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  • Movies Now brings back 100 Mania

    Movies Now brings back 100 Mania

    MUMBAI: Movies Now is all charged up to bring back its official property 100 Mania to India with the best Hollywood movies. The channel’s initiative starts from 12 December, 2015 and will be aired in the prime time slot of 9 pm.

     

    This step by Movies Now for the Indian viewers will feature some of the biggest blockbusters titles like Fast & Furious 6, Man of Steel, Jack the Giant Slayer, Pacific Rim, Croods, Bean’s Holiday and Journey 2 the Mysterious Island.

     

    Viewers will also get an opportunity to win prizes like cars, bikes, iPhone 6s, digital cameras, HD TVs and laptops amongst others by participating in a contest wherein all they need to do is give a missed call on the number displayed on the screen during the 9 pm movie. The channel will be giving out a total of 100 prizes; one prize per day of the 100 day marathon fest of these Hollywood entertainers.

  • It was Fast and Furious weekend: Star Movies Trends on Twitter for over 34 hours!

    It was Fast and Furious weekend: Star Movies Trends on Twitter for over 34 hours!

    MUMBAI: Star Movies India took Twitter by storm on 19th and 20th July, with the television premiere of cult action movie Fast & Furious 6. With exciting contests #FastSelfie and #FastBid, the twitterati went fast and furious and the hash tags trended in India for over 34 hours on Twitter.

    Wondering what the mad rush was all about? Simple! Love clicking selfies? Then click it while watching the television premiere of Fast & Furious 6 and the winners will be gratified with a ride in the ultimate super sports car SLS-AMG on India’s only Formula 1 track – the Buddh international Circuit. Movie fans, mean-machine fans or fans of speed, stormed over twitter with #FastSelfie from all over the country for over an astounding 24 hours. The conversation also trended no. 1 in India. The race for the ultimate #FastBid saw the hashtag trend for over 10 hours with the competent bidder vying to lay their hands on the special collectibles. Twitter reported a total of an extraordinary 49 million impressions for Fast & Furious 6 activity, while over 10,000 entries participated in the contest. A rare contest for a rare movie, truly Fast & Furious.

     

  • Star Movies to flag off a hunt for India’s fast 6

    Star Movies to flag off a hunt for India’s fast 6

    MUMBAI: Pulling out all stops, Star Movies has put together a high voltage action packed promotional campaign for the television premiere of ‘FAST & FURIOUS 6’, the blockbuster hit from one of cinema’s cult action franchises which will see a double premiere on Sunday, 20th July, 2014 at 1pm and 9pm. 

     

    The channel has chalked out creative and unique consumer engagements as a part of the premiere’s publicity plan which is  inclusive of a once-in-a-lifetime chance for every fast car enthusiast to come one step closer to their speed dream!

     

    As a part of their marketing campaign,  the channel will hunt for India’s Fast 6, wherein six of the biggest fans of the movie franchise, will be presented with an exclusive opportunity to experience an electrifying ride Fast and Furious style. Winners will be gratified with a ride in the ultimate super sports car SLS-AMG on India’s only Formula 1 track – the Buddh international Circuit. To be a part of India’s Fast 6 team and live the action, all adrenaline junkies and speed enthusiasts will need to participate in an interactive contest on the www.Indiasfast6.com.  Fast and Furious enthusiasts will be able to sign in using their Facebook/Twitter accounts in order to complete a series of interesting tasks ultimately leading to the last and final task, which they will have to tackle while the movie airs.

     

    Additionally, the channel will engage audiences with specially designed promotion on Twitter, wherein participants stand a chance to win limited edition Fast & Furious collectibles every day. Using the hashtag #FastBid, they can bid for exclusive merchandise including special make sports car pen-drives among other memorabilia.

     

    Shifting gears from 1 to 6 as the countdown to the premiere, the channel is airing the previous 5 installments of Fast and Furious every Sunday,  with the first installment that aired on 15th June building towards the sixth movie. This movie festival allows fans to revisit their favorite action franchise featuring some of the world’s fastest cars and death-defying stunts ever captured on screen.

     

    Commenting on the premiere, Mr. Kevin Vaz, General Manager – English Cluster, Star India said, “We are pleased to premiere Fast & Furious 6, the most exciting and thrilling movie from the franchise. To present the movie with a befitting premiere, we have designed an innovative marketing campaign complete with a high octane dose of action to enhance viewer engagement and excite our audience”.

     

    Fasten your seat belts as STAR MOVIES takes you through a high speed showdown to the Fast & Furious 6 premiere on 20th July,1pm and 9pm only on Star Movies.

  • Universal’s ‘Despicable Me 2? crosses $800mn worldwide

    Universal’s ‘Despicable Me 2? crosses $800mn worldwide

    MUMBAI: Universal Pictures’ Despicable Me 2 continues to rake it in around the globe. The animated sequel surpassed the $800 million mark with Friday’s estimated domestic grosses of $349.9 million and $451.4 million international bringing the worldwide take to $801.3 million.

     

    The Universal and Illumination Entertainment pic has opened at No.1 in 45 territories and is the second highest grossing pic of 2013 worldwide behind Iron Man 3. Domestically it’s No.2 and internationally only third behind Iron Man 3 and Fast & Furious 6.

     

    Last month NBCUniversal chief Steve Burke declared Despicable Me 2 the studios’ most profitable film in history; it’s also Uni’s second highest grosser of all time worldwide behind Jurassic Park.

  • Universal’s Fast & Furious 6 breaks all speeding limits grossing $500 million worldwide

    Universal’s Fast & Furious 6 breaks all speeding limits grossing $500 million worldwide

    MUMBAI: The adrenaline pumping sixth installment of the Vin Diesel starrer Fast & Furious 6 has zoomed past the $ 500 million mark grossing worldwide. The high octane action flick is still going strong in its third week smashing Universal‘s all records and moving faster than any film in the studio‘s history.

    The sixth installment written by Chris Morgan was directed by Justin Lin and had retained the ensemble cast of its previous installment including the franchise‘s protagonists Vin Diesel as Dominic Toretto along with Paul Walker, Dwayne Johnson and Michelle Rodriguez.

    Over the past two weeks the Fast & Furious 6 held the No 1 spot at the domestic box office and scored Universal studio‘s highest-grossing opening weekend of all time.

    Till date, Fast 6 has grossed $180.3 million domestically and $342.2 million internationally. The film‘s splendid box-office performance helped push the studio past the $1 billion mark on May 31.

    With the success of the street racing franchise scaling new heights its seventh installment with James Wan at the helm of the project, is set to release on 11 July 2014.