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  • Jack Black hints at Kung Fu Panda 4 triumph: ‘Possibly the Best Yet’

    Jack Black hints at Kung Fu Panda 4 triumph: ‘Possibly the Best Yet’

    Mumbai: PVR INOX continues to bring international cinema closer to movie buffs across India with exciting initiatives. The cinema chain deputed well-known film critic Sucharita Tyagi to interview the cast and crews of Kung Fu Panda 4 in Los Angeles. The interview featuring the charismatic actor Jack Black, who has voiced “Po” from Kung Fu Panda is now available on PVR’s and INOX’s YouTube channels.

    At the premiere of Kung Fu Panda 4, the atmosphere buzzed with joyous applause and enthusiastic cheers from the audience. When asked about Kung Fu Panda 4 being better than its predecessor, Jack Black responded, “I think it might be the best Kung Fu Panda. The laughs were coming strong. We were killing it, and James Hong and Bryan Cranston were killing me the most. I was dying. Judging from the audience reaction, we were getting tons of laughs.”

    Kung Fu Panda 4 is the latest installment where Po juggles two challenges: becoming the spiritual leader of the Valley of Peace and finding a new Dragon Warrior. However, when a powerful shape-shifting sorceress sets her eyes on his staff of wisdom, he suddenly realizes he is going to need some help. Teaming up with a quick-witted corsac fox, Po soon discovers that heroes can be found in the most unexpected places. Get ready for laughs, heartwarming moments, and epic kung fu battles in this action-packed adventure! The film releases on 15 March 2024 and can be watched at your nearest PVR INOX cinemas.

  • Sony PIX to premier ‘Goosebumps’

    Sony PIX to premier ‘Goosebumps’

    MUMBAI: Sony PIX will air premiere of Goosebumps on July 17 at 1PM and 9PM. Goosebumps is a fun, frantic, scary, adventurous film that captures the spirit of R. L Stine’s original books, boasting lots of special effects.

    The movie revolves around teenager Zach Cooper who after moving to a new town meets a girl named Hannah but her dad Mr. Shivers doesn’t want Zach to get close to Hannah. There is a reason her dad wants Zach to stay away, their house has a deadly secret that could destroy the whole town of Madison.

    Shivers, played by Jack Black creates the Goosebumps books, which contain the writer’s imaginary demons like the killer lawn gnomes, wolfmen or abominable snowmen. The monsters were originally locked up inside the manuscripts are accidently set free by Zach and Shivers’ daughter Hannah who go snooping around the house.

    The film stars Jack Black, Dylan Minnette, Odeya Rush and has an IMBD rating of 6.4. It was released in 2015, the movie was a solid performer at the Box office, generating $80 million domestically and another $77 million internationally on a budget of $58 million.

  • Sony PIX to premier ‘Goosebumps’

    Sony PIX to premier ‘Goosebumps’

    MUMBAI: Sony PIX will air premiere of Goosebumps on July 17 at 1PM and 9PM. Goosebumps is a fun, frantic, scary, adventurous film that captures the spirit of R. L Stine’s original books, boasting lots of special effects.

    The movie revolves around teenager Zach Cooper who after moving to a new town meets a girl named Hannah but her dad Mr. Shivers doesn’t want Zach to get close to Hannah. There is a reason her dad wants Zach to stay away, their house has a deadly secret that could destroy the whole town of Madison.

    Shivers, played by Jack Black creates the Goosebumps books, which contain the writer’s imaginary demons like the killer lawn gnomes, wolfmen or abominable snowmen. The monsters were originally locked up inside the manuscripts are accidently set free by Zach and Shivers’ daughter Hannah who go snooping around the house.

    The film stars Jack Black, Dylan Minnette, Odeya Rush and has an IMBD rating of 6.4. It was released in 2015, the movie was a solid performer at the Box office, generating $80 million domestically and another $77 million internationally on a budget of $58 million.

  • Zee Café ushers in the festivities, with three brand new shows, this November

    Zee Café ushers in the festivities, with three brand new shows, this November

    MUMBAI: This festive season your favorite shows are back and with a Bang! Get ready to watch your most loved shows along with your family and have a super November only on Zee Café.

     

    The Good Wife makes a comeback on Zee Café with the 6th Season. This season, Eli Gold (Alan Cumming) persuades Alicia (Julianna Margulies) to run for State’s Attorney, and while Florrick, Agos & Associates is on the verge of bringing in Diane Lockhart as a partner, Cary must face disturbing allegations. Catch the premiere of this legal drama on 26 November every Monday to Thursday at 11:00 pm.

     

    Follow the lives of your favorite Vampires along with the U.S only on The Vampire Diaries’ Season 7. Help the elite group of FBI agents analyze the most dangerous Criminal Minds’ in an effort to anticipate their next moves before they strike again.

     

    Get to know your mesmerizing celebrities little better, as Niranjan Iyengar indulges in a tete-a -tete, with them on Look Who’s Talking with Niranjan Season 2. The Season two of the show will have its finale episode in November with Katrina Kaif. Also bid adieu to the original vampire family with the season 2 finale of The Originals. 

     

    Indulge in Sunday Brunch twice this month. Watch Jack Black as he impersonates a substitute teacher and turns a class of fifth grade high-achievers into high-voltage rock and rollers only on School of Rock on 1 November at 10:00 am. While Vivian Ward, a streetwise, down-on-her-luck working girl, has a chance encounter with Edward Lewis, a handsome corporate mogul, which leads to an improbable love affair only on Pretty Woman 29 November at 10:00 am.

     

    Sundays just got better. Zee Café introduces two new shows Selfie and Young and Hungry. Watch the entire series on 8 and 22 November  respectively. Also, do not forget to tune in to The Astronaut Wives Club, every, Saturday and Sunday at 10:00 PM starting 28 November.

     

    We continue to tickle your funny bone with Two And a Half Men and The Millers Season 1-2, Monday to Friday at 8:00-9:00 pm. Let your Quirky side out with The Big Bang Theory season 9, every Saturday at 9:00 PM. 

  • Jack Black speaks for Yahoo! on online content today

    Jack Black speaks for Yahoo! on online content today

    MUMBAI: The Cannes Lion Award is organised each year to hold a gathering of over 11,000 members of the global creative communications where each one is awed, inspired and educated with the latest upcoming trends engulfing the industry. At the 2013 awards on June 17, Yahoo flexed its muscle by conducting the seminar- The New World of Online Content- Appealing to the Habits of Today‘s Consumer. Hollywood‘s Kung Fu Panda, Jack Black took the stage too for Yahoo expressing his views on online content.

    Black discussed that although online content is spreading across virally the stance of big screen studios is here to stay for a long time. “According to Spielberg, the studios are going to be extinct in about three years. I don‘t think that is entirely true, because there‘s always going to space for large screens. People like to get together in a communal way and watch something together on a gigantic screen and get lost in that,” Black states.

    Speaking about his own internet‘s influence on his lifestyle, Black says, “My world has got so internet communicative. It‘s all about emails. I click on a link that someone sends me and I am watching a video that will lead to another video and get sucked down into wormholes. But these are very entertaining and informative.”

    Sharing his views on online content, Black a master of comedy himself preferred the online content to be hilarious and trimmed down. “You don‘t really want to go too long. I found that 10 minutes is the optimal link. You throw in some good music with the comedy and it works.”

    Black also appreciated Yahoo‘s creative move in the industry which was portrayed through the seminar. “Yahoo is an artist friendly site and they are going to do a lot more creative things on their site in future. They are going to be very competitive in their game. A lot of different internet organisations are throwing their hat on their ring like Netflix and Google all vying for that new real estate of entertainment delivery. And Yahoo is saying Hey! We are flexing our muscle a little bit too.”

    “I don‘t think that online content is killing the Hollywood‘s leading man. There‘s going to be lots of Hollywood leading men on the line. That‘s just human nature, to go and look for the prettiest man and put him on camera, whether be it an iphone screen or a giant movie screen, because the world is tilted that way. It‘s not fair, but it‘s in the DNA,” he adds.

    “People do want more control and they like the control and the choices they have watching on their iphones, on their laptops, at least I do. I don‘t go into making videos on the internet with the goal of making this viral, I don‘t even know, how you anticipate something like that. You just make something that is hilarious and you keep it tight. You trim the fat and keep it short. Today I think they found out that,” Black ends.

  • HBO lines up Republic Day special

    MUMBAI: HBO’s blockbuster of the month airs on Friday 26 January at 9 pm.The “Eighth Wonder of the World” returns for the third time in this lavish film directed by Academy Award winner Peter Jackson. Thanks to unrivalled, state-of-the-art computer effects wizardry and animatronics, Jackson finally brings justice to the 1933 classic starring Fay Wray.

    Scheming and bankrupt filmmaker Carl Denham (Jack Black, The Holiday, Tenacious D: The Pick Of Destiny) embarks on a desperate plan to get the studio and the creditors off his back. He relies on playwright Jack Driscoll (Academy Award® winner Adrien Brody, Hollywoodland, The Jacket) to finish the pages of a half-baked screenplay.

    Denham talks starving vaudeville performer Ann Darrow (Naomi Watts, The Painted Veil, Stay) into joining them on a film shoot to a far-flung island. The adventure begins when they board a steamer, setting sail for the South Seas at Denham’s behest in their search for the mythical and eerie Skull Island, where rumors of a gargantuan monster abound. Denham believes this monster could clinch the blockbuster he so badly needs.

    Upon reaching the island, Ann is abducted by a fierce tribe who make her their next offering to Kong. Kong takes the terrified Ann, but Ann’s courage and empathy soon let her see through Kong, and a bond between them begins to grow. From Manhattan to the South Seas and back, expect loads of drama, fun, and scream-inducing scenes in what movie critic Roger Ebert calls “magnificent entertainment…one of [2005’s] best films.”

  • Vh1 and Jack Black join to produce ‘Department of Acceptable Media’

    Vh1 and Jack Black join to produce ‘Department of Acceptable Media’

    MUMBAI: VH1, Jack Black and the team from Channel101.com have announced the launch of weekly comedy program Department of Acceptable Media.

    The user-generated content and material show will be responsible for a website that will launch in early 2007 followed by a 8 episode weekly TV series premiering on VH1 in the Spring of 2007, asserts an official release.

    On board as coconspirators for The Department are Dan Harmon and Rob Schrab as executive producers, who teamed with Black in 2003 to cofound Black Channel 101, a Website dedicated to screening digital shorts made by novice filmmakers in a competitive forum. Benjamin Cooley will oversee for Electric Dynamite Productions.

    VH1 SVP of films and scripted series Maggie Malina, will oversee television production for VH1, along with VH1 EVP production and programming Michael Hirschorn.

    Each week viewers will see new three-minute episodes of six proposed TV series, most produced by the ‘Department’ staff, some produced by web users. Viewers will then be able to vote, via the Web site www.acceptable.tv, for three of those series to return with a new episode.

    The three with the least votes are cancelled and replaced by three new pilots the following week. All shows acceptable and unacceptable will be shown on the website. The best of these shorts could eventually grow to a full series on VH1, adds the release.

    Actor and series producer Jack Black said, “Over the years, Dan Harmon and Rob Shrab have assembled an incredible group of young filmmakers at their internet event, Channel101.com.”

    “They have mastered the art of the three-to-five minute entertainment power nugget. I am proud to be a producer of this breakthrough television series. This is the first show in TV history to be programmed by the audience,” he added.

    “The formation of the Department places VH1 and its viewers again at the forefront of the user-generated content revolution. VH1 tapped into the online video explosion early with our weekly Web Junk 20 series nearly a year ago. The show found the funniest videos on the internet and shared them with our viewers — thousands of whom uploaded their own videos to us,” said MTV Networks music group and logo president entertainment Brian Graden.

  • Kelly Clarkson, James Blunt triumph at MTV Video Music Awards

    MUMBAI: Singers Kelly Clarkson and James Blunt triumphed at the 2006 MTV Video Music Awards which took place a few nights ago in New York. Blunt won for the video You’re Beautiful while Clarkson won for the video Because of You. Best Group Video went The All-American Rejects’ Move Along.

    Jay-Z welcomed the VMAs back to New York City. The night opened with Justin Timberlake’s performing SexyBack. The show’s host Jack Black, dressed as the bad Moonman and Elvis, followed with a comical rock performance featuring Tenacious D band mate Kyle Glass.

    For the first time viewers were able to vote on all general
    awards categories. Panic! at the Disco nabbed Best Video of the Year for I Write Sins Not Tragedies. Avenged Sevenfold won Best New Artist Video for their music video Bat Country. Beyonce took home a Moon Man for Best R&B Video for her music video Check on It.

    While the VMAs aired live on MTV, MTV.com streamed VMA Live: Backstage Uncensored. This was a simultaneous view of the action behind the scenes and backstage that viewers have never gotten to see. Fans followed talent such as Ludacris, OK Go, and T.I. as they traveled from dressing rooms to the stage for their performances. In addition to the television and broadband experiences, MTV Mobile offered updates and recaps
    of the VMAs across all wireless carriers. The VMAs were also celebrated across all of MTV’s platforms including MTV2, mtvU, MHD, MTV World, and Urge.

    Stand up artiste Sarah Silverman took good natured jabs at everyone from Lance Bass to socialite Paris Hilton. Silverman had the audience laughing while she left celebrities guessing who was going to be her next target of sarcasm.

    In a self-deprecating taped moment, Britney Spears and Kevin Federline earned some laughs when they announced the winner for Best R&B Video. The tone turned more serious when Queen Latifah introduced former US Vice President Al Gore to the stage. In the spirit of An Inconvenient Truth Gore brought a message of urgent importance concerning the world community to the VMA audience.

    He projected the plight of the environment onto the actual walls of the theater. To highlight that caring about the environment is the new norm, MTV unveiled new Break the Addiction PSAs during the MTV Video Music Awards. The spots’ approach is that if you’re not actively combating global warming every day, you’re behind the times.

  • Jack Black to host 2006 MTV Video Music Awards

    Jack Black to host 2006 MTV Video Music Awards

    MUMBAI: MTV US president Christina Norman has announced that actor Jack Black (School Of Rock) will host the 2006 MTV Video Music Awards. The event takes place on 31 August.

    Norman says, “”Jack Black is the perfect mix of comedy, rock, irreverence, and star-power that will set the tone for an amazing show. His love of music and impeccable comic timing will rock the VMAs, NYC, and the entire world on 31 August.”

    Black says, “My plan is to bring the thunder. I’ve got my top men working on it as we speak in my thunder laboratory. Radio City Music Hall will never be the same.”

    Black and Kyle Gass together form Tenacious D, the self-proclaimed Greatest Band on Earth. They are getting ready to release their first film, Tenacious D in The Pick of Destiny on 17 November.

  • Green Day, Will Smith triumph at Nick US’ Kids Choice Awards

    Green Day, Will Smith triumph at Nick US’ Kids Choice Awards

    MUMBAI: Rock group Green Day, Will Smith, Lindsay Lohan and Chris Rock were among those who captured Kids’ Choice Blimp Awards at Nickelodeon’s 19th Annual Kids’ Choice Awards

    US kids honoured their favourites at this year’s inimitable kudos/mess-slime fest hosted on April Fools’ Day by actor Jack Black at the University of Califronia.

    Smith was voted as Favorite Movie Actor for Hitch. This marked Smith’s fifth Blimp. Lindsay Lohan nabbed the award for Favourite Movie Actress for Herbie Fully Loaded. Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire won for Favourite Movie.

    Chris Rock clinched the award for Favorite Voice in an Animated Movie for Madagascar. Nick’s own SpongeBob SquarePants absorbed honours for the fourth consecutive year as Favourite Cartoon. Drake & Josh won for Favoyrite TV show. Lance Armstrong scored a Blimp for Favourite Athlete.

    In music, Green Day picked up a pair for Music Group and for the song Wake Me Up When September Ends. Jesse McCartney and the winner of the first edition of American Idol Kelly Clarkson won for male and female singer

    A highlight of the show was a aerial skiing slime stunt. US Olympic Freestyle Aerial Skier Ryan St. Onge nailed a gravity-defying freestyle ski stunt off a snowy slope, plunging into a 10,000-gallon tank of Nickelodeon’s signature green slime.

    Skateboarding Slime Diver Tony Hawk hosted the stunt.To the crowd’s delight, slime flowed freely throughout the show, targetting kids in the mosh pit as well as celebrities. An elated Adam Sandler got down and messy. In a climatic moment of mess, slime showers splashed down on a surprised Robin Williams drenching him from head to toe. Then in a “gotcha” moment, the impish Williams took the reins and turned to spread the goo, turning Jack Black a gleeful green.