MUMBAI: After helming films like Resident Evil, Alien vs. Predator and Death Race, Paul W S Anderson‘s next will be Pompeii a 3-D action-adventure film that will recount one of history‘s greatest disaster stories.
Set in 79 A.D., Pompeii stars Kit Harington as Milo, a slave turned invincible gladiator who finds himself in a race against time to save his true love Flavia, the beautiful daughter of a wealthy merchant who has been unwillingly betrothed to a corrupt Roman General. As Mt. Vesuvius erupts in a torrent of blazing lava, Milo must fight his way out of the arena in order to save his beloved as the once magnificent Pompeii crumbles around him.
Starring alongside are Emily Browning as Flavia and Jared Harris as Lucretius, her father. This period film commenced shooting on 13 March in Pompeii, Italy and will later shift to Toronto, Canada on 28 March.
The film will be released by PVR Pictures in India.
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Paul W.S. Anderson’s next to be Pompeii
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Ashton Kutcher’s biopic on Steve Jobs to release this summer
MUMBAI: Movie buffs will soon see Ashton Kutcher in the role of Apple visionary Steve Jobs in the film titled Jobs.
Reports reveal that Kutcher took his role very seriously and wanted to get into the skin of the character. The talented actor went on a very strict diet which only included fruits; he also read and interacted extensively with Steve Jobs‘ friends and colleagues to understand his character better.
Directed by Joshua Michael Stern, the film is a biopic on Jobs‘ life and revolves around how he became one of the largest entrepreneurs of the 20th Century.
The film also stars Josh Gad, who will be seen playing the role of Steve Wozniak.
To be distributed by PVR Pictures here in India, the film has already become the most awaited films of the year.
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PVR Pictures to release Zero Dark Thirty in India on 1 February
NEW DELHI: PVR Pictures is releasing Kathryn Bigelow‘s ‘Zero Dark Thirty‘ in India.
The film, which is about the hunt by the C.I.A. for Osama Bin Laden, will hit the screens on 1 February.
‘Zero Dark Thirty‘ won best picture from the National Board of Review, the New York Film Critics Circle, the Boston Society of Film Critics and the New York Film Critics Online.
The National Board of Review (NBR) named Bigelow "Best director" and Jessica Chastain, who plays the starring role of a young CIA officer pursuing Bin Laden, was named Best actor.
The film stars Jessica Chastain, Jason Clarke, Joel Edgerton, Jennifer Ehle, Mark Strong, Kyle Chandler, and Edgar Ramirez.
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PVR Pictures all set to release Breaking Dawn-Part 2 on 23 November
MUMBAI: PVR Pictures is all set to release Breaking Dawn- Part 2, the final instalment of The Twilight Saga in India on 23 November.
The fifth and last film in the blockbuster vampire series is being eagerly awaited in India and is expected to better the box office records of the previous four films in the series so far.
The film has already scored best weekend opening worldwide and in the history of the franchise, thanks to massive international business.
Said PVR Pictures President Kamal Gianchandani, “The Twilight Saga has been a resounding success for everyone involved with the film. Whether it‘s the leading stars or the cult status that the book has achieved, it is all thanks to the film‘s universal appeal. With its huge global opening of $ 340.9 million, we are looking forward to a similar response to the film here in India as well.”
The Twilight Saga: Breaking Dawn — Part 2 topped the worldwide weekend box office with $340.9 million opening, including $141.3 million domestically from 4,070 theaters and $199.6 million internationally from 61 markets.
Directed by Bill Condon, Breaking Dawn 2 returns Kristen Stewart, Robert Pattinson and Taylor Lautner in the lead roles for a final time. Breaking Dawn 2 has drawn tremendous response from audiences globally, having captured the attention of teenagers, men, women and elders alike with each passing film. Breaking Dawn: Part 2 is easily among one of the most awaited Hollywood films in India, expected to surpass domestic box office records for all overseas films releasing this year.
In North America, Breaking Dawn 2 opened ahead of the $138.1 million grossed by The Twilight Saga: Breaking Dawn — Part 1 on the same weekend last year. Overseas, Breaking Dawn 2 opened well ahead of previous Twilight films in almost every territory.
The franchise has so far yielded over $2.5 billion worldwide, half of it coming from American theatres.
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Deepa Mehta’s Midnight Children to release in India in December
MUMBAI: After a lot of suspense around its release, PVR Pictures has acquired the distribution rights of Deepa Mehta‘s Midnight‘s Children based on Salman Rushdie‘s 1981 novel by the same name. The film is now being readied for release in India in December. The film was earlier mired with fears that it would not find a distributor in the country where it is set.
Commenting on the acquisition and release of the film, PVR CEO Kamal Gianchandani said, “We‘re looking at releasing the film in December. We‘re yet to decide the release date.”
Rushdie‘s Booker prize-winning novel includes highly critical descriptions of the late prime minister Indira Gandhi, who suspended democracy in India between 1975 and 1977 in a period known as The Emergency.
Midnight‘s Children, which was adapted by Rushdie, was shot in Sri Lanka, where the government came under pressure from Iran to bring a halt to the project.
The adaptation is due for worldwide release in October or November.
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PVR Pictures postpones release of Step Up Revolution to 3 August
MUMBAI: The dance lovers in the country will have to wait a bit longer in India for latest edition of the Step Up series- Step Up Revolution, as PVR Pictures, the distributors of the film have postponed the release of the film to 3 August.
The fourth installment of the film was earlier scheduled to release on 27 July. The film will be releasing in both 2D and 3D across all major cities.
In Step Up Revolution, Kathryn McCormick (So You Think You Can Dance fame) backed up by an entourage, sets the streets of Miami on fire with her moves. The film features the latest trend of flash mobs that seems to have captured dance enthusiasts across the globe creating a virtual frenzy on the internet!
Emily arrives in Miami with aspirations of becoming a professional dancer and soon falls in love with Sean, a young man who leads a dance crew in elaborate, cutting-edge flash mobs, called ‘The Mob‘. When a wealthy business man threatens to develop The Mob‘s historic neighbourhood and displace thousands of people, Emily must band together with Sean and The Mob to turn their performance art into protest art, and risk losing their dreams to fight for a greater cause.
Step Up Revolution will see McCormick matching steps with supermodel Ryan Guzman in the lead.
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PVR Pictures to release Step Up Revolution on 27 July
MUMBAI: PVR Pictures is gearing up to release the fourth sequel of Step Up franchise – Step Up Revolution – in Indian theatres on 27 July in both 2D and 3D formats across all major cities.
Directed by Scott Speer, Step Up Revolution is a star-spangled film with Kathryn McCormick in the lead alongside super model Ryan Guzman. It also stars Misha Gabriel, Peter Gallagher and Steven among others.
The film centers on Emily, who arrives in Miami with aspirations of becoming a professional dancer and soon falls in love with Sean, a young man who leads a dance crew in elaborate, cutting-edge flash mobs called The Mob.
When a wealthy business man threatens to develop The Mob‘s historic neighborhood and displace thousands-of people, Emily bonds together with Sean and The Mob to turn their performance art into protest art and risk losing their dreams to fight for a greater cause.
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PVR Pictures’ Shanghai to premiere at IIFA
MUMBAI: : PVR Pictures‘ Dibakar Banerjee-directed thriller Shanghai is set to premiere at the 13th edition of the International Indian Film Academy (IIFA) awards event starting 7 June in Singapore.
The film, what stars Abhay Deol, Emraan Hashmi, Kalki Koechlin and Prosenjit Chatterjee in the lead role, will premiere on the first day at the Lido Cinemas, Shaw Theatre in Singapore, said IIFA.
The film is based on a book titled Z by Vassilis Vassilikos that itself was adapted into the famous Academy Award-winning film Z, directed by Costa-Gavras.
The makers are happy given the fact that IIFA‘s journey over the last 12 years has opened many doors for the Indian film industry.
The film will have its worldwide release on 8 June.
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PVR to release Bel Ami on 16 March
MUMBAI: PVR Pictures will release Declan Donnellan and Nick Ormerod’s Bel Ami on 16 March.
The film is based on an 1885 novel of the same name by Guy de Maupassant.
Bel Ami is the story of Georges Duroy who travels through 1890s Paris and uses his wit and power of seduction to rise from poverty to wealth in a world where politics and media jostle for influence, where sex is power and celebrity an obsession.
The film stars Robert Pattinson and Uma Thurman.
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Shanghai to now release on 8 June
MUMBAI: PVR Pictures has rescheduled the release date of Dibakar Banerjee‘s thriller, Shanghai.
The movie will now hit the screens on 8 June. The political thriller was earlier set to release on 26 January. But the producers, not wanting to have a clash with Karan Johar’s Agneepath, changed the release date.
Adapted from a Greek novel, the movie is based on the life of politicians and their greed and has been inspired by the Costa Gavras- directed film Z, released in 1969. It talks about the present roller coaster expose of big money politics and how the common man gets his revenge back.
Talking of the adaptation, Banerjee said, “Adapting a book into a film is not easier as many think. Whether adapted or original, a filmmaker faces the same problems and the same amount of blood and toil goes into it.”
Talking of how the film has shaped up, the director added: “Frankly I was floored by the performances of our stars and character artistes. With Shanghai, viewers should look forward to taking some revenge…revenge of the common Indian man against the people who have money and who are sucking us dry with their vested interests.”
The film stars Emraan Hashmi, Abhay Deol, Kalki Koechlin, and Prosenjit Chatterjee. While Deol plays a bureaucrat, Hashmi plays a roadside photographer and Koechlin plays an expat – a half-British caught in a corrupt society.