The Star Online: Entertainment: Movies

Keanu Reeves joins 'Passengers'
'Life Of Pi' star Suraj Sharma set for 'Million Dollar Arm'
'Oblivion' obliterates box office rivals

Posted: 22 Apr 2013 12:30 AM PDT

Deadline.com has revealed that Keanu Reeves will play the lead in Passengers, the first foray into cinema for TV director Brian Kirk (Game Of Thrones, Boardwalk Empire).

Passengers will be set in a spaceship carrying thousands of people in a cryogenic sleep on its way to a faraway planet.

Because of a technical problem, one of the passengers, played by Reeves, wakes up 90 years earlier than everyone else. As he is afraid of dying alone, he wakes up another traveler, which lead love to blossom.

The screenplay of the sci-fi romance will be written by Jon Spaihts, who worked on Ridley Scott's Prometheus. No actress has yet been attached to the lead female role.

Passengers will be at the next Cannes film market.

(Relaxnews)

'Life Of Pi' star Suraj Sharma set for 'Million Dollar Arm'

Posted: 21 Apr 2013 11:59 PM PDT

According to the Hollywood Reporter, Indian actor Suraj Sharma has been chosen to star opposite Jon Hamm (Mad Men) in a movie about baseball.

Hamm, who is known for playing ad man Don Draper in Mad Men, will play a sports agent on the lookout for new baseball talent in this Disney movie.

To find a new star player, he will head to India, where sports culture is more geared towards cricket. When he realizes how similar the two sports are, the agent will decide to recruit his future stars through a reality TV program, Million Dollar Arm.

His two 19-year-old protégés, Dinesh Patel and Rinku Singh, will become the first Indian players to join the American professional league. However, this radical change will entail some difficulties. Sharma, the hero of the 2013 Oscar-winning Life Of Pi, will play one of the two young Indian players.

The movie will be directed by Craig Gillespie (Fright Night, United States Of Tara). Filming on this movie, which is based on the true story of sports agent J.B. Bernstein, will start in India and Atlanta in May. The screenplay was written by Tom McCarthy (Up).

(Relaxnews)

'Oblivion' obliterates box office rivals

Posted: 21 Apr 2013 09:35 PM PDT

LOS ANGELES: "Oblivion," a post-apocalyptic action flick starring Tom Cruise, obliterated the competition in its debut this weekend, taking in about $38.2 million, industry estimates showed Sunday.

The film earned more than a third of this weekend's box office revenue - about 37.41 percent of ticket sales, according to box office tracker Exhibitor Relations - as it jettisoned last week's winner "42" from the top spot.

"42," a biopic about trailblazing black baseball star Jackie Robinson, which stars Harrison Ford as the Brooklyn Dodgers executive who signed him, this week came in second place, with $18 million in ticket sales.

Stone-age cartoon "The Croods," from DreamWorks Animation, was third with $9.5 million, followed by "Scary Movie 5," the latest installment in the slasher-comedy franchise, which earned $6.3 million.

Action sequel "G.I. Joe: Retaliation," was fifth, with $5.8 million.

In sixth place was "The Place Beyond the Pines," starring Oscar nominees Ryan Gosling and Bradley Cooper, which earned $4.7 million.

Action thriller "Olympus Has Fallen," in which terrorists capture the White House and hold the president hostage, was in seventh place with $4.5 million.

"Evil Dead" - a reinvention of Sam Raimi's cult 1981 film about a group of friends hunted by demons in the woods - came in eighth with $4.1 million.

The 3D re-release of Steven Spielberg's 1993 dinosaur classic "Jurassic Park" took in $1.7 million for ninth place.

Rounding out the top 10 was Walt Disney's 3D fantasy adventure flick "Oz the Great and Powerful," which this weekend earned $3 million for a seven-week total of $224 million. - AFP

Kredit: www.thestar.com.my

Isnin, 22 April 2013

The Star Online: Entertainment: Movies

The Star Online: Entertainment: Movies

0 ulasan:

Catat Ulasan