FridayMoviez News Desk: Emmy Awards 2011

The Emmy Awards officially announced this year's list of hotly-anticipated
2011 nominees on July 14th.

The 63rd Emmy Awards ceremony followed -much  later- with a live telecast
this Sunday evening, September 18, 2011 at 8PM ET on FOX.

Hosting this year's awards show was popular TV star Jane Lynch who won an
Emmy last year for her portrayal as Sue Slyvester on the FOX hit, "Glee".

The Emmys have been known as the Oscars of the television industry ever
since the first awards were given out by the Academy of Television Arts &
Sciences in 1949.

In the 1950's, the name "Emmy" was a feminization of "immy", the nickname
for image orthicon tubes used in early television cameras. Today, the annual
broadcast is watched by more than 600 million viewers around the world.

A glimpse of some 2011 Emmy Nominees & * Winners

Outstanding Drama Series
* Mad Men
Boardwalk Empire
Dexter
Friday Night Lights
Game of Thrones
The Good Wife

Outstanding Comedy Series
* Modern Family
Big Bang Theory
Glee
The Office
Parks and Recreation
30 Rock

Outstanding Actress in a Drama
* Julianna Margulies, The Good Wife
Kathy Bates, Harry's Law
Connie Britton, Friday Night Lights
Mireille Enos, The Killing
Mariska Harigtay, Law and Order: SVU
Elisabeth Moss, Mad Men

Outstanding Actor in a Drama
* Kyle Chandler, Friday Night Lights
Steve Buscemi, Boardwalk Empire
Michael C. Hall, Dexter
John Hamm, Mad Men
Hugh Laurie, House
Timothy Olyphant, Justified

Outstanding Reality Show
* The Amazing Race
American Idol
Dancing With the Stars
Project Runway
So You Think You Can Dance
Top Chef

Outstanding TV Miniseries or Movie
* Downton Abbey
Cinema Verite
The Kennedys
Mildred Pierce
The Pillars of the Earth
Too Big To Fail

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The Book-Movie relationship

Books and movies somehow go hand in hand… Well yes, so many movies have been adapted, inspired or directly based on the books. Devil wears Prada, Shopaholic, Lord of the Rings, The Da Vinci Code, Partner, The secret, Memoirs of a Geisha, Kite Runner and of course Harry Potter. But very few movies do justice to the books. The question is whether they are supposed to be exactly like the books; or, as a different medium, they have all the right to use their creative liberty? 

As a reader, it is so much fun to watch the characters from the pages of our books spring up to life. When we read about the Quidditch match and then watch it coming live through the movies, it is so exciting… A feeling of familiarity! But it is always debatable whether the adapted books should be exactly like the movies or should they just be inspired. Movies like Harry Potter are completely based on the books and hence people who haven’t read the books are often clueless about what is going on. The explanation for this which the directors give is that the books are too long and everything from the movies cannot be shown on screen. But there also are movies which portray the books beautifully and do complete justice to them. Memoirs of a Geisha and The Kite Runner are two such movies which have successfully adapted from the books.

What is your take on this? Should the movies be completely based on the books or should they take creative liberty to change the plot to make it convenient to show them in the two hours. Tough question…even tougher answer… Think about it!

 

 

 

 

 

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FridayMoviez News Desk: Amitabh Bachchan waives fee for Hollywood debut.

Bollywood legend Amitabh Bachchan has said he will act for free in his
Hollywood debut in a new film adaptation of The Great Gatsby, starring Leonardo DiCaprio.
He said he had waived his fee as he was making a “mere one scene
appearance”.
The actor will play Meyer Wolfsheim, a Jewish man described as a gambler in F Scott Fitzgerald’s classic novel.
The $126m film directed by Baz Luhrmann has begun shooting in Australia.
“The Great Gatsby” is the story of 1920s high society in the US, the golden age of excess before the Depression.
Writing in his blog, Bachchan, 68, said he had “refused any remuneration” because his small role in the film was a “friendly gesture” to Luhrmann.
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FridayMoviez News Desk: The 68th Venice Film Festival.

The 68th Venice Film Festival is currently on & runs from 31 August till 10 September 2011.
It’s the oldest film festival in the world. Founded by Count Giuseppe Volpi in 1932, the festival has since taken place every year in late August or early September on the island of the Lido, Venice, Italy.
Screenings take place in the historic Palazzo del Cinema on the Lungomare Marconi. The festival’s principal awards are the Leone d’Oro (Golden Lion), for the best film screened at the festival, and the Coppa Volpi (Volpi Cup), awarded to the best actor and actress. In 2002, the San Marco Award was introduced for the best film of the Controcorrente (“Against the stream”) section.
The roll call of celebrities this year includes Clooney, Colin Firth, Keira
Knightley, Matthew McConaughey, Kate Winslet, Matt Damon, Jude Law, Gwyneth Paltrow and pop superstar Madonna.
Among the most hotly anticipated titles is “Tinker, Tailor, Soldier, Spy,” an adaptation of John Le Carre’s spy novel starring recent Oscar winner Colin Firth and Gary Oldman.
Other standout titles in competition include Briton Andrea Arnold’s take on the Emily Bronte novel “Wuthering Heights,” U.S. director Ami Canaan Mann’s “Texas Killing Fields” and William Friedkin’s “Killer Joe.”

Madonna puts on a grand entrance in a butterfly gown!

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Masala movies v/s the Intelligent movies

Current Bollywood cinema is not what it used to be a decade ago, it has undergone a volcanic change, and that is to say the perspectives of movie makers and the audiences alike have changed. There are a lot of movies now which portray the practicalities of life. In the 90′s when, there used to be a song sequence after every scene and the actors had superhuman powers, now, the makers have started to realize the need for a rationale that connects with the life of an average Indian. Strangely, no one realises that while saying that Indian cinema is undergoing a change, it is not “Indian” it is mostly just Bollywood. Malayalam and Marathi movies have always been very down-to-earth and simplistic. There was no over-the-top stuff in these movies ever and they often portrayed realistic events.
Bollywood cinema has become classier, or at least on that path already. But many fear it is not just getting classier, it is shifting from the commercial cinema to the art cinema or Parallel cinema. Acclaimed directors such as Satyajit Ray, Mrinal Sen and Ritwik Ghatak are such directors who are part of this Indian New wave. As of today, Anurag Kashyap is one such example of directors who attempt the never-done-before things in the
Indian cinema. Right from his movie Black Friday, which was on the 1993 Bombay bombings to the latest movie That Girl in the Yellow Boots, he always tries to come up with something new, innovative. His movies are not just different when it comes to the story, but also his technique is always innovative. With Dev D he brought in the ‘shaky-camera’ effect to the industry (not that he invented it, he simply made it popular) and he also brought a bunch of new, promising actors.
So is it really that drastic a change? Will “Bollywood” cinema as we know it come to an end? Nah… Don’t worry! So long as commercial mass entertainers like Dabangg and Ready exist and so long as the melodramatic DDLJ type film makers exist, Indian cinema is not going to go under a huge revolutionary change. There will be a few directors who keep coming up with the artistic, intelligent movies, but after all pure entertainment is what we need and if it was not for “Character dhila…” or “Sheila Ki Jawani…” movies watching experience just wouldn’t have been the same…

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FridayMoviez News Desk: Hackers Hit Hollywood!

Meet the Hollywood Hackers Coming For Your Nude Pics!
Reportedly, a new hacker gang is in town, and it’s not after government secrets. Instead, it’s going after movie scripts, Twitter accounts, and juicy secrets in the entertainment industry.
The group “Hollywood Leaks” has been breaking into entertainment industry insiders’ email accounts for the last few weeks and disclosing their findings, news blog Gawker reported.
Gawker said the group has cracked the email account of an actor in the upcoming Tom Cruise musical, Rock of Ages.
It said the group downloaded the script sent by director Peter Shankman to his cast, and put it on The Pirate Bay.
Also, it said the group had posted the cell phone numbers of about a dozen celebrities to the hacker-friendly document sharing site Pastebin.com, including those of Miley Cyrus, Lil Jon, and Ashley Greene. Gawker reported that during the recently concluded MTV Video Music Awards, rapper Kreayshawn had her Twitter account taken over by the group, which used it to tweet nude pictures stolen from her cell phone to her 300,000 followers.
Gawker quoted the “Hollywood Leaks” members as saying they are just getting started. “We’re currently sitting on several unreleased movie scripts, and enough numbers / emails to keep phones ringing and the inboxes full for the foreseeable future,” they said.
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Dahi Handi no more just about the festival…

Dahi Handi… Gokulashtami…Celebration of Joy for the birth of Lord Krishna! What a festival, unique, vibrant and yet again colourful. There was a time when the mornings of Gokulashtami would start with the cries and shouts of “Govinda re Gopala, Yashodecha Tanhya Bala” (Govinda, Gopala, the baby son of Mother Yashoda)… Young kids used to run along the streets asking for water, getting wet in the water thrown from the balconies and pipes from people’s homes. It was something else altogether; the atmosphere, the mood, everything was just so different! But politics didn’t leave even the festivals alone… Right from announcing a heavy sum on the Handi to awarding different Mandals loads of money, they won’t stop at anything…
But this time’s Handi was much more than just political… It was star-studded and had a different cheer to it… John Abraham, Ameesha Patel, Udita Goswami, Neha Dhupia, etc… But just the presence of celebs was not what was different in the atmosphere; there was Anna fever everywhere…  John Abraham, who had come to Thane to promote his film Force, celebrated Handi with the Thane-aites. He not only broke the Handi which was said to be the ‘anti-corruption Handi’ with his head, he said, it is corruption that needs to be broken. He spoke in chaste Marathi and sported a Gandhi-topi in support of anna.
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FridayMoviez News Desk: Weekend Box office

Call it Hollywood’s 3D August clearance sale or call it a disaster but what ever way you look at it, the glut of new movies unleashed last week pretty much bombed. When a small drama (“The Help”) about black maids in the racially-tinged South of the 1960’s in its second weekend wipes the floor over brand new big genre action and family movies, It may be time for Hollywood to think again just what it is that audiences want these days?
“The Help” comes at a time when issues like racism & civil rights are out of fashion, and so the theme seems slightly fresher. The film is fun and has good performances from performers like Emma Stone, Viola Davis and Bryce Dallas Howard. But as a commentary on the issues of race in America, it may be a bit dull.
Top Movies for Weekend of August 19, 2011 (estimates)
1 The Help (PG13)
2 Rise of the Planet of the Apes (PG)
3 Spy Kids: All the Time in the World (PG)
4 Conan the Barbarian (R)
5 Fright Night (R)
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FridayMoviez News Desk: Twilight Saga Breaking Dawn Soundrack Release!

Cover art and a release date were announced for the soundtrack of “The Twilight Saga: Breaking Dawn Part I” via the official twitter account of the Twilight franchise.

Fans will be able to buy the soundtrack in store or online on November 8th, ten days prior to the release of the film.

What has not yet been announced are which songs will be heard on the soundtrack, or even which artists might feature.

The announcement of Twilight Saga soundtrack songs is always a much-anticipated event.

Specifically, fans are curious as to whether Robert Pattinson will show his singing, piano-playing, and guitar-playing skills once again, or actor Jackson Rathbone, who, tours with his band, 100 Monkeys, will get a slot.

Prior to each film, speculation abounds as to whether either actor’s music will make it on the soundtrack or not.

The wait is not long!

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