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Finally, we got a first trailer and posters for "Captain America: Civil War" as Robert Downey Jr. (Iron Man) and Chris Evans (Captain America) showed up on ‘Jimmy Kimmel Live’ yesterday, where they surprisingly revealed the first trailer for "Captain America: Civil War." 

After a bunch of rumors that the trailer will be attached to "Star Wars: The Force Awakens" which hits the theaters in on December 18. Nevertheless, this was never confirmed by whether Disney or Marvel and also it was such a surprise to the fans that the first trailer came out very early.

"Captain America: Civil War" picks up where "Avengers: Age of Ultron" left off, as Steve Rogers leads new members of Avengers to continue their attempts to protect the world. After the Age of Ultron event resulted in another national incident with massive damages, the Avengers are under political pressure creating a system to examine and control all the superheroes action. The new situation splits the Avengers into half while they try to protect the world from a new villain.

"It has to do with the effects of Ultron and Sokovia, and New York City, and Washington D.C. Examining the third acts of all the Marvel movies, we’re saying, if you could point to the collateral damage in all those incidents, could you use that against the Avengers to control them?” - Joe Rosso

"Captain America: Civil War" is set to release in the US on May 6, 2016. The film is directed by Anthony Russo and Joe Russo along with Christopher Markus & Stephen McFeely writing the screenplay. Those guys are the same crew as "Captain America: The Winter Soldier" The movie brings back Chris Evans as the American iconic Super Hero Steve Rogers/Captain America along with Robert Downey Jr. as Tony Stark/Iron Man, Scarlett Johansson as Natasha Romanoff/Black Widow, Sebastian Stan as Bucky Barnes/Winter Soldier, Anthony Mackie as Sam Wilson/Falcon, Paul Bettany as The Vision, Jeremy Renner as Clint Barton/Hawkeye, Don Cheadle as Jim Rhodes/War Machine and Elizabeth Olsen as Wanda Maximoff/Scarlet Witch. Moreover, there will be others new characters and returning supporting characters as well.

Paul Rudd will assemble the Avengers for the first time as Scott Lang/Ant-Man in "Captain America: Civil War" after his debut in Marvel's solo film Ant-Man. The film also introduces another additional cast members, including Chadwick Boseman as T'Challa/Black Panther, Emily VanCamp as Sharon Carter/Agent 13, Daniel Brühl, Frank Grillo as Brock Rumlow/Crossbones, William Hurt as General Thaddeus "Thunderbolt" Ross and Martin Freeman. Another hero that fans were expecting was Spider-man (Tom Holland.) Even though he did not show up in the trailer but we already knew that he is in the film.

“I have always been a huge fan of Spider-Man, and growing up, I had countless Spider-Man costumes,” he told us. “Only two years ago did I go to a fancy dress party dressed as Spider-Man. I had this awesome morph suit where you can put your phone on your chest and spiders would crawl across the costume, it was awesome! He’s always been a big part of my life and a big part of boys’ lives because everybody can relate to him.” - Tom Holland

"Captain America: Civil War" will be the kick-off of the Marvel Phase Three, which is consisted with ten highly-anticipated movies. Following "Captain America: Civil War" is Doctor Strange, which is currently seen on set in Nepal and hits the theaters on November 4, 2016. Guardians of the Galaxy Vol. 2 will start shooting early next year, scheduled to release on May 5, 2017. After that is "Thor: Ragnarok" on November 3, 2017. Then we will see "Black Panther" on February 16, 2018, followed by Avengers: Infinity War Part I on May 3, 2018, and Ant-Man and the Wasp on July 6, 2018. Finishing this Phase with Captain Marvel (March 8, 2019), Avengers: Infinity War - Part II (May 3, 2019) and Inhumans (July 12, 2019).

Take a look at the new trailer and the posters below, and stay tuned for more about "Captain America: Civil War" and the rest of the Marvel Cinematic Universe.

Are you a breakfast skipper?

Are you a morning person? If you are, you are incredibly awesome. Right now, I cannot even fully say that I am but I used to be so I think I can say that now I am half way to a morning person.

When I’m home, my mom will never let me stay in bed later than eight. She always wake me up at six or seven. If I’m lucky enough (when she is in a good mood), she will let me sink into the bed till eight…

One of my all-time favorite Indian foods is chicken curry. I can still remember the taste of it even though I haven’t had it in two years. So today I’m going to explain to you on how to cook a bowl of chicken curry-- one of the most delicious food in the world. To recall all wonderful old time memories, let’s see how it’s done.

First of all, let’s know all the ingredients

·         1 kg chicken pieces of your choice, skin removed

·         2 large onions sliced thin

·         2 large tomatoes diced

·         2 tbsps garlic paste

·         1 tbsp ginger paste

·         2 tsps coriander powder

·         1 tsp cumin powder

·         1/2 tsp turmeric powder

·         1/2 tsp red chilli powder

·         2 tsps garam masala powder

·         4 tbsps vegetable/ canola/ sunflower cooking oil

·         Chopped coriander to garnish

And now the preparation part

·         Put the oil in the pan and heat it, then fry the onions till it turns golden brown. Remove frying onions from the oil with a slotted spoon and drain on paper towels. Turn off fire.

·         Grind the onions into a smooth paste in a food processor (incase you don’t have a food processor, just use any other thing that are suitable for grinding or use your hand). And then remove into a separate container.

·         Now grind the tomatoes, garlic and ginger pastes together into a smooth paste (the more smooth it gets, the more aroma sense it will give (it will be more delicious when it’s done).

·         Heat the remaining oil again and add the onion paste. Fry for 2-3 minutes. Now add the tomato paste and all the spices and then mix well.

·         Fry the masala (Indian spice) till the oil begins to separate from it.

·         Add the chicken to the masala and cook until the chicken turn beautifully brown (umm did you smell that).

·         Add 1 or 1/2 cup of hot water to the chicken depending on the amount, simmer and cover. Cook till the chicken is tender (almost thereJ).

·         Garnish with chopped coriander and serve with the one and only-- hot chapatis (Indian flatbread), Naans (tandoor-baked Indian flatbread) or plain boiled rice.

 And done

DIGITAL NATIVES + IMMIGRANTS

"Kids these days with their phones and their social media, not keeping up with anything that is happening around them."

Do you really agree with this statement? It is true that most of the teenagers these days spend most of their free time indulging themselves over the wondrous world of Internet, but adults would usually complain about how kids these days do not know anything. However, in this blog post, I want to talk about the power of social media within the group of younger people.

It is true that between the age gap of 14 to 24, these people would spend their time browsing through various websites to learn about things that they are interested in - at which adults seem to define these things as useless, but that is not the case. Remember what happened in Paris? The fastest news that circulated around was via Twitter and Twitter is a platform of social media that lots of teenagers take place in. These teenagers are fast to spread the word around about the innocent, even raising more awareness for those who do not know about anything via hashtags or even photos.

Not only the Paris incident, I noticed that various Twitter and Tumblr users were also aware of the situations that happened in other countries, such as Japan, Lebanon, Iraq and Mexico - not just the Paris news that was on mainstream media. Not only that again, I realized that teenagers do know more about the world in general. I, as someone who indulges in Internet daily, have learned various of things that are deemed helpful and important to myself.

For an example (shameless self-promotion coming up), I have decided, along with my groupmates to tackle down the subject of feminism [check it out: here] - something that I have never heard about before if it was not for the Internet, and I probably would not be interested in learning about these things if I did not put my interest on the Internet. It's a good thing despite how people belittle the teenagers that spend their time over the Internet. In my belief, I think that some teenagers are more concerned with social situations than some adults that only indulge the information via mainstream media, such as televisions and radios.

I do notice that teenagers these days are more concerned with subjects such as racism, the LGBT community, feminism, and even violence against people -- which is a good thing. I myself have never heard or never wanted to consider these things to be important before using the Internet seriously. 

This blog is merely something to make you feel good about yourself if you come across this post - it is okay to get interested in the various content being provided over the Internet if it gives more knowledge to you. It is okay, it does not matter how people belittle the technology of smartphones or the Internet.

This is not the first time that "Memento" has a remake. 

In 2005 and 2008, two Indian films (both titled "Ghajini") were adapted from Nolan's original. AMBI Pictures has announced that it will finance and produce a remake of Christopher Nolan's iconic masterpiece, neo-noir reverse-thriller "Memento." AMBI Group ("AMBI") is a corporation of vertically integrated film production, finance, sales, and distribution company. It was founded in 29013 and owned by Andrea Iervolino, Monika Bacardi. AMBI has quickly emerged as one of the industry's most creative financing with 15 films produced by last year and 10 films in production this year. After the company had acquired the Exclusive Media Group film library, AMBI took control the rights of remaking "Memento." The EMG library housed nearly 400 titles including Memento, as well as cult classics such as Begin Again, Cruel Intentions, Ides Of March, Hit & Run, The Mexican, Parkland, Rush, The Skulls, Sliding Doors, Snitch, Undefeated, The Way Back, The Passion of the Christ, Apocalypto, What Women Want, Jane Got a Gun, End of Watch, Dark Places and Adore.

"Memento has been consistently ranked as one of the best films of its decade. People who've seen Memento 10 times still feel they need to see it one more time. This is a quality we believe supports and justifies a remake. The bar is set high thanks to the brilliance of Christopher Nolan, but we wouldn't want it any other way. Our acquisition of the EMG library reinforced our commitment to building a strong global studio with a strong pipeline of commercial films that can play to a worldwide audience. Bringing a new Memento to audiences is an initial example of how we intend to execute this strategy." - Andrea Iervolino

The EMG library acquisition was followed by the launch of AMBI’s new $200 million film fund last week. Monika Bacardi and Andrea Iervolino are anchor investors in the fund along with New York based private equity firm Raven Capital Management LLC (“Raven”). This series of strategic moves led to AMBI greenlighting “Memento” as its newest feature production.

Andrea Iervolino added, “Our acquisition of the EMG library reinforced our commitment build a strong global studio with a strong pipeline of commercial films that can play to a worldwide audience and bringing a new "Memento" to audiences is an initial example of how we intend to execute this strategy.”

“Memento” was released March 16th, 2001. Christopher Nolan adapted Memento from his brother  Jonathan Nolan's short story named "Memento Mori", and the unusual, twist-laden psychological thriller took audiences by storm upon release in 2000 and has since achieved cult hit status with a passionate following. The original Memento took 25 days to shoot with only $9 million for the budget; the film grossed $39.7 million worldwide.As it was a box-office success, the film received many honors, including Academy Award nominations for Best Original Screenplay and Best Film Editing.

"Memento is a masterpiece that leaves audiences guessing not just throughout the film, but long after as well, which is a testament to its daring approach. We intend to stay true to Christopher Nolan's vision and deliver a memorable movie that is every bit as edgy, iconic and award-worthy as the original. It's a big responsibility to deliver something that lives up to the mastery of the original, but we are extremely excited and motivated to bring this puzzle back to live and back into the minds of moviegoers." - Monika Bacardi

The original “Memento” was lauded for its nonlinear narrative structure and motifs of memory, perception, grief, and self-deception. With Guy Pearce in the lead role of a man named Leonard who believes that his wife was murdered. He is hunting down the man who raped and killed his wife. It's a job complicated by Leonard's retrograde amnesia. He still has his long-term memories that are the ones before the accident, but Leonard cannot remember what happened few minutes ago. Memento's screenplay are told out of order, with two timelines running counter to one another: one showing Leonard's actions in the present tense while the second timeline shows events in the past, narrated by Leonard. It was more confused as the events in the first timeline are shown backward, while those in the past run chronologically. In the film, the medical condition experienced by Leonard is a real condition named Anterograde Amnesia - the inability to form new memories after damage to the hippocampus.

After waiting for 13 years, fans finally got the first trailer of the sequel of their favorite "Finding Nemo." 

"Finding Dory" is one of the Disney Pixar's much-anticipated animated sequels including Cars 3, Toy Story 4, The Incredibles 2 which will hit the theaters in the next four years.

The favorite friendly-but-forgetful blue tang fish is back. Pixar's Finding Dory reassembles with the world's most absent-minded blue tang, Dory, with her loved ones Nemo and Marlin. What are they going to do when Dory suddenly recalls her childhood memories? Who are her parents? It will be a long swim for them to search for answers of Dory's past. It has been 13 years since we first meet Nemo and his friends, "Finding Dory" will take place six months after the events of Finding Nemo and will be set off the coast of California.

"The movie will be mostly set at the California Marine Biology Institute, a huge complex of sea life rehabilitation and aquarium, where Dory was born and raised. We will get to meet new characters, like an octopus, sea lions, a beluga whale, among others," said Pixar President Jim Morris.

Andrew Stanton, the director of the original Pixar masterpiece, will be back directing "Finding Dory" alongside with Lindsey Collins as the producer. Ellen DeGeneres is back to voice her role as Dory. Diane Keaton and Eugene Levy are set to voice Dory's Mother and Father. Ty Burrell, Willem Dafoe, Vicki Lewis, Idris Elba and Dominic West are also included in the cast members. Albert Brooks reprises his role as Marlin, a clownfish who is Nemo's dad. Ed O'Neill is playing an ill-tempered old octopus named Hank. Also Hayden Rolence replaces Alexander Gould as the voice of Nemo, due to Gould deeper voice as he's grown up since the release of the first film.

"Finding Nemo" is still one of our favorite Pixar's animated film. It won the 2003 Academy Award for best-animated feature. It was nominated for best original screenplay, original score, and sound editing. For the Golden Globe Award, the film was also nominated for best motion picture-comedy or musical. The review website Rotten Tomatoes reported a 99% approval rating, with a rating score of 8.7/10 based on 253 reviews. Finding Nemo remained the highest grossing G-rated movie of all time, earning a total of $936 million worldwide before "Toy Story 3" overtook it. It's the 31th highest grossing film of all time and 5th for animated film worldwide. In Facebook, it has more than 19 million likes. Furthermore, Dory is the most loved individual character from a Disney with more than 25 million likes. At first the movie was initially set at an aquarium theme park. Later Pixar decided to change the setting to a Marine Biology Institute. Some of the movies are also set on the California coastline to have new characters presenting to the fans.

Andrew Stanton has also revealed many inspirations of making "Find Nemo." Many ideas came from different experiences. Back then when he was a child, he loved to see the fish tank when he went to the dentist, assuming that the fish were from the ocean and wanted to go home. Another one was in 1992, after his son was born, his family and he went to Marine World (later called Six Flags Discovery Kingdom). He felt that all the underwater exhibitions could be beautifully done in computer animation. In 1997, he took his son for a walk in the park but then realized that he was over protecting him, so they lost an opportunity to have a father-son experience just like the relationship between Marlin and Nemo.