[moved to piefed] movies

For some, the adverts that precede the start of a film are the bane of a trip to the cinema; for others, they are a useful buffer as you stand in the popcorn queue.

But for one man in India, the lengthy marathon of cinema advertising was so infuriating that he took the matter to the courts – and won.

Abhishek MR, a 30-year-old man from the southern city of Bangalore, had booked a trip to the cinema with friends in December last year to watch wartime drama Sam Bahadur.

But while the scheduled time he had booked the ticket for was 4.05pm, he had to sit through 25 minutes of adverts for upcoming features and commercial items such as homewares, mobile phones and cars before the film actually began.

Having planned to return to work straight after the film, Abhishek MR was angered by what he felt was a costly disruption to his life. He filed a lawsuit against PVR Inox, India’s largest cinema multiplex chain, stating that: “The complainant could not attend other arrangements and appointments which were scheduled for the day and has faced losses that cannot be calculated in terms of money as compensation.”

The lawsuit also accused multiplex cinemas of prioritising advertising revenue over their customers, and forcing them to sit through adverts against their will.

In a ruling in February, the consumer court proved highly sympathetic to Abhishek MR’s case and ordered for the cinema to grant him 50,000 INR (£450) for wasting his time and 5,000 INR (£45) for mental agony, as well as cover his legal expenses.

"Yeah, it is not 2026. It was originally going to be December 2026. It is going to be December 2027."

"We are right at the beginning of the writing process. We will be prepping later this year. Prep takes a good chunk of time, six or seven months, and then we will be shooting next year. So, it backs into that December 2027 release date."

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James Marsden explained why he wants to bring Frank Sinatra's life to the screen in a musical biopic like 'Ray.'

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Lizzy Caplan is opening up about the scrapped X-Men spinoff Gambit movie, which was supposed to star Channing Tatum as the superhero.

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Actress Michelle Trachtenberg, known for a wide range of TV and film roles including in “Buffy the Vampire Slayer” and “Gossip Girl,” has died at the age of 39, sources told The Post.

Trachtenberg was found by her mother around 8 a.m. Wednesday at One Columbus Place, a 51-story luxury apartment complex in Manhattan’s Central Park South neighborhood, the sources said.

The actress recently underwent a liver transplant and died of natural causes, according to the sources.

https://thewaltdisneycompany.com/star-wars-revenge-sith-theaters/

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Synopsis: An American artist in Helsinki discovers an antique diary that belonged to the legendary painter Amedeo Modigliani - unravelling a haunting spiral of love and betrayal that eerily mirrors the fate of the master himself.

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Scenes from 'The Brutalist,' 'Dune: Part Two,' 'Emilia Pérez,' and 'Maria' are analyzed by their cinematography nominees.

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AMC Theaters CEO Adam Aron remains as fiercely optimistic as ever that brighter days are ahead for his theater chain and the box office.

James Cameron has reportedly revealed an anti-AI title card will open up Avatar 3, officially titled Avatar: Fire and Ash. The Oscar-winning director shared the news in a Q&A session in New Zealand attended by Twitter user Josh Harding.

Sharing a picture of Cameron at the event, they wrote: "Such an incredible talk. Also, James Cameron revealed that Avatar: Fire and Ash will begin with a title card after the 20th Century and Lightstorm logos that 'no generative A.I. was used in the making of this movie'."

Cameron has been vocal in the past abo6ut his feelings on artificial intelligence, speaking to CTV news in 2023 about AI-written scripts. "I just don’t personally believe that a disembodied mind that’s just regurgitating what other embodied minds have said – about the life that they’ve had, about love, about lying, about fear, about mortality – and just put it all together into a word salad and then regurgitate it," he told the publication. "I don’t believe that’s ever going to have something that’s going to move an audience. You have to be human to write that. I don’t know anyone that’s even thinking about having AI write a screenplay."

Taken from the official AmazonMGM Twitter account.

Have you seen it? How can I get it? Even via nautical avenues I have met with zero luck. It's like it disappeared.

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Osgood Perkins' "The Monkey" opens to $14.2 million, second best ever for Neon