:: Best Picture – The King’s Speech. :: Best Actor – Colin Firth, The King’s Speech.
:: Best Actress – Natalie Portman, Black Swan. :: Supporting Actor – Christian Bale, The Fighter. :: Supporting Actress – Melissa Leo, The Fighter. :: Director – Tom Hooper, The King’s Speech. :: Animated Feature – Toy Story 3. :: Adapted Screenplay – The Social Network, Aaron Sorkin. :: Original Screenplay – The King’s Speech, David Seidler. :: Art Direction – Alice in Wonderland. :: Cinematography – Inception – Wally Pfister. :: Costume Design – Alice in Wonderland – Colleen Atwood. :: Documentary Feature, Inside Job. ::Documentary Short Subject, Strangers No More. :: Film Editing – The Social Network. :: Foreign Language Film, In a Better World. :: Makeup – The Wolfman. :: Original Score – The Social Network. :: Original Song – We Belong Together, from Toy Story 3. :: Animated Short Film – The Lost Thing. :: Live Action Short Film – God of Love. :: Sound Editing – Inception – Richard King. :: Sound Mixing – Inception. :: Visual Effects – Inception.
Cinema is a gamble.No body knows the formula for a hit.
There is no logic behind the success or failure of a film.Someime ago Lallu Prasad was asked to deliver a a lecture and his career was anaysed in a Business school in US.
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AHMEDABAD: He can get millions raving about tricks like getting a cigarette somersault and land in his mouth or a pair of shades land on his eyes from mid-air, romance a woman onscreen half his age and rake in over Rs 100 crore in the first week of his film’s release. That’s the phenomenon called Rajinikanth.
‘Robot’, the Rajinikanth-starrer which became the second highest grosser among Indian films and spawned a slew of Rajini jokes, is set to come to the laboratory of IIM-Ahmedabad.
As part of an elective course called ‘Contemporary film industry: A business perspective’, students of the postgraduate programme at IIM-A will take up ‘Robot’ or ‘Enthiran‘ as a case study to analyse the business of cinema and its success story. The course will also study ‘Muthu‘, another Tamil film starring Rajinikanth. The movie was later translated into Japanese as ‘Muthu Odoru Maharaja‘ or ‘Muthu: The Dancing Maharaja’.
India’s most expensive film ever is a Frankenstein-type tale of a scientist who makes a robot in his own image, which turns into a monster and falls in love with his maker’s fiancee.
And it looks set to be another mega-hit for Tamil cinema’s superstar, Rajinikanth, a balding 61-year-old whose unstoppable box office staying power seems almost as incredible as the film’s plotline.
Made with a budget of 1.6bn rupees ($35m; £23m), Enthiran is a story about a killer robot who multiplies into a million clones, destroying Chennai (Madras), the capital of the southern state of Tamil Nadu.
But this terrifying army of androids is dwarfed in real life by the legions of fans of the movie’s cult mega-star, Rajinikanth, India’s highest-paid actor.
In Enthiran (Robot), Rajinikanth plays the nutty professor and his creation, the humanoid robot, Chitti.
With the surprisingly strong $41.5 million box-office opening of “Paranormal Activity 2,” which is being touted as the biggest 3-day streak ever for a horror film, Paramount Pictures has a remarkably successful new franchise on their hands.
Made for only $3 million, in line with the original film’s low-budget frights, “Paranormal Activity” and its sequel will go down in movie history books as among the industry’s most profitable films ever.
It’s that time of the year again. That time when movie theaters are stocked with sequels from countless franchises that we trust will chill our bones as we devote our hard-earned money in return.
But out of the ashes from the demise of some horror series (such as the Saw movies; 3D = Desperate) emerges a new franchise, one that shocked audiences only a year ago on a modest budget of $15,000. From one surveillance camera in a bedroom, Paranormal Activity crawled into the psyche of what exactly goes down after we fall asleep. And as the torch is passed to Paranormal Activity 2, it’s needless to say that yet another real-estate agent forgot to mention some small details when giving the open-house tour.
When we last left Katie and Micah, the young couple who moved into a haunted house in Paranormal Activity, things ended on a rather sour note. The two moved into a new home, things got a little weird, demonic spirits possessed Katie to murder her boyfriend, you know, the usual scary movie plot. Paranormal Activity 2 takes on the role of a prequel to the first movie, with the events taking place before Katie and Micah’s relationship became just a little stale.
The premise of the film remains pretty much the same in this newest installment. Newlyweds Dan and Kristi, who is Katie’s sister, Dan’s daughter Ali, and their newborn son Hunter move into a new home, where life just seems perfect. But soon, their maid, Martine, notices the presence of restless spirits in the house, and she is eventually fired for her paranormal assumptions. This only leads to more unexplained events that raise the age-old haunted-house question, “Why don’t you move after the second time the house locks you out?”
You basically know what to expect in the film, but that’s where all the fun lies. You know that the first 30 minutes will be very subtle, with the occasional door opening by itself or a loud noise to lure you in. You know that the next 30 minutes will feature slightly more haunting experiences, with the development of a plot to maintain cinematic structure. And you should also know that the last 30 minutes will be pure insanity and the one person whom you don’t want to see die will end up disappointing you in the end.
The plot is pretty much the stereotypical haunted-house flick, but that’s besides the point. You get your money’s worth with the last 15 minutes, including the climactic scene shot entirely in nighttime vision, which involves Dan trying to get Hunter from the demon-possessed Kristi. But half of the terror and suspense in Paranormal Activity 2 is waiting for all this to happen: the anticipation of what the camera will capture at 3:33 a.m. is arguably more terrifying than what actually happens at 3:33 a.m.
I did like that the movie takes place before the timing of the first and that the main characters of this second installment share a relationship with the main characters from the first film as well. The bottom line is that Paranormal Activity 2 does its job of getting audience members to jump out of their seats, bite their nails, and shout abruptly in terror every time a door slams shut. And that’s all that really matters this time of year.
LOS ANGELES (Hollywood Reporter) – In “Green Zone,” director Paul Greengrass brings the frenetic, run-and-gun style with which he utterly transformed the movie thriller in the Jason Bourne series to a different kind of thriller, one with a sharper political edge
For “Green Zone” explores the Bush administration’s willingness to embrace palpable lies over murky truths in order to sell the Iraq War to the American public
Iraq mostly has been a nonstarter at the box office, but this is Matt Damon, Greengrass and the “Bourne” team reunited on another breathless venture into ticking-clock urgency. So Universal should easily overcome that hurdle to rack up considerable theatrical coin in North America and overseas.
Drawing on his years as a British television journalist covering global conflicts for ITV, Greengrass brings a cinema verite style to his thrillers. He makes these movies look as if a guerrilla camera crew has somehow tagged along with a movie’s protagonist to catch key moments in an unfolding story as it explodes in the character’s face.
In Hitchcock terms, the movie has both a goal and a MacGuffin. The goal is the determination by U.S. Army Chief Warrant Officer Roy Miller (Damon) to discover why his team of inspectors comes up empty every time commanders send them to find chemical weapons in the Iraqi desert. The MacGuffin is a small notebook an Iraqi general grabbed four months earlier as the U.S. invasion began. It contains the addresses of Baathist safe houses in the Baghdad area.
Endangering the lives of his soldiers to hit a target, which Pentagon “intel” has fingered as a storage site for MWDs, and again finding nothing, Miller wants answers. Returning to Baghdad, he encounters three people who could supply them: Defense Intelligence agent Clark Poundstone (Greg Kinnear), CIA station chief Martin Brown (Brendan Gleeson) and Wall Street Journal foreign correspondent Lawrie Dayne (Amy Ryan). Miller doesn’t like what he hears.
All the intelligence comes from a single source. This source has confirmed Dayne’s many stories about Saddam Hussein’s stockpiles of MWDs and now pinpoints the sites Miller’s team fruitlessly searches. Then Miller runs across an individual who does have accurate information. A local, English-speaking Iraqi who calls himself Freddy (Khalid Abdalla) risks his life to approach Miller to tell him that key Iraqi army figures, all wanted by coalition forces, are meeting in a house nearby. http://www.reuters.com/article/idUSTRE6240YS20100305?loomia_ow=t0:s0:a49:g43:r5:c0.052786:b31573844:z0
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