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  • Extremely Loud & Incredibly Close to release on 2 March

    Extremely Loud & Incredibly Close to release on 2 March

    MUMBAI: Warner Bros. is all set to release its upcoming film, Extremely Loud & Incredibly Close, on 2 March.


    Adapted from the acclaimed bestseller by Jonathan Safran Foer, the film is a story that unfolds from inside the young mind of Oskar Schell, an inventive eleven year-old New Yorker whose discovery of a key in his deceased father’s belongings sets him off on an urgent search across the city for the lock it will open.


    A year after his father died in the World Trade Center on what Oskar calls “The Worst Day,” he is determined to keep his vital connection to the man who playfully cajoled him into confronting his wildest fears.


    Now, as Oskar crosses the five New York boroughs in quest of the missing lock – encountering an eclectic assortment of people who are each survivors in their own way – he begins to uncover unseen links to the father he misses, to the mother who seems so far away from him and to the whole noisy, dangerous, discombobulating world around him.


    The film has been directed by three-time Academy Award nominee Stephen Daldry from a screenplay by Academy Award winner Eric Roth based on a novel written Jonathan Safran Foer’s novel.


    Produced by Scott Rudin along with Eli Bush and Tarik Karam, the film stars Tom Hanks and Sandra Bullock along with newcomer Thomas Horn in the role of Oskar.

  • PVR Director’s Rare to release Chaurahen in 16 March

    PVR Director’s Rare to release Chaurahen in 16 March

    MUMBAI: PVR Cinemas’ recently launched alternative programming initiative, PVR Director’s Rare banner, will release Rajshree Ojha’s Chaurahen (Crossroads) on 16 March.

    The film will release in PVR cinemas at Delhi, Mumbai, Ahmedabad, Bangalore, Kolkata, Gurgaon and Chennai.

    Chaurahen features three separate stories set in three different cities in contemporary India. There is a troubled adulterous affair in Kolkata, a family dealing with the loss of a son in Kochi and a young man in Mumbai dealing with memories of his ancestral home.

    The film stars Soha Ali Khan, Ankur Khanna, Victor Banerjee, Kiera Chaplin, Roopa Ganguly, Zeenat Aman, Shayan Munshi, Karthik Kumar, Suchitra Pillai, Arundathi Nag, Nedumudi Venu, and Siddharth Makkad among others.

    Earlier, the film travelled to several film festivals in 2007 like South Asian International Film Festival – New York, Mumbai International Film Festival (MAMI), Osian’s Cinefan Film Festival and Cairo International Film Festival among others.

    PVR Director’s Rare has been launched to support the theatrical release of critically acclaimed small independent films.

  • Zina Bethune no more

    Zina Bethune no more

    MUMBAI: In a bizarre accident, actress, choreographer and dancer Zina Bethune was killed in the early morning hours last Sunday after she left her car along Forest Lawn Drive in Los Angeles to look after an injured animal but was struck by oncoming traffic. She suffered head injuries and died at the scene. Bethune was 66.


    Bethune is best known for playing the girl with a past opposite Harvey Keitel in Martin Scorsese’s 1967 Catholic morality tale Who’s That Knocking at My Door.
     
    Earlier, Bethune starred as a na?ve student nurse in the 1962-65 CBS primetime series The Doctors and the Nurses.


    At age six, Zina Bethune began her dancing career at George Balanchine’s School of American Ballet and performed with the New York City Ballet, where she starred as Clara in the first televised The Nutcracker.

  • Actor Ben Gazzara passes away at 81

    Actor Ben Gazzara passes away at 81

    MUMBAI: New York born on-screen and stage performer Ben Gazzara passed away on 3 February at Bellevue Hospital Centre, New York. He was 81 years old.

    Gazzara was suffering from pancreatic cancer.

    Starting his career in 1950s as a stage actor, Gazzara has worked in movies and television for over five decades.

    His credits include NBC‘s Run for Your Life (1965-1968), which earned him two Emmy nominations and TV movie An Early Frost (1985).

    During his career, Gazzara appeared in more than 100 feature films and TV movies, including the indie films he made with writer-director John Cassavetes. Husbands, The Killing of a Chinese Bookie and Opening Night which are his notable works. He also directed two mid-1970s episodes of Peter Falk‘s drama Columbo.

    He won an Emmy for 2002 HBO production Hysterical Blindness.

    Married thrice, Gazzara is survived by his third wife Elke, daughters Elizabeth and Danja, and brother Anthony.

  • Kodak seeks exit from Hollywood theatre sponsorship

    Kodak seeks exit from Hollywood theatre sponsorship

    MUMBAI: New York-headquartered digital imaging company, Eastman Kodak Company, has opted for a pre-mature exit from its 20-year naming rights deal worth $75 million for Hollywood‘s Kodak Theatre, which is also the home of Academy Awards.

    The development comes close on the heels of the company filing for Chapter 11 Bankruptcy Protection and obtaining a $950 million, 18-month credit facility from Citigroup to enable it to continue trading.

    In a filing before U.S bankruptcy court judge, the company requested that it be relieved of the contract since company‘s debtors have determined that “any benefits on the rights does not exceed or equal the debtors‘ costs associated with the contract”.

    The 3,332 seat theatre was built by CIM Group, a leading real estate and infrastructure investment firm, at a cost of $94 million.

    A crown jewel of the Hollywood & Highland Center retail, dining and entertainment complex located in the heart of historic Hollywood, the Kodak Theatre was designed by the internationally-renowned Rockwell Group.

    The naming of Kodak Theatre, which was expected to run through to 2020, was believed to be one of the most significant non-sports corporate sponsorships of that time.

  • New York Indian film fest calls for entries

    New York Indian film fest calls for entries

    NEW DELHI: The New York Indian Film Festival has invited entries from Indian filmmakers for features and short films for the 12th Festival to be held from 23 to 27 May.

    The entries for the festival, organised annually by the Indo-American Arts Council, will close on 15 February.

    NYIFF is an opportunity to experience five days of the rich and diverse film cultures of the Indian subcontinent through a mix of premiere film screenings, discussions, industry panels, script workshops, red carpet galas, special events, nightly networking parties and an award ceremony.

    Meanwhile, the Public Service Broadcasting Trust (PSBT) has invited proposals for documentary films from independent filmmakers for their project with the Public Diplomacy Division of the External Affairs Ministry.

    PSBT will commission around seven films under this project. The Films will need to be 26 or 52 minutes duration, shot and post-produced on Full High Definition (1920×1080, 50 mbps).

    The average budget for a 26-minute film will be between Rs One Million to Rs 1.2 million and for a 52-minute film between Rs 1.4 million and Rs 1.6 million.

    The films are intended to project India’s image to overseas audiences and will, therefore, be approved by the Public Diplomacy Division.

    The last date to submit Proposals is 24 February and can be submitted to proposals@psbt.org .

  • Malayalam film Adaminte Makan Abu out of Oscar race

    Malayalam film Adaminte Makan Abu out of Oscar race

    MUMBAI: Malayalam film Adaminte Makan Abu, India‘s official entry to the upcoming Academy Awards, has failed to make it to the top nine shortlist for the Best Foreign Film for 2011.

    With the Indian entry out of the race, nine films including Bullhead (Belgium), Monsieur Lazhar (Canada), Superclasico (Denmark), Pina (Germany), Footnote (Israel), Omar Killed Me (Morocco), In Darkness (Poland) and Warriors of the Rainbow: Seediq Bale (Taiwan) are among the shortlisted entries, according to a statement on the official Oscars website.

    These will be further winnowed down to the five nominees by specially invited committees in New York and Los Angeles. Over the weekend, the committee will review the films again and cast their ballots.

    India is, thus, left out with the only remaining hope at this year‘s Academy Awards, director Sohan Roy‘s DAM 999. It featured among the 265 films contending for the ‘Best Picture’ nomination at the Oscars. Along with it, three of its songs were among the 39 shortlisted for nominations in the Original Song category for the upcoming 84th Academy Awards.

    The final Oscars presentation ceremony will take place on 26 February at the Kodak Theatre in Los Angeles.

  • Palm Springs to honour Brad Pitt

    Palm Springs to honour Brad Pitt

    MUMBAI: The Palm Springs International Film Festival will present Brad Pitt with its Desert Palm Achievement Actor Award for his acclaimed performances in Moneyball and The Tree of Life.

    The year 2011 has proved to be a good year for Pitt. The New York Critics Circle named him the best actor for both Moneyball while the Boston Society of Film Critics named him best actor for Moneyball.

    Pitt will receive the award at the Festival‘s Awards Gala on January 7. The festival runs from January 5 to 16.

    With this, Pitt joins the previous honorees George Clooney (The Descendants), Glenn Close (Albert Nobbs), Michel Hazanavicius (The Artist), Octavia Spencer (The Help) and Michelle Williams (My Week With Marilyn).

  • Raj Kapoor retrospective at MoMA

    Raj Kapoor retrospective at MoMA

    MUMBAI: As part of a retrospective it has organised of Raj Kapoor, the New York-based Museum of Modern Art (MoMA) will showcase eight classics of the legendary actor, director-producer. The retrospective, which will roll from 6 January, will go on till 16 January.

    Presented in 35 mm prints, ‘Raj Kapoor and the Golden Age of Indian Cinema‘ offers an introduction to one of the most ravishing and influential periods of world cinema.

    The exhibition is curetted by Noah Cowan, Artistic Director, TIFF Bell Lightbox, and organised by TIFF, IIFA, and RK Films, with the support of the Government of Ontario. It is organised for MoMA by Joshua Siegel, Associate Curator, Department of Film, The Museum of Modern Art, MoMA said in a statement.

    Largely unknown in North America, except to filmgoers of South Asian descent, Kapoor is revered not only in India but also throughout the former Soviet Union, the Middle East and beyond.

    Kapoor founded RK Films in 1948, and it became the most important Hindi studio of the post-Independence era-and the one most commonly associated with the nebulous and often misunderstood expression Bollywood.

  • Life! Camera Action bags top recognition at Nevada Intl fest

    Life! Camera Action bags top recognition at Nevada Intl fest

    MUMBAI: New York based director Rohit Gupta‘s film Life! Camera Action has lapped up the Platinum Reel Award for the Best Narrative Feature Film 2011, the highest recognition at the Nevada International Film Festival 2011 held in Las Vegas.


    Challenging and thought provoking, Life! Camera Action…takes an unflinching look at the complexities of a girl‘s tolerance and persistence in a journey to follow her dreams in a diverse melting pot set up.


    Life! Camera Action is a story of a young Indian-American woman Reina‘s journey, who sets off to pursue a career in filmmaking against the wishes of her family and as she tries to make ends meet, she begins to seen another dream – to prove to her parents that her drive for her dream is sincere.


    She is of the belief that while being born with a personality may be an inherent gift from one‘s parents, to live as a personality is an achievement of our own and a return gift to the parents.


    The film features Dipti Mehta, Shaheed Woods, Noor Naghmi, John Crann, Subodh Batra amongst others.


    The Nevada International Film Festival is the Silver State‘s annual celebration of the best in American and international cinema, bringing together independent filmmakers, growing audiences and the film industry professionals who make it all possible.