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Amazon Prime Comedy show ‘Comicstaan’ Trailer Out Now : Bringing a Comedy Talent Hunt

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10 months ago

June 28, 2018

Internationational Web streaming Giant Amazon Prime has launched the trailer of their upcoming comedy stint ‘Comicstaan’ where one can anticipate the laughing riot in the disguise of comedy talent hunt show lead by a top comedian as we know. Since Amazon Prime has been looking forward to beholding or even escalate their position on the web entertainment market and promote the original content, comedy is something comes very handy. It straightly comes around under the umbrella of developing comedy stand-up singles and other non-fiction features.

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You will be seeing some popular stand-up comedians of top-notch level as Tanmay Bhatt, Kanan Gill, Abish Matthew, Kenny Sebastian, Biswa Kalyan Rath and much more to count. The talent hunt show is produced by Only Much Louder ( OML) who has been earlier known for helming shows like Comedy Hunt and On Air with AIB.

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The show will be hosted by India’s ace comedians as Abish Matthew and Sumukhi Suresh. The format or concept of the show can be put as to be quite fresh especially when it comes to the web streaming media. This prime original series comprises nine episodes which will be presented to the viewers in the month of July. The first four episodes of the comedy talent hunt streaming show will be released on the launching day itself where the rest of the five episodes will follow in the upcoming weeks.

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The trailer released, features the concept of the show is served as in very funky and fresh treatment. The motive or objective of the show is to hunt the extraordinary comic talent across the country where these big name comedians will mentor as well as judge them. The show is going to have a collection of India’s best youth comedians who are ruling over the web as well as live comedy shows. Such names are Tanmay Bhatt, Sapan Verma, Kenny Sebastian, Kanan Gill, Biswa Kalyan Rath, Naveen Richard and Kaneez Surkha. The nine episode-series will allow ten competitors to fight for the winning title in the show. There are comedian judges who also will be mentoring the contestants according to their different genres of comedy. The first four episodes will be launched on the first-day release that is on 13th July 2018. So you better mark your Calender.

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As Amazon Prime and their competitors Netflix, Hotstar and ALTBalaji like other web streaming media are giving the significance to the comedy genre in their watchlist, more and more such shows are coming. Comedy is now a category which is equally treated as other genres like cricket, Bollywood or Hollywood as well. Content Head and Director of Amazon Prime Video India said ” When we asked our customers what are things they would love to watch comedy was right up there. So, there were two things we could do. One, acquiring some of the best comedy movies in Hindi and other regional languages. Same time, we can actually create a new space with stand-up comedians.”

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Subramaniam further added ” We will continue to acquire the best movies across various languages. We are going to ramp on our Indian originals. In Second half of this year, we are going to launch three more. Next year we hope to have 10 Originals. And you will continue to see some other biggest blockbuster films on our services.”

OML COO Ajay Nair shared ” Comicstaan is the exciting next step in our long and fruitful relationships with Amazon. It ties all the best parts of Indian stand-up together into something fresh. Getting the country’s top comedians to nurture and mentor new talent is an idea that excited us, and it’s been extremely rewarding to see it all come together.”

For more updates, we will be featuring constant buzz on the amazon prime video Comicstaan. Till then, you can follow the show on their Facebook Page, Twitter Handle and on Instagram.

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Game Of Thrones Actor Iain Glen Will Play Bruce Wayne in Titans Season 2

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5 days ago

April 16, 2019

Kartik Jha

Game of Thrones actor Iain Glen will be going to have a reoccurring role in the upcoming season of DC’ Titans. He will be portraying the Bruce Wayne aka Batman in the season two of highly anticipated DC Streaming web show Titans. He is popularly known for movies and TV shows like Resident Evil Movie Series and Game of Thrones with other notable works such as in Downtown Abbey, Jack Taylor, Mountains of the Moon and Cleverman.

Joshua Orpin as Superboy ( top) and Esai Morales as Deathstroke (bottom)

Apart from that it will be also featuring Esai Morales as Deathstroke who is popularly known for movies like La Bamba (1969), Spare Parts (2015), Bad Boys (1983) and Gun Hill Road (2011). Also, the newcomer actor Joshua Orpin will be playing Superboy in the Titans Season 2. The show Titans is based upon the DC Comics ‘s ‘ Teen Titans’ but leaning towards more gritty, dark and adulthood side. It will be premiered on the DC streaming platform DC Universe later this year. Actors Brenton Thwaites, Anna Diop, Teagan Croft and Ryan Potter will reprise their roles as Robin aka Dick Grayson, Starfire, Raven and Beast Boy.

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Bruce Wayne has been planted in the Titans pilot season very carefully only to tease the idea of Batman as mentor and godfather of Dick Grayson. However, the identity wasn’t revealed. It will be interesting to finally see Batman in DC Universe series Titans and his tuning with retired Robin. Iain Glen who plays mercenary Knight in pop-culture sensational series Game of Thrones recently talked about how brilliant he found out the script of eighth GOT season. The first episode of GOT is also dropped streaming on HBO, Netflix and Hotstar. It will be interesting to see Iain playing the older version of Bruce Wayne, alter ego of epic DC superhero Batman.

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Jeremy Renner Will Reprise His Role As Hawkeye in Disney+ Web Series

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1 week ago

April 11, 2019

Kartik Jha

After Winter Soldier, Scarlette Witch, Falcon, Loki, and The Vision getting their own Original Marvel Shows on Disney+, it’s time for Jeremy Renner to reprise his role in Hawkeye web series

Disney is all prepped up with its upcoming streaming platform called as Disney+ bringing tons of Marvel Originals featuring Avengers superheroes in solo such as Loki, Winter Soldier, and Scarlette Witch. According to the recent updates from Variety, they will be also adding Hawkeye in this spree as well. Jeremy Renner helms the character of Hawkeye in Avengers will be reappearing in the upcoming movie Avengers: Endgame releasing worldwide on 26th April. He himself will be reprising his role in the Hawkeye web series to be streaming on Disney+.

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Avengers: Endgame actor Jeremy Renner is playing Clint Barton aka Hawkeye where he was first appeared in The Avengers ( 2012), then in Avengers: Age of Ultron ( 2015) and finally in Captain America: Civil War (2016). Hawkeye’s whereabouts during the timeline of Infinity War was unknown and yet to be revealed.

According to the reports of Variety, Hawkeye will pass his torch to Kate Bishop who is someone from comic books extending the legacy of Hawkeye. It will happen towards the end of the Marvel’s Original show. Later on, she will be the part of Young Avengers as well. Apart from these Solo Avengers superheroes shows, Disney+ might be also reviving the highly anticipated Marvel Originals such as Daredevil, Iron Fist, Jessica Jones, Luke Cage, and The Punisher earlier use to stream on Netflix. However, it is still time to know when or whether they are coming back.

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Avengers Endgame Sold Pre-Sale Tickets Five Times Of Infinity War

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2 weeks ago

April 10, 2019

Kartik Jha

Avengers Endgame Sold Advance Tickets Twice The Combination of Infinity War, Aquaman, Captain Marvel, and Recent Star Wars Movie

The rage of Avengers Endgame continues with a massive advance ticket bookings. Apparently, the tickets sold for this last movie in the series of Avengers is twice the tickets sold for Infinity War, Captain Marvel, Aquaman and Star Wars: The Last Jedi combined. The film is still two weeks away from releasing in the theatres and already knocking out records. The advance bookings for this 22nd Marvel movie in the MCU ( Marvel Cinematic Universe) as pre-sale tickets went on the sale on this Tuesday only. Marvel fans are eager to assure their seats in theatres as soon as possible.

Where to Buy Pre-Sale Tickets For Avengers Endgame ?

With another intriguing trailer, a scene showing all heroes ready to go for the war against Thanos, who already wiped the half of the population on the planet, pre-sale tickets are opened for the fans to buy. A lot of websites such as AMC, Fandango, and Atom are grabbing the opportunity but there is a minor issue with these biggest ticket sellers. It seems quite tricky or almost impossible to reserve a seat for the movie. They tend to attain all the attention of the Marvel fans by storm with such move.

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One can find plenty of such ticket-selling websites or applications claiming or offering trips for movies. AMC, Atom, and Fandango count in the league of scoring the biggest numbers in that regards. These websites are hoping to grab the largest number of fandom in the theatres with the sale of lots of refreshments. Also, the very first approach for the Marvel fans was to buy tickets for Avengers Endgame from these very known sellers. However, it could be restricted to be as just an attempt.

As there are lots of ticket-purchasing websites and applications, it seems each and every ticket venue is going through a various set of technical issues covering the mass cinegoers trying to get pre-sale tickets. If one try for these websites or applications, for now, you find various excuses coming out and all those bad news. You find a lot of struggle and failures in even in their pretentious processes of booking tickets, like on Atom. You will get to choose everything like theatre locations, seats, number of tickets but at the moment of buying, all you see will be a time-out session. Well, it seems the highly anticipated movie Avengers: Endgame is already rushed in with millions of fans around different places. So, the wiser will be more aware and bit of patient and avoid crashing the ticket-selling websites.

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