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  • Movies Now launches ‘High Rollers’ quiz for media & ad fraternity

    Movies Now launches ‘High Rollers’ quiz for media & ad fraternity

    MUMBAI: Movies Now has launched a first-of-its kind quiz for the fraternity with an aim attract media agencies and advertising clients for its new property called High Rollers.

     

    To participate in the Hollywood quiz, media agencies and advertising clients can log on to the specially created micro-website and answer a few simple questions about stars, movies, and Hollywood trivia.

     

    Movies Now has brought on board Urban Ladder as the presenting sponsor for High Rollers. Movies, which will be aired include Taken 2, Dark Knight Rises, Harry Potter & The Deathly Hallows, Wolf of Wall Street, What Happens in Vegas, Men in Black, Wolverine, Knight & Day, Mr & Mrs Smith, Transporter, Salt, Fast & Furious 6 and Ocean’s 11.

     

    The channel has been airing 24 Hollywood flicks that star megastars like George Clooney, Brad Pitt, Angelina Jolie, Cameron Diaz, Tom Cruise, Jason Statham, Christian Bale and Leonardo Di Caprio in the six-week property. High Rollers will be aired from Monday to Thursday at 11 pm.

     

    Ten weekly winners will be awarded prizes like 1TB hard drive, Sony headphones and JBL speakers. What’s more, the mega prize includes an iPhone 6, which will be given to three lucky winners. There will be a leader board and whoever has the highest points in a week wins. The ultimate winner will be the person with the maximum right answers.

     

    The four-week-long engagement activity will not just reward individuals but also the agencies. The individual scores will be added to the agency scores. The Lifetime agency point leaders will win two PS4s.

  • ‘Bahubali’ being prepared for global release; creates box office records

    ‘Bahubali’ being prepared for global release; creates box office records

    NEW DELHI: Vincent Tabaillon, who is renowned for having edited many major Hollywood productions, has begun work on editing Bahubali: The Beginning to make it suitable for international release.

     

    Tabaillon’s earlier credits include Now You See Me, Taken 2 and The Incredible Hulk.

     

    The edited version will be completed by the end of August and will be shown to film festivals, sales agents and distributors with a view to a wide international release. It will be different from the version released on 10 July in India and Diaspora markets.

     

    Arguably India’s most expensive film, Bahubali cost $40 million to make together with its 2016 sequel Bahubali: The Conclusion, according to a report in Variety.com. 

     

    Since release, Bahubali has set new Indian box office records, setting new opening day and opening weekend numbers. The five-day gross worldwide now stands at $33.8 million. It had grossed $25.6 million in its opening weekend, smashing records in the process.

     

    Shobu Yarlagadda and Prasad Devineni’s Arka Media produced the film, directed by S.S. Rajamouli (Eega, Magadheera), and released it worldwide on some 4,650 screens in Telugu, Tamil, Hindi and Malayalam-language versions. 

     

    The website said the film is also the biggest Indian opener in the US, where it was released across 250 screens and took $4.4 million over the weekend. The film’s per screen average of $17,000 is second only to the mighty $27,000 achieved by Minions.

     

    The report said the opening day record for Shah Rukh Khan’s 2014 release Happy New Year had been $7.1 million, which Bahubali surpassed with $7.8 million.

     

    The record for Indian opening weekend was also held by Happy New Year with $17 million but Bahubali collected $22.8 million.

     

    The Aamir Khan starrer PK retains its record of $120 million for 2014 including strong China, South Korea and US numbers. 

     

    Bahubali will eventually see release in East Asian markets. The vfx-heavy story of brothers in medieval India in conflict over a rich kingdom is of a piece with Tsui Hark, John Woo and Zhang Yimou extravaganzas and should resonate with those audiences.

  • Taken 2 is still no. 1 in second consecutive week

    Taken 2 is still no. 1 in second consecutive week

    MUMBAI: For the second week in succession, Taken 2, starring Liam Neeson, Maggie Grace and Famke Janssen, has taken the top foreign box office ranking with an intake of $41 million from more than 50 foreign markets. Currently, its overseas gross total stands at $132.8 million.
    The action sequel starring Liam Neeson, Maggie Grace and Famke Janssen remained the U.K.‘s No. 1 title ($6 million from 779 locations for a local intake of $23.4 million) in its second market round and drew $4 million in its second China round at 1,500 situations for a cume of $10.8 million. The film‘s second Australia session grossed $3.7 million at 367 spots, lifting the market cume to $13.7 million. Its Italy open scored $1.25 million at 267 situations.
    Twentieth Century Fox is distributing the film in 35 markets (earning $28.5 million from 6,314 spots) while the film‘s co-producer, Luc Besson‘s Europa Corp, is handling the rest of the world.
    Frankenweenie, director-co-producer-co-scripter Tim Burton‘s comedy animation with horror overtones, that grossed $22 million over two frames in the U.S. and Canada, opened offshore in nine markets this round, collecting $4.9 million on the weekend. Early offshore cume for the Disney release stands at $5.3 million.
    The weekend‘s biggest single-market smash by far was Warner Bros. Espana‘s release in Spain of Lo Impossible (The Impossible), director Juan Antonio Bayona‘s action adventure co-starring Naomi Watts and Ewan McGregor and a nasty Indian Ocean tsunami.
    The film‘s opening round drew $13.4 million (including previews) from 638 screens, easily the market‘s No. 1 title. Warner‘s said it may be Spain‘s biggest three-day and four-day opener of all time.
    Opening No. 2 in France ($2.8 million at 348 spots) was Universal‘s Ted that grossed $13.9 million on the weekend at 2,900 play dates in 44 markets.