His most popular screen character was in the hit Munnabhai movies - light comedies where he played a brawny, bumbling soft-hearted gangster.
Entitled "Isle of Wonder, " Boyle -- the Oscar-winning director best known for hit movies "Trainspotting" and "Slumdog Millionaire" -- put together a star-studded on-field dramatization that drew on Shakespeare and Brit Pop to chart Britain from its pastoral roots through the Industrial Revolution to James Bond, Harry Potter and the Beatles.
Danny Boyle, the Oscar-winning director -- and east London resident -- best known for hit movies " Trainspotting" and " Slumdog Millionaire" was the man responsible for the Olympic opening ceremony, the show that televisions around the world were tuned in to at the start of London's long-awaited Games.
Hollywood's studios want to provide their own services for downloading and streaming movies - to avoid being hit by pirate movie-swapping services in the way that the music industry has been hurt by Napster-style services.
The combination of NBCU's hit movies with Sky's innovation will give customers an unrivalled in-home movies experience.
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The family entertainment company released a couple of hit movies during the quarter, including Wall-E and The Chronicles of Narnia: Prince Caspian.
To watch movies or TV episodes from Amazon Instant Video on iPhone and iPod touch, customers can simply search for the content they've already rented or purchased from Amazon Instant Video-including the latest hit movies like The Dark Knight Rises, Brave and The Amazing Spiderman and the latest episodes from TV series like The Walking Dead, Sons of Anarchy and The Vampire Diaries.
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The Warner Bros. film is the first in a wave of upcoming fairy-tale themed movies slated to hit theaters in the next few years.
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If the new Bourne is a hit Renner will become a go-to guy for big action movies.
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With premiere access to Hollywood hit movies, new and exclusive HBO content, critically acclaimed Showtime series and first-rate Canadian programming, this pay-television service presents Canadians with some of the best television entertainment available.
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This soft sell is also present in the new X-Ray feature for movies, which allows you to hit pause and automatically see IMDB profiles for actors in the flick, finding out what else they've appeared in.
The three book series is being split into four movies but it will still likely be more of a Twilight-sized hit.
The new U-verse Screen Pack, together with U-verse On Demand, offers customers an extensive collection of new release hit movies, classic movies, TV programs and premium programs for free, via subscription or a la carte.
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Soon that capacity will hit 15 trillion bits, meaning that the switch could spew out the equivalent of 400 feature-length movies every second.
The second big wave of Hollywood blockbusters will hit theaters in the next few weeks with movies like Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows ( now in 2-D), The Tourist and the third Meet the Parents film.
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