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  • MNX announces ‘King of Hollywood’

    MNX announces ‘King of Hollywood’

    MUMBAI: MNX, Hollywood’s wild child, launches its biggest property ‘King of Hollywood’, starting December 17, 2018, Monday to Friday @9pm. MNX, the channel that resonates with the youth through its stylish, edgy, fast-paced, new-age, premium content has crafted the property, ‘King of Hollywood’ with an aim to find the biggest Hollywood movie buff of all time. Curated for every Hollywood movie enthusiasts, ‘King of Hollywood’ is a 75-day property featuring 75 super hit Hollywood movies, giving the viewers an opportunity to answer 75 questions and win MNX branded merchandise, mobile phones, bikes, play stations and a trip to every movie enthusiast dream destination, Hollywood, Los Angeles, California. 

    To participate in ‘King of Hollywood’ contest, viewers can watch their favorite Hollywood blockbusters Monday to Friday at 9pm -11 pm and give a missed call to answer the simple question that flashes during the movie. Under this property, MNX will feature movies like ‘Star Wars: The Force Awakens’, ‘Harry Potter and The Deathly Hallows-2’, ‘Iron Man’, ‘Spectre’, ‘POTC: Curse of The Black Pearl’, ‘The Dark Knight’ and many more.

    Vivek Srivastava, EVP & Head Entertainment Cluster, Times Network said, “Hollywood has always been a premier destination for movie aficionados and visiting Hollywood is dream of any ardent movie lover. With ‘King of Hollywood’, viewers can truly complete their Hollywood experience. We have also crafted a robust social media campaign to build ‘King of Hollywood’ as an interactive and engaging property that will entertain every movie enthusiast.”

  • MN+ pays Heath Ledger a Gold Class birthday tribute with a special airing of ‘The Dark Knight’

    MN+ pays Heath Ledger a Gold Class birthday tribute with a special airing of ‘The Dark Knight’

    MUMBAI: When it comes to superheroes, we all have our favourites, but when it comes to villains, Heath Ledger as the main antagonist of The Dark Knight truly stands apart. Celebrating the life of this legendary star on his birthday 4th April, MN+ is airing the second movie in the critically acclaimed ‘Dark Knight Trilogy’ and sequel to 2005’s ‘Batman Begins’, The Dark Knight at 7pm. His twisted, manic take on the quintessential Batman villain redefined the character for Christopher Nolan’s superhero film and won him a posthumous Academy Award for Best Supporting Actor.

    Described as the “psychopathic, mass murdering, schizophrenic clown with zero empathy”, the Joker was the agent of chaos, who was potent in both mental combat and strategic planning, with his personality well-defined by his clown-like make-up and gruesome Glasgow smile to add sick comedy to all his crimes and misdeeds. Apart from Ledger’s performance, the movie also has several huge twists and some heart pumping, exhilarating action that will keep you glued to the TV screen.

    For essaying the iconic role of the Joker, ‘the psychopathic clown prince of crime’, Ledger received more than thirty posthumous accolades, including Best Actor International Award at the 2008 Australian Film Institute Awards, the 2008 Los Angeles Film Critics Associatio

  • Warner Bros & ProSiebenSat.1 extend licensing deal

    Warner Bros & ProSiebenSat.1 extend licensing deal

    MUMBAI: In a major licensing deal, Warner Bros. International Television Distribution and ProSiebenSat.1 have extended their existing licensing deal.

     

    Thus ProSiebenSat.1 will continue to hold the exclusive free TV rights to Hollywood blockbusters and successful television series produced by the US studio for years to come. Movies such as Batman vs. Superman, Tarzan and King Arthur are among the highlights of the deal that have already been announced.

     

    Furthermore, the trilogy Fantastic Beasts and Where to Find Them, which is based on the novel of the same name by J. K. Rowling, will be aired by the broadcasting group. German movie productions like Der geilste Tag with Matthias Schweighofer and Florian David Fitz are also part of the deal.

     

    The agreement will also enable ProSiebenSat.1 to significantly enhance its range of TV series: The latest Warner Bros. productions are among the highest-rated series aired on ProSiebenSat.1 stations. The Big Bang Theory and Two and a Half Men regularly obtain above-average market shares.

     

    The extension of the agreement also gives ProSiebenSat.1 continued access to the extensive Warner library including the fantasy trilogy The Lord of the Rings, the Harry Potter movies, the cult movie The Hangover and the superhero movies Batman Begins and The Dark Knight.

     

    ProSiebenSat.1 Media AG executive vice president, group programming acquisitions Rüdiger Böss said, “Movies and series from Warner Bros. are among the best of our industry. We have been collaborating for many years and Warner productions are regularly rated highly by our viewers. I am therefore delighted that we have managed to continue this extraordinary partnership and thus to secure many attractive film and series productions for the coming years.”

     

    Jeffrey Schlesinger, President, Warner Bros. Worldwide Television Distribution: “We have long enjoyed a mutually-beneficial relationship with ProSiebenSat.1, which provides a terrific platform for our series and films. This latest agreement between our companies speaks for the quality of our films and television series as well as for the healthy appetite of German TV viewers for good programming.”

     

    Licensing acquisitions across all platforms from free TV to video-on-demand and mobile is getting strategically more and more important for ProSiebenSat.1. Therefore, the division Content Acquisitions has been part of the executive department of Conrad Albert since 1 January, 2015. Conrad Albert continues also to be responsible for the areas Legal, Distribution and Regulatory Affairs.

  • ‘Interstellar’ grosses $621 million plus at the worldwide box office

    ‘Interstellar’ grosses $621 million plus at the worldwide box office

    BENGALURU:  Paramount Pictures (Paramount) and Warner Bros Pictures (WB) critically acclaimed film Interstellar has surpassed US$ 621 million (about Rs 3900 crore) at the worldwide box office to date says Viacom.

     

    Further, the movie has surpassed US$100 million (about Rs 620 crore) in Imax Theatres worldwide since its release on 5 November, marking the fourth time an Imax film has crossed the US$100 million threshold.

     

    Continuing the legacy begun by Nolan and his use of the 15 perf 65mm Imax cameras in The Dark Knight and The Dark Knight Rises, more than an hour of Interstellar was shot using Imax cameras. Exclusively in Imax theatres, these sequences expand to fill the entire screen and deliver unprecedented crispness and clarity and provide audiences with a truly cinematic and immersive experience. Sequences of Interstellar shot in 35mm film have been digitally re-mastered into the image and sound quality of The Imax Experience with proprietary Imax DMR (Digital Re-mastering) technology.

     

    Directed by Christopher Nolan, Interstellar tells the story of a team of explorers that travel through a wormhole in an attempt to ensure humanity’s survival. The story is written by Jonathan Nolan and Christopher Nolan, and produced by Emma Thomas, Christopher Nolan and Lynda Obst and stars Matthew McConaughey, Anne Hathaway, Jessica Chastain, Bill Irwin, Ellen Burstyn, John Lithgow and Michael Caine.

  • The Dark Knight Rises still at No. 1 with $34.2 mn intake

    The Dark Knight Rises still at No. 1 with $34.2 mn intake

    MUMBAI: Fighting the hot temperatures in the UK and the Olympics, The Dark Knight Rises remained at the No. 1 spot with an intake of $34.2 million.
    According to Warner Bros., the film is tracking 46 per cent ahead of the comparable take of its predecessor The Dark Knight “at today‘s exchange rates.” The Christopher Nolan film has grossed $445.3 million in foreign locales to date, $23.7 less than the overseas total amassed by the first version.
    The film‘s top weekend markets included the UK, France and Brazil.
    Opening in 13 foreign territories day-and-date with its No. 1 US debut was The Bourne Legacy, the fourth episode of the espionage franchise. The film drew $7.8 million from 694 locations — averaging nearly $11,300 per site — in Eastern Europe, India, the Caribbean and in Asia (Hong Kong, Malaysia, Philippines, Singapore, Thailand, Taiwan and Vietnam).
    The film‘s top debut market was the Philippines followed by Singapore, while its No. 2 take was in Taiwan with an intake of $1.2 million from 67 sites for a per-location average of nearly $18,000.
    The three previous Bourne titles had grossed a total of $419.6 million on the foreign circuit with the 2007‘s The Bourne Ultimatum leading with an overseas tally of $215 million. 2004‘s The Bourne Supremacy collected $112.3 million offshore while 2002‘s The Bourne Identity registered $92.3 million.

  • No one to take on The Dark Knight

    No one to take on The Dark Knight

    MUMBAI: There is no beating The Dark Knight… Though Sony‘s sci-fi action epic Total Recall opened up collecting $26 million in the weekend, it was well behind the $36.4 million earned by The Dark Knight Rises in its third weekend.
    Also a new release, Diary of a Wimpy Kid: Dog Days also opened below expectations as it collected $14.7 million. The film, that cost $22 million to make, is already on solid ground financially.
    The Aurora theater shooting and the 2012 Summer Olympics continue to mute movie going. Domestic ticket sales plummeted 25 per cent from the same weekend last year while research firm NRG continues to warn studios that 20 per cent of the movie-going audience is skittish after the shooting. Around 16 per cent viewers have reported that they would be watching the Olympics this weekend.
    Heading into the weekend, Sony projected a domestic opening between the $25 to $30 million range for its film, although many believed that it would gross a little higher and would possibly jump the $30 million mark. The remake cost at least $125 million.
    Total Recall, directed by Len Wiseman and starring Colin Farrell in the role made famous by Arnold Schwarzenegger, is counting on a strong international run to boost its bottom line. Incidentally, it opened in 10 Asian markets this weekend earning $6.2 million.

  • The Dark Knight garners $122.1 mn in opening weekend

    The Dark Knight garners $122.1 mn in opening weekend

    MUMBAI: Going by its weekend results, Warner Brothers‘ The Dark Knight Rises was seen ruling the foreign theatrical circuit, garnering $122.1 million from around 17,000 venues in 57 markets.
    This is a nearly 40 per cent increase from the Batman sequel‘s opening that generated $88 million from 7,173 sites in just 17 markets. This pushed the film‘s foreign gross total way past the $200-million mark to $248.2 million.
    Dark Knight Rises introduced itself in some 40 markets including No. 1 bows in France ($11.3 million at 892 sites including previews), Germany ($9.9 at 718 spots including previews) and in Mexico ($9.8 million at 1,141 situations). The film also premiered in Russia ($8.7 million at 1,310 screens including previews), Brazil ($6.6 million at 931 sites) and in Japan ($6 million including previews).

    Top holdover market was the UK where the film roped in $10.6 million from 598 spots for a market total of $47 million. Australia delivered $7.8 million in round two from 628 sites, pushing the overall total to $27.5 million. Average drop from opening round grosses in U.K., Australia, Korea and Spain was 52 per cent.
    The aftermath of the theater shooting in Aurora, Colorado seems not to have significantly affected second round foreign action. The film still has a long way to go to catch up to the overseas gross total of $469 million registered by 2008‘s The Dark Knight.
    Passing the half-billion foreign gross mark ($514.1 million) was the weekend‘s No. 2 title, Ice Age: Continental Drift, that grossed $49.4 million at 15,924 venues in 69 markets. That puts the latest sequel in the computer animation franchise within very distant hailing distance of the best-grosser of the series, 2009‘s Ice Age: Dawn of the Dinosaurs, that grossed a total of $693.9 million offshore.
    Continental Drift opened No. 1 in China, registering $15.7 million at some 3,500 locations, and also benefited from strong introductions in South Korea ($3.1 million at 501 sites) and in India ($1.5 million at 238 spots), both of which set market records for a Fox animation title.
    At the No. 4 position was The Amazing Spider-Man the fourth title in the blockbuster series, which has been playing overseas since June 27 — elevated is foreign gross total to $412.7 million thanks to a $12.2 million weekend at 9,920 sites in 86 markets. Distributor Sony said the sequel is the top grosser of the franchise in 30 markets. Biggest offshore title of the series is 2007‘s Spider-Man 3 (bagging a total of $554.3 million).
    Pixar‘s Brave continues to chug along on a measured release pattern overseas, playing in 24 territories — which distributor Disney describes as about 38% of the international market. Weekend tally for the animation title was $9.6 million, elevating the film‘s foreign gross total to $92 million. (Domestic cume stands at $217.3 million.) Brave is the weekend‘s No. 5 title.

  • The Dark Knight Rises crosses $300 mn at worldwide box-office

    The Dark Knight Rises crosses $300 mn at worldwide box-office

    MUMBAI: In less than a week of its release, Christopher Nolan‘s The Dark Knight Rises has crossed the $300 million mark at the worldwide box office.
    On Wednesday, The Dark Knight Rises got off to a spectacular start in France grossing $2.7 million to score the best opening day record of the year, according to early estimates.
    The superhero film, that opened in North America and 17 foreign markets last weekend, is making a major international push this week as it rolls out in additional 40 countries. On Thursday, it will open in Germany and Russia followed by numerous other territories on Friday.
    Through Tuesday, the film‘s domestic gross went beyond $198 million, slightly behind The Dark Knight that had earned $203.8 million. Overseas, it earned an outstanding $110 million.
    Dark Knight Rises debuted to $160.9 million domestically, the third-best debut of all time and the best ever for a 2D title. Insiders believe the film lost as much as between $10 to $20 million because of the shoot out at Aurora Cinema, Colorado.
    Like exhibitors in the US, foreign theatre circuits are tightening up security in the wake of last Friday‘s shooting that left at least a dozen people dead and 58 injured.

  • The Dark Knight makes $23.8 mn from Imax screens in opening weekend

    MUMBAI: The Dark Knight Rises generated an opening weekend box office of $23.8 million in 396 Imax theaters worldwide, a statement of the giant screen exhibitor reported.
    Toronto-based Imax said that the Warner Bros. Pictures film grossed $19 million domestically from 332 Imax screens, for a per-screen average of $57,200.
    The global per-screen average was $60,100. Internationally, The Dark Knight Rises earned $4.8 million in 64 Imax theatres, for a per-screen average of $75,000.
    Warner Bros. had earlier said on Monday that Imax grossed $1.57 million on 19 screens in the UK, and another $758,000 from 10 screens in Korea. The film grossed $659,000 from 5 Imax screens in Australia, and $55,000 from two screens in Spain.
    Imax has another 89 of its theatres that are set to start screening The Dark Knight Rising this week, with China yet to screen the action film.

  • The Dark Knight close to top foreign b-o

    MUMBAI: Warner Bros.‘ The Dark Knight Rises is expected to easily top the foreign box office chart despite the mishap by way of in-theatre shooting in Aurora in Colorado that left at least a dozen dead and a dozen more injured.
    Neither the studio nor Rentrak are officially reporting worldwide grosses for the weekend out of respect for the victims, but insiders say that the last installment of Batman earned at least $70 million-plus from nine of the 17 countries where it released over the weekend. Official number are expected to be released on Monday.
    The biggest market for Dark Knight Rises was the U.K., where the film grossed at least $16.1 million till Saturday with another $6 million i likely on Sunday. Australia came up with a weekend tally of $15.2 million, while South Korea looks to generate $15 million.
    Spain is estimated to come up with another $4 million, with Hong Kong contributing $3 million. Dark Knight Rises opens in Germany, France and Japan this coming week.
    In other weekend action, 20th Century Fox‘s Ice Age: Continental Drift drew $58.8 million on the weekend at 13,825 locations in 67 markets. The total for the fourth title in the Ice Age animation franchise stands at $442.7 million.

    DreamWorks Animation and Paramount‘s Madagascar 3: Europe‘s Most Wanted, which has been playing overseas since 6 June, has grossed an offshore total of $282.5 million after a $6.1 million weekend at 4,977 venues in 44 countries. A No. 2 Netherlands opening delivered $2.7 million (including previews) from 205 situations

    Paramount‘s The Dictator crossed the $100 million mark over the weekend, thanks to a $2.6 million weekend at 1,388 sites in 38 countries. The Sacha Baron Cohen comedy opens in the Philippines and Vietnam this week.