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We need malayalam to tamil translator when Vijay movie releases..

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Tomorrow ad!!

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FDFS celebration in Kerala!!

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Kaththi on a record breaking spree

It's now Endhiran, Kaththi and Thuppakki in the top 3.

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Choppy waters for Serena as Fury storms UK box office

Brad Pitt’s second world war tank drama obliterates the competition, including Jennifer Lawrence and Bradley Cooper reunion and This Is Where I Leave You



The winner

Brad Pitt confirmed his enduring box-office power with a No 1 opening for Fury, grossing just under £2m over the three-day weekend period, plus £698,000 in previews. A relatively straightforward second world war film about a five-man US tank crew, Fury didn’t necessarily offer an irresistible must-see hook, nor is it based on a particular real-life event that might have helped win it extra attention. But on-balance positive reviews (a 64/100 score at Metacritic) plus publicity generated by Pitt’s red-carpet appearance at the London film festival will have helped.

Although different in tone, a comparison might be made with The Monuments Men, directed by and starring Pitt’s friend George Clooney. The starry art-rescue flick debuted earlier this year with £1.62m, on its way to £6.3m. With £2.69m already, Fury looks on course to exceed that total. Pitt’s biggest UK opening weekend to date was delivered last year by World War Z, with £4.54m. The zombie-virus film is Pitt’s biggest hit globally, with £334m at cinemas.

The losers

Given the long delay between filming (late spring 2012) and release, expectations were suitably modest for Serena, a Depression-era drama starring Bradley Cooper and Jennifer Lawrence. Even so, a UK debut in lowly 19th place, with a dismal £95,000 from 185 screens, still qualifies as disappointing. Silver Linings Playbook, which likewise paired Cooper and Lawrence in lead roles, debuted in November 2012 with £1.25m, including £292,000 in previews. Just over a year later, the first weekend of wide play saw American Hustle (significant supporting parts for the actors) deliver £3.47m, including £1.11m in previews.

One lesson to be learned – or reinforced – from Serena is that it’s hard to market a period film without support from critics, especially if it’s not based on a familiar literary property or historical character. It’s fair to assume that Ron Rash’s novel is not so widely read in the UK, while the premise – the travails of two married North Carolina timber merchants in the 1930s – whispers minority appeal. Despite the presence of two marketable names in the lead roles, Serena suggested itself as a film that was always going to be highly execution-dependent, meaning director Susanne Bier had to deliver a fully achieved film to have any chance at all. It’s a risk that seems not to have paid off, at least for the film’s backers and distribution partners.

Landing three places above Serena, but with a screen average that’s actually a tad lower, This is Where I Leave You is a similar disappointment. The family dramedy is not short of recognizable names in the cast – notably Jason Bateman, Tina Fey, Adam Driver, Rose Byrne – but lacked a major box-office star. The film grossed £109,000 from 222 cinemas.
The chick flick

Counter-programmed as an alternative to Fury’s wartime action, Love, Rosie, adapted from Cecelia Ahern’s Where Rainbows End, landed rather softly in ninth place, with £373,000 plus £110,000 in previews. That’s way, way down on the debut of PS I Love You, likewise adapted from an Ahern novel. That one began in January 2008 with £1.79m, on its way to a very handy £10.65m. The half-term holiday may see an uptick this week for Love, Rosie, although the 15 certificate would put it out of bounds to younger teens. The film currently enjoys a 7.5/10 IMDb user rating, suggesting that the audience has so far been largely satisfied. Rentrak’s UK box-office reports include takings in Ireland, where you’d expect Love, Rosie to be doing well – Ahern is a local author, and the book (if less certainly the geographically ambiguous film) is set largely in Dublin.

The family battle

With the October half-term holiday starting last Friday, it’s no surprise to see a number of family films scrapping in the top 10. Among new entries, animation The Book of Life did best, grossing a decent £981,000. Fox, which distributes internationally for DreamWorks Animation and has its own Blue Sky Studios (Ice Age etc), didn’t have the benefit of a recognisable animation brand for this title, instead trading on the cachet of producer Guillermo Del Toro.

Disney expanded its live-action family flick Alexander and the Terrible, Horrible, No Good, Very Bad Day to all parts of the UK, with middling results (see chart). Neither of these titles proved much of a match for Paramount’s Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles, convincingly the top attraction for families in its second week of play, and now with a 12-day cume of £7.89m. The Maze Runner, tucked behind The Book of Life in fifth place, is chugging along nicely, and has now reached £5.86m.

The Bollywood hits

The Diwali festival is traditionally a good time to release a Hindi film, and Happy New Year, starring Shah Rukh Khan, delivered one of the best openings for a Bollywood film so far this year. With £568,000 from 100 cinemas, including £50,000 in previews, the action-comedy delivered an impressive screen average of £5,682. Within this market, Happy New Year has been eclipsed in 2014 only by Bang Bang, although that film’s £602,000 debut included a bigger proportion of previews, totaling just under £100,000.

Tamil title Kaththi, starring Vijay Chandrasekar, presented more serious subject matter, and also did well, achieving a £4,047 average (See “Other openers” chart).

The niche alternatives

With Fury, The Book of Life, Serena, This Is Where I Leave You and Love, Rosie landing collectively on more than 1,700 screens, and Disney’s Alexander… expanding to 450-plus locations, it was potentially tough for other fresh titles to be heard above the din. Going out into a more focused 147 cinemas, Aussie horror The Babadook did an encouraging £348,000, buoyed by warm reviews. The film may have done even better, had Annabelle not been proving so resilient in its third week of release (see chart below).

Polish hit Bogowie targeted the UK’s large Polish population, and grossed a handy £91,000 from 22 cinemas. The value of having an under-served and motivated audience can be seen in contrast to the result for Jimi: All Is By My Side, which took less than a third of the Bogowie tally (£24,000) from a similar number of cinemas (29).

In its second weekend of play, Northern Soul fell 66%, although that hefty drop is perhaps understandable given that the opening weekend was boosted by venues holding one-off showings, and many of these locations were not continuing to play the title. The film grossed £97,000 from 76 cinemas in its second frame, bringing the 10-day cume to a nifty £507,000. The similarly themed SoulBoy grossed £101,000 over its entire run in 2010, and Northern Soul has already achieved quintuple that number. One factor in the softening box-office may be the arrival last Monday of Northern Soul on DVD; the film is currently No 3 in the Amazon DVD and Blu-ray chart, behind Mrs Brown’s Boys D’Movie and Maleficent.

The 18-cert winner

With £17.06m to date, Gone Girl has recently overtaken the likes of Bruno, Django Unchained and Basic Instinct to win sixth place in the all-time UK chart for 18-certificate titles. It will very soon overtake fifth-placed The Silence of the Lambs (£17.12m), leaving it behind just The Wolf of Wall Street (£22.70m), Hannibal (£21.58m), American Beauty (£21.39m) and Seven (£19.52m).

The future

Horns

Daniel Radcliffe in Horns, which opens in the UK this week. Photograph: Allstar/LIONSGATE/Sportsphoto Ltd
Despite the profusion of new releases that arrived for the half-term holiday, no current title is really energising the market, and box office is down 15% from the previous frame and 12% below the equivalent session from 2013, when Cloudy with a Chance of Meatballs 2 ruled the roost. Thus ends the four-week run when box office ran ahead of the year-ago equivalent period. In two weeks’ time, Christopher Nolan’s Interstellar arrives. In the meantime, cinemas will have to content themselves this week with Jake Gyllenhaal in the justly regarded Nightcrawler; genre title Ouija; Daniel Radcliffe in Horns; and Mike Leigh’s much-anticipated Mr Turner.

Top 10 films 24-26 October

1. Fury, £2,692,786 from 462 sites (new)
2. Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles, £1,927,733 from 522 sites. Total: £7,890,052
3. Gone Girl, £1,597,962 from 526 sites. Total: £17,064,765
4. The Book of Life, £981,432 from 536 sites (new)
5. The Maze Runner, £905,314 from 445 sites. Total: £5,863,858
6. Annabelle, £749,621 from 401 sites. Total: £6,013,797
7. Alexander and the Terrible, Horrible, No Good, Very Bad Day, £571,581 from 453 sites. Total: £697,680
8. Happy New Year, £568,203 from 100 sites (new)
9. Love, Rosie, £482,535 from 379 sites (new)
10. The Babadook, £347,512 from 147 sites (new)

Other openers

Kaththi, £222,583 from 55 sites (including £79,895 previews)
This is Where I Leave You, £109,441 from 222 sites
Serena, £95,109 from 185 sites
Bogowie, £90,623 from 22 sites
Bolshoi Ballet: The Legend of Love, £61,968 from 175 sites
Jimi: All Is By My Side, £24,243 from 29 sites
The Snow Queen, £20,644 from 81 sites
My Little Pony: Equestria Girls: Rainbow Rocks, £19,705 from 80 sites
Poojai, £8,584 from 4 sites
Time Is Illmatic, £11,989 from five sites
Night Train to Lisbon, £4,554 from four sites
The Way He Looks, £4,476 from seven sites
Zabriskie Point, £784 from two sites

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‘கத்தி’ படத்தால் நிம்மதி இழந்த குமரி உடற்கல்வி ஆசிரியர் - hindu

`கத்தி’ திரைப்படத்தால் நிம்மதி இழந்து தவிக்கிறார் கன்னியா குமரி மாவட்டத்தைச் சேர்ந்த உடற்கல்வி ஆசிரியர் ஒருவர். தீபாவளி அன்று திரைக்கு வந்த, ஏ.ஆர்.முருகதாஸ் இயக்கத் தில் விஜய், சமந்தா நடிப்பில் வெளியான `கத்தி’ திரைப்படத்தில் ஒரு காட்சியில் நடிகை சமந்தா ஒரு அலைபேசி எண்ணை நடிகர் விஜய்யிடம் கூறுவார். அது ஒரு நகைச்சுவை காட்சியாக சித்தரிக் கப்பட்டிருக்கும்.
உண்மையில் அந்த அலைபேசி எண் கன்னியாகுமரி மாவட்டம், அருமனையை அடுத்த குழிச்சலை சேர்ந்த அரசு உதவி பெறும் பள்ளி உடற்கல்வி ஆசிரியர் ஜெகதீஷ் என்பவருடை யது. படம் வெளியான நாள் முதல் இன்று வரை ஆயிரக் கணக்கான அழைப்புகள் நடிகை சமந்தாவிடம் பேச வேண்டும், விஜய்யிடம் பேச வேண்டும் என வந்ததால் இப்போது மிகவும் தவித்து வருகிறார் ஜெகதீஷ்.
ஜெகதீஷின் எண்ணுக்கு நாம் தொடர்பு கொண்டபோது நமது அழைப்பு ஏற்கப்படவில்லை. அவரது சகோதரர் ஜெனீஷை தொடர்பு கொண்டோம். அவர் கூறியதாவது:
’ஜெகதீஷின் அலைபேசியை எடுத்ததுமே முருகதாஸா? விஜய் அண்ணாவா? சமந்தாவா என்றுதான் கேட்கிறார்கள். ரசிகர்கள் அது வெறும் காட்சிக் காக பதிவு செய்யப்பட்ட எண் என்பதையும் புரிந்து கொள்ள வேண்டும்.
நேற்று ஒரு மணி நேரத்தில் மட்டும் 156 அழைப்புகள் வந்தன. விஜய் ரசிகர்களால் என் சகோதரர் நிம்மதி இழந்துள்ளார்’ என்றார்.

[Dammy R]

Cedy...that's the article from the UK weekly The Guardian...right? Amazing to see the reach of Kaththi.

Cheers!

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Cedy...that's the article from the UK weekly The Guardian...right? Amazing to see the reach of Kaththi.

Cheers!

Yup Bro. Making Waves!

Hoping to see the estimated 2 Million numbers from the Malaysian BO, from official sources, soon.

[VinodKumar's]

‘கத்தி’ படத்தால் நிம்மதி இழந்த குமரி உடற்கல்வி ஆசிரியர் - hindu

`கத்தி’ திரைப்படத்தால் நிம்மதி இழந்து தவிக்கிறார் கன்னியா குமரி மாவட்டத்தைச் சேர்ந்த உடற்கல்வி ஆசிரியர் ஒருவர். தீபாவளி அன்று திரைக்கு வந்த, ஏ.ஆர்.முருகதாஸ் இயக்கத் தில் விஜய், சமந்தா நடிப்பில் வெளியான `கத்தி’ திரைப்படத்தில் ஒரு காட்சியில் நடிகை சமந்தா ஒரு அலைபேசி எண்ணை நடிகர் விஜய்யிடம் கூறுவார். அது ஒரு நகைச்சுவை காட்சியாக சித்தரிக் கப்பட்டிருக்கும்.
உண்மையில் அந்த அலைபேசி எண் கன்னியாகுமரி மாவட்டம், அருமனையை அடுத்த குழிச்சலை சேர்ந்த அரசு உதவி பெறும் பள்ளி உடற்கல்வி ஆசிரியர் ஜெகதீஷ் என்பவருடை யது. படம் வெளியான நாள் முதல் இன்று வரை ஆயிரக் கணக்கான அழைப்புகள் நடிகை சமந்தாவிடம் பேச வேண்டும், விஜய்யிடம் பேச வேண்டும் என வந்ததால் இப்போது மிகவும் தவித்து வருகிறார் ஜெகதீஷ்.
ஜெகதீஷின் எண்ணுக்கு நாம் தொடர்பு கொண்டபோது நமது அழைப்பு ஏற்கப்படவில்லை. அவரது சகோதரர் ஜெனீஷை தொடர்பு கொண்டோம். அவர் கூறியதாவது:
’ஜெகதீஷின் அலைபேசியை எடுத்ததுமே முருகதாஸா? விஜய் அண்ணாவா? சமந்தாவா என்றுதான் கேட்கிறார்கள். ரசிகர்கள் அது வெறும் காட்சிக் காக பதிவு செய்யப்பட்ட எண் என்பதையும் புரிந்து கொள்ள வேண்டும்.
நேற்று ஒரு மணி நேரத்தில் மட்டும் 156 அழைப்புகள் வந்தன. விஜய் ரசிகர்களால் என் சகோதரர் நிம்மதி இழந்துள்ளார்’ என்றார்.

Movie team ensure that they use dummy details while using phone numbers or other sensitive data in the movie . I have seen in some movies showing bank account number, passport number etc ..It would be good if cenosr board also takes care of these things.

BTW, Is this an article published in thatstamil. Title makes me to think like that .

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Ilayathalapathy Vijay : Mass hero of Kollywood
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Ilayathalapathy Vijay: Mass hero of Kollywood
Vijay who is popularly known as Ilayathalapathy was born on June 22 1974 in Chennai. He entered the Tamil film industry as a child artist with the film Vetri in the year 1984. He starred as a child artist in more than six films. He also starred in Telugu films. He has been part of the film industry for more than 20 years. He has portrayed various roles i.e. from child artist to romantic lead of the film industry today.
He is one of the mass heroes of Kollywood and he is also one who can romance, sing, dance and tickle a funny bone. Vijay debuted as a lead role actor in the 1992 film Naalaya Theerpu which was produced by his father.
He acted along with another big star Ajith in Rajavin Parvaiyile, Deva and Rasigan. He won Tamil Nadu State Film Award for Best Actor for his performance in Love Today and Once more. He has won several awards including Kalaimamani Award in 1998 and honorary doctorate. Vijay converted his fan clubs into welfare organizations and is involved in social-service activities through the clubs under the name Vijay Makkal Iyakkam.
Vijay appeared as Coca Cola’s brand ambassador in Tamil Nadu in the year 2002. He was signed up as the star ambassador for the Indian Premier League cricket team along with Nayantara in 2008. Vijay was signed by Jos Alukkas as their brand ambassador for Tamil Nadu and Kerala. He also signed for Tata Docomo who will be seen for the first time with Tata Docomo.
Vijay was listed 49 in Forbes India’s ‘Celebrity 100 List’ for the year 2013. Vijay won 25 awards for his performance in the films. Vijay has acted in fils such as Love Today, Once More, Thuppakki, Kushi, Friends, Badri, Nilaave Vaa, Kaththi, Selva, Coimbatore Mappillai, Vishnu, Chandralekha, Kuruvi, Pokkiri, Aadhi, Sivakasi, Sachein, Sukran, Nanban etc.
Vijay portrayed dual role for three times in his career. Vijay is a great fan of Superstar Rajinikanth. He says that no one can replace his place in cinema. He became popular after his first blockbuster ‘Poove Unakkaga’ in 1996. Vijay won the title of ‘Ilayathalapathy’ from his affectionate fans which means ‘Young General’. He married Sangeetha on August 25th 1999.
Vijay is currently the third most popular Indian actor of Tamil origin in the world after Rajinikanth and Kamal Haasan.