After his last two blockbusters 'Dabangg' and 'Ready,' Salman Khan is back on the big screen with his much awaited Eid release - 'Bodyguard'. ...
03:42 PM, Aug 31, 2011
New Delhi: Though Salman Khan won't be in India for the release of his much talked about "Bodyguard", his charm seems to have cast a spell on his fans as is evident from the advance bookings for the film, releasing on Eid. The cash registers are ringing and multiplex owners are hoping that the mid-week celebrations will continue till the weekend. "We had opened the advance bookings for the film...
01:00 AM, Aug 31, 2011
New Delhi: Chulbul Pandey may have almost become his alter ego, but star performer Salman Khan is looking to continue his winning streak in the skin of Lovely Singh in his romantic comedy Bodyguard that hits theatres on Eid-ul-Fitr on Wednesday. Both of his major hits Dabangg and Wanted, released on Eid, went on to become phenomenal successes. Though Ready wasnt an Eid release, it was harbinger of times to...
12:32 AM, Aug 31, 2011
Lucknow: Director Prakash Jha today said that he does not want to blame anyone for the controversy over 'Aarakshan' that led to the film being banned in Uttar Pradesh, Punjab and Andhra Pradesh. Jha had to move the Supreme Court again UP government's decision to ban the film for two months while Punjab and Andhra Pradesh agreed to release the film after minor cuts. UP released the movie after the...
10:54 PM, Aug 25, 2011
New Delhi: Filmmaker Ram Gopal Varma's brutal crime biopic Not A Love Story is a pale shadow of the director's strong narrative of systematic crime and his fascination with the underworld that goes back to his days of 'Shiva'. When he returns as producer with Shabri this week, one can only hope that Varma finds his niche back as the master-teller of the crime story. There is Stanley Kubrick's horror...
05:50 PM, Aug 23, 2011
New Delhi: Trade analysts are calling it the lull before the storm. Salman Khan-starrer "Bodyguard" will hit the screens on Eid, but several lesser known, small budget films will fill the gap till then. Be it "Chitkabrey", "Shabri", "Mr Bhatti On Chutti" or "Yeh Dooriyan", "Rivaaz" and "Stand By", they will all release this Friday. "I think this is a lull before the storm. If we look at the films...
11:56 AM, Aug 23, 2011
Los Angeles: The maids of 'The Help' proved far mightier than muscle-flexing 'Conan the Barbarian' and three other new releases at the weekend box office, taking the top spot with an estimated $20.5 million in U.S. and Canadian ticket sales. 'The Help' rose from its second-place finish last week to the top spot with rave reviews and strong word-of-mouth buzz, distributor Walt Disney Co said on Sunday. The drama chronicles...
12:15 PM, Aug 22, 2011
Los Angeles: A popular boy wizard, comic-book heroes and some foul-mouthed women are leading Hollywood toward a record-breaking summer despite the sour economy and high unemployment resulting in tightened consumer spending. Underscoring the notion that movies are recession-proof, U.S. and Canadian ticket sales are expected to finish nearly 5 percent higher than a year ago thanks to the 'Harry Potter' finale and other big-budget sequels plus raunchy adult comedies such...
01:13 PM, Aug 18, 2011
Los Angeles: Apes have climbed to the top rung of the weekend box office. The 20th Century Fox action thriller 'Rise of the Planet of the Apes' took in $54 million to open as the No. 1 movie, according to studio estimates Sunday. That was about $15 million to $20 million more than analysts expected for the 'Apes' prequel, though well below the $68.5 million opening of Tim Burton's 'Planet...
09:51 PM, Aug 08, 2011
Mumbai: If you want to see what a "hit" Bollywood film looks like, you might have to make the trip to the rundown Maratha Mandir theatre in Mumbai. For more than 15 years now, the theatre has played a matinee show of the same film -- Aditya Chopra's 'Dilwale Dulhania Le Jayenge'. The film, which was released in 1995, still enjoys an uninterrupted run at the theatre, and is considered...
11:54 AM, Aug 08, 2011
Los Angeles: Harry Potter has joined the billion-dollar club. Distributor Warner Bros. said Sunday that 'Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows: Part 2' crossed the $1 billion mark at the worldwide box office. It's soon expected to pass 'Pirates of the Caribbean: On Stranger Tides', which is this year's top grossing movie at $1.03 billion. The last of the eight films about the young wizard is the first in the...
01:54 PM, Aug 01, 2011
Los Angeles: The tiny blue Smurfs battled big-name, big-budget Cowboys & Aliens to a surprising tie at the domestic weekend box office with each film ringing up an estimated $36.2 million in ticket sales, according to studio estimates on Sunday. The Smurfs live-action and animated 3D film drew families to the latest adventure of the classic Belgian cartoon characters and grossed higher-than-expected sales. Cowboys & Aliens fell short of pre-release...
01:48 PM, Aug 01, 2011
New Delhi: Zoya Akhtar's "Zindagi Na Milegi Dobara", a story of the adventurous road trip in Spain of three friends, is spinning magic at the box office - grossing Rs 108 crore in 10 days. Released by Eros International, the film starring Hrithik Roshan, Farhan Akhtar, Abhay Deol, Kalki Koechlin and Katrina Kaif has earned Rs.86 crore at the domestic box office (net collection Rs.60 crore) and Rs.22 crore overseas....
03:47 PM, Jul 27, 2011
Los Angeles: Director Seth Gordon is planning to make a sequel to Jennifer Aniston starrer "Horrible Bosses". The movie has grossed $82.6 million on the domestic box office since its July 8 release and now Gordon is planning to reunite the cast with a sequel, reports usmagazine.com. "We're talking about it," Gordon told USA Today. In the original film, Aniston played a sexually aggressive dentist who harasses one of her...
03:36 PM, Jul 27, 2011
New Delhi: After an impressive opening, Ajay Devgn starrer action thriller "Singham" generated good business during the weekend as well and grossed Rs.44.2 crore in domestic market and Rs.3.50 crore overseas. Directed by Rohit Shetty and produced by Reliance Entertainment the film is a remake of Tamil blockbuster "Singham". The movie also entered the list of top domestic weekends of all time and is at the 10th spot with Rs.30.93...
09:16 PM, Jul 25, 2011
Los Angeles: "Harry Potter" is cinematic gold bullion. The final film in the mega-grossing series, i>Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows, Part 2', shattered box office records last weekend after debuting to north of $478 million worldwide. But that's just a taste of the spoils to come if the bespectacled wizard's performance on DVD and Blu-ray is any indication. Thus far, the first seven films in Warner Bros. boy-wizard franchise...
11:25 AM, Jul 20, 2011
With 'Zindagi Na Milegi Dobara' and 'Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows - Part 2', the distributors and exhibitors are calling it the best weekend of this year. ...
03:17 PM, Jul 19, 2011
New Delhi: Director Zoya Akhtar's Zindagi Na Milegi Dobara has broken even, making Rs.28.60 crore in the opening weekend and Rs.31 crore through satellite and music rights for a total of over Rs.59 crore. The budget of the film, including prints and publicity was Rs.55 crore, trade sources said. At the box office, the film, which was publicised extensively across the country, earned Rs.8.15 crore on Friday, Rs.9.25 crore on...
08:51 PM, Jul 18, 2011
Los Angeles: A swan song of the blockbuster Harry Potter series eclipsed a previous trailblazer of the Hollywood tentpoles by grabbing a heart-stopping $168.55 million over the weekend, as well as creating three other firsts as the highly popular franchise bows out of celluloid incarnation for good, Xinhua reports. According to estimated statistics released by Warner Bros., which distributes "Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows: Part II", the final and...
10:35 AM, Jul 18, 2011
