Film: The Bong Connection Director: Anjan Dutt Producer: Joy Ganguly Cast: Shyan Munshi, Piya Rai Choudhari, Raima Sen, Parambrata Chatterjee, Victor Banerjee Rating: 2/5 It’s not the typical song, dance and hullabaloo; neither does...
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Film Review: Epic Movie
Film: Epic Movie Director: Jason Friedberg and Aaron Seltzer Cast: Kal Penn, Adam Campbell, Jayma Mays, Faune A chambers, Jennifer Coolidge, Carmen Electra, Crispin Glover Rating: 0.5/5 You undergo the tedious process of creating...
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Film Review: Vacancy
Film: Vacancy Director: Nimrod Antal Cast: Kate Beckinsale, Luke Wilson, Frank Whaley Rating: 3/5 Most of the thriller or horror flicks that have bothered to release this year have had us yawn, play hide...
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Film Review: Bombay To Goa
Film: Bombay To Goa Director: Raj Pendurkar Producer: Humayu Rangilla Cast: Sunil Pal, Raju Shrivastava, Ehsaan Qureshi, Tinu Anand, Vijay Raaz, Naveen Prabhakar, Rauf Lala, Asrani, Jagdeep, Paintal, Jr Mehmood, Dinesh Hingoo, Viju Khote,...
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AOL launches new portal with 20 mn videos
MUMBAI: AOL today launched an update to its AOL Video portal (http://video.aol.com) with enhancements designed to make it even easier for consumers to find, watch and share more than 20 million videos from across...
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TM Media launches reality-based film project
MUMBAI: Media and entertainment company TM Media Group, Inc. has launched a reality-based film project called Daddy’s Shadow, starring Dr. Dre’s daughter Manaj. Daddy’s Shadow is a feature-length documentary centered on Manaj’s quest to...
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Little Zizou
Film: Little Zizou Director: Sooni Taraporevala Presented by: Mira Nair/Studio 18 Cast: Boman Irani, Zenobia Shroff, Shenaz Patel, Cyrus Broacha, Kamal Sidhu Synopsis: Little Zizou is a comedy for the global audience about faith...
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Walt Disney renames its Racing Studio
MUMBAI: Disney Interactive Studios has re-named its development studio Climax Racing as Black Rock Studio. Black Rock is Disney Interactive Studios’ first video game development studio in Europe, making it both strategically and geographically...
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Grasim Mr India to debut in Hindi film Mummiji
MUMBAI: Grasim Mr India 2005 Viraf Phiroz Patel will be seen in his debut film Mummiji. Kirron Kher plays his reel life mother and Divya Dutta his co-star in the film. The Grasim Mr...
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Cinemax premieres laugh riot Bombay to Goa
MUMBAI: Cinemax recently premiered the comedy Bombay To Goa at their Versova property. The opening night of the movie saw the a wide range of comedians like Sunil Pal, Raju Shrivastav, Ehsaan Quereshi, Vijay...
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Documentary to honour Chetan Anand
MUMBAI: Late Chetan Anand, elder brother of Dev Anand and Vijay Anand will be commemorated on 11 July at the Stuttgart Film Festival in Germany. A docudrama titled Chetan Anand  The Poetics of...
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Nick launches Nick Home Cinema
MUMBAI: Kids’ channel Nick has launched Nick Home Cinema. Starting this July, every Sunday at 11 am, Nick will bring the best Nick-flicks. Toon stars can be seen starring in their own movies including...
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Emraan Hashmi gets candid on Zoom
MUMBAI: The self-confessed serial kisser of the Indian film industry – Emraan Hashmi – will be at his candid best as he chats up with host Tarana Raja Kapoor on the Zoom show Let’s...
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Shaan sings for Cartoon Network’s show
MUMBAI: After crooning some of the mega movie hits, singer Shaan will be the voice behind the title track of Cartoon Network’s new action show titled Sazer X. In addition, singer Vijay Prakash has sung...
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HBO to air Zathura: A Space Adventure
MUMBAI: It’s time for sci-fi thrillers. HBO in its weekend slot will be airing Zathura: A Space Adventure on 7 July at 9 pm. The film stars Josh Hutcherson, Tim Robbins and Kristen Stewart...
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Anil Kapoor’s Nayak to air on Max
MUMBAI: Set Max will be screening Nayak on July 8 at 12 pm. The film is directed by S Shankar and stars Anil Kapoor, Rani Mukherjee, Amrish Puri and Johnny Lever. Shivaji Rao (Anil...
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Star gets aggressive on film merchandise
MUMBAI: While movie merchandising is a huge business in countries like the US and UK, India has only just woken up to its potential. With precendents such as Hanuman and Krrish that set the...
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Baba Arts steps up on IP rights’ space
MUMBAI: Baba Arts has acquired the copyrights, excluding theatre and music rights of the new live-action animated film My Friend Ganesha. The rights acquired are satellite and overseas, world wide video rights; world wide...
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BR Films picks 73% stake in animation company
MUMBAI: BR Films has picked up majority stake in newly set up animation and visual effects studio Pix-n-Trix. BR Films will infuse an initial investment of Rs 700 million (Rs 70 crore) over a...
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UTV inks two film deal with Shahid Kapur
MUMBAI: UTV Motion Pictures Plc’s subsidiary company UTV Motion Pictures (Mauritius) has signed a two-film deal with actor Shahid Kapur. The first of these films will tentatively commence shooting before 31 March, 2008, and...
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Eros International’s scrip creates frenzy on AIM
MUMBAI: Mind blowing! These two words explain the performance of Indian media and entertainment company – Eros International – on the London Stock Exchange’s Alternative Investment Market (AIM). Buoyed by the results and the...
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UTV executive director D’Mello resigns
MUMBAI: Ronnie Screwvala promoted UTV Software Communications’ executive director and erstwhile chief operating officer (COO) Ronald D’Mello has put in his papers at the company. Sources inform that he put in his papers last...
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