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  • Star Movies celebrates Children’s Day on November 14th

    Mumbai, November 10, 2005: It’s the only day when children get all the freedom to freak out and have fun because it’s their day. And Star Movies gives them a good reason to stay at home and tune-in to some of their all time favorite Hollywood movies like Home Alone, Three Men and a Baby, X2- X Men United, Good Boy, 3 Ninjas, Shrek 2, Sindbad: Legend of Seven Seas, this ‘Children’s day‘, on November 14th 2005 from 11 am onwards.

    The schedule is as follows

    Movie Time
    Home Alone 7:15 am
    Three Men & A Baby 9 am
    X2: X Men United 11 am
    Good Boy 1:35 pm
    3 Ninjas 3:20 pm
    Sinbad: Legend of Seven Seas 5:15 pm
    Shrek 2 7 pm

    At 5.15 pm, watch ‘Sinbad: Legend of Seven Seas’, the most daring and notorious rogue ever to sail the seven seas, has spent his life asking for trouble, and trouble has finally answered in a big way. Framed for stealing one of the worlds most priceless and powerful treasures, the Book of Peace, Sinbad has one chance to find and return the precious book, or his best friend Proteus will die. Sinbad decides not to take that chance and instead sets a course for the fun and sun of the Fiji Islands. However, Proteus’ beautiful betrothed, Marina, has stowed away on Sinbad’s ship, determined to make sure that Sinbad fulfills his mission and saves Proteus’ life. Now the man who put the “bad” in Sinbad is about to find out how bad bad can be.

    Meet Samuel, Jeffrey and Michael Douglas in the most adorable movie 3 Ninjas at 3.20 pm! Their grandfather, Mori Tanaka, is highly skilled in the fields of Martial Arts and Ninjitsu. And for years he’s been training these boys this technique. But one day, an old “friend” of Grandpa’s, Hugo Snyder, reappears. He’s being hassled by the FBI, and the boys’ father happens to be an FBI officer. So Snyder figures if he kidnaps the father’s kids, it will ease the tension, none of his own men are suitable for the task, so he hires three dim and incredibly incompetent surfers to do the deed.

    So make sure this Children’s Day, all you kids grab the TV remote, get your popcorn ready and make your space on the couch for an entire day of hilarious, adventurous, swashbuckling blockbusters only on Star Movies from 11:00 am onwards.

    Star, a wholly-owned subsidiary of News Corporation, is Asia’s leading multi-platform content and service provider. Star’s over 40 distributed services in seven languages reach more than 300 million viewers across 53 Asian countries. Star television channels include Star Chinese Channel, Star Plus, Star World, Xing Kong, Vijay, Phoenix Chinese Channel, Channel [V], ESPN, Star Sports, Star Chinese Movies, Star Gold, Star Mandarin Movies, Star Movies, Phoenix Movies Channel, Star News, Phoenix InfoNews Channel, in addition to distributed channels National Geographic Channel, A1, The History Channel, Fox News and Sky News. Star has interests in cable systems in India and Taiwan. It also powers the launch of Total TV in Taiwan, Asia’s first interactive digital cable TV services. In addition, it provides advertising sales and marketing services and is a key source of programming expertise for Radio City, the first FM radio network to launch in India.

    For further information please contact:
    In Mumbai
    Zeenat Khan
    Communications Department
    STAR (India) Ltd
    Tel No. 91-22-56305555

    Shiraz Bhavnani / Nivedita Kamat
    Vaishnavi Corporate Communications
    Tel: 91-22-5656 8787
    Fax: 91-22-5656 8788
    Email: sbhavnani@vccpl.com / nkamat@vccpl.com

  • NBC to rope in ‘Home Alone’ star Macaulay Culkin for a sitcom

    NBC to rope in ‘Home Alone’ star Macaulay Culkin for a sitcom

    MUMBAI: It’s not just a phenomenon on the Indian shores, even in the Hollywood actors cave in to the Television reach. While Will Smith and Jada Pinkett Smith are producing a sitcom, Home Alone star Macaulay Culkin has signed a deal with NBC to develop several projects, including a possible sitcom in fall 2004.
     

    According to the Variety Magazine report, Culkin is in talks with Conan O’Brien, The Late Night host, for a joint venture.

     

    According to the media reports, the NBC spokesman Kevin Reilly offered that they aren’t planning a conventional show for Culkin; they are working on something that is a little offbeat and something surprising.

    This isn’t the first time that Culkin will be starring in television show; he has been on NBC’s Will & Grace as a guest spot last season. Although he started off his career as a child actor, after the initial spark of brilliance, he has not been able to make a mark as an adult actor, although he always has had uncanny instincts as an actor. The media reports that NBC decided to strike a deal because they were sure about his skills as he did a great turn on Will & Grace. Unlike most child stars, he was able to figure out how to translate that talent to adulthood. 

    Beside the forthcoming tele ventures, Culkin had starred in an independent film Party Monster, early this year. He also appeared onstage in Richard Nelson’s Madame Melville, starring with Irene Jacob in London and Joely Richardson on Broadway, and will appear in United Artists’ upcoming Saved opposite Jena Malone and Mandy Moore.