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After last week’s mega release of My Name Is Khan, this week saw the releases of several smaller films, Toh Baat Pakki and Click . As of this writing, both films are sitting of identical scores of 43%, earning them both a grade of D+.

Toh Baat Pakki starring Tabu is her first starring role since [...]

The film’s going to have a red carpet premiere at Fun Cinemas, Mumbai tonight before its theatrical release tomorrow! Of the one show it has at Movie Star in Goregaon, there’s a huge rush for the advance booking…5 tickets already sold! There are reports that there have been lathi-charges at centers in UP!
Anyway, here’s the [...]

There was a time when I was one of Aamir Khan’s big fan. I still am a fan of Aamir the actor, and the films he’s done this past decade (save 3 Idiots which I personally did not like at all) are some of the best films of the decade, with Lagaan and Dil Chahta [...]

While everyone’s paying close attention to MNIK’s Indian and overseas box-office numbers, and while all the pre-release buzz of the film was centered around whether the Shiv Sena’s tactics would adversely affect the film’s business…almost everybody forgot that the real threat that MNIK would actually have to fight off in its second week is the [...]

The reviews for MNIK are really strong. On AllBollywood.com, the movie is already at an 80%, making it the best reviewed film since ‘Slumdog Millionaire’, which released last year in India.
Of the 7 reviews they have, all are positive, with the lowest one only being 3.5 stars.
Of course it’s early, so it could go up [...]

Best Picture
AVATAR

THE BLIND SIDE

DISTRICT 9

Bengali film ‘Antaheen’ wins the award for the best feature film. Upendra Limaye (Jogva) and Priyanka Chopra (Fashion) win the Best Lead Actor / Actress awards.
The list of winners are:
Best Feature Film – Antaheen (Bengali)

This is a video of Leonardo DiCaprio and Robert DeNiro presenting the master filmmaker Martin Scorsese with a Lifetime Achievement Award  at the 67th Golden Globes Award. There is a lovely montage of Scorsese’s films, followed by his acceptance speech which is one of the best I’ve heard and clearly shows this man’s unending love [...]

For the four-day Martin Luther King, Jr. weekend, Avatar pulled in an estimated $54.6 million, eclipsing Cloverfield’s $46.1 million as the biggest gross the holiday period has ever seen. Debuting in second place, The Book of Eli was no slouch either, grossing an estimated $38 million four-day, which was the holiday’s fourth-biggest ever. As busy [...]

Ricky Gervais, that British comedic genius responsible for Extras and The Office, hosted the 67th Golden Globes. And was he ballsy or what! Taking a dig at Hollywood celebrities in general, commenting on the amount of plastic surgery present in the room, to attacking individuals with pointed remarks like when he said, “I like a [...]

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There’s a collective holding of breath right now amongst box office analysts and pundits everywhere as James Cameron’s sprawling sci-fi flick Avatar trundles towards a record-breaking performance as the top-grossing movie of all time. There are still a few records to break on the domestic sales front for Avatar to hit #2, but there’s really just one [...]

It is indeed happening. Post Avatar, and its wonderful use and seamless blending of 3D technology and mo-cap photography, the face of cinema as we know it was bound to change. If December 17, 2009 saw the release of Avatar, then December 17, 2010 should be marked in your calendar as the day of Tron [...]

The theatrical trailer of Teen Patti is out. This is a highly anticipated film for me. Bachchan, Maddy and Kingsley!
http://www.bollywoodhungama.com/broadband/video/Movie-Promos/xYZYsb48/3/Theatrical-Trailer-Teen-Patti.html

James Cameron’s $450 million game-changing pro-green sci-fi extravaganza Avatar has completed 3 weekends at the international box-office. And the numbers that this film has managed to throw up are just as awe-inspiring, if not more, than the film itself. In just 17 days of its release, Avatar has done a worldwide gross of $1,025,378,961…a little [...]

http://ibnlive.in.com/news/2-minors-medical-student-commit-suicide-in-mumbai/108169-3.html?from=tn
Two minors and a medical student are suspected to have committed suicide here, sending shock waves across the city Monday.
A 20-year-old medical student, whose identity was not immediately known, was found dead in her flat at Chaitanya Nagar in the upmarket Powai area of north-west Mumbai, police said, adding that prelimanary investigations suggest it could [...]

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This New Year’s weekend was the biggest-grossing ever, fueled by the highest gross ever posted by a single movie on the holiday. Easing ten percent, Avatar generated a whopping estimated $68.3 million, claiming the New Year’s record from Meet the Fockers‘ $41.7 million. More importantly, it delivered the highest-grossing third weekend ever, surpassing the first [...]

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Here are two images you may remember from television. The first was the Oscar ceremony. Simon Beaufoy won the Oscar for best adapted screenplay for Slumdog Millionaire. It is no secret that Beaufoy’s script differed significantly from the book by Vikas Swarup on which Slumdog was based. But Beaufoy made it a point to thank [...]

A BOOK, A FILM AND THE TRUTH
http://www.chetanbhagat.com/blog/general/a-book-a-film-and-the-truth
Dear All,

THE BOOK OF ELI
Dir- Hughes Brothers
Cast- Denzel Washington, Mila Kunis and Gary Oldman
Synopsis- A post-apocalyptic tale, in which a lone man fights his way across America in order to protect a sacred book that holds the secrets to saving humankind.

DAYBREAKERS
Dir- Spierig Brothers
Cast- Ethan Hawke, Willem Dafoe and Sam Neill
Synopsis- In the year 2019, a plague [...]

Brittany Murphy died last night after she went into full cardiac arrest and could not be revived, multiple sources tell TMZ.
She was 32.
The Los Angeles City Fire Department tells TMZ they received a call to a home in Los Angeles that is listed as belonging to her husband, Simon Monjack.