Topps’ Slam Attax Trading Card Game to bring alive WWE experience for kids!

After the resounding success of Cricket Attax, the official IPL trading cards game, Topps India Sports & Entertainment Company today launched the Topps Slam Attax - Rumble, Trading Card Game collection in the presence of WWE Superstar The Great Khali. Based on the immensely popular World Wrestling Entertainment franchise, fans can now collect over 223 Trading Cards of their favourite WWE SuperStars in their official look and play an engaging and exciting skill and strategy game which enables them to relive the WWE experience at their homes! 
Slam Attax Rumble offers for boys more choice than before. The cards are powered with a total of six stats or ratings to choose from! The ratings reflect the performance and star appeal of the individual WWE entertainer and are completely aligned to SuperStar or Diva’s current form.   
The WWE Slam Attax collection system comprises of primarily two key components ‘Cards’ and ‘Starter Packs’. Cards are available as different products ranging from packet of 5 cards at Rs, 15 to multipacks of 50 packets at Rs. 750. Starter Packs are available in two varieties and this product enables gaming and facilitates collection of the cards. Similar to the pattern of Topps’ all table top games, Slam Attax requires players to employ their knowledge of the various WWE SuperStars and the game rules in order to create a strategic line up of SuperStar cards to outwit their opponent!

SONY PICTURES ANNOUNCES AN UNBEATABLE LINE-UP FOR 2012

Sony Pictures today announced an exciting line-up for 2012 with five major franchises being brought back along with much-awaited films from critically acclaimed directors David Fincher and Quentin Tarantino.   
The line-up includes Men in Black 3 back with the original cast of Will Smith and Tommy Lee Jones in 3D (May), The Amazing Spider-Man in 3D (July), the next film in the Bond franchise titled Skyfall (November). Also coming back is Kate Beckinsale in the fourth installment of the Underworld series – Underworld: Awakening in 3D (January) and Milla Jovovich in Resident Evil: Retribution in 3D (September). The year begins with the already critically acclaimed and award-nominated The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo, the first of a trilogy starring Daniel Craig and Rooney Mara on 6 January, and ends with Quentin Tarantino’s Django Unchained starring Leonardo DiCaprio on 28 December. Also in the line-up are a remake of 1991 blockbuster Total Recall with Colin Farrell (releasing worldwide in August), Adam Sandler comedy I Hate You Dad, high octane action film Premium Rush starring Joseph Gordon Levitt, romantic drama The Vow starring Rachel McAdams, claymation comedy The Pirates! Band of Misfits starring Hugh Grant, 3D animated film Hotel Transylvania and a revival of the cult 80’s TV series 21 Jump Street now as a major motion picture.* 
"After completing 75 years as a studio in India, and ending this past year on a high with the tremendous success of The Adventures of Tintin, I can say without a doubt that the best is yet to come. 2012 has a dream line-up with five major franchises coming back. Together these franchises have made over Rs. 261 crore at the box office in India**,” said Kercy Daruwala, Managing Director - Sony Pictures India. “The two Bond films released by Sony Pictures have made over 86 crore in the Indian market and both films rank in the top 10 Hollywood films of all time in India as does the last Spider-Man film, Spider-Man 3. I am confident that these new titles are going to create new records. On the whole, we have an ideal mix of several big blockbuster action movies as well as comedy, drama and family films with an arsenal of great directors and top rung stars.”

Celebrity Cricket League Curtain Raiser Event Pics

CCL-2is back in action, and this time it gets bigger and better.
Celebrity Cricket League Curtain Raiser & CCL Calender Launch was held on 19th December at HICC, Novotel Cyberabad. Theevent unveiled 100 heroes from the 6 filmindustries who will be part of Season II – a first in the history of Indian cinema. 
The likes of Salman Khan,Sohail Khan, Bobby Deol, Suneil Shetty, Venkatesh, Mohan Lal, Shivraj Kumar, Sudeep, Surya,Jeet scorched the ramp along with gorgeous divas KanganaRanaut, Genelia, Shriya Saran, Richa Gangopadhyay, Charmee, Sameera Reddy,Lakshmi Rai, Ria & Riama Sen representing 6 Different Film Industries on one platform.
The explosive multi-starrer actionentertainer will take off on 13th Jan at Sharjah with Mumbai Heroes playing intheir home ground against the defending champions Chennai Rhinos.
Season II gets bigger with the addition of 2 more teams – the Bengal and Malayalam film industries.
Owned by eminent film producer Boney Kapoor and the gorgeousSridevi, the Bengal film industry’s Bengal Tigers will be mentoredby former Indian Captain Saurav Ganguly and led by prominent actor Jeet.
Also joining them will be Kerala Strikers of the Malayalam filmindustry owned by National Award winning actor Padmashree Lt. Col. V. Mohanlaland one of cinemas’ most successful business women, LizzyPriyadarshan.

So what if Amar Upadhyay isa game player on Bigg Boss?

Defending charges by Bigg Boss participants and some peopleoutside, on Amar Upadhyay being a ‘game player’ on the show, his publicist DaleBhagwagar says, “Bigg Boss is a game show as much as it is termed a realityshow and Amar is playing his game. Big deal!” 
“When a chess player plays a game with a strategy, do we say,‘he’s a game player’? When a cricketer plays on the field with a game plan, do wesay, ‘he’s a game player’? So when a reality show contestant plans or strategies,why should we term him a ‘game player’ in a derogatory sense,” asks Dale. The PR specialist further reasons that we all know Bigg Bossis an entertainment-based show full of gigs and tasks. The participants arefully aware that they are followed by cameras 24x7 and even watched fromtwo-way mirrors. They are also wearing mikes while talking. 
“If Amar cleverly and smartly uses some tactics to hisadvantage, why should we raise questions about morality? Just like a game ofchess, he has gone to Bigg Boss to play his game and reach the top, not to makerelations with all contestants. Yes, if in process, he makes some real and genuinefriends; that would be excellent,” says the publicist. 
He adds, “At the end of it, everyone is competing with eachother on Bigg Boss. So it’s unfair to brand only Amar as a ‘game player’. It’sjust that he plays it a bit more obviously than others. That should be viewedas transparency, rather than deceit.” 
Indeed, everyone is a player on Bigg Boss and as viewers we doneed to understand that, rather than singling out Amar Upadhyay. Point taken! Topicclosed!

Rakhi Sawant compares VeenaMalik to Saddam, Osama and Gaddafi!

 “Saddam Hussein wasfound by American troops hiding in a little bunker in Iraq. Osama BinLaden was found by American forces hiding in a house compound in Pakistan.Muammar Gaddafi was captured by rebel militia while hiding a drain underneath aroad in Libya.And Pakistani starlet Veena Malik was found by the Indian media hiding in asuburban hotel in Mumbai,” shoots India’s biggest firebrand RakhiSawant in her inimitable style. 
Veena who is all setto participate in a televised Swayamvar titled Veena Ka Vivah on Imagine TV, aprogramme Rakhi made famous with her participation earlier, has been in thenews for her nude photoshoot in FHM magazine this month. 
Rakhi believes Veenahas insulted all Pakistanis, including the country’s governance, military andintelligence, by getting an ISI tattoo painted on her hand while doing thecontroversial FHM photoshoot.

 She says, “Veena isdoing all kinds of cheap gimmicks to gain publicity for herself and the show. Ican bet she will not marry anyone on it. She is fooling the whole of India, Pakistan and even her own family.She has given her boyfriend Ashmit Patel’s residence address on the legalnotice she has sent to FHM. On one hand, she is in a live-in relationship withAshmit, and on the other hand, she wants someone else to marry her.” 
“I won’t besurprised if Veena now comes up with a break-up publicity stunt with Ashmit tomake her Swayamvar drama look credible. When I did Swayamvar, I went with aclean intention and open mind. But all this marriage business by Veena in India is afarce and the Indian audiences are being fooled in the name of a sacredinstitution like marriage.”

“Whichself-respecting man will marry a girl who has done a nude photoshoot and isliving-in with another man. This is just the beginning. As time goes by I willexpose her completely. Even Bal Thackeray has said today that Veena should besent back to Pakistan.”
Rakhi’s publicistDale Bhagwagar says, “Veena may not be a bad person, but it seems she is not incontrol of her PR activities, and they end up like publicity stunts. Today, PRis an intriguing mind game in a media minefield. With the kind of reach PR has,it becomes extremely important to keep ethics in mind while executingpromotional strategies and branding brands. Otherwise, a PR can end upmisleading society and causing havoc. And sadly, that’s what seems to havehappened in Veena Malik’s case.”