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'Kites' to be released in Hindi and English
30 November 2009 9:11 AM, PST | The Bollywood Ticket | See recent The Bollywood Ticket news »
Hindi and English versions of the highly anticipated Bollywood film 'Kites' will be released next year in international markets, including the U.S.
The film is an intercultural love story, starring Indian actor Hrithik Roshan and Mexican actress Barbara Mori. It was directed by Anurag Basu and produced by Hrithik's father, Rakesh Roshan.
American filmmaker Brett Ratner—best-known for his films 'Red Dragon,' the 'Rush Hour' series, and 'X-Men: The Last Stand'—is currently editing the English version to appeal to Western audiences. Only the Hindi version, which has been completed, will be released in India.
The two versions were shot simultaneously during filming in Las Vegas, New Mexico, Los Angeles, and Mumbai.
The film's release has been repeatedly postponed, but it's now expected to hit theaters worldwide next summer.
There has been talk that Hrithik hopes to launch a career in Hollywood with this film. »
Black Friday Geek Deals
27 November 2009 12:05 AM, PST | Slash Film | See recent Slash Film news »
Black Friday is here, and we have a list of all the good deals on Amazon, which also a listing of the "Lightning Deals", which are only good for a specified set of hours. We have marked those hours below. Lightning Deals: 12am - 4am Pst • Monsters vs. Aliens [Blu-ray] - $9.99 • Monsters vs. Aliens - $6.99 • Scooby-Doo: The Mystery Begins - $10.00 4am - 8am Pst • Transformers - $5.99 (Starts at 4:10am) • Twilight - $8.99 • Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix [Blu-ray] - $9.99 • James Bond 10-Pack [Blu-ray] - $59.99 (Starts at 4:45am) 8am - 12pm Pst • The Dark Knight - $3.99 • The Dark Knight [Blu-ray] - $9.99 • True Blood: The Complete First Season - $19.99 • Sex and the City: The Complete Series (Collector's Giftset) - $89.99 (Starts at 8:45am) 12pm - 1pm Pst • X-Men Trilogy (X-Men / X2: X-Men United / X-Men: The Last Stand) [Blu-ray] - $29.99 12pm - 4pm Pst • Iron Man - $5.00 • Mad Men: Season One [Blu-ray] - »
- Peter Sciretta
X-men Star Takes Time To Meditate
26 November 2009 5:36 PM, PST | WENN | See recent WENN news »
X-men: The Last Stand star Ben Foster is a Transcendental Meditation expert - he's been practicing the calm process since he was four years old.
And he insists his talent for finding stillness on movie sets helps him focus on the intense roles he plays.
The 3:10 To Yuma villain explains, "Tm, like many techniques, allow us to hear our own voice and one can take a walk in the evening by themselves, some people go jogging, some people knit."
Foster's meditating has become a ritual for him and he always makes time to clear his mind for Tm sessions twice a day.
He tells WENN, "It's a ritual that allows us that quiet space inside, so we can hear what we are feeling, what we are thinking.
"Tm has always been a source of quieting the static mind... and it creates more space; it's a source of energy.
"I just know that when I do this in the morning and the afternoon that I have a clearer, calmer energy that doesn't feel forced or provoked by a chemical... You have a clearer mind and images and feelings can come up and one can actually address them.
"I usually meditate at lunch on sets. It's a technique that works for me. I have a lot more internal strength to approach the day than I do when I'm not meditating regularly."
And Foster admits he can meditate just about anywhere: "A comfortable, quiet space is great - a couch, the back seat of a car, trains, planes, automobiles, your bedroom, under a tree. It's just closing the eyes.
"It's just an ancient technique that allows for more silence to exist." »
Wolverine star Hugh Jackman to take on boxing robots in Real Steel
25 November 2009 7:09 AM, PST | The Geek Files | See recent The Geek Files news »
Fans of the X-Men films have long been wanting to see the Sentinels - giant mutant-hunting robots - on the big screen.
The metal menaces were due to feature in X2 but had to be cut from the script because they would be too expensive. The head of a Sentinel was seen briefly in X-Men: The Last Stand, and the robots were rumoured to be part of an early script for X-Men Origins: Wolverine but never made it to the final draft. (There were Sentinels in the tie-in video game, though).
Whether Sentinels will ever be part of the X-Men movies is anyone's guess, but in the meantime Wolverine actor Hugh Jackman will be taking on robots in his next film.
Jackman is to star in sci-fi movie Real Steel, based on a short story by Richard Matheson in which a fighter has to reinvent himself when human boxers are replaced by machines. »
- David Bentley
Army Officials Called Off Foster's Sex Scene With Morton
23 November 2009 2:06 PM, PST | WENN | See recent WENN news »
A sex scene between Ben Foster and Brit Samantha Morton was scrapped from new movie The Messenger - because U.S. Army officials didn't approve of the idea of soldiers sleeping with fallen comrades' wives.
X-Men: The Last Stand star Foster plays a reluctant war hero assigned the job of alerting the next of kin their loved ones have died in combat. His character falls for the widow of one dead soldier.
Writer/director Oren Moverman's script called for the odd couple to make love, but Army chiefs who were allowed to consult on the movie insisted a sex scene would break a leading military taboo.
Foster tells WENN, "We had full support of the army which was remarkable. They don't want Hollywood coming in and making a Hollywood version. They don't want to be misrepresented as it is against regulations to be with someone you notify.
"It wasn't necessary for the story for our characters to seal the deal in bed, so it worked on another level in recognising each other's trauma and trying to get back to life. How do we get back to life after losing someone that we love? We all get notified when someone we love dies and we have to find out a way to get up in the morning and pick ourselves up off the floor, take the garbage out and be a human being again."
And Foster insists he's not upset that so many people are discussing the sex scene that never was, rather than the serious message behind the gritty film.
He adds, "It doesn't bother me; people are gonna be interested in what they're gonna be interested in, and sex is one of those things... I'm happy people are talking about it (movie) at all."
Foster's role as Staff Sergeant Will Montgomery is among the early contenders for a Best Actor Oscar. »
New Moon's $26 Million Midnight Take Breaks All-Time Record
20 November 2009 11:40 AM, PST | Movieline | See recent Movieline news »
Uh, so there's this movie? It's called New Moon? Apparently there's some people who want to see it. The first screenings, at 12:01 am this morning on 3,514 screens across the country, brought Summit Entertainment $26,270,000, reports Deadline.com. That eviscerates the previous records held by The Dark Knight ($18.4 million) and Harry Potter And The Half-Blood Prince ($22.2 million). The female-skewed, Twihard-filled audiences should taper off over the weekend, but it will be interesting to see if there's enough juice here over the rest of the weekend to get Moon into the top ten openings of all time. It would have to make more than X-Men: The Last Stand's $103 million -- utterly achievable, at this rate. What about top five? Spider-Man currently holds that spot at $115 million. Never underestimate the astonishing earning power of Taylor Lautner's 18 abs. [Deadline] »
Edgar Wright's 'Times' Complaint, Tom Cruise And Justin Bieber In Today's Twitter-Wood
19 November 2009 3:00 PM, PST | MTV Movies Blog | See recent MTV Movies Blog news »
For the record, I always link back to the source and cite everyone's tweets that I use from the Twitter-Wood follow list, including Edgar Wright. That's more than can be said for an edited version of an Edward Woodward memorial he wrote on his blog that showed up in edited form on the Times website, though, according to his posts today.
I do make a minimal number of edits, such as the f-bomb in Ice-t's Twitter Pic of the Day winner today, which was followed by yet another Brett Ratner/Michael Jackson pic. You need see that one for the giant wig along. Check it all out after the jump along with a "New Moon" cast shot from Gil Birmingham, Alyson Hannigan's musical Joss Whedon nostalgia and Jamie Campbell Bower's befuddlement over Justin Bieber. It's all in the Twitter-Wood report for November 19, 2009.
Twitter Pic of the Day:
@Finallevel http://twitpic. »
- Brian Warmoth
Top Editors Brought In to Re-Cut The Wolfman
18 November 2009 9:47 AM, PST | ScreenRant.com | See recent Screen Rant news »
Of all the big films on the docket for next year, the one I’m most concerned about is The Wolfman. The second trailer for the film looked pretty badass, I’ll admit – but this movie has suffered a plagued production from the get-go. A change in directors, callbacks for reshoots and re-designs in the creature effects… It all points to a studio trying to turn lead into gold through the usual movie alchemy.
Well, the guys over at Slash Film must have magnifying glass eyes, because they spotted something deep-six buried in an article over at Variety, which names editors Mark Goldblatt and Walter Murch as the two guys hired to do a recut of The Wolfman!
This revelation comes without the usual fanfare from the blogosphere that goes with every little development on a major movie – suggesting that the studio is trying to keep the continuing problems with »
- Kofi Outlaw
Brett Ratner Reportedly Releasing English Version Of Bollywood Film "Kites"
18 November 2009 12:14 AM, PST | icelebz.com | See recent iCelebz news »
Filmmaker Brett Ratner will be adapting the Bollywood blockbuster "Kites" into a Western film. The "Rush Hour" director is reportedly "editing" an English version of the Asian film.
Ratner, whose credits include "The Family Man," "Red Dragon," and "X-Men: The Last Stand," is said to be working on an international English version of the Bollywood film by Anurag Basu.
The domestic version has already been completed and will be released in January, while the international version is still being formatted.
The move is being welcomed by acclaimed Hindu statesman Rajan Zed, who said this might result in the world coming closer.
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Brett Ratner Reportedly Releasing English Version Of Bollywood Film "Kites"
18 November 2009 12:14 AM, PST | icelebz.com | See recent iCelebz news »
Filmmaker Brett Ratner will be adapting the Bollywood blockbuster "Kites" into a Western film. The "Rush Hour" director is reportedly "editing" an English version of the Asian film.
Ratner, whose credits include "The Family Man," "Red Dragon," and "X-Men: The Last Stand," is said to be working on an international English version of the Bollywood film by Anurag Basu.
The domestic version has already been completed and will be released in January, while the international version is still being formatted.
The move is being welcomed by acclaimed Hindu statesman Rajan Zed, who said this might result in the world coming closer.
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What X-Men 3 Could Have Been
17 November 2009 7:54 PM, PST | ScreenRant.com | See recent Screen Rant news »
Mike Dougherty, director of the long-delayed and mistreated Trick ‘r Treat and co-writer of X-Men 2 joined the /Filmcast over the weekend and in their special “After Dark” segment, where they talk about whatever’s on their mind, their conversation hit on the interesting subject of X-Men 3, for which Dougherty and Singer were not a part of, but would have been had Singer not swung over to DC to make Superman Returns (for which Dougherty helped write).
In the audio clip, Dave Chen, Adam Quigley and Devindra Hardawar bring up the subject the X3 and quiz Dougherty on his thoughts of the movie, for which he answered reservedly and professionally. The interesting parts however, came afterward, when Dougherty moved on to explain some of the ideas he pitched to Bryan Singer for what of been their version of the third installment of the X-Men film franchise.
To start, we’ll go »
- Rob Keyes
More Wolfman Crew Shuffling as New Editors Are Brought In
17 November 2009 6:21 PM, PST | DreadCentral.com | See recent Dread Central news »
And Universal's The Wolfman continues down a bumpy road toward its February 12, 2010, release date. On the editing front Dennis (The Chronicles of Riddick, The Fog-2005 version) Virkler is apparently out, and Mark Goldblatt and Walter Murch are in.
Goldblatt started out strong with The Howling, Halloween II, The Terminator (1 and 2), and he most recently worked on X-Men: The Last Stand and G-Force. Murch did editing and sound work on such diverse fare as Apocalypse Now, The Talented Mr. Ripley, The Godfather: Part III, and Jarhead.
The news was somewhat buried in a Variety article, but /Film did a good job fleshing it out. At this point we can only wonder about director Joe Johnston’s day-to-day involvement with the picture after all the myriad changes it's undergone, and as more details are made available, we'll pass them on.
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- Uncle Creepy
Stars in Rewind: Ken Ober & 'Remote Control'
17 November 2009 3:45 PM, PST | Cinematical | See recent Cinematical news »
Attention children of the '80s: If you haven't already heard, television's Ken Ober died at the age of 52. The cause of death is not yet determined, although his agent noted that Ober "complained of headaches and flu-like symptoms on Saturday night." While he produced shows like Mind of Mencia and The New Adventures of Old Christine, he's probably best known for his time as the host of MTV's '80s quiz show: Remote Control.
Remember it? Three players would get strapped into arm chairs, answer questions about television and film (basically anything that could be found on TV), find food raining down on their heads, and get entertained by the likes of Colin Quinn, Kari Wuhrer, Denis Leary, and Adam Sandler. It was part classic MTV ridiculousness, and part media junky geek party.
In memory of the host and show, I thought I'd take us back in time for »
- Monika Bartyzel
Ken Ober, The 'New Moon' Red Carpet And Neil Patrick Harris In Today's Twitter-Wood
17 November 2009 3:00 PM, PST | MTV Movies Blog | See recent MTV Movies Blog news »
Last night got busy in Twitter-Wood on a few fronts. Former "Remote Control" host Ken Ober's passing surprised a number of tweeters, including Brian Posehn and Jeff Katz, who both noted his loss.
L.A.'s Westwood village theatre, meanwhile, was epicenter for all of the "Twilight" Twitterverse during the "New Moon" premiere. BooBoo Stewart posted a pic from the red carpet, Rachelle Lefevre posted her reasons for missing the event, Brett Ratner was in attendance and Kevin Smith made a date out of the night with his daughter. You can check out what they had to say after the jump along with Twitter Pic pick that I selected more for its significance than its shock value, as Neil Patrick Harris officially moved into the Twitter-Wood neighborhood. It's all in the report for November 17, 2009.
Twitter Pic of the Day:
@ActuallyNPH Felicia Day is popular. She mentions me and Twitter and Kablammo! »
- Brian Warmoth
Thor, Spider-Man Summit And Kevin Smith's 'New Moon' Date In Today's Twitter Report
17 November 2009 10:31 AM, PST | MTV Splash Page | See recent MTV Splash Page news »
The Warriors Three may be joining Anthony Hopkins as Odin in Kenneth Branagh's "Thor," but at least one writer would rather have seen Sean Connery play the Allfather.
Elsewhere, big names in comics turned out for "The Twilight Saga: New Moon" last night, including Kevin Smith, who compared his daughter's relationship with the franchise to his own experience with "Star Wars." Far more comics faces were gathered in New York, though, for the Spider-Man summit Fred Van Lente tweeted about yesterday. Dan Slott posted a pic from the group's Marvel-funded dinner. Check that out after the jump along with Gail Simone's first tweet from her Xbox 360, Steve Niles' reaction to last night's meteor shower and Matthew Sturges' Imogen Heap dilemma.
It's all in the Twitter Report for November 17, 2009.
@marcbernardin Nothing against Sir Anthony Hopkins, but if you're not gonna do Brian Blessed for Odin, you shoulda coaxed Sean Connery out of retirement. »
- Brian Warmoth
Cameron Bright Interview - 'Alec' in New Moon
17 November 2009 7:50 AM, PST | movies.about.com | See recent movies.about.com news »
Cameron Bright (X-Men: The Last Stand) plays Alec, one of the powerful Volturi vampires, in The Twilight Saga: New Moon, the second movie of the series. Alec has the ability to take away all your senses - a particularly difficult power to portray on film - but on the red carpet at the film's La premiere it actually would have been helpful to have Alec's ability to tune out screaming. Thousands of diehard Twilight fans announced the arrival of each cast member, and conducting interviews was a real struggle at times. So check out the interview with Cameron Bright from the red carpet and try and ignore any explosive screaming in the background:
Cameron Bright Talks New Moon, Twilight Fans, and Guys Movies (Photo by Kevin Winter/Getty Images)
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Edward Woodward, 'New Moon' And Michael Jackson In Today's Twitter-Wood
16 November 2009 4:00 PM, PST | MTV Movies Blog | See recent MTV Movies Blog news »
Edward Woodward, the actor best remembered for his starring role in the TV series "The Equalizer" and his once-in-a-lifetime performance in the original pre-bees "Wicker Man," commanded a mountain of memorial tweets today. Simon Pegg, Edgar Wright and even Seth Meyers posted memories and favorite performances amid the news of his passing, and I join them. If you haven't seen him in 1973's "The Wicker Man," you're missing out on one of the all-time great horror/musical productions.
There were "New Moon" tweets today, too, of course. Peter Facinelli spent his pre-premiere morning getting his driver's license renewed, while Tinsel Korey posted a pic from outside and BooBoo Stewart prepped at the gym. Check out their tweets after the jump along with a Twitter Pic of the Day starring Michael Jackson and an "Iron Man 2" note from Jon Favreau. I'm @brianwarmoth, and this is the Twitter-Wood report for November »
- Brian Warmoth
Shadows of The Dark Knight Pt 2: Is dark the key to success?
16 November 2009 2:25 PM, PST | The Geek Files | See recent The Geek Files news »
When Batman blockbuster The Dark Knight made a billion dollars at the global box office and became America's second highest-grossing movie of all time, several subsequent action-adventure releases used its dark formula but without the same success.
As everyone now realises, the Warner Bros release did not succeed because it was dark, as Marvel's studio boss Kevin Feige has pointed out.
As Feige rightly says, it succeeded because it respected the source material (and also made it accessible for the ordinary viewer). Admittedly, it was helped along by the interest generated by Heath Ledger's untimely demise.
But hardcore fans do tend to want more violence in films - on superhero fan forums the cry for an adult rating is commonplace. Studios, though, are more wary about shutting out the family market altogether, especially since Watchmen and even more especially in a shaky economy.
Blood, gore and brutal violence often has to be omitted, »
- David Bentley
Bill Belichick's Fourth Quarter Colts Vs Patriots Fumble An Old Story In Hollywood
16 November 2009 8:00 AM, PST | MTV Movies Blog | See recent MTV Movies Blog news »
Everybody makes mistakes, even a three-time Super Bowl winning football coach like Bill Belichick. If a man like Belichick can cause a series of fatal game-changing events due to one bad coaching call — as he did during the fourth quarter of last night's game pitting his New England Patriots against the Indianapolis Colts — then you shouldn't feel too bad about breaking your mother's favorite vase or skipping out on "Drag Me To Hell" while it was in theaters. Alright, maybe you should feel bad about that last one.
But the Patriots head coach isn't alone in his ability to turn a single blunder into a catastrophic calamity — it's a storm that comes into port quite often in the hills of Hollywood. In fact, the following five film franchises have all seen similar collapses due to a fourth quarter fumble.
Batman & Robin
In 1997, the superhero movie genre almost died a dastardly death due to "Batman & Robin, »
- Josh Wigler
Bryan Singer gains massive support for return to X-Men
15 November 2009 10:19 AM, PST | The Geek Files | See recent The Geek Files news »
There's been overwhelming support for Bryan Singer in my recent poll asking whether he should return to the X-Men film series.
Thousands of people voted and 79 per cent picked 'yes', while 16 per cent said 'no' and 5 per cent were not sure.
Producers are keen to bring the director back in order to restore the 20th Century Fox franchise to the widely-received consistency and quality of his second film, X2: X-Men United.
X2 was written by Michael Dougherty and Dan Harris, and Dougherty recently revealed the ideas he had for X3 before they had all left to make Superman Returns instead.
Fox hired first Matthew Vaughn, and then Brett Ratner, to take the reins on the third movie.
There are welcome moves to try get Singer and his team on board for one or more future X-Men movies.
Several films are in the pipeline: a Wolverine sequel being penned by Singer »
- David Bentley
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