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  • Warner Bros. Pictures’ ‘Gravity’ returning to wide release on 17 January

    Warner Bros. Pictures’ ‘Gravity’ returning to wide release on 17 January

    MUMBAI: Following months of overwhelming critical and audience acclaim and numerous year-end awards, Warner Bros Pictures is bringing Alfonso Cuarón’s cinematic achievement Gravity back to big screens in the US. The film, which stars Sandra Bullock and George Clooney, will be re-released on more than 900 screens on 17 January 2014, it was announced today by Warner Bros Pictures Domestic Distribution President Dan Fellman.

     

    Originally released on 4 October 2013, Gravity instantly became a favourite of both critics and audiences. It has since become one of the most honoured films of the year, most recently bringing a Golden Globe Award for Best Director to Alfonso Cuarón. The film has also received 11 BAFTA Award nominations and 10 Critics’ Choice Award nominations, both including Best Picture, Best Director and Best Actress (Bullock). It has also won Best Picture awards from several prestigious critics organisations, including the Los Angeles Film Critics Association, and has been included on 395 critics’ and critics groups’ top ten lists, as well as being named one of the AFI’s ten best films of the year. It was also announced as the year’s best reviewed film by the website Rotten Tomatoes.

     

    In addition, the talents behind the film have been recognised by their peers, with a Directors Guild of America Award nomination for Cuarón; a Producers Guild of America Award nomination for David Heyman and Cuarón; a Screen Actors Guild Award nomination for Bullock; a American Society of Cinematographers Award nomination for Emmanuel Lubezki; an Art Directors Guild Award nomination for Andy Nicholson; and an American Cinema Editors’ Eddie Award nomination for Cuarón and Mark Sanger.

     

    Gravity has also been a smash hit at the box office, earning more than $670 million worldwide and counting, with most moviegoers opting to view it in 3D. In making the announcement, Fellman stated, “We are thrilled by the many accolades for Gravity, which has generated renewed word-of-mouth and interest in seeing the film, whether for the first time or to experience it again. We wanted to give audiences everywhere another opportunity to see it the way it was meant to be seen—on the big screen.”

     

    Academy Award winners Sandra Bullock (The Blind Side) and George Clooney (Syriana) star in Gravity, a heart-pounding thriller that pulls one into the infinite and unforgiving realm of deep space. The film is directed by Oscar nominee Alfonso Cuarón (Children of Men).

  • Quentin Tarantino’s next: ‘The Hateful Eight’

    Quentin Tarantino’s next: ‘The Hateful Eight’

    MUMBAI: Right around the time of the Golden Globe, rumor has it that Quentin Tarantino will complete his new script, which will be a western; the working title of the film right now is The Hateful Eight. “I had so much fun doing Django, and I love westerns so much that after I taught myself how to make one, it’s like ‘OK! Let me make another one now that I know what I’m doing,’” Tarantino told Jay Leno in November when he appeared on The Tonight Show.

     

    Tarantino has finished a draft, and is in the process of showing it to a handful of actors he wants for the picture. Nothing has been confirmed yet, however the title suggests Tarantino could be stepping up his game, playing off the title of John Sturges’ 1960 film The Magnificent Seven, which in turn was a remake of Akira Kurosawa’s 1954 Seven Samurai.

     

    No one has been cast yet, but Tarantino has reached out to veteran casting director Victoria Thomas, who worked on Django, to work with him on casting for the flick, say several insiders. A part has been written for Christoph Waltz, who starred in Tarantino’s Django and Inglourious Basterds. As rumor has it, another part has been written for Hollywood veteran Bruce Dern who, at the age of 77 and after a career worth of distinguished mostly supporting performances, has emerged as a Best Actor frontrunner in Alexander Payne‘s Nebraska.

     

    Pilar Savone, who served as a producer on Django and was also an associate producer on Tarantino’s Inglourious Basterds and Death Proof after being his assistant, is producing Hateful Eight.

  • Homelands Damian Lewis will star alongside Nicole Kidman in Queen Of The Desert

    Homelands Damian Lewis will star alongside Nicole Kidman in Queen Of The Desert

    MUMBAI: Damian Lewis, who has won Golden Globes and Emmys for his work as POW-turned-terrorist Nicolas Brody in Showtime’s Homeland, is near a deal to star opposite Nicole Kidman in director Werner Herzog’s Queen Of The Desert. The UK-born Lewis won’t have to hide his homegrown accent for the feature: He will play Lt. Col. Charles Doughty-Wylie, an unhappily married English war hero who engages in a turbulent affair with Gertrude Bell (Kidman), with whom he exchanged love letters with from 1913-1915 until he was killed in active duty at Gallipoli. Production is scheduled to begin in December.

     

    Queen Of The Desert refers to Bell, the iconic explorer, writer, archeologist and attaché for the British Empire who is credited with helping to catalyse the formation of the Middle East at the dawn of the 20th century. Nick Raslan is producing through his Palmyra Films banner along with Cassian Elwes and Michael Benaroya. Benaroya Pictures banner is financing the film.

  • Tina Fey and Amy Poehler may return to host the Golden Globes

    Tina Fey and Amy Poehler may return to host the Golden Globes

    MUMBAI: After successfully hosting the Golden Globes this year, the duo has been asked to come back for a second time. The comedy stars had received good reception at their first stint. They had agreed to just appear once as hosts but their success has made NBC and Golden Globes request them to be back.

     

    However, there hasn’t been any formal communication as yet and the duo seems to be very busy with their respective projects. Fey has two high profile comedy shows under her belt after receiving some huge buzz for 30 Rock. Poehler is the star producer of NBC’s Parks and Recreation.

     

    Prior to 2010, the Globes did not have any host and even now it is not too heavy on them either. More conversations are set to begin next month as it has to be finalised by November, before announcing nominees in December.

     

    Fey and Poehler drew 19.7 million viewers last year that moved up by 17 per cent from the previous year as well as recording as one of the most watched Globes ever.

  • Decendants, The Artist bag best film award at Golden Globes

    Decendants, The Artist bag best film award at Golden Globes

    MUMBAI: Two films have bagged the top three category awards of the 69th Golden Globe awards.
     
    Alexander Payne’s The Descendants has won the Golden Globe award in the Best Motion Picture (Drama) category while Michel Hazanavicius-directed The Artist won the award in the Best Motion Picture (Comedy or Musical) category.
     
    George Clooney won the Best Actor (Drama) for The Descendants. Jean Dujardin took home the Best Actor (Comedy Or Musical) for The Artist.
     
    On the actresses’ front, Meryl Streep won the best actress (Drama) award for Iron Lady and Michelle Williams bagged the best actress (Musical or Comedy) Golden Globe for My Week With Marilyn.
     
    Director Martin Scorsese clinched the best director trophy for Hugo and Woody Allen won the best screenplay Golden Globe for Midnight in Paris.
     
    Adventures of Tintin: The Secret of the Unicorn won the best animated feature while Nader and Simin: A Separation won the best film in the foreign language category.
     
    The 69th Golden Globe awards were announced on Sunday night.