Insights from the Cinematic World: Movie Production Insights

Ready

Ready is an Indian comedy film directed by Anees Bazmee, starring Salman Khan and Asin in the lead roles. It also features Paresh Rawal, Arya Babbar and Mahesh Manjrekar in supporting roles, while Ajay Devgan, Sanjay Dutt, Kangana Ranaut, Zarine Khan and Arbaaz Khan will make cameo appearances.

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Larry Crowne

Larry Crowne is a comedy-drama film starring Tom Hanks, Julia Roberts, and Bryan Cranston. The film is directed by Hanks and written by Hanks and Nia Vardalos. Universal Pictures set up the project as a star vehicle for Tom Hanks with Nia Vardalos hired to write the screenplay about a man who goes through an unexpected career change.

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Rejoice and Shout

Rejoice and Shout uses vintage photos, probing interviews, and clips from hundreds of hours of rare film and audio recordings, Rejoice and Shout honors and celebrates the musical history of African-American Christianity. In his most ambitious project to date, director Don McGlynn takes on the entire 200-year evolution of gospel music in black America.

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The Help

The Help is a film adaptation of Kathryn Stockett’s 2009 novel of the same name. The film is Tate Taylor’s directorial debut, and will star Emma Stone, Mike Vogel, Bryce Dallas Howard, Viola Davis, Octavia Spencer, and Allison Janney.

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The Change-Up

Ryan Reynolds and Jason Bateman star in The Change-Up (a.k.a. The Meeting Children), from director David Dobkin (Wedding Crashers), writers Jon Lucas & Scott Moore (The Hangover) and producer Neal Moritz (Fast & Furious, Click). The R-rated comedy takes the traditional body-switching movie, ties it up tightly and throws it off a cliff.

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Zookeeper

Zookeeper is an American comedy film, starring Kevin James and Rosario Dawson and featuring the voices of Adam Sandler, Mike Myers, Sylvester Stallone, Nick Nolte, Judd Apatow, Jon Favreau, Cher and Faizon Love. The film is produced by Sandler’s production company Happy Madison.

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Circumstance

Set in contemporary Iran in the unseen world of Iranian youth culture, filled with underground parties, sex, drugs and defiance, CIRCUMSTANCE is the story of two vivacious young girls — wealthy Atafeh and orphaned Shireen — discovering their burgeoning sexuality and, like 16 year-old girls anywhere, struggling with their desires

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The Future

The Future directed by Miranda July, Hamish Linklater, Miranda July as an actor, David Warshofsky, Isabella Acres and Joe Putterlik tells the story of a thirty-something couple who, on deciding to adopt a stray cat, change their perspective on life, literally altering the course of time and testing their faith in each other and themselves.

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Beginners is about a young man is rocked by two announcements from his elderly father: that he has terminal cancer, and that he has a young male lover.

Beginners

Beginners is a drama film, written and directed by Mike Mills. The movie stars Ewan McGregor, Christopher Plummer, Mélanie Laurent, Goran Visnjic, Cosmo. It tells the story of Oliver (Ewan McGregor), a man trying to deal with two stunning revelations from his 75 year-old father Hal (Christopher Plummer): that he is gay and gravely ill.

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