Amitabh Bachchan has returned to work after spending nine days in quarantine. The 79-year-old actor tested negative for the COVID-19 and returned to work on Thursday morning. It was the second time Amitabh Bachchan had tested positive. He has been shooting for the show Kaun Banega Crorepati 14.

“Back at work .. your prayers (folded hands emojis) gratitude .. negative last night .. and 9 days isolation over .. mandatory is 7 days .. My love as ever to all .. you are kind and concerned throughout .. the family Ef so full of care .. .. have only my folded hands for you,” he wrote on his blog.

On the work front, Amitabh Bachchan will be seen in Ayan Mukerji's Brahmastra, Nag Ashwin's next with Prabhas and Deepika Padukone, Sooraj Barjatya's Unchhaai, The Intern remake and more.

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Game of Thrones veteran Miguel Sapochnik has decided to step down as co-showrunner of the Game of Thrones prequel series House of the Dragon ahead of its season 2.

According to Entertainment Weekly, Miguel Sapochnik, who came aboard the freshman fantasy drama at HBO as co-showrunner, has now surprisingly left his post, leaving House of the Dragon co-creator Ryan Condal as the sole showrunner. Sapochnik was renowned for directing some of the most beloved episodes of Game of Thrones, including "Hardhome" and "Battle of the Bastards."

The GoT veteran also helmed three episodes of House of the Dragon, including the record-setting series premiere. The report suggests that Sapochnik needed a break after working so many years on the Thrones franchise. He will remain a part of HOTD as an executive producer.

“Working within the Thrones universe for the past few years has been an honor and a privilege, especially spending the last two with the amazing cast and crew of House of the Dragon,” Sapochnik said in a statement. “I am so proud of what we accomplished with Season 1 and overjoyed by the enthusiastic reaction of our viewers. It was incredibly tough to decide to move on, but I know that it is the right choice for me, personally and professionally.”

“As I do so, though, I am deeply comforted to know that Alan will be joining the series,” he continued. “He's someone I've known and respected for a long time, and I believe this precious series could not be in safer hands. I am so glad to remain a part of the HBO and House of the Dragon family and, of course, I wish Ryan and his team success and all the best with season 2 and beyond.”

As Sapochnik leaves, the spot is filled by another Thrones veteran, Emmy winner Alan Taylor, who directed seven Thrones episodes, will join House of the Dragon as executive producer and director for few episodes in Season 2. "It's a pleasure and an honor to be back at HBO, immersing myself in the world of the Targaryens, I look forward to working closely with Ryan as House of the Dragon grows into its second season,” said Taylor.

“Ryan, Miguel, and George [R. R. Martin] have launched an extraordinary story, in a rich and fascinating world. Returning to Westeros will be a huge undertaking and I'm looking forward to the challenge."

House of the Dragon debuted earlier this month and racked nearly 10 million viewers, becoming HBO’s most watched series premiere ever, and even saw its audience increase in Week 2. HBO renewed it for a second season shortly after the premiere. The series airs on Disney+ Hotstar in India.

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The countdown for the release of the costliest Hindi film to date, Brahmastra has begun. The Ayan Mukerji directorial stars Ranbir Kapoor and Alia Bhatt in lead with Amitabh Bachchan, Nagarjuna, and Mouni Roy in key roles. The film has been in the news for almost 8 years now and with just 8 days left for the release, we bring an exclusive scoop on the budget of this magnum opus.

According to our sources, the official budget of Brahmastra, excluding Print and Publicity expenses is Rs. 410 crores. "It's the costliest Bollywood film to date and the expenditure will be visible on each and every frame of the film. The idea was to create a big screen spectacle like never before and Ayan and his team have managed to come up with visuals that will blow away the mind of the audience. The trailer is just a tease, as visuals of the film are at another level," revealed a source close to Bollywood Hungama.

The entire team of Disney and Dharma are confident that Brahmastra will create magic not just in the hearts of people but also at the box office. "While there is an element of nervousness in the stakeholders, they are also silently confident about the project," the source revealed further, informing us that the pricing strategy of the film at multiplexes will be on par with the budget, but the experience will be value for money.

Brahmastra is the costliest Bollywood film to date and the hope is on it to reignite the fire in the box office game of the Hindi film industry. It is slated for a massive release on September 9, 2022. If the first part succeeds, the team will proceed with their idea of completing a Brahmastra trilogy.

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The promotions of the most awaited movie Bramhastra are well underway. The film stars Ranbir Kapoor and Alia Bhatt in the lead roles and it is helmed by Ayan Mukerji. But the audience was quick to notice that Mouni Roy missing from the promotions. The actress will be joining the team for promotions soon.

The real reason is far more enticing than one can imagine. Mouni Roy plays a quintessential role in the movie. According to sources, "The makers want to keep the audience in suspense about the main antagonist and what all she represents. They believe that Mouni Roy is the surprise weapon they want to keep under wraps to aid the story experience of the audience.”

Brahmastra also stars Amitabh Bachchan and Nagarjuna in pivotal roles. Produced by Dharma Productions, the film releases in theatres on September 9, 2022.

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Hollywood actor Shia LaBeouf has joined the ensemble cast of Francis Ford Coppola’s self financed, $100 million epic feature, adding to the beleaguered actor's mounting list of comeback projects.

According to Variety, also set to join the feature film are Talia Shire, Coppola’s sister, Jason Schwartzman (Shire’s son), Grace VanderWaal, Kathryn Hunter and James Remar. Coppola wrote the screenplay for the film in the 1980s, and the legendary Godfather and Apocalypse Now director is financing the dream project himself. The film’s official logline reads, “The fate of Rome haunts a modern world unable to solve its own social problems in this epic story of political ambition, genius and conflicted love.”

The all-star Megalopolis cast already includes Adam Driver, Forest Whitaker, Nathalie Emmanuel, Jon Voight, Laurence Fishburne and Aubrey Plaza.

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Ever since the film opened in the United States in early 2022; everyone in India has been eagerly waiting for this kung-fu flick's Indian debut. Everything Everywhere All At Once is being brought into India by Impact Films.

According to its founder and CEO Ashwani Sharma, “We were very clear right from the beginning that we are going to release this film on big screens rather than going straight to digital platforms as this film is a rare cinematic experience which needs to be enjoyed only in theaters. It’s not coming on any OTT anytime soon as we may not license it before Academy Awards nominations are revealed.”

He further adds,” CBFC has passed the film without any cuts thereby ending the reservations and curiosity of several audiences who were worried as to what might get chopped off. It’s now the same version that’s being watched worldwide”.

It’s the story of an exhausted Chinese American Woman who is swept up in an insane adventure, where she alone can save the world by exploring other universes connecting with the lives she could have led. When the film opens, we meet Evelyn Wang (Yeoh) as a harried laundromat owner, living above her business in a cramped apartment and facing a mountain of paperwork amid an audit from the IRS. She is stressed about her aging father (James Hong) coming to stay and struggles to listen to both her grown daughter Joy (Stephanie Hsu) and her tender-hearted husband Waymond (Ke Huy Quan). But while meeting with an IRS agent (Jamie Lee Curtis), a strange occurrence involving her own husband pulls her into a multidimensional adventure that puts the fate of every universe in her hands—and also forces her to confront who she is to herself and her family. At the core it’s a Mother Daughter Story and connects at an emotional level. It’s a rare film which has so many genres encompassed in its more than 2hours 20 minutes duration that a viewer gets exposed to Action, Adventure, Comedy, Fantasy and Science Fiction; all at the same time. It’s a treat for the fans of Multiverse and has no other comparable film of its type.

Written & Directed by Daniel Kwan and Daniel Scheinert, collectively known as Daniels; they have been writing and directing together for over a decade. They’ve developed a reputation for combining absurdity with heartfelt personal stories. Oftentimes they incorporate a unique brand of visual effects and visceral practical effects into their genre blending projects. They are known for the feature film SWISS ARMY MAN starring Daniel Radcliffe which went on to win the Directing Award at Sundance, received multiple nominations and gained a large cult following. "If our script was a prayer, then our movie was a miracle, and the hands doing God's work belonged to the film crew/family." Daniels, the directing-duo on #EverythingEverywhere. “We could say a million things about it, but the most simple, honest thing is it's about a mom learning to pay attention to her family in the chaos,” says Kwan. “One of our favorite things to do is make people feel emotional while looking at something that is absurd,” Scheinert says. “Whenever we can pull that off it's just like, oh, what a fun feeling! We feel emotion, but we also feel this kind of mischievous joke has been pulled.”

The real star of the film is Chinese actress Michelle Yeoh who gives her performance of the lifetime. Michelle Yeoh is recognised as one of the greatest and the most successful actresses from the east post the success of Crazy Rich Asians. In Everything Everywhere All At Once, Yeoh is unkempt, emotionally flayed, and put through the multiverses ringer in a role that is entirely singular within a prolific, decades-long international career. Daniels offered Yeoh a new way to see herself on-screen. “I love working with younger directors because they don't see you in the conventional way,” Yeoh says. “They want to peel that onion and see what other layers there are, and then start throwing crazy things at you.”

In the film, Evelyn being played by Michelle becomes a Neo-like chosen one specifically because she is the single-most failed version of all her potential selves. “That gives her superpowers to be able to defeat the bad guy,” Kwan says. “But,” Scheinert notes, “Mostly she gets distracted by all these lives that she wished she had led.” “It really felt like the script came alive when it became about the mom and it was Michelle as the lead,” says Scheinert. For Evelyn, she has to confront a multiverse on the brink of collapse—an extreme manifestation of the sensory overload that the modern world is increasingly defined by—to see the family that has always been there. “You have to go to the end of the world to find out what really matters to you: your daughter, your husband—would you make another choice?” Yeoh ponders.

The film is produced by Jonathan Wang and Russo Brothers; Anthony Russo & Joe Russo. Impact Films release, Everything Everywhere All At Once directed by Daniel Kwan and Daniel Scheinert starring Michelle Yeoh, Stephanie Hsu, Ke Huy Quan among others, in cinemas from 16th of September 2022.

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Aparshakti Khurana could have been seen onscreen in a sports-based movie like Dangal, a movie based on professional wrestling, but in real life, he has been roped in for Ultimate Kho Kho 2022, which will be telecasted by a major television network. Although Kho Kho is one of the home-grown indigenous sports, not many stars seem to be associated with the game. The actor is more than happy to lend his support to this game to shine more light on it and wants to continue doing his bit to bring to the forefront the game and the many players behind it.

Aparshakti, whose latest movie Dhoka Round D Corner’s teaser, starring R Madhavan, Darshan Kumar, and Khushali Kumar, was recently released, says, “Sports have been a very integral part of my life, right from childhood. It does not just help in physical health but also helps develop one’s mental strategy. I have been a part of the Haryana U-19 Cricket Team and I still play football with the All-Stars team. Also, my first film was based on wrestling. Now it is an honour to host the Ultimate Kho Kho Leagues' opening season. The league has so many talented players, as the championship goes on I am sure people are going to be hooked till the finals. It is important that we support home-grown sports and take them to new heights and build a great audience base for them. We must pride in our culture and home-grown sports such as these are part of the community at large”.

The championship, which has around six teams, is being hosted in Pune. The names of the teams are Chennai Quick Guns, Gujarat Giants, Mumbai Khiladis, Odisha Juggernauts, Rajasthan Warriors, and Telugu Yoddhas. The ongoing league will go on until September 4.

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