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  • PVR Pictures to release Man On A Ledge

    PVR Pictures to release Man On A Ledge

    MUMBAI: PVR Pictures is all set to release director Asger Leth’s Man On A Ledge on 3 February. The film was imported to India by Tanweer Films.

    Man On A Ledge is a heart-pounding thriller featuring Sam Worthington as Nick Cassidy who takes a desperate and life threatening step to prove his innocence on the theft of a rare and prized diamond.

    The film has abundant and unpredictable twists and electrifying turns.

    Man On A Ledge stars Elizabeth Banks, Jamie Bell, Anthony Mackie, Edward Burns, Genesis Rodriguez, Kyra Sedwick and Ed Harris.

  • PVR to release Coriolanus on 20 January

    PVR to release Coriolanus on 20 January

    MUMBAI: PVR Pictures will officially distribute Coriolanus inspite of the fact that the film was imported to India by Tanweer Films. The film, an adaption of Shakespeare’s tragedy by the same name, has Ralph Fiennes making his directorial debut.

    Coriolanus was premiered at the 61st Berlin International Film Festival in February 2011. It also received honors at the Belgrade International Film festival 2011.

    Additionally, the distribution house will also release Hammer Films’ Daniel Radcliffe-starrer Woman In Black on 10 February.

    Directed by James Watkins, the film is being released in the country in English, Hindi, Tamil and Telugu.

    The film has Radcliffe playing a widowed lawyer Arthur Kipps who leaves his son in London to settle the legal affairs of the recently deceased Alice Drablow. But upon his arrival, it soon becomes clear that everyone in the town is keeping a deadly secret.

    Although the townspeople try to keep Kipps from learning their tragic history, he soon discovers that the house belonging to his client is haunted by the ghost of a woman who is determined to find someone and something she lost… and no one, not even the children, are safe from her vengeance.

    Besides Radcliffe, the film also stars Ciaran Hinds, Janet Mc Teer, Roger Allam, Shaun Dooley, Sophie Stuckey and David Burke among others.

  • Censor Board passes The Twilight Saga: Breaking Dawn without cuts

    Censor Board passes The Twilight Saga: Breaking Dawn without cuts

    MUMBAI: The Censor Board has cleared The Twilight Saga: Breaking Dawn (Part – 1) without a single cut, but given it an ‘A‘ certification.

    The film has a love sequence between Robert Pattinson and Kristen Stewart, the protagonists of the vampire movie.

    PVR Pictures is marketing and distributing the film in India.

    PVR Pictures president Kamal Gianchandani said, “Though we would have loved to have a ‘U‘ certification as it would have given us a large prospect, we are very happy that the film has been passed without a single cut.

    “We were apprehensive on one of the love making sequence of the movie which was already making news in the international media circle which was recorded without a single cut. We are happy to present the movie in totality to the Indian audience.”

    The movie had seen a bumper box office opening at the international box office with the opening day collection of $283.5 million. It will release in India on 25 November.

  • PVR set to release Twilight Saga on 25 November

    PVR set to release Twilight Saga on 25 November

    MUMBAI: PVR Pictures is all set to release Twilight Saga: Breaking Dawn Part I on 25 November.

    Breaking Dawn, one of the most anticipated film in the Twilight series revolves around the love story of a vampire Edward Cullen and a human Bella Swan. The highlight of the film is probably the wedding of Swan to Cullen and her being impregnated with a vampire offspring.

    Twilight fans have been waiting to witness the much talked about wedding.

    PVR has also arranged a paid premiere for all those fans who want to watch the film before anyone else at selective PVR screens across Mumbai on 24 November. 

  • PVR Pictures’ Shanghai release date deferred

    PVR Pictures’ Shanghai release date deferred

    MUMBAI: The release date of PVR Pictures’ Dibakar Banejee-directed Shanghai has been postponed. Earlier, the film was to release on 26 January 2012.

    The makers have postponed the release because Karan Johar has decided to release his Hrithik-Roshan-starrer Agneepath on the same day.

    The political thriller has been inspired by a mid-1960s book, ‘Z‘, written by Greek writer and diplomat Vassilis Vassilikos. The book was first translated on the big screen through an eponymous French film released in 1969.

    Shanghai stars Abhay Deol, Emraan Hashmi, Kalki Koechlin, Prosenjit,
    Farooque Shaikh and Supriya Pathak.

  • PVR to release The Rum Diary on 4 November

    PVR to release The Rum Diary on 4 November

    MUMBAI: PVR Pictures, the film production and distribution arm of the PVR Ltd is all set to release Johnny Depp starrer The Rum Diary on 4 November.

    The film, directed by Bruce Robinson from his own screenplay also stars Aaron Eckhart, Amber Heard, Michael Rispoli, Richard Jenkins and Giovanni Ribisi among others.

    Based on a novel written by Hunter S Thompson, The Rum Diary depicts the increasingly unhinged story of itinerant journalist Paul Kemp (Depp) who is tired of the noise and madness of New York and the crushing conventions of late Eisenhower-era America. He travels to the pristine island of Puerto Rico to write for a local San Juan newspaper run by the downtrodden editor Lotterman (Jenkins). Adopting the rum-soaked lifestyle of the late ‘50s version of Hemingway‘s “The Lost Generation”, Paul soon becomes entangled with a very attractive American woman, Chenault (Heard) and her fiancée Sanderson (Eckhart), a businessman involved in shady property development deals. It is within this world that Kemp ultimately discovers his true voice as a writer and integrity as a man.

    The Rum Diary is a GK Films, Infinitum Nihil and Film Engine production produced by Johnny Depp, Christi Dembrowski, Anthony Rhulen, Robert Kravis, Tim Headington and Graham King.

  • PVR to release The Whistleblower on 21 October

    PVR to release The Whistleblower on 21 October

    MUMBAI: PVR Pictures will release The Whistleblower on 21 October.

    The film that stars Academy-award winning actress Rachel Weisz has been directed by Larysa Kondracki.

    Weisz plays the character of Kathryn Bolkovac, a Nebraska cop who served as a peacekeeper in post-war Bosnia and outed the U.N. for covering up a sex scandal.

    The Whistleblower premiered at the 2010 edition of the Toronto Film Festival. It was nominated for the Directors Guild of Canada award and won the Audience award at the Palm Springs International Film Festival 2011.

  • PVR Pictures to release The Ides of March

    PVR Pictures to release The Ides of March

    MUMBAI: PVR Pictures will soon release George Clooney’s The Ides of March in India.

    Based on Beau Willimon’s play Farragut North, the film is set in the near future in the world of American politics during the Democratic primaries in Ohio for the presidential elections.

    It tells the story of a young, idealistic press secretary (Ryan Gosling) who works for one of the presidential candidates, Governor Mike Morris (George Clooney), and despite himself becomes dangerously involved in the ambient deceit and corruption.

    Besides Gosling and George Clooney, the film also stars Philip Seymour Hoffman, Paul Giamatti, Marisa Tomei, Jeffrey Wright, Max Minghella and Evan Rachel Wood.

    The film, which recently opened the 68th Venice International Film Festival, will be presented at the 13th Mumbai Film Festival.

  • PVR Pictures to distribute Drive

    PVR Pictures to distribute Drive

    Mumbai: PVR Pictures will distribute director Nicolas Winding Refn’s latest offering, Drive, in India shortly.

    The film, adapted from James Sallis’s 2005 novel, is about an unnamed driver (Ryan Gosling) who works at the garage of his friend Shannon (Bryan Cranston), is a stunt driver by day and a getaway driver for criminals at night.

    His scheme involves getting into racing with a local criminal named Bernie Rose (Albert Brooks) but the driver has befriended his neighbour Irene (Carey Mulligan) and agrees to help her husband (Oscar Isaac) get out of trouble with thugs hassling him for money, pulling them both deep into something.

    The film premiered at the recently held Toronto International Film Festival and also at the Cannes Film Festival 2011.

  • PVR mulls Hindi remake of Three Musketeers

    PVR mulls Hindi remake of Three Musketeers

    MUMBAI: PVR Pictures is said to be in talks with Summit Entertainment for the remaking rights of The Three Musketeers in Hindi.

    Three Musketeers is the story of Porthos, Athos and Aramis who served the king of France as musketeers. After discovering an evil conspiracy to overthrow the king, the musketeers come across a young, aspiring hero, D‘Artagnan, and take him under their wing. Together, the four embark on a mission to bust the plot that not only threatens the crown, but the future of Europe itself.

    PVR is considering the names of Aamir Khan and Priyanka Chopra to play prominent roles in the film. While Khan is being tipped to play the Duke of Buckingham, Chopra will play the role of Milady de Winter.