Sequel to Fantastic Beasts and Where to Find Them
David Yates will reunite with Eddie Redmayne and new entrant Jude Law to direct the second of the five-part Harry Potter spinoff, Fantastic Beasts and Where to Find Them . The second film, penned down by J.K. Rowling and set in 1927, follows magizoologist Newt Scamander, played by Redmayne and a much younger, probably auburn-haired Albus Dumbledore, played by Law, as they hunt down one of the Darkest wizards of the time, Gellert Grindelwald, played by Johnny Depp.
Returning stars include Katherine Waterston playing Auror Tina Goldstein, Alison Sudol playing her sister Queenie, and Dan Fogler returning as the endearing Jacob Kowalski. Zoe Kravitz joins the cast as Leta Lestrange and Callum Turner will play brother to Newt.
The yet-untitled second part of the series is set to release on November 16, 2018.
Meghna Gulzar begins shooting for Alia Bhatt-starrer Raazi in Kashmir
Meghna Gulzar has begun shooting for her upcoming film Raazi in Kashmir.
The film stars Masaan actor Vicky Kaushal and Alia Bhatt. Alia will be returning after her last release, Badrinath ki Dulhania , to play a Kashmiri woman married to a Pakistani army officer, who provides Indian intelligence with information during the 1971 Indo-Pakistan war. A movie based on Harinder Sikka’s novel, Calling Sehmat , Raazi will be the 43-year-old filmmaker’s fifth directorial venture after Filhaal (2002), Just Married (2007), Dus Kahaaniyan (2007) and Talvar (2015).
Gurmeet Choudary joins J.P. Dutta-directed ‘Paltan’
The star-studded cast of the upcoming war drama Paltan just added one more to its venture. Veteran filmmaker J.P. Dutta, who directed the National Film Award-winning Border , signed Gurmeet Choudhary who will star alongside Abhishek Bachchan, Jackie Shroff and Suniel Shetty.
The film is slated to release later this year. A first look of the poster shows silhouetted army men trudging on an uneven path, with the tagline “Brother to my right, brother to my left, together we stand, together we fight” and tags on the upper edges with names of colonels, captains and majors inscribed on them.
“It’s a huge honour to work with JP sir. Since my father has served in the army and his country for several years, I’ve been fascinated to play a soldier on screen,” Gurmeet said. “Also, I feel bringing the life of an army soldier alive on screen would be a very interesting journey. It’s a gift to my father.”
A sequel to ‘Baby Driver’?
Critically acclaimed action-comedy film Baby Driver , starring Ansel Elgort, Jon Hamm, Kevin Spacey and Jamie Foxx among others, might not see its last after its successful run in the theaters after its 21st June release.
Director Edgar Wright is playing around with the possibility of a sequel. “The studio has asked me to think about writing a sequel and it is one of the ones that I might do a sequel to because I think there’s somewhere more to go with it in terms of the characters,” Wright says. “Most sequels you have to contrive something so they go back to square one, unless there’s somewhere deeper for them to go. I think with ‘Baby Driver’ there’s more that you can do in that realm.”
A still from “Lipstick Under My Burkha’
Polarities in the country
Lipstick under my Burkha actor Ratna Pathak Shah said that the country is in for some tough and divisive times, pitted against a majoritarian mindset that may well affect minorities in the country.
Lipstick under my Burkha went through a difficult process with the Central Board of Film Certification (CBFC) for attaining certification, stoking outrage on social media about the freedom and independence of women being restrained.
“They were always silly in what they were chopping and cutting, but I don’t think there was such a serious agenda,” she said about the CBFC. “Now there seems to be an agenda. I can’t shake off that feeling. I would like to fight that agenda,” she added.
(With inputs from PTI)
