Half of a billion dollars is a hefty amount of money and Rajesh Sawhney, president of Reliance Entertainment, of the challenges that lie ahead. "Scale is the second word in our corporate philosophy. The first one is ambition," says Sawhney.
That ambition has fueled Reliance's rapid growth into India's largest entertainment conglom -- with interests in film, post-production, multiplexes in India and the U.S., homevid and radio -- under the direction of CEO Anil Ambani.
Sawhney is among Ambani's top lieutenants at Reliance, which also is fortified by substantial holdings in the power, financial services and mobile telecom sectors.
Sawhney said Reliance's discussions with DreamWorks' Steven Spielberg and David Geffen are opportunistic, matching their need for capital, as they seek to start anew after a rocky run at Paramount Pictures, with Reliance's long-held plans to take a strategic position in a world-scale entertainment business.
"There is an opportunity emerging and the other partner needs to see the synergies too. It cannot simply be about financial relations. We are not a hedge fund," Sawhney said.
The comedian known for his "Seven Words You Can Never Say On TV" has died of heart failure on Sunday. Carlin went into a Santa Monica hospital early Sunday afternoon after complaining of chest pains. He died a few hours later.
He produced 23 comedy albums, 14 HBO specials, three books, a couple of TV shows and appeared in several movies. Carlin hosted the first broadcast of "Saturday Night Live" and noted on his Web site that he was "loaded on cocaine all week long."
Carlin was born May 12, 1937 and grew up in the Morningside Heights section of Manhattan, raised by a single mother. After dropping out of high school in the ninth grade, he joined the Air Force in 1954. He received three court-martials and numerous disciplinary punishments, according to his official Web site.
While in the Air Force he started working as an off-base disc jockey at a radio station in Shreveport, La., and after receiving a general discharge in 1957, took an announcing job at WEZE in Boston.
"Fired after three months for driving mobile news van to New York to buy pot," his Web site says.
From there he went on to a job on the night shift as a deejay at a radio station in Forth Worth, Texas. Carlin also worked variety of temporary jobs including a carnival organist and a marketing director for a peanut brittle.
Bloody Disgusting is reporting that talks over a potential HOSTEL: PART III have begun. Eli Roth is neither writing or directing and it's not clear what kind of release it would get, but there seems to be movement.
HOSTEL I and II came out in 2005 and 2007 respectively, with the sequel being somewhat of a financial disappointment for Lionsgate.
This weekend's box office showed some love for Steve Carell's GET SMART, yet gave few favors to Mike Myer's new vehicle, THE LOVE GURU.
GET SMART topped with $39,155,000, already capturing nearly half of its $80 million budget. KUNG FU PANDA came in second with a healthy third weekend average of $21,700,000. Meanwhile, THE INCREDIBLE HULK came in third at $21,557,000.
What's interesting here is the sharp 60% drop from last week. Ang Lee's 2003 HULK experienced a similar tumble, making for an intriguing comparison.
The real news from the weekend is the measly opening of THE LOVE GURU. Coming in at fifth with just $14 million, it's a big downturn from Myers' last live-action effort, CAT IN THE HAT, which opened with over $38 million. Panned critically, the comedian's newest effort is going to have a hard time recouping its $62 million production budget.
See more numbers from this weekend's box office here.
With the critical acclaim (and earnings) Grand Theft Auto 4 received, one would think the next stop in the lucrative franchise would be a feature film. After all, GTA 4's narrative was structured very similarly around that of a movie.
However LA Weekly film columnist Nikki Finke has chimed in to debunk any notion of this ever happening.
Fox Atomic owns the rights to the movie title "Grand Theft Auto", which was of course the name of Ron Howard's directorial debut, he also wrote and starred in the movie. Rockstar owns the rights to the game title, this is where the problem lies.
A legal settlement took place which dictated that Rockstar could not make a movie out of "Grand Theft Auto" and Fox/Howard could never make a video game out of the title.
According to Finke, the enormous success hasn't even sparked an interest in the movie studio to create a plan to fix this legal snag, a studio insider told her:
"Yes, Fox owns the Corman movie. Yes, it has been one of 400 development projects for several years. But they are nowhere on the script. It has certainly not been a front-burner project."
Eric Tan, who has done retro poster art for Pixar in the past with THE INCREDIBLES and RATATOUILLE, has finished up work on his new posters for WALL-E. Be sure to visit Eric's blog where you can check out more of his work, including his retro poster for INDIANA JONES AND THE TEMPLE OF DOOM.
Some concept art for the new Marvel blockbuster, THE INCREDIBLE HULK, has popped up online. Concept Art World and XSI Base have provided us with a glimpse at the different directions Hulk and Abomination took during production.
"...Russell Crowe wants Sam Riley who played Joy Division lead singer Ian Curtis in Control to play opposite him as Robin Hood. It's not official yet but they will most likely get Sam Riley for the role because Crowe loved his performance in Control."
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