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  • Suraj Sharma nominated for BAFTA’s Rising Star award

    Suraj Sharma nominated for BAFTA’s Rising Star award

    MUMBAI: Suraj Sharma‘s brilliant performance of Piscine Molitor Patel (Pi Patel) in his debut film Life of Pi has got him recognition as an actor and has been nominated for the BAFTA Rising Star award this year.

     

    Suraj joins the likes of British actresses Juno Temple, Andrea Riseborough, Elizabeth Olsen and Alicia Vikander who are also in the running for the award recognising new talent in the film industry.

     

    The 19-year old Suraj is the only male nominee on the shortlist, selected by a judging panel that included Sherlock Holmes actor Benedict Cumberbatch and director Kevin Macdonald.

     

    Suraj had no prior acting experience whatsoever, and auditioned only because he was there with his younger brother who had asked him to come along. He was one of the 3,000 actors to audition for the role of Pi Patel.

     

    Since filming Life of Pi, Sharma has returned to studying philosophy at St. Stephen‘s college Delhi University, and intends to continue working in film making in some capacity.

     

    The award is voted for by the public and the winner will be announced on 10 February.

     

    Earlier winners of BAFTA awards include James McAvoy, Tom Hardy, Eva Green, Shia LaBeouf and Kristen Stewart.

  • Warner Bros opens new film and TV studio in London

    Warner Bros opens new film and TV studio in London

    MUMBAI: Warner Bros. has formally opened its new film and TV studio in Leavesden, in the outskirts of London. Warner Bros. has filmed the Harry Potter series, Sherlock Holmes, Charlie and the Chocolate Factory and Wrath of the Titans here, among others.

    The Warner Bros. Studios Leavesden is ‘the first of its kind to be built in the U.K. in 70 years‘ and secures the future of over a third of the dedicated major feature film production stage space in the UK. It will help further position the country as a center of filmmaking excellence.”

    The Hollywood studio undertook a ?100 million ($155 million) revamp of the more than 250,000 square feet complex near Watford.

    The stages range in size from 10,000 to 36,000 square feet and the space also offers a series of workshops. The facilities in the studio include one of the largest heated underwater filming tanks in Europe. And the site provides a 100 acre back-lot, one of the most extensive in Europe, which the company says can be adapted for any production needs.

    The studio is also home to the recently opened Warner Bros. Studio Tour London – The Making of Harry Potter, a walking tour that takes guests behind the scenes of the iconic Harry Potter movie series.

    It may be of interest to know that Warner used to rent the studio space but then bought the facility in late 2010.

  • Warner Bros to release Sherlock Holmes on 29 December

    Warner Bros to release Sherlock Holmes on 29 December

    MUMBAI: Warner Bros. Pictures India is all set to release Sherlock Holmes: A Game of Shadows on 29 December. The film, directed by Guy Ritchie, has Robert Downey Jr essaying the role of the world‘s most famous detective, while Jude Law returns as his formidable colleague Dr Watson.

    When the Crown Prince of Austria is found dead, the evidence, as construed by Inspector Lestrade (Eddie Marsan), points to suicide. But Holmes assumes that the prince has been the victim of murder, a murder that is only one piece of a larger and much more portentous puzzle, designed by Professor Moriarty, a criminal mastermind at large.

    Mixing business with pleasure, Holmes tracks the clues to an underground gentlemen‘s club, where he and his brother, Mycroft Holmes (Stephen Fry) are toasting Dr. Watson on his last night of bachelorhood.

    It is there that Holmes encounters Sim (Noomi Rapace), a Gypsy fortune teller who sees more than she is telling and whose unwitting involvement in the prince‘s murder makes her the killer‘s next target. Holmes barely manages to save her life and, in return, she reluctantly agrees to help him.

    Warner Bros. Pictures presents Sherlock Holmes: A Game of Shadows in association with Village Roadshow Pictures, a Silver Pictures Production and  .