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  • Enjoy exclusive Lionsgate Play content for Raksha Bandhan

    Enjoy exclusive Lionsgate Play content for Raksha Bandhan

    Mumbai: No one loves you like your sibling. When families get together on Raksha Bandhan, homes and hearts are always full. Be it catching up with cousins or eating your favorite mithai, this festival is one of the best occasions for a binge watching marathon. So whether you’re in the mood for a heart-warming comedy or a moving story of sisterly sacrifice, Lionsgate Play has the perfect watch list. So this Raksha Bandhan, grab a box of kaju katli and your siblings for the ultimate Raksha Bandhan sleepover.

    Hiccups & Hookups

    Relationships may fade away but family is forever! Showcasing the true strength of a sibling bond, Lionsgate Play’s Indian original Hiccups & Hookups takes you through the story of a recently divorced mother, Vasudha (Lara Dutta) and her teenage daughter Kay, as they move in with Vasudha’s younger brother Akhil (Prateik Babbar). They carefully navigate dating, relationships and life with each other’s help and support. Clubbed with banter and playful love, this brother- sister duo hits home as Akhil helps Vasudha through her dark days.

    Home Economics

    Share a love-hate relationship with your siblings? Who doesn’t? Home Economics is a modern comedy that takes on the heartwarming yet super uncomfortable and sometimes frustrating relationship between three adult siblings: Tom, the middle-class writer; Connor, the little brother and Sarah, the do-good sister who’s barely getting by. Starring Jimmy Tatro, Caitlin McGee, Karla Souza, and Sasheer Zamata the show touches up how money keeps getting in the way of a family that loves each other to no end.

    The Hunger Games

    When Katniss’ sister is chosen to partake in the 74th Hunger Games, she volunteers in place of her. This small sacrifice unfolds into what is now one of the most coveted franchises in cinematic history. A story of love, honor and subdued politics, The Hunger Games is a cult-classic in every aspect. Starring Jennifer Lawrence, Josh Hutcherson, Liam Hemsworth, Stanley Tucci, Elizabeth Banks, Lenny Kravitz and Donald Southerland, the four films are must-watches in every aspect.

    Wonder

    Ever Wonder-ed about the power of love? When August Pullman aka Auggie, who is born with facial differences that have prevented him from going to a mainstream school, enters the local fifth grade, he ends up an unlikely hero. A story of unending compassion, bravery and unwavering familial support, the film stars Julia Roberts, Owen Wilson, Jacob Tremblay, Mandy Patinkin, Daveed Diggs, and Izabela Vidovic and is sure to end in a puddle of tears.

    Catch these exciting titles on Lionsgate Play this Raksha Bandhan for some heartwarming watches.

  • AXN leads the game with highest women viewership in its genre

    AXN leads the game with highest women viewership in its genre

    MUMBAI: AXN has already smitten the ladies with the best of programming. Taking further its brand promise of being home to iconic shows and characters, AXN takes a unique approach and dedicates the month of November to wow the ladies with its special program line-up.

    For the first time ever, AXN will air movies with edgy and strong female leads like the feisty Jennifer Lawrence in The Hunger Games: Mockingjay 2, the indomitable Scarlett Johansson in Lucy, the gorgeous Emily Blunt in The Girl on the Train and the resilient Charlize Theron in The Huntsman: Winter War. Catch these irresistible women who are Academy and Golden Globe nominees, take over AXN every Saturday at 11 AM and every Sunday at 6 PM.

    Next up is the most powerful and inspirational women character on TV – Elizabeth McCord aka Tea Leoni – with the new season of ‘Madam Secretary’ (Season 4). Airing every Sundayat 10 PM, the show truly makes one believe that a woman with strength can have it all.

    Adding to the fun, the channel brings a host of drool-worthy men under the property ‘AXN Hunkathon’. The sophisticated Hollywood fixer – Ray Donovan leads the way followed by all-time favourite Matt LeBlanc in the thrilling show ‘Top Gear’. Next comes the high functioning sociopath ‘Sherlock’ and lastly the rebellious Ragnar Lothbrok in ‘Vikings’.

    AXN also brings back the hottest brothers on screen, Sam Winchester and Dean Winchester with the new season of Supernatural (Season 13) every Saturday at 10 PM. The popularity of these brothers is ever rising especially with the women viewers.

    Lastly to add excitement, AXN offers the Emmy award winning singing reality show, The Voice Season 13, every Saturday and Sunday, 8 PM onwards featuring the gorgeous and talented duo Miley Cyrus and Jennifer Hudson along with the dashing heart throbs, Adam Levine and Blake Shelton.

    Sony Pictures Networks India EVP and business head Tushar Shah siad, “SPN’s English Cluster has very strong content offering for all its viewers. This is reflected by the BARC numbers of this fiscal year where AXN has emerged as the top channel in the English GEC category with 27% market share*. We also have the highest number of female viewership amongst all GEC channels with 29% market share**. So, we have dedicated the month of November to the female audience. We are confident that our edgy and appealing content line-up will reinforce AXN’s leadership position with our TG”

    *NCCS 15-40 AB, AI 1 mn+ (wk 14 – Wk 42’17)

    ** NCCS 15-40 AB Females, AI 1 mn+ (wk 14 – Wk 42’17)

  • Why Jennifer Lawrence skipped the Golden Globes?

    Why Jennifer Lawrence skipped the Golden Globes?

    MUMBAI: Jennifer Lawrence was not present at the Golden Globes last night and that has created headlines all over. Lawrence and her American Hustle director, David O. Russell, are in Boston to film Joy, an upcoming flick that is set to go on floors in February.

     

    Reportedly, Lawrence and Russell headed to Bricco in Boston’s North End last night, for an Italian feast with a few friends.  

     

    The restaurant’s entire second floor was booked by JLaw and her friends and they gorged on burrata, zucchini flowers, octopus and eggplant while sipping on Italian red Amarone. For her main course, Lawrence ate the Mediterranean branzino, a whole boneless, wood-fired white fish with seafood tomato panzanella and creamed artichokes.

     

    Joy will reunite Lawrence and the director with Hustle and Silver Linings Playbook costar Bradley Cooper.

  • Jennifer Lawrence named the most bankable star of 2014

    Jennifer Lawrence named the most bankable star of 2014

    MUMBAI: Jennifer Lawrence’ blockbuster films The Hunger Games: Mockingjay – Part 1 and X-Men: Days of Future Past have made a total of $1.4 billion in the box office.

     

    The success of these films has made the 24 year old actress the most bankable box office star of 2014, according to Forbes magazine.

     

    Lawrence was listed ahead of Chris Pratt and Scarlett Johansson on Forbes’ annual list, which assigns rankings based on the year’s most successful films and the actors who starred in them.

     

    Pratt came in second with a combined $1.2bn, thanks to the financial success of comic-book fantasy Guardians of the Galaxy and The Lego Movie, in which he provided the lead voice role.

     

    Johansson made it to the third spot with a total of $1.18bn after appearing in superhero sequel Captain America: The Winter Soldier, Lucy and Under the Skin.

     

     

    Here is the list of top 10 highest-grossing actors of 2014:

     

    1. Jennifer Lawrence: $1.4bn (The Hunger Games: Mockingjay – part one, X-Men: Days of Future Past)

    2. Chris Pratt: $1.2bn (Guardians of the Galaxy, The Lego Movie)

    3. Scarlett Johansson: $1.18bn (Captain America: The Winter Soldier, Lucy, Under the Skin)

    4. Mark Wahlberg: $1bn (Transformers: Age of Extinction)

    5. Chris Evans: $800m (Captain America: The Winter Soldier, Snowpiercer)

    6. Emma Stone: $764m (The Amazing Spider-Man 2, Magic in the Moonlight, Birdman)

    7. Angelina Jolie: $758m (Maleficent)

    8. James McAvoy: $747m (Days of Future Past, The Disappearance of Eleanor Rigby)

    9. Michael Fassbender: $746m (Days of Future Past)

    10. Hugh Jackman: $746m (Days of Future Past)

  • ‘Serena’ finally gets a release date

    ‘Serena’ finally gets a release date

    MUMBAI: Two years after finishing pre-production, Bradley Cooper and Jennifer Lawrence starrer Serena is finally gearing up for an early 2015 release.

     

    According to media reports, Magnolia Pictures took US distribution rights to the film this week, more than two years after production wrapped up in the Czech Republic. The movie was produced by their sister company 2929 Entertainment.

     

    The movie was filmed back in 2012 before either of Lawrence and Cooper’s other collaborations, Silver Linings Playbook and American Hustle, were released.

     

    Serena is a depression-era-set drama about newlyweds running a timber business. The pair will play married couple Serena and George Pemberton, who run a powerful timber empire in the North Carolina Mountains in the 1920s.

     

    The movie’s narrative revolves around the emotional turmoil resulting after Lawrence’s titular character discovers she is unable to bear children and takes her anger out on her husband’s illegitimate son.

     

    In US, the movie will first hit VOD on 26 February 2015 which will be followed by a theatrical release on 27 March 2015. But overseas, Serena will premiere at the BFI London Film Festival on 13 October2014. The movie will then be released on 24 October 2014 in UK and will begin rolling out internationally afterwards.

  • Jennifer Lawrence plays punching pranks on ‘X Men Days of Future Past’ co-stars

    Jennifer Lawrence plays punching pranks on ‘X Men Days of Future Past’ co-stars

    MUMBAI: Oscar winner Jennifer Lawrence who reprises her role as the blue-skinned, shape-shifting mutant Mystique in X Men Days of Future Past releasing on 23 May has several highly physical fight scenes in the movie, and during promoting the movie, she admitted that fists were flying off-camera as well.

     

    The X Men Days of Future Past actor revealed that she was the on-set ringleader of the “circle game” — a schoolyard prank where you hold your thumb and index finger in a circle somewhere below your waist and if you can trick someone into looking down at it you get to punch them in the arm.

     

    Lawrence says, “I actually brought it to X-Men Days of Future Past from Hunger Games. We play it obsessively, and I brought it to these guys. They really liked it. And I am the best, thank you for asking.”

     

    Well the X men beaten by an X Woman!

  • And the 2014 BAFTA Award goes to…

    And the 2014 BAFTA Award goes to…

    MUMBAI: At London, on Sunday 16 February, at the EE British Academy Film Awards (BAFTA), 12 Years a Slave was named Best Film with Chiwetel Ejiofor (Dancing On the Edge) winning Leading Actor. The Awards were hosted by Stephen Fry (Alice in Wonderland, Sherlock Holmes: a Game of Shadows) and held at London’s Royal Opera House.  Gravity won six awards: Outstanding British Film, Original Music, Cinematography, Sound and Special Visual Effects with Alfonso Cuarón (Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban) winning for Director.

     

    American Hustle won three BAFTA Awards: Original Screenplay for Eric Warren Singer (The International) and David O. Russell (The Fighter), Make Up & Hair, and Supporting Actress for Jennifer Lawrence (The Silver Linings Playbook). Production Design and Costume Design were awarded to The Great Gatsby.

     

    Leading Actress was presented to Cate Blanchett (Elizabeth, The Monuments Men) for playing the title role in Blue Jasmine – her third BAFTA win – and in his feature film debut Barkhad Abdi won Supporting Actor for Captain Phillips. Director and Writer Kieran Evans received the award for Outstanding Debut by a British Writer, Director or Producer for his first feature film Kelly + Victor.

     

    Adapted Screenplay was awarded to Jeff Pope (Mrs. Biggs) and Steve Coogan (Alan Partridge) for Philomena, Steve Coogan also produced and starred in the film. The Great Beauty won the award for Film Not in the English Language and the BAFTA for Editing went to Rush.

     

    The Act of Killing received the Documentary award and Frozen took home the BAFTA for Animated Film. The EE Rising Star Award, voted for by the public, was presented to Will Poulter (The Chronicles of Narnia: The Voyage of the Dawn Treader, The Millers). Sleeping with the Fishes won the British Short Animation award and the British Short Film award was presented to Room 8.

     

    Director Peter Greenaway whose films include The Draughtsman’s Contract and The Cook, The Thief, His Wife & Her Lover received the award for Outstanding British Contribution to Cinema. The Fellowship, the highest honour the Academy can bestow, was presented to Helen Mirren (The Queen) by HRH The Duke of Cambridge.

  • Jennifer Lawrence to present at this year’s Oscars

    Jennifer Lawrence to present at this year’s Oscars

    MUMBAI: Academy Award winner Jennifer Lawrence (The House at the End of the Street) will return to present at the 86th Annual Academy Awards this year, show producers Craig Zadan and Neil Meron announced today in a press statement. Lawrence took home the golden statuette for her lead performance in Silver Linings Playbook. She is nominated this year for her supporting role in American Hustle. Previously Lawrence was nominated for her leading role in Winter’s Bone. Her other credits include X-Men: First Class and The Hunger Games series. 

     

    Awards for outstanding film achievements of 2013 will be presented on Sunday, 2 March, at the Dolby Theatre at Hollywood & Highland Center, Los Angeles and televised live on American Broadcasting Network (ABC). The Oscars, produced by Craig Zadan and Neil Meron, will be televised live in more than 225 countries and territories worldwide.

     

    The Oscars, hosted by Ellen DeGeneres, will air in India on Monday, 3 March live on Star Movies at 5:30 am with a repeat telecast at 8:00 pm.

  • Jennifer Lawrence to play Miracle Mop inventor in David O. Russell’s next

    Jennifer Lawrence to play Miracle Mop inventor in David O. Russell’s next

    MUMBAI: Having already worked together with David O. Russell on The Silver Linings Playbook and recently on American Hustle, Jennifer Lawrence might take up the role of Joy Mangano, the mother of three who became one of America’s most successful entrepreneurs with the invention of the self-wringing Miracle Mop and Huggable Hangers.

     

    Mangano, eventually sold her company, Ingenious Designs, to the Home Shopping Network in a multimillion dollar deal but stayed on as the company president. Currently, she is one of the channel’s most successful presenters and is also known as the inventor of Forever Fragrant and Performance Platforms. Mangano started inventing at a young age, and continued to dream while simultaneously looking after her three children.

     

    Considered as a tale of woman empowerment, the project has a script by Annie Mumolo, who along with Kirsten Wiig was nominated for the Oscar for Bridesmaids and John Davis, John Fox and Ken Mok are the producers.

  • Golden Globe Awards high on entertainment

    Golden Globe Awards high on entertainment

    MUMBAI: The irreverence and the humour that actors Tina Fey and Amy Poehler brought on stage while hosting last year’s Golden Globe Awards, almost everybody fell for them. While they took funny pot shots at the people from the industry, they also made sure that the audience doesn’t feel left out. And when they were such a hit last time, it only made sense to bring them back to host this year’s edition of the Awards that was telecast today morning.

     

    “Welcome to the 71st annual Tina Fey and Amy Poehler’s Lee Daniels’ ‘The Butler’ Golden Globe Awards,” proclaims Amy Poehler (Parks & Recreation) along with her co-host Tina Fey (30 Rock) while opening the award ceremony. The two actresses were on a roll at the stage. As the hosts of the award show, they even got away by calling Matt Damon a “garbage person”. The hosts also had quite a few insightful theories, one being “the story of how George Clooney would rather float away into space and die than spend one more minute with a woman his own age”.

     

    One of the most rib-tickling jibe was when Tom Hanks was deliberately pronounced Tam Honks, highlighting all the difficult nominees’ names. On the film adaptation of the critically acclaimed play, August: Osage County, Fey said, this proves that there are still great parts in Hollywood for Meryl Streeps over 60.

     

    Another victim of their mockery was the former Seinfeld actress, Julia Louis-Dreyfus, just because she was sitting “with the movie crowd”. “Hi Julia, you know us from TV.” Cut to Julia smoking an e-cigarette in sunglasses and shoving away Reese Witherspoon, who’s trying to take a photo with her, Amy says, “She has really changed!” to which Tina quickly reverts, “She’s gross.”

     

    Later in the broadcast, Fey and Poehler called Louis-Dreyfus out for “slithering back over to the TV section,” as the camera panned to the Veep star shoveling a hot dog into her mouth. Since Matthew McConaughey had to lose 45 pounds to star in Dallas Buyers Club, Fey announced to the audience that, “he lost 45 pounds, or what actresses call, being in a movie.”

     

    The award ceremony proceeded with the announcement of Jacqueline Bisset as the winner for the supporting actress in a series, miniseries or TV movie award for her role as Lady Lavinia Cremone in Stephen Poliakoff’s Dancing on the Edge. In the same category of a series, miniseries or television movie, Elizabeth Moss took home the Globe for Best Actress for Jane Campion’s Top of the Lake, while Michael Douglas took away the Best Actor award for portraying piano prodigy Liberace in the HBO Original film, Behind the Candelabra. Behind the Candelabra also won the Best Miniseries or Best Television Film award.

     

    Saturday Night Live’s former cast mate, Andy Samberg won the Best Actor in a Musical or Comedy series for the freshman comedy, Brooklyn Nine-Nine. Amy Poehler, much to the host’s surprise, won the Best Actress in a Musical or Comedy series for her role in Parks & Recreation for the first time after having been nominated thrice for the same role, leaving her completely stunned while receiving the Globe, which resulted in her repeating the fact that she can’t believe she won, she’s never won anything.

     

    Also, taking home the Best Actor in Drama Series award for the first time, have having been nominated multiple times was Bryan Cranston for his portrayal of Walter White in Breaking Bad. The cult blockbuster also scored the Best Drama Series title.

     

    American Hustle tops the film awards with three wins, including the Best Motion Picture – musical or comedy. Amy Adams and Jennifer Lawrence won the Best Actress in a Motion Picture – Musical or Comedy and Best Supporting Actress in a Motion Picture – Drama, Musical of Comedy respectively.

     

    Dallas Buyers’ Club quickly followed suit with two wins, one for Matthew McConaughey as the Best Actor in a Motion Picture – Drama, while his co-star Jared Leto won the Best Supporting Actor in a Motion Picture award.