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  • Five reasons to watch MN+ in July

    Five reasons to watch MN+ in July

    MUMBAI: MN+ celebrates July with five themes – Centre Stage, Opening night, Hollywood select, Great Adaptations and the Academy club. Through all these five categories, MN+ is offering its viewers the critically acclaimed popular movies of English cinema.  Movies like, Sweeney Todd: The Demon Barber of Fleet Street. It will be shown on Sunday, 12 July, at 9 pm at the Centre Stage slot of MN+.

     

    Times Network senior vice president and head English Entertainment Cluster Vivek Srivastava said, “MN+ has been hand-crafted for not just discerning movie lovers, but for cineastes as well. MN+ will showcase movies that are universally celebrated and debated. Keeping to this promise the other highlights for the month are, Gran Torino, About Schmidt, The Shawshank Redemption, Poltergeist , Ghostbusters, Fight Club, Poseidon, Woman in Black, The Golden Compass, Don’t  Say a  Word, Deamcatcher, Payback, Runaway Jury, The  Big Lebowski and a host of other popular films.”

     

    Gran Torino is a2008 American drama film directed and produced by Clint Eastwood, who starred in the film too will be shown on Sunday, 19th July, at 9PM at the Opening Night slot.

     

    Srivastava further added, “Our viewers are a focused lot who, by virtue of their intelligence and sensitivity, have the time and ability to appreciate only the best that life has to offer — they seek to fill moments of leisure with the greatest value. MN+ is for those premium audiences that have the temperament to be choosy about what life has to offer and have evolved to value only the best, and so are our movie offerings.”

     

    The American film critic, Emanuel Levy, stated that, “Alexander Payne’s poignant series-comedy ‘About Schmidt’ is a sharply observed character study, featuring Jack Nicholson in a towering performance as an ordinary American embarking late in life on a journey of self-discovery”. Watch these movies under the Academy Club in this July in MN+.

     

    Moreover, under the Hollywood Select category there are movies like Rush, Scent of A Woman, The Departed, Les Misérables, screened everyday at 9pm at MN+. In the month of July view these movies and more, in MN+, the gold class of movie viewing experience.

  • Horror thriller ‘Vatican Tapes’ to release in India on 31 July

    Horror thriller ‘Vatican Tapes’ to release in India on 31 July

    MUMBAI: Horror-thriller flick, The Vatican Tapes is all set to hit theaters across India on 31 July, 2015. The film is being released in India by Multivision Multimedia. The movie features Djimon Hounsou (Blood Diamond fame), Dougray Scott (Mission Impossible 2 and American Hustle) and Michael Pena (Fury, American Hustle). Kathleen Robertson, established television actress in the US will be seen as the leading lady in Vatican Tapes.

     

    The Vatican Tapes is about the ultimate battle between good and evil- God versus Satan. When a priest (Michael Pe?a) is called upon to exorcize a powerful satanic force he meets with an evil much more powerful than ever imagined. He enters a battle not only for a woman’s soul, but also the fate of the world. The film is an edge of the seat thriller that promises chill down the spine. 

     

    Hollywood horror films have left an imprint on the Indian box office for a very long time. The genre has matured and evolved over time. This year, two of the biggest horror films from Hollywood that made it to Indian screens were Insidious: Chapter 3, currently running to full houses and Poltergeist that grossed over $2 million in the first three days of release in India.

     

    Some other films such as Conjuring and Anabella have also fared extremely well in India, keeping up to its international success. Alongside action and franchise driven cinema, horror is the third strongest contender from Hollywood in India.

     

    Multivision Multimedia distribution head Sunil Udhani said, “Horror has always been a favourite among Indian audiences. While the trend is on the upswing here in Bollywood, the market for movies like Vatican Tapes is ever expanding. We have already seen a couple of success stories from the genre with this year. Horror is a unique genre in Hollywood that is not star dependent on stars; on top of that Vatican Tapes boasts of an illustrious star cast such as Djimon Hounsou and Dougray Scott. We are sure The Vatican Tapes will continue in the tradition of box office success.”