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  • November fest on HBO

    November fest on HBO

    MUMBAI: Opening its door to movies and entertainment, the English entertainment channel HBO will broadcast a series of popular television shows and hit Hollywood films exclusively in the month of November. HBO South Asia, which launched its two 24-hour commercial-free premium programming channels HBO Defined and HBO Hits in 2013, will now bring the best of Hollywood including prime-time television shows and movies in the coming month.

     

    Speaking about the listings in November, HBO South Asia managing director Monica Tata says, “We have a November fest coming up with movies such as Gravity, Prisoners etc. We also have Newsroom which is happening again in November on HBO Original. It is our season finale. We are also doing a lot of promotions this month on social media and digital media. That’s our focus for November. For December till year end, there will be a fantastic line up as well.”

     

    Here is the line-up of movies and television shows that will be aired in November 2014 for HBO Premium channels – HBO Hits and HBO Defined.

     

     1) Prisoners (HBO Hits)

     

    2)  Legendary (HBO Hits)

     

    3) Profugos – Season 2 (HBO Hits)

     

    4) Gravity (HBO Defined)

     

    5) The Hunger Games: Catching Fire (HBO Defined)

     

    6) 12 Years A Slave (HBO Defined)

     

    7) The Newsroom – Season 3 (HBO Defined)

  • Legendary moves ahead with Warcraft; Paula Patton, Colin Farrell in the mix

    Legendary moves ahead with Warcraft; Paula Patton, Colin Farrell in the mix

    MUMBAI: Legendary Pictures and Atlas Entertainment are casting up Warcraft, the movie adaptation of the hit Blizzard video game World Of Warcraft that Duncan Jones will helm. Word has it that Paula Patton is negotiating for a lead role and that another lead has been offered to Colin Farrell. Jones is testing other actors for the major roles. Production will begin in January and Charles Leavitt has written the script.

    The role-playing game takes place in a medieval-like setting where players control avatars that take on gryphons, dragons, zombies, werewolves and elves. Time travel and alien worlds also are part of the mix. The project is one of Legendary’s biggest and was supposed to be made at Warner Bros. Since Thomas Tull’s financing/production company moved over to Universal Pictures, it’s expected that the film will be relocated there as well.

    Patton is the lead in the upcoming Fox Searchlight film Baggage Claim and is coming off the hits 2 Guns and Mission: Impossible – Ghost Protocol. Farrell stars with Tom Hanks and Emma Thompson in Disney’s upcoming Oscar-season film Saving Mr. Banks and then the Akiva Goldsman-directed adaptation of the Marc Helprin novel Winter’s Tale. 

  • Legendary mops up $275 mn in new financing deal

    Legendary mops up $275 mn in new financing deal

    MUMBAI: Legendary Entertainment, co-producer of movies such as Dark Knight and Hangover, announced that it has completed separate equity and debt financing deals totaling approximately $275 million in aggregate proceeds.
    The equity component consists of $128 million in new financing from a collection of new and existing investors.
    Existing Legendary equity investors who participated in this round include Jim Breyer and Breyer Capital and Accel Partners, IDG Capital Partners, and Gordy Crawford. New investors in Legendary include Morgan Stanley Investment Management, Peter Thiel‘s Thiel Capital LLC, and Eric Schmidt‘s Tomorrow Ventures, LLC.
    Goldman, Sachs & Co. acted as sole agent to Legendary in the equity financing. Additionally, Legendary simultaneously closed a new $150 million round of debt financing structured and arranged by JPMorgan, Bank of America, Royal Bank of Canada and UBS who all served as co-leads. Goldman Sachs Lending Partners LLC also participated in the bank financing.
    Legendary will use the proceeds of these transactions to retire and refinance debt incurred in connection with its 2010 recapitalisation, more than 18 months prior to its scheduled maturity. Plans for the monies also include adding investment and working capital as Legendary readies projects across its filmed entertainment, publishing and television business units.
    Separately, Legendary East expects to announce its financial and distribution arrangements later this year. On December 31 2011, the date pre-arranged by Legendary and its partners, Legendary East allowed its previously contemplated business structure to lapse, enabling it to explore relationships with new distribution and financial partners.