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  • Netflix to release Ricky Gervais’ film ‘Special Correspondents’

    Netflix to release Ricky Gervais’ film ‘Special Correspondents’

    MUMBAI: Special Correspondents, a new original feature film written and directed by Ricky Gervais and starring Eric Bana and Gervais, will debut worldwide on Netflix next year.

     

    With Special Correspondents, Gervais has written a hilarious, modern comedy in which Bana plays a struggling New York based radio journalist, whose arrogance and decadent lifestyle has hindered his career. With his job on the line he fakes front line war reports from the comfort of his hideout above a Spanish restaurant in the heart of Manhattan.

     

    “Special Correspondents is classic Ricky Gervais: smart social satire with heart. It’s the kind of great grown-up comedy that studios rarely make anymore, one that’s perfect for Netflix members around the world,” said Netflix chief content officer Ted Sarandos.

     

    Gervais added, “Having shaken up the TV industry, Netflix is about to do the same to Hollywood. It’s great to be part of the changing future. Ted Sarandos is the new Godfather of entertainment and he made me an offer I couldn’t refuse.”

     

    The film is a co-production between Bron Studios and Unanimous Entertainment. Ricky Gervais, Unanimous’ Chris Coen, Bron’s Aaron L. Gilbert, Manuel Munz and Larry Sanitsky will produce.

     

    Creator and star of The Office, Extras, and Derek, Gervais has won three Golden Globes, two primetime Emmys and seven BAFTAS. The Office is the most successful British comedy of all time, shown in more than 90 countries with seven remakes. Gervais, an award winning stand-up comedian, has hosted the Golden Globes three times and has written, directed and acted in the films Cemetery Junction and The Invention of Lying.

     

    Bana is one of Australia’s best known actors and began his career as a comedian in the sketch comedy series Full Frontal before winning critical acclaim in the biographical crime film Chopper. Since then, Bana has starred in such films asMunich, Black Hawk Down, Hulk, The Time Traveler’s Wife, Hanna, and Star Trek. He has received Australia’s highest film and TV awards for his performances and will next be seen in director Jim Sheridan’s The Secret Scripture, Guy Ritchie’sKnights of the Round Table: King Arthur and The Finest Hours.

     

  • Action adventure with love and war in TROY on MOVIES NOW

    Action adventure with love and war in TROY on MOVIES NOW

    MUMBAI: Experience the re-creation of the greatest sieges and wars in mankind’s history with TROY on MOVIES NOW this month. Splendid epic-scale showcase of the Homer’s tale of love and war in the ancient Greek times on your television screens.  Catch this action adventure in its grandeur as the mega movie of the month this Saturday, 22nd, February at 9pm only on MOVIES NOW.

     

     What happens when Prince Hector and his young brother Paris negotiate a peace treaty with the Spartan King Menelaus? Not every treaty has a happy ending. This saga of love conquering after an epic war, written by David Benioff and directed by Wolfgang Petersen features an ensemble cast that includes Brad Pitt (Achilles), Eric Bana (Prince Hector), Orlando Bloom (Prince of Troy), Brendan Gleeson (King Menelaus) and many more. Watch History repeating itself when Greece goddess battle against each other for true love and sacrifice only on MOVIES NOW at 9pm on 22nd, Feb, 2014.

     

    Featuring a blend of spectacular pros, distressing cons, and great actors and actresses, this nail biting adventure will have you at the edge of your seats. What happens after Menelaus finds out that his wife was taken by the Trojans. The war at its footing step, based on Homer’s Iliad, TROY, is one of the most expensive films produced in modern cinema and has extremely succeed at the box office.

     

    This action adventure will leave you awestruck and is sure to keep the excitement meter at an all-time high this February.

     

    Don’t miss TROY as the action adventure unfolds only on MOVIES NOW!

  • Sony Pictures India releases an exciting slate of Hollywood movies for 2014-2015

    Sony Pictures India releases an exciting slate of Hollywood movies for 2014-2015

    As we ready ourselves to enter into the New Year, even production houses have chalked out their plans to entertain viewers with the big releases. One of those is Sony Pictures India that has released its slate of Hollywood movies for 2014-2015.

     

     Kicking off the New Year will be Carrie on 17 January, the supernatural horror reimagining of the 1976 cult classic, based on the bestselling Stephen King novel about a shy, alienated girl who unleashes telekinetic terror on her small town after being pushed too far at her senior prom.

     

    Following this, will be the release of Robocop on Valentine’s Day (14 February), another re-envisioning of the hit 1987 film about a bionic man facing humankind’s ever daunting question on who wins in the end: man or machine?

     

    Another remake soon follows suit on 11 April in the form of About Last Night, a reboot of the 1986 film of the same name, which was based on the 1974 David Mamet play, Sexual Perversity In Chicago.

     

    On 2 May, Peter Parker returns to fight against Electro, a formidable villain who has terrorised New York City in Spider Man 2.

     

    20 June would witness the release of two of the most highly anticipated movies of 2014, the first being Heaven Is For Real, about a small-town father who must find the courage and conviction to share his son’s extraordinary, life-changing experience with the world, and the next being 22 Jump Street, the sequel to 2012 box office hit 21 Jump Street, about two police officers going undercover as adolescent students at a local school.

     

    25 July would see the release of the Eric Bana-starrer Deliver Us From Evil. On 8 Aug, watch a married couple wake up to discover that the sex tape they made the evening before has gone missing, leading to a frantic search for its whereabouts in Sex Tape.

     

    Think Like A Man Too, another sequel, of the 2012 film will release on 29 August. Next up will be No Good Deeds, a movie about a former district attorney turned stay-at-home mom and her two small children who are terrorised and kidnapped after she invites a handsome but mysterious stranger into their home to wait for help after his car runs off the road releasing on 26 September.

     

    The Equalizer would release on 3 October, the storyline follows a retired intelligence officer Robert McCall who turns into a vigilante for the helpless. Ending the year on high note on 14 November would be The Interview, a movie about a late night talk show host and his producer best friend, approached by the CIA and asked to assassinate Kim, a mysterious and ruthless dictator of a nuclear-armed North Korea making them two of the least qualified men ever to assassinate – or interview – the most dangerous man on earth.

     

    Films slated for release in 2015 includes Annie, Kitchen Sink, Chappie, the new James Bond movie, and the latest installments in The Smurfs and Hotel Transylvania franchise.