Saif Ali Khan is happy changing his image with Omkara. Vishal Bharadwaj calls him the Gabbar Singh of Omkara where he plays the role of Langda Tyagi. Pataudi Junior has had a fabulous streak...

SIGNED Singeetham Srinivasa Rao to direct TRAFFIC JAM Celluloid Dreams Pvt. Ltd. has signed Singeetham Srinivasa Rao to direct their Production No 2, titled Traffic Jam to be made in three languages – Hindi,...

Mumbai: The culture of remaking films has influenced many directors. Shoojit Sarkar, the director of Yahaan has been no exception to it. After the success of his film Yahaan, he is ready with his...

MUMBAI : The box-office success of Taxi No. 9211 and Rang De Basanti have prompted UTV Motion pictures into big time production activities. Meanwhile, they have taken over Hrithik Roshan – Aishwarya starrer Akbar-Jodha...

Ajay Devgan is a man of few words. He plays the lead role in Omkara. And he prefers to let his work do the talking. Excerpts from an interview. What’s your role in Omkara?...

Mumbai: Chitra Palekar’s debut directorial venture Maatimaay shall be screened at the Toronto International Film Festival that will be held from September 7-16. Debuting as a producer director and and screenplay writer at the...

Mumbai: Animation is evolving as the fastest growing sectors on in the movie industry. The Federation of Indian Chambers of Commerce and Industry has estimated the global animation content development market by 2009 at...

Saves this week with AksarKiller and Yun Hota Toh Kya Hota fail to sustain MUMBAI :Five films released this week. Of which, three were dubbed versions. Unlike their last film Gangster, this time Vishesh...

BHOJPURI MAI TA BAS MAI BARI rolls G.P. Sippy Entertainment’s first Bhojpuri film Mai Ta Bas Mai Bari was launched with a regular shooting spell held at Basra Studios on July 17. Cast: Ravi...

Mumbai: Earlier we had reported about Ujwal Chaterjee’s film Utthan based on model Jessica Lal’s murder case. The film has been certified by the censors with a U certificate.Now it is learnt that filmmaker...

MUMBAI :Prakash Jaju has been in the news since long. The financier and known as the star business manager to actors, has been at the receiving end. Priyanka Chopra with her family members have...

Visual effects supervisor John Knoll and his team at ILM were the artists who turned pirate captain Barbossa and his ill-fated crew into those unforgettably creepy animated skeletons in Pirates of the Caribbean: The...

British-born Penny Rose is one of Hollywood’s most sought after costume designers and has credits ranging from Evita to Shadowlands and Mission: Impossible. Her costumes for Pirates of the Caribbean: The Curse of the...

Mumbai: Gorgeous Celina Jaitley stepped in the world of Bollywood with a disaster called Janasheen, inspite of her exposure the the movie was not a hit. What she earned from the film was only...

Mumbai: After a debacle in Pyar Mein Kabhi Kabhi and Shaadi ka Laddoo, director Raj Kaushal is back another stint in Nikhil Panchmiya’s Anthony Kaun Hai? starring Sanjay Dutt and Arshad Warsi, who will...

Mumbai: The director of 16 December, Rudraksh and Tango Charlie etc Mani Shankar is presently ready with a new project Mukhbiir. Alike his other films, this time also the movie has a strong star cast...

Despite a screen career dedicated to creating such unique characters as Edward Scissorhands, Ed Wood, Ichabod Crane and Willy Wonka, Johnny Depp clearly outdid himself with Captain Jack Sparrow, the unlikely hero of Pirates...

Mumbai: A few weeks back it was learnt that Saif Ali Khan along with sister Soha is going to launch a production house. But no one heard any further news on that. Businessofcinema.com met...

Croatia may become the new love of more than hundred million Indians as Dev Anand was all praise for the charming country of Croatia. He shared the experiences of his six day visit to...

Mumbai: Showman Subhash Ghai launched the first batch of his film school, Whistling Woods International at a lavish ceremony held at Film City, Mumbai.Dignitaries gracing the occasion from the film fraternity were Chief Guest...

Mumbai: “When a serial kisser, a serial killer and a serial dancer come together, a masala entertainment film is formed”, says Mukesh Bhatt at the press conference of his forthcoming film- The Killer. The...

Mumbai:The international festival dedicated to documentaries on the Himalayan region ‘The Himalaya Film Festival’ will be held from August 14 to 22 at NHK Fureai Hall, Tokyo in Japan. The festival normally held in...

As time has progressed newer platforms for communication of brands have evolved. From press to TV to radio to outdoor and now films. In 2003, Darshana Bhalla, Sony Entertainment Television, Sales and Marketing Head...

Mumbai: Producer Mukesh Bhatt’s son Vishesh Bhatt has revealed to businessofcinema.com his plans to turn director next year. He is currently the CEO for Vishesh films and is co-producing their films. “Since I was...

MUMBAI :Shotgun Moviies’ maiden venture Mera Dil Leke Dekkho, presented by Shatrugan Sinha and produced by Punam S Sinha, is being released all over India on August 24 through Sony Pictures. It’s a non-stop...

Mumbai: Director Kamal B Nathani’s second film With Love…Tumhara made on a budget of Rs. 2 million is all set to release in August. The film stars Nakul Vaid, Parvin Dabbas, Preeti Jhangiani and...

Mumbai: JD Chekravarthy, main lead of Ram Gopal Varma’s Satya in 1998 has turned director the second time with Darwaza Bandh Rakho. He had earlier directed a film called Durga. Darwaza Bandh Rakho is...

Mumbai: Producer-director Sameer Hanchate’s debut film Gafla is a hard-hitting film inspired by the much-publicised scam in the Indian Stock market and financial market. “It is the story of a humble middle class man....

Mumbai: Like Madhur Bhandarkar, director Ujjwal Chatterjee, is also known as realistic filmmaker. His latest film Utthan based on controversial Jessica Lal murder case is ready for release. The film ran through rough weather...

MUMBAI :After creating games on Bappi Lahiri and Madhavan, Paradox is in news again. In an alliance with Shemaroo, they have created a mobile game for the promotion of Yun Hota Toh Kya Hota....

Mumbai: In an attempt to make the idol of Lord Ganesh popularly known as Lalbaugcha Raja, reach a wider audience across the city, Marathi producer – director Vijay Khanvilkar has made a film on...

Mumbai: Having broken many records already in its first weekend the unstoppable Pirates are invading new grounds every passing day. Already a record crushing blockbuster, Pirates of the Caribbean: Dead Man’s Chest has grossed...

Close on the heels of captivating crowds in the valley, renowned music composer and legendary santoor maestro Pandit Bhajan Sopori enthralled audiences at Chicago City (USA) to celebrate the US Independence day in the...

Come November 10, and one of the most awaited films of the year, Vivah will hit the marquee. A classic love story, Vivah traces the relationship between the couple Shahid Kapoor and Amrita Rao...

Mumbai: The Indian Institute of Management, Indore intends to make an International Case Study on the making of 2006’s biggest blockbuster – Rakesh Roshan’s Krrish. It will be taught in IIMs as well as...

Mumbai: The actress named Meera has learned the hard way that for some people in Pakistan, kissing a Hindu in an Indian film involves crossing more lines than just the one at the border....

Mumbai: From being a successful computer professional to becoming an international model to doing international movies to entering Bollywood, actor Raj Vasudeva has come a long way. And after playing the main lead in...

Setu Creations’ Banaras – A Mystic Love Story, which had generally failed on he box-office in India, is generating a huge following through its DVD release worldwide.The fan following of the film, which is...

Mumbai: Ram Gopal Varma was recently in news for his deal with Adlabs. As per this, Adlabs was to present 10 RGV films in 2 years. (Kindly refer to news dated 8 th July,...

MUMBAI : First it was Hrithik Roshan who after his daredevilry realized that there were fans trying to copy him and stopped them from doing so. Just earlier, a fan of Phir Hera Pheri...

Mumbai: Himesh Reshammiya and Sameer have bagged two prestigious films down south- Kamal Haasan’s Dasaavataaram and Singeetham Srinivasa Rao’s 3-D animation film Maya Bazar. Dasaavataaram is being made in Tamil and Hindi and Sameer...

Mumbai: Is Mani Rathnam’s film based on the life of Dhirubhai Ambani? For the film Guru trams have been created on the road, buildings, people and the very milieu projecting the 1950s.Joining Abhishek Bachchan...

Mumbai: Lyricist SAMEER, who completes 25th year of his career as song writer this year and has bagged his 500th film – Sanjay Leela Bhansali’s SAAWARIYA – now storms the South in a big...

Mumbai: Sanjay Jha, director of the forthcoming film, Strings: Bound By Faith is angry. His film to be released on Friday has been dragged into a controversy. Sadhus of Allahabad have registered a PIL...

Mumbai: It’s a known fact now that Krrish is the first Indian film that has managed to gross a record Rs 1.2 billion in its first two weeks of release, but apart from that...

MUMBAI : Gracy Singh is one of those fortunate few faces from the small screen who have made it to the big screen, with not just an appearance but also roles which are still...

Releasing on August 18 Akshar Media Productions’ The Hangman (English), featuring Om Puri, Gulshan Grover, Smita Jaykar, Shreyas Talpade and Tom Alter, is scheduled for release all over India on August 18. The Hangman...

Mumbai: A thumping record breaking $132 million opening at the US box office by the Hollywood action adventure film Pirates Of The Caribbean: Dead Man’s Chest has resulted in a major upset at the...

Oceanside, CA: Geeks.com announces the arrival of Superman Returnsâ„¢ computer products. Superman aficionados around the world who waited patiently for the next Superman movie to be released were not disappointed. Faster then a speeding...

MUMBAI : Shilpa Shetty has been signed on to play the lead role in Anurag Basu’s film Metro. The film also stars Shiney Ahuja and Kay Kay Menon in lead roles. Metro is a...

Habitat Film Club along with the Film and Television Institute of India (FTII) and Rudraa Entertainment released two exclusive discs called Master Strokes and which has 20 select film by the masters of Indian...

Mumbai: Contradicting to the reports, printed in a daily, about Ajay Devgan and Kajol doing a film together that was scheduled to be directed by Anees Bazmee , he clarifies, “I’m very much directing...

Mumbai: K. Sera Sera is planning to make one film each with the Deols. One film will feature Sunny Deol while the other will have Bobby Deol. For Bobby’s film which is presently untitled,...

Mumbai: Bollywood is smiling. It has a good reason to. The year 2006 is turning out to be a very good one. The dream run that had begun in January with Rang De Basanti...

Mumbai: A three-day international film festival is being organised at the Jayadev Bhavan here from July 20 by Inscreen, a premier film society of the Bhubuneshwar in Orissa. It will have ‘contemporary’ and ‘nostalgia’...

Mumbai: Walt Disney Picture’s much awaited Johnny Depp starrer adventure epic Pirates of The Caribbean: Dead Man’s Chest has gone on a record breaking looting spree at the box office the world over. Released...

Mumbai: July 10, 2006: Walt Disney’s much anticipated adventure pic, Pirates of the Caribbean: Dead Man’s Chest opened on Friday, July 7 2007, to a record $132 million in its first three days at...

Rs. 10 million and 20 million lost…. Mumbai: The incessant rains last week again played spoilsport for Sajid Nadiadwala’s Salman Khan – Akshay Kumar starrer Jaan-e-mann. The film was delayed earlier due to multiple...

Manmohan Shetty, the Chairman of Adlabs Films Limited is only too well known in the industry for his astute business sense. His company, Adlabs (now Adlabs Films Limited) set up in 1978 catering only...

Mumbai: Dasaavataaram is a forthcoming Tamil film directed by K.S. Ravikumar. The film is set to star Kamal Haasan but the heroine is yet to be finalized. Peter Martis, PRO of Dasaavataaram said, “Vidya...

Mumbai: Producer Bipin Shah’s and director Deepak Julie Shivdasani’s Mr. White Mr. Black is about to get a dash of colour! His heroes Suniel Shetty and Arshad Warsi are riding high at the box-office....

Mumbai: A strong rumour in film trade says that that the shooting of David Dhawan’s home production Partner starring Govinda-Salman Khan has been delayed. It is said that the shooting is likely be pushed...

Superstar Amitabh Bachchan will be conferred with an honorary degree of Doctorate of Arts by the Leicester University on July 19 for his contribution to the movie business in India. Leicester has a huge...

Mumbai: After many years of planning, Neville Tuli of Osian’s Connoisseurs of Art has bought Minerva cinema for Rs. 300 million from Eagle Theatres. The deal was inked on July 7. Considered as one...

It is the season’s first football film and the first football film to come after two decades. And this time, the players of Padmini Kapila’s 90 Minutes directed by Iqbaal Rizzvi got together with...

Mumbai: Parvin Dabas shares his amazing experience of staying overnight with sadhus after he lost his way while trekking in Manali, where he was shooting for his forthcoming film With Luv Tumhara.Model turned actor...

Mumbai: The belief in numerology is growing to the hilt. From actors to makers, everyone have starting modifying their names by an extra alphabet or changing them. Here is one creative person Sunil Khosla...

Mumbai: Creating history in Indian cinema, for being the first actor who would also write and direct his debut film, 24-year old Mashhoor Amrohi, grandson of the legendary Kamaal Amrohi, launched his maiden venture...

Mumbai: Kabir Khan, director of Kabul Express started his career as a documentary film maker and is now working with a prestigious production house of Bollywood – Yash Raj Films. His film Kabul Express...

Mumbai: Amarjeet the new boy on the celluloid and is all set to make his debut with the film Iqraar… By Chance. A military school student, disciplinarian by nature, gold medalist in football, black...

Mumbai: Corporate house Adlabs is turning Bollywood’s Indie filmmakers into mini-production houses by signing multi-film deals with them. They have struck a deal worth Rs. 390 crores with four film makers. According to this,...

Film Iqraar by chance witnessed a grand launch at a subarban hotel on 1st july,06the film marks a debut for amarjeet and shilpa anand,the music is on HMV was launched by vikram bhatt,along with...

Mumbai: Actor Ajay Devgan’s cousin Ashu Devgan has turned producer with his maiden venture Ek Hum Ek Tum under the banner of Ashu Devgan Movies. He has tied up with Santosh Gupta and Hemant...

Mumbai: Few days back, ETC Networks Ltd. in a press release had claimed outstanding dues payable of Rs. 70 million from T-Series. Result: T-Series has boycotted the music channel and has withdrawn all their...

Mumbai: Director Vishal Bharadwaj is not new to co-production with Maqbool, Makdee and The Blue Umbrella being earlier films. After Kumar Mangat’s Omkara, Vishal Bharadwaj is veering to another co-venture. “I’m co-producing an anti-smoking...

The official body for Golden Globe Awards is Hollywood Foreign Press Association. A 95 member team is going to watch the Rang De Basanti in the foreign language film category on, July 27th, 7:30...

Mumbai: Sana Panscholi, the daughter of actors Aditya Panscholi and Zarina Wahab was set to debut as an actress in Viveck Vaswani and Motion Pictures Partners International, UK’s Direct Dil Se opposite MTV VJ...

MUMBAI : Watch the FIFA World Cup 2006 finals on the largest screen in town! As the FIFA World Cup excitement reaches fever pitch, INOX, at Nariman Point, is all set to take you...

Tamil Nadu Chief Minister M Karunanidhi slashed down shooting rent in government owned sought-after locales. The rates were hiked in Tamil Nadu during the regime of Jayalalitha government. This forced the directors and producers...

Actress Deepshikha is back to Mumbai after her shoot in the exotic locations of Malaysia for her forthcoming film LARA. The chirpy actress is so excited about her trip that she cannot stop herself...

Mumbai: Special effects wizard, Wilson Louis is all set to direct his next Lonavala – Khandala Ghat which will once again be full of special effects. Produced by Dhiknasha Thakkar the film is budgeted...

Mumbai: Vikram Tuli and Ajay Tuli cousins of Kumar Gaurav tied up with Adlabs and Prime Focus to produce a bouquet of six films. Collectively the budget for these projects is worked somewhere around...

Mumbai: Writer-director Mani Shankar, who had made films like 16 December, Rudraksh and Tango Charlie , is back with Mukhbiir meaning informer. A party to celebrate the completion was held on thursday evening at...

Mumbai: A pilot in Indian Airlines, Prince Dandona, has shifted gears. Starting off with international events like Bollywood and music awards, he has recently completed his maiden film Highway 203. He has handled the...

Mumbai: Ace photographer Atul Kasbekar’s new company, Corporate Image was launched by Amitabh Bachchan on Thursday evening. Atul has spent years photographing glamorous faces like Amitabh Bachchan, Aishwarya Rai, Aamir Khan, Shah Rukh Khan,...

Mumbai: Rakesh Roshan’s Krrish may be able to overcome all obstacles with his superpowers in the film, but in real life the movie’s allegedly run into trouble with the underworld. The film’s audio and...

Mumbai: In spite of controversies, stiff reviews by trade pundits and world cup fever, India’s answer to Superman, Batman and Spiderman, our very own superhero Krrish has created waves at the box-office. Serpentine queues...

The National Commission for Women (NCW) has pledged complete support to actress Shilpa Shetty in the ‘obscenity case’ filed against her by an advocate in Madurai. The actress’s spokesperson and publicist Dale Bhagwagar, who...

  Mumbai, June, 28 th: Times Now, the news channel of big stories will be seen in the noted film director – Madhur Bhandarkar’s much awaited film Corporate. Times Now correspondents will be seen...

Mumbai: Pravesh Sippy, the son of NN Sippy is reviving their famed NN Sippy banner. Vivek Agnihotri of Chocolate fame will be directing the film which stars Anil Kapoor, Saif Ali Khan and Priyanka...

Mumbai: Rakesh Roshan’s Krrish has paved the way for big-budgeted films in the same genre. Undeterred by the flop of his previous Sunny Deol starrer Teesri Aankh, producer-director Harry Baweja next film is a...

MUMBAI : Rajshri Media (P) Limited, the newly incubated digital arm of the Rajshri Group is bringing some of the biggest blockbusters of all times on your mobile phone. The company has launched ‘Timeless...

Mumbai: Major multiplexes of Mumbai give vent to the FIFA fever. Not one or two, but three multiplexes – Fame, Cinemax and Inox are geared up to screen FIFA World Cup 2006. Cinemax will...

Mumbai: In the Hindi film industry female actors are usually paid less than the male actors. But debutante Megha Chatterjee, daughter of actress Moushmi Chatterjee is said to being paid Rs. 1.1 million, while...

Mumbai: After a disaster called Vaah! Life Ho To Aisi, producer Sangeeta Ahir along with Prime Focus is presenting the film Apne. The movie produced by Rahul Sugandh and directed by Anil Gadar Sharma,...

Producer Nikhil Panchamiya is ready with his second film Anthony Kaun Hai? Made on a budget of Rs. 100 million (Rs. 10 crore), the film again has Munnabhai M.B.B.S. stars Sanjay Dutt and Arshad...

Mumbai: Movies is where moolah is! And everyone wants in on it. TV18 promoter Raghav Bahl is the latest to be bitten by the film business bug. Bahl is floating a separate company to...

The casting of producer Firoz A Nadiadwala’s Welcome is getting larger by the day. After roping in Akshay Kumar, Nana Patekar, Anil Kapoor, Feroz Khan, Paresh Rawal and Katrina Kaif, the latest to join...

Mumbai: Veteran ad film maker Prahlad Kakkar had planned to start producing feature films early this year under the banner of Genesis Features. The first project Bitter Rain is to star Manoj Bajpai, Sonu...

He shot into fame when he brought to light the plight of the girl who never got a chance to decide her own life. With the death of real-life Gudiya, director Prabhakar Shukla’s realistic...