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Bollywood's Biggest Star Celebrates his 50th Birthday- Happy Birthday Salman Khan

Gone are those day that the 20 or 30 year old male actors entering the game and taking it over.  Similar to Hollywood, Bollywood is also led by the elder statesman. If Hollywood has Cruise, Washington, Hanks, Pitt than Bollywood has Shahrukh Khan, Aamir Khan, and Salman Khan.   One would think that by the age of 50, one would slow down as the film industry tends to hawk on beauty and youth but that's not the case any more.




Bollywood's biggest bad boy actor (a mix of Stallone, Cruise and Sean Penn) celebrates his 50th.  He delivered Bollywood it's 2 biggest hits of the year and 2016 is not slowing down for him.




He's known to have a temper and he never holds his words back, yet the man has a heart of gold. He's the founder of BEING HUMAN- a charity foundation that helps millions.  He's known to help newcomers find movies, and the right projects.






 He's launched the career of many male and female stars...






He's made the list of Forbes highest paid actor as he beat DiCaprio, yet he lives in a 1 bedroom apartment near his parents.




Film Junkeez wants to wish the bad boy of Bollywood a happy birthday!





 

Big Weekend- Across the World

It's the weekend that many moviegoers and film buffs have been waiting for.  Personally, I'm not a big fan of the Star Wars series, yet i'm probably the only one of the few that doesn't care for the movie.  Millions of people around the world are jumping with joy as J.J. Abrams taking the director's seat from Lucas.  
For the record, I consider Abrams to be one of the best directors of my generation. This man has proved himself over and over and I have no doubt that he's going to kill it with the Force Awakens.  
As huge Star Wars is, Bollywood is becoming a force itself, and fans of Bollywood movies are not only the great people of India and Pakistan, but from all over the world.   




This weekend, the King of Bollywood- Shahrukh Khan is returning in "Dilwale" with co-star and love interest from the classic Bollywood movie "Dil Wala Duniya le Jayenge". Kajol and Shahrukh are the equivalent of the Tom Hanks and Meg Ryan onscreen couple.  SRK ( nick of Shahrukh) and Kajol bring magic to the screen for the bollywood lovers.  




 But the fight doesn't stop here as on the other side of the ring comes the magnum opus " Bajirao Mastani" directed by the highly acclaimed director - Sanjay leela Bhansali.  Bhansali is known for taking it to the next level with each of his movies.  This director is synonymous with grandeur and style, and his films are always larger than life. 

Recap
Star Wars - with J.J. behind the camera, I smell a winner
Bajirao vs Dilwale? Can Bhansali take SRK's star power and give it the 1-2? Yes, I think Dilwale has a killer combo yet early reviews state the movie lacks substance and Bhansali's Bajirao has nothing but substance!  But, let's not forget that SRK and Bhansali battled it out a few years back with SRK in Om Shanti Om and Bhansali's Saawairya and SRK hit it out the park!

Check out the trailers below for both films- what are you thoughts?
Please leave your feedback below! 

Charlie Sheen - Career Perspective & Future....

Born as Carlos Irwin Estévez before changing his name to Charlie Sheen.  Charlie is the youngest son to actor Martin Sheen and artist Janet Templeton.  Sheen's brother, Emilio Estevez was also a famous actor in the 80's and 90's.  Charlie gained great success and fame as he starred in Platoon in 1986.  Platoon is a movie directed by the infamous director- Oliver Stone and starred Tom Berenger,

Willem Dafoe and Charlie Sheen.  Platoon was the first of trilogy of warm film ( Vietnam).

Sheen than went onto Wall Street in 1987 also directed by Oliver Stone, Young Guns, Major League and Hot Shots!.  

Charlie Sheen and Oliver Stone on the sets of Wall Street

Sheen was carving a name for himself in drama and comedy.  In the times of Michael J. Fox and Tom Cruise, Sheen wasn't too far back as being a heartthrob actor. He's buddies in high school were Rob Lowe and Sean Penn.

Robert Downey Jr, Charlie Sheen, Rob Lowe

As per Sheen, it was during the filming of Wall Street, that he started to enjoy the party life with a close association to high end call girls and illegal drugs. 

Charlie Sheen and Johnny Depp

Charlie Sheen, Nicole Kidman and Tom Cruise

Sheen went through a list of movies that bombed and his career took a huge noise dive until an opening for replace of Michael J Fox came up on the hit show "Spin City" The series ended in 2002.

In 2003, Sheen was hired to star in CBS sitcom 2 and Half Men.  The show was a hit and made Sheen the highest paid actor on TV as he earned 1.8 million per episode.
Yet with the string of failed marriages and divorces, Sheen's personal life was unstable as usual. In 2011, Sheen was fired from the show due to his personal life in the media and Sheen took a fighting stance against the producer, Chuck Lorre and Warner Bros.  Sheen was replaced by Ashton Kutcher and that was the end of that.

In 2012, Sheen returned to T.V. with the sitcom Anger Managment for which lasted 2 years.
n November 17, 2015, Sheen publicly revealed that he was HIV positive, having been diagnosed roughly four years earlier.In an interview, he referred to the phrase HIV as "three hard letters to absorb".  He manages his condition with a triple cocktail of antiretroviral drugs, and said that it was impossible that he could have infected any of his partners.

How does this affect Charlie's acting career? As of now, there's no upcoming projects on IMDB.  Nor as any major movie studio confirmed discussions, yet Sheen did mention that he and SONY were in the midst of taking about a sitcom. 

This can go in many ways 

1. Sheen let's the noise die out, and find a 3rd come back with major network sitcom.  The HIV element can help fans feel sorry for him as that can help viewership.  

2. Sheen goes down faster than we expected.  The long lines of people with lawsuits, studios backing off due to the history of Sheen with CBS.

Either way, we wish Sheen the best of luck!

Batman V Superman: Dawn of Justice- The end result can go in any direction..

 Batman V Superman: Dawn of Justice- The end result can go in any direction

The initial response from fans when hearing that Zack Snyder is directing the Man of Steel movie brought mixed reviews. Some enjoyed and were big fans of his slow motion action sequences ( 300, Watchmen) and the others had zero hope.  End result? mixed...Man of Steel didn't bring in the same mania as the Nolan Batman Trilogy. 

Years later, Warner Bros announce Ben Affleck as the next choice for the role of Gotham's favorite.  That, more than Snyder, brought negative press and tons of anger from fans.  Most fans remember Affleck as Daredevil and can't forgive him for the movie.

Yet, few months ago as Warner Bros release the trailer of the upcoming Batman v Superman movie, fans ( the haters and the optimistic) went crazy ( in a good way).  It took away of the nervousness and it brought great hope that Ben may do it a great job.

Where does this take us? let's stay tuned and keep our fingers crossed-remember, Daniel Craig was first shunned as he was announced to take over the James Bond movies and so was Heath Ledger for the Joker.

Cruise back in the driver seat? Studio's should and will learn a lesson in messing with talent!

Right now, Paramount Pictures needs Tom Cruise. The Viacom-owned studio is dangerously low on the film industry’s most-coveted commodity: profitable franchises. Their list of controlled properties includes two recently failed franchise re-boots (Jack Ryan, Terminator), a couple of franchises stuck in development hell (Beverly Hills Cop, G.I. Joe, Tom Raider) and a pair of modestly budgeted comedies (Zoolander, Anchorman). That really leaves them with just Star Trek, Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles, Transformers and Mission Impossible as significant players moving forward, but almost all of them have question marks. Can Star Trek ever turn the corner and become one of the mega film franchises instead of just a middle tier player? Will TMNT stall after its second installment? How concerning is it that the last Transformers movie was the lowest grossing in franchise history at the domestic box office (and by a very wide margin)? What does that signal for the shared cinematic universe they’re currently planning for Transformers sequels and spin-offs?

Mission Impossible is unquestionably solid, though. With the one-two punch of Ghost Protocol in 2011 and Rogue Nation in theaters now, the franchise is trending upwards, both in box office returns and critical acclaim. Paramount essentially has its own Fast & Furious now, i.e., a franchise finally hitting its creative and financial stride right after most observers had given up on it. It’s one of Paramount’s few sure things.

It’s quite the turnaround for Tom Cruise, who also produces all of the Mission Impossible movies, working hard to get all of them done on time and on-budget. Back in 2006, Paramount wanted out of the Tom Cruise business. The man with the dazzling smile and infectious laugh had, through a couple of public relations disasters in 2005, turned into the man with the insane smile and laugh which lasted just a bit longer than it should. We want to like our movie stars, and it had always been easy to ignore Cruise’s Scientology associations. However, now here he was refusing to shut up about it and picking fights with Matt Lauer and Brooke Shields for seemingly no good reason, and threatening Comedy Central if they reran South Park’s “Trapped in the Closet” episode.

So, Viacom chairman Sumner Redstone canceled Paramount’s 14-year-relationship with Cruise’s production company, Cruise/Wagner, and told The Wall Street Journal (via CNN), “As much as we like him personally, we thought it was wrong to renew his deal. His recent conduct has not been acceptable to Paramount.”

To some degree, Cruise has yet to fully recover. Outside of the Mission Impossiblemovies, his films don’t make the kind of money they used to, and studios are left wondering whether or not intended-franchise starters like Edge of Tomorrow and Jack Reacher made enough to justify sequels, regardless of how well they did internationally. However, a lot has changed in movies since 2006, particularly once Iron Man came out in 2008. Cruise’s ever so slightly faded star might be attributable to changing viewer habits as much as the fallout from his Scientology meltdown. Things could be shifting again since the growing backlash against the CGI spectacle of comic book movies makes Cruise’s brand of practical but insane stunts seem more like the work of an actual superhero than anything The Avengers have green-screened into existence (though now there’s a backlash against the CGI backlash).

But Cruise’s “recent conduct” is not really why Paramount cut ties with the biggest movie star in the world in ’06. Not according to economist Jay Epstein. No, what really ended that relationship is that Cruise out-negotiated Paramount:

When Paramount decided to reinvent its TV series Mission: Impossible as a movie, Cruise not only starred in it, but he (along with partner Paula Wagner) produced it. In return for deferring his salary, he negotiated a deal for himself almost without parallel in Hollywood. To begin with, he got 22 percent of the gross revenues received by the studio on the theatrical release and the television licensing.

Nobody in Hollywood ever really gets “gross revenue” because the studio accountants funnel the money through various entities to work around any gross revenue obligations. Well, Cruise wouldn’t stand for that.

He insisted on—and received—”100 percent accounting,” which means that the studio, after deducting the out-of-pocket manufacturing and distribution expenses, paid Cruise his 22 percent share of the total receipts. As a result, Cruise earned more than $70 million on Mission: Impossible, and he opened the door for stars to become full partners with the studio in the so-called back-end.

For Mission Impossible 2, Cruise’s cut of the theatrical gross increased to 30% and he also got 12% of the total video/DVD receipts with no expenses deducted by Paramount.

If Mission: Impossible sold $320 million worth of DVDs and videos (which it did), Cruise’s cut would be $38.4 million. In return for this amazing deal, Cruise agreed to pay the only other gross participant, the director John Woo, out of his share. As with Mission: Impossible, Cruise’s company produced the film, and Cruise, who proved to be a relentlessly focused producer, brought Mission: Impossible II in on budget. The movie went on to be an even bigger success than the original, earning more than a half-billion dollars at the box office and selling over 20 million DVDs. Cruise’s share amounted to $92 million—and he was now the key element in Paramount’s most profitable franchise.

Cruise got the same deal for Mission Impossible 3 with Paramount giving him $1.80 per every DVD sold (assuming the DVD retailed for $15). Better yet, Cruise was the only gross participant on the movie meaning he didn’t have to pay anyone their share like he did with John Woo on MI:2. Unfortunately, Mission Impossible 3 ended up costing $180 million to make, and grossed considerably less than MI:2, just $397 million worldwide. Still, Cruise had his lucrative contract, and in the end Sumner Redstone realized Cruise was now making more from the Mission Impossible franchise than Paramount. The fact that he was also undergoing a public relations meltdown which hurt the studio’s MI3promotions made the decision to part ways that much easier.

And then a couple of years later Cruise disappeared under prosthetics and make-up inTropic Thunder and forced us to love him again, moving away from PR disasters to the point that not even Alex Gibney’s damning documentary Going Clear is sticking to Cruise on the promotional tour for Rogue Nation. Now, we just want to see what crazy stunt Cruise will do next, and Paramount probably misses the days when DVD sales used to be so important.  There were plans to use Mission Impossible: Ghost Protocol as a means of handing the franchise off to Jeremy Renner.  Yeah, that didn’t happen (nor did that really work out for Renner with The Bourne Legacy).  Now, nearly 40 percent of the North American audience said they turned out for Rogue Nation this weekend just to seeTom Cruise, an insane number for any actor in a big movie these days.  Those type of numbers are surely very acceptable to Paramount now.