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  • Adam Sandler is highest paid actors: Forbes

    Adam Sandler is highest paid actors: Forbes

    MUMBAI: As the year comes to an end, Forbes listed Hollywood’s highest paid actors of 2014. Forbes compiled the annual ranking by looking at the estimated salaries of Hollywood’s top stars, the budget and revenue of the last three films each actor starred in before June 2014 to determine a return on investment for each actor.

     

    For the second consecutive year, comedian Adam Sandler topped the list, leaving behind stars Johnny Depp and Tom Hanks. According to Forbes, for every $1 Sandler was paid, he returned an average of $3.20 approximately.

     

    Adam Sandler’s latest film Grown Ups 2 was a hit, raking $246m at the global box office.

     

    Depp, the star of the hugely successful Pirates of the Caribbean films, came in second, returning an average of $4.10 for each dollar paid, because of recent flops like The Lone Ranger and Dark Shadows.

     

    Comedian Ben Stiller, whose film Night at the Museum: Secrets of the Tomb opened in US theaters earlier this month, ranked third with a $4.80 return, due to Tower Heist and The Watch, which did not perform well at the box office.

     

    Ryan Reynolds, who starred in Green Lantern, was fourth with $4.90 for each dollar paid, followed by dual Oscar winner Tom Hanks, who pulled in a $5.20 return, rounding out the top five.

     

    Animated and limited release films and movies featuring cameo roles were not included in the calculations.

  • Johnny Depp to soon take on the role of famed illusionist Harry Houdini

    Johnny Depp to soon take on the role of famed illusionist Harry Houdini

    MUMBAI: Johnny Depp, the actor famously known for taking on different roles like Captain Jack Sparrow in the Pirates of the Carribean franchise and the Mad Hatter in the Alice in Wonderland franchise is in negotiations to star as famed magician Harry Houdini in Lionsgate/Summit’s The Secret Life of Houdini: The Making of America’s First Superhero based on the bestselling book by William Kalush and Larry Sloman, reports The Hollywood Reporter (THR).

     

    Since his death eighty years ago, Harry Houdini’s life has been chronicled in books, in film, and on television. Now, in this groundbreaking biography, renowned magic expert William Kalush and best-selling writer Larry Sloman team up to find the man behind the myth. Drawing from millions of pages of research, they describe in vivid detail the passions that drove Houdini to perform ever-more-dangerous feats, his secret life as a spy, and a pernicious plot to subvert his legacy. After years of struggling on the dime museum circuit, Harry Houdini got a break that put him on the front page of a Chicago newspaper. He never looked back. Soon Houdini was performing for royalty, commanding vast sums, and exploring the new power of Hollywood to expand on his legend.

     

    At a time when spy agencies frequently co-opted amateurs, Houdini went to London and developed a relationship with a man who would run MI-5. For the next several years, the world’s most famous magician travelled to Germany and Russia and routinely reported his findings.

     

    After World War I was successfully concluded, Houdini embarked on a battle of his own. He created a group of disguised field operatives to infiltrate the seamy world of fake spirit mediums. In doing so, Houdini triggered the wrath of fanatical spiritualists, led by the esteemed British author Sir Arthur Conan Doyle. Death threats became an everyday occurrence, but the group would pose an even greater danger to Houdini’s legacy.

     

    Rigorously researched, and as exciting as a good thriller, The Secret Life of Houdini traces the arc of the master magician’s life from desperate poverty to worldwide legend, initiating the reader along the way into the arcane world of professional magic. In this remarkable book, Kalush and Sloman decode a life based on deception, providing an intimate and riveting portrayal of Houdini, the man and the legend.

     

    Depp is also set to revisit two of the earlier mentioned blockbuster franchisees in the coming year with Pirates of the Caribbean 5 and a sequel to Alice in Wonderland, Through the Looking Glass.

     

    History Channel announced late last year that they have given the greenlight to their four-hour Houdini miniseries. Academy Award winner Adrien Brody (The Pianist) will play Houdini with Kristen Connolly (House of Cards).

  • Adam Sandler’s ‘Grown Ups 2’ tops Razzies

    Adam Sandler’s ‘Grown Ups 2’ tops Razzies

    MUMBAI: The Raspberry Awards, better known as the Razzies, since the last 33 years have worked as the flipside of the Academy Awards. While the latter recognises the good work done in Hollywood, the former rips apart those who were not up to the mark.

     

    This time around when Razzies announced the nominations, Adam Sandler’s Grown Ups 2 led the charts. The film is up for nine Razzie awards this year that includes Worst Picture, Worst Screenplay and Worst Actor for Sandler and Worst Ensemble Cast.

     

    Apparently, it isn’t the first time for the actor to be nominated in the Razzies. His movie Jack and Jill created history by collecting 10 awards in 2011.

     

    However, coming to the others, actor Johnny Depp who till now has had a fairly good reviews in his kitty for his work, has made an opening at the Razzies for his performance in The Lone Ranger this time.

     

    Sci-fi movie After Earth starring Will Smith and his son Jaden has been nominated in six categories, so is Tyler Perry’s A Madea Christmas and Movie 43.

     

    Scary Movie 5, Runner Runner and The Host are other films to have been nominated.

  • Flopped The Lone Ranger to cost Disney $190 million

    Flopped The Lone Ranger to cost Disney $190 million

    MUMBAI: As per the reports, Disney CFO Jay Rasulo has informed that the company is likely to incur a loss of about $160 – $190 million next quarter as a result of The Lone Ranger‘s weak box office run.

    The Gore Verbinski-directed western, which stars Johnny Depp and Armie Hammer, cost at least $215 million to produce but has only earned $175.5 million worldwide (it‘s only opened in about 40 percent of international markets) since its release on 3 July. Domestically, the film has earned $86.9 million – a larger total than Disney‘s 2012 mega-flop John Carter, which topped out at $73.1 million, but an alarmingly low one nonetheless.

    For Disney, the loss hurts, but it isn‘t crippling. The company‘s portfolio now includes cash cows like Pixar, Marvel, and the Star Wars empire, the former two of which already delivered massive returns this summer with Iron Man 3 and Monsters University grossing $1.2 billion and $614 million worldwide. And Disney recognises that its plan to produce fewer movies but make them all tentpoles is a high-risk/high reward business. “This branded tentpole strategy of ours, it‘s 100 percent what we‘re looking to do and what we want to be,” said Disney executive VP of distribution Dave Hollis, following The Lone Ranger‘s disappointing opening weekend.

  • Johnny Depp injured his back shooting The Lone Ranger

    Johnny Depp injured his back shooting The Lone Ranger

    MUMBAI: Here‘s some bad news for scores of fans of Johnny Depp.
    The 49-year-old actor has injured his back while shooting for The Lone Ranger.
    The actor was left writhing in pain on two occasions during action scenes for the Western film in which he plays Native American Tonto opposite Armie Hammer, who plays the title character. The actor has now realised that he can‘t do many of his own stunts and needs to rely more on a double.
    Besides the back pain, the actor has also been struggling with insomnia on the sets.

    Butth e director Gore Verbinski and the crew have been sympathetic to the sleep problems the Hollywood star has been experiencing and have adjusted shooting schedules for him.
    Said a source in a quoted text, “Johnny is also struggling with sleep problems so the crew has had to adjust to the face that he can‘t shoot all night. He needs at least six hours of shut eye. This movie has really kicked his butt. He‘s so happy it‘s wrapping up and has joked that his body wouldn‘t be able to take another month of it.”

  • Crew member succumbs to heart attack on the sets of The Lone Ranger

    Crew member succumbs to heart attack on the sets of The Lone Ranger

    MUMBAI:A crew member named Mike Bridger working on the sets of Johnny Depp‘s forthcoming film The Lone Ranger died of apparent drowning last Friday.
    The 48-year-old diver is thought to have suffered a heart attack while cleaning out a pool that was going to be used in the film, it is reported. He was pronounced dead on arrival according to the coroner‘s spokesman.
    “Our hearts and thoughts are with his family, friends, and colleagues at this time,” Walt Disney studios Spokesman Paul Roeder said in a statement. “Our full support is behind the investigation into the circumstances of this terrible event,” he added.
    Police revealed the man had been wearing scuba equipment to carry out maintenance on a deep pool on a ranch near Palmdale, in the desert north of Los Angeles, where the Western is being filmed. Close friends said the victim‘s name is Mike Bridger, a welder and water safety guy who had worked alongside mega producer Jerry Bruckheimer and Depp for years.

  • Disney red signals The Lone Ranger

    Disney red signals The Lone Ranger

    MUMBAI: Walt Disney Studios has stopped the pre-production work on The Lone Ranger that was to star Johnny Depp as Tonto.

    While some in the industry say that everyone involved with the film is talking about next steps, while others thing that the move could be the studios ploy to reduce the film’s budget.

    All kinds of reasons that Disney would tread is also being attached like the Depp heft, Jerry Bruckheimer‘s producer heft and Gore Verbinski‘s director heft. Verbinski, who is attached to direct The Lone Ranger, directed Depp in Rango and al;o in three Pirates films.

    The studio had already announced that The Lone Ranger would release on 21 December next year.