After a 2-0 drubbing in the Test series, the Windies will now take on India in a five-match One-Day International series the first of which begins in Guwahati on Sunday. Overall, the Windies have played 10 ODI series in India, the first of which was staged in 1983. While India have won six of them, Windies have been victorious on four occasions, most of the wins achieved before the turn of the century.
We have all heard of club cricketers, who rule domestic or county cricket, creating a massive uproar and turn out to be a meek version of their own domestic self. The latest in the bandwagon seems to be Manish Pandey.
One team is finetuning preparations and combinations for the World Cup. The other is in such a situation that they had to struggle to even get there. It's easy to guess which is India and which, Windies.
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Catch all the action from the 4th ODI between Sri Lanka and England through our live commentary.Catch all the action from the Vijay Hazare Trohphy final between Delhi and Mumbai through our live blog.One team is finetuning preparations and combinations for the World Cup. The other is in such a situation that they had to struggle to even get there. It's easy to guess which is India and which, Windies.Catch all the action from the 4th ODI between Sri Lanka and England through our live commentary.
Catch all the action from the Vijay Hazare Trohphy final between Delhi and Mumbai through our live blog.Catch all the action from the 4th ODI between Sri Lanka and England through our live commentary.Catch all the action from the Vijay Hazare Trohphy final between Delhi and Mumbai through our live blog.Catch all the action from the Vijay Hazare Trohphy final between Delhi and Mumbai through our live blog.
The BCCI announced the team that will be taking field in the first ODI between India and Windies in Guwahati on Sunday. The Virat Kohli-led side will include white-ball specialists like Rohit Sharma and Shikhar Dhawan at the top of the order.
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The BCCI is unlikely to come under the National Anti-Doping Agency (NADA) ambit anytime soon despite the constant push from the International Cricket Council, said Indian board's acting president CK KhannaCatch all the action from the 4th ODI between Sri Lanka and England through our live commentary.
Catch all the action from the Vijay Hazare Trohphy final between Delhi and Mumbai through our live blog.We’ve known for a while that Zack Snyder’s original plan for his DCEU movies would have been a five-film arc beginning with Man of Steel that would have told a self-contained story. This would have theoretically begun with the aforementioned 2013 pic, then continued with Batman V Superman, Justice League, Justice League 2 and an unnamed finale.
The driving force for these remaining films? The arrival of Darkseid on Earth and the League attempting to prevent him from turning the planet into another Apokalips (as glimpsed in the ‘Knightmare’ sequence). Now, thanks to a newly unveiled piece of concept art, we know a bit more about the role the Apokalyptian God of All Evil would have played in it.
Fans have cast their eagle-eyes over the photos below, translated some hieroglyphs and surmised that Darkseid would have done battle with Ares in order to gain control of the Omega Effect (in the comics, his ‘omega beams’ are an inescapable attack that can kill pretty much anything in the universe). Apparently, we would have been introduced to Darkseid as a normal man (or as normal as New Gods get, I guess) who gains immense power before retreating to Apokalips and eventually invades Earth in search of the Anti-Life Equation.
The piece of concept art above was sent to Snyder, who responded on Vero with the explanation that the picture shows him “searching for something that would make him unbeatable.” Personally, I’m gutted we never got to see any of this play out on the big screen, as a multi-film arc showing the rise, reign and eventual fall of Darkseid at the hands of the League sounds unbelievably awesome.
Sadly, even if we did get to see the Snyder cut of Justice League, we’re certainly not going to see his plans for the DCEU resurrected and resolved. Oh well, at least the character will probably show up in Ava DuVernay’s New Gods.
While it might not’ve been high cinema, the original Twilight translated Stephanie Meyer’s hit book series to the screen in a way that made pretty much all of the many fans quite happy. But they could’ve come away from the movie feeling quite differently if MTV and Paramount had stuck with their original script treatment, which deviated from the source material in some pretty damn silly ways.
This insight into Twilight‘s adaptation woes comes from director Catherine Hardwicke, who recently spoke to CinemaBlend and said the following:
The [initial] script that I read had gone through the whole development process at MTV and Paramount. And you get all these notes — nobody’s fault or anything — but you get notes, and you try this, you try this. So it had veered very far from the book, and so I did not like it at all. And no studio wanted to make it. And so Paramount put it into it turnaround.
Bella was a track star in the first scene, not an every-girl kind of awkward and clumsy [kid]… she was like a bad ass, and then it escalated into this whole thing where there were CIA agents on jet skis trying to find the vampires, you know. It really went, ‘Whooooo!’ She was not working for the CIA, but it was a different movie.
While I would definitely pay to see a movie about CIA agents on jet skis hunting down vampires, I can understand that this might not be the drizzly vampire romance that teenage girls might’ve hoped for. And frankly, if you want a jet ski vampire film then you should get in touch with Troma and Lloyd Kaufman and they’ll have the movie on your desk by Monday morning.
Hardwicke went on to explain that she fought for the studio to understand why readers adored the book so much, saying:
When I read the book, I said, let’s go to the heart of why people love his book, you know? It’s this romantic, crazy, out of control, you know, the first time you fell in love, stupid passion that you have for somebody that’s totally wrong, but she doesn’t give a shit! And that’s what makes us alive. Let’s find that life force, where you will do reckless, crazy things because you know, you’re somebody. So that’s what I wanted in there. So we got rid of the jet skis. [laughs]
Sometimes, I wish I could take a peek into an alternate universe where we got the radical jet ski Twilight (and the Snyder cut of Justice League, and Bill Murray in Tim Burton’s Batman), but considering that the franchise eventually totted up a whopping $3.3 billion at the box office, it’s safe to say the studio was glad they listened to Hardwicke in the end. Even better, she revealed that her adaptation has one rather unlikely cheerleader.
I just heard from Eli Roth, because I’m working on a project with him, that Quentin Tarantino, on camera, said in an interview that Twilight made him feel like he was like a 13 year old girl, and that he loved it. That is awesome. That’s kind of funny and hilarious. And that’s exactly what I was trying to do.
With Lionsgate reportedly eager to put another Twilight film into production, we may yet return to the world of sparkly vampires. CEO Jon Feltheimer said back in 2017 that “there are a lot more stories to be told, and we’re ready to tell them when our creators are ready to tell those stories.” But… could one – just one – of those stories feature CIA agents on jet skis? Or what about a crossover with Blade?
We’ve been hearing for a while now that The Conjuring 3 will serve as a departure from the standard haunted house formula of the first two entries in this series, but it’s never been clear what the upcoming trilogy-maker intends to offer in its place.
Fortunately, this new report from Bloody Disgusting may have finally shed some light on the situation, suggesting that the drama this time will be centered around a high-stakes legal case. In a story that may or may not be “inspired by true events,” it is said that Ed and Lorraine Warren – played once more by Patrick Wilson and Vera Farmiga, respectively – investigate the case of a man on trial for murder who claims he was possessed by a demon.
This summary seems pretty in line with what producer Peter Safran previously said about The Conjuring Universe maintaining a consistent set of “core values and concepts” across the movies. That is to say, while the plot may be a little different this time around, the central conflict seems to still be a matter of faith versus skepticism.
One thing that will be different this time, however, will be the director. With James Wan currently hard at work on Aquaman, it was recently announced that the reigns have been handed over to Michael Chaves, a filmmaker whose feature debut is set to be a Wan-produced horror movie titled The Curse of La Llorona, which is scheduled for release this coming April.
After that, we’ll see how Chaves handles his first major franchise job when The Conjuring 3 hits theaters on September 11th, 2020. In the meantime, you can catch Ed and Lorraine Warren, along with their daughter Judy, in Annabelle 3, which comes out on July 3rd, 2019.
