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Tuesday, August 06, 2013
The Iceman
Madras Café
The political action thriller is set against the backdrop of the tumultuous and controversial Sri Lankan civil war of the 1990s. The film stars John Abraham as an Indian Army Intelligence Agent sent to Sri Lanka to break a resolute rebel group. Once there, he meets a charismatic female journalist, played by Nargis Fakhri who is determined to uncover the truth about the civil war. Together the pair uncover a deeper, sinister conspiracy by a faceless enemy.
Madras Café releases nationwide on 23rd August 2013. Press Release and film collateral to follow shortly.
Genre: Action Thriller
Starring: John Abraham, Nargis Fakri, Siddhartha Basu, Raashi Khanna, Prakash Belawadi, Ajay Ratnam, Piyush Pandey
Director: Shoojit Sircar
Screenplay: Somnath Dey & Shubendu Bhattacharya
Produced: John Abraham, Viacom18 Motion Pictures & Ronnie Lahiri
Social Media Platforms
Website: http://decodemadrascafe.com/
Trailer: http://youtu.be/hnkKI01I0Ac
Track: Maula Sun Le Re http://youtu.be/2squf_KeKU4
Snap-Happy Brits Take Over 600 Million Photos a Week
· The UK is a nation of snappers taking over 600 million photos every week
· 52% of Britons take photos on their phones and store an average of 180 pictures on their devices
· Around 1 in 5 snappers have lost photos due to a broken device, 5% due to a stolen device and around 3 in 10 Brits do not back up their digital photos
· People (51%), landscapes (19%) and animals/ pets (11%) are our favourite subjects
LONDON, 6th AUGUST, 2013 - Thanks to smartphone, tablet and digital camera technology, image hungry Britain now takes an average of over 600 million photos in the week. According to an online study commissioned by SmugMug* the world’s largest independent photo sharing website, which launches to the UK public this week, most of our snaps feature our friends and family, followed by our beautiful countryside with our pets coming in third.
With the advancements in technology, our photography habits have changed irrevocably resulting in a photographic Tsunami. The online SmugMug survey found that Brits take a mean average of 19 photographs in an ordinary week (not taking in account holidays or special occasions). With 47.75 million* adult residents in the UK, that’s a lot of photos – SmugMug estimates over 600 million in fact**.
Over half of Brits online (52%) take photos primarily on their phones and 32% keep them there. Of those that do an average of 180 photos are currently stored on their mobiles.
Yet when asked how many of us had lost images due to a broken (21%), stolen device (5%) or human error (30%), 56% replied yes they had. Furthermore almost 3 in 10 (28%) Brits admit that they do not back up their photos, with women (32%) being the worst culprits at not ensuring their photographic memories are safe for the future.
Don Macaskill, CEO of SmugMug, commented that “Our photos and precious memories have never been so at risk because of technology but thanks to technology we can keep them safe for the future. We've built a product that's not only the most stunning service you've ever seen, but offers unlimited security and personalisation like the web has never seen. SmugMug begins with stunning and ends with personal”.
SmugMug commissioned the survey to discover more about the photo-storing and sharing habits of Britain ahead of launching its first fully formed consumer offering in the UK this week. SmugMug will launch its cloud based photo service, already a major hit in the US to UK customers, offering a safe and secure home for the best and most important of our images. With high level security settings, our 600million photos are safe from theft or copying, yet through links and passwords, our images can be shared with friends, family and loved ones. Best of all, images are presented in beautiful website templates and in the highest resolution, and are accessible instantly and on any device. SmugMug has been used for over ten years by the world’s leading photographers and is now available to consumers in the UK.
*Conducted by YouGov for SmugMug
** SmugMug have used an adult population figure of 47,754,569 as a base, and then taken 70% of that (as 30% of the original sample does not take photos during an average week). This gives us 33,428,198 and this is then multiplied by 19 (the mean amount of photographs taken).
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Media Volt
The UK’s first website that lists only paid roles for actors, presenters, performers and TV/Film production crew has launched. Media Volt aims to create networking and job opportunities, allowing newcomers or well-established professionals in the media industry, to further their career prospects. Media Volt is an online social community for performers, actors, dancers, models and TV/film production crew members, presenting them with the opportunity to find work, build up industry contacts, communicate with other like-minded people and create personalised profiles. Designed by industry experts, the Media Volt team strongly believes that the site acts as an essential tool for creative individuals to promote their skills and experience through the vital process of networking, which will allow them to enrich their professional lives within this tough industry.
Media Volt allows members to build relationships and spark new ideas, post and view upcoming events within specific localities, and keep up to date with the latest industry news by contributing to discussions and reading interviews with well-established professionals in the industry. Members can also view employment opportunities, through searching for castings, acting auditions, and TV/film productions roles. And what’s best, Media Volt only lists jobs and auditions that are paid.
The media industry is often tough, and requires a strong sense of passion and dedication to become successful in a specialist area. However Media Volt has been promoted by many recognized organisations, as a valuable resource for those aiming to further their future career opportunities through media, arts and performance roles.
Research shows that networking as well as job hunting, creates a major foundation to developing a career in media. It is often said that the media industry is more about who you know, rather than what you know. Media Volt creates a locus for opportunity within the industry and allows the media minded to form an integrated community, by becoming the only site needed to embark on the essential process of networking.
Media Volt Team
Network! Network! Network!
RADIO ALAN:
THE ALAN PARTRIDGE PLAYER
AVAILABLE TO BUY ON iTUNES NOW
#RadioAlanApp
From his early appearances on Radio 4’s On The Hour, through the graveyard shifts on Norfolk Nights to his most recent slot as the host of Mid Morning Matters, Alan Partridge has always been a radio man.
Now it is (virtually) possible to create his radio show for yourself thanks to the launch of the official Alan Partridge app, Radio Alan: The Alan Partridge Player. The app is now available to buy on iTunes for £0.99 to coincide with the debut of Alan’s first feature film Alpha Papa in cinemas nationwide on 7th August 2013.
The app is designed to play audio clips of Alan talking ‘live’ on-air from “Mid-Morning Matters” interspersed with songs from YOUR iTunes library, creating the impression that you’re actually listening to Alan’s radio show live on North Norfolk Digital. So as you listen to music on your iPhone, you can also ponder Alan’s talking points: “You’re stuck on a desert island and only allowed one condiment, what is it to be?”
As Partridge’s loyal fans know, Alan’s radio segues often end with him introducing a song in his own inimitable style (e.g. “Keep your clubs away from his young, it’s Seal!”) The app will recognise if you have a Seal track in your iTunes library and play that song next.
The app also has a ‘Rate My Tunes’ option, whereby Alan rates your iTunes library. If he likes your taste in music you may get a “Back of the Net!” rating that you can share with your friends on Facebook.
To enhance the app experience even further additional in-app purchases include; A ‘Partridge Playlist’ featuring some of Alan’s favourite artists and additional audio clips are available to buy for £0.99.
Radio Alan: The Alan Partridge Player was conceived by Brighton-based app development studio Touch Fantastic and developed in collaboration with Baby Cow Productions and BBC Worldwide.
PRODUCT INFORMATION
Price: £0.99
Available For: iPhone, iPad, and iPod touch, running iOS 6.1 or later
Lithuanian short film:
"Emotional Police" to be seen by millions on Eurochannel TV
Lithuanian film Emotional Police (dir Lukrecija Vaupšaite, 2012, 13min) has been sold to Eurochannel TV, a channel watched by 25 million viewers worldwide, reaching 11 million households. The film was created by sisters Lukrecija and Marija Vaupsaites – a.k.a. Sisters V – imagine them as the junior female version of the Coen brothers.
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Emotional Police (link to trailer: http://vimeo.com/36089355) is about an institution where people come to register crimes such as heartbreak or lack of attention. The film was showcased at the Berlinale Film Cloud 2012 and at the biggest Lithuanian film festival, Kino Pavasaris. It has been praised by European Film Academy member and established Lithuanian director and producer Arunas Matelis, who called it an “unexpected and stylish film”.
Interesting facts:
Emotional Police features performances by three generations of the director’s family: the female lead is played by her sister, Marija Vaupšaite (who works as an investment assistant at Ingenious Media); the inspector of Emotional Police and male lead is portrayed by the director’s grandfather, Jonas Algimantas Baranauskas; and her mother Audrone Vaupšiene (a famous Lithuanian artist) plays the role of one of the victims, who comes to register an emotional crime.
At the moment, Sisters V – Lukrecija and Marija Vaupšaites – have finished their third short film Can Flowers Grow from Concrete? - a story about a young woman, who is incapable of adjusting herself to a superficial and consumerist society.
Every year Eurochannel TV chooses the best short films from all over Europe and shows them as part of its Eurochannel Short Films Tourprogramme. Emotional Police will being shown on Eurochnannel TV for the next two years, starting from this July,in the following territories:Latin America (including Brazil and the Caribbean) France, USA, Switzerland, Canada, Portugal, Monaco, Croatia, Serbia, Slovenia, Bosnia and Herzegovina, South Korea, and Montenegro.
Eurochannel is a world television channel which aims to promote European culture and lifestyle through movies, series and other types programmes. Fiction films, documentaries and other series are shown in their original languages with subtitles in English, Spanish, Portuguese, Polish and Korean. Between 2000 and 2004 Eurochannel was part of a joint venture between Canal+ and Vivendi, and since 2004 it is a privately-owned company. It is an innovative TV channel that is available on cable, satellite, and digital channels such as Google TV, Amazon, and through Android apps.
According to the their website, during Eurochannel Short Films Tour, part of the Eurochannel Tour, viewers will come across new and experienced filmmakers and cinematic masterpieces which pay tribute to women. Men and women alike - such as the established UK-based actress and director Carolina Giammetta, the award-winning Macedonian director Gjorce Stavreski, and the emerging Lithuanian director Lukrecija Vaupsaite - portray either tender or vivid aspects of the female personality.
Links:
http://www.eurochannel.com/en/
http://www.eurochannel.com/en/
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/
http://www.jigsaw.com/
An article in the biggest BALTIC web portal on the sale of Emotional Police to Eurochannel:
http://pramogos.delfi.lt/
Links:
http://www.eurochannel.com/en/
http://www.eurochannel.com/en/
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/
http://www.jigsaw.com/
An article in the biggest BALTIC web portal on the sale of Emotional Police to Eurochannel:
http://pramogos.delfi.lt/
A TIME TO LOVE AND A TIME TO DIE,
will be released in a gorgeous new 1080p HD Blu-ray transfer of the film as part of Eureka Entertainment’s MASTERS OF CINEMA Series on Blu-ray on 23 September 2013.
[For immediate release] Eureka Entertainment have announced that they will be releasing A TIME TO LOVE AND A TIME TO DIE in a gorgeous new 1080p HD Blu-ray transfer of the film in its original CinemaScope aspect ratio. The second-to-last feature film by Hollywood master Douglas Sirk (Written on the Wind, All That Heaven Allows, Imitation of Life), made during the height of his popularity, and adapted from the popular novel by Erich Maria Remarque (author of All Quiet on the Western Front) will be accompanied by a plethora of special features spread across two discs, including a video-essay based upon French New Wave director and critic Jean-Luc Godard's 1959 article about the film for the influential Cahiers du cinéma; a video interview about Sirk with Wesley Strick, author and screenwriter of Martin Scorsese's Cape Fear; a 49-minute interview film with Douglas Sirk and his wife from 1984; and a booklet containing writing by Jean-Luc Godard, critic Tag Gallagher, and excerpts from Sirk's published thoughts about the film. A Time to Love and a Time to Die will be released on blu-ray for the first time anywhere in the world as part of the Masters of Cinema series on 23 September 2013.
“Sirk's penultimate masterpiece” – Geoff Andrew, Time Out
TRAILER
Original Theatrical Trailer http://youtu.be/wWALRQcCsv4
SYNOPSIS
Douglas Sirk — the master of the Hollywood melodrama — turns back to his native Germany at the time of the Second World War for the film that would stand as his penultimate American feature: A Time to Love and a Time to Die. A CinemaScope production staged on a grand scale, Sirk's picture nevertheless pulsates with an intimacy that has known longing for too long, and seethes with the repression of emotions poised to explode like bombs.
John Gavin plays Ernst Gräber, a soldier on the Russian-German Front in 1944 venturing home to Hamburg on a rare furlough. Upon arrival, he discovers a city that bears little resemblance to the one he left behind — and so, through the rubble of the air-raids, he searches desperately for fragments of his family's shattered lives. But amid the shards, he falls in love with Elisabeth (Liselotte Pulver), the charming daughter of his parents' doctor, and thus activates a magnetism that compels both individuals toward one another in love, even as it hurtles them headlong into epochal death.
Adapted from the novel by Erich Maria Remarque (the author of All Quiet on the Western Front, who also makes a cameo appearance in Sirk's picture), A Time to Love and a Time to Die takes its literary source and sculpts it anew out of matter made from color, decor, and performance — and arguably bests the novel on all aesthetic levels. Yet perhaps nothing can better summarise the power of Sirk's film — or of his entire body of work — than these words from the movie's trailer: "Their pounding hearts drowned out the sound of chaos thundering around them." — The Masters of Cinema Series is proud to present Douglas Sirk's 1958 masterpiece for the first time on Blu-ray anywhere in the world.
Available to pre-order from:
Amazon (Blu-ray) http://amzn.to/13gY0D0
The Hut (Blu-ray) http://tidd.ly/73d43a8
MovieMail (Blu-ray) http://bit.ly/13XdDyC
SPECIAL BLU-RAY EDITION:
• Gorgeous 1080p presentation of the film in its original 2:35:1 CinemaScope aspect ratio
• English SDH subtitles for the hearing impaired
• Optional isolated music & effects track
• OF TEARS AND SPEED: ACCORDING TO JEAN-LUC GODARD — a 12-minute, visually annotated recitation of Jean-Luc Godard's seminal essay on Sirk's film.
• 19-minute video interview with Wesley Strick, screenwriter of Scorsese's Cape Fear and author of the novel Out There in the Dark, a roman-à-clef based upon Sirk's life in Hollywood and his relationship with the estranged son who took a starring role in Hitler Youth propaganda.
• IMITATION OF LIFE [MIRAGE OF LIFE]: A PORTRAIT OF DOUGLAS SIRK — a 49-minute film portrait from 1984, directed by Daniel Schmid and photographed by Renato Berta, of Douglas Sirk and his wife Hilda in conversation, and reflecting, from their apartment in Germany, back upon their lives in Hollywood.
• The original trailer for the film, from the time it retained the provisional title of simply "A TIME TO LOVE"
• 36-page booklet containing the complete text of Jean-Luc Godard's essay on the film, writings from critic Tag Gallagher on the film and Sirk's career in general, and an assemblage of notes that includes excerpts from Sirk's reflections upon the film, remarks upon visual motifs inside the movie, the CinemaScope process used to photograph the picture, and more.
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