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  • Big RTL Thrill to telecast I Am Bruce Lee

    Big RTL Thrill to telecast I Am Bruce Lee

    MUMBAI: Big RTL Thrill, is all set to pay tribute to Bruce Lee on his 73rd birth anniversary. The channel which caters mainly to the male audience will telecast I Am Bruce Lee exclusively for its Indian audiences. The documentary which chronicles the action-packed life of the martial arts hero will be aired on 27 November at 10:00 pm.

     

    The channel which is available in dual feeds of Hindi and English, through this offering, gives an opportunity to all the martial art enthusiasts to have an insight into the master’s life who has justified each role with perfection from being a martial art expert, and founder of Jeet Dune Do to a son, husband and legendary icon.

     

    Across the world, I Am Bruce Lee is a well applauded documentary–cum- biopic about the greatest phenomena of martial arts, Bruce Lee. The documentary not only showcases the master’s excellence but will also focus on his personal life through the lens of his family, friends etc. The biopic is an interesting mixture of the master’s personal and professional stories. It includes footage featuring Bruce Lee’s students from the past, co-actors and everybody closely involved with his life. 

  • Vodafone’s new TVC cashes in on the joy of ‘sharing’

    Vodafone’s new TVC cashes in on the joy of ‘sharing’

    MUMBAI: The best way to tap young customers is by showing their stories in the most fascinating way. Vodafone’s new television campaign, “made for sharing” is doing just that.  It is inspired from the life of youngsters and how they share every moment of their life on the internet.

    The TVC is created by Ogilvy Mumbai and produced by Good Morning Films.

    The commercial chronicles the life of a girl who is sad because she has broken up with her boyfriend. But over the course of the film, she recovers from the heartbreak as she starts having fun with her friends and living her life. During the period of recovery she shares all her feelings – the sadness, hanging out with her BFFs, the joy of taking a holiday, singing, shopping etc – through status updates, Instagram pictures and video uploads using Vodafone’s mobile internet.

    The TVC is a testament of how important ‘sharing’ is to a youngsters’ lives and how Vodafone with 24×7 internet connectivity is made for young people.

  • MTV ACT Urges the Youth To Act This October With

    MTV ACT Urges the Youth To Act This October With

    MUMBAI: MTV, India’s leading youth channel is not just about music and entertainment; it is also about collaborating with young India to contribute to the social causes. MTV through their own pro social platform, MTV ACT engages with over 20 NGOs and independent organizations to support cause-based initiatives. The month of October saw MTV ACT going all out to create awareness and raise funds for the betterment of the underprivileged.

    Beginning of October, MTV ACT joined hands with the crowd sourcing platform Hope Monkey to crowd fund a school for the world’s youngest headmaster in India. During the Joy of Giving week in October, MTV ACT and Hope Monkey came together to encourage the youth to have a big heart and drive the cause of education through funding the school. Hope Monkey is a crowd-source platform that gives the power to all Micro-Philanthropists to bring about change the world. The current initiative focuses on breathing life into the dreams of Babar Ali, who is also the world’s youngest headmaster at 16 years, to build a school. Now, at 21, Babar is looking to expand his backyard school to accommodate all the eager little learners in Murshidabad.

    “You may think that just donating what you would spend on your morning coffee won’t make a difference, but this initiative will prove you wrong. The association with Hope Monkey is true sense is reflection of the MTV ACT philosophy of Every Action Counts. By collecting every penny donated by the young generation, Hope Monkey and MTV ACT aims to raise a corpus to support the dreams of better tomorrow.” said Sumeli Chatterjee, Head- Marketing & Insights, MTV India.

    Helping the under-privileged in realizing their dreams, MTV ACT in association with the NGO Navnirmiti supported an initiative called Maha Mandi. A one of its kind event which is held every year, Maha Mandi is organized by NITIE in Mumbai. MAHA MANDI invites students from top B-schools around the country to sharpen their sales and marketing skills by selling simple NGO made products to commoners on the streets of Mumbai. The revenue hence collected is donated to charitable institutions as a token of respect and support for the noble cause they pursue. This witnessed participation from over 1000 MBA students who engaged in direct sales of the educational toys on the streets of Mumbai.

    Speaking about this initiative, Sumeli Chatterjee, Head – Marketing & Insights, MTV India, said, “MTV ACT constantly strives to support various initiatives that are created by the young generation and are a step towards do-good to the overall society. Maha Mandi is in the entrepreneurial spirit of the students which teaches them different aspects of business while raising funds for a social cause.”

    Furthering the MTV ACT ‘s partnership with the initiative YOU For Uttarakhand, the third music relief concert was organized in Bangalore on October 12, 2013. The concert was organized to raise funds in aid of the tragic Uttarakhand Floods which affected scores of villages and its inhabitants in the state. The line-up for the concert included leading acts by Thermal and a Quarter (TAAQ), Until We Last, Girish and the Chronicles, Solder and Moonarra. The proceeds were donated to Save the Children who is working closely to build lives of Children and families who were affected by the floods.

    For those who wish to do their bit for the society can log on to mtv.in.com/act and donate for a cause that touches their heart or they can simply select any one or more causes that they would like to lend support to by simply spreading the word through their social media profile. Youth can support across causes by donating time through voluntary work or money to the NGOs working for various causes.

  • Chronicles of Narnia’s fourth installment in the franchise up next

    Chronicles of Narnia’s fourth installment in the franchise up next

    MUMBAI: In an announcement, the C S Lewis Company said that it will be joining hands with the Mark Gordon Company to produce the fourth installment in the Chronicles of Narnia series. The Silver Chair will be a film version of the fourth book from the adaptation of the fantasy series.

    Mark Gordon and Douglas Gresham (stepson of C S Lewis) will be producing along with Vincent Sieber. The three will work on the script together.

    The first three series have been a worldwide success grossing over $1.6 billion worldwide. The first movie got the best with $745 million. It was produced by Disney. The next two were distributed by Fox.

    An entirely new cast is set to appear in the movie set 50 years after the last one – The Voyage of the Dawn Treader.

  • Prince William opens up to the world in a docu

    Prince William opens up to the world in a docu

    MUMBAI: The documentary chronicles Prince William’s passion for conservation in Africa, and how as a new father, he finds himself more committed than ever to saving Africa’s endangered species. The documentary will telecast on CNN International on Saturday, 21 September at 1:30 pm and Sunday 22 September at 3:30 pm.

    In the film, Prince William recalls how his love for Africa was born, remembering his late mother Princess Diana when she returned from her trips: “She would come back with all these stories and full of excitement and just passion for what she had been doing and I sort of used to sit there, quite a sort of surprised little boy at the time, taking it all in.”

    In the hour long special, Prince William shares with CNN’s Max Foster the evolution of his passion for conservation. From childhood tales told to him by his parents, to memories of visiting Africa for the first time, to his proposal to the Duchess of Cambridge, Prince William recounts the pivotal role the continent and its endangered species have played in his life. As a new father, what he once “believed,” he says he now “feels” on a much deeper level, and hopes that Prince George can experience the same Africa that he and his brother did as boys.

    Prince William’s Passion: New Father, New Hope will also feature exclusive footage of the Royal couple’s first public appearance together since the birth of their son at the Tusk Conservation Awards. The Duke of Cambridge, as the Royal Patron of Tusk Trust – a dynamic organisation that funds development programs in Africa – will present the Prince William Award for Conservation in Africa.

  • Chronicle, Woman in Black top b-o collections

    Chronicle, Woman in Black top b-o collections

    MUMBAI: 20th Century Fox‘s high school superpower film Chronicle opened with a collection of $22 million. It was followed closely by CBS Films‘ Daniel Radcliffe’s horror-thriller The Woman in Black that brought in $21 million.

    Both the films over performed with total box office revenues up by 35 per cent compared to that of last year.

    For months, films have been skewing, bringing in a lot of worry to filmmakers. But that trend reversed on Friday.

    Both films proved to be victories for their respective companies. Fox only spent $12 million to produce Chronicle.

    While Chronicle received a B CinemaScore, Woman and Black received a B-. Woman in Black‘s performance is a boost for Radcliffe whose Harry Potter fans turned up to see the star, with females making up 59 per cent of the audience.

    Woman in Black, based on Susan Hill‘s novel of the same name, was produced by Hammer Film Productions and preemptively acquired by CBS Films just before the Cannes Film Festival last year.

    The third new film of the weekend is Universal and Working Title Films‘ family friendly whale film Big Miracle that opened at No. 4 with a muted revenue of $8.5 million.

    Beating Big Miracle for the No. 3 spot was Open Road Film‘s The Grey that grossed $9.5 million in its second weekend for a cume of $34.7 million. The film ‘s attendance fell roughly 40 per cent. The film received an A- CinemaScore.