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The Russo Brothers’ video podcast series “Pizza Film School” will return Feb. 12, with new episodes releasing every Wednesday on Agbo’s YouTube channel, TheWrap can exclusively reveal.

New to this season, the episodes will also be available as an audio-only podcast on all major streaming platforms. Previous seasons of “Pizza Film School” will also be available on streaming platforms as audio-only episodes for the first time, starting today.

For the new season, Anthony and Joe Russo will sit down with some of their longtime collaborators across projects, including the upcoming Netflix film “The Electric State,” with Millie Bobby Brown and Chris Pratt. Guests include the screenwriting duo of Chris Markus and Stephen McFeely; casting director Sarah Finn; producer and first Ad Chris Castaldi; Academy Award-nominated costume designer Judianna Makovsky; Academy Award-winning production designer Dennis Gassner; camera operator and producer Geoffrey Haley; legendary composer Alan Silvestri; editor and producer Jeffrey Ford; and composer Henry Jackman.

Did Joaquin Phoenix threated to quit Napolean? (Photo Credit – Facebook)

Yes, Joaquin Phoenix was ready to walk away from Napolean, even with cameras ready to roll. His demand? A script rewrite by none other than The Master’s director, Paul Thomas Anderson.

The shocking ultimatum had Hollywood buzzing. According to reports, Phoenix wasn’t sold on the script by David Scarpa, despite the star power of Scott helming the film. Enter Anderson, who stepped in, smoothing things over with revisions that ultimately kept Phoenix in the titular role. With the rewrite complete, Napoleon hit theaters in late 2023, grossing $221 million globally and nabbing Oscar nods in technical categories.

Ridley Scott, speaking about the drama, seemed unbothered in retrospect. “Tommy was doing Licorice Pizza, advising me how to do Napoleon,” he said in a New York Times interview. “It turned into a lot of fun, actually. Three of us in this room screaming with laughter.

After having made his Bollywood debut in American Chai, Akshay Oberoi has been slowly but steadily climbing up the Bollywood ladder. Last seen in the horror thriller Pizza 3D, Akshay Oberoi has now been signed up as the brand ambassador of ‘Insist’ brand of eyewear. Bollywood Hungama brings to you the photographs of the adRead More

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After Aarakshan, we will see actress Deepika Padukone playing the role of Amitabh Bachchan's daughter once again in the upcoming Shoojit Sircar directorial Piku. This family drama is extensively shot in Kolkata and has recently completed its shoot schedule.

Amitabh Bachchan who has shot previously with the actress expressed his sorrow when he had to part ways with his co-stars after the end of the shoot. Recently, when the megastar came across Deepika Padukone and his yet another co-star from the film Irrfan Khan at an event, Amitabh reminisced about the days of the shoot and took to Twitter to mention about it. He said, "And meeting up with the lovely Deepika and the talented Irfan .. wanted to start shooting again for 'Piku' .. but its all over !"

Produced by Msm Motion Pictures, Piku also stars Moushumi Chatterjee, Jishu Sengupta and we will also see Pizza 3D actor Akshay Oberoi in a cameo.

After Abhishek Kapoor's Fitoor, a special appearance with Deepika Padukone in Piku and Indo- Brit film Bombairiya, Akshay Oberoi, who made his debut with Pizza 3D, is now starting his shoot for Jar Entertainment and Mukesh Chhabra's Gurgaon. Interestingly, Akshay will be seen in a totally new avatar in Gurgaon, as he plays a local Haryanvi boy living in city. And since his character has a very rustic look and feel to it, he's been asked to learn the local language by director Shanker Raman (national award winning cinematographer). In fact Akshay has been training to learn Haryanvi language/diction by a local Haryanvi tutor and has been watching few famous Haryanvi movies to get the accent and nuances correct. If that wasn't enough, the actor even breaks into Haryanvi at times while talking to his friends and family to practice the language perfectly. Akshay is in Gurgaon...

2015 is proving to be more and more lucky for Akshay Oberoi… After Abhishek Kapoor’s Fitoor, Indo-Brit film Bombairiya and bagging a special appearance with Deepika in Piku, Akshay Oberoi has been signed for yet another interesting film called Gurgaon as the lead.

Gurgaon, directed by national award winning cinematographer Shanker Raman is co produced by Ajay G Rai and Alan McAlex of Jar films and Mukesh Chhabra. Jar also produced India’s official entry to Oscars – Liar’s Dice starring Nawazuddin and Mukesh Chhabra. Interestingly, while Akshay was shooting for Fitoor in Kashmir, Ajay Rai, who is the line producer on Fitoor liked his work and recommended his name to the director of the film. Shanker saw few scenes from Akshay’s film Pizza and the public service ad he had done and liked him instantly.

Akshay will be seen a totally new look and role in the film.

People say comedy is a serious business. Nowadays action is a series of strings and well-timed explosions. Romance is only as good as the chemistry you can fake on screen and moves that move you tend to repeat themselves. The list goes on. With all these going on in Bollywood quite frequently, the horror suspense genre would have to be the most neglected and sadly to say the most unexplored. So naturally when a low budget film with new-to-upcoming artists leading the cast, and debutant director behind the megaphone pull a rabbit-out-of-the-hat magic trick at the box office, the interest is boundless. Brought to us by Bejoy Nambiar and Siddharth Roy Kapoor, Pizza is a remake of Tamil Film with the same name starring Akshay Oberoi and Parvathy Omanakuttan lead roles.

With a solid base for script, great performers and technical crew to bring out the punch for flavour and...

Sunny Leone, who has been making waves in the industry since her debut with Jism 2 recently set the media abuzz with her look in the upcoming period film Leela. Though initially no male lead had been cast for the film, we now hear that the actor who will be seen with Sunny is none other than Hate Story 2 star Jay Bhanushali. Jay, who started his career as an actor on the small screen, became a popular household name after his hosting stint in the popular dance reality show 'Dance India Dance'. The actor's debut film Hate Story 2 hit the silver screen this week and he has already signed his second film too. Being the ambitious project of Ahmed Khan, Leela is a period drama where Jay will play the role of a singer. Excited about experimenting with his new role, Jay states that he wants...

Three notable films release this weekend – Hate Story 2, Amit Sahni Ki List and Pizza. Each of these three films is a mid-budget affair and doesn’t have stars hogging the limelight. While Hate Story 2 is as commercial a film as it gets, Amit Sahni Ki List and Pizza are concept films with a different storyline to offer. Also, Hate Story 2 is a part of the Hate Story franchise that was conceptualized by Vikram Bhatt and had resulted in a Paoli Dam success story directed by Vivek Agnihotri. On the other hand Pizza is the namesake remake of a Tamil horror flick with an urban set up to it. Between the three films, Hate Story 2 would get the biggest release as it has a solid backing of T-Series. The songs have been well promoted which has ensured some good visibility too. Moreover, ample skin show as well...

The makers of Pizza, the much awaited 3D suspense thriller which releases on 18th July, have come up with an exciting promotional mall activity in Mumbai & Delhi.

This, first of its kind immersive audience experience called, Dare to Deliver in the House of Thrills, will enable the visitors to go through the same experiences that the protagonist Akshay Oberoi (who plays a pizza delivery boy), encounters in the film. Riddled with multiple shocking but fun acts and props, the experiences inside the house include, The Asylum, The Rocking Chair, etc. and to make it even more memorable, all visitors are given a video footage of their entire experience inside. It will be Ex-fearential!

Mumbai: Infinity Mall, Malad; 11th, 12th and 13th July, 2014

Delhi Ncr: Ambience Mall, Gurgaon; 18th & 19th July, 2014

Pizza, the suspense thriller shot in 3D is the story about how a pizza delivery boy lands in a mysterious...

It’s a rare father-son coming together, but they had to be matter-of-fact about it. Akshay Akkikeni, the director of the much awaited 3D suspense thriller Pizza, is the son of celebrated film editor, Sreekar Prasad. And while the father has actually cut the son’s directorial debut, he made sure that there was no special treatment.

Sreekar, who has won the Best Editor National Award a whopping eight times, has edited Bollywood hits like Dil Chahta Hai, Guru, Kaminey, 7 Khoon Maaf, Shaitan, and more recently, Cocktail and Ek Thi Dayaan. Down south he’s cut and joined blockbusters like Okkadu and Thupakki. The veteran editor had a bittersweet experience editing his son’s debut effort Pizza. Says a member of the Pizza crew: “Sreekar Sir wanted to be very matter of fact in making sure that the edit was very tight and the suspense thriller lived every bit up to its reputation.

There are very few actors in Hindi cinema who are there just for their passion, as they are quite happy, both mentally and monetarily, otherwise too. One of them is the beautiful Dipannita Sharma, who works selectively, and in films that are after her heart. In fact that was the first question we put to the talented actress as Bejoy Nambiar's Pizza 3D is her first horror genre film, and Dipannita told us Read More...

We recently showed you some cool pictures of Imran Khan visiting the sets of Pizza during the filming of the song video for Gimmee Pizza! See Imran is friends with both star of the film Akshay Oberoi and also the director of the music video for the film, Sajid Shaikh, who had earlier directed the Dk Bose video from Delhi Belly. Now we have an exclusive video of what happened when Imran got in on the fun during the shoot!

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This 18th of July, 2014, Pizza will be delivered Hot and Haunted in 3D!

Synopsis –

Pizza delivery boy Kunal’s mundane life takes a horrifying turn when he is sent to make a delivery at the home of a family with a dark secret. Will Kunal be able to overcome the evil that lurks in the shadows and live to tell his tale? Pizza is a horror- thriller with a delicious twist.

It’s time to rock to the reggae beats of ‘Gimme Pizza’, the new music video just shot by the makers of the much-awaited 3D horror thriller, Pizza. Sung by Ankur Tewari and music composed by Mikey McCleary, the video has been directed by Sajid Shaikh, who had earlier directed the Dk Bose video from Delhi Belly.

The psychedelic video, punctuated with film footage, features the film’s leading man Akshay Oberoi, who gets a call for a pizza delivery and goes zipping across the city to make the delivery. Back in the pizza kitchen we see a band jamming to Gimme Pizza and slowly turning into ghosts!!

The team was recently shooting the video in Mumbai and were in for a Big surprise…actor Imran Khan, who acted in Delhi Belly and also featured in the Dk Bose video, dropped in to meet his buddies, Akshay Oberoi & Sajid Shaikh...

Imagine standing at a desolate graveyard all alone at 2 am and waiting for something to happen. Spooky! Well, that’s what Pizza‘s leading man Akshay Oberoi did night after night, spending one hour daily at different graveyards for one whole month. Why? To be ready when his moment of fear comes!

Produced by Utv Spotboy in association with Getaway Films and directed by debutant Akshay Akkikeni, Pizza is a 3D horror thriller where one wrong pizza delivery kick-starts one of the scariest nights ever.

Now, to prepare for his role of the protagonist in the film, Akshay Oberoi would go visit all those graveyards and try and get fear out of his system. “What was really spooky was the eerie silence at all those places,” recollects Akshay. “So silent that even a slight rustle of leaves would give me the goosebumps. I don’t know how I managed to...