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  • ‘Django Unchained’, ‘Ted’, ‘Silver linings Playbook’ compete for top honours at MTV Movie Awards

    ‘Django Unchained’, ‘Ted’, ‘Silver linings Playbook’ compete for top honours at MTV Movie Awards

    MUMBAI: US broadcaster MTV has announced the categories and nominees for the ‘2013 MTV Movie Awards‘. This will honour actors and films.

    Leading the pack with seven nominations each are Quentin Tarantino‘s sweeping American slavery Western ‘Django Unchained‘ and Seth MacFarlane‘s bromantic comedy ‘Ted‘, followed by the critically acclaimed ‘Silver Linings Playbook‘ with six nods and the blockbuster conclusion to the Batman trilogy ‘The Dark Knight Rises‘ with five. All are competing for best film.

    Rounding out the most nominated films are ‘The Avengers‘ also a best picture nominee, ‘The Perks of Being a Wallflower‘, ‘Pitch Perfect‘ and ‘Skyfall with four‘ each. Fans will have the Power of the Popcorn in their hands as voting has begun.

    The show takes place on 14 April from the Sony Pictures Studios Lot in Culver City, California. The 2013 MTV Movie Awards will serve as the official kick off to the Summer Blockbuster season with its trademark irreverent celebration of the movies, actors and music that audiences love. Previously announced, rising superstar Rebel Wilson, nominated for Best Female Performance and Breakthrough Performance as Fat Amy in ‘Pitch Perfect‘ will star as host and be joined by MTV‘s Inaugural Comedic Genius Award recipient Will Ferrell, who is nominated for Best On-Screen Duo with Zach Galifianakis for ‘The Campaign‘.

    Keeping with the show‘s tradition of celebrating current cultural memes, this year‘s telecast will introduce two new categories. Abdominally blessed nominees Channing Tatum ‘Magic Mike‘, Taylor Lautner ‘The Twilight Saga: Breaking Dawn – Part 2‘, Daniel Craig ‘Skyfall‘ and Christian Bale ‘The Dark Knight Rises‘ will sweat it out against fan-favourite stuffed bear Seth MacFarlane as ‘Ted‘ for the crown of Best Shirtless Performance.

    Meanwhile moments from ‘Les Misérables‘, ‘Magic Mike‘, ‘Pitch Perfect‘, ‘Silver Linings Playbook‘ and ‘The Perks of Being a Wallflower‘ will compete to win the inaugural Best Musical Moment award.

    Recent Academy Award winner Jennifer Lawrence ‘Silver Linings Playbook‘ and ‘House at the End of the Street‘ joins fellow female front-runners Emma Watson ‘The Perks of Being a Wallflower‘, Rebel Wilson ‘Pitch Perfect‘, Anne Hathaway ‘Les Misérables‘ and Mila Kunis ‘Ted‘ for the chance to take home the most Golden Popcorns. At the head of the pack for the men are Seth MacFarlane in ‘Ted‘, Jamie Foxx in ‘Django Unchained‘, Bradley Cooper in ‘Silver Linings Playbook‘ and Channing Tatum in ‘Magic Mike‘. As in previous years, the category of Movie of the Year will remain an ongoing battle throughout the telecast. Additional presenters, performers and special award recipients will be announced at a later date.

    Emma Watson who has been nominated for Best Female Performance, Best Kiss and Best Musical Moment") said, "I am so excited to have been nominated for three MTV Movie Awards for Perks of Being a Wallflower! I love the show and I love this movie! I‘m so thrilled."

  • Chinese censors clip Cloud Atlas by 40 minutes

    Chinese censors clip Cloud Atlas by 40 minutes

    MUMBAI: Chinese viewers of Cloud Atlas will have to make do with a version that’s missing 40 minutes from the original shown everywhere else in the world.

    According to reports in the Chinese media, Cloud Atlas released in Beijing last Monday night in a 130-minute cut much shorter than the 169-minute version released worldwide (including Hong Kong, which sustains a film censorship system independent from mainland China). It is however understood that the film’s directing trio Andy Wachowski, his sister Lanaand and Germany’s Tom Tykwer were not involved in the re-edit.

    Speaking to the Chinese press before the film’s premiere, they said that they acknowledged the constraints of releasing the film in China, but they trusted the editing qualities of the film’s Chinese co-producers, Dreams of the Dragon Pictures.

    A report in the Shanghai-based Dongfang Daily had reported that expository sequences and passionate love scenes were edited out from the film which opens in China on 31 January while gory sequences depicting a character being shot in the head or another having his throat slit remained.

    At the center of this screen adaptation of novelist David Mitchell’s multi-stranded Cloud Atlas is a romantic relationship between budding composer Robert Frobisher (played by Ben Whishaw) and his Cambridge schoolmate Rufus Sixsmith (James D’Arcy) – and it is high likely that scenes from this thread were left off the Chinese version of the film, as same-sex romances remain a taboo for Chinese censors.

    In another scene, set in a 22nd century Korean city called Neo-Seoul, a human-replicant waitress (played by Chinese actress Zhou Xun) is shown having sex with her foreman, an image which could run into problems with the authorities.

    Cloud Atlas is the second foreign production bowing in China in a censored version in as many weeks. Skyfall, which was released in the country last Monday, was released with a scene of the killing of a Chinese doorman cut out and subtitles which obscured the on-screen lines about a prostitution ring in Macau and torture meted out by Chinese intelligence services.

  • Javier Bardem and Dame Judie Dench nominated for BAFTA

    Javier Bardem and Dame Judie Dench nominated for BAFTA

    MUMBAI: Javier Bardem, who played villain Raoul Silva in the latest James Bond film Skyfall, has been nominated for the Best Supporting Actor award along with other big names including Tommy Lee Jones at the British Academy Film Awards (BAFTA).

    On the other hand, his Skyfall co-star, Dame Judi Dench, has been nominated for Best Supporting Actress for her role as spy master M in the same film.

    In all, Skyfall has a total of eight nominations. The film has been nominated for Outstanding British Film and Original Music by Adele who provided the hit Bond theme of the same name.

    The film has also picked up nominations for cinematography, editing, production design and sound.

  • PGA announces nominations for 26 January awards

    PGA announces nominations for 26 January awards

    MUMBAI: The Producers Guild of America (PGA) has announced the nominations of both the motion picture and long-form television for the 24th Annual Producers Guild Awards.
    Films like Argo, Zero Dark Thirty, Lincoln and Les Miserables made the list. While some thought films like The Avengers, The Master or The Dark Knight Rises might be nominated, but they lost out to Beasts of the Southern Wild, Moonrise Kingdom and Skyfall.
    Last year‘s PGA nominees saw three films miss the Oscar cut. They were Bridesmaids, The Girl With The Dragon Tattoo and The Ides of March. Instead Extremely Loud, Incredibly Close and The Tree of Life were nominated in their place.
    All 2013 Producers Guild Award winners will be announced on 26 January.

  • Sony and MGM gung ho about Skyfall crossing $1 billion mark

    Sony and MGM gung ho about Skyfall crossing $1 billion mark

    MUMBAI: Happiness refuses to die down at the Sony and MGM headquarters as their latest James Bond-starrer Skyfall has rung in 2013 by crossing the $1 billion mark in global ticket sales.
    Directed by Sam Mendes, the film reached the milestone on Sunday when its worldwide tally hit $1 billion, by far the best showing of any Bond film not accounting for inflation.
    The film, that has grossed $289.6 million domestically and $710.6 million internationally, has become the highest grossing film in Sony‘s history and the first to jump $1 billion.
    Otherwise too, Skyfall continued to break records in the UK during the weekend when it grossed $1.4 million for a total take of $161.6 million and become the first film ever to cross the 100 million pound mark.
    The film, from Eon Productions, is the 23rd installment in the iconic British spy franchise. Skyfall also stars Javier Bardem, Judi Dench and Ralph Fiennes.
    Skyfall is the third movie of 2012 to cross $1 billion in worldwide ticket sales after Disney and Marvel‘s The Avengers ($1.51 billion) and Warner Bros‘ The Dark Knight Rises ($1.08 billion). Including Skyfall, only 14 films have grossed $1 billion or more.

  • Bond beats Jake Sully’s record at the UK BO

    Bond beats Jake Sully’s record at the UK BO

    MUMBAI: Skyfall, the latest offering form the James Bond franchise has beaten all other films to become the first to cross the ?100 million at the UK box office.

    The film stars Daniel Craig as James Bond in this 23rd instalment of the British spy’s adventures and was released on 26 October. Its total collections stand at ?100.46 million. The movie has generated more than $1 billion in ticket sales worldwide.

    This makes Skyfall the most successful U.K. release in history. It has overtaken James Cameron’s Avatar which had a lifetime gross of $151.3 million (?94 million) over the course of its 11 months in release in U.K.

    The movie follows Bond as his loyalty to M tested as her past comes back to haunt her. This is Craig’s third stint as James Bond.

  • Skyfall is UK’s highest-grossing film of all time

    Skyfall is UK’s highest-grossing film of all time

    MUMBAI: The latest James Bond film Skyfall has broken all records at the UK box office by becoming the highest grossing film in British cinema history.
    The 23rd installment of the 007 franchise, that stars Daniel Craig as the suave superspy, was an instant hit with audiences and critics alike upon its release in October, grossing the biggest seven-day gross takings of all time in the UK, it has been reported.
     
    The film has now broken all box office records by raking in 94.2 million pounds in 40 days overtaking the earlier record held by James Cameron’s Avatar that earned just over 94 million pounds in 2009.
    "We‘re overwhelmed with gratitude to the cinema-going audiences in the UK who have made Skyfall the highest grossing film of all time. We are very proud of this film and thanks to everybody, especially Daniel Craig and Sam Mendes, who have contributed to its success," producers Michael G Wilson and Barbara Broccoli said in a statement.

  • Twlight Saga romps in $ 48.8 million in third consecutive weekend

    Twlight Saga romps in $ 48.8 million in third consecutive weekend

    MUMBAI: Thanks to a $48.8 million weekend at some 11,800 locations in 73 territories, Twilight Saga: Breaking Dawn Part 2 has now become the biggest-grossing franchise title overseas boosting its foreign gross total to $447.8 million.
    The fifth and final title based on Stephenie Meyer‘s series of novels about a young woman (Kristen Stewart) in love with a vampire (Robert Pattinson) has roped in $16.9 million more than the franchise‘s previous all-time offshore box office champ The Twilight Saga: Breaking Dawn Part 1 that collected $430.9 million last year.
    Breaking Dawn Part 2 dominated a generally lacklustre box office session overseas by clinging to the No. 1 spot for the third consecutive week with hold over titles for the most part registering diminishing returns.
    Worldwide, the film has grossed $702.4 million. Lionsgate International, which is handling foreign distribution of the Summit Ent. co-production had earlier said that Breaking Dawn Part 2‘s enormously big action helped lift the distributor‘s 2012 total foreign box office past the $1-billion mark.
    Finishing No. 2 once again was Sony/MGM‘s Skyfall, the 23rd installment of the James Bond franchise that collected $34 million from 7,600 spots in 84 markets handled by Sony and licensees of co-distributor MGM.
    Since its overseas opening on 26 OCtober, Skyfall has accumulated nearly $200 million more that the $432.2 total foreign gross of the previous franchise record holder, 2006‘s Casino Royale, also starring Craig.
    A No. 1 Japan opening provided $5.9 million from 587 situations, which Sony said was 51 per cent bigger than the opening market gross of 2008‘s Quantum of Solace, which grossed a total of $407.7 overseas. A No. 1 bow in South Africa ($800,000 from 128 spots) was also recorded for Skyfall.
    Making No. 1 debuts in Spain, Singapore and Malaysia was Twentieth Century Fox‘s release of Life of Pi, the film version of Yann Martel‘s novel of the same name about a young castaway and a Bengal tiger.
    Directed by Taiwanese-born Ang Lee, the Fox 2000 co-production drew $21.5 million on the weekend overall playing a total of 5,678 in 11 markets, the best of of which were China ($11 million in second round at 3,800 site for a market cume of $38.5 million) and Taiwan ($2.6 million at 165 locations, a rousing 47 per cent increase from the opening weekend). In spite of its relatively limited foreign release, the film has generated a total of $61.1 million in just two rounds.

  • Judi Dench bids goodbye to Bond films with Skyfall

    Judi Dench bids goodbye to Bond films with Skyfall

    MUMBAI: With the death of M in Skyfall, Judi Dench‘s appearance in a James Bond film seems to have ended.
    As the head of MI6, M, Dench has been the Bond matriarch:

    The strong-willed, no-nonsense mainstay of feminine authority in a film franchise that has, more often than not, featured slightly more superficial womanly traits.

    Skyfall is Dench‘s seventh Bond film, an unimpeachable reign that has encompassed both the Daniel Craig and Pierce Brosnan eras of the British spy. For a number of reasons, Skyfall is her most notable Bond film.
    "It‘s very nice to be out from behind the desk," Dench has reportedly said in a recent interview. "It‘s extremely nice to get a go in the field, as it were, and get a bit of the action. It made me feel very grown-up. It‘s not just the fellas who are spinning about and shooting guns – I get a go," she added.

    As soon as Dench entered the world of Bond, she made it clear she was a force to be reckoned with – certainly not one that some gun-toting playboy would push around. Introducing herself to Bond in 1995‘s Goldeneye, the bourbon-drinking M promptly informs Brosnan‘s Bond that she isn‘t a ‘bean-counter‘, as Bond admits to thinking.

    So over seven films and 17 years, the 77-year-old Dench, has, like other legendary stage actors from Alec Guinness (Star Wars) to Ian McKellen (Lord of the Rings), become best known to many for a blockbuster movie franchise.

    Dench inherited the role of M from Robert Brown, who played the character from 1983‘s Octopussy through 1989‘s License to Kill. Bernard Lee whom Dench calls a hero of hers, initiated Ian Fleming‘s secret service head, playing him for 11 films.

  • Skyfall reigns for third consecutive week

    Skyfall reigns for third consecutive week

    MUMBAI: Seizing the No. 1 box office spot offshore for the third consecutive round, Skyfall, with a weekend tally of $89 million from 12,850 locations in 80 markets, is now on its way to becoming the biggest-grossing James Bond title ever released in the foreign theatrical circuit.

    Since its overseas opening on 26 October, Daniel Craig‘s third Bond outing has collected $428.6 million, just $3.6 million away from the $432.2 total foreign gross of the existing franchise record holder 2006‘s Casino Royale that also starred Craig.

    The film is expected to overtake Casino Royale on Monday, said Sony, which has collected $367.4 million of the total overseas take while co-distributor MGM has taken in $61.2 via various licensees.

    The film‘s weekend feature was dominated by the UK that contributed $18.2 million from 1,786 sites in Skyfall‘s third round there. In Germany, the second round tally was $15.1 million at 1,338 situations for a market total of $44 million. France came up with $8.2 million in the third stanza at 825 sites, for a market total of $42.5 million.

    The 22 previous Bond titles that started from Dr No, the first that generated $43.4 million overseas to 2008‘s Quantum of Solace that amassed $407.7 million, have tallied total foreign revenues of $3.277 billion.