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Shutter Island

Mark Ruffalo and Leonardo DiCaprio team up as a pair of U.S. Marshals who travel to a secluded island off the coast of Massachusetts to search for an escaped mental patient, uncovering a web of deception along the way as they battle the forces of nature and a prison riot in this Martin Scorsese-helmed period picture.

Laeta Kalogridis adapts Dennis Lehane’s novel of the same name, with Paramount Pictures and Columbia Pictures splitting production and distribution duties.

Percy Jackson and the Lightning Thief

Trouble-prone Percy Jackson is having problems in high school – but that’s the least of his challenges. It’s the 21st century, but the gods of Mount Olympus seem to have walked out of the pages of Percy’s Greek mythology texts and into his life. Percy has learned that his real father is Poseidon, god of the sea, which means Percy is a demigod – half human, half god.

The movie is directed and produced by Chris Columbus.

Fernandez goes Marathi

Former Miss Sri Lanka Jacqueline Fernandez is all geared to impress with her Marathi very soon. And the person behind her soon to be fluent Marathi is none other than Riteish Deshmukh.

We hear that Deshmukh who stars alongside Jackie in Jaane Kahaan Se Aayi Hai takes time out between shoots to teach Jackie his mother tongue.

“Jackie is new to the industry and is making a conscious effort to improve her Hindi and to learn Marathi. Riteish was nice enough to teach her. In fact she is quite fluent in Marathi now, ” reveals a source close to Jackie.

We also come to hear that Jackie’s Marathi is getting better than her Hindi!

santabanta.com

Cruise in Mission: Impossible IV

It’s official - Tom Cruise has decided to accept the mission to star as Ethan Hunt in Mission: Impossible IV.

Paramount made the announcement Tuesday and set a release date for next year’s Memorial Day weekend against the launch of Warner Bros. Hangover sequel and the second weekend of Disney’s Pirates of the Caribbean 4. Paramount’s seeking a director for Mission: Impossible IV.

Variety

24 headed to the big screen

Twentieth Century Fox’s film and TV studios are conspiring to finally bring hit television series 24 to the big screen. The film side has hired scribe Billy Ray to pen the script for the feature version.

Ray’s pitch, which takes Jack Bauer to Europe, was a hit with Fox execs and producers of the high-concept television series. Ray also wrote and directed Breach and Shattered Glass.

The script is said to have come through 24 star Kiefer Sutherland, who’s also an executive producer on the series - and is said to be eager to turn the long-running TV skein into a feature franchise.

Variety

3 Idiots in top form

Aamir Khan starer, Rajkumar Hirani.’s 3 idiots the highest grossing Bollywood movie of all time also brought in a record number of revenues during its stint at Majestic cinema, Colombo. Many fans returned to see the hilarious comedy film which also stars R. Madhavan, Sharman Joshi, and Kareena Kapoor in key roles.

3 Idiots moved onto Regal cinema from February 12 and will be screening till February 18 at 6.30 p.m.

Meanwhile horror flick Wolfman began unspooling at Majestic cinema.

The movie revolves around a tale of an American who experiences an unsettling transformation after returning to his ancestral home in Victorian-era Great Britain and being attacked by a rampaging werewolf.

RJ

Valentine’s Day sequel underway

Hollywood’s sequel to star-studded new movie Valentine’s Day hit theaters on February 12 - just in time for the romantic occasion on Feburay 14. The follow-up is based on another special holiday, New Year’s Eve.

The romantic comedy boasts a stellar lineup including Julia Roberts, Ashton Kutcher, Anne Hathaway, Jessica Biel and Jennifer Garner. Producers were so sure of success, they are already plotting their next movie which will feature some of the same characters in New York City on December 31.

Director Garry Marshall is expected to return to helm New Year’s Eve, which is slated for release in late 2011.

hollywood.com

Quiet Flows The Don at RCC

The movie is a screen adaptation of the novel of the same name by Soviet writer Mikhail Sholokhov, a Nobel Prize winner.

Quiet Flows The Don will be screening at the Russian Center, Colombo, (RCC) on February 17 and 24 at 6 p.m. Entrance free.