Gupshup: Interesting developments from tinsel town

Is Mani Shankar making a sequel to 16 DECEMBER? However, Mani, who has just released KNOCK OUT, quashes all rumours of a sequel. “There’s no sequel to 16 DECEMBER in the pipeline,” he clarifies. Mani adds he’s working on three new scripts currently.

Is A WEDNESDAY director Neeraj Pandey making a horror film? Wasn’t he planning a hard-hitting film, based on a real-life incident, with Abhishek Bachchan in the lead? So what prompted him to make a horror film instead? “No horror films for me, please. I am working on something new completely,” he states.

Talk is gaining momentum that a lead actress has decided to take a break from work. Family matters?

The controversial film, released recently, will be premiered on a satellite channel in Diwali.

Amitabh Bachan Promoting New Flick ‘Rann’

Bollywood icon Amitabh Bachan and Ritesh Deshmukh participated in the projection ceremony of their new flick ‘Rann’, which is based on journalism.
The event was also attended by film Director Ram Gopal Warma and other crew members. Addressing the gathering, Amitabh said that he would only get character roles in this part of his age, adding that he wanted to be a journalist before stepping into the film industry and as such termed himself lucky enough to get a role in Rann. “I just put forward my stance on journalism, and as such there is no criticism on the profession”, said Ram Gopal Warma. Paresh Rawal, Manisha Koirala and Gul Panag are also among the cast, however, the release has been postponed owing to Salman Khan’s ‘Veer’.

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Amitabh Bachan Promoting New Flick ‘Rann’ was first posted on January 24, 2010 at 8:22 pm.

Horror Film Legion Released

Horror Film Legion Released, British actor Paul Bettany leads the cast of the new horror film “Legion.”The movie presents a disturbing vision of the Apocalypse that culminates in a showdown between God and man. Bettany portrays the powerful archangel Michael, who comes to Earth on a prophesied Judgment Day to help the remaining humans survive a coming slaughter.
The 38-year-old London-born, classically-trained actor explained why he was interested in the role. “Well, I’ve never had the opportunity to be the good guy in an action movie before. And, you know, that was a draw. And I really liked the script. It felt actually like a sort of hearkening back to sort of ’70s movies that I grew up loving. And movies like ‘Dawn of the Dead.’”
Bettany also talked about concerns many people seem to have about an end times scenario being unleashed on Earth. “I think we all are. Even if you don’t sort of believe in it in a sort of Biblical way. And I think its sort of in our culture, and I think everybody’s like completely, and rightly so, very worried about our way in which we’re damaging the world in which we live. So I think it’s really out there in the ether.” “Legion” also stars American actors Dennis Quaid, Tyrese Gibson and Adrianne Palicki.
Quaid said he is skeptical about a looming Apocalypse. “I think people romanticize about the end of the world,” smiled the 55-year-old actor. “It makes us feel like our lives our bigger. Like our humdrum lives are a little bit bigger than they are. And, but once it actually comes about, bad things happen, and it’s really kind of a drag.”
Palicki shared that although she also doesn’t think the world will end in her lifetime, she believes many people are anxious and intrigued by the possibility. “Well, you know, I think it’s always possible,” said Palicki, 26. “I don’t think I’m going to see it. I hope not anyways. We, you know, definitely we’re headed in that direction. And, that’s the interest there, as well as a lot of books and talk. There’s talk of the world ending in 2012 or what not. So I think it’s getting closer, and I think more people are getting scared about it. The more scared they are about it, the more they want to see it.”
R&B singer-turned-actor Tyrese Gibson said he is not worried about a Judgment Day, but noted that he was pleased to be a member of the cast. “I don’t believe world is ending,” shared Gibson, 31. “But I was happy to be a part of this film, as a student of film. Looking to learn as much as I could learn from the likes of Paul Bettany and Dennis Quaid and Charles Dutton, and everybody else. So I had a great time, and I hope people enjoy the film.”
“Legion” was directed by Scott Stewart, a visual effects guru-turned-filmmaker. Films exploring similar end-of-the-world themes, “The Road” with Viggo Mortensen, and “The Book of Eli,” starring Denzel Washington, were released earlier this year. “Legion” opened across North America on Friday, January 22.

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Horror Film Legion Released was first posted on January 24, 2010 at 8:46 pm.

Return of The Living Dead

Return of the Living Dead is a film series that took place between 1985-2005. The series began as a dispute between John Russo and George A. Romero on how to deal with its aftermath of the 1968 film, Night of the Living Dead. The two reached an agreement in which the aftermath of Romero’s films called dead, and aftermath of Russo have the suffix of the undead. Therefore, each man could do whatever I wanted with the series, while still others have different jobs and be considered canon. Following this decision, Russo wrote a horror novel, Return of the Living Dead, he planned on adapting a screenplay. Although the film rights were sold initially in 1979 that were approved over several different studies and directors until finally obtained by Tobe Hooper, whom Russo wrote a script. Hooper left the project, however, and the script never materialized.

After Hooper’s departure in the project, Russo, along with his new partner, Dan O’Bannon, wrote a new script (with Russo in a novel adaptation of accompaniment), also titled The Return of the Living Dead. This project will alleviate confusion among fans of Romero’s work, including a scene in which a character recognizes the films of George Romero and explains that, although based on actual events, the events of the series of back are the “true history “. Besides this separation of the arguments, the films of the series are significantly more comedy back on the ground that Romero’s films, with slapstick humor.

While Russo and O’Bannon directly involved only in the first film in the series, the rest of the films, to varying degrees, stick to their outline and “rules” set out in the first film.

The fourth and fifth films in the series were filmed simultaneously near the Chernobyl nuclear power plant in Ukraine. Despite being intended for a theatrical release, edited versions of both films made their debut on the SciFi Channel on October 5, 2005 and were later released on DVD.

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Return of The Living Dead was first posted on October 24, 2009 at 4:44 pm.

Angelina Jolie, DiCaprio to Work Together

Angelina Jolie, DiCaprio to Work Together, Hollywood stars Leonardo DiCaprio and Angelina Jolie are in talks to play the king and queen of the dynasty of the Gucci fashion director Ridley Scott’s new movie.

Jolie is set to play Patrizia Reggiano, the former wife of Maurizio Gucci, who was sentenced to 29 years in prison for conspiring to murder the fashion guru.

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Angelina Jolie, DiCaprio to Work Together was first posted on October 24, 2009 at 5:00 pm.

Urban Legends Movie

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Urban Legends Movie was first posted on October 24, 2009 at 6:17 pm.