LOS ANGELES, Oct. 14, 2013 /PRNewswire/ — Rentrak Corporation (NASDAQ: RENT) today announced the Top-10 DVD & Blu-ray sales and rentals according to the company’s Retail Essentials and Home Video Essentials …
In a surprise, apart from Raj Kapoor’s movies like Awara and Shree 420, the films that are most popular in Russia are Hema Malini-starrer Sita aur Gita and Mithun’s 1982 movie Disco Dancer.
Superstars have become an essential ingredient for successful movies today with star power being proportional to the box office figures and royalty from satellite rights.
Mike Nichols’s excellent rite-of-passage drama channels Whistle Down The Wind, Stand By Me and, mainly, Huckleberry Finn. Two 14-year-olds, Ellis and Neckbone, unearth a charismatic fugitive, Mud (Matthew McConaughey), hiding out near the Mississippi river.
“It’s weird, alright,†maintains Rory Kinnear’s jaded TV reporter who reluctantly returns to his Kent hometown to cover the gun massacre wreaked by his former schoolmate (Sean Harris, excellent). Channel 4 has been pummelled in the ratings of late, however Tony Grisoni’s fiercely intelligent Southcliffe is the best drama they’ve screened in a fair while.
Everyone’s clearly having a blast on this outrageous HBO show. Antony Starr channels Martin Riggs and Jack Reacher as the former jewel thief who, after being released from prison, makes his way to the corrupt Wild West town of Banshee.
Michael Winterbottom’s jaunty Paul Raymond biopic stars Steve Coogan as the billionaire property baron, strip-club impresario, and girly-mag publisher.
Richard Linklater’s true tale of the murder of a mean old lady (Shirley MacLaine) is determinedly light. However, it’s in actual fact a very sad story indeed.
Asianet Movies, a Malayalam movie channel, completes a year of entertainment on July 15. Asianet Movies which opened a new horizon of entertainment to viewers with round the clock movies won the appreciation of viewers by obtaining 140 GRP (Gross Rating Point) in its first week of telecast itself
Richard Gere, in his best role since Internal Affairs, compels as Robert Miller, a morally bankrupt hedge-fund magnate in this refreshingly grown-up thriller. Â Â Â Â