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  • Amitabh lends voice to genre-defining MN+ ‘Pathbreakers’

    Amitabh lends voice to genre-defining MN+ ‘Pathbreakers’

    MUMBAI: Times Network’s gold class of Hollywood movies, MN+, has launched a special property which will compile the best of Hollywood movies. The property, Pathbreakers, is an attempt to reach out to the audience that appreciates movies that define cinema and genres. Promoted on radio campaign by the Pink movie star Amitabh Bachchan, it will be launched today, and will showcase 50 path-breaking movies from Monday to Friday at 9 pm.

    “With this line-up, we aim to stir strong emotions in our discerning movie buffs,” said Times Television Network senior VP and head English entertainment cluster Vivek Srivastava.

    Pathbreakers will air movie titles that are classics, award winning and genre-defining. MN+ will showcase movies such as 12 Years A Slave, The Shawshank Redemption, The Departed, Boyhood, The Perks of Being a Wallflower, The Inception, etc.

    Bachchan added, “I am glad to launch Pink with the channel’s biggest property Pathbreakers which promotes movies that have initiated change in society and individuals. Through Pink, our endeavor is to ensure women get their due respect in society.’’

    Pink is a thought-provoking movie produced by Shoojit Sircar. The movie reflects on the current situation of women in the country and raises voice against the dubious moral codes.

    Sircar said, “The tie-up with MN + Pathbreakers was important for us to ensure we reach out to the right audience in urban India.” Pink is aimed at the youth and hopefully shall be looked on as a film that set a new trend upon its release.”

  • Amitabh lends voice to genre-defining MN+ ‘Pathbreakers’

    Amitabh lends voice to genre-defining MN+ ‘Pathbreakers’

    MUMBAI: Times Network’s gold class of Hollywood movies, MN+, has launched a special property which will compile the best of Hollywood movies. The property, Pathbreakers, is an attempt to reach out to the audience that appreciates movies that define cinema and genres. Promoted on radio campaign by the Pink movie star Amitabh Bachchan, it will be launched today, and will showcase 50 path-breaking movies from Monday to Friday at 9 pm.

    “With this line-up, we aim to stir strong emotions in our discerning movie buffs,” said Times Television Network senior VP and head English entertainment cluster Vivek Srivastava.

    Pathbreakers will air movie titles that are classics, award winning and genre-defining. MN+ will showcase movies such as 12 Years A Slave, The Shawshank Redemption, The Departed, Boyhood, The Perks of Being a Wallflower, The Inception, etc.

    Bachchan added, “I am glad to launch Pink with the channel’s biggest property Pathbreakers which promotes movies that have initiated change in society and individuals. Through Pink, our endeavor is to ensure women get their due respect in society.’’

    Pink is a thought-provoking movie produced by Shoojit Sircar. The movie reflects on the current situation of women in the country and raises voice against the dubious moral codes.

    Sircar said, “The tie-up with MN + Pathbreakers was important for us to ensure we reach out to the right audience in urban India.” Pink is aimed at the youth and hopefully shall be looked on as a film that set a new trend upon its release.”

  • Five reasons to watch MN+ in July

    Five reasons to watch MN+ in July

    MUMBAI: MN+ celebrates July with five themes – Centre Stage, Opening night, Hollywood select, Great Adaptations and the Academy club. Through all these five categories, MN+ is offering its viewers the critically acclaimed popular movies of English cinema.  Movies like, Sweeney Todd: The Demon Barber of Fleet Street. It will be shown on Sunday, 12 July, at 9 pm at the Centre Stage slot of MN+.

     

    Times Network senior vice president and head English Entertainment Cluster Vivek Srivastava said, “MN+ has been hand-crafted for not just discerning movie lovers, but for cineastes as well. MN+ will showcase movies that are universally celebrated and debated. Keeping to this promise the other highlights for the month are, Gran Torino, About Schmidt, The Shawshank Redemption, Poltergeist , Ghostbusters, Fight Club, Poseidon, Woman in Black, The Golden Compass, Don’t  Say a  Word, Deamcatcher, Payback, Runaway Jury, The  Big Lebowski and a host of other popular films.”

     

    Gran Torino is a2008 American drama film directed and produced by Clint Eastwood, who starred in the film too will be shown on Sunday, 19th July, at 9PM at the Opening Night slot.

     

    Srivastava further added, “Our viewers are a focused lot who, by virtue of their intelligence and sensitivity, have the time and ability to appreciate only the best that life has to offer — they seek to fill moments of leisure with the greatest value. MN+ is for those premium audiences that have the temperament to be choosy about what life has to offer and have evolved to value only the best, and so are our movie offerings.”

     

    The American film critic, Emanuel Levy, stated that, “Alexander Payne’s poignant series-comedy ‘About Schmidt’ is a sharply observed character study, featuring Jack Nicholson in a towering performance as an ordinary American embarking late in life on a journey of self-discovery”. Watch these movies under the Academy Club in this July in MN+.

     

    Moreover, under the Hollywood Select category there are movies like Rush, Scent of A Woman, The Departed, Les Misérables, screened everyday at 9pm at MN+. In the month of July view these movies and more, in MN+, the gold class of movie viewing experience.

  • CinemaCon to honour Morgan Feeman with Cinema Icon award

    CinemaCon to honour Morgan Feeman with Cinema Icon award

    MUMBAI: This year‘s CinemaCon will honour Morgan Freeman with the 2013 Cinema Icon Award.
     
    The actor will be recognized during the convention‘s CinemaCon Big Screen Achievement Awards ceremony on 18 April in The Colosseum at Caesar‘s Palace.
     
    "As one of the most esteemed actors of our time, Morgan Freeman has portrayed some of the most memorable characters ever to appear on film,"reportedly said CinemaCon managing director Mitch Neuhauser, citing the veteran‘s work in Driving Miss Daisy, Glory, The Shawshank Redemption, Unforgiven, Million Dollar Baby and The Dark Knight trilogy.
     
    "Freeman‘s presence exudes a dignity, charm and soul unmatched by any other actor," he added.
     
    The actor stars opposite Tom Cruise in Universal‘s Oblivion that is scheduled to open on 19 Apri.
     
    For record‘s sake, Freeman received an Academy Award in 2005 for his supporting role in Million Dollar Baby and was nominated again for his role in Invictus. Last year he received the Cecil B. Demille Award at the Golden Globes and the year prior, was honored with the AFI Lifetime Achievement Award.