Maaveran record break

Kollywood’s biggest ever hit Maaveran has yet another record in its kitty. This film has successfully completed 700 days run in Kurnool town in Andhra. This is a record for any film in the history of Telugu cinema.

  Maaveran wiped off its record by a huge margin and has set a permanent record. It will be too hard for any film to cross this mark as every big film is being released with too many prints and numerous theatres.

Maaveran will complete two years run by July 31st.

Vijay leaves China for Shanghai International Film Festival | Kavalan Movie

Vijay’s Kaavalan directed by Siddique has been selected for the Shanghai International Film Festival. It is one of the most distinguished film events in Asia. Kaavalan is one among the 200 films that were selected from nearly 2500 entries from all over the world. The 14th edition of this festival will get started on June 11th.

Director Barry Levinson, who won an Academy award for his Rain Man starring Dustin Hoffman and Tom Cruise will head the panel of judges. Vijay’s film will be screened on the 12th, so he will be flying out to Shanghai to participate in this event. He will be rubbing shoulders with some of the most talented people on the globe.

National Film Awards 2011 - Winner's List

Winners in selected major categories at the 58th National Film Awards

1. Best Feature film: 'Adaminte Makan Abu' (Malayalam)
2. Best Director: Vetrimaran, 'Aadukalam' (Tamil)
3. Best Actor: Dhanush, 'Aadukalam' and Salim Kumar, 'Adaminte Makan Abu'
4. Best Actress: Mitalee Jagtaap, 'Baboo Band Baaja' and Saranya Piravanam, 'Thenmerku Paruvakatru'

5. Best supporting Actor: J Thambi Ramaih
6. Best Supporting Actress: Sukumari
7. Best Cinematographer:
8. Best Editing: 'Aadukalam'
9. Best Wholesome Entertainer: 'Dabangg'
10. Best Debut Film: 'Baboo Band Baaja'(Marathi)
11. Best Children's Film: 'Hejjegalu' (Kannada)
12. Best Singer Female : Rekha Bhardwaj, 'Ishqiya'
13. Best Singer Male: Suresh Wadekar
14. Best Music: Vishal Bhardwaj, 'Ishqiya'
15. Best Audiography: Kamod Karade, 'Ishqiya'
16. Best Sci & Tech Film: 'Heart to Heart'
17. Best Sports Film: 'Boxing Ladies'

18. Special Jury Award: 'Kabira Khada Baazar Mein'
19. Best educational Film: 'Advaitham'
20. Best Art & Culture Film: 'Leaving Home'
21. Best Debut Non-feature Film: 'Tistulia'
22. Nargis Dutt Award: 'Moner Manush'
23. Best Film On social Issues: 'Champions'
24. Best Popular Film: 'Dabangg'
25. Best Film on Environment: 'Beetari Jeeva'
26. Best Production Design: Robot
27. Best Lyrics: Thomas Kottakatally
28. Special Jury Award: Mi Sindhutai Satka
29. Best dialogues: Sanjay Pawar
30. Best Lyricist: Vairamuthu
31.Best Child Artist: Shantanu Ranglekar, Vivek, Harsh Myal
32.Best Make Up Artist: Vikram Gaikwad,'Moner Maanush'
34.Best special effects: Enthiran,Robot.
34.Best Screenplay: Vetrimaran, 'Aadukalam'

Best Hindi Film: 'Do Dooni Chaar'
Best Marathi Film: Mana Ayi Vacha
Best Assamese Film: Jetuka Patar Dare
Best Kannada Film: Putukarna Highway
Best English Film: Memories in March

Aamir Khan - Shahrukh Khan clash deflected!

You all know that Aamir Khan has started shooting for a thriller with Kareena   and Rani Mukherjee. But what you don’t know is that the movie was supposed to release around the same time as Shahrukh Khan’s much-hyped Don 2. Well, the clash has thankfully been prevented now.

Aamir Khan’s untitled film, which is a thriller and stars two wonderful Bollywood actresses Kareena and Rani Mukherjee, might have given competition to Shahrukh Khan’s Don 2.

Whenever there is a box office clash between two biggies, it’s obvious that the revenue gets divided, and that’s why the producers don’t want to release their mega-budget, much-publicized films with other movies. No matter who’s the star! And as Reema Kagti’s film is a low-budget one, the makers want to play safe. In fact, both the films are coming from the same production house -- Farhan Akhtar-Ritesh Sidhwani’s Excel Entertainment. So why would they take the risk?

But Aamir might love to do that, so he is planning to release his own film Delhi Belly with Don 2. Delhi Belly is a small-budget film and is produced by Aamir Khan Productions. The movie got stuck in production stages as the producer Aamir became busy with wifey’s Dhobi Ghat. The film is directed by Abhinay Deo and has Imran Khan and Shenaz Treasurywala in lead roles.

Aamir has a 100% hit record with his production films (save for ‘Dhobi Ghat’), so there is no reason why he wouldn’t like to take the risk. Aamir Khan’s Ghajini and Shahrukh Khan’s Rab Ne Bana Di Jodi released around the same time in December 2008. Both the films were hits, but Aamir scored better.

Mani Ratnam next movie with Vijay ,Arya,Mahesh Babu and Anuskha

‘’Poniyin selvan’’ Ace director Mani Rathnam's next movie, story by Kalki. He want's to do a story directly from a book now it has come true. Before it was Mahesh babu, Vishal and Vijay,They wre keep saying I did nt get any calls from Mani Ratnam and now its Arya for Vishal. 

Arya has given dates to Mishkin ,Rajesh and many more and now he has decide to mani ratnam's movie first then look at the other movies.

Director Vasanth who did his debut with Keladi Kanmani after that he did so many movies some went well and most of them did nt, now he has decided to work with Mani Ratnam as associate director for Poniyin selvan.

First talkie film in Indian cinema, celebrates its 80th anniversary

March 14, 2011, is a very special day for Indian film industry. It marks the 80th anniversary of Alam Ara - the first Indian film with voice.

 

On this day in 1931, Alam Ara debuted at the Majestic Cinema in Mumbai causing such frenzy among the audience that the police had to be called in.

Alam Ara also featured the first song of Indian film, De De Khuda Ke Naam Par, sung by an actor Wazir Mohammed Khan. The film was directed by Ardeshir Irani, is a love story between a prince and a gypsy girl and was based on a Parsi play. 

Alam Ara

A period fantasy, the film was about an ageing king of Kamarpur, and his two queens, Navbahar and Dilbahar, and their rivalry when a fakir predicts that Navbahar will bear the king's heir.

The sad part, however, is that as a result of a fire at the National Film Archive of India at Pune in 2003, the last surviving print of Alam Ara was collapsed, and the film is no longer available in its original format.

The film was shot mostly in the night to avoid capturing the noises of the day. Alam Ara was made using microphones that had to be hidden from the camera's range.

Spider Man-Musical Slapped Around, Fined by Federal Agency

Spider-Man: Turn Off the Dark has given new meaning to the term              "offensive."

The chronically plagued Broadway production was issued three citations Friday by the U.S. Department of Labor's Occupational Health and Safety Administration for workplace saftey violations that were joined to four injury-causing accidents that occurred during preview performances last year.

And OSHA wants more than free tickets for its troubles.

The suggested total fines amount to $12,600. It's a relative drop in the bucket compared to the production's $65 million budget, but still...

The New York State Department of Labor cited the show's producer, 8 Legged Productions LLC, for two safety violations last month after aerialist Christopher Tierney plunged roughly 20 feet into an opening next to the stage during a performance and need surgery for cracked vertebra.

OSHA said in a statement that the cast had been exposed to "the hazards of falls or being struck during flying routines because of improperly adjusted or unsecured safety harnesses."

Additionally, not enough preventative measures were in place to shield cast and crew from "moving overhead rigging components," such as the one that struck actress Natalie Mendoza during the first preview performance. She ultimately dropped out altogether.

At this time, spokesman Rick Miramontez said, Spider Man: Turn Off the Dark "remains in compliance with all government agencies and continues to adhere to all safety protocols."

First Look Appearance of ‘Toy Story 3’ Hawaiian Short

The entire “Toy Story” gang is come back and in Hawaii! Okay, not really in Hawaii, but Bonnie's bedroom.

Toy Story-3

Entertainment Weekly has the first images of the upcoming six-minute short called, “Hawaiian Vacation,” which will precede “Cars 2” in theaters on June 24.
“Woody becomes kind of like what’s-his-name on ‘Love Boat’…Captain Stubing!” said director Gary Rydstrom to EW.

The short’s plot is “when Barbie and Ken bunble plans to stow away on a tropical excursion, Woody, Buzz & Co. recreate a romantic getaway in the toy box” for them.
“As toys who get played with all the time, they have a pretty good imagination,” added Rydstrom. “When it’s time for a little playacting, they’re good at it.”
Check out the images below.

Hindi film Directors turn over a new dimension

In a bid to increase the thrill quotient of their products, Hindi film directors are now turning to the 3D format. 

Director Vikram Bhatt is ready with his horror flick Haunted which is being touted as the country’s first stereoscopic 3D film.

3D

Likethat, Shirish Kunder has kickstarted his ambitious 3D project Joker, starring Akshay Kumar and Sonakshi Sinha. 

“The fashion and technology are new. We had to acquaint ourselves with the technology, learn it and adapt to it,” said Bhatt, who has roped in international 3D technicians and support cluster for the project. He added that Haunted uses the latest digital 3D cinematography and projection techniques seen in the Hollywood hit Avatar which has made the format popular worldwide.

The film will hit theatres in April this year. UFO Moviez, a digital cinema network, has tied up with Bhatt for the film’s exhibition in India. Plans are afoot to equip 500 Indian theatres with 3D capability.

“This initiative of promoting Indian 3D content is an important step in our strategy to leverage the future develope potential of this technology,” said Kapil Agarwal, joint managing director, UFO Moviez.

“3D is the medium of the future,” agreed Kunder, adding that he is in talks with some Hollywood technicians to work with his film. “The next big leap for cinema after colour is 3D.”

However, the new format does not come cheap. Bhatt revealed that the cost of a 3D film is nearly 40% more than the budget of a regular 2D movie.

Justin Bieber and John Lennon are excellent with kids

Justin Bieber

Singapore: When kids around the world go online, they share one huge thing in common when they search under entertainment, and that’s music.

A study on top enjoyment searches, depends on more than 20 million anonymous search-engine queries from childs in 20 countries, including Singapore, found that more than 75 percent of entertainment online searches were for listening songs or musicians.

The top of the excellent 20 is Justin Bieber, who's the number one in term of searches, in every country except for India, China and Japan.

One possible reason for the online pole position held by the teen singing star is his bold web presence.

The 16-year-old who begin as a street performer in the small town of Stratford, Ontario, rose from a YouTube phenomenon to universal super star.

His life story winning in the movie "Justin Bieber :Never Say Never" opens in US cinemas this week, and in Singapore in April, in both 3D and 2D.

Beiber-mania is also most likely to remain strong in 2011 with the live web continue on 9 February of the gala premiere of his movie in Hollywood.

Fans around the world were able to capture the movie premiere that was streamed live for the first time by Paramount, and included exclusive behind-the-shots and never before seen clips.

Outside of the online world, entertainers who capture the originality proved to remain a draw.

Iconic Lady Gaga though famous among the young online users, could only manage to emerge third after someone she would most likely gracely make way for, ex-Beatle John Lennon.

Even with other fellow-Beatles like Paul McCartney still to make music, it was Beatles songwriter Lennon who turned up as the second most famous entertainer.

Oddly enough, Lennon who died in 1980 when even the parents of some the kids conducting the online searches were children, was popular in Singapore, along with Australia,New Zealand,Malaysia and the USA.

Where the children did not contradict, according to the Norton information, was the songs that they wanted - Dynamite by Taio Cruz, the World Cup 'anthem' by Shakira, Waka Waka, and Teenage Dream by Katy Perry.

Pop songs comprised 13 out of the top 25 entertainment searches said the report which tracked a sample of Norton Online Family service users between August and December 2010.

After music, the other entertainment draw for the young online association was TV but again, music formed an essential element.

Reality shows such as American Idol was top, followed not far behind by cartoon series Ben 10, perhaps for its interactive online games.