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MUMBAI:
This June, get out your boxing gloves and start warming up as PIX
gears up to get you with one knockout movie after the other on KNOCKOUT
June only on PIX.
Beginning
with an ode to Sylvester Stallone every Monday on Perfect 10, PIX
brings you the awe-inspiring tale about the struggle of Rocky Balboa.
Catch the Rocky series Part I to IV - the movie series that
made Sylvester Stallone a living legend.
In
1975, virtually unknown in Hollywood, Sylvester Stallone wrote the
script of Rocky in three days after attending a boxing match
between the small-time underdog Chuck Wepner and the great Muhammad
Ali and then was born Rocky Balboa.
Rocky,
of course, was the fictitious alter-ego of the multi-talented Stallone.
After a hard round of negotiations with Irwin Winkler and Robert
Chartoff, a team of experienced and knowledgeable filmmakers, Stallone
struck a deal wherein they allowed him to play the title role. The
rest as they say is history.
 Rocky
II took off from where Rocky ended, with the entire cast of
Rocky reuniting with Stallone at the helm as writer and director
in pursuit of the heavyweight championship. In Rocky III,
Balboa goes through changes internally and externally in attempts
to improve his personal life and hold on to the heavy weight title
and finds its not nearly as difficult to reach the top as it is
to stay there. In Rocky IV Rocky comes out of retirement to do battle
for the greatest prize of all - America. "World War III"
- instead of being fought with guns and Atom bombs, being fought
with fists - and Rocky is representing the free world. So get in
the ring for a knock out experience with the Rocky series throughout
this month only on PIX!
Moving
from one living legend to another, catch the male half of Brangelina,
Brad Pitt, in some of his best acting roles from 12 June to June
15 on Perfect 10.
 Watch
Brad in Thelma and Louise, the movie that got him noticed and started
him on his road to stardom. Also coming up on 13 June is Legends
Of the Fall, an epic tale of three brothers and their father living
in the remote wilderness of 1900s USA and how their lives are affected
by nature, history, war, and love. This film is followed by Seven
Years in Tibet on June 14 due to which Brad was banned from entering
China. Lastly catch Brad in Snatch directed by Guy Ritchie better
known as Madonna's husband. Did you know that Pitt asked director
Guy Ritchie if he could be in his next film after watching Lock,
Stock and Two Smoking Barrels - an action packed English
comedy, look out for it on Perfect 10, Saturday 16 June, only on
PIX!
And
the punches keep coming as PIX brings you a two movie special with
Marlon Brando on 22 - 23 June and at 10 pm. Watch this legendary
actor excel in Island of Dr. Moreau, a film about Dr Moreau an obsessive
scientist who is experimenting on turning animals into humans and
A Dry White Season a sensitive film on Apartheid in South Africa.
The
action continues…On 30 June, PIX brings you the critically
acclaimed, Oscar winning film Platoon. Platoon is
a film on the Vietnam war made by Director Oliver Stone based on
his own experiences in Vietnam. In this film, Charlie Sheen plays
Chris Taylor, an idealistic student who dropped out of college,
joined the army, and volunteered for Vietnam. His idealism and view
of war in general rapidly changes during the course of the film.
After
all this action, let's double up with laughter. From 4 June to 9
June. PIX has lined up some great comic capers - Nadine,
My Man Adam, No Small Affair, The Opposite of Sex
on Great at 8. This line up will sure tickle your funny bone!
And
as if that wasn't enough, PIX brings you another round of greats
with 4 super episodes of Inside the Actors Studio (ITAS). On 3 June,
catch the legendary Robert Redford in a 2 hour special Inside the
Actors Studio followed by his film The Natural. Get set for a 2
hour special with the multi talented Barbra Streisand followed by
one her most hilarious films The Owl and the Pussycat at 9 pm on
10 June. Catch Martin Sheen on 17 June in Inside the Actors Studio
followed by his film Little Girl who Lives Down the lane which also
stars Jodie Foster. And lastly don't miss Jude Law in ITAS on 24
June.
So
don't let the rains dampen your spirits and knock yourself out with
great stories well told this June only on PIX!
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