plus 3, Movie shot in Forsyth to be screened at Sundance - KMOV

Movie shot in Forsyth to be screened at Sundance - KMOV
Knightley and Waltz to star in Freud movie - Edmonton Journal
Sunil Pal in a guest appearance for 'Tarak Mehta...' - New Kerala
'Avatar' tops billion dollars, fastest ever: movie tracker - AlterNet

Movie shot in Forsyth to be screened at Sundance - KMOV

Posted: 04 Jan 2010 01:15 PM PST

Posted on January 4, 2010 at 4:36 PM

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FORSYTH, Mo. (AP) — A film with deep connections to the Ozarks has been chosen for screening at the Sundance Film Festival.

The film, called "Winter's Bone" is based on a novel by West Plains author Daniel Woodrell. It also was filmed in Forsyth and features actors and musicians from the region.

The Springfield News-Leader reports that "Winter's Bone" will be one of 16 feature-length dramas screened at Sundance in January. It was chosen from 1,058 submissions in that category. Overall, 200 films (mostly short films) make the cut out of more than 9,000 entries.

The movie follows Ree Dolly, a teenager searching for her father, who put the family home up for bond on a meth charge and then jumped bail. She has 30 days to find him and save the home.

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Information from: Springfield News-Leader, http://www.news-leader.com

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Knightley and Waltz to star in Freud movie - Edmonton Journal

Posted: 05 Jan 2010 12:35 AM PST

Keira Knightley is to star alongside Austrian actor Christoph Waltz in a new film about the psychoanalyst Sigmund Freud, the moviepilot.dewebsite reported Monday.

Waltz, 53, who won a prize at last year's Cannes Film Festival for his role in Quentin Tarantino's Second World War movie Inglourious Basterds, will play Freud, regarded by many as the father of modern psychoanalysis.

British actress Knightley, best known for the Pirates of the Caribbean movies, will play one of Freud's patients in The Talking Cure. The film, directed by David Cronenberg, is based on the play of the same name by Britain's Christopher Hampton.

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Sunil Pal in a guest appearance for 'Tarak Mehta...' - New Kerala

Posted: 04 Jan 2010 03:16 PM PST

Sunil Pal, the popular laughter king of small and big screen, is about to mark his presence in a special episode of 'Tarak Mehta Ka Ooltah Chashma' for a special reason.

Our source informs, "Sunil Pal is going to come as a special guest to promote his upcoming movie named, 'Bhavnaonko Samjho' which will be releasing on 18th Jan. He will make an appearance as Sunil Pal itself. This special episode will be aired next week."

"The shoot for the same has been done last Saturday. Along with Sunil Pal the movie will also have another laughter king...pehchan kaun? Ya, it's Navin Prabhakar but only Sunil Pal will be coming as a guest on the show to promote the movie, next week," adds the source.

A laughter king on the comedy show 'Tarak Mehta...', will be something to really laugh out for... what say?

-Tejashree Bhopatkar

--SAMPURN

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'Avatar' tops billion dollars, fastest ever: movie tracker - AlterNet

Posted: 03 Jan 2010 11:50 AM PST

Hollywood blockbuster "Avatar" surged to a box office haul of more than one billion dollars globally on Sunday, faster than any other movie in history, an industry tracker reported.

"It has made 670 million dollars international, for a total of more than one billion dollars," box office analyst Chad Hartigan of Exhibitor Relations told AFP.

Since the Fox-distributed film -- the most expensive ever made at up to 500 million dollars -- debuted 17 days ago, it has earned 352 million dollars domestically as of Sunday, according to weekend estimates, assuring its reputation as one of the most impressive box office performers of all time.

"It was the fastest ever to the one-billion-dollar mark," and "'Avatar' is now the third biggest grosser ever," behind "Titanic" and "The Return of the King," the final movie in the Lord of the Rings trilogy, Hartigan said.

The film tells the story of a paralyzed war veteran, Jake, who is sent on a mission to the planet Pandora, where he falls in love with a blue humanoid named Neytiri of the alien Na'vi race.

Last weekend, earning 75.6 million dollars from Friday to Sunday, the 3-D science fiction epic helped boost the North American box office to the highest-grossing weekend in movie history.

The Christmas holiday weekend saw movie-goers flock to theaters in droves, sending earnings soaring to nearly 270 million dollars, an all-time record, California-based Exhibitor Relations said.

The figure smashed the previous best weekend mark of 260.3 million dollars set in July 2008, when Batman blockbuster "The Dark Knight" opened to huge audiences in Canada and the United States.

"Avatar" is director James Cameron's first film since the 1997 Oscar-winner "Titanic."

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