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MUMBAI: Riding high on the buzz generated
by the Golden Globe winning and Oscar-nominated
Slumdog Millionaire, Fox Star Studios
is ready to release the Jennifer Aniston-starrer
Marley & Me on 6 February in
India.
Fox Star Studios is a joint venture company
between Twentieth Century Fox and Asian
media company Star.
Says
Fox Star Studios India CEO Vijay Singh,
The film (Marley & Me)
has already raked in huge numbers to make
it to the top ten list at the US box office;
and now we are taking it further to the
Indian audiences. We will be releasing Marley
& Me on 6 February across 50 screens.
Our initial target would be the top 30 metros
of the country.
Directed
by David Frankel, Marley & Me,
which has had worldwide box office collections
of approximately $155.8 million, is an American
dramedy that was released in
the US and Canada on 25 December 2008.
The film had set a record for the largest
Christmas Day box office ever with $14.75
million in ticket sales.
Additionally, Fox Star is also gearing up
to release Valkyrie, a United Artists
film directed by Bryan Singer and written
by Christopher McQuarrie.
Reported to be made at a budget of $90 million,
Valkyrie was also released on 25
December in the US. The Tom Cruise-starrer
was released on 22 January in Germany while
it hit the UK theatres on 23 January.
We shall be releasing the film on
20 February in India wherein we plan to
open in across approximately 75 screens,
states Singh.
Meanwhile, after a one-week run at the India
box office, the Fox Star Studios-distributed
Slumdog has managed a net gross of
Rs 90 million. The studio had released the
film with 350 prints (Hindi and English)
in India.
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