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  • Have a sparkling Diwali with MOVIES NOW!

    Have a sparkling Diwali with MOVIES NOW!

    MUMBAI :  The festival of lights is incomplete with the firecrackers, rockets and sparklers and MOVIES NOW brings all that to the table this Diwali!Starting 24th and 25th October, MOVIES NOW will mesmerize its fans like never before! From the Fireworks to the stunningDiwali Divas, movie buffs get ready for an overdose of exciting movies that leave you asking for more!

    MOVIES NOW will showcase the most explosive blockbusters of all time in Fireworks, starting 24th October, every Thursday at 9pm! Catch your favouriteaction cult heroesin the most iconic blockbusters. From X-Men Wolverine or Harry Potter & the Deathly Hallows 1, the channel will showcase it all. Making the occasion more lively and robust, MOVIES NOW brings Hollywood enthusiasts the most electrifying action films that sparked worldwide trends with their unbelievable visual effects! This October, don’t miss Fireworks onMOVIES NOWwith a special Diwali Dhamaka featuring Blade 2, The Last Air Bender and Torque.

    Don’t missDiwali Divas and their scintillating magic starting 25th October, every Friday at 9pm.Catch the sexy sirenHally Berry, the captivating Catherine Zeta Jones, fiery Salma Hayek, the dazzling beauty Jessica Alba and the glamorous Nicole Kidman set the stage ablaze in After the Sunset, Entrapment, Into the Blue, Swordfish, Catwoman and The Peacemaker.
    So get set to have a blast this Diwali on MOVIES NOW – Hollywood in HD!

  • Gone Girl to release in 2014, Frankenstein pushed to 2015

    Gone Girl to release in 2014, Frankenstein pushed to 2015

    MUMBAI: The Ben Affleck starrer Gone Girl has got a release date of 3 October 2014 while 20th Century Fox’s Frankenstein gets a date of 16 January 2015.

     

    rankenstein will see Harry Potter star Daniel Radcliffe opposite James McAvoy.
    Frankenstein was to open on 17 October 2014 with McAvoy playing Frankenstein and Radcliffe playing Igor. Instead it has decided to release Gone Girl with Affleck and Rosamund Pike in October along with animated family film Book of Life on 17 October.

     

    Fox is working with Regency on Gone Girl, which is under production. Based on a novel by Gillian Flynn it is about a couple who move from a city to a small town and then the wife goes missing.

  • Warner Bros to produce new Harry Potter inspired film series

    Warner Bros to produce new Harry Potter inspired film series

    MUMBAI: Starting off her stint as a screenwriter for Fantastic Beasts and where to find them, Warner bros has announced an ‘expanded creative partnership’ with the author. It was a book in the Hogwarts school of Harry Potter series.

    Plans are on to adapt the movie into a video game, consumer products and digital initiatives. Rowling says that the new movie will only be an extension of the wizarding world and not a prequel or sequel. It will showcase the adventures of Newt Scamander about 70 years before Harry was born.
    Warner bros released all eight movies in the Harry Potter franchisee which were a massive box office hit as well as shattered box office release records.

  • Hunger Games spoof to release in October

    Hunger Games spoof to release in October

    MUMBAI: Jason Freidberg and Aaron Seltzer have not stopped entertaining the people with their spoof list. A ketchup entertainment has acquired rights to distribute The Starving Games, to be released on 8 November.

     

    The spoof will be released days before the second part of the official series – The Hunger Games: Catching Fire. The flick is produced by Safran Company and is written and directed by the duo. With movies such as Scary Movie, Epic Movie under their belt, they plan to make everyone laugh out loud with this next.

     

    The movie will also poke fun at pop culture flicks such as The Avengers, Sherlock Holmes, Harry Potter, Psy etc.

     

    K5 reps international rights. Friedberg and Seltzer are working on a spoof of The Fast and the Furious called Superfast.

  • Iconic Gibson Amphitheater makes way for a Harry Potter attraction

    Iconic Gibson Amphitheater makes way for a Harry Potter attraction

    MUMBAI: NBCUniversal (NBCU) is demolishing the Los Angeles theme park‘s 41-year-old site in September to make way for a Harry Potter attraction and other "improvements." As reported by The Hollywood Reporter.
     
    The Gibson Amphitheater, a popular concert venue since its inauguration in 1972 as the Universal Amphitheater, will be leveled as early as October.
     
    It’s been assumed for months that the iconic amphitheater would need to perish, since NBCU has been saying that its joint-venture attraction with Warner Bros. called ‘The Wizarding World of Harry Potter’ was to be constructed at the north end of the park, which is where the amphitheater is located. On Wednesday, the decision was made formal.
     
    “This fall, a celebrated chapter in Los Angeles’ rich musical history will come to a close when the Gibson Amphitheater shuts its doors in September,” NBCU and Live Nation said in a release Wednesday. Live Nation leases the 6,200-seat amphitheater from NBCU.
     
    Live Nation is organizing a special "finale" concert on or about 6 September (acts have yet to be announced) to celebrate the 41-year-old venue, but details still are being worked out.

  • Harry Potter uncle Richard Griffith expires

    Harry Potter uncle Richard Griffith expires

    MUMBAI: Richard Griffiths, who played the boy wizard‘s unsympathetic Uncle Vernon in the Harry Potter movies has expired. He died on Thursday of complications following heart surgery. He was 65.
     
    Griffiths appeared in dozens of films and TV shows and was one of Britain‘s leading stage actors, creating roles including the charismatic teacher Hector in Alan Bennett‘s ‘The History Boys.‘
     
    In 2007 he appeared onstage in ‘Equus‘ alongside his ‘Harry Potter‘ co-star Daniel Radcliffe.
     
    "Richard was by my side during two of the most important moments of my career," said Radcliffe on his screen uncles‘s demise.

  • Richard Griffiths passes away

    Richard Griffiths passes away

    MUMBAI: Following complications after a heart surgery, Harry Potter actor Richard Griffiths expired on Thursday. He was 65.
     
    Griffiths was one of the great British stage actors of his generation, a heavy man with a light touch, whether in Shakespeare or Neil Simon. But for millions of movie fans, he will always be grumpy Uncle Vernon, the least magical of characters in the fantastical Harry Potter films.
     
    Paying a tribute to Griffiths, Daniel Radcliffe said, “Any room he walked into was made twice as funny and twice as clever just by his presence. I am proud to say I knew him.‘‘
     
    In his earlier days, Griffiths won a Tony Award for The History Boys and appeared in dozens of films and TV shows. But he will be most widely remembered as a pair of contrasting uncles: Harry Potter‘s Uncle Vernon Dursley and Uncle Monty in cult film Withnail and I.
     
    Griffiths was among a huge roster of British acting talent to appear in the Harry Potter‘ series of films released between 2001 and 2011.

  • Mini movie on Harry Potter being filmed

    Mini movie on Harry Potter being filmed

    MUMBAI: A mini movie on the Harry Potter franchise is reportedly being shot secretly at the Potter studios in Hertfordshire.
    Actress Helena Bonham Carter, who played Bellatrix Lestrange in the Harry Potter series, has been shooting for the film.
    It is through this film that Daniel Radcliffe rose to fame after playing lead role of boy wizard while Emma Watson and Rupert Grint played his best friends Hermione Granger and Ron Weasley.
    The film is likely to be shown at one of the two theme parks which are under construction. One of the theme parks will open in California by 2014, while the other will be ready to open in Japan by 2016.
    The eight-part franchise, based on author J.K Rowling‘s book, came to an end last year.

  • Helen Mirren will be awarded special prize at European Film Awards

    Helen Mirren will be awarded special prize at European Film Awards

    MUMBAI: Oscar winners Helen Mirren, Bernardo Bertolucci, and Danish actor Mads Mikkelsen (Casino Royale) and Dutch actress Cairce van Houten (Game of Thrones) are among the VIPs from Europe set to attend this year‘s European Film Awards in Malta on 1 December.
    Mirren will be honoured with a special prize for her contribution to world cinema while Bertolucci will receive the European Film Academy‘s lifetime achievement award.
    More than 1,000 of Europe‘s cinema elite will be on hand when the EFAs are handed out for the 25th time. They include German actor Moritz Bleibtreu (The Baader Meinhof Complex) and Irishmen Jim Sheridan – the Oscar-nominated director of In the Name of the Father and My Left Foot – and Michael Gambon – perhaps best known for portraying Professor Albus Dumbledore in the Harry Potter films.
    Highlighting the EFAs pan-European scope, this year‘s guest list includes directors from Russia (Alexei Popogrebsky) and Bosnia (Danis Tanovic); Spanish actors Marisa Paredes and Sergi Lopez as well Maltese actress Marama Carlett (Sinbad).
    This year the contenders for the top prize of European Film 2012 include Michael Haneke‘s Palme d‘Or winner Amour, Oscar hopefuls The Intouchables, Barbara and Caesar Must Die, Danish drama The Hunt and Steve McQueen‘s Shame featuring Michael Fassbender.

  • Harry Potter’s birth place put up for sale

    Harry Potter’s birth place put up for sale

    MUMBAI: De Vere House, the 14th century cottage luxury self catering accommodation, in Lavenham which served as the birthplace of Harry Potter in the British film has been put up for sale for 950,000 pounds.
    The grade I listed building, called de Vere House in Lavenham was used to create the fictional village of Godric‘s Hollow in Harry Potter and Deathly Hallows Part One.
    The cottage featured as the birthplace of both Harry Potter and his headmaster, Albus Dumbledore.
    The medieval building includes a reception hall, drawing room, dining room, kitchen/breakfast room, laundry room, three double bedrooms, two bathrooms and an attic room.