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  • Movies Now brings back 100 Mania

    Movies Now brings back 100 Mania

    MUMBAI: Movies Now is all charged up to bring back its official property 100 Mania to India with the best Hollywood movies. The channel’s initiative starts from 12 December, 2015 and will be aired in the prime time slot of 9 pm.

     

    This step by Movies Now for the Indian viewers will feature some of the biggest blockbusters titles like Fast & Furious 6, Man of Steel, Jack the Giant Slayer, Pacific Rim, Croods, Bean’s Holiday and Journey 2 the Mysterious Island.

     

    Viewers will also get an opportunity to win prizes like cars, bikes, iPhone 6s, digital cameras, HD TVs and laptops amongst others by participating in a contest wherein all they need to do is give a missed call on the number displayed on the screen during the 9 pm movie. The channel will be giving out a total of 100 prizes; one prize per day of the 100 day marathon fest of these Hollywood entertainers.

  • Charlie Hunnam gets Christian Grey role in Fifty Shades Of Grey

    Charlie Hunnam gets Christian Grey role in Fifty Shades Of Grey

    MUMBAI: Sons of Anarchy star Charlie Hunnam has officially been set to play Christian Grey in Fifty Shades of Grey, the Universal Pictures and Focus Features adaptation of the runaway bestselling book series.

     

    Hunnam, who had been rumored for weeks, more recently starred in the Guillermo Del Toro-directed Pacific Rim. Author EL James made the casting official on her Twitter page. Sam Taylor-Johnson is directing a script by Kelly Marcel and Michael De Luca and Dana Brunetti are producing along with the author.

     

    This follows after the official casting of Dakota Johnson to play the role of Anastasia Steele. Grey is the young, wealthy industrialist with a dark past who favors S&M relationships. His loyalty to the dominant-submissive subset is tested when he meets the young college graduate Anastasia Steele, who seems like the perfect girl for him.

  • The Wolverine had plenty of bark at the box office, and just enough bite

    The Wolverine had plenty of bark at the box office, and just enough bite

    MUMBAI: The sixth installment of the X-Men franchise clawed its way to $55 million this weekend, according to studio estimates from box-office trackers Hollywood.com.

     

    While the debut was plenty to win the weekend – there were no other major newcomers as studios cleared a path for the comic-book adaptation – the opening fell short of analysts’ projections, which called for a bow of at least $65 million.

     

    Still, it snapped the string of high-priced live-action films that couldn’t claim the weekend crown. Last week, the $20 million horror flick The Conjuring opened to $42 million, crushing the $130 million supernatural film R.I.P.D., which debuted to a dismal $13 million. Similarly, Pacific Rim ($37 million), The Lone Ranger ($29 million) and White House Down ($25 million) opened well below projections, falling to cheaper movies and animated films.

     

    While Wolverine’s opening was solid for a sixth franchise installment, analysts wondered whether moviegoers are suffering mutant fatigue. The previous Wolverine film, 2009’s X-Men Origins: Wolverine, debuted to $85 million.

     

    But the new film resonated with viewers, which could help its run through a typically arid August at theaters. About 68 per cent of critics gave Wolverine a thumbs-up, and the movie scored an A-minus from moviegoers, says grading site CinemaScore.

     

    Among the holdovers, Conjuring took second with $22.1 million, followed by the animated comedy Despicable Me 2 with $16 million.

    The animated Turbo was fourth with $13.3 million, while Adam Sandler’s comedy Grown Ups 2 rounded out the top five with $11.5 million.

  • Reliance Games ties up with Pacific Rim to launch mobile game

    Reliance Games ties up with Pacific Rim to launch mobile game

    MUMBAI: Reliance Games has tied up Warner Bros Pictures and Legendary Pictures‘ Pacific Rim to release a game based on the screenplay of the movie for iOS and Android platforms.

    Developed in partnership with Behavior Interactive and based on the film by Guillermo Del Toro, the Pacific Rim mobile game features epic battles amidst skyscrapers as players swipe and tap to defeat the Kaijus, aliens that have risen from the sea to wipe out humanity.

    Piloting weaponised robots known as Jaegers, Earth‘s defenders must train their jockeys from rookie to ace in a story mode based on the movie, or challenge themselves to last as long as they can against waves of aliens in survival mode. To aid in the apocalyptic fight to save humanity, new weapons, technology and devastating combos can be unlocked, as well as different Jaegers.

    “It‘s been a great opportunity to work with Warner Bros and Legendary Pictures to bring the excitement and edge-of-your-seat action of Pacific Rim onto mobile devices,” stated Reliance Entertainment-Digital CEO Manish Agarwal. “We are excited to provide an enhanced and immersive experience to moviegoers with a state-of-the-art 3D mobile game.”

    “We wanted to bring the summer blockbuster experience of Pacific Rim into the palm of your hands,” said Legendary Theatrical Marketing EVP Joel Chiodi. “The exciting and extreme fighting sequences in the mobile game compliment and extend the movie‘s spectacular action and story, helping to create a more complete movie-going experience.”

  • Early Friday returns show ‘Pacific Rim’ and ‘Grown Ups 2’ in a tight race

    Early Friday returns show ‘Pacific Rim’ and ‘Grown Ups 2’ in a tight race

    MUMBAI: There‘s a fierce race going on at the North American box office as Guillermo del Toro‘s Pacific Rim and Adam Sandler comedy Grown Ups 2 jockey for position.

    Universal‘s Despicable Me 2, however, could beat both and claim the numero uno place in its second weekend with a gross as high as $48 million.

    Defying soft prerelease tracking, Pacific Rim is certainly doing better than expected, but the film could see a precipitous fall on Saturday once fanboy traffic slows. It took in $3.6 million in Thursday night shows, with 23 per cent coming from Imax theaters.

    Some believe the 3D sci-fi epic, from Legendary Pictures and Warner Bros, could gross in the mid-$40 million range for the weekend, though most box-office experts believe it will top out at between $35 million and $40 million, a so-so number considering the tentpole‘s $190 million-plus budget.

     

    Sony‘s Grown Ups 2 is tipped to debut in the $40 million range and earned a surprisingly strong $2.3 million in Thursday night runs. The sequel, costing $80 million to produce, opens three years after the original film turned into a box-office hit, bowing to $40.5 million and ultimately grossing $271.4 million worldwide.

    The ensemble comedy, receiving blistering reviews, reteams Sandler with Kevin James, Chris Rock, David Spade, Salma Hayek, Maya Rudolph and Maria Bello.

    Prerelease tracking for Pacific Rim was notably soft, but Warners and Legendary say stellar reviews and word of mouth are fueling a better-than-expected performance. Legendary took the lead on the movie, including paying for most of the budget.

    Pacific Rim, pitting giant robots against alien monsters, stars Charlie Hunnam, Idris Elba, Rinko Kikuchi and Charlie Day.

    verseas, Pacific Rim is off to a strong start in Asia, Russia and Argentina, though it fared dismally in Australia on Thursday, coming in No. 4 behind the opening day of The Heat, Despicable Me 2 and Monsters University (the two animated films are benefiting from school holidays).

     

    Pacific Rim grossed $7.8 million from 25 markets on Thursday, led by Russia with $2 million. It also prospered across Asia, taking in $1.5 million in South Korea, marking Warners‘ third-largest opening day of all time in that market.

    So far internationally, the epic is outpacing a slew of films that went on to gross between $300 million and $400 million overseas, including Rise of the Planet of the Apes, Clash of the Titans and Prometheus. It‘s also pacing on par with World War Z, which has earned more than $200 million to date at the foreign box office.

    Pacific Rim opens just as Thomas Tull‘s Legendary and Warners prepare to part ways. This week, Legendary announced it had struck a new co-financing and production deal with Universal.

    Despicable 2 has already earned well north of $316 million worldwide.