The epic science fiction film ‘Avatar’ dreamt and visualized by James Cameron is a trend setting project all over the globe. The story set in mid 22nd century left world audience to go in amazement with kind of emotions and extra ordinary visual effects conceptualized by the director, producer and technical team. From then on, cinema lovers were kept waiting for ‘Avatar’ sequel as promised by Cameron.

Though, there was early buzz on 2016 Christmas can be the high probable time makers are looking at but ‘Avatar 2’ release will be far later than what was expected. As per Hollywood reports, the movie is pushed by one year and Christmas 2017 can be the time on cards.

Cameron has set the story of second part on moon, planet Pandora and also underwater. This requires lot of pre production planning and preparation. This resulted in a big delay with beginning of production works and we can also understand on amount of post production works needed to wrap up the CG portions. With high risky investment, obviously a holiday season is one target the release and Christmas is the best.

The formula followed by producers Kona Venkat, PVP and Radha Mohan for ‘Sankarabharanam, Size Zero’ and ‘Bengal Tiger’ with one film releasing one week providing space at Box Office for all of them to have due share is back in vogue. Though Sankranti is a special occasion and four very big films enjoyed the public attention grabbing awesome shares at ticket counters, same can’t be the approach for every week.

The coming month of February has already got Nani’s ‘Krishna Gaadi Veera Prema Gaadha,’ Bellamkonda Sai Sreenivas ‘Speedunnodu’ and Sunil’s ‘Krishnashtami’ locked their release dates to February first and second weeks. However, producers of each of these films had a special discussion and behind the scenes, they accepted to go with one film per one week formula.

Accordingly, ‘Speedunnodu’ from director Bhimaneni Srinivaas Raavu has fixed February 5th release date while ‘Krishna Gaadi Veera Prema Gaadha’ from 14 Reels banner under Hanu Raghavapudi direction is eyeing on February 12 and lastly Dil Raju’s ‘Krishnashtami’ might sit pretty happy for February 19. Though this is an early speculation, let’s wait for few more days to know the exact matter.

Sultry hot Moroccan beauty Nora Fatehi set the screens on fire with her raunchy moves in a couple of item songs in Temper and Baahubali. The actress recently made a huge splash in the Hindi TV circuit when she participated as one of the contestants in the super hit reality show, Bigg Boss 9.

During her stay in the house, Nora apparently fell for the charms of fellow participant, the Punjabi model Prince Narula, who went on to win the title, and the couple hit it off.

Prince even proposed to Nora on the show and will aware of the cynicism that surrounds the reality show couples, Nora and Prince are determined to take their relationship ahead.

Incidentally, three days after Nora accepted Prince’s love, she was eliminated from Bigg Boss, but the couple is very much in love even after the show ended. Nora was last appeared in Sher and Loafer and she will soon be seen in Nagarjuna’s Oopiri.

Nara Rohit although got a big bunch of films lying in various production and post production stages, it is highly suspicious on why at least one of them is not making it to theaters? Of course, he is working for all of them in parallel and 2016 can be the year we can see many more Nara Rohit films to arrive in cinema halls in coming months.

Here comes his first 2016 release as ‘Savithri.’ Starring Nandita as heroine and directed by Pawan Sadineni, the makers are eyeing for March 25 as the best possible release date and post production works are going on. In the past, Rohit has done a few full-fledged family entertainers and ‘Savithri’ appears to be one more into the list.

Pawan Sadineni roused from Youtube short films became popular with feature film ‘Prema Ishq Kadhal.’ With all commercial values kept intact, Rohit is also hoping a lot on Pawan and ‘Savithri’ to deliver him a big breakthrough in this early start of new year.

Actress Lavanya Tripathi scored back to back hits with Nani starrer Bhale Bhale Magadivoy and Nagarjuna’s Soggade Chinni Nayana. Due to the success spree, the actress is getting some plum offers in Telugu.

Meanwhile, Lavanya’s new film Lachimdeviki O Lekkundi (LOL) scheduled to release on January 29th has got good buzz among the trade circles. Naveen Chandra is lead actor in the film, although makers are promoting it as a female centric movie with the successful Lavanya playing main lead role.

LOL is the caption for the film which represents it is going to have adequate hilarity. This is second combination film for Naveen and Lavanya after Andala Rakshasi. Directed by SS Rajamouli’s protegee Jagadish Talasila, LOL has music scored by MM Keeravani.

Makers have increased film promotions after Lavanya’s Soggade Chinni Nayana got positive talk. In fact, if BBM and SCN haven’t done such good business at the box office, then there would be some delay in LOL release.

They have only taken the quick decision as to cash on Lavanya’s current craze. Fortunately, the movie has done good pre release business, as per trade reports. Let’s see whether Lavanya will continue the success spree with LOL or not!

That Ram Gopal Varma needs no special occasion to create an online storm through his random tweets is is a well known fact. And when the eccentric genius finds an opportunity to unleash his mojo, can he be stopped by anyone? No way! Since the release of Baahubali, RGV has been praising the film and Rajamouli to no limits.

And here’s RGV’s funny yet amusing tweet after SS Rajamouli was honored with the coveted Padma Shri award by the Indian government yesterday. RGV wrote, “Rajamouli got Padmashree and I dint even get my childhood sweetheart Padma…This i think is a Bahubalian failure.”

Needless to say, RGV’s humour did evoke a great amount of curiosity among all his followers, who were wondering about this mysterious girl in RGV’s childhood whom even the director never revealed about till date. Or, is it just a fictitious character created by RGV for the effect?

When there are lot of gorgeous young actresses and beautiful yesteryear actresses who stole the show at IIFA Utsavam, one stunning beauty turns the favourite of cameras.

Shruti Haasan looks gorgeous and hot in yesterday’s IIFA event and got the spotlight fixed on her pushing all the others aside.

There were few other beauties who wore their best and yet looked sleazy, but Shruti Haasan has that proper dress sense and knows how to look hot and beautiful!

The epic has begun again and here comes the first shooting still of Baahubali The conclusion. Baahubali team has enthralled us with the film and gave us enough curioisty to wait desperately for the conclusion. So the fever is back again and wait for more pictures to come.

In a shooting still of Baahubali second part, Prabhas in Amarendra Baahubali attire is seen walking to the location along with the big crew. It is heard that Jakkanna is tightening eveything single detail of the film to avoid any leaks and why not with those good number of interesting twists in the plot.

For the last two decades, Ramoji Film City, which is located on the outskirts of Hyderabad, has been serving not only Tollywood but also the entire film industries in India and abroad. Apart from being the one stop destination for filmmaking, RFC also acts as one of the biggest tourist attractions in the city.

Now, the Telangana government is inching closer to its ambitious mission of setting up a world class film city which is much, much bigger than Ramoji Film City. This has been a much cherished dream of Telangana CM KCR.

Addressing several noted personalities from Tollywood, Bollywood and other film industries at FICCI-IIFA conclave yesterday, Telangana IT Secretary Jayesh Ranjan stated that the government will soon introduce its comprehensive film policy which also includes construction of a mega film city.

Also, 10 acres of land in the city’s prime locality will be allotted to set up a huge gaming arena, animation & multimedia cluster, which will also feature a multimedia signature tower as part of the Digital India, Digital Telangana initiative.

Noted Tollywood producer D Suresh Babu pointed out the importance of equipping the youths with necessary training to overcome the shortage of skilled technicians in the industry. Allu Arvind appealed for support to animation and children’s films.

Bollywood Superstar Aamir Khan’s comments about growing intolerance in the country a month ago drew flak from the public. People have even launched an attack on Snapdeal for which Aamir Khan is the Brand Ambassador. Aamir Khan finally came up with an explanation over the controversy.

“I never said India is intolerant, nor did I say I want to leave the country. I was misunderstood,” Aamir Khan clarified the other day at an event to mark the 10th anniversary of Rang De Basanti. He further added that he is born here and will die here.

Here we are presenting what exactly Aamir Khan said on that day about intolerance – “When I chat with Kiran at home, she says ‘Should we move out of India?’ That’s a disastrous and big statement for Kiran to make. She fears for her child. She fears about what the atmosphere around us will be. She feels scared to open the newspapers every day”.

Sekhar Kammula is all set to foray in to Bollywood and he will be remaking his blockbuster film, Happy Days there. The project is in pipeline for ages and is finally going on floors. Sekhar Kammula is busy finalizing the cast of the film and scouting for new faces in some colleges of Pune.

The film will start rolling from March. Salman Khan will be producing this remake project. Once Sekhar Kammula completes the project, he will move on to Leader-2 starring Rana Daggubati.

Sekhar Kammula is not in the best of forms in recent times. After Happy Days, except for Leader which is an average result, all his films failed to make an impression on the audience.

Director Krish is teaming up once again with his Kanche pair – Varun Tej and Pragya Jaiswal for a new project titled Rayabhari. The ace director is currently in Georgia scouting for locations of this film.

A major portion of Kanche was also shot there and a good portion of Rayabhari will also be canned that country. Rayabhari will go on floors very soon after Krish returns to India.

Varun Tej’s last film, Loafer is a big dud at the box office. So Varun is banking on this Rayabhari to make it big at the box office. Besides Rayabhari, he has two more films – one with a new comer, Venky Atluri and the other with Gopichand Malineni.