Saif Ali Khan to romance Ileana D’Cruz in his next

Saif Ali Khan has established himself as the lover boy on big screen with films like Love Aaj Kal and Cocktail. His film Go Goa Gone doesn’t star him along with a heroine, but the actor’s next, a romantic film, will have a girl whom he has never romanced on big screen.

As the filmmakers nowadays want to cast a fresh jodi for the novelty factor, Saif Ali Khan and directors Raj Nidimoru and Krishna DK were looking for a young pretty actress for their collaboration, which is a romantic film. Now, the makers have reportedly zeroed in on Ileana D’Cruz — the Barfi! actress.From what we hear, the movie will be shot in the USA and Saif agreed to produce the film under his banner because he liked the idea of the romantic film. Afterwards, the hunt was on for the leading lady. “Everyone at the production house was of the opinion that they needed a fresh pair with Saif after Cocktail… One of the crewmembers suggested Ileana’s name,” a source tells a daily.

Saif Ali Khan has confirmed the presence of Ileana D’Cruz, but is not willing to reveal much about the project. May be after Bullet Raja, he will switch to this film.

Ileana D’Cruz seems to be on a roll these days. She has already bagged a plum project opposite Akshay Kumar, and now a film with Saif. She will also be seen in Rajkumar Santoshi’s film Phata Poster Nikla Hero where she is paired with Shahid Kapoor.

International Box Office: Iron Man 3 has record breaking debut

With the release of Iron Man 3 internationally, the summer movie season has officially begun, and what a start this was. The 3rd direct sequel to the Robert Downey Jr. action flick had the biggest opening of all time for Marvel, superheroes or comic book adaptations in general. Yes, it was higher than The Avengers.  Iron Man 3 opened with an incredible $198.4 million from 42 territories or about 79% of the total international market. Now let me put that number in perspective. Back in 2008 the original Iron Man left theaters with $266.8 million internationally and $585.2 million worldwide. Two years later Iron Man 2 improved on its predecessor with $311.5 million internationally and $623.9 million worldwide. Finally, a year ago The Avengers blew everyone away with a $185 million debut, ending up at $888.4 million internationally. Iron Man 3 beat all of the above, so what does that mean? Well it seems we have The Avengers‘s success to thank for this incredible performance. You see, instead of playing like a sequel to Iron Man 2, part 3 became more like an Avengers 2, thus we got such an enormous amount of money for a series that’s never come even close to these heights. Now don’t get me wrong, as good as all of this is, I can’t see Iron Man 3 finishing with more than $600-700 million internationally (and more than $1 billion worldwide), after all, this is not The Avengers 2, that’s coming in 2015. Phase 2 is really on for Marvel and I can’t wait to see what Thor: The Dark World can do in November, in this post-Avengers era for superhero films.,In 2nd place we got Chinese drama So Young, with a $22.7 million opening. According to Wikipedia, the film cost around $5 million to make so I guess it’s already very profitable over there.Oblivion (which I just saw a few hours ago) was down to 3rd with $13.5 million. So far the uneven (yet very much enjoyable) sci-fi starring Tom Cruise has $134.1 million internationally and $202.1 million worldwide. Made for $120 million, Oblivion will end up at around $300 million when all will be said and done.

The Croods moves to 4th (down from 3rd) at $13.2 million for an international total of $305.6 million. Now worldwide the DreamWorks Animation feature has amassed $469.5 million, $25.4 million shy of How to Train Your Dragon‘s total.

Rounding out the top 5 we have the Joes with $10.2 million. After a month in theaters, G.I. Joe: Retaliation grossed $232.7 million internationally and $349.7 million worldwide. So maybe moving this flick to a March release and converting it to 3D wasn’t such a bad idea after all.