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>> Awards season heats up

Deepika Padukone has been chosen as one of the presenters at the upcoming BAFTA Awards alongside celebrities like former England soccer star David Beckham, singer Dua Lipa and Cate Blanchett. Meanwhile, Ryan Gosling, Emma Stone, Margot Robbie, Cillian Murphy and different Oscar nominees caught up on the Beverly Hilton for the annual Academy Award nominees luncheon.

The Directors Guild Awards occurred this week and Christopher Nolan was awarded the top prize for ‘Oppenheimer’ whereas Celine Song received an award for first-time directorial achievement for her romantic drama ‘Past Lives’. Veteran actor Sigourney Weaver won the International Goya Award in recognition of what the Spanish Film Academy dubbed a powerful profession, throughout which she dropped at life “unbiased, complicated and sturdy feminine characters”. Actor Brad Pitt introduced his buddy and actor Bradley Cooper with one of the Santa Barbara Film Festival’s prime honours, Outstanding Performer of the Year, for his work starring as Leonard Bernstein within the biopic ‘Maestro’.

Meanwhile, listed below are a number of highlights from the continuing Berlinale 2024 competition:

Manoj Bajpayee part of India Pavilion inauguration at competition, set to premiere ‘The Fable’

Cillian Murphy shoulders a society’s disgrace in competition opener ‘Small Things Like These’

Berlin Film Festival jury questions move to uninvite far-right

German far-right, Gaza war overshadow Berlin Film Festival

Bollywood

‘Soorarai Pottru’ remake titled ‘Sarfira’, will get launch date

Arjun Kapoor to play villain in ‘Singham Again’

‘Love, Sex Aur Dhokha 2’ will get a launch date

Indian director’s multi-national manufacturing ‘In the Belly of a Tiger’ to premiere at Berlin Film Festival

Rajkumar Santoshi ropes Santosh Sivan as cinematographer for ‘Lahore 1947’

‘Ae Watan Mere Watan’ gets premiere date on Prime Video

Sandeep Singh to direct Chhatrapati Shivaji Maharaj biopic

Hollywood

Pedro Pascal, Vanessa Kirby half of Marvel Studios’ ‘The Fantastic Four’

Scarlett Johansson to star in true crime movie ‘Featherwood’

Will Smith to star in crime thriller ‘Sugar Bandits’

Michelle Yeoh, Melanie Laurent workforce up for motion film ‘The Mother’

Ewan McGregor joins Anne Hathaway in David Robert Mitchell’s journey movie for Warner Bros

Simu Liu to star in Peacock’s espionage techno-thriller series

Margot Robbie manufacturing home strikes first-look deal with Warner Bros.

Adam Sandler joins Josh Safdie for a Netflix comedy particular

Elizabeth Olsen, Charles Melton to characteristic in Todd Solondz’s ‘Love Child’

‘GoT’ stars Sophie Turner, Kit Harington reunite for gothic horror movie

Anya Taylor-Joy confirms function in ‘Dune: Part Two’

Katy Perry reveals that she’s set to exit ‘American Idol’

‘American Born Chinese’ fame Ben Wang to star in new ‘Karate Kid’ film

BLACKPINK’s Lisa to star in ‘The White Lotus’ Season 3

Antoine Fuqua to direct characteristic documentary on Nelson Mandela

Michael Chaves set to direct ‘The Conjuring 4’

Regional cinema

Sivakarthikeyan – AR Murugadoss film goes on flooring; Rukmini Vasanth to play feminine lead

Emraan Hashmi formally boards Adivi Sesh’s ‘G2’

‘Lal Salaam’ has acquired an important response, says Rajinikanth; shares update on ‘Vettaiyan’

Samantha Ruth Prabhu says she’s going again to work, announces health podcast

Vishnu Varadhan to helm debut movie of Murali’s son Akash; Aditi Shankar to play feminine lead

Actors Suraj Venjaramoodu, Asif Ali’s subsequent goes on flooring

Mithila Palkar to make her Tamil debut alongside Vishnu Vishal’s brother Rudra

Tamil actor Arjun Das to foray into Malayalam with Ahammed Khabeer’s subsequent

Kalidas Jayaram’s ‘Nila Varum Velai’ goes on flooring

Shane Nigam’s Tamil debut ‘Madraskaaran’ goes on flooring

Hotstar Specials ‘Heart Beat’ will get a streaming date

Trailers

The merc with a mouth turns into MCU’s Messiah in ‘Deadpool & Wolverine’ teaser

An ensemble solid takes us again in time in ‘Varshangalkku Shesham’ teaser

‘Wicked’ trailer options Ariana Grande and Cynthia Erivo including a brand new twist to the basic fairytale

Apes hunt people as a king eyes world domination in ‘Kingdom of the Planet of the Apes’ trailer

‘The Indrani Mukerjea Story: Buried Truth’ shares glimpse of Netflix’s four-episode docuseries

Glen Powell, Daisy Edgar-Jones try and tame twin tornadoes in ‘Twisters’ trailer

Sivakarthikeyan as Major Mukund Varadarajan prepares his males for battle in teaser of ‘Amaran’

Vidyut Jammwal takes on Arjun Rampal in ‘Crakk’ trailer

Satish Kaushik fights for his rights in ‘Kaagaz 2’ trailer

In ‘Manjummel Boys’ trailer, a boys’ journey to Guna Caves takes a harrowing flip

Millie Bobby Brown shines as the damsel who can “subvert what you expect” in ‘Damsel’ trailer

Siddhu Jonnalagadda, Anupama Parameswaran workforce up for a madcap experience in ‘Tillu Square’ trailer

Nimisha Sajayan, Roshan Mathew and Dibyendu Bhattacharya crack down on India’s greatest ivory racket in ‘Poacher’ trailer

Robert Downey Jr. steals the present in ‘The Sympathizer’ teaser trailer

Essential studying

1) Kiran Rao on ‘Laapataa Ladies’, her comeback film as a director

>> The filmmaker talks about her upcoming movie which premiered at the Toronto International Film Festival in 2023

2) Band Shakti on profitable the Best Global Music Album award on the Grammys

>> The 50-year-old music band’s members opens up on winning at the 66th Grammy for their pandemic creation ‘This Moment’

3) ‘Vaaranam Aayiram’ to ‘3’: Theatres flip into live shows because the re-release pattern grips Tamil cinema

>> Theatre house owners and trade sources inform what the re-releases trend means to Tamil cinema and its viewers

4) ‘I’ve all the time been fascinated by loss of life and afterlife’: Filmmaker Vi Anand

>> Anand discusses his Telugu film ‘Ooru Peru Bhairavakona’ and reveals his fascination for magical realism and fantasy dramas

5) Meet Vidyadhar Kagita, director of the Telugu movie ‘Gaami’

>> Debut director Vidyadhar Kagita opens up on ‘Gaami’, the making video of which has raised curiosity

6) Kannada actor Lasya Nagaraj seems ahead to interviewing director Vinothraj at Berlinale

>> The actor is excited about interviewing ‘Kottukkaali’ director Vinothraj and assembly Martin Scorsese

7) Surya Vasishta opens his innings on display screen as a director, author, actor

>> Surya says his upcoming movie ‘Saramsha’ revolves around a writer who meets the characters of his tales

8) Framing childhood: Hirokazu Kore-eda’s unsparing take a look at the early years

>> A dive into how Hirokazu Kore-eda’s films explore deep aspects of Japanese family life, specializing in youngsters

9) ‘The stage is an agnipeeta; the artwork must be born there as soon as again’: Singer Sivasri Skandaprasad

>> Sivasri Skandaprasad talks about Carnatic music, tryst with dance and her first movie tune for AR Rahman

10) Nakul Abhyankar on AI’s impression in music, working with AR Rahman, Kannada cinema, and extra

>> Nakul is busy this year as a composer with eight of his movies slated for launch together with the Kannada movie, Juni

What to look at

1) Mammootty’s efficiency elevates ‘Bramayugam’, a middling movie on the evils of unrestricted energy

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2) Jayam Ravi struggles in ‘Siren’, a vexing, boring drama

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3) No surprises from Dakota Johnson’s ‘Madame Web,’ a mildly participating origin story

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4) Director Alexander Payne and actor Paul Giamatti are good in ‘The Holdovers’, a moody Christmas miracle

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5) Dheekshith Shetty offers his all in ‘KTM’, a movie caught in a time warp

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6) Gina Rodriguez’s Valentine rom-com ‘Players’ is caught in style stalemate

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7) Priyamani, Sharanya Pradeep amp up the enjoyable in ‘Bhamakalapam 2’

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8) ‘Thundu’ proves that there aren’t any cheat codes to creating an engrossing movie

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9) ‘Ooru Peru Bhairavakona’ leaves you wishing for some actual magic

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10) Rajinikanth provides vigour however struggles to save lots of Aishwarya Rajinikanth’s ‘Lal Salaam’

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11) Manikandan and Sri Gouri Priya shoulder ‘Lover’, an intense but intriguing relationship drama

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12) Netflix collection ‘One Day’ is a grand, saccharine, predictable love affair

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13) ‘This Is Me…Now: A Love Story’ sees Jennifer Lopez on the trail in direction of self-love, therapeutic and a fairytale ending

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14) ‘Upgraded’ is a low-stakes rom-com that trundles easily alongside well-worn lines 

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