathan Goldstein who worked on the first one as well.

  • Christoph Waltz to make his appearance in ‘True Crimes’

    Christoph Waltz to make his appearance in ‘True Crimes’

    MUMBAI: The Django Unchained star will be seen next in the thriller True Crimes, based on the real-life events surrounding a cold case, asserts The Hollywood Reporter.
     
    The movie is going to be based on David Grann’s New Yorker feature, wherein the story involves the real-life case of Krystian Bala, a Polish writer who was convicted of murder in 2007. The murder for which he was convicted had been a cold case, baffling the Polish police for years, and had been called a perfect crime. Bala, never a suspect in the case, attracted attention when he published a novel that detailed a murder very much like the one that was frustrating the police.
     
    Waltz will play Jacek Wroblewski, the police officer who reopens the cold case and becomes knotted in the dark underworld of Poland‘s sex rings, prostitution and drugs. The role will offer Waltz (known for playing memorable villains like a brutal Nazi in Inglourious Basterds) the chance to play a good guy again, like his Django bounty hunter.
     
    The two-time Oscar winner recently signed on to play a Cold War consigliore posing as a typical American suburbanite in Stephen Gaghan‘s The Candy Store.
     
    The project originally was set up at Focus Features, but the specialty label put it into turnaround last year. With Waltz newly attached, producers Brett Ratner, John Cheng and David Gerson who are also producing the upcoming Fan Bingbing-Jackie Chan vehicle Skiptrace are hunting for a new distribution partner.
     
    Roman Polanski has been mentioned as a possibility to wheel as the director of the movie. The next step is locking in a director for the gritty European thriller, which is tonally similar to such films as The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo.
     
    Ratner and Cheng are producing through their Rat Entertainment banner. Gerson is producing via his InterTitle Films. Waltz is repped by ICM.

  • Die Hard sequel collects $10.1 million in first weekend

    Die Hard sequel collects $10.1 million in first weekend

    MUMBAI: Box-office receipts of 20th Century Fox‘s release of A Good Day To Die Hard, that was released in limited outlets, was the highlight of a sluggish session on the foreign theatrical circuit despite Sony‘s Django Unchained remaining No. 1 overseas for the fourth consecutive weekend.

    Springing a jump on its US and Canada bow this week, the fifth installment of the action franchise starring Bruce Willis opened over the weekend in just seven Asian markets and managed to draw in $10.1 million at 1,102 locations for a per-screen average of over $9,000.

    In South Korea, the opening take including previews was $4.2 million from 459 sites. The film set a Fox record in Indonesia and set a franchise record in Hong Kong ($1.2 million at 87 spots).

    Over a 25-year span the four prior Die Hard titles all starring Willis have made money overseas grossing $694.6 million, while the second sequel of the franchise, 1995‘s Die Hard With A Vengeance roped in $264.5 million.

    The 1988 original Die Hard drew $57.8 million in offshore box office, with the first sequel, 1990‘s Die Hard 2, grossing $122.5 million. The last sequel, 2007‘s Live Free or Die Hard, completed its foreign run with box office of $249.7 million.

    Meanwhile, director Quentin Tarantino‘s Unchained collected $18.7 million from 5,280 locations in 65 markets. The action westerner co starring Jamie Foxx, Christoph Waltz and Leonardo Di Caprio that has acquired as many as five Oscar nominations, has grossed a total of $187.1 million since its opening.

    In Germany, its best market, Unchained drew $3.9 million in its fourth round at 843 sites for a market total of $35.6 million while in France, the film has been at the No. 1 spot for four consecutive weeks with the latest weekend tally ($3.3 million) down around 33 per cent from that of the last weekend.

  • Django Unchained sticks to no. 1 spot for third week

    Django Unchained sticks to no. 1 spot for third week

    MUMBAI: With Quentin Tarantino‘s Django Unchained staying at the no. 1 spot for the third week consecutively grossing $30.6 million at 6,060 screens in 65 markets, it seems that Oscar-related films continued to dominate the foreign theatrical circuit.

    Unchained maintained its number one status in at least 10 territories and for the third straight weekend. The biggest single market remained Germany ($6.35 million drawn from 865 locations, down only about 20 per cent from the prior round; market cume $29.8 million).

    The action westerner that costars Jamie Foxx, Christoph Waltz and Leonardo Di Caprio has got as many as five Oscar nominations.

    20th Century Fox‘s release of Steven Spielberg‘s historical epic Lincoln, that has a dozen of nominations expanded its foreign run by more than 20 territories and drew $13 million from 3,510 situations in 43 markets.

    Fox‘s Life of Pi pulled in $10.1 million from 5,224 situations in 48 territories lifting its foreign total to $443.5 million. The film, based on Yann Martel‘s novel, now ranks as Fox‘s ninth biggest foreign grosser.

    On the other hand, Kathryn Bigelow‘s Zero Dark Thirty also expanded its foreign footprint via Universal and other distributors. The film‘s weekend take was $3.7 million at 1,400 play dates in eight markets handled by Universal.

  • Christoph Waltz to play Gorbachev in Reykjavik

    Christoph Waltz to play Gorbachev in Reykjavik

    MUMBAI: German actor Christoph Waltz is all set to play former Soviet premier Mikhail Gorbachev in Mike Newell‘s Reykjavik.
     
    Having studied acting at the Max Reinhardt Seminar in Vienna, Waltz also attended the Lee Strasberg Theatre and Film Institute in New York.
     
    Later, he became a prolific television actor and in 2000, he made his directorial debut with the German-language television production Wenn man sich traut.
     
    Waltz, an Academy Award winning German-Austrian actor, is the first and, thus far, only actor to win in the Oscars for acting in a Quentin Tarantino film.
     
    The actor is fluent in German, French, and English and peaks in his own voice when it comes to doing these languages in films.