The BCCI’s fitness test at the NCA saw a total of around 30 cricketers participate, including the likes of Shikhar Dhawan, Yuzvendra Chahal, T. Natarajan, Sanju Samson, Suryakumar Yadav and Ishan Kishan, among others.
Rishabh Pant is known to be a chirpy presence behind the stumps but it is not often that his verbal banter can directly cause wickets to fall.
Yusuf Pathan, Naman Ojha and R Vinay Kumar will feature in the India Legends team in next month’s Road Safety World Series.
West Indies captain Kieron Pollard joined the prestigious list of batsmen to smash six maximums in an over in international cricket.
The sixth edition of the Pakistan Super League (PSL) has been postponed due to a significant increase in the number of positive Covid-19 cases.
A day after pacer Dale Steyn’s comment on IPL created a furor on social media, the former South African international on Wednesday took to social media to clarify his statements
On This Day in the 1992 World Cup clash between India and Pakistan at the Sydney Cricket Ground, Sachin Tendulkar rescued India from a tough position and anchored the innings with a fine fifty taking his team to a competitive total.
Indian cricket legend Kapil Dev on Wednesday received his first dose of the COVID-19 vaccine at a renowned city hospital in the capital.
Pollard joined the likes of Herschelle Gibbs and Yuvraj Singh with the feat at the international level and what is more mind-boggling is the fact that Pollard massacred the bowler who had just taken a hat-trick in the match
Kieron Pollard became the third batsman in international cricket to achieve the unique distinction of smashing six sixes in an over when he blasted Sri Lanka's Akila Dananjaya for six consecutive maximums in the first T20I at Coolidge. Pollard joins the ranks of Yuvraj Singh and Herschelle Gibbs - they are the only other batsmen who have achieved the feat in international cricket.
The incident happened when Stokes came on the crease after Engand's top order was blown away quickly. Mohammad Siraj promptly bowled a bouncer to catch Stokes off guard. Both the batsman and the bowler got into a heated debate after which skipper Kohli too joined in.
Virat Kohli, who has now become the most Successful Test captain at home after MS Dhoni, has expressed the shear pleasure of leading India for more than five years now.
Who can be a better man to explain how to play spin than India's Little Master Sunil Gavaskar. Gavaskar was a brilliant batsman to the pacers, but more than that it was his watertight defence against the tweakers that set him apart.
Hardik Pandya, who is currently in Ahmedabad as part of the Indian squad for the Test series against England wished his wife Natasa Stankovic on her birthday sharing photos of the couple with their son, Agastya, on Instagram.
Bedi, a premier left-arm orthodox spinner in his playing days, represented India in 67 Tests and 10 ODIs between 1967 and 1979, scalping 266 and seven wickets respectively.
West Indies white-ball captain Kieron Pollard on Wednesday became only the third man to hit 6 sixes in an international match during the opening T20I against Sri Lanka.
CSK skipper MS Dhoni and experienced batsman Ambati Rayudu were the first to arrive in Chennai for the training camp.
West Indies white-ball captain Kieron Pollard became only the third man to hit 6 sixes in an international match during the opening T20I against Sri Lanka.
India vs England Live Score: Get latest cricket score and live updates, ball by ball commentary of Ind vs Eng 4th Test match being played at Narendra Modi Stadium, Motera.It was clear from the moment he delivered a scene-stealing performance as rival news anchor Evan Baxter in Bruce Almighty that Steve Carell had a big future ahead of him in Hollywood comedy, and he’s largely delivered on that front, even if sequel Evan Almighty bombed spectacularly at the box office with the actor bumped up to center stage.
After an endlessly quotable turn in Anchorman, Carell was given top billing in Judd Apatow’s The 40 Year-Old Virgin, which was a massive critical and commercial success. His career then went from strength to strength after he headlined the first seven seasons of The Office, winning a Golden Globe in the process.
The 58 year-old has since gone on to star in a series of hugely popular movies and television shows and deftly balanced the dramatic with the comedic, with one of his most popular efforts currently blowing up on Netflix. Star-studded romantic comedy Crazy Stupid Love sees Carell take top billing opposite the esteemed likes of Ryan Gosling, Emma Stone, Julianne Moore, Marisa Tomei and Kevin Bacon, in a smash hit that raked in $145 million globally on a $50 million budget, one that was widely praised by critics.
The plot follows Cal Weaver (Carell), a seemingly happily married man who discovers his wife has been unfaithful, causing his life to come apart at the seems, forcing him to enter the dating pool on the wrong side of 40, where he meets Gosling’s Jacob Palmer who teaches him how to be a player. It’s a relatively formulaic setup, but a game cast and some sharp writing have seen Crazy Stupid Love find a new life on Netflix a decade after it was first released.
Wesley Snipes might be best known as an action hero, but the first few years of his career were largely spent in drama and comedy. After making his feature debut in 1986’s Wildcats, the actor appeared in lightweight sports comedies Major League and White Men Can’t Jump, crime thrillers New Jack City and King of New York, while he collaborated twice with Spike Lee on Mo’ Better Blues and Jungle Fever.
It wasn’t until his eleventh big screen credit, and just his third time taking top billing, that Snipes finally unleashed his martial arts prowess and innate action star charisma in Passenger 57. The plot follows former cop John Cutter, who flies out of Los Angeles to start a new anti-terrorism job at an airline, but a criminal is on the same flight. After he’s freed, Cutter has to stop the bad guys and save the day.
It’s a highly formulaic set up that can easily be surmised as ‘Die Hard on a plane’, but Passenger 57 was a decent-sized success at the box office after earning $66 million on a $15 million budget, and while reviews weren’t exactly overwhelmingly positive, everyone was in agreement that the genre had unearthed a real diamond. From that day on, Snipes was a bona fide action star.
Talk of a sequel has reared its head every now and again over the last three decades, and now a document revealing 22 films that were allocated tax credits by the California Film Commission has been leaked online, and one of the titles on the list is Passenger 58. While that’s not a lot to go on, the project is set up under a Warner Bros. subsidiary, the studio who produced the first film, so it might well be on the cards.
The 2009 reboot of Friday the 13th was the last time that iconic slasher Jason Voorhees was seen on the big screen. The man who portrayed him, Derek Mears, has shared a BTS image from his time as the Camp Crystal Lake Killer.
The still is taken from the end of the movie after Jason is seemingly killed by siblings Clay and Whitney, after the search for the latter forms the bulk of the film’s plot when Jason kidnaps her due to her resembling his mother when she was younger. They dump his body into the lake where it sinks to the bottom, a rather fetchingly lit shot of which can be seen in the image. Mears clarifies that despite appearances he isn’t actually smiling, but that the side of his mouth had been wired open to fully apply the makeup.
Mears started in the industry as a stuntman and bit part actor, typically portraying anonymous thugs and minor antagonists due to his imposing size and intimidating appearance suiting him to villainous roles. Friday the 13th was a breakthrough performance for him, leading to larger roles such as in Predators, where he portrayed the classic iteration of the alien trophy hunter, or more recently as the eponymous star of the unfairly cancelled horror series Swamp Thing.
As he is often unrecognizable under heavy layers of makeup playing various monsters, the performances instead require him to portray characters physically, something he has demonstrated a talent for with the likes of the anti-Santa Krampus in a Christmas episode of stoic fantasy action series Grimm or the demon lord Moloch (among others) in bonkers fantasy horror series Sleepy Hollow.
Mears is still contracted to play Jason at least one more time, so if the legal mire that has prevented any Friday the 13th movies being made for over a decade is finally resolved, there is a good chance that he will be the one to once again wield the machete and pick off unsuspecting campers.
It’s hardly breaking news when an upstart franchise tries to model itself after the Marvel Cinematic Universe. Kevin Feige’s comic book behemoth is the biggest game in town and the highest-grossing series in the history of cinema, so it would be foolish not to try and draw at least some inspiration and influence from the interconnected superhero blockbusters.
Plenty of properties have tried, of course, and the majority have failed miserably after trying to do too much too soon. On paper, the upcoming Mortal Kombat reboot doesn’t share much connective tissue with Feige’s roster of spandex-clad PG-13 good guys, but in a new interview, producer Todd Garner explained how the video game adaptation looked to the MCU when initially trying to crack the story.
“We brought James Wan on and brought Greg Russo on, and said, ‘Okay, if you were really gonna do this, and not just try to make it like The Crow, not just try to make it like Kevin Tancharoen did where he’s like, ‘Well, I only have this much money, so I’m gonna be in an apartment building with guys kicking the shit out of each other, what would you do?’. And so we started from the premise of, ‘What would Marvel do?’.”
Obviously, there’s much more to building a successful franchise that simply copying the most popular one of them all, and introducing Lewis Tan’s Cole Young as an audience surrogate is an important step. A brand new character both grounds the narrative, and allows fans unfamiliar with the expansive Mortal Kombat mythology to learn about the world at the same pace as the lead.
Garner went on to draw comparisons to the MCU once again, specifically with how Robert Downey Jr.’s Tony Stark was the entry point for audiences all over the world to start learning about the wider universe, before the pieces eventually started getting put in place for The Avengers.
“You start it with one guy who is a point of access, Iron Man, and you kind of wandered into the Avengers. You didn’t just start with the Avengers. So who would be that guy for us? There were a few ideas that were just hard because they were super specific. You’re never gonna get everybody’s favorite character. But we tried to really get the right characters in, and tried to be intelligent about whether we were just throwing characters in just to have them in the movie so we can placate people, or do they really belong in the movie. So that then became the weeding out process.”
We’ve heard plenty of terrible movies in the past claim that they’ve cracked the Marvel formula, but there are a lot of reasons to be optimistic about Mortal Kombat. The first trailer went down a storm and broke records online, and there’s clearly going to be a lot left on the table by the time the credits roll in the hopes that sequels will follow.
