Wednesday, 22 January 2014

Bollywood Box Office Business Report 2013 - Actors



Continuing with the analysis of a thriving 2013, when taking a glance at the box workplace performances of actresses, let's take a glance at however a number of the leading actors fared through the year. during this report, we tend to offer you a lowdown on the actors UN agency are ruling the box-office with their movies garnering record breaking business at the side of others UN agency area unit nevertheless to master the tricks of the trade. However, the collections during this report area unit restricted to the domestic domain.



As expected, Aamir Khan options at the pinnacle of the list accumulating Rs. 280.5 crores with simply one unharness Dhoom three. With such large collections, Aamir has thrown the sector open for Rs. three hundred large integer and films. returning in a very shut second is youth matinee idol Ranbir Kapoor with Rs. 248.36 crores collected with 2 releases, Yeh Jawaani Hai Deewani and Besharam. apparently, Bollywood's Greek god Hrithik Roshan steps in at range 3 along with his film Krrish three that collected Rs. 244.92 crores, reordering crowned head Rukh Khan at range four with Madras categorical that congregate Rs. 227.13 crores.



On the opposite hand, Sushant Singh Hindoo UN agency created his debut simply last year comes in at range sixteen with Kai Po Che and Shuddh Desi Romance assembling Rs. 96.27 crores. apparently, Salman Khan, UN agency has been operating overtime promoting his approaching film Jai metal, fails to feature during this list, since post Dabangg two in 2012, the actor had no unharness.



Note: Names of the actors area unit restricted to those that have strictly vie the lead roles within the aforesaid films; alternative supporting roles haven't been enclosed.



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Rank Actors Movies Total (INR cr.)
1 Aamir Khan Dhoom 3 - 280.5 280.5
2 Ranbir Kapoor Yeh Jawaani Hai Deewani - 188.57
Besharam - 59.79
248.36
3 Hrithik Roshan Krrish 3 - 244.92 244.92
4 Shahrukh Khan Chennai Express - 227.13 227.13
5 John Abraham Race 2 - 100.45
I, Me Aur Main - 7.9
Shootout at Wadala - 60.18
Madras Cafe - 42.67
211.20
6 Akshay Kumar Special 26 - 66.8
Once Upon Ay Time in Mumbai Dobaara - 61
Boss - 54.15
181.95
7 Saif Ali Khan Race 2 - 100.45
Go Goa Gone - 25.16
Bullet Raja - 36.23
161.84
8 Ranveer Singh Lootera - 29
Goliyon Ki Raasleela Ram-leela - 116.33
145.33
9 Vivek Oberoi Jayantabhai Ki Luv Story - 4
Zila Ghaziabad - 16
Grand Masti - 102
122.00
10 Imran Khan Matru Ki Bijlee Ka Mandola - 41
Once Upon Ay Time in Mumbai Dobaara - 61
Gori Tere Pyaar Mein - 16.29
118.29
11 Ajay Devgn Himmatwala - 47.45
Satyagraha - 63.74
111.19
12 Farhan Akhtar Bhaag Milkha Bhaag - 108.93 108.93
13 Shahid Kapoor Phata Poster Nikhla Hero - 36.53
R... Rajkumar - 66.1
102.63
14 Riteish Deshmukh Grand Masti - 102 102
15 Arjun Rampal Inkaar - 9.5
D-Day - 24
Satyagraha - 63.74
97.24
16 Sushant Singh Rajput Kai Po Che! - 49.67
Shuddh Desi Romance - 46.6
96.27
17 Aditya Roy Kapoor Aashiqui 2 - 78.42 78.42
18 Amitabh Bachchan Satyagraha - 63.74 63.74
19 Sunny Deol Yamla Pagla Deewana 2 - 36.7
Singh Saab The Great - 26.62
63.32
20 Dhanush Raanjhanaa - 60.35 60.35
21 Emraan Hashmi Ek Thi Daayan - 25.8
Ghanchakkar - 34
59.80
22 Arshad Warsi Zila Ghaziabad - 16
Jolly L.L.B. - 32.71
Rabba Main Kya Karoon - 1.09
49.80
23 Sanjay Dutt Policegiri - 16.81
Zanjeer - 15.19
Zilla Ghaziabad - 16
48.00
24 Irrfan Khan D-Day - 24
The Lunchbox - 20.19
44.19
25 Ali Zafar Chashme Baddoor - 41.68 41.68
26 Pulkit Samrat Fukrey - 36.5 36.5
27 Girish Kumar Ramaiya Vastavaiya - 36.3 36.3
28 Randeep Hooda Murder 3 - 22.88
John Day - 1.59
24.47
29 Arjun Kapoor Aurangzeb - 22.35 22.35
30 Ayushmann Khurana Nautanki Saala - 21.68 21.68
31 Vidyut Jamwal Commando - A One Man Army - 21.47 21.47
32 Ram Charan Teja Zanjeer - 15.19 15.19
33 Saqib Saleem Mere Dad Ki Maruti - 12.54 12.54
34 Neil Nitin Mukesh David - 3.75
3 G - 5.82
Shortcut Romeo - 2.58
12.15
35 Nawazuddin Siddiqui Aatma - 8.78 8.78
36 Manish Paul Mickey Virus - 7.66 7.66
37 Sachiin Joshi Mumbai Mirror - 1.83
Jackpot - 5.21
7.04
38 Sharman Joshi War Chod Na Yaar - 6.75 6.75
39 Jackky Bhagnani Rangrezz - 6.37 6.37
40 Prateik Babbar Issaq - 4 4
41 Rajkummar Rao Shahid - 3.607 3.607





Disclaimer:

The Box Office figures are compiled from various sources and our own research. The figures can be approximate and Bollywood Hungama
does not make any claims about the authenticity of the data. However,
they are adequately indicative of the box-office performance of the
film(s).

Tuesday, 21 January 2014

Predicting Which Best Picture Nominee Will Win the Oscar Based on Movie Titles

The accolade nominations came out on weekday morning, and as of currently, it's anybody's race. Some say twelve Years a Slave has it within the bag, whereas others assume yankee Hustle can snatch the simplest image trophy. there is no a technique to grasp obviously — will the Academy weigh emotional impact? Flashy performances? The film's lasting message?



How concerning titles? affirmative, you'll tell plenty a couple of film by its title, and concerning its accolade probabilities, too. We've compiled some handy information concerning every Best image nominee's title and what it says concerning the film's probabilities come back time at hand out the awards.



AMERICAN HUSTLE









Sydney Prosser (Amy Adams, left) Associate in Nursingd Irving Rosenfeld (Christian Bale) conceive to scam an underneath cowl agent in Columbia Picutres' yankee HUSTLE.Columbia photos



Movies with the word "America" in their titles...

...to win a Best image Oscar: two (An yankee in Paris; yankee Beauty) 

...to get nominative for BP, however not win: two (America, America; yankee Graffiti)



Movies whose titles refers to against the law or act of duplicity...

...to win a Best image Oscar: two (Mutiny on the Bounty; The Sting)

...to get nominative for BP, however not win: eleven (The Racket; She Done Him Wrong; Imitation of Life; Libeled Lady; Grand Illusion; The Caine Mutiny; The Hustler; Mutiny on the Bounty; The Killing Fields; The Fugitive; Traffic)



CAPTAIN PHILLIPS 







Movies with a main character's last name in their titles...

...to win a Best image Oscar: ten (The nice Ziegfeld; Ben-Hur; Tom Jones; Patton; Annie Hall; Kramer vs. Kramer; Gandhi; Schindler’s List; Forrest Gump; Shakespeare in Love)

...to get nominative for BP, however not win: forty five (Disraeli; monger Horn; Arrowsmith; The House of Rothschild; Alice Adams; Captain Blood; David Copperfield; Ruggles of Red Gap; Anthony Adverse; Dodsworth; adult male. Deeds Goes to Town; The Story of Louis Pasteur; The lifetime of Emile Zola; The Adventures of Robin Hood; farewell, Mr. Chips; Mr. Smith Goes to Washington; Kitty Foyle; national Kane; Here Comes adult male. Jordan; Sergeant York; Mrs. Miniver; The glorious Ambersons; gentlewoman Curie; Wilson; Mildred Pierce; grayback Belinda; Julius Caesar; adult male Roberts; The Diary of Anne Frank; Elmer Gantry; Dr. Strangelove or however I Learned to prevent Worrying and Love the Bomb; mother Poppins; Doctor Zhivago; Who’s scared of Virginia Woolf?; Doctor Dolittle; Butch Cassidy and therefore the Sundance Kid; Barry Lyndon; Prizzi’s Honor; Boche Maguire; sensible can Hunting; Saving non-public Ryan; Erin Brokovich; Capote; archangel Clayton; Lincoln)



Movies whose titles embody a paygrade...

...to win a Best image Oscar: o

...to get nominative for BP, however not win: vi (The Smiling Lieutenant; Captain Blood; Captains Courageous; Sergeant York; Saving non-public Ryan; Master and Commander: The so much aspect of the World)



DALLAS patrons CLUB







Movies with a town name in their titles...

...to win a Best image Oscar: four (Cimarron; Casablanca; Associate in Nursing yankee in Paris; Chicago)

...to get nominative for BP, however not win: eighteen (Hollywood Revue; Shanghai Express; San Francisco; In recent Chicago; The metropolis Story; adult male. Smith Goes to Washington; Casablanca; Roman Holiday; Peyton Place; Judgment and Nuremberg; Chinatown; Nashville; Fargo; L.A. Confidential; Gangs of latest York; Munich; Letters from invasion of Iwo Jima; time of day in Paris)



Movies whose titles appear to be they must in all probability have a possessive apostrophe, but don't...

...to win a Best image Oscar: zero

...to get nominative for BP, however not win: four (Boys Town; Kings Row; Dead Poets Society; Howards End)



GRAVITY







Movies whose titles area unit one intangible noun...

...to win a Best image Oscar: one (Crash)

...to get nominative for BP, however not win: eight (Alibi; Suspicion; Crossfire; Deliverance; Traffic; Atonement; Inception; Moneyball)



Movies whose titles finish in "ity"...

...to win a Best image Oscar: one (From Here to Eternity)

...to get nominative for BP, however not win: three (Double Indemnity; Atlantic City; Sense and Sensibility)



HER









Movies whose titles area unit created up 3 letters or fewer...

...to win a Best image Oscar: zero

...to get nominative for BP, however not win: four (Z; JFK; Ray; Up)



Movies that have the word "her" in their titles...

...to win a Best image Oscar: one (Ben-Hur)

...to get nominative for BP, however not win: one (Hannah and Her Sisters)



NEBRASKA











Movies with U.S. state names in their titles...

...to win a Best image Oscar: zero

...to get nominative for BP, however not win: two (In recent Arizona; Mississippi Burning)

*Note: Mr. Smith Goes to Washington and Gangs of latest House of York each consult with cities, not states, and therefore the "Virginia" in Who's scared of writer could be a human lady.



We adored American state, however this is often very the sole one we tend to might think about for it. Sorry, Alexander Payne. Sorry, everybody.



PHILOMENA









Movies whose titles area unit simply a main character's forename...

...to win a Best image Oscar: five (Rebecca; Hamlet; Marty; Gigi; Oliver!)

...to get nominative for BP, however not win: twenty (Skippy; Cleopatra; Ivanhoe; Shane; Fanny; Cleopatra; Alfie; Lenny; Rocky; Julia; Norma Rae; Tess; Bugsy; Babe; Elizabeth; Seabiscuit; Ray; Juno; Precious; Hugo)



Movies whose titles were mispronounced by old master DiCaprio on live tv...

...to win a Best image Oscar: zero

...to get nominative for BP, however not win: zero (There are often only 1 Philomania.)



12 YEARS A SLAVE









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Movies with numbers in their titles...

...to win a Best image Oscar: vi (It Happened One Night; round the World in eighty Days; The Godfather half II; One Flew Over the Cuckoo’s Nest; Million dollar Baby; Slumdog Millionaire)

...to get nominative for BP, however not win: thirty six (Seventh Heaven; 5 Star Final; One Hour with You; forty second Street; The non-public lifetime of Henry VIII; One Night of Love; street Melody of 1936; A Tale of 2 Cities; 3 sensible Girls; 100 Men and a Girl; Four Daughters; One Foot in Heaven; forty ninth Parallel; Henry V; Miracle on thirty fourth Street; A Letter to 3 Wives; Twelve O’Clock High; Seven Brides for Seven Brothers; 3 Coins within the Fountain; The 10 Commandments; twelve Angry Men; The resistant Ones; m Clowns; Anne of the Thousand Days; 5 simple Pieces; Born on the Fourth of July; The Godfather half III; Four Weddings and a Funeral; Phoebus Apollo 13; The Sixth Sense; The Lord of the Rings: the 2 Towers; District 9; 127 Hours; Toy Story 3; Zero Dark Thirty)



Movies that consult with a unit of your time in their titles...

...to win a Best image Oscar: two (The Best Years of Our Lives; round the World in eighty Days) 

...to get nominative for BP, however not win: nine (One Hour with You; girl for a Day; The Yearling; The Longest Day; Anne of the Thousand Days; Dog Day Afternoon; Remains of the Day; The Hours; 127 Hours)



THE WOLF OF WALL STREET









Movies whose titles embody mention of Associate in Nursing animal...

...to win a Best image Oscar: three (The cervid Hunter; Dances with Wolves; The Silence of the Lambs)

...to get nominative for BP, however not win: seventeen (Of Mice and Men; the small Foxes; The Maltese Falcon; The Ox-Bow Incident; The Snake Pit; Cat on a Hot Tin Roof; To Kill a Mockingbird; The Lion in Winter; One Flew Over the Cuckoo’s Nest; Dog Day Afternoon; The Elephant Man; Raging Bull; Kiss of the Spider Woman; hunkered Tiger, Hidden Dragon; Black Swan; War Horse)



Movies whose titles embody the name of a street...

...to win a Best image Oscar: one (The street Melody) 

...to get nominative for BP, however not win: five (42nd Street; The Barretts of Wimpole Street; street Melody of 1936; Miracle on thirty fourth Street; Sunset Boulevard)



Cast your bets, folks. Captain Phillips sounds like it's this one fastened down.



*Special because of Hollywood.com writers Julia Emmanuele and Jordan Smith for serving to to compile information and diverting the madness of this post, and to our CTO Greg Zimerman for ill  hours of labor once my Word Doc crashed. you are a hero, Greg.

And the 2014 Oscar Nominees Are....!!!




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And the nominees for the 86th Annual Academy Awards, celebrating the fantastic cinematic year of 2013, are...



Best Picture

American Hustle

Captain Phillips

Dallas Buyers Club

Gravity

Her

Nebraska

Philomena

12 Years a Slave

The Wolf of Wall Street 



Best Director

David O. Russell, American Hustle

Alfonso Cuaron, Gravity

Alexander Payne, Nebraska

Steve McQueen, 12 Years a Slave

Martin Scorsese, The Wolf of Wall Street



Best Actress

Amy Adams, American Hustle

Cate Blanchett, Blue Jasmine

Sandra Bullock, Gravity

Judi Dench, Philomena

Meryl Streep, August: Osage County



Best Actor

Christian Bale, American Hustle

Bruce Dern, Nebraska

Leonardo DiCaprio, The Wolf of Wall Street

Chiwetel Ejiofor, 12 Years a Slave

Matthew McConaughey, Dallas Buyers Club



Best Adapted Screenplay

Before Midnight

Captain Phillips

Philomena

12 Years a Slave

The Wolf of Wall Street



Best Original Screenplay

American Hustle

Blue Jasmine

Dallas Buyers Club

Her

Nebraska



Best Supporting Actor

Barkhad Abdi, Captain Phillips

Bradley Cooper, American Hustle

Michael Fassbender, 12 Years a Slave

Jonah Hill, The Wolf of Wall Street

Jared Leto, Dallas Buyers Club



Best Supporting Actress

Sally Hawkins, Blue Jasmine

Jennifer Lawrence, American Hustle

Lupita Nyong'o, 12 Years a Slave

Julia Roberts, August: Osage County

June Squibb, Nebraska



Best Animated Feature

The Croods

Despicable Me 2

Ernest & Celestine

Frozen

The Wind Rises



Best Documentary Feature

The Act of Killing

Cutie and the Boxer

Dirty Wars

The Square

20 Feet from Stardom



Best Foreign Language Film

The Broken Circle Breakdown

The Great Beauty

The Hunt

The Missing Picture

Omar



Best Original Song

"Alone Yet Not Alone" from Alone Yet Not Alone

"Happy" from Despicable Me 2

"Let It Go" from Frozen

"The Moon Song" from Her

"Ordinary Love" from Mandela: Long Walk to Freedom



Best Original Score

The Book Thief

Gravity

Her

Philomena

Saving Mr. Banks



Best Cinematography

The Grandmaster

Gravity

Inside Llewyn Davis

Nebraska

Prisoners



Best Editing

American Hustle

Captain Phillips

Dallas Buyers Club

Gravity

12 Years a Slave



Best Animated Short Film

"Feral"

"Get a Horse!"

"Mr. Hublot"

"Possessions"

"Room on the Broom"



Best Documentary Short

"CaveDigger"

"Facing Fear"

"Karama Has No Walls"

"The Lady in Number 6: Music Saved My Life"

"Prison Terminal: The Last Days of Private Jack Hall"



Best Production Design

American Hustle

Gravity

The Great Gatsby

Her

12 Years a Slave



Best Costume Design

American Hustle

The Grandmaster

The Great Gatsby

The Invisible Woman

12 Years a Slave



Best Makeup and Hairstyling

Dallas Buyers Club

Jackass Presents: Bad Grandpa

The Lone Ranger



Best Sound Editing

All Is Lost

Captain Phillips

Gravity

The Hobbit: Desolation of Smaug

Lone Survivor



Best Sound Mixing

Captain Phillips

Gravity

The Hobbit: Desolation of Smaug

Inside Llewyn Davis

Lone Survivor

'Lone Survivor' Is Unsettling in the Best Ways Possible-Review



Lone Survivor is not a movie for the faint of heart. it is a film that beats you down and solely allows you to up for a couple of precious moments before the credits roll, however that emotional strangling is what helps build the film such a strong expertise.



Peter Berg's Lone Survivor tells the story of Operation Red Wings, primarily that specialize in a bunch of 4 Navy SEALs United Nations agency ar sent to the mountains of Afganistan to capture or kill a member of the Taleban. The set up goes wrong, and therefore the team has got to fight for his or her lives to flee the enemy-infested space. The film will a fabulous job of ratcheting up the strain before collapsing into its main action sequence, one that's as thrilling because it is unsettling. The long sequence brings forth reminiscences of the ill-famed 6 June 1944 gap of Saving personal Ryan, except this film's fire-fight stretches out the violence sort of a medieval torture device. The langourous scene is, at times, arduous to sit down through. every moment slips by in spiraling tension. It's without doubt uncomfortable, and therefore the film builds some extent to ne'er make the violence fun or attractive. The action is not consequence-free, and each bullet discharged carries weight, creating the scenes brutal and unrelenting as a result of it. The film takes on the aura of a horror motion-picture show that wishes you to feel each second that ticks by, and director Berg makes certain that a pressing despair starts to sadden the viewer even as it will on the troopers.



Mark Wahlberg is masses capable as Marcus Lutrell, a member of the SEAL unit that's sent on the mission. The supporting solid plays its elements commendable by credibly infusing a various set of personalities and values into the troopers, whereas still keeping them in tune with an equivalent military culture that governs abundant of their thoughts and actions. there is a nice scene wherever a tough call has got to be created, and therefore the viewer gets to visualize the various directions to that a number of the character's ethical compasses ar tuned. generally the correct factor will mean various things to totally different folks once the chance of death is on the table. the $64000 standout within the solid is mountain Foster, whose SO2 Matthew Alexson swirls with barely contained fury. he's in darkness intense and has electrical screen presence that basically starts to manifest once the bullets star flying and things become dire.



For all the nice can that the film builds up in its initial and second act, the ultimate third of the film hits some snags as history demands that the story take itself to a unique location, sacrificing a number of the strain that it's engineered up. within the last half-hour of the film, there ar some odd tonal selections that do not gel with the strain brimfull within the half. A comedic scene involving a barrier stands call at explicit.



The motion-picture show makes some extent to steer beyond any political judgment,  and it does not try and lay blame for the bungled mission on anybody head. And whereas the film ne'er externally states and opinion on the conflicts that America found itself involved in throughout now amount, the searing brutality represented within the motion-picture show highlight that nobody ought to be subjected to the pain that these men were two-faced with. created profusely clear is that the soldiers' disposition to drop everything and serve their country the simplest method they skills. Lone Survivor tries to honor the soldier, however not glorify war.



Lone Survivor is at its best once it causes you to feel the worst. It provides troopers their due reverence by showcasing verity terror of the tract, and whereas the film will begin to sag slightly in its third act, it's still quite well worth the expertise so as perceive the implications of war, and its toll on the folks within the trenches.





Aishwarya Rai to make a comeback with Mani Ratnam


Aishwarya Rai to make a comeback with Mani Ratnam

She started her acting career with Mani Ratnam's Iruvar wherever she compete a personality uncannily like Jayalalitha.



And currently Aishwarya Rai Bachchan is geared up to create a comeback to screen when an extended maternity leave with a movie to be directed by Mani Ratnam. Mani is extremely near each Abhishek and Aishwarya. He has worked with the couple in Guru and Raavan. 



But for his next, he desires solely Aishwarya. 



Says a awfully reliable supply, "Mani shares a wonderful equation with Abhishek and Ash. however this point he is reaching to direct a movie that encompasses a terribly robust feminine protagonist's character. Mani feels there's very little area for Abhishek in his next." 



Aishwarya has given her consent to her presence in Mani's next. 



Says the supply, "Aishwarya was terribly clear regarding her priorities when she became a mother. She gave 100 of her time and concentration to her female offspring Aaraadhya for 2 years. currently that Aaraadhya is prepared for play group Aishwarya will begin thinking of seriously coming to acting." 



Aishwarya was keen to come back with a movie directed by either of her 2 favorite administrators, Sanjay Leela Bhansali or Mani Ratnam. 



Says the supply, "She was most finalized for the item song in SLB's Ram-Leela. however Aishwarya wished some changes within the lyrics that Sanjay refused. whereas she's trying forward to operating with SLB, she's geared up to come back with Mani Ratnam's next project." 



The movie-making genius' career has been underneath a cloud. His last 2 films Raavan and Kadal have bombed and been heavily panned by critics additionally. 



"Mani too must create a comeback," says the supply that informs regarding Aishwarya's nod to the Mani Ratnam project.

Monday, 20 January 2014

Daria Werbowy stars in Balenciaga’s Spring 2014 ad campaign



Moody, biology and a bit bit Canadian: welcome to clothes designer for Spring 2014. provincial capital manikin Daria Werbowy fronts the Steven Klein-shot ad blitz and it’s safe to mention the photographs ar A+.



Slated to debut in print next month, the campaign’s 1st image shows Werbowy dead, leaning against a white wall engulfed in biology vines. The others showcase the manikin sporting the brand’s crop-driven Spring 2014 assortment items. “I wished to convey a way of strength and knowingness,” same clothes designer inventive director Alexander Wang. “Daria is unquestionably not naïve.” With a gaze as powerful as hers, these ads can sure stop onlookers dead in their tracks.