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  • Fifteen new HBO Max originals coming to Warner Media platforms in Asia

    Fifteen new HBO Max originals coming to Warner Media platforms in Asia

    MUMBAI: With the launch of HBO Max in the United States on May 27, Warner Media has confirmed that a first wave of at least 15 HBO Max Originals will land on HBO GO and channels in Asia in 2020.

    Most shows will be available first on HBO GO, such as The Not-Too-Late Show with Elmo and Love Life where three episodes of each have already dropped on May 27. Premiere dates for other titles and those across HBO, Warner TV, Cartoon Network and Boomerang channels are still to be confirmed.

    The programming slate, specially curated to suit the taste of Asian audiences, includes drama series, documentaries, movies and kids shows. The content is sourced from studios and distributors including Lionsgate, Paramount, Warner Bros. and Sesame Workshop.

    Talent includes household names like Ridley Scott, Meryl Streep, Kaley Cuoco, Lena Dunham, Anna Kendrick, Steven Soderbergh, Melissa McCarthy, Ray Romano, James Corden and of course Elmo and the Sesame Street gang.

    The titles include:

    Comedy & drama series

    Love Life

    Anna Kendrick stars in this anthology romantic comedy series about the journey from first love to last love, and how the people we’re with along the way make us into who we are when we finally end up with someone forever.

    Watch the trailer:

    Raised by Wolves

    From the mind of Ridley Scott, Raised by Wolves centres upon two androids tasked with raising human children on a mysterious virgin planet.

    Flight Attendant

    Starring Kaley Cuoco (The Big Bang Theory), a flight attendant awakens in a Dubai hotel room to find her one-night-stand dead beside her. Could she have killed him? And, if not, who did?

    Doom Patrol (S2)

    The critically acclaimed DC series features a band of superpowered freaks, part support group, part superhero team, who fight for a world that wants nothing to do with them.

    Made for Love

    A series adaptation based on the tragicomic novel of the same name. Starring Cristin Milioti and Ray Romano, Made for Love is a dark, absurd and cynically poignant story of divorce and revenge.

    Generation

    Executive produced by Lena Dunham and Ben Barnz, Generation is a dark yet playful half-hour following a group of high school students. It tests deeply-entrenched beliefs about life, love and the nature of family in their conservative community.

    KIDS & FAMILY:

    The Not-Too-Late Show with Elmo

    Sesame Street’s Elmo is the host of his very own talk show! He’s going to bring you some (not-too-late) fun with an all-new celeb-studded series that celebrates bedtime routines. Guests include Lil Nas X, the Jonas Brothers, Ciara, Blake Lively, Sofia Carson, John Mulaney, Olivia Wilde and John Oliver.

    Watch the trailer:

    Looney Tunes Cartoons

    An all-new series featuring the marquee characters in their classic pairings in simple, gag-driven and visually vibrant stories.

    The Fungies!

    A prehistoric comedy cartoon, The Fungies! explores Fungietown through the whimsical quests of Seth, a young student at Fungietown Elementary.

    Adventure Time: Distant Lands

    These four new specials will continue the Adventure Time stories that captured imaginations and introduced unlikely heroes Finn and Jake, best buds who traversed the mystical Land of Ooo and encountered its colourful inhabitants.

    Sesame Street

    For 50 years, Sesame Street has helped kids grow smarter, stronger, and kinder, offering preschoolers and their families the gold standard in educational children’s programming.

    Sesame Street: The Monster at the End of the Book

    Starring lovable, furry Grover from Sesame Street, The Monster at the End of This Story is a new animated special based on the acclaimed children’s picture book.

    FILMS:

    UNpregnant

    The film tells the story of 17-year-old Veronica, who never thought she’d want to fail a test – that is, until she finds herself staring at a piece of plastic with two solid pink lines. The Greg Berlanti-production offers a mix of humour and grounded human emotion as it tackles complicated friendships and the difficult road to adulthood…all while in a stolen car.

    Let Them All Talk (wt)

    The film is based on a story of a celebrated author who takes a journey with some old friends to have some fun and heal old wounds. Her nephew comes along to wrangle the ladies and finds himself involved with a young literary agent. Stars Meryl Streep, Candice Bergen, Diane Wiest and directed by Steven Soderbergh.

    Superintelligence

    Starring Melissa McCarthy, this film tells the story of Carol Peters, to whom nothing extraordinary ever happens. But the world’s first super-intelligence has selected her for observation, taking over her life…with a more ominous plan to take over everything.

    Love Life trailer:

    The Not-Too-Late Show with Elmo trailer:

  • Reliance, Universal & eOne to distribute Fox-Amblin’s Spielberg movie ‘The Papers’

    Reliance, Universal & eOne to distribute Fox-Amblin’s Spielberg movie ‘The Papers’

    MUMBAI: Twentieth Century Fox and Amblin Entertainments’ riveting drama inspired by actual events, ‘The Papers’ began principal photography in New York recently.

    Internationally, the film will be distributed through Amblin’s deals with Universal Studios, Reliance Entertainment, eOne and other international distribution partnerships.

    Academy Award winning director Steven Spielberg helms a powerhouse cast including Oscar winners Meryl Streep and Tom Hanks in ‘The Papers’. In June 1971, The New York Times, the Washington Post and the nation’s major newspapers took a brave stand for freedom of speech and reported on the Pentagon Papers, the massive cover-up of government secrets that spanned four decades and four US Presidents.

    At the time, the Post’s Katherine Graham (Streep) was still finding her footing as the country’s first female newspaper publisher, and Ben Bradlee (Hanks), the paper’s volatile, driven editor, was trying to enhance the stature of the struggling, local paper. Together, the two formed an unlikely team, as they were forced to come together and make the bold decision to support The New York Times and fight the Nixon Administration’s unprecedented attempt to restrict the first amendment.

    ‘The Papers’ marks the first time Meryl Streep, Tom Hanks and Steven Spielberg have collaborated on a project. In addition to directing, Spielberg will also produce along with Amy Pascal and Kristie Macosko Krieger. The script was written by Liz Hannah and Josh Singer and features an acclaimed ensemble cast including Alison Brie, Carrie Coon, David Cross, Bruce Greenwood, Tracy Letts, Bob Odenkirk, Sarah Paulson, Jesse Plemons, Matthew Rhys, Michael Stuhlbarg, Bradley Whitford and Zach Woods.

    An Amblin Entertainment production, ‘The Papers’ will be distributed domestically by Twentieth Century Fox and will be in select theaters 22 December, going wide 12 January, 2018.

  • Star Movies & Select HD TO AIR The Oscars on 27 Feb

    MUMBAI: Star Movies and Star Movies Select HD will play host to the most awaited awards night of the year, The Oscars® which will air on 27 February live at 5:30 am with a repeat at 8:30 PM. In addition, the channels will be celebrating the month with film festivals that will showcase a marathon of Oscar® winning & Oscar® nominated movies as we anticipate the biggest night of Hollywood.

    As part of the festival Star Movies has a unique line up, with each week of the festival dedicated to a different category – Best Director, Best Actor/Actress, Best Animation and Best Picture. From Alejandro Iñárritu’s breath-taking direction of The Revenant to Meryl Streep’s outstanding performance in The Devil Wear Prada, Star Movies will highlight the movies that truly bring out the best of the categories presented at the Academy Awards.

    Star Movies Select HD will also feature a month long festival that will continue to stay true to its promise by bringing to consumers curated films that have received critical acclaim at the Academy Awards. This month every Mon to Friday television viewers will have their weekdays packed with an array of films that have won or been nominated in the Best Picture category of the Academy Awards at 7 PM till the 24th of February. From a classic film based on history ‘The Bridge on The River Kwai’, to the equally unnerving tale of a drummer in ‘Whiplash’, from the famous war movie ‘The Thin Red Line’ to the classics- ‘As Good As It Gets’ – Star Movies Select HD will feature something for everyone and much more.

  • Star Movies & Star Movies Select HD line-up movies leading up to Oscars

    Star Movies & Star Movies Select HD line-up movies leading up to Oscars

    MUMBAI: The Oscars are just round the corner and Star India’s English movies channels will celebrate the month by airing award winning movies.

    Star Movies and Star Movies Select HD will also showcase the Oscars live at 5:30 am with a repeat telecast at 8:30 pm on 29 February, 2016.

    Star Movies will also showcase blockbusters with Oscar Fever from 15 February to 27 February at 6:30 pm with movies like Life of Pi, Aliens, Titanic, Die Hard, Gladiator, etc.

    The Oscars movie fest will begin with three blockbuster premieres that will be simulcast on Star Movies and Star Movies Select HD. The line-up will include the Meryl Streep starrer Into the Woods, which will be aired on 13 February at 6:30 pm and Wild premiering on 20 February at 6:30 pm.

    The channels will also air movies like Gone Girl, The Grand Budapest Hotel, Black Swan, The Sound of Music and Braveheart amongst others. 

    The two channels will also showcase moments from the 88th Academy Awards’ after party on 30 February.

  • Star Movies & Star Movies Select HD line-up movies leading up to Oscars

    Star Movies & Star Movies Select HD line-up movies leading up to Oscars

    MUMBAI: The Oscars are just round the corner and Star India’s English movies channels will celebrate the month by airing award winning movies.

    Star Movies and Star Movies Select HD will also showcase the Oscars live at 5:30 am with a repeat telecast at 8:30 pm on 29 February, 2016.

    Star Movies will also showcase blockbusters with Oscar Fever from 15 February to 27 February at 6:30 pm with movies like Life of Pi, Aliens, Titanic, Die Hard, Gladiator, etc.

    The Oscars movie fest will begin with three blockbuster premieres that will be simulcast on Star Movies and Star Movies Select HD. The line-up will include the Meryl Streep starrer Into the Woods, which will be aired on 13 February at 6:30 pm and Wild premiering on 20 February at 6:30 pm.

    The channels will also air movies like Gone Girl, The Grand Budapest Hotel, Black Swan, The Sound of Music and Braveheart amongst others. 

    The two channels will also showcase moments from the 88th Academy Awards’ after party on 30 February.

  • Oscars unveils stellar line-up of presenters

    Oscars unveils stellar line-up of presenters

    MUMBAI: This year’s Oscars will see a stellar line-up of presenters. 

     

    From Josh Hutcherson, Scarlett Johansson, Zoe Saldana, Octavia Spencer, Marion Cotillard, Benedict Cumberbatch, Meryl Streep, Oprah Winfrey, Reese Witherspoon, Cate Blanchett, Jared Leto, Matthew McConaughey to Lupita Nyong’o, the who’s who of Hollywood will take to the stage to present various awards this year.

     

    Cotillard, Cumberbatch, Streep, Winfrey and Witherspoon have all been nominated for the Oscars this year. Cotillard is nominated for Actress in a Leading Role for Two Days, One Night. She previously won an Oscar in this category for La Vie en Rose (2007). On the other hand, Cumberbatch is nominated for Actor in a Leading Role for The Imitation Game.

     

    Streep earned a record 19th acting nomination this year for her supporting role in Into the Woods. She previously took home Oscars for her lead performances in Sophie’s Choice (1982) and The Iron Lady (2011), and her supporting performance in Kramer vs. Kramer (1979). Streep’s previous Best Actress nominations were for The French Lieutenant’s Woman (1981), Silkwood (1983), Out of Africa (1985), Ironweed (1987), A Cry in the Dark (1988), Postcards from the Edge (1990), The Bridges of Madison County (1995), One True Thing (1998), Music of the Heart (1999), The Devil Wears Prada (2006), Doubt (2008), Julie & Julia (2009) and August: Osage County (2013). She also received Best Supporting Actress nominations for The Deer Hunter (1978) and Adaptation (2002).

     

    Winfrey is nominated for Best Picture as one of the producers of Selma. She was previously nominated for Actress in a Supporting Role for The Color Purple (1985). She received the Jean Hersholt Humanitarian Award in 2011.

     

    Witherspoon is nominated for Actress in a Leading Role for Wild. She previously won an Oscar in this category for the 2005 movie Walk the Line.

     

    Additionally, last year’s Oscar winners Blanchett, Leto, McConaughey and Nyong’o will also be seen presenting awards this year. “The great tradition of having the previous year’s Oscar-winning best actors and actresses in all four categories happily continues this year with the amazing quartet of Cate, Jared, Matthew and Lupita. We’re thrilled to have them back,” said show producers Craig Zadan and Neil Meron.

     

    Blanchett has been nominated for six Oscars and has won two, including last year’s award for Blue Jasmine. Her previous win was for Actress in a Supporting Role for the 2004 film The Aviator. Blanchett also received leading actress nominations for Elizabeth (1998) and Elizabeth: The Golden Age (2007), and supporting actress nominations for Notes on a Scandal (2006) and I’m Not There (2007).

     

    Last year, Leto won the Oscar for Actor in a Supporting Role and McConaughey for Actor in a Leading Role, both for Dallas Buyer’s Club. Nyong’o took home the Oscar for Actress in a Supporting Role for 12 Years a Slave.

     

    The Oscars will be hosted by Neil Patrick Harris and will be held on 22 February.

  • TLC presents the story of the biggest Hollywood celebs in new season of Celebrity Style Story

    TLC presents the story of the biggest Hollywood celebs in new season of Celebrity Style Story

    MUMBAI: With all new celebrities in the spotlight, TLC is back with all new episodes of CELEBRITY STYLE STORY. Aimed at the premium audience in the country, TLC is dedicated to bring in refreshing series across all facets of lifestyle ranging from fashion to makeovers and wardrobe overhauls. This September, TLC brings a brand new season of the popular series on celebrity style that delves deep into the fashionable lives of popular celebrities.

     

    The series will take its viewers on a fashion voyage. Watch the evolution of famous Hollywood celebrities who changed the world of fashion with their sartorial choices, both on the red carpet and off it.

     

    CELEBRITY STYLE STORY will air every Saturday and Sunday at 10 PM this September.

     

    CELEBRITY STYLE STORY highlights the style statement of well-known celebrities and the influence of their personal life and career on their wardrobe choices. The series follows the cr?me de la cr?me of Hollywood celebrities such as the Kardashian Family, Johnny Depp, Justin Bieber, Meryl Streep, Oprah, Beyonce, Mila Kunis and many more.

     

    CELEBRITY STYLE STORY showcases archived interview clips with celebrities, vibrant red carpet footage and photos, a panel of expert hairstylists, makeup artists, fashion stylists, designers and fashion journalists that weigh in on the celebrity’s looks and transformation from each stage of their career. The series covers all their major fashion hits and misses through the decades.

     

    Catch all your favorite trendsetters in an all new season of CELEBRITY STYLE STORY only on TLC.

  • ‘The Giver’ to release on 15 August

    ‘The Giver’ to release on 15 August

    NEW DELHI: The Giver –a sci-fi epic, based on the dystopian Y A novel by Lois Lowry, the winner of the 1994 Newbery Medal that sold over 10 million copies worldwide – will release on 15 August.

     

    Produced by the Weinstein Co. and Walden Media, The Giver stars Meryl Streep, Jeff Bridges and Brenton Thwaites as members of a society in which there is no conflict, racism or sickness.

     

    The heart-wrenching story of The Giver centres around Jonas (Brenton Thwaites), a young man who lives in a seemingly ideal, if colourless world of conformity and contentment. Yet as he begins to spend time with the Giver (Jeff Bridges), who is the sole keeper of all the community’s memories, Jonas quickly begins to discover the dark and deadly truths of his community’s secret past. With this newfound power of knowledge, he realises that the stakes are higher than imagined – a matter of life and death for him and those he loves most. At extreme odds, Jonas knows that he must escape their world to protect them all – a challenge that no one has ever succeeded at before.

     

    Bridges plays the pivotal role of The Giver, he is weary because he carries the burden of preserving all the memories of humanity while the story is told through the eyes of Jonas played by Thwaites, a young boy who is unique in the community of sameness; he is mature, perceptive and compassionate. Streep’s Chief Elder leads an isolated society where emotions, privacy, and basic colours have all been stripped away from its citizens. She sums up her philosophy as, “When people have the freedom to choose, they choose wrong.” Her portrayal of the Chief Elder looks like it combines the icy detachment of The Devil’s Wears Prada with the unbending determination of The Iron Lady. Among the members of the community, only the Giver is capable of real love, and after years of loneliness he experiences an intense emotional connection with Rosemary played by Taylor Swift.

     

    The motion picture adaptation of The Giver represents the fulfillment of a 20 year-long dream for actor Jeff Bridges, who also serves as a producer on the production. “My daughters read the book, but before I had known that they had read it, I was looking for some material to direct my father, Lloyd Bridges,” he recalls. “I also wanted to make a movie that my kids could watch at the time. I was looking through a catalogue of children books and I came across this wonderful cover of a book, with this old, grizzled kind of guy on the cover and thought, ‘Oh yeah, my dad can play that guy!’”                                                  

     

    Co-producing partner Walden Media spent over a decade developing the project and chief operating officer Frank Smith says, “The Giver is the crown jewel of children’s literature, and we are proud to add this film to the list of other great book to film adaptations we have produced like Holes, Charlotte’s Web, Bridge to Teribithea, Because of Winn Dixie, Ramona and The Chronicles of Narnia.”

     

    The Giver, with a budget of about $25 million, is being produced by Nikki Silver of Tonik Productions along with Neil Koenigsberg and Bridges. Vadim Perelman wrote the adapted script; Michael Mitnick penned the latest draft.

  • Amy Adams breaks down while remembering Philip Seymour Hoffman

    Amy Adams breaks down while remembering Philip Seymour Hoffman

    MUMBAI: Hollywood actress Amy Adams, in the weeks leading into the Oscars, filmed an interview for Inside the Actors Studio, an American television program hosted by James Lipton. In between discussing her career and her Oscar-nominated role in American Hustle, Adams broke down when host James Lipton asked her about her recently deceased co-star Philip Seymour Hoffman. Hoffman died at the age of 46 from an apparent heroin overdose on 2 February. Adams and Meryl Streep were among many celebrities who attended his private funeral in New York City on 6 February.

     

    The 39-year old Adams worked with Philip Seymour Hoffman on two of her most acclaimed movies: Doubt, in 2008, and The Master in 2012. “I wish you all could get a chance to work with him,” she told the assembled students. “He was beautiful. He’s a beautiful spirit and he had this unique ability to see people; to really see them. Not look through them. He just really saw people”, she explained tearfully to the students in the audience. “I just really loved him, and I know so many people did,” Adams added through sobs, “I just don’t know how much more I can talk about it right now, sorry.”

     

    The actor then apologised and said she wouldn’t be able to go on talking about him.

     

    After making her mark in the industry with memorable appearances in films such as Junebug, Enchanted, Doubt, and The Fighter, Amy Adams discusses her multifaceted career leading up to her standout performance in Columbia Pictures’ American Hustle. Her lead role as a con-artist in the Academy Award nominated film earned Adam’s her first Golden Globe win and fifth Academy Award Nomination. Adams has been nominated for five Golden Globe Awards and six Screen Actors Guild Awards.

  • Katie Holmes to be part of ‘The Giver’

    Katie Holmes to be part of ‘The Giver’

    Mumbai: Katie Holmes has finalised a deal to be a part of ‘The Giver’, a drama from the Weinstein Company and Walden Media. The movie is directed by Phillip Noyce.

    Brenton Thwaites plays the lead role in the movie that talks about a world where there is no sickness, racism or conflict.

    Thwaites plays the role of a young boy who is selected for his life service as Receiver of Memories with ‘The giver’ (Jeff Bridges) who is an old man teaching the boy to use his unique gifts of the senses.

    Meryl Streep plays the society’s chief elder, an authoritarian woman who assigns young kids tasks to do.  Holmes will be playing the mother of Thwaites. Her role is that of a strict obeyer of the rules of the society that can be named as an antiseptic society.

    Michael Mitnick has scripted the adaptation and will be shot in South Africa.

    The movie is eying a budget of around $25 million.