MUMBAI: Bringing perhaps a gentler touch to a ceremony helmed for the past three years by Ricky Gervais, comedy duo Tina Fey and Amy Poehler will host next year‘s Golden Globe awards in Beverly Hills.
Fey and Poehler would bring their tried and tested chemistry to the January 13, 2013 gala dinner for Hollywood‘s leading film and TV stars, the joint organisers Hollywood Foreign Press Association (HFPA) and NBC said.
Fey, 42, creator and star of 30 Rock and Poehler, 41, have worked together for years, first on satirical sketch show Saturday Night Live and later on 2008 comedy film.
“Tina and Amy have a proven chemistry and comedic timing from their many years together,” NBC alternative programming president Paul Telegdy said in a statement.
The executive producers of Dick Clark productions which owns the rights to the Golden Globes, said they were excited ‘to have two of the most respected names in comedy‘ at the helm of the 70th Globes ceremony.
The Golden Globes is one of Hollywood‘s key award ceremonies ahead of the Oscars, which take place next year on 24 February will be hosted by Seth MacFarlane, creator of animated comedy Family Guy.
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Tina Fey and Amy Poehler to host Golden Globe awards
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Bruce Willis set to visit India to promote Looper
Mumbai: Hollywood star Bruce Willis might soon come to India to promote his upcoming film Looper.
If all goes well, the Hollywood actor might fly down to promote his upcoming futuristic action thriller that will hit the theatres in the country on 12 October.
However, Multivision Multimedia, the distributor of Looper in India, is not divulging details on the star‘s visit.
The 57-year old Willis is said to be kicked after the Rian Johnson-directed film got rave reviews at its screening at the recent Toronto International Film Festival.
In Looper, based on time-travel, Willis co-stars along with Joseph Gordon-Levitt of Inception and The Dark Knight Rises fame. The film also has Emily Blunt as the female lead. -
Fourth edition of TCM Classic Film Fest in April next year
MUMBAI: The annual TCM Classic Film Festival is set to return in Hollywood for its fourth edition from 25 to 28 April next year. The 2013 event will center on the theme “Cinematic Journeys: Travel in the Movies.”
Robert Osborne, TCM host, film historian and former longtime columnist for The Hollywood Reporter, will serve as the host, with TCM‘s Ben Mankiewicz also introducing various events. One event has already been announced in the form of 13 October showing of the 1956 sci-fi classic Forbidden Planet at the Kennedy Space Center Visitor Complex in Orlando.
The 2012 festival included appearances by Liza Minnelli, Kirk Douglas, Mel Brooks, Kim Novak, Debbie Reynolds, Angie Dickinson, Robert Wagner and Stanley Donen.
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Michael Bay invites wannabe filmmakers to be part of his next via competition
MUMBAI: Director Michael Bay has teamed up with his bosses at Doritos to launch Crash the Super Bowl, a contest that will allow wannabe moviemakers to create advertisements for the snack brand, it is understood.
The two top commercials will air during the Super Bowl broadcast in January next year after which fans will be asked to vote for their favourite in an online poll.
“When you find out where these guys came from… It‘s great. If you want to get noticed, this is the way to do it… When I was a film student, I would have killed for this kind of opportunity. When you‘re on the set, you get to see it all go down,” Bay said.
Bay, who started off his career with commercials before transitioning into Hollywood, will invite the director behind the advert with the highest score to work for him on the next instalment of Transformers.
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Signs of Hollywood, China teaming showing results
MUMBAI: The first signs of cooperation between Hollywood filmmakers and their Chinese counterparts are showing up.
In August, DreamWorks Animation, known for making animated hits like Shrek and Kung Fu Panda, officially launched its joint-venture with three Chinese media companies. The firm is scheduled to make the next installment in the Kung Fu Panda series and open a theme park in Shanghai.
At the same time, James Cameron, who successfully directed Avatar and Titanic, also made his entry into China when he co-founded Cameron Pace Group with China Film Group Corp. and they agreed to cooperate on a 3D documentary about the history of Beijing.
The JV structure allows Hollywood to gain entry to a market it sees as fast-growing. It also allows Hollywood studios and their Chinese counterparts to circumvent government rules limiting the number of foreign films that can be shown each year in the country.
In February, the State Administration of Radio Film and Television, the country‘s media watchdog, had averred that it would allow the number of foreign-made films allowed into the country this year to rise from 20 to 34.
More significantly, in the same month, Beijing signed an agreement with Washington that means films made by the JVs will not be counted against the quota.
In the first half of 2012, four of the five films that attracted 10 million ticket buyers were made in the US, the remaining being those from China. -
Richard Gere to be honoured at Zurich Film Festival
Mumbai: Richard Gere will be honoured with a special award at the Zurich Film Festival that is to begin from 20 September.
The 62-year-old actor will be conferred the Golden Icon Award for his career achievements.
"Richard Gere is an extraordinary man whose accomplishments in Hollywood are equalled by his humanitarian achievements. We are honoured to recognise his amazing career," festival director Karl Spoerri said.
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YRF to remake Bunty Aur Babli in Hollywood
MUMBAI: Uday Chopra is all set to have an international version of YRF’s 2005 hit Bunty Aur Babli. With a re-written script in hand, Chopra is planning to remake the film in Hollywood.
The film is all about two rather lovable crooks who venture into many adventures like the fake selling of the Taj Mahal. The film draws comparisons to the American classic Bonnie and Clyde. However, there were no dark elements in the film.
Chopra has already aligned himself as producer for two projects – Peter Glanz‘sThe Longest Week and Olivier Dahan‘s Grace of Monaco. But he says he has also begun work on a Hollywood version of Bunty.
Chopra, the youngest son of the renowned Bollywood producer-director Yash Chopra, recently launched his family‘s film company Yash Raj Films in the US with plans to produce Hollywood films.
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Production house secures ?200m funding for 9 films
MUMBAI: Production house Liquid Noise Films North has secured funding of nine Hollywood-backed movies with a total budget of more than ?200 million across the North-East and North Yorkshire.
Locations including York, Newcastle, Durham City, the Tees Valley and North York Moors will form sets for films ranging from a ?26 million fantasy adventure to a ?35 million biopic of Captain James Cook‘s early life.
The films, to roll from September, are expected to feature lot of A-list actors and generate millions of pounds for the region‘s economy from film related tourism.
The Independent filmmakers, whose team includes Newcastle actor Craig Conway, bestselling novelist GP Taylor and North Yorkshire-raised producer and director duo Julian and Lionel Hicks, hope their North-East initiative will spark a long-term renaissance in the British film industry.
Both Julian and Hicks said that most of the productions were more than two-thirds financed by a mix of overseas and British investors including Los Angeles-based collective Finish Line Productions. Liquid Noise‘s long-term goal was to set up a self-sufficient studio in the region, they revealed.
A spokesman of Northern Film and Media said that this would transform the region‘s film industry if they all came to fruition as well as attracting crowds of tourists.
The films to be shot in the North-East and North Yorkshire include: X-Breed, Tersias, Fort Venus, Vardo, The Vampyre Quartet, Lenin Athletic and Jack D‘arc.
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New Oscar venue Dolby Theatre opens
MUMBAI: The venue for the Oscars has been renamed. The 3,400-seat theatre, formerly known as the Kodak Theatre, re-opened on Monday with a new audio-visual system and new signage as the Dolby Theatre.
Dolby Laboratories Inc. announced a 20-year deal with Hollywood & Highland Center owner CIM Group last month to rename the theatre that has hosted the Academy Awards since 2002.
The audio-visual technology company outfitted the four-level venue with its Dolby 3D and Dolby Atmos projection and audio systems. Besides the Oscars, the Hollywood theatre is home to the Cirque du Soleil production Iris and will host the world premiere next Monday of the Disney-Pixar film Brave, which will be the first feature film released utilizing the Dolby Atmos technology.
“It‘s an incredible day for us,” sDolby President Kevin Yeaman has reportedly said after a demonstration Monday of the theatre‘s new audio-visual systems. “We‘ve been hard at work coming up with Dolby Atmos and Dolby 3D and looking for a way to tell that story and connect with audiences around the world. When this opportunity came up, we couldn‘t pass it up,” he added.
CIM Group dropped the Kodak name from the theatre ahead of the Oscars earlier this year after a bankruptcy court judge approved the early exit of 131-year-old Eastman Kodak Co. from a 20-year naming rights deal it signed with them in 1999.
The 85th annual Academy Awards is scheduled to be held at the Dolby Theatre on 24 February next year.
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The Avengers nets Rs 470 mn in India
MUMBAI: Marvel Studios and Disney’s superhero ensemble film, The Avengers, has become the fourth highest Hollywood grosser in India, according to UTV Motion Pictures.
The big screen adaptation of the Marvel comic has earned over Rs 470 million net in its fourth-week run so far. Having released on 27 April, a week before its US release, the film is still running in both the 2D and 3D formats in English, Hindi, Tamil and Telugu.
The top five Hollywood films in India are Avatar (net lifetime collections of Rs 990 million), 2012 (Rs 650 million), Spider-Man 3 (Rs 490 million), The Avengers, which has so far raked in Rs 460 million so far and Mission: Impossible – Ghost Protocol (Rs 350 million), according to data provided by UTV.
The Avengers is one of the first big ticket Hollywood releases in India by Disney UTV.
“The unprecedented success of The Avengers in India is a great demonstration of how the same aggressive marketing and distribution strategies we adopt to release our big ticket Hindi movies can be applied to Hollywood movies as well. The Avengers is one of those movies that has wowed critics and audiences alike, and in the incredible opening followed up by throngs of repeat audiences, have helped the film break records not just in India but globally. We are thrilled that one of the first big ticket Hollywood releases in India by Disney UTV, has achieved this level of success,” said UTV Motion Pictues CEO Siddharth Roy Kapur.
Overseas, the film has joined the billion dollar box office club in just 19 days. Tapping its trajectory, international trade pundits predict that the film is slated to become the third highest grossing film of all time by the end of its run after Avatar and Titanic.
The film stars Robert Downey Jr as Iron Man, Chris Hemsworth as Thor, Chris Evans as Captain America, Jeremy Renner as Hawkeye, Scarlett Johansson as Black Widow, Mark Ruffalo as the Hulk, Samuel L. Jackson as Nick Fury and Tom Hiddleston as Loki.