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  • Movies NOW and MNX to premiere zombie comedy ‘Little Monsters’

    Mumbai: Movies NOW and MNX are all set to bring the Indian television premiere of zombie comedy film “Little Monsters” on 27 June, Sunday, at 1pm and 9pm. Starring the Academy Award-winning actor Lupita Nyong’o in the lead role, the film premiered at the Sundance Film Festival in 2019.

    Written and directed by Abe Forsythe, the horror-comedy is about a kindergarten children’s field trip to a farm gone wrong. Their visit to the petting zoo happens to be next door to a U.S. Military base experimenting with regeneration, they find themselves overrun by an invasion of man-eating undead humans. Nyong’o plays Miss Caroline, the teacher, who teams up to save the children from a zombie apocalypse.

    Also starring Alexander England, Kat Stewart, Diesel La Torraca, and Josh Gad, the film is dedicated to Forsythe’s son Spike, whose first day of kindergarten inspired parts of the story. Spike also appears as a ‘school kid zombie’ in the film.

    A frenetic zombie horror coupled with pitch-perfect comic timing, “Little Monsters” promises viewers humorous gags, suspenseful scares, fleshy gore, and quite surprisingly, a dash of heartfelt sentiment.

  • Rocky is back with Creed premiere on Movies NOW

    Rocky is back with Creed premiere on Movies NOW

    MUMBAI: Sylvester Stallone in his finest performance as Rocky Balboa will smash your TV screens with the TV premiere of ‘Creed’, this Sunday, 11 December, at 1pm and 9pm, on Movies NOW. For all action movie enthusiasts, the fight for the remote control would be well worth it with this Blockbuster Premiere on the channel that is known for its line-up of adrenalin-pumping movies.

    Creed continues the saga of retired boxer Rocky Balboa, who returns as the trainer and mentor of Adonis Johnson, the son of his greatest rival Apollo Creed. The screenplay is packed with extremely well crafted action scenes that exhibit the life of an upcoming boxer battling against the world and trying to live up to the reputation of his famous father. Broken ribs, shattered noses, swollen eyes; these scenes in the movie make you vicariously feel the pain that Junior Creed goes through. Being an amateur fighter to a man who finally lives up to his name is engaging to the last frame of the film.

    The 2015 American Sports drama film is directed by the Grand Jury Prize winner Ryan Kyle Coogler and written by Coogler and Aaron Covington. Sylvester Stallone’s thrilling performance in the movie earned the actor an Academy Award nomination for ‘Best Actor in a Supporting Role’. Stallone also went onto win a Golden Globe Award for the same category in the year 2016.

    A blockbuster premiere requires a campaign to engage with its audience and the channel is focusing on On-Air and OOH mediums to promote this television premiere. Maruti Suzuki Vitara has come on board as the presenting sponsor for the premiere of Creed.

  • Rocky is back with Creed premiere on Movies NOW

    Rocky is back with Creed premiere on Movies NOW

    MUMBAI: Sylvester Stallone in his finest performance as Rocky Balboa will smash your TV screens with the TV premiere of ‘Creed’, this Sunday, 11 December, at 1pm and 9pm, on Movies NOW. For all action movie enthusiasts, the fight for the remote control would be well worth it with this Blockbuster Premiere on the channel that is known for its line-up of adrenalin-pumping movies.

    Creed continues the saga of retired boxer Rocky Balboa, who returns as the trainer and mentor of Adonis Johnson, the son of his greatest rival Apollo Creed. The screenplay is packed with extremely well crafted action scenes that exhibit the life of an upcoming boxer battling against the world and trying to live up to the reputation of his famous father. Broken ribs, shattered noses, swollen eyes; these scenes in the movie make you vicariously feel the pain that Junior Creed goes through. Being an amateur fighter to a man who finally lives up to his name is engaging to the last frame of the film.

    The 2015 American Sports drama film is directed by the Grand Jury Prize winner Ryan Kyle Coogler and written by Coogler and Aaron Covington. Sylvester Stallone’s thrilling performance in the movie earned the actor an Academy Award nomination for ‘Best Actor in a Supporting Role’. Stallone also went onto win a Golden Globe Award for the same category in the year 2016.

    A blockbuster premiere requires a campaign to engage with its audience and the channel is focusing on On-Air and OOH mediums to promote this television premiere. Maruti Suzuki Vitara has come on board as the presenting sponsor for the premiere of Creed.

  • Sony Pix to premiere ‘Hercules’ on 31 May

    Sony Pix to premiere ‘Hercules’ on 31 May

    MUMBAI: As part of refreshing their content, Sony Pix will be premiering the Hollywood movie Hercules.

     

    Based on Radical Comics’ Hercules by Steve Moore, the film is a revisionist take on the classic myth. The movie will be premiered on 31 May at 1 pm and 9 pm.

     

    The movie revolves around Hercules (Dwayne Johnson) who has become a mercenary due to the sins from his past. Along with five faithful companions, he travels ancient Greece selling his services for gold and using his legendary reputation to intimidate enemies.

     

    However, when the compassionate ruler of Thrace and his daughter seek Hercules’ help to defeat a savage and terrifying warlord, Hercules finds that in order for good to triumph and justice to prevail, he must once again become the hero he was and embrace his own myth.

     

  • Star World to premiere biggest British period drama ‘Downton Abbey’

    Star World to premiere biggest British period drama ‘Downton Abbey’

    MUMBAI: Star World is all set to leave viewers spellbound with a television masterpiece, the classic British period drama series – Downton Abbey. For the first time ever in India, the channel will showcase the entire series from Season 1 to 5 starting 23rd January, every Mon-Fri 10 PM. Set in the fictional Yorkshire country estate of Downton Abbey, the series depicts the lives of the aristocratic Crawley family and their servants in the post-Edwardian era, with the great events in history having an effect on their lives and on the British social hierarchy. The period drama series, Downton Abbey is written and created by Oscar-winning writer Julian Fellowes and stars Michelle Dockery, Hugh Bonneville, Elizabeth McGovern, Dan Stevens, Laura Carmichael among a host of other main and recurring characters.

     
    Downton Abbey has received critical acclaim from television critics and won numerous accolades, including a Golden Globe Award for Best Miniseries and a Primetime Emmy Award for Outstanding Miniseries. It is recognized by Guinness World Records as the most critically acclaimed English-language television series of 2011. It earned the most nominations for any international television series in the history of the Primetime Emmy Awards, with twenty-seven in total. The show has emerged to be one of the most widely watched television drama shows in the world

     
    Touted to be a timeless classic, the show boasts of a brilliant and massive storyline spelling mystery, scandal and intrigue through a course of interesting twists and turns. The series is packed with stellar performances by a bevy of layered, well written characters residing in the great Edwardian country manor. Not stopping at that, the series has enchanted viewers world over with its sheer beauty account of the high scale of production, lavish vintage costumes and grandiose sets and locales. Set in the dawn of the roaring twenties, Downton Abbey’s costumes stand out, epitomizing the lavishness and refined elegance of the era.

     

  • Star Movies Action – Biggest Blockbusters of 2013

    Star Movies Action – Biggest Blockbusters of 2013

    MUMBAI: The current movie premiere calendar for Star Movies Action is marked with the biggest action blockbusters vying for your patronage. With the winter receding,  the entertainment lineup for action is just getting warmed up on Star Movies Action, the first English action movie channel in India. Star Movies Action treats its audiences to some of the biggest action blockbusters with a TV premiere scheduled every month. For 2014, the channel has planned the a thrilling lineup ensuring that its viewers can watch the best content from the latest releases to classic action hits.

     

    The premieres celebrate the timelessness of action movies and the channel has announced a grand showcase of  two of the biggest action sequels.  The television premiere of Tom Yum Goong 2 will take place on March 23rd at 1 PM & 8PM. The second big premiere lined up for April this year is 12 Rounds 2: Reloaded to be aired on April 20th at 1pm & 8pm.

     

    Tom Yum Goong 2 is a martial art thriller that picks up where the first part left where a young fighter named Kham had to travel to Australia to retrieve his stolen elephant. With the help of a Thai-born Australian detective, Kham took on all comers, including a gang led by an evil villainess. In the much anticipated sequel, Kham’s elephant is abducted once again and he has a single minded purpose of fighting against all odds to find him. The movie is headlined by Tony Jaa whose his unique fight sequences and strong bond with his elephant moves the audiences. Not to be missed, Tony Jaa and his original team re-create martial arts magic on your television screens this month.

    12 Rounds 2: Reloaded is the sequel to the highly successful 12 Rounds. A commanding performance by WWE Wrestler Randy Orton who portrays Nick Malloy, an EMT who finds himself caught in a fatal 12-round game of hide and seek with a vigilante tied to his past. With little time to spare and his wife’s life hanging in the balance, he has to successfully complete 12 challenges in order to secure her safe release. The movie boasts of some amazingly choreographed action sequences spurred on by Randy’s huge physical presence and charisma.

    High octane action sequences spawn these epic movie premieres with large doses of action and stunning creativity as Star Movies Action brings to you a host of unforgettable action movie moments.