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  • Movies Now launches ‘High Rollers’ quiz for media & ad fraternity

    Movies Now launches ‘High Rollers’ quiz for media & ad fraternity

    MUMBAI: Movies Now has launched a first-of-its kind quiz for the fraternity with an aim attract media agencies and advertising clients for its new property called High Rollers.

     

    To participate in the Hollywood quiz, media agencies and advertising clients can log on to the specially created micro-website and answer a few simple questions about stars, movies, and Hollywood trivia.

     

    Movies Now has brought on board Urban Ladder as the presenting sponsor for High Rollers. Movies, which will be aired include Taken 2, Dark Knight Rises, Harry Potter & The Deathly Hallows, Wolf of Wall Street, What Happens in Vegas, Men in Black, Wolverine, Knight & Day, Mr & Mrs Smith, Transporter, Salt, Fast & Furious 6 and Ocean’s 11.

     

    The channel has been airing 24 Hollywood flicks that star megastars like George Clooney, Brad Pitt, Angelina Jolie, Cameron Diaz, Tom Cruise, Jason Statham, Christian Bale and Leonardo Di Caprio in the six-week property. High Rollers will be aired from Monday to Thursday at 11 pm.

     

    Ten weekly winners will be awarded prizes like 1TB hard drive, Sony headphones and JBL speakers. What’s more, the mega prize includes an iPhone 6, which will be given to three lucky winners. There will be a leader board and whoever has the highest points in a week wins. The ultimate winner will be the person with the maximum right answers.

     

    The four-week-long engagement activity will not just reward individuals but also the agencies. The individual scores will be added to the agency scores. The Lifetime agency point leaders will win two PS4s.

  • Dark Knight Rises still on top in fifth consecutive week

    Dark Knight Rises still on top in fifth consecutive week

    MUMBAI: Weak overseas box office intakes enabled The Dark Knight Rises to again rule the No. 1 spot for the fifth consecutive week pushing the film‘s overseas gross total past that of its predecessor, The Dark Knight that released in 2008.
    The $20.6-million weekend tally recorded by The Dark Knight in 61 overseas markets was this year‘s third lowest for a No. 1-ranked title. But, in spite of this, the Christopher Nolan-helmed film totaled its foreign accumulation to $487.8 million, which is $18.1 million more than Dark Knight‘s $469.7 million.
    The gap, in mention, should widen since The Dark Knight opens in Greece this week, China on 27 August and in Italy on 29 Aug. The two biggest markets of the film, to date, are the UK and Australia.
    The weekend‘s notable foreign circuit newcomer was undoubtedly The Expendables 2 that stars Sylvester Stallone, Jason Statham, Jet Li, Dolph Lundgren, Chuck Norris, Jean-Claude Van Dammes and Arnold Schwarzenegger among many others.
    Universal opened the Millennium Films-Nu Image Films action sequel.
    Upon opening, the film took the top market spot with $7.9 million drawn from 750 sites. This was 45 per cent bigger than the opening tally grossed by The Expendables in 2010. In Italy, the film recorded a No. 1 debut gross of $2 million at 259 locations.
    In the UK, the film tallied $2.8 million (including previews) at around 450 situations.
    The total gross of Russia, Italy and UK stands at an estimated $12.7 million.
    It may be remembered that the original Expendables had grossed $171.4 million overseas compared to $103.1 million in the US and Canada.

  • Olympics and shootout effect dwindle audience in theatres

    Olympics and shootout effect dwindle audience in theatres

    MUMBAI: The combination of the Olympics and the Colorado theatre massacre has had a sizeable impact on weekend box office sales that could end 30 per ccent down from last year.
    Twentieth Century Fox‘s high-profile summer comedy The Watch starring Ben Stiller, Vince Vaughn, Jonah Hill and Richard Ayoade opened to a sluggish star with $4.5 million on Friday, well behind the $19 million earned by The Dark Knight Rises on its second Friday. The R-rated film earned a dismal C+ CinemaScore.
    The weekend‘s other new entry is Summit Entertainment‘s 3D dance film Step Up Revolution that grossed $4.9 million to beat The Watch. Step Up 4 earned a B+ CinemaScore.
    Most box office observers predict that The Watch will pull ahead of Step Up 4 and gross in the vicinity between $13 to $15 million range for the weekend, in comparison to $11 to $12 million for the Summit film.
    Heading into the weekend, research firm NRG warned Hollywood studios that 20 to 25 per cent of the movie-going audience were hesitant to see a film this weekend because of the Colorado shooting and the Olympics.
    Though by any measure, Dark Knight Rises continues to do good business, but there is no doubt that the film is leaving business on the table because of the shooting during a midnight screening of the film.
    Comparing Friday over Friday collection, Dark Knight Rises fell 76 per cent, in line with other films that had sizeable midnight earnings on opening day.

  • Dark Knight Rises generates Rs 250 mn in opening weekend

    MUMBAI: The Dark Knight Rises, the latest Batman movie from the Warner Bros. Entertainment, which stars Christian Bale as Batman, has collected Rs 250 million in its opening weekend in India.

    The first weekend collections are more than what Dar Media had paid to secure the domestic distribution rights of the film. The distributor has paid almost Rs 180 million for the all-India theatrical distribution rights; the only other Hollywood film to have been sold to a single theatrical distributor was Spider-Man 3, which was released in 2007. Incidentally, the film‘s Indian distribution rights were sold by Sony Pictures Entertainment to Percept Picture for around Rs 150 million.

    The first of the Batman series, Batman Begins, was released in 2005 across 70 screens (57 prints) and generated around Rs 13.6 million in the first three days from the Indian box-office, while the sequel, The Dark Knight, which released in 2008 across 250 screens (210 prints) earned around Rs 38 million in the opening weekend, according to Warner Bros.

    The record for being the highest Hollywood grosser in India in the opening weekend is held by The Amazing Spider-Man released on 29 June. The film generated Rs 340 million for Sony Pictures Entertainment.

    However, The Dark Knight Rises was released with around 650 prints across 700 screens, while The Amazing Spider-Man released across 1,500 screens.

    “The Christoper Nolan film opened very well. It ran to almost houseful capacity on Friday and during the weekend too, the frenzy continued. But it would have been another picture, had the film been released in 3D, since the ticket prices are higher for 3D films,” said Cinemax DGM Girish Wankhede.

  • Releases in July and Sepember

    Releases in July and Sepember

    MUMBAI: Two months of this year, July and September, would be unique in their own way. While July, termed as a lucrative month, will have releases of four big Bollywood films, the month will see releases of three big Hollywood films. September, on the other will release three big women centric films.

    The Hollywood invasion in July starts with Sony Pictures Entertainment’s Amazing Spider-Man 3D, which releases on 3 July. Next in line is Fox Star Studios’s Ice Age 4: Continental Drift on 13 July and Warner Bros’s Dark Knight Rises on 20 July. All these Hollywood movies are likely to be released in 400-500 screens in English, Hindi, Tamil and Telugu languages, going by what was done when Titanic 3D released on 6 April.

    Bollywood has lined up big releases that month. The list includes Golmaal remake Bol Bachchan on 3 July, UTV Motion Pictures’ Barfee and Deepika Padukone starrer Cocktail (both 13 July) and U, Me aur Mein on 27 July.

    September, in contrast, will see three major releases of three top actresses. The process may have been triggered by successes of women centric films like Kahaani, The Dirty Picture and Ishqiya.

    The first film to release would be UTV and Madhur Bhandarkar’s Heroine. The film revolves around female protagonist Kareena Kapoor, a struggler who wants to make it big in Bollywood. Her struggle and rise to stardom take the plot forward. The film looks set for box office as well as critical acclaim because of Bhandarkar’s prophecy in handling women centric scripts.

    The film following next is Preity Zinta’s Ishk In Paris. The film features Zinta in a role of a strong headed lady who falls in love with a man but then how they handle complications of their lives and love in urban settings of Paris form the rest part of the story. The film seems to be an urban romantic drama that can work at box office.

    And the last of the lot is Viacom18’s Rani Mukerji, Prithviraj-starrer Aiyya. The film is a quirky love story between a Marathi girl and a Tamil boy. The central theme of the film is about a woman who finds a man desirable because he smells good. The film is expected to do well at the box office.