lifestyle SUNDAY, JUNE 25, 2017 MOVIES Freshman series Bollywood star Salman Khan's 'Downward Dog' latest Eid release hits screens canceled by ABC ollywood bad boy Salman Khan's latest movie opened Boy", is Khan's fourth straight Eid release and his seventh since BC's freshman sitcom "Downward Dog" has been in Indian cinemas Friday but film analysts are skeptical it 2010. "For the audiences, Salman Khan is synonymous with canceled by ABC, the show's executive producer Bwill have the same box office success as his previous Eid Eid and for distributors Eid is synonymous with Salman Khan," Asaid. The last two of the show's eight episodes blockbusters. It is something of a tradition in the Hindi film trade analyst Akshaye Rathi said. Khan-never far from contro- will air Tuesday, executive producer Jimmy Miller said industry for Khan to star in the big release of the Eid holiday to versy-enjoys a cult-like status in star-obsessed India, particu- Friday. ABC "loved it creatively and wanted to do more, mark the end of Ramadan, which this year is expected to fall larly among young men who regularly stand outside his but could not figure out a way to get it done financial- tomorrow. Last year's "Sultan" broke opening weekend house in Mumbai hoping to catch a glimpse of the superstar. ly," Miller said in a statement. The network didn't imme- records and currently sits fifth in the all-time list of highest- The 51-year-old body-building actor has successfully shak- diately respond to a request for comment. Miller grossing Hindi language films worldwide, two places behind en off numerous scandals during his career to become one of thanked critics and viewers who have expressed their his 2015 Eid release "Bajrangi Bhaijaan". Bollywood's most bankable stars. He sparked uproar shortly support for the comedy, and said he hoped it would However this year's "Tubelight", a drama set during the before Sultan hit screens by saying his heavy training sched- land on its feet elsewhere. 1962 India-China war, is unlikely to do quite as well, according ule for the film, in which he played an ageing wrestler, left him "Clearly this show has hit a nerve, and we are hell to movie critic and Bollywood trade analyst Taran Adarsh. feeling "like a raped woman". The movie made around 5.8 bil- bent on finding a new home for our 'Downward Dog,'" "#Tubelight rests on a thin plot... Screenplay lacks the power lion rupees globally. In 2015 Khan was cleared of killing a he said. The series stars Allison Tolman as the owner of to enthrall and mesmerize... Emotions plenty, but few homeless man in a hit-and-run more than a decade earlier. Martin the dog, who talks directly to viewers about his moments standout..." he wrote on Twitter. Adarsh added that That decision is now being challenged in the Supreme Court. feelings. The series centers on his sometimes conflicted it would still have an "awesome" weekend at the box office Indian authorities are also challenging a court's decision to feelings about his owner, loneliness and hatred of a Indian Bollywood actor Salman Khan poses for a picture due to Monday's holiday and Khan's star power, but doubted acquit him over the illegal use of firearms to kill endangered neighborhood cat. Series co-creator Samm Hodges is during the announcement of his association with PVR it would eventually make three billion rupees internationally, antelopes in 1998. — AFP the voice of Martin. Tolman was nominated for an Cinema and Being Human Foundation to support their the benchmark for a major hit. Emmy Award in 2015 for her role on the FX series humanitarian initiatives, in Mumbai. — AFP "Tubelight", an adaptation of 2015 American movie "Little "Fargo." — AP Johnny Depp apologizes for Trump assassination joke ohnny Depp apologized Friday for jok- "However, it has been a while and ing about US President Donald Trump maybe it is time," Depp added. In 1865, Jbeing assassinated, as his remarks to a Civil War president Abraham Lincoln was music festival audience triggered an angry shot dead in a Washington theatre by actor backlash. The "Pirates of the Caribbean" John Wilkes Booth. "This is going to be in star made the off-color comments late the press, and it will be horrible," the actor Thursday at the Glastonbury Festival in acknowledged to the Glastonbury crowd, southwest England, telling the crowd it telling them he was glad they were "all a had "been a while" since an actor had part of it." assassinated a president. The remarks drew a stern response from the White House, as Lack of outrage Depp said he had intended no malice. Depp is the latest of a string of enter- tainment industry figures to make contro- versial statements about Trump. Singer Madonna was reportedly the subject of a Secret Service investigation after saying she wanted to "blow up the White House". Comedian Kathy Griffin lost her New Year presenting job at CNN after posing for a picture while holding a mask styled to look like Trump's bloody severed head. A production of Shakespeare's "Julius Caesar" in New York's Central Park was This file photo shows moderator/writer David Leslie Johnson, director David F. Sandberg, actors Miranda Otto, Anthony La Paglia, Stephanie Sigman; recently interrupted by right-wing protest- Talitha Bateman and Lulu WIlson attending the premiere of Warner Bros. Pictures’ Annabelle: Creation during the 2017 Los Angeles Film Festival at The ers outraged that it appeared to depict Theatre at Ace Hotel in Los Angeles, California. — AFP Trump, as Caesar, being knifed to death. Demonstrators shouted that the play had the "blood of Steve Scalise on its hands," The creepy toys making a killing at the box office referring to the recent shooting of the US actor Johnny Depp waves to Japanese Republican congressman, although its fans during a promotional event for the defenders highlighted that a 2012 produc- film ‘Pirates of the Caribbean: Dead Men tion featuring Barack Obama as Caesar ake away a vampire's teeth and he's just a of theatergoers since Lionel Barrymore played a Tell No Tales’ in Tokyo. — AFP attracted little controversy. Goth that can't handle garlic. Wait for some cross-dressing fugitive selling life-like doll that were Extra creepy White House press secretary Sean Tdecent cloud cover and your average werewolf actually shrunken humans in "The Devil-Doll" in Filmed over the summer of 2016 at the Warner "President Trump has condemned vio- Spicer, in a media briefing Friday, described is about as scary as Lassie. But there is one enduring 1936. "Child's Play" (1988) introduced perhaps the Bros. lot in Burbank, the deliciously bloodcurdling lence in all forms and it's sad that others both the play and Depp's comments as horror trope that can have grown men and women most famous evil doll of them all, Chucky-a crude, prequel focuses on a dollmaker and his wife, whose like Johnny Depp have not followed his "troubling." "It is troubling the lack of out- gnawing at their fingernails when things go bump hard-drinking misogynist who went on to appear in daughter died 20 years earlier. Murder and mayhem lead," said Trump's spokeswoman Sarah rage that we have seen in some of those in the night: The creepy, haunted child's toy. From four theatrical sequels and two straight-to-DVD ensue as they decide to open their home to several Huckabee Sanders. "I hope that some of instances where people have said what malevolent teddy bears and possessed clowns to movies. girls from a shuttered orphanage, only to reawaken Mr. Depp's colleagues will speak out they said with respect to the president," he murderous porcelain dolls rocking menacingly in After a fallow period, Australian filmmaker James the doll maker's possessed creation. "Annabelle just against this type of rhetoric as strongly as said. "The president had made it clear that their chairs, these evil characters have become a Wan resurrected the creepy toy trope to huge suc- has such a rich history," 36-year-old Swedish director they would if his comments were directed we should denounce violence in all of its multi-million dollar staple adored by fans and studio cess with Billy, the Jigsaw Killer's puppet in "Saw" David Sandberg told reporters at a preview screen- to a Democrat elected official." In a state- forms." executives alike. (2004) and its sequels, as well as in "Dead Silence" ing at the Los Angeles Film Festival this week. ment to celebrity magazine People, the 54- Depp, who has drawn headlines recent- The killer toy resonates so profoundly because of (2007). His most significant contribution, however, "She's based on a real doll, and James did such a year-old expressed regret that that his ly for all the wrong reasons, was revealed in the cognitive dissonance involved in the idea of a has been Annabelle, a haunted porcelain doll first good job setting her up in 'The Conjuring' that peo- words "did not come out as intended," January to have spent so lavishly that he child's cuddly toy going rogue, according to film seen in "The Conjuring" (2013). ple just associate her with evil." Emmy and Golden adding that he had intended no malice reached the brink of financial ruin. Over experts. "There's something very primal about Based on a real, supposedly haunted "Raggedy Globe-winning Australian actor Anthony LaPaglia, and "was only trying to amuse, not to harm the best part of two decades, the actor has absurdist fears, which is something I posit that most Ann" doll that can be visited in a museum in who plays the dollmaker, said he chose not to get to anyone." been spending $2 million a month, accord- of us never completely grow out of," Shawn Robbins, Connecticut, Annabelle-an altogether darker know the movie's talented young female cast-led by "I apologize for the bad joke I attempt- ing to a lawsuit from the Beverly Hills- chief analyst at film industry number cruncher prospect than Chucky-is regarded by many as the Lulu Wilson, 11, and 15-year-old co-star Talitha ed last night in poor taste about President based The Management Group, which is Boxoffice.com, said.