Upcoming Movies : Contagion - Trailer | Synopsis

Contagion is an action thriller film about a deadly epidemic viral disease that spreads all over the world. The movie poster says it clearly - The world goes viral september 9.The film is the result of en excellent crew including Kate Winslet, Matt Damon and Gwyneth Paltrow. Warner Bros released this official synopsis for the film:

“Our greatest glory is not in never falling, but in rising every time we fall.”
Confucius
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“I'm a success today because I had a friend who believed in me and I didn't have the heart to let him down.”
Abraham Lincoln

“Have no fear of perfection - you'll never reach it.”
Salvador Dali

“All you need in this life is ignorance and confidence; then success is sure. ”
Mark Twain

 "Contagion follows the rapid progress of a lethal airborne virus that kills within days. As the fast-moving epidemic grows, the worldwide medical community races to find a cure and control the panic that spreads faster than the virus itself. At the same time, ordinary people struggle to survive in a society coming apart."

Direction : Steven Soderbergh

Production : Steven Soderbergh, Gregory Jacobs

Starring : Kate Winslet, Matt Damon, Gwyneth Paltrow

Screenplay : Scott Z. Burns

Distribution : Warner Bros

Release date : September 9, 2011

New Year's Eve 2011 | New Year's Eve Trailer | New Year's Eve Synopsis

New Year's Eve is an upcoming romantic comedy film directed by Garry Marshall.It was originally intended as the sequel to the 2010 film Valentine's Day, but later revealed that the film would not be a sequel to Valentine's Day.

Direction : Garry Marshall

Production : Mike Karz, Wayne Allan Rice

Starring : Robert De Niro, Michelle Pfeiffer, Ashton Kutcher

Screenplay : Katherine Fugate

Distribution : Warner Bros. Pictures

Release date : December 9, 2011

Synopsis

The movie tells intertwining stories of a group of New Yorkers as they navigate their way through romance over the course of New Year's Eve.The movie is in news already due to the  bunch og actors casted. Swank plays the nominal lead in the movie who is in charge of the New Year’s Ball drop in Times Square. Robert De Niro will play a bitter dying man in a hospital, while Michelle Pfeiffer will be a frustrated executive secretary who decides to tackle her unfulfilled resolutions.Ashton Kutcher plays as a guy who hates New Year's Eve. Seth Meyers &Jessical Biel couple are in a 'competition' to be the first to have a baby in the New Year, which comes with a nice cash prize.But Halle Berry comes as a pregnant single parant who unknowingly overthrow the plans of Seth Meyers &Jessical Biel. Carla Gugino will play the doctor who delivers the babies.

Coriolanus 2011 | Coriolanus Trailer| Coriolanus Synopsis

Coriolanus is a 2011 film adaptation of Shakespeare's tragedy Coriolanus. This movie is the directional debut of Ralph Fiennes who comes in the lead role also.

Direction : Ralph Fiennes 

Production : Ralph Fiennes, Colin Vaines

Starring : Ralph Fiennes, Gerard Butler, Vanessa Redgrave

Screenplay : John Logan 

Distribution : Icon Entertainment 

Release Date : 2 December 2011

Synopsis of Original play

The  Shakespeare's drama is about a legendary Roman hero from the 5th century B.C. named Caius Marcius Coriolanus. He lead the Roman army to attack the city of Corioli, held by the Volsces, who are led by Lucius Aufidius, the main opponent of Coriolanus. Single-handedly, Marcius defeats the Volscandefenders of the city of Corioli, and nearly beats Aufidius in hand-to-hand combat, though Aufidius flees.  When Coriolanus returns to Rome, the noble class wish to make him a tribune (representative) of the common people. But the evil tribunes Sicinius and Brutus fear Coriolanus has become too proud and too popular, and may become too powerful. They convince the common people to condemn Coriolanus to death. Coriolanus flees Rome, leaving his wife Virgilia and mother Volumnia in Rome without him. 

War Horse 2011 | War Horse Trailer | War Horse Synopsis

For this year Christmas,  Steven Spielberg is coming with his War Horse, an  epic adventure movie for audiences of all ages. It is based on War Horse, a children's novel written by Michael Morpurgo.

The official synopsis by DreamWorks

"From director Steven Spielberg comes “War Horse,” an epic adventure for audiences of all ages. Set against a sweeping canvas of rural England and Europe during the First World War, “War Horse” begins with the remarkable friendship between a horse named Joey and a young man called Albert, who tames and trains him. When they are forcefully parted, the film follows the extraordinary journey of the horse as he moves through the war, changing and inspiring the lives of all those he meets—British cavalry, German soldiers, and a French farmer and his granddaughter—before the story reaches its emotional climax in the heart of No Man’s Land. The First World War is experienced through the journey of this horse—an odyssey of joy and sorrow, passionate friendship and high adventure. “War Horse” is one of the great stories of friendship and war—a successful book, it was turned into a hugely successful international theatrical hit that is arriving on Broadway next year. It now comes to screen in an epic adaptation by one of the great directors in film history."

Upcoming Movies : One Day - Trailer and Synopsis

One day is an upcoming movie based on David Nicholls 2009 novel of the same name. With a rating of PG-13,the film will be released world wide on 19th August 2011. Anne Hathaway and Jim Sturgess are taking on the roles of Emma and Dexter.Emma and Dexter meet on the night of their college graduation on July 15, 1988 and each year their lives are revisited on that date to see where they are at.Sometimes they are together and sometimes they are not,but their friendship that will last a lifetime. 
Emma is portrayed as a working-class lady who dreams of making the world a better place and Dexter comes as a wealthy chamer friendship that will last a lifetime.They go through all the emotions of life - love,loss,success and failure and finally realise  that what they are searching and hoping for has been there for them all along.

Direction : Lone Scherfig
Production : Nina Jacobson
Starring : Anne Hathaway, Jim Sturgess
Screenplay : David Nicholls
Distribution : Focus Features
Release date : August 19,2011

Upcoming Movies : Moneyball - Trailer and Synopsis

The much awaited Bradpitt movie,Moneyball is set for release on September 23, 2011.It is a biographical comedy-drama film directed by Bennett Miller.It is based on the true story of Billy Beane, general manager of the Oakland Athletics, and his attempt to create a competitive team despite Oakland's unfavorable financial situation.Through analysis and a new, non-traditional sabermetric approach to scouting players, Beane attempts to create a competitive baseball team at a fraction of the cost of the large market teams. Bill James coined the term - Sabermetrics - that measures in-game activity rather than industry activity such as attendance.The film is based on the 2003 book of the same name written by Michael M. Lewis.

Direction: Bennett Miller

Production : Michael De Luca,Rachael Horovitz

Starring : Brad Pitt, Jonah Hill

Distribution : Columbia Pictures

Release date : September 23, 2011

Screenplay : Aaron Sorkin, Steven Zaillian

Upcoming Movies : Shark Night 3D - Trailer and Synopsis

A group of seven college friends from Tulane University pack up for a week end at a lake house in Louisiana’s Gulf area. But their vacation plans suddenly get into trouble when they are attached by sharks.They have to struggle for their lives and at the same time need to unearth the mystery of shark attacks in fresh water,which is unheard. Soon they realize that shark attack is a part of a crooked plan by some of the local Louisiana Gulf area gangs. The movie is categorized as a horror film and it comes in 3D.It is a low budget movie which an estimated expense of only $28 million. It is rated as PG-13 for violence and terror, disturbing images, sexual references, partial nudity and language used.

Direction :David R. Ellis
Production : Chris Briggs, Mike Fleiss, Lynette Howell
Starring : Sara Paxton, Alyssa Diaz, Dustin Milligan
Distributed by : Relativity Media
Release date : September 2, 2011
Running time 95 mins.

Top Actors : Tom Hanks

• Tom Hanks is a gifted person who has the propensity to success on everything he touched; as an actor,producer,writer,and director. We cried on Andrew Beckett of Philadelphia, we loved Forrest Gump, we took pride on Captain John H. Miller in Saving Private Ryan, we felt sad on Chuck Noland in Cast Away  and we laughed at Woody in Toy Story series.
• Born in California on July 9th 1956, to Amos Hanks and Nancy Hanks, he was brought up as an  "Bible-toting evangelical teenager". In school, Hanks was unpopular with students and teachers and he told in an interview that he was horribly, painfully, terribly shy. In 1979 he moved to New York city with an earnest desire to become the part of film industry.

Upcoming Movies : Apollo 18

Apollo 18 is going to take us around 35  years back, to December 1974, about the history of post-Apollo 17 mission by NASA. This horror movie comes with an "imaginative story" on  why NASA discontinued the Apollo moon mission after Apollo 17. Apollo 17 was the eleventh and final manned mission in the American Apollo space program. According to this film there was an unofficial 18th mission and it got cancelled as the crew  on the Moon was attached by parasitic lifeforms. Rest of the story remains unknown but movie posters in English indicate the involvement of Russian KGB in Soviet lunar conspiracy. Russian movie posters show inscriptions in English suggesting an American government cover up in lunar conspiracy. In the trailer also,we can see an American astronaut finds a dead cosmonaut and a Soviet LK Lander on the lunar surface. So the movie surely has an element of suspense regarding the cold war relationship between the two giants. The movie is directed by Gonzalo Lopez-Gallego - his debut English film.

Director : Gonzalo Lopez-Gallego

Producer : Timur Bekmambetov

Starring : Jenny Jue , Johanna Ray

Distribution : Dimension Films

Release Date : 2nd September, 2011

Upcoming Movies : Final Destination 5

The fifth part of Final Destination - Final Destination 5 is scheduled to be released on August 12. This time the movie comes as a 3D supernatural horror thriller. Death is omnipresent everywhere and we cannot simply escape from the hands of it. This time a man saves a group of coworkers from a terrifying suspension bridge collapse. And the theme is always the same - death starts its haunting business to the people who are never suppose to be alive. The happening spot of the movie - the suspension bridge is shooted as the famous Lions Gate Bridge in the city of Vancouver,British Columbia.                             

Director  :  Steven Quale                              

Starring :  Nicholas D'Agosto, Emma Bell

Distributes :  New Line Cinema
Shooting location:   Vancouver
Release Date  :  12th August ,2011

Running time     95 minutes

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Did You Know: Oscar Quiz Part 2

Theme : Oscar | Academy Awards

• First woman to win the Academy Award for Best Director is Kathryn Bigelow for The Hurt Locker (2009).
• First X-rated film to win the Academy Award for Best Picture is Midnight Cowboy (1969).
• Tom Hanks got the Academy Award for Best Actor consecutively for Philadelphia, 1993 and Forrest Gump, 1994.
• Most awards won by a single film - Three films share the credit of this. They won 11 Academy Awards - Ben-Hur (1959), Titanic (1997) and The Lord of the Rings: The Return of the King (2003).
• Most awards won by a man - Walt Disney won 26 Oscars (22 competitive, 4 honorary). He also won the most Oscars in one year - 4 .
• Youngest winner of an acting award is Tatum O'Neal, age 10 (Best Supporting Actress, Paper Moon, 1973).
• Most nominations for a single film - Two films received 14 nominations. They are: All About Eve (1950) and Titanic (1997).
• Most awards won by an Indian - A. R. Rahman won 2 Oscars (Best Original Music Score and Best Original Song) for Slumdog Millionaire (2009)

City of God Review

City of God starts with the clear indication of what is going to happen in the next two hours. Knives are sharpened, vegetables are chopped and a chicken loses its head. After a while we can witness a two decades of real child gangster warfare that gripped the slums of Rio de Janeiro- feel the smell of blood, taste of drugs and flying bullets that take life as an irrational joke.As the tag line says -"If you run the beast catches, if you stay the beast eats."

Rocket is the main narrator and protagonist in the film. He is a  quiet, honest boy who dreams of becoming a photographer, and the only character who seems to keep from being dragged down into corruption and murder during the gang wars.The film starts with the story of three impoverished thieves known as the "Tender Trio" (Trio Ternura)— Shaggy, Clipper, and Goose.Rocket is the younger brother of Goose. Several younger boys idolize the trio and follow them around - one among them is Li'l Dice ,an young chap who is ultra-violent psychopathic and nature.As years pass Lil Dice becomes the most notorious criminal in the city. 

2010 Top Movies : Inception

"A dream within a dream within a dream" -  Christopher Nolan's innovative, and thrilling idea of inception made it as one of the best movies of 2010. Have you ever thought of a way to enter to the subconscious minds of others; change their perceptions and thinking or seed an idea that is going to change their future life?. Inception goes beyond that with more sub levels of dreaming. Leonardo DiCaprio as Dom Cobb, leads a team of four, with a goal of influencing the mind of an energy conglomerate's son Robert Fischer by another wealthy competitor Mr.Saito.

 Director: Christopher Nolan
Starring: Leonardo DiCaprio, Ken Watanabe
Genre: Action, Mystery, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Runtime: 148 minutes

Inception Quote: Dreams feel real while we're in them. It's only when we wake up that we realize something was actually strange.

Top Actors : Leonardo DiCaprio

Leonardo DiCaprio made his film debut in a horror film Critters 3. His turning point was Romeo and Juilet in 1996 and Titanic in 1997, which changed him to a leading star of Hollywood. Titanic became the highest grossing movie of all time and DiCaprio rooted into the minds of millions of fans across the globe.
In 1997 he was chosen by People Magazine as one of the "50 Most Beautiful People in the World". He had a down time in between 1998 and 2001 with no blockbusters but came back

Full Name : Leonardo Wilhelm DiCaprio
DOB : November 11, 1974
Top 2 Movies : Titanic, Inception
Upcoming : J. Edgar (Dec 2011)
Net Worth : $200 million

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Top Directors : Martin Scorsese

Martin Scorsese is one of the best film directors of our generation. Apart from direction he has shown his blessed talents in the field of screen writing, production and acting. He is the founder of the World Cinema Foundation and a recipient of the AFI Life Achievement Award for his contributions to the cinema. His best contribution includes Mean Streets(1972), Taxi Driver(1976), Raging Bull(1980), The King of Comedy (1983), Goodfellas (1990) etc.

Full Name : Martin Charles Scorsese

DOB : November 17, 1942

Top 2 Movies : Goodfellas and The Departed

Latest film : Shutter Island
Upcoming film : Hugo Cabret (Nov 2011)

Net Worth : $40 million

"My whole life has been movies and religion. 
That's it. Nothing else."