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  • Citadel Indian & Italian spinoffs axed as Amazon rewrites its spy game

    Citadel Indian & Italian spinoffs axed as Amazon rewrites its spy game

    MUMBAI: Amazon has pulled the plug on Citadel: Honey Bunny and Citadel: Diana, the much-hyped Indian and Italian offshoots of its globe-trotting spy saga. Instead, those “successful and widely enjoyed international chapters” will be stitched into season two of the main series, Citadel, which is now set to drop globally in Q2 of 2026.

    That’s the word from Amazon MGM Studios television head Vernon Sanders,  who promised an “exhilarating” return. “With high-stakes storytelling, new additions to our amazing cast and bold, cinematic ambition,” he said, “season two will deepen the emotional journeys of Nadia, Mason and Orlick against the relentless force that is Manticore.”

    Translation? The spinoffs are toast, and Amazon’s once-grand plan to build a Bond-style franchise without Bond is looking like an expensive misfire.

    The cancellation comes on the heels of Jennifer Salke’s exit from the studio. Salke, who first pitched the sprawling espionage epic to Joe and Anthony Russo, dreamt up Citadel as a prestige powerhouse for Prime Video—an interconnected universe with local-language series spanning continents. What she got instead: ballooning budgets, reshoots galore and a reported $300m price tag for season one.

    Still, Citadel got renewed before its April 2023 premiere. But season two was quietly delayed after Amazon brass were said to be “unhappy” with early footage. Now, storylines from Honey Bunny and Diana—which, despite being ratings hits in India and Italy, respectively—will be merged into the mothership’s narrative.

    The new season picks up a month after the first ended: the spies are underground, hunted by Manticore, and pulled back into action to stop Brazilian billionaire Paulo Braga from unleashing a world-ending device, courtesy of Citadel’s own Bernard Orlick.

    So yes, the spies are still in the game. But Amazon’s dream of a global franchise? That’s very much under review.

  • Star Movies Select HD to air ‘Boyhood’ on 12 March

    Star Movies Select HD to air ‘Boyhood’ on 12 March

    MUMBAI: Star Movies Select, India’s preferred destination for riveting stories is bringing viewers a breathtaking coming-of-age drama Boyhood in a television premiere on 12 March 2016 at 9 pm.

    A film that swept the critic’s choice awards in last year, Boyhood is a true work of cinematic art that saw 12 pain-staking years in the making. Director Richard Linklater captured the real-time experience of a boy growing up thus chronicling all of the events in the protagonists Mason’s life from the age of 6 through to18.

    The film is an unparalleled gesture of a director’s love and dedication to cinema as well as that of the entire cast that set aside time from each year over the last dozen years to make what eventually turned into a masterpiece.

  • Star Movies Select HD to air ‘Boyhood’ on 12 March

    Star Movies Select HD to air ‘Boyhood’ on 12 March

    MUMBAI: Star Movies Select, India’s preferred destination for riveting stories is bringing viewers a breathtaking coming-of-age drama Boyhood in a television premiere on 12 March 2016 at 9 pm.

    A film that swept the critic’s choice awards in last year, Boyhood is a true work of cinematic art that saw 12 pain-staking years in the making. Director Richard Linklater captured the real-time experience of a boy growing up thus chronicling all of the events in the protagonists Mason’s life from the age of 6 through to18.

    The film is an unparalleled gesture of a director’s love and dedication to cinema as well as that of the entire cast that set aside time from each year over the last dozen years to make what eventually turned into a masterpiece.

  • Evans rides post apocalyptic train in ‘Snowpiercer’

    Evans rides post apocalyptic train in ‘Snowpiercer’

    MUMBAI: A plan to stop global warming has gone very, very wrong in Snowpiercer, which has debuted a new trailer.

    The post-apocalyptic sci-fi film from South Korean director Bong Joon-ho is set in a future in which a failed experiment to put an end to global warming has resulted in an ice age, killing off most of humanity. The only survivors live on Snowpiercer – a train that circumnavigates the globe and is powered by a perpetual-motion engine.

    A class system has developed, with the poor living in the train‘s tale and the rich living in the front. One man (Chris Evans) has had enough, and seeks to reach the front of the train to benefit everyone on it. Among those seeking to stop him is the strangely dressed Mason (Tilda Swinton). 

    It‘s the first English-language film for Bong, known for directing the Korean monster blockbuster The Host (2006)The film also stars Jamie Bell, Alison Pill, John Hurt, Octavia Spencer and Ed Harris. Frequent Bong collaborator Song Kang-ho plays Namgoong Minsu, a mysterious security specialist Evans‘ character seeks out for help.

    Snowpiercer is being released domestically by the Weinstein Company, which has not announced a release date. It hits South Korean theaters this summer.