Inox Leisure ventures into film production

October 8th, 2009 PANAJI - The India premiere of Oscar Award winner Ang Lee directed Hollywood film "Taking Woodstock" was held at a multiplex in Goa. The premiere of the film was held at the Inox multiplex Wednesday.

October 3rd, 2009 Filmmaker Gurunath has opened his own production house along with Raghunath of Vishishta Productions. The production house will be debuting with the flick, Johnny Vijay.

September 17th, 2009 NEW DELHI - They introduced the multiplex concept in India in 1997 and now when other players are increasingly entering the market, Sanjeev Bijli, joint managing director of PVR Ltd, maintains that competition does not bog them down as they always strive to do something different. "Every industry has competition, similarly in our industry too, but we are not scared of it.

September 11th, 2009 LONDON - English director Guy Ritchie has confessed that he suffers from short-term memory so much so that he even finds it hard to recall that a film is his own, if ever he's watching one. The 41-year-old has directed a number of pictures, including gangster movies like "Lock, Stock and Two Smoking Barrels", "Snatch" and "RocknRolla" but constantly working on films has affected Ritchie's memory so much that he often has to re-acquaint himself with his ventures, reports imdb.com.

September 7th, 2009 CHENNAI - "Kanchivaram", set in the pre-independence era, has bagged top honours - best film as well as best actor award for Prakash Raj at the 55th National Awards, announced Monday. The actor says he is inspired to do more such films, while director Priyadarshan feels it will change his image.

August 6th, 2009 Rambha is all set to play producer again for a Malayalam movie in which she plays the lead role. Her earlier tryst with production was in 2003 when she produced the Jyotika and Laila starrrer Three Roses.

August 5th, 2009 The state-run Sri Kanteerava Studios in Bangalore has planned to come up with 150 theatres in ‘B’ and ‘C’ centers of Karnataka with a view to encourage Kannada cinema. The project is with private sector and industry participation and is estimated at around Rs.200 crores.

July 23rd, 2009 Vijay and Shuba Punja starrer Thaakath has successfully completed 50 days at the box office. In a function arranged recently in Bangalore to celebrate the film’s success, crazy star V.

July 11th, 2009 LONDON - Singer-actress Lindsay Lohan has embarked on a career behind the camera as she has started her own production company. The Mean Girls star has teamed up once again with business partner Kristi Kaylor, who runs Lohan's leggings brand, for their new venture Unforgettable Productions, reported IANS-WENN.

June 18th, 2009 NEW DELHI - Arjun Rampal's wife Mehr Jessia says it is not easy to please the actor when it comes to clothes. "He puts no thought into his clothes.

June 12th, 2009 BANGALORE - Film buffs in Karnataka can heave a sigh of relief - the Kannada film industry's long stand off with the multiplexes over revenue sharing has ended and two new films - "Olave Jeevana Lekkachara" and "Karanjji" - are being screened at multi-screen theatres Friday. Talking to IANS, Vijaya Kumar, secretary of the distribution sector of the Karnataka Film Chamber of Commerce (KFCC), who was part of the negotiations with the multiplex owners, said the settlement was possible because of the positive attitude of the Kannada film industry members as well as representatives of the multiplexes, particularly PVR and INOX.

June 5th, 2009 MUMBAI - The row between Bollywood producers and multiplex owners over revenue sharing came to an end as the two parties reached a deal here early Friday, industry sources said. After about four months of negotiations, the two parties reached a consensus over the rationalisation of revenue sharing for forthcoming films, the sources said.

June 5th, 2009 NEW DELHI - After two months of empty seats and no-shows at ticket counters, multiplex owners are happy their stand-off with the producers-distributors over revenue sharing ended Friday. They are content with the solution arrived at.

June 3rd, 2009 MUMBAI - The Anil Ambani group has forayed into animation education by launching the Big Animation Infotainment and Media School or Big Aims, a training institute in Pune. "Big Aims is unique and a first-of-its kind," said Ashish Kulkarni, chief executive of Big Animation, the group company that launched the project and made the animated TV series "Little Krishna".

May 25th, 2009 BANGALORE - The long standoff between multiplex owners and Bollywood filmmakers has affected the Kannada film industry too, with two big budget Kannada films "Dubai Babu" and "Taakat" failing to reach the multiscreen cinemas here because of the row over revenue sharing. The producers fear they will have to bear heavy losses because of the tiff.