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  • JWT premieres its final Portfolio Night video

    JWT premieres its final Portfolio Night video

    MUMBAI : With just a few days left for the much anticipated Portfolio Night 11, JWT India premiered their third and final Portfolio Night video. JWT India is hosting Portfolio Night 11 in Mumbai at its office on May 22, 2013.

    The last of the three part series, the latest ‘Eye-Opener’ film busts the myth of proficiency in English language being one of the prerequisites to becoming a creative. The film opens to a young creative cramming the right pronunciation to some of the English words and believing that the key to becoming a good creative is to master the English language. This however holds true only till he arrives at JWT-Portfolio Night 11, where he meets Prasoon Joshi, President South Asia, McCann Worldgroup, who speaks to him in chaste Hindi!!! The subtle sense of humor that is a characteristic of all the JWT-Portfolio Night films, make this is a must watch. The latest film can be viewed on JWT’s official Portfolio Night page, http://www.facebook.com/portfolionightmumbai11

    Advertising students were asked to tweet @pnmumbai11 on their thoughts on advertising. The wackiest of tweets are being selected to create posters and films. The 360 degree crowd-sourced campaign includes social media, posters, videos, hoardings and radio spots on Radio Mirchi all of which can be viewed on http://www.facebook.com/portfolionightmumbai11

    Portfolio Night 11 promises an evening with the country’s top creative directors* who, while interacting with young creatives, will also choose the ‘All Star’ of the evening. The Portfolio Night All-Star event is where the most talented young creative from each Portfolio Night event is selected and flown to New York to compete at Portfolio Night All-Stars competition in New York City in August 2013.

    Participants can register on their respective city’s page on the Portfolio Night website http://portfolionight.com/11/ and click on the “Buy Tickets” button for a registration. This will take them to that city’s online ticket purchasing system. An e-ticket will be issued to the participant as a permit to enter the event in Mumbai on May 22, 2013.

    Scheduled to take place simultaneously in over 20 cities on this date across the world, including Athens, Austin, Beijing, Boston, Costa Rica, Johannesburg, Los Angeles, Montreal, New York, Paris, Sao Paulo, Stockholm, Tokyo and Toronto amongst others, Portfolio Night is an annual property of ‘IHAVEANIDEA’, the creative founders and the world’s first and largest community of the international advertising industry.

    *Log on to http://portfolionight.com/11/mumbai to see the full list of creative director participating in JWT-Portfolio Night 11

  • CAA signs Genesis Rodriguez to their illustrious client list

    CAA signs Genesis Rodriguez to their illustrious client list

    MUMBAI: Los Angeles headquartered Creative Artists Agency (CAA) has recently signed actress Genesis Rodriguez. CAA, a prominent entertainment and sports agency boasts Hollywood‘s numerous famous entertainment-industry clients.

    Rodriguez last appeared in the hit comedy Identity Thief with Melissa McCarthy and Jason Bateman, while also appearing alongside Arnold Schwarzenegger in The Last Stand released earlier this year.

    She also played leading roles in the Summit thriller Man on a Ledge and Will Ferrell‘s Casa de mi Padre.

    Rodriguez, the daughter of famous Venezuelan singer Jose Luis Rodriguez, started her career in telenovelas, starring in Prisionera in 2004 and Dona Barbara, a Spanish-language telenovela.

    She was previously at Institute of Commercial Management, the leading professional body for Commercial and Business Development Managers (ICM).

    Rodriguez continues to be represented by Ivan de Paz of DePaz Management and Karl Austen and Robert Koch of Jackoway Tyerman.

  • Sundance Institute to host a four day Summer Film Festival in Los Angeles in August

    Sundance Institute to host a four day Summer Film Festival in Los Angeles in August

    MUMBAI: ‘Next Weekend‘ presented by Sundance Institute will take place from 8-11 August, 2013 at Sundance Cinema and additional venues throughout Los Angeles. The event is an extension of the Next – section at the Sundance Film Festival in Park City, Utah, which showcases adventurous films that take a bold approach to storytelling.

    There will be four days of screenings, parties and artist programmes that celebrate the renegade spirit of independent filmmaking. Over one summer weekend film fans will have the chance to choose from eight yet-to-be-released feature films. There will also be a panel discussion deconstructing how these films get made, a shorts programme and the annual ShortsLab: Los Angles, a half-day short filmmaking workshop.

    Next Weekend will include films that have been featured in the Festival‘s Next – section, as well as new films and films that have premiered elsewhere. Filmmakers cast and crew will be invited to discuss their work and the creative inspiration driving it.

    Sundance Institute founder and president Robert Redford said, “The best part of independent filmmaking is the freedom to tell your stories your own way, to take risks and not be beholden to convention of any kind. At the core of Next Weekend are artists that are taking risks and pushing boundaries. As such, it‘s fitting that Sundance Cinemas will be the home for this festival and these films.”

    Sundance Institute executive director Keri Putnam said, “The Next – section at our festival in Utah, built under the leadership of festival director John Cooper and director of programming Trevor Groth, showcases films that marry form and content in a way that pushes boundaries and offers fresh perspectives on storytelling. We look forward to celebrating the energy of this work and these artists and to sharing it with a larger community in collaboration with like-minded cultural institutions.”

  • Michael Clarke Duncan passes away

    Michael Clarke Duncan passes away

    MUMBAI: Michael Clarke Duncan, who was nominated for an Academy Award for his portrayal of a death row inmate in the 1999 film The Green Mile, expired on Monday less than eight weeks after suffering a heart attack. He was 54.
    Duncan died in Los Angeles, Announcing his demise, his fiancé and reality television star Omarosa Manigault, said in a statement that Duncan suffered from a heart attack on 13 July but “never fully recovered.” The actors came at the Cedars-Sinai Medical Center, Los Angeles.
    Duncan‘s deep voice and hulking 6-foot-5 (1.96-metre) frame gave him a commanding screen presence. Having once dug ditches for a gas company in his native Chicago, Duncan hen moved to Los Angeles to pursue his career as an actor.
    He worked as a bodyguard and bouncer and played a few roles of that kind in both films and televisions before landing a small part in the 1998 film Armageddon.
    That led him to bag a much larger role in the 1999 prison drama The Green Mile with Tom Hanks. The film had the actor play an inmate with magical powers who is put to death for two murders he did not commit.

  • Ridley Scott suspends film shoot to be with his grieving family

    Ridley Scott suspends film shoot to be with his grieving family

    MUMBAI: TFollowing the death of his brother Tony, director Ridley Scott has put a halt of the shoot of his new film The Counselor to be with his family. It has now emerged that he has suspended shooting on his new project, which stars Brad Pitt and Cameron Diaz, in London to deal with the tragic news.
    The Top Gun filmmaker, 68, jumped to his death from the Vincent Thomas Bridge in Los Angeles. His body was recovered several hours later by divers.
    Ridley will soon be in LA where he is expected to comfort his sister-in-law Donna Wilson Scott, and his twin nephews, it is understood.
    According to unconfirmed reports Tony Scott was diagnosed with inoperable brain cancer before his death.

  • Top Gun creator Tony Scott commits suicide

    Top Gun creator Tony Scott commits suicide

    MUMBAI: Filmmaker Tony Scott ‘Top Gun‘ has committed suicide by jumping from a Los Angeles County Bridge.
    The death is being investigated as a suicide. Onlookers saw Scott parking his car on the Vincent Thomas Bridge and leaping into the water below.
    The body was recovered by law enforcement from the harbour and was then identified. He is the younger brother of director Ridley Scott.

    A suicide note was found inside Scott‘s car add reports. Director Ron Howard went to Twitter and wrote , “No more Tony Scott movies. Tragic day.”
    Another director Robert Rodriguez wrote, “Tony Scott. Damn. Great knowing you, buddy. Thanks for the inspiration, advice, encouragement, and the decades of great entertainment.” Actor Elijah Wood wrote,”awful news about Tony Scott. rest in peace.”
    Scott‘s ‘Top Gun‘ was the film that made Tom Cruise a star. A few years later, Scott re-teamed with Cruise for ‘Days of Thunder‘ about car racers.
    ‘True Romance‘, which Scott made from a script by Quentin Tarantino, achieved cult status. He also worked four times with Denzel Washington including ‘Crimson Ride‘, while ‘Beverly Hills Cop 2‘ cemented Eddie Murphy‘s position as an A Lister.

  • Production house secures ?200m funding for 9 films

    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. 

  • SAG-AFRA issues ‘No Work’ order on Cimarron Group

    SAG-AFRA issues ‘No Work’ order on Cimarron Group

    MUMBAI: The Screen Actors Guild and the American Federation of Television and Radio Artists (SAG-AFTRA) has issued a ‘Do Not Work’ order against Cimarron Productions, also known as The Cimarron Group, it is learnt.
    The order comes in response to what the union says is the entertainment marketing agency’s “failure to make payments of compensation due to many performers as well as pension and health contributions.”
    Though the union declined comment but a source close to SAG-AFTRA confirmed that the order had gone out by e-mail blast to all members. A source also said that the company is in discussions with the union to rectify the situation with a resolution hoped for by early next week.
    Cimarron produces a wide range of audiovisual, print and digital content including brand advertising and behind-the-scenes videos for major studio films. It has more than 150 employees, with offices in Los Angeles, Beijing and Singapore.

  • PVR Cinemas to release Superman of Malegaon on 29 June

    PVR Cinemas to release Superman of Malegaon on 29 June

    MUMBAI: Four years after it was made, Superman of Malegaon, the documentary that focuses on the film industry of Malegaon, is finally going to release on 29 June by PVR Cinemas.

    Made in 2008 by Faiza Ahmad Khan, Supermen of Malegaon showcases the town‘s people coming together for the 2009-made film Yeh Hai Malegaon Ka Superman. In fact, the documentary traces the making of the film on a budget of a mere Rs 100,000.

    Ironically, shortly after the film was completed, Shafique Shaikh, the lead actor of the film, lost a battle to cancer.

    Malegaon, a power loom town of Maharashtra, located nearly 300 km away from Mumbai, is home to a unique film industry. It makes low-budget films and spoofs of popular Bollywood and Hollywood films. Some of the notable films have been films like Malegaon Ka Ghajani, Malegaon Ki Shaan and Malegaon Ka Sholay.

    The documentary has won awards at several film festivals across the world including Indian Film Festival in Los Angeles, Silverdocs Documentary Festival and the Asian Film Festival, Rome.

  • Lea Dizon offered to helm Hollywood film

    Lea Dizon offered to helm Hollywood film

    MUMBAI: Los Angeles-based 22-year old director-writer Lea Dizon has been offered to produce a Hollywood film. The offer came two months after Dizon secured her master‘s degree in Film and TV Production from the University of Southern California (USC) last year.

    GMA News Online, in its report has posted that Dizon related that a sci-fi movie project was broached to her by her graduate school classmates Matthew Breault and Alex George Pickering of the Fifth Floor Balcony Pictures.

    “I met both of them while taking my masters at USC. We were all in the same class. I have worked with Matt before and I think he is a talented director. When he pitched me the idea, which he co-wrote with Alex, I thought it was fantastic,” she has reportedly said.

    Impulse Control centers on the life of a family trying to survive in a world engulfed by a strange epidemic that immensely reduces human control over violent impulses. The report noted that the filmmaker will start rolling for Impulse Control later this year with release date set sometime in December next year.

    Originally from Angeles City, Pampanga, Dizon earned her Broadcast Communication degree from the University of the Philippines. Prior to chasing her American Dream in Los Angeles in 2007, Dizon initially worked as a writer and a producer in ABC 5 (now TV5) and ABS-CBN. Then, she became part of the creative department of ABS-CBN‘s film production arm Star Cinema.