Alam struck his fourth Test century since his comeback in international cricket after a decade to lead a fightback against West Indies in Sabina Park on Sunday. He is also the eighth leading run-scorer in Test cricket this year with 513 runs in 11 innings at an average of 57.
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Paralympics 2020: Sachin Tendulkar Seeks Support for Paralympic Games, Calls Para Athletes "Real Life Heroes"
Cricket icon Sachin Tendulkar has called on the country to wholeheartedly support the Indian athletes taking part in the Tokyo Paralympics and termed them "real life heroes". The Games are starting from Tuesday.
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PAN vs SHA Dream11 Team Prediction: Check Captain, Vice-Captain, and Probable Playing XIs for Pondicherry T20 Tournament 2021 match, August 23, 08:00 PM IST
Check here PAN vs SHA Dream11 Team Predictions and hints for Pondicherry T20 Tournament 2021 match between Panthers XI and Sharks XI. Also, check the schedule of the Panthers XI vs Sharks XI match.
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Neill Blomkamp Thinks Chappie May Have Cost Him Alien 5
Neill Blomkamp’s first three features were all heavily laced with sociopolitical commentary and reflections on class, but the law of diminishing returns set in pretty quickly. District 9 earned almost eight times its production budget back at the box office, receiving rave reviews and a Best Picture nomination, but things nosedived from there.
The filmmaker’s sophomore feature Elysium earned $286 million globally and was well-received, if hardly to the same extent as his debut, but Chappie was a flop whichever way you try and cut it. Blomkamp wrote the script as the first part of a planned trilogy, but a weak Rotten Tomatoes score of 32% and just a shade over $100 million earned from theaters put an end to any plans for further installments.
It’s not an awful film by any stretch of the imagination, but it was an inferior retread of themes and subtext we’d seen twice already from Blomkamp, and in a new interview he revealed that the tepid reception afforded to Chappie may have ended up costing him Alien 5.
“It’s possible that Ridley watched Chappie and he was like, ‘This guy can’t do Alien so let’s just go ahead and move on’. I also felt bad for Sigourney because she was really into what I had brought forward. I felt like for audiences who loved Aliens, there was an opportunity to do one more film with Sigourney in a way that may have satiated what people were looking for and what I think I was looking for. What doesn’t make sense is that I feel like it’s what the audience wanted so it’s strange because Fox would never really turn down money. I’m not gonna work on a film for two years and have the rug pulled out from underneath me and then go hang out and have beers. It’s exactly why I don’t want to do IP based on other people’s stuff ever again.”
Blomkamp was set to tackle his first franchise effort by bringing back Sigourney Weaver’s Ripley and Michael Biehn’s Hicks for a direct sequel to James Cameron’s Aliens, but the studio suddenly got cold feet and decided to move forward with Ridley Scott’s Promethus instead. While it remains up for debate whether or not Chappie played any part in Fox’s decision, it can’t be entirely ruled out when they went with a safe pair of veteran hands as opposed to someone with just a trio of movies under their belt and no experience in the realm of recognizable IP.
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Hugh Jackman Reveals Wolverine Moment He’d Love To Relive
It’s fascinating to think just how differently the complexion of modern superhero cinema would look if John Woo’s Mission: Impossible II hadn’t fallen behind schedule.
The genre boom that we’re still living through 20 years later can be traced right back to Bryan Singer’s X-Men, and Hugh Jackman’s stint as Wolverine is arguably one of the two most iconic marriages of actor and comic book character in history alongside Robert Downey Jr.’s Tony Stark, even if the unknown Australian only stepped into the role when Dougray Scott was forced to drop out due to his commitments to the Tom Cruise action sequel.
He may have retired the claws and mutton chops four years ago following Logan, but you can guarantee Jackman is going to be fielding Wolverine questions for the rest of his life. Fittingly, while on the promotional trail for his latest movie Reminiscence, the 52 year-old did a little reminiscing of his own when asked if there was a single moment or experience from the seventeen-year tenure as the mutant he’d love to relive or experience again.
“Yeah, I’ll tell you one of the moments I’d like to relive around Logan. It was the first time I saw X-Men in a cinema with audiences. And I did it because Tom Rothman, who was one of the execs at the time at Fox, said if you want to understand this movie, you have to go and see it with an audience in Times Square at 10 pm on a Friday night. And I was like, ‘Alright’. So I just walked in, sat up in the back, I watched the movie, and it was like, ‘Woah’.
We don’t watch movies like that in Australia. There’s no yelling and screaming and cheering, no ‘Yo Wolverine!’ and booing. That was awesome. I would love to go and relive that moment because I was super nervous, it was my first movie and I didn’t know what to expect. I’d love to go back and just really enjoy that.”
X-Men had already been shooting for two weeks by the time Jackman first showed up on set, and big budget comic book adaptations were far from a sure thing at the time, with the lingering stench of Joel Schumacher’s Batman & Robin still hovering in the background.
Suffice to say, it worked out pretty magnificently for all parties in the end, with X-Men rocketing Jackman’s Wolverine to international superstardom, as well as launching Fox’s biggest cash cow that would go on to earn in excess of $6 billion at the box office over the course of another twelve installments covering sequels, reboots, spinoffs and almost everything in between.
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Oscar Isaac Says Dune Shouldn’t Be Compared To Star Wars
One crew member may have likened it to Peter Jackson’s The Lord of the Rings, but the footage we’ve seen so far from Denis Villenueve’s Dune has also been inviting some Star Wars comparisons. While that’s to be expected to some degree given that it’s a big budget sci-fi epic set on distant worlds with Oscar Isaac in a key supporting role, the actor himself is keen to stress that they shouldn’t be viewed as direct relations.
Whether it’s the George Lucas or Disney eras, Star Wars has always been about delivering broad intergalactic adventures full of wit, warmth and humor to complement the grandstanding action sequences. While Dune is sure to feature several of those elements in its own right, Frank Herbert’s source novel is a much weightier tome in terms of subtext and social commentary.
Striking that balance is key for Villenueve and his crew to ensure that Dune doesn’t descend into either formulaic pyrotechnics or self-serious pretentiousness, and in a new interview Isaac spoke about the differences between the properties, something he knows better than most having played key parts in both.
“Sure, there’s also some spaceships. But that’s really about where the similarities end. Dune’s not a typical sci-fi film. It has elements of that, but it’s also a meditation. What Frank Herbert did, and then Denis as well, is to explore those themes of family, of the clashes of cultures, and just put it on a stage that allows you to dream with it.”
One thing Villenueve would clearly love to inherit from Star Wars is the ability to see his first installment perform well enough at the box office to launch a trilogy, but that remains entirely up for debate until Dune finally comes to theaters in October. If it even comes close to delivering on the potential shown in the eye-popping, visually gorgeous and stunning trailers, then audiences could have a brand new sci-fi franchise to fall in love with while the feature length blockbusters set in a galaxy far, far away remain in a state of semi-hibernation for now.
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