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  • Summit: Dscoop Latex Summit, Shanghai

    Summit: Dscoop Latex Summit, Shanghai

    MUMBAI: Dscoop Latex Summit was hosted in Shanghai as a part of the Annual Shanghai International Ad & Sign Expo which specifically focused on the Sign and Display segment.

    The platform was an opportunity for Regional Print Service Providers (PSP's) to learn about- Brands, Emerging Trends in Consumer and Shoppers Space, Trends of World Wide Print and Decoration market, Perspective and Strategies on Employing Powerful Sign & Display and also how to support this eco- system better in Asia Pacific.

    Mohit Sharma, Associate Vice President, TracyLocke made a presentation and spoke on 'Emerging Shopper Trends which Re-Define the Retail Landscapes'. To summarise his presentation:-
    – How On-Line is impacting the Brick and Mortar Space and new era of Consumerism and Shopper phenomenon are pushing the brands and retailers to the edge. 

    -How Retail is in the middle of flux and living in defining moments.
    – The emergence of new economies and how this new global power equation is shaping the shopper mind space in South West Asia.

    – The challenges Brands, Retailers and Marketers are facing to make the experience and brand more relevant and how the strategic alliances and partnerships are effecting the position of the brand.
    – Co-Creation, Content and Collaboration are the 3 pillars of Retail Engagement and powerful enough to craft new brand stories. 
    – Shoppers and Consumers due to digital transparency are getting more sensitive to Eco Sensitive and thus Eco Friendly solutions are becoming imperative for stakeholders ay every point.
    – Optimization is not only required for business survivals and competitive edge but accountability taken by shoppers and consumers from the brands. The new generation of Brands and Shopper experience will be laid on the cool quotient which is not style but being green and optimal.

    He also showcased a few case studies which brought out the aspect on how to create relevance of brands through using technologies, substrates and products at the Retail Landscapes and creating impactful and powerful experiences

    Commenting on Mohit's session at Summit Martin Carballo, Director & GM, Sign & Display, Asia Pacific & Japan, HP, said, "Influencers like you are indeed needed to drive this industry transformation for the sake of the print service providers' business".

    Commenting on the experience Mohit Sharma, AVP TracyLocke said, "It was an eye opening and fantastic exposure. A must for the Retail Consultants. HP as a market leader has created a platform on which Print Service Providers, HP and other service providers come together on regional level and discuss the "Emerging Trends" in the Industry and in the flux of events "How Maximize on Opportunities.

    Such events provide exposure to various facets of the Industry and gives immense in-depth knowledge of various domains and appraise on the importance of Collaboration. In my various discussions I have made a point that three emerging consumer trends which are impacting and re-defining the retail landscapes and thus creating a flux for the Brands, Marketers and Intermediaries and thus giving rise to new set of opportunities and challenges are – Happiness, Health and Humanity.

    Dscoop Seminars
    These Dscoop seminars which HP supports are part of an ongoing series of educational efforts on the power and impact of innovative digital print.

    (Dscoop (Digital Solutions Cooperative) (global community of graphic arts business owners and technical professionals who use HP Indigo and Scitex equipment) is focused on educating and connecting its members with each other and with HP to improve members' business growth, efficiency and profitability.)

  • Indo-German film week opens in Berlin

    Indo-German film week opens in Berlin

    MUMBAI: To bring film communities of Germany and India closer, an Indo-German Film Week has been organised in Berlin. The week will see film screenings, workshops, interactions and master classes, all presenting the Indian film and media world to the German and international audiences.

    States the Indo-German Film Week website, “We want to show the German and international audience the whole variety of Indian Cinema, that there is much more than just”song and dance films”. But we will also show the vibrant Fiction Production in Germany which is internationally recognized for its high quality Movies Made for TV.”

    The highlight of the event is the Indo German Screenwriting Workshop from 5 to 7 February that will have lectures by screenwriter and head of screenwriting department at FTII, Anjum Rajabali, Keith Cunningham, a German screenwriter and consultant, author and head of the German Film and Television Academy, Berlin, Jochen Brunow who will talk about principles of storytelling and Indian and Greek mythology.

    Among 15 film screenings, Barfi!, English Vinglish, Shanghai and Inkaar will make their German premieres in the presence of their respective directors.

    While Gauri Shinde (English Vinglish) will speak on women‘s rights in India, Anurag Basu will share his knowledge and experience about the process of turning a screenplay into a movie like he did with Barfi!

    Organised by Life Entertainment and Babylon Berlin, the film week that began from yesterday (5 February) will run till the 11th of this month.

  • Craft Worldwide goes global, sets up 2 offices in India

    MUMBAI: McCann Worldgroup has consolidated its production assets under a single business unit called Craft Worldwide and has launched it globally including India with offices in Mumbai and Delhi.

    The agency with a client-centric operating model and an emphasis on the craft of execution will have a network of integrated production hubs in 23 markets, capable of producing every type of print, digital and video media available.

    Apart from Mumbai and Delhi, Craft’s main offices are located in New York, London, Singapore, Toronto, Manchester, Paris, Milan, Oslo, Manila, Bucharest, Santiago, Budapest, Johannesburg, Sao Paulo, Tokyo, Shanghai, Sydney, Kuala Lumpur, Detroit, Bangkok, and Melbourne, with plans to expand further in 2013.

    All Craft Worldwide offices are linked through an innovative technology platform, called the Craft Cloud.

    “Success in global adaptation and production requires the dedication of true craftspeople who care deeply about their clients’ brands and who work tirelessly to drive maximum savings for our clients,” said Craft Worldwide CEO Fred Schuster. “We have assembled a team of the industry’s best, each with a rich and robust background in advertising, adaptation, design and production.”

    Craft Worldwide currently offers clients capabilities in a number of key areas:

    – A marketing operations consulting group that develops go-to-market models that yield maximum efficiency
    – An adaptation design capability that extends the reach of existing tactics into new audience and communication segments, while maintaining brand consistency
    – A world-class translation offering providing translation, transcreation and cultural consulting services
    – Access to a distribution network that can deliver a final asset to literally anywhere in the world
    – A technology platform that streamlines these capabilities and links them together through a cloud-based, highly secure interface

    To deliver these capabilities, Craft currently employs more than 570 full-time employees and is already working for many of the world’s leading brand marketers, such as Coca-Cola, L’Oréal, Aldi, General Mills, and Microsoft XBox, as well as supporting the Commonwealth Agency.

    With its global launch, Craft Worldwide becomes McCann Worldgroup‘s eighth major marketing solutions offering. “Craft is the perfect example of how we can leverage our talent, our global footprint and our ability to work quickly and cost-efficiently to drive our clients’ businesses forward,” said McCann Worldgroup Chairman & CEO Harris Diamond.

    “One key differentiator for Craft is our ability to design bespoke operating models for our clients. These unique plans leverage our vast network of low-cost hubs and have proven success both in maintaining brand consistency and in driving maximum efficiency,” explained Craft Worldwide COO Quinn O’Brien.

  • ‘Maximum’ disaster at BO

    ‘Maximum’ disaster at BO

    MUMBAI: Maximum, the film lacking on all counts from face value to content, became a disaster at the box office. The film managed to collect just about Rs 13 million over its opening weekend and its run may be curtailed today onwards for want of patrons.

    Teri Meri Kahaani remained poor at the box office and will fall far short of its high price of Rs 480 million for its domestic theatrical, satellite and audio rights; a grossly bad bargain for Wave Pictures. All the recovery that the film could muster pre-release was of Rs 40 million from audio rights and sale of two small circuits. The film has collected Rs 234.5 million in its first week with second weekend adding another Rs 35 million. The projected loss is over 50 per cent of investment as the prospects of decent recovery from the satellite rights have dwindled greatly.

    Gangs of Wasseypur has found its audience in some adventurous and curious few as it collected Rs 171 million in its first week; the curiosity tapered as the second weekend ended with figures of Rs 38 million.

    Ferrari KI Sawaari, which had collected Rs 177 million in its first week, added Rs 63 million in week two to take its total to Rs 241 million.

    Shanghai managed to collect only Rs 4 million in its third week, taking its tally to Rs 234 million.

    Rowdy Rathore maintained steady collections; with a figure of Rs 35.5 million in its fourth week, the film has so far collected Rs 1.34 billion.

    Vicky Donor collected Rs 1.1 million in its 10th week. Its net at the box office stands at Rs 419.5 million.

  • Ferrari Ki Sawaari’s ride is bumpy

    Ferrari Ki Sawaari’s ride is bumpy

    MUMBAI: Ferrari Ki Sawaari has not been able to live up to the names associated with its making. Faced with ‘no audience, no show’ on its very first day, the film opened poorly and picked up somewhat during the weekend to end its debut week with net collections of Rs 122 million. The collections have dropped from today.

    Shanghai has failed to appeal multiplex audience as well as the single screens. Its hackneyed story and characterisation apart, corruption is free to watch on TV news channels and, hence, not a great film theme of appeal. The film collected Rs 189 million in its first week.

    The weak opposition helped Rowdy Rathore, which sustained very well in its second week. The Akshay Kumar-starrer collected Rs 341.5 million in the second week. It has had a steady third weekend as well as to take its 17-day total to Rs 1.36 billion.

    Meanwhile, Ishqzaade just about wrapped up its run at the box office with a five-week net collection of Rs 471.9 million.

    Jannat 2, after its symbolic sixth week run, took its total to Rs 469.7 million.

    Vicky Donor collected approximately Rs 4 million in its eighth week, taking its total to Rs 416.5 million.

  • Hollywood set to familiarize China

    Hollywood set to familiarize China

    MUMBAI: A groundbreaking and historic opportunity is in the anvil for members of the Hollywood community when they will be granted access to China‘s state run film, television and radio industry.
     
    Black Card Circle‘s “Executive Leadership Exchange” in Shanghai is an intensive program in partnership with the China Executive Leadership Academy Pudong (CELAP) and is coordinating a 5-day itinerary focused on the Chinese film and entertainment industry, that is to take place between 25 and 29 June in Shanghai.

    Relationships built at this exclusive event may open doors to many present and future opportunities. Attendees will gain valuable insight into Chinese film industry and culture, develop crucial relationships with Chinese government officials and top Chinese companies, and learn how to produce films and media with the support of the Chinese government.
     
    Government officials and executives from China who are scheduled to attend include Ruihang Li (Deputy Secretary-General of Shanghai Government & Former President of Shanghai Television Station), Tong Tao (Director of Department of Investment Promotion, Shanghai Foreign Investment Promotion Centre), Tong Gang (President of the State Administration of Radio, Film and Television), and Zhonglun Ren (President of Shanghai Film Group). Black Card founder Lotay Yang recently announced that Hollywood legends Andre Morgan (Enter the Dragon and Game of Death, both starring Bruce Lee) and Janet Yang (Joy Luck Club, Empire of the Sun) are now associated with this historic event bridging the United States and China.
     
    “We not only provide access to vital relationships, but provide the knowledge on how to most effectively utilize those relationships so you know how to work within the system rather than against it, and possess the knowledge on what China‘s requirements are in terms of projects and production partners,” said active member of the prestigious Academy of Television Arts & Sciences marketing director for the BCC ELE program Jeffery Gund.

    This event is the result of over two years and around a dozen trips to China by Black Card Circle founder Lotay Yang, whose paternal grandfather was Air Force General for President Chiang Kai-Shek, and maternal grandfather was Chief of Police of Taipei.

  • Shanghai is a boring fare

    Shanghai is a boring fare

    MUMBAI: Shanghai is based on Costa Gravas‘ 1969 French political thriller ‘Z‘, which was based on Vassilis Vassilikos 1966 novel of the same name.

     

    Producers: Ajay BIjli, Sanjeev K Bijli.
    Director: Dibakar Banerjee.
    Cast: Abhay Deol, Emraan Hashmi, Prosenjit Chatterjee, Kalki Koechlin, Farooque Shaikh, Supriya Pathak Kapoor, Anant Jog, Pitobash Tripathy, Tillotama Shom.

    A dream that the local government was selling to its masses in Maharashtra, that of making Shanghai out of Mumbai, inspires the title of the film without much relevance to the theme. A ruling coalition government plans to build an international business park by destroying poor people‘s slums but, as it turns out, it is just another money making scandal involving vested interests in the ruling coalition. Alas, rather than be a paean to the classic novel and film, Shanghai is rather a dirge for them. The film and its script know not where they are going! Till the film is half way through, you don‘t even know who is on which side! To make matters worse, all secrets are open to public including who could be the real culprit.

    Abhay Deol, an IAS officer, heads an ambitious project for his local government, which is called International Business Park; a project being built at the cost of settlements of poor slum dwellers by grabbing their land and resettling them miles away! The park is a prestige issue for the CM, Supriya Pathak Kapoor, and her coalition partner, Kiran Karmarkar; it is their prized trophy to win the ensuing elections. However, there is an advocate, a crusader, fighting for the cause of slum dwellers in Professor Ahmedi, a professor in the US and an author who has flown down to Mumbai from the US on a twin engine propeller airplane! Mr Ahemdi, played by Prosenjit, may be a poor man‘s idol but, from the looks of it, he is quite a debauch, in that, even as he lands in the city, he happens to have a film starlet for company. He has married one of his students and romancing yet another one, Kalki Koechlin; so much for being an idol of the poor masses.

    Koechlin is a crusader standing by her professor in the US, but her father is behind bars for a Rs 400 million fraud. If he is innocent, she does not care to fight for his cause and if he is guilty, she has no status to fight against government corruption!

    Prosenjit defies all bans and protests to carry on with his rally and address the slum dwellers when he is run over by a vehicle and that is where the other lead actor, Emraan Hashmi, steps in, in the same garb and character he has donned in his umpteen previous films but made to look ugly here for whatever reason. He is a street-smart tapori, a videographer covering political rallies as well as shooting porn videos. It is while shooting a promotional video for Kiran Karmarkar that he has unknowingly recorded a plan to murder Prosenjit being discussed on phone.

    Prosenjit is on death bed and an inquiry commission headed by Abahy Deol is set up. His chief mentor in the bureaucracy, chief secretary, Farooque Shaikh, wants him to wrap up the investigation as a judgment error by the police. The police help is not forthcoming either since the police chief is as much a part of the murder plan as well as because some enmity he has with Deol for whatever reasons.

    While the witnesses, including Pitobash Tripathy, who carried out the plan along with Anant Jog, are killed at random in road accidents, Hashmi realizes he has the proof of the plan on his computer hard disk. Deol is shocked to know who is behind these crimes, viewer is not; the suspense is hardly well guarded.

    The script of Shanghai is patchy with characters poorly etched and a lot of things taken for granted or left unexplained; it is also slow paced. Direction is lacklustre; crowd scenes seem tight and look like shot in one go and used at various places in the film. Musically, the one showpiece song, Bharatmata ki jai…, is a mass number which can‘t be expected to patronise this film.

    Performance wise Deol is restrained in keeping with his character. Shaikh puts up one more of his natural acts. Hashmi is good, Tripathy is excellent. Kiran Karmarkar could do with more expressions. Kalki Koechlin does not quite gel in the set up. Prosenjit‘s character is badly sketched and he is consigned into oblivion after a few scenes. Anant Jog, Tillotama Shom and Supriya Pathak are okay.

    Shanghai is a badly made film which is a boring fare. Having opened to poor response, it is expected to only slide further as reports spread.

  • Censors clear Shanghai with U/A certificate

    Censors clear Shanghai with U/A certificate

    MUMBAI: The Censor Board of Film Certification (CBFC) has cleared Dibakar Banerjee‘s upcoming film Shanghai with a U/A certificate. However, the Board has effected one major cut: a scene where a local politician is shown being abused.

    Earlier this week, the Mumbai unit of the Congress party had called for a ban on the song Bharat Mata Ki Jai saying that it hurts patriotic sentiments and degrades India. In a letter addressed to union Minister for Information & Broadcasting Ambika Soni, Mumbai Congress vice-president Charan Singh Sapra has contended that the content of the entire song is an insult to all countrymen who respect India as their motherland.

    The song in mention contains controversial words like Sarkari Hathiyaar, Dhandha, Chanda, Dengue, Malaria, Gobar (cowdung), that Sapra alleged are deliberately used to defame the country.

    Sapra had sought an immediate and total ban on the song from being broadcast/telecast in any manner, deleting it from the movie and to fix accountability and initiate action against the concerned censor board officials who cleared the offensive number.

    In another development, the Delhi High Court dismissed a plea seeking stay on the release of the film by Tejinder Pal Singh Bagga, president of Bhagat Singh Kranti Sena who, through a PIL, had sought an interim stay on release of ‘Shanghai‘ until its song ‘Bharat Mata Ki Jai‘ was deleted.

    A division bench of Justice Vipin Sanghi and Justice Rajiv Shakdher remarked, “We do not find anything objectionable in the said song. In a democracy, every person has a right to voice his views and opinions… the same right to speech and expression cannot be curtailed except under some circumstances.”

    “The author of the song has merely sought to portray the existing state of affairs in India, once considered a golden bird… is now infested with diseases like dengue and malaria,” the bench observed.

    Based on the novel by Vassilis Vassilikos, Shanghai is a political thriller directed by D. Banerjee and stars Emraan Hashmi and Abhay Deol. The film is slated for release on 8 June.

  • PVR sells satellite rights of Shanghai for Rs 90 million

    PVR sells satellite rights of Shanghai for Rs 90 million

    MUMBAI: PVR Cinemas has sold the satellite rights of its soon-to-be released Dibakar Banerji-helmed film Shanghai for Rs 90 million. But it has not declared as to whom the rights have been sold to.

    When indiantelevision.com contacted PVR Group president Kamal Gyanchandani wanting to know the details of the rights, he desisted in giving information. “We will be coming out with the information soon,” he said.

    Shanghai is a political thriller based on the novel Z by Vassilis Vassilikos. It stars Emraan Hashmi, Abhay Deol, Kalki Koechlin, Prosenjit Chatterjee and Amin Raj.

    Gyanchandani confirmed that the cost of production of Shanghai was Rs 125 million, while print and advertisement cost was Rs 80 million. He also confirmed that 20 per cent of the all India theatrical rights have been sold for Rs 40 million and music rights for Rs 27.6 million.

    At this rate, PVR has to recover Rs 47.4 million from 80 per cent Indian theatrical rights, overseas rights and home video rights. “We are keeping our fingers crossed. Wait and watch,” Gyanchandani observed.

    The film is slated for release on 8 June.

  • PVR Pictures’ Shanghai to premiere at IIFA

    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.