Tag: Moneyball

  • Make Your Weekends More Thrilling With AXNs New Movie Slot

    Make Your Weekends More Thrilling With AXNs New Movie Slot

    For all the movie buffs, AXN is all set to make your movie viewing experience bigger, better and more thrilling. Get ready to witness the best of movies as AXN brings ‘Nine Weekends To Die For’ starting 28th September, 2013 on Saturday and Sunday at 9 pm. The slot will offer the best range of action, crime and hi-drama titles adding thrill to your happy hour!

     

    The movie lineup Starts every weekend at 9 pm on Saturday and Sunday with the all-time favorite, Mission Impossible series this Saturday followed with an impressive the line-up which will have the Rocky Fest with the Rocky series, Baseball Weekend with Moneyball and The Fan followed by Transformer Weekend, Crime busters Weekend, Beverly Hills Cop Weekend, Heroic Weekend with Sahara and The Godfather III, Antonio Banderas Weekend and Bruce Willis Weekend.

     

    Talking about the change in the weekend movie slot from 10 pm to 9 pm, Head Programming, AXN India, Arpit Mankar, says “9 pm has become synonymous with ‘big movies on TV’ and viewers have developed the habit of scanning through various channels and seeking the best movie available at that time. We believe that with our strengthened line-up of movies, and with interesting thematic weekends like the Rocky weekend, Godfather weekend etc, we will draw a significant share of the large audience that watches movies at home on weekend evenings by creating appointment viewing in a title-driven viewing environment.”

     

    So get on the couch with popcorns and tune into AXN every Saturday-Sunday 9 pm starting 28th September for a thrilling movie extravaganza.

  • Three Oscar contenders to open on 24 February

    Three Oscar contenders to open on 24 February

    MUMBAI: Never in recent times have we seen two or more Oscar awards contending films releasing on the same day in India.


    Come 24 February, this will become a reality when three Oscar award contenders — Artist, Moneyball and My Week with Marilyn — will release.


    While The Artist is considered as the top contender for the Oscars this year, Moneyball starring Brad Pitt has also been nominated in the Best Picture category. Also releasing would be My Week with Marilyn that has been nominated in several categories like ‘Best Actress in a Leading Role‘ for Michelle.