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  • Shuddh Desi Romance to premiere at Toronto in September

    Shuddh Desi Romance to premiere at Toronto in September

    NEW DELHI: Indian romantic comedy Shuddh Desi Romance will see its premiere at the Toronto International Film Festival in early September.

    The Festival announced the 70 titles in its Gala Premiere and Special Presentation films, including the North American premieres of several high-profile Asian titles.

    The Gala Presentation features Peter Chan’s American Dreams in China, Ritesh Batra’s The Lunchbox, South Korean thriller Cold Eyes and India’s Shudh Desi Romance directed by Maneesh Sharma and produced by Aditya Chopra.

    The Special Presentation section features Kore-eda Hirokazu’s Like Father, Like Son, Keanu Reeves’ China-US co-production Man of Tai Chi and Kurusawa Kiyoshi’s Real.

    The festival opens on 5 Septenber with Bill Condon’s The Fifth Estate featuring Benedict Cumberbatch in the role of Julian Assange.

  • ‘Covert One: The Hades Factor’ to premiere on Star Movies this Saturday

    ‘Covert One: The Hades Factor’ to premiere on Star Movies this Saturday

    MUMBAI: This weekend, Star Movies presents a nail-biting tale of action and intrigue about members of an elite undercover team who race against time to locate the source of a deadly virus threatening the lives of millions of Americans!!! Based on a book written by Robert Ludlum, the series quite accurately depicts the global crisis facing today’s world! Tune in to this action packed drama in a two-part thrill ride, this Saturday, December 2nd and Sunday, December 3rd at 9 p.m. only on Star Movies.

    Former secret agent and disease specialist Colonel Jonathan Smith works for Covert One, a top-secret American intelligence agency made up of political and technical experts. The brief given to them is to fight corruption and conspiracy at the highest and most dangerous levels of society. When three US soldiers stationed in Afghanistan succumb to an unknown Ebola-like virus, the United States Army Medical Research Institute for Infectious Diseases moves into action.

     

    As the death toll mounts and the virus spreads, Smith’s fiancée, Dr. Sophie Amsden, succumbs to the illness. Smith soon discovers evidence that Sophie’s death was not an accident. The pandemic was planned. Meanwhile, the US President goes into damage control, fearing her administration will be blamed for causing the outbreak. Samples of the Scimitar virus have surfaced on the black market and are now in the hands of a terrorist organization. Smith and his Covert One operatives, Klein and Addison, go undercover to locate rogue agent Rachel Russell, who disappeared after an undercover buy of the virus went wrong and two men were killed. Smith heads to Afghanistan to find the source of the virus and stop it before more innocent lives are lost. But is he too late?

     

    So don’t forget to tune in to this special series, which is packed with fast-paced action, race against time, deadly virus, government conspiracy and the fate of the world at stake, on Saturday, December 2nd and Sunday, December 3rd at 9 p.m. only on Star Movies.

  • Star Movies to premiere ‘Mr. & Mrs. Smith’

    Star Movies to premiere ‘Mr. & Mrs. Smith’

    MUMBAI: Academy Award® winner Angelina Jolie (Tomb Raider) and Oscar® nominee Brad Pitt (Ocean’s Twelve), along with comedian Vince Vaughn (The Break-Up), star in the controversial Mr. & Mrs. Smith, believed by many to be the reason for the split between Hollywood’s former favourite couple Brad Pitt and Jennifer Aniston. The sparks between the saucy Jolie and hunky Pitt brought in US$478 million box office worldwide.

     

    John (Pitt) and Jane Smith (Jolie) are an ordinary suburban couple with an ordinary, lifeless suburban marriage. But each is hiding something the other would kill to know: Mr. and Mrs. Smith are actually highly paid, incredibly efficient assassins, and they work for competing organizations.

     

    Mr. and Mrs. Smith discover a new source of excitement in their marriage, when they’re hired to assassinate each other… and that’s when the real fun starts. The result is the ultimate action spectacle, as Mr. and Mrs. Smith put their formidable skills to work and their marriage to the ultimate test.

     

    So don’t forget to tune in to the exclusive premiere of Mr. & Mrs. Smith, this Friday, November 24th at 9 p.m. only on Star Movies.

  • ‘Robots’ to premiere on Star Movies this Friday night at 9

    ‘Robots’ to premiere on Star Movies this Friday night at 9

    MUMBAI: This Friday, let the family fun begin!!! Star Movies presents a heart-warming story of an ambitious robot from a small town, which has a gift of inventing things and a hope of moving beyond his quaint surroundings. Tune in to the exclusive premiere of the fun filled animation film “Robots” starring Ewan McGregor, Mel Brooks, Halle Berry, Greg Kinnear, Amanda Bynes, Drew Carey and Robin Williams this Friday, December 22nd at 9 p.m. only on Star Movies.

     

    The pixel-happy production company Blue Sky follows its successful feature Ice Age with more animated antics in Robots. Rodney Copperbottom (voiced by Ewan McGregor) is a talented inventor who hopes to make his fortune by moving to Robot City and working among the nuts and bolts of the robotics industry. Rodney fantasizes about building robots for his boyhood hero and master inventor Big Weld (Mel Brooks), but when he meets him, Rodney’s dream threatens to turn rusty.

     

    Big Weld reveals that his company is now being run by the evil Phineas T. Ratchet (Greg Kinnear), a merciless moneymaker who wants to rid the world of the antiquated robots that clutter up the streets of Robot City. This leaves Rodney’s aspirations needing a major oil change, and with little chance of finding work, he feels about as useful as a broken spare part.

     

    So he takes to the streets, where he finds some unlikely salvation in a group of robots lead by Fender (Robin Williams). Fender urges Rodney to help save them from the scrap heap, while Ratchet and his company create threatening new policies on robot reconstruction. The ensuing action leads to a breathtaking set of adventures in the futuristic city.

    A fun, dizzying delight, ROBOTS benefits from the many voices of Robin Williams, who is the perfect comic foil to Ewan McGregor’s central character. The special effects are masterfully handled, and the rendering of Robot City is a true sight to behold. Robots presents fast-paced animated entertainment at its finest.

    So tune in to the exclusive premiere of Robots, this Friday night, December 22nd at 9 p.m. only on Star Movies.

  • ‘Spymate’ to premiere this friday night at 9 on Star Movies

    ‘Spymate’ to premiere this friday night at 9 on Star Movies

    MUMBAI: When his partner decides to leave the secret agent business, chimpanzee spy Minkey is left to his own devices. Unsure of what to do with his time, Minkey joins the circus, where he quickly becomes a very popular attraction.

    After 10 years of lying low, Minkey is called on by his former partner, whose own daughter has been kidnapped. Together, will this unusual human-monkey secret-agent team be able to solve the case? Find out this Friday night, December 29th at 9 p.m. on the exclusive premiere of “Spymate” only on Star Movies!!!

    Minkey, a super-spy primate, and his partner Mike were the two best spies in the business. For years, they made every mission possible… But when Mike retired to raise his baby girl, Amelia, he never predicted that life would come full circle.

     

    Ten years later, Amelia — who has invented a revolutionary chemical drill — is kidnapped and whisked off to Japan by her hero, Dr. Farley, who is planning a highly dangerous experiment that could cause a massive earthquake and destroy the entire world. Mike and Minkey partner up one last time for their most important mission ever: saving Amelia — and the world — from the clutches of the evil Dr. Farley.

    So tune in to the exclusive premiere of Spymate, this Friday night, December 29th at 9 p.m. only on Star Movies.

  • Premiere selects NDS MediaHighway middleware solutions

    Premiere selects NDS MediaHighway middleware solutions

    MUMBAI: Pay TV operator in Germany and Austria – Premiere – has chosen the NDS MediaHighway middleware solution to set-up an interactive platform paving the way into advanced digital TV services.

    The middleware-based TV platform will enable customers to interactively use innovative add-on-services – all with the ease of using their remote control via a return channel over the internet. Based on the NDS MediaHighway middleware, Premiere will launch this innovative platform that will offer a range of TV services to Premiere subscribers from August 2006.

    NDS MediaHighway, running an open middleware language, will play a key role in operating the interactive TV architecture, that combines broadcast and IPTV technologies into a single service on a hybrid STB. The cornerstone of the new platform will be a middleware enabled easy-to-use STB user-interface, that ensures the same look and feel over a variety of STBs and provides convenient and instant access to the services. The new infrastructure will enable Premiere to further extend its exclusive content offering combined with maximum usability for the viewer.

    The technological architecture of the platform unites the advantages of classic broadcasting with the individual and on-demand features of the internet. While the viewer will enjoy a premium quality TV experience, customers will be able to use interactive applications such as making pay-per-view orders at the touch of the remote control on their STB. Premiere will build up its range of interactive applications and add-on-services progressively based on open application standards.

    NDS is working closely with Premiere to launch this platform that will mark the start of middleware-supported and advanced interactive TV services in Germany and Austria. The agreement is a major reference for the NDS MediaHighway middleware solution and the first large scale customer win for NDS in Germany.

    Premiere CEO Dr. Georg Kofler said, “NDS is the ideal partner for us for establishing our interactive platform. NDS MediaHighway middleware has proved itself around the world, and is already running on more than 38 million set-top-boxes. It is extremely powerful and flexible and covers all the functions that we need, from interactive and add-on services to advanced PVR technology. We are thus gaining a fast and efficient entry into modern, interactive television.”

    “We could not think of a better reference than Premiere for our NDS MediaHighway middleware and hybrid TV solutions. We are delighted to be working with Premiere as our first large scale customer win in Germany. NDS will be supporting the company now to unlock the opportunities of advanced, interactive television,” said NDS France vice president and general manager Caroline Le Bigot.