After Naagzilla with Kartik Aaryan, Karan Johar sets up another creature universe with Rajkummar Rao

Rajkummar Rao is on a roll, signing films left right and centre after the success of Stree 2. While Maalik is all set to release on July 12, we have exclusively learnt that Rajkummar Rao has signed a one of its kind creature film for Karan Johar to be directed by Sandeep Modi. Reliable sources confirm that the film will go on floors towards the end of 2025, with a start-to-finish schedule. "Rajkummar Rao has signed on for Karan Johar's next with director Sandeep Modi. It's a creature-based thriller, to be mounted on a big scale and the makers are looking to create a franchise out of the same," a source shared with Bollywood Hungama. The source further informed us that the film will go on floors around November 2025, and the director, Sandeep Modi, has already begun pre-production. “Rajkummar Rao has signed the film for an agreed sum of Rs. 12 crores, which is his biggest pay cheque to date. He is excited to partner with Karan Johar on the project,” the source added....

Tetris review – rise of 80s game makes for mostly entertaining drama

An Apple TV+ movie tells the compelling story of how Tetris found its way out of Russia but adds a few too many flourishes

Hollywood’s lazy yet lucrative obsession with adapting material that carries a pre-awareness with it shows no obvious sign of abating and why would it given the ease that comes with marketing something new that automatically reminds so many of something old. But with other, more obvious barrel bottoms scraped, from comic books to video games, there’s been a recent rise in looking toward products and businesses instead and an attempt to turn Wikipedia backstories into compelling dramas.

Last year saw TV shows detailing the ups and downs of Uber and WeWork, upcoming films will focus on BlackBerry, Nike and Cheetos and this month sees a delve into the origins of Tetris, the deviously addictive game that quickly become a worldwide phenomenon. As hit-and-miss as these projects have often been, it is thankfully a more appealing prospect than a film based on the game itself, something that was threatened back in 2014 as an “epic sci-fi adventure” but has mercifully never been heard of since. Tetris, like many of the adjacent shows and films before it, is aiming for the same effect that The Social Network had back in 2010, slickly transforming the mechanical beats of a timeline into the smoother beats of a story, and like many of the adjacent shows and films before it, that becomes an impossibly high bar to meet. But it does a solid enough job trying to meet it, admirably attempting and failing to capture that same Sorkinesque snap, but proving entertaining enough to justify its existence.

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