Billionaire Mukesh Ambani’s Viacom18 Studios has just delivered three back-to-back theatrical hits in India. Now it has plans for further expansion in the market.
The company distributes all Paramount titles in India and scored a success with “Mission: Impossible – Dead Reckoning Part One,” which grossed $16 million in the country. Viacom18 Studios also co-produced and distributed Karan Johar’s “Rocky Aur Rani Kii Prem Kahaani” and “Omg 2,” headlined by Akshay Kumar. “Rocky Aur Rani Kii Prem Kahaani,” a star-studded romcom that addressed a number of Indian societal issues, opened shortly after the “Barbenheimer” phenomenon and grossed $21.7 million in India with a further $20 million overseas.
“Omg 2,” a rare blend of religion and sex education, released alongside the juggernauts that are Rajinikanth’s “Jailer” and Sunny Deol’s “Gadar 2” and held its own, grossing $20 million in India and a total of $25.3 million worldwide.
“Everybody has become a little...
The company distributes all Paramount titles in India and scored a success with “Mission: Impossible – Dead Reckoning Part One,” which grossed $16 million in the country. Viacom18 Studios also co-produced and distributed Karan Johar’s “Rocky Aur Rani Kii Prem Kahaani” and “Omg 2,” headlined by Akshay Kumar. “Rocky Aur Rani Kii Prem Kahaani,” a star-studded romcom that addressed a number of Indian societal issues, opened shortly after the “Barbenheimer” phenomenon and grossed $21.7 million in India with a further $20 million overseas.
“Omg 2,” a rare blend of religion and sex education, released alongside the juggernauts that are Rajinikanth’s “Jailer” and Sunny Deol’s “Gadar 2” and held its own, grossing $20 million in India and a total of $25.3 million worldwide.
“Everybody has become a little...
- 9/4/2023
- by Naman Ramachandran
- Variety Film + TV
In the opening moments of Transition, Jordan Bryon, the documentary’s subject and one of its directors, angles his face toward the camera. He moves in close and inspects his chin for hair. There are faint signs of growth, short whiskers that Bryon caresses as he speaks to us.
“My nerves are fucking shot,” he says, alluding to his current circumstances. “There are too many interwoven threads that are becoming very messy.” The precarious situation plaited by these threads is the subject of Bryon’s film, which premiered at this year’s Tribeca Film Festival. Co-directed with journalist Monica Villamizar, Transition chronicles Bryon’s gender transition while embedded with a Taliban unit in Afghanistan. The stakes are high for the documentarian, who decided to stay in the country after the insurgents seized the city in August 2021.
Even before the takeover, Afghanistan was no haven for queer people: Same-sex relations were legally banned in 2017, for example.
“My nerves are fucking shot,” he says, alluding to his current circumstances. “There are too many interwoven threads that are becoming very messy.” The precarious situation plaited by these threads is the subject of Bryon’s film, which premiered at this year’s Tribeca Film Festival. Co-directed with journalist Monica Villamizar, Transition chronicles Bryon’s gender transition while embedded with a Taliban unit in Afghanistan. The stakes are high for the documentarian, who decided to stay in the country after the insurgents seized the city in August 2021.
Even before the takeover, Afghanistan was no haven for queer people: Same-sex relations were legally banned in 2017, for example.
- 6/9/2023
- by Lovia Gyarkye
- The Hollywood Reporter - Movie News
Elliot Page is opening up about his past relationships.
In his new memoir, Pageboy, the Canadian actor reveals that he had a secret romance with actress Kate Mara in the mid-2010s.
Read More: Elliot Page Says He ‘Used To Never Feel Like My Skin Was My Own’ Before Transition
“The first person I fell for after my heart was broken was Kate Mara,” Page writes in the book, according to People. “She had a boyfriend at the time, the lovely and talented Max Minghella.”
The actor explains that he and Mara got close while he was filming 2014’s “X-Men: Days of Future Past”, and that Minghella was supportive of the two exploring their feelings for each other.
“I never thought I could be in love with two people and now I know I can,” Page says Mara told him.
“This was right after I’d come out as gay...
In his new memoir, Pageboy, the Canadian actor reveals that he had a secret romance with actress Kate Mara in the mid-2010s.
Read More: Elliot Page Says He ‘Used To Never Feel Like My Skin Was My Own’ Before Transition
“The first person I fell for after my heart was broken was Kate Mara,” Page writes in the book, according to People. “She had a boyfriend at the time, the lovely and talented Max Minghella.”
The actor explains that he and Mara got close while he was filming 2014’s “X-Men: Days of Future Past”, and that Minghella was supportive of the two exploring their feelings for each other.
“I never thought I could be in love with two people and now I know I can,” Page says Mara told him.
“This was right after I’d come out as gay...
- 6/2/2023
- by Corey Atad
- ET Canada
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