Cinema

The film, an exploration of masculinity and femininity in the sexually repressed Pakistani society, is to be premiered in the August-September 2019 Venice Film festival.

July 23 (TheVerge) - Just over a month ago, Avengers: Endgame fans conceded defeat to James Cameron’s 2009 Avatar, acknowledging it would remain the biggest movie of all time. Last night at San Diego Comic-Con, Marvel Studios president Kevin Feige announced that’s no longer true. Endgame, the culmination of a 22-movie arc started by Marvel in 2008, will officially surpass Avatar as the highest-grossing movie of...

July 17 (Eastern Eye) - Netflix is one of the biggest OTT platforms and has many series being streamed on it. Recently, Netflix announced five Indian originals and two of them will be produced by Shah Rukh Khan and Anushka Sharma. Apart from being actors, SRK and Anushka are also successful producers. Shah Rukh Khan’s Red Chillies Entertainment is already...

July 17 (CNBC) - Did your favorite TV show nab an Emmy nomination? It’s time to find out. The Academy of Television Arts & Sciences’ 71st annual Emmy Awards will be presented Sept. 22 at the Microsoft Theater in Los Angeles, but who will be in the running? On Tuesday, Ken Jeong ( “Community”) and D’Arcy Carden (“The Good Place”)...

June 10 (Hindustan Times) - Salman Khan’s box office success story has continued with Bharat, which surpassed the Rs 100 crore mark at the Indian box office on the fourth day of release itself, making it the actor’s 14th back-to-back film in the Rs 100 crore club, say trade experts. Bharat has also helped Salman add another feather to his...

Colombo, May 5 (Oshitha Narangoda) - It was a rainy day in 2012 when I headed to the cinema to watch The Avengers, directed by Joss Whedon, for the first time. That day and the movie itself are two things I'll never forget in my life. Seeing an epic superhero ensemble in the cinema for the first time was such...

April 6 (newsin.asia) - Avengers:Endgame, the 22nd film in its "Cinematic Universe" has been billed as the culmination of more than a decade’s worth of story lines. The entire cinematic universe has pulled in over $18 billion worldwide, and the last Avengers film generated over $2 billion alone—and left fans with an epic cliff-hanger. Fans in Sri Lanka were eagerly...

Sri Lankan film artistes say that Bangladeshi films are marked by artistry and rhythm irrespective of the subject.

Sri Lankan actress and filmmaker Duleeka Marapana say that Bangladeshi films have an “innate sense of rhythm” which makes viewing a pleasing experience.

Tokyo, March 7 (AFP) - Hello Kitty, Japan's moon-faced global icon of cute, will soon appear in a Hollywood film for the first time in her 45-year-old history, her creator said on Wednesday (Mar 6). Sanrio, the feline character's operator, announced it was teaming up with New Line Cinema and FlynnPictureCo for the film after a near five-year discussion about...