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Around Tinsel Town
Will Smith resigns from film Academy over Chris Rock slap
Grammys 2022: List of all winners in top categories
Explained | How the merger of state-run film units might kill the diverse functions of film production, archiving, and public service documentation
Bollywood
Sobhita Dhulipala wraps ‘Made in Heaven’ season two
Who is Pravin Tambe, the subject of Hotstar’s new cricket biopic?
Hollywood
Tom Hiddleston to star in ‘Pachinko’ writer Soo Hugh’s Apple series ‘White Darkness’
Laura Dern, Liam Hemsworth board Netflix romance ‘Lonely Planet’
Nancy Meyers to write and direct new film for Netflix
Harrison Ford to star opposite Jason Segel in Apple comedy series ‘Shrinking’
Anthony Mackie teases ‘Black Panther: Wakanda Forever’: It’s going to be spectacular
Jason Momoa to lead ‘Chief of War’ series for Apple TV+
‘Squid Game’ director sets ‘Killing Old People Club’ as his next film
Jim Carrey has said that he is “fairly serious” about taking retirement from acting
Regional cinema
Vijay’s ‘Thalapathy 66’ launched in Chennai with a pooja ceremony
Suriya and Jyotika’s home production ‘Oh My Dog’ to release on April 21
Actor Shiva awaits the release of his first feature film ‘Mr Success’
Naga Chaitanya to star in filmmaker Venkat Prabhu’s bilingual film
Actor Varun Tej opens up on his physical transformation for the Telugu sports drama ‘Ghani’
Malayalam actor Sreenivasan responding well to treatment
Jr NTR on ‘RRR’ sequel: There needs to be a conclusion to this story too
Meanwhile ‘RRR’ writer K V Vijayendra Prasad roped in to adapt Bankim Chandra’s ‘Anandamath’
Indie filmmaker Sainath Ponna’s ‘Geometry Box’ to stream online
Carnatic vocalist Sreevalsan J Menon plays the Malayalam poet in ‘Gramavrikshathile Kuyil’ , the first feature film on Asan
Kichcha Sudeep’s ‘Vikrant Rona’ teaser out, film to release on July 28
New in streaming
New on Amazon Prime in April: Chris Pine’s All The Old Knives, Prabhas in Radhe Shyam, Tovino Thomas’ Naradan, and more
New on Disney+ Hotstar in April: Better Nate Than Ever, a new season of MasterChef Australia, Bheeshma Parvam, Nightmare Alley and more
Coming to Netflix in April: Abhishek Bachchan in Dasvi, Catherine Tate’s comedy series Hard Cell, season two of Ultraman, and more
Essential reading
1) Why you can’t like ‘Friends’ if you like ‘Seinfeld’
>> One could not be more different from the other; what’s your preference?
2) Why ‘CODA’ represents a watershed moment in Hollywood
>> The Best Picture winner at the Oscars is a step in the right direction for greater representation of people with disabilities
3) What makes a song memorable?
>> A song’s success is as much about melody as the memorable visuals it creates in the listener’s mind
4) Janus Metz on ‘All the Old Knives’: ‘A love story and a whodunit’
>> All about the spy thriller starring Chris Pine and Thandiwe Newton
5) Namit Malhotra, CEO of VFX firm DNEG on what goes into creating magic on screen
>> How the use of visual effects has evolved, and is no longer about mere quick-fix solutions in post-production
6) Aparna Sen’s ‘The Rapist’ goes beyond the culprit-survivor binary
>> The renowned actor-director explains why she made a film that tries to understand a society that creates rapists
7) Thaman S: Rhythm comes easily to me
>> Composer discusses the evolution of his music and how he has come full circle
8) Eiza González: ‘Latin women are on the path for better representation’
>> How the Mexican actor, recently seen in Ambulance, is breaking Hollywood stereotypes
What to watch
1) Dasvi is a self-conscious spoof seeking grace marks
2) A few masala moments stand out, but the sports and revenge drama Ghani is let down by insipid writing
3) Cole Sprouse stars in the good-natured, goofy space ride that is Moonshot
4) Morbius is a quick, insipid story with bland special effects
5) There is nothing for adults in the Venkat Prabhu quickie Manmatha Leelai
6) In Kaun Pravin Tambe?, Shreyas Talpade embodies Tambe’s never-say-die spirit with an immensely sincere performance
7) David Yates returns for director duties as does J.K. Rowling for screenplay in this rather entertaining third movie in the Fantastic Beasts franchise
8) Aviyal comes across as a rather muddled coming-of-age drama
Trailer of the week
The trailer of Vijay’s upcoming film Beast has been released.
The plot revolves around terrorists taking over a mall in Chennai, and Vijay, who plays the role of a spy named Veeraraghavan, taking on the enemy, in what is set to be a high-octane action thriller .The release date for the film was earlier confirmed as April 13.
