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Redefining Tagore
Published on: November 10, 2009
Indian Express feature by Piyasree Dasgupta

Tagore’s Shyama travels to the big screen with subtitles available in eight languages

Long before, ‘cinema’ maintained a discernible distance from the broader ambit of ‘movies’, and ‘world cinema’ enthusiasts in the city raised a toast to the convoluted, transgressive workings of human emotions, Tagore wrote Shyama. The 1939 classic went on to become one of his most celebrated dance dramas which explored how obsession, pride and spite creep into the rosy bubble of love. Its context might be dated, but Tagore’s work holds an unabashed mirror to the grimy underbelly of the world’s most celebrated emotion. And London-based Obhi Chatterjee did the just the right thing in filming Shyama, a work that will be screened in the 15th Kolkata Film Festival ...
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New Teaser Trailer for Comic-Adaptation of ‘Kick-Ass’
Published on: November 10, 2009
By Shannon Nystedt
MovieSet.com

Prepare to see your favorite characters from Mark Millar’s comic book series Kick-Ass brought to life on April 16th, 2010.
To tide you over while you wait, check out the awesome new teaser trailer released from Lionsgate. Directed by Matthew Vaughn (Stardust, Layer Cake), Kick-Ass follows an unnoticed high school student and comic book fan who one day decides to become a super-hero, even though he has no powers, training or meaningful reason to do so.
The film stars Aaron Johnson (Shanghai Knights), Christopher Mint-Plasse (Role Models), Nicolas Cage (Bad Lieutenant: Port of Call New Orleans), Chloe Moretz ((500) Days of Summer) and Mark Strong (The Young Victoria).

Watch the teaser trailer for Kick-Ass here.
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Will James Cameron’s ‘Avatar’ be the Most Expensive Movie Ever?
Published on: November 09, 2009
By Shannon Nystedt
MovieSet.com

If there’s one thing we know about James Cameron it’s that he can spend a lot of money on a film to make a lot of money. Take Titanic for example, it cost a phenomenal $200 million dollars to make, and turned a profit of $1.8 billion, but will Avatar be able to match that kind of return? So far, Avatar has had a budget of approximately $237 million, with an additional $500 million spent by 20th Century Fox, which would mean the profit would have to be gargantuan. Will Cameron be able to surpass his previous successes? Or is this movie a huge, expensive gamble? You’ll have to wait to find out. Avatar hits theaters December 18th, 2009.

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"Up the Aisle" In Pre-Production
Published on: November 09, 2009
I would like to let you know that the film "Up the Aisle" from Pogman Productions in Sydney, Australia is now in Pre-Production with a 2011 release. The Director is Paul O. Gardner and the lead cast are Judas Falling as Kevin and Alexia Kelly as Bexley. Please let me know if you need any other details. Henry Richardson +64 (0) 450 446 519 Marketing Producer "Up the Aisle"
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Jason Schwartzman Talks About His First Foray Into The Realm of Animation
Published on: November 09, 2009
By Shannon Nystedt
MovieSet.com

For Schwartzman’s first time voice acting in the role as Ash in Fantastic Mr. Fox, the experience was far from average. While most voice actors spend their time alone in the recording booth, Schwartzman and the rest of the cast found themselves being recorded as they ran around a farm reading their lines. At this morning’s press day for Fantastic Mr. Fox Schwartzman talked a little about the experience.

"…It’s an incredible way to work because it’s, you know, three days -- or in our case, it was two days," he says. "I think it’s really hard to work in such a short amount of time, because in a movie those first five days are really hard, because everybody’s getting to know each other, and you find that groove, you do begin to learn things. But in a short film, you have to find that groove much more quickly, because you don’t have the second week…"

You can watch Schwartzman talk about his character here.

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