'The Giver' actress Odeya Rush has been cast in 'Hunter's Prayer'.
	The 17-year-old Israeli-American actress will star in director Jonathan Mostow's action thriller alongside Sam Worthington, reported Deadline.
	Rush will play Ella, a young woman who teams up with an assassin (Worthington) hired to kill her family to discover who wants them dead.
	The UK-US co-production was formerly titled For the Dogs.
	Hailee Steinfeld and Emma Roberts were previously attached to the project.
	Rush also featured in 'The Odd Life of Timothy Green' and 'We Are What We Are'.
	She will play the daughter of Jack Black's RL Stine in 2015's 'Goosebumps' film.
	'Hunter's Prayer' will begin shooting in the UK in November.

Odeya Rush joins cats of 'Hunter's Prayer'

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A new teaser poster for 'Jurassic World', the fourth installment in the 'Jurassic Park' film series, has been unveiled.
	The iconic Jurassic Park logo is seen in grey, along with the tagline: "The park is open", reported Deadline.
	Colin Trevorrow's follow-up to the original trilogy will star Chris Pratt, Bryce Dallas Howard, Ty Simpkins, Jake Johnson and Indian actor Irrfan Khan.
	It was recently confirmed that the movie will return to the island from the original films, and will take place 22 years after 1993's 'Jurassic Park'.
	Nick Robinson, Vincent D'Onofrio, BD Wong, Omar Sy, Judy Greer, Katie McGrath, Lauren Lapkus and Andy Buckley will also star in the .
	'Jurassic World' will open in cinemas on June 12, 2015.

'Jurassic World' posted released

New York Comic Con has become the largest comics convention in North America.
	The event attracted numbers in excess of San Diego's Comic-Con International, which has traditionally been the biggest event of its kind, reported Digital Spy.
	ReedPOP sold tickets for NYCC to 151,000 unique individuals for the previous weekend's convention.
	San Diego's numbers have been capped at 130,000 for some years due to limits to its convention space.
	A proposed expansion of the local convention centre has been refused. The event organisers have allegedly been considering moving Comic-Con International to another city.
	NYCC saw a string of announcements, including numerous from Dark Horse and Marvel Comics.

New York Comic Con officially bigger than San Diego

Alternative rock band The Manic Street Preachers and musician Gruff Rhys have been nominated for this year's Welsh Music Prize.
	Both acts' latest albums are up for the award, alongside others including Future Of The Left and Cate Le Bon, reported Digital Spy.
	The judges for this year's awards are Helen Weatherhead (BBC 6Music), Sian Rowe (XL) Folu Babatola (Red Bull), Owain Schiavone (Y Selar), Teleri Glyn Jones (Juxtaposed), Laura Snapes (NME), Ben Lovett (from Mumford & Sons), producer David Wrench and Xenomania's David Wrench.
	Previous winners include Gruff Rhys and Future Of The Left. The awards were launched by Radio 1's Huw Stephens in 2001.

Manic Street Preachers nominated for Welsh Music Prize

Award-winning US stage and screen actor Neil Patrick Harris will host the next Oscars show, organizers announced.
	The star, who has hosted both Broadway's Tony and TV's Emmy awards shows in the past, will front the 87th Academy Awards on February 22, the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences said yesterday.
	The high-profile hosting job is a prime gig in Hollywood, at the climax of its annual awards season. Harris will follow Ellen DeGeneres last year and a who's who of showbiz over the decades.
	"It is truly an honor and a thrill to be asked to host this year's Academy Awards," said the star of 2005's "How I Met Your Mother," in an Academy statement.
	"I grew up watching the Oscars and was always in such awe of some of the greats who hosted the show," added Harris, whose latest film "Gone Girl" came out this month in the United States.
	He added: "To be asked to follow in the footsteps of Johnny Carson, Billy Crystal, Ellen DeGeneres and everyone else who had the great fortune 

Neil Patrick Harris to host 2015 Oscars

Harry Potter author JK Rowling is working on three new wizard-based movies to be released starting in 2016, studio giant Warner Bros announced Wednesday.
	The first, "Fantastic Beasts and Where to Find Them," will be directed by David Yates, who directed the last four "Harry Potter" movies, and reunite the same filmmaking team.
	It is described as "set in an extension of her familiar wizarding world, featuring magical creatures and characters inspired by Harry Potter's Hogwarts textbook and its fictitious author."
	A second movie is set for release in 2018 and a third in 2020, the studio said. The first movie was announced last month.
	Rowling, who has sold more than 450 million copies of the Harry Potter books, announced in September that Warner Bros had approached her about doing "Fantastic Beasts."
	"I thought it was a fun idea, but the idea of seeing Newt Scamander, the supposed author of 'Fantastic Beasts,' realized by another writer was difficult.
	"Having lived for so long in ..

Three new JK Rowling wizard movies due from 2016

Tamil film actors Surya, Karthi, Vishal and a Tamil Nadu based movie production house today announced their contributions for cyclone Hudhud relief efforts, putting together Rs 50 lakh.
     While Surya contributed Rs 25 lakh, his actor brother Karthi gave Rs 12.50 lakh and actor Vishal pitched in with Rs 15 lakh. Gnanavel Raja of Studio Green announced Rs 12.50 lakh, a publicist for the actors and the production house said.
     All the actors and the production house are popular in neighbouring Andhra Pradesh as well.
    The Tamil Nadu government has already announced an aid of Rs five crore.
    The state government has also supplied electrical equipment to AP and dispatched a team of highway officials to clear uprooted trees in that state.

Tamil film stars pitch in for cyclone relief

As Maharashtra went to polls today, several Bollywood celebrities like Amitabh Bachchan, Shah Rukh Khan, Salman Khan made an appeal to the people of the state and the city of Mumbai to exercise their rights and vote for change.
	Explaining the meaning of the word 'vote', megastar Amitabh Bachchan tweeted, "Vote comes from the Latin word Votum, which translates as vow, wish, promise, or dedication. Go Vote."
	Superstar Shah Rukh Khan, who is awaiting the release of his next film 'Happy New Year' said, "If you want your voice to be heard, if you want to be heard, if you want your city, your state, your country the way it should be... I think everybody should come out and vote."
	Salman Khan's voting appeal to his fans was very quirky as he asked them to chose their leader the same way they select their girlfriends.
	"Just like you choose your girlfriend, your friends similarly you should choose your leaders... Go Vote," the 'Dabangg' star said.
	Actor Abhishek Bachchan urged people to ..

Go out and vote: B-Town urges Mumbaikars

Several renowned composers, lyricists and singers came together for a special cultural show here today for patients and hospital staff.
	Veteran music composer M K Arjunan inaugurated the Arts and Medicine programme organised by the Kochi Biennale Foundation at the Government General Hospital here.
	The popular event held every Wednesday with support of the Mehboob Memorial Orchestra and the district administration saw Arjunan, also known as Arjunan Master, sharing his first-hand experience about the healing quality of music.
	"I know that musicians have done research on the benefits of music in medicine. When I underwent surgery a couple of years back, music was playing in the backdrop," said the 78-year-old composer, who began his film career in 1968 with 'Karutha Pournami'.
	The event also saw an hour-long performance by playback singer Sadiq.
	"It is wonderful that the Kochi Biennale Foundation is popularising this programme. I hope that every district hospital can emulate this ...

Musicians perform for hospital patients

Indian cricket icon Sachin Tendulkar and Bollywood actors Shah Rukh Khan and Salman Khan were among the celebrities who exercised their franchise today and urged the electorate to step out and cast their vote.
	Appealing to people to exercise their franchise, Tendulkar told reporters after casting his vote, "Every citizen must vote. Your opinion matters. I urge all to vote. It is really important for our nation."
	Superstar Shah Rukh Khan said the citizens should vote if they want the city, state and country the way it should be.
	"Everybody should come and vote. I am not the one to pass a judgement why people come out and do not come out to vote. People may have good enough reasons for not voting, although I personally feel that there is no good enough reason for not voting," said Khan, flashing his finger with inked vote mark.
	'Dabangg' star Salman Khan urged people to elect their leader by voting today. "Choose your leader who works for you in the constituency, in the city and in .

Sachin, SRK, Salman cast vote along with other celebs

Joan Fontaine's best actress Oscar trophy that she won for her role in Alfred Hitchcock's 1941 movie 'Suspicion' is slated to go under the hammer later this year.
	Fontaine, who died last year at the age of 96, became the only actress to ever win an Oscar for a Hitchcock movie. She was also nominated for best actress for her role in another Hitchcock movie 'Rebecca'.
	The sale of Oscar statuette is very rare because starting from 1950, the Academy has barred the winners, their estates or heirs from selling the trophy before first offering it to the Academy for USD 1.
	The Oscar trophy is estimated to fetch between USD 200,000 and USD 300,000, reported Ace Showbiz.
	Apart from the Oscar trophy, other memorabilia such as Fontaine's paintings, furniture and jewellery will also get auctioned by Christie's.
	Among the items, Russian artist Marc Chagall's painting 'Vase of Flowers in the Window' will be sold in an auction in New York on November 6. It is expected to bring USD 400,000-USD ...

Joan Fontaine's Oscar trophy to be auctioned

Director Ritesh Batra, whose 'The Lunchbox' lost out to 'The Good Road' as India's foreign language Oscar entry last year, says the method for selecting entries for the Academy award in India is flawed.
	Last year, Gyan Correa's 'The Good Road' was picked over 'The Lunchbox'. The director along with producers Anurag Kashyap and Karan Johar had publicly criticised the decision.
	While wishing luck to this year's selection Geetu Mohandas' 'Liar's Dice', the director said he wants to see a change in the selection process.
	"I don't think we have a good process in place to select a film for Oscars. We need to send deserving films and stories to the world because today we have our own style of filmmaking, we have our own culture and we are not aping others when it comes to making films.
	"Oscar is a great platform for our movies to travel as it can open new doors for our filmmakers. So things need to be changed in the way we choose a film," Batra told PTI in an interview.
	The filmmaker ...

Process for choosing films for Oscar not good: Ritesh Batra

The Bombay High Court has rejected a petition filed by actor Om Puri challenging a family court order asking him to pay a monthly maintenance of Rs 2.90 lakh to his wife Nandita and minor son.
	The family court has asked the actor to pay interim monthly maintenance of Rs 1.25 lakh to his wife and Rs 50,000 to his child. In addition, the court had asked him to pay Rs 1.15 lakh per month towards medical and education expenses of his son which he had voluntarily agreed to give.
     Puri contended that the family court order was not fair as the maintenance ordered to be paid did not commensurate with his income.
     Justice M S Sonak, hearing Puri's petition yesterday, disagreed with the actor saying the family court order was reasonable and had been passed while taking into consideration all the aspects, including monthly income of the petitioner.
     The court referred to Puri's income tax returns for the relevant period 2009 to 2012, which stated annual income in the range of Rs ...

HC rejects Om Puri's petition challenging maintenance to wife

Arjun Kapoor, who revealed the first look of his upcoming film 'Tevar' on Twitter, feels it is important to promote a movie on social-networking sites.
	'Tevar', the remake of Telugu blockbuster 'Okkadu', is produced by Arjun's father Boney Kapoor and uncle Sanjay Kapoor. The Amit Sharma-directed film will hit theatres on January 9, 2015.
	"This is the first time that I have launched the poster of my film on Twitter. Promoting the film on digital platform is an emerging trend and it's important too. It gives you a scope to interact with your fans and get feedbacks instantly. My only motive to launch the motion poster online was to be in touch with my fans," Arjun said.
	The actor has received a positive feedback from his celebrity friends and fans, who are liking the 29-year-old actor's rugged look in the film.
	Arjun is also planning to hold a contest with his more than three lakh admirers on the micro-blogging site before releasing the trailer. Through the contest, the lucky ones ...

Promoting a film on digital medium is necessary: Arjun Kapoor

Having a globally recognised father may not be very easy for kids to deal with but Bollywood superstar Shah Rukh Khan says his stardom has never had a negative impact on his children.
	The 48-year-old actor, who has three children -- Aryan, Suhana and AbRam-- said in the beginning they were conscious of having a star father but their upbringing has been such that they don't care about his fame so much.
	"We have never subjected our kids to the stardom. When they were born I was already a movie star. What has been clearly told or understood by them is that I work very hard.
	"Initially, yes when I used to go to school they felt awkward because everybody was referred to as Ramesh's father or Geeta's father - but I was called Shah Rukh Khan. My daughter used to be a little taken aback. But no they are not embarrassed of me," Shah Rukh said.
	The actor said that he neither forces his children to watch his films nor do they have any idea about how much money his movies make after its ...

My kids don't keep a tab on my career: Shah Rukh Khan

Isaiah 'Ikey' Owens, best known as the keyboardist for Jack White, was found dead in his hotel room. He was 38.
	The musician was found dead in Mexico, where he was on tour with White's band, reported Us magazine.
	White's record label Third Man Records said, "It is with great sadness that we tell the world of the passing of the incredible musician Isaiah 'Ikey' Owens. He will be missed and loved forever by his family, friends, bandmates and fans.
	"Ikey Owens was an astounding keyboard player in Jack White's backing band. He also played with Mars Volta, Free Moral Agents, and many other projects.
	"Out of respect for Ikey, the remaining shows of the Jack White Tour in Mexico have been cancelled. We will all miss you Ikey. You were and are an incredible artist."
	The cause of Owens's death is currently unknown.

Jack White's keyboardist Isaiah 'Ikey' Owens dies

Singer Demi Lovato got 'engaged' to a 5-year-old boy called Grant at her concert in Illinois.
	The 22-year-old 'Really Don't Care' singer invited the young fan up on stage to propose to her, after noticing his poster, which read: "I have a ring for you," reported People magazine.
	Grant got down on one knee and proposed to Lovato.
	"You are the cutest little boy ever!" she said. "Where's that ring? Because I think if you're up here we should make it official."
	After getting his parents to pass the ring to the stage, Lovato continued, "Before you do it, do you know how to propose to somebody? Can you get down on one knee with me? Now will you ask me, 'Demi, will you marry me?'"
	Lovato has been in an on-off relationship with Wilmer Valderrama since 2010.
	She recently revealed that she is currently working on her fifth studio album.

Demi Lovato gets engaged to 5-year-old boy at concert

'Kill Bill' star Uma Thurman is being sued by former fiance Arpad Busson over custody of their two-year-old daughter Luna.
	Arpad filed a lawsuit in Manhattan Superem Court against Thurman, reported New York Daily News.
	Thurman and Arpad got engaged in 2008 after dating for about a year. They ended their engagement twice, in 2009 and most recently in April. Luna, whose full name is Rosalind Arusha Arkadina Altalune Florence Thurman-Busson, was born in July 2012.
	The actress has two other children -- Maya and Levon -- from her marriage to Ethan Hawke with whom she split in 2003, getting a divorce two years later.

Ex-fiance sues Uma Thurman over custody of daughter

Dubai-based singer-actor Ali Quli Mirza, the first wild card entrant of 'Bigg Boss 8', says the reality show is the perfect platform for him to promote his upcoming film 'Roar'.
	Ali will be making his Bollywood debut with the Kamal Sadanah-directed thriller, which will release on October 31.
	The actor said another major reason for him to join the TV show was its host Salman Khan, who had launched the trailer of 'Roar' earlier.
	"'Bigg Boss is the biggest platform for any actor, singer or performer. My film is releasing later this month. So, what better place to promote my film other than 'Bigg Boss'? Last season Elli Avram promoted her film 'Mickey Virus' from the house. So, that is one reason to be part of the show. Another reason is of course Salman Khan.
	"I consider him one of the biggest icons present today. He is so supportive of newcomers. He also launched the trailer of my film. To be a part of the show he hosts is a dream come true," Ali told PTI before entering the 'Bigg ..

'Bigg Boss' perfect platform to promote my film 'Roar': Ali

British director Peter Webber, best known for his Scarlett Johansson-Colin Firth starrer feature debut 'Girl with a Pearl Earring', says he would love to make a cross-cultural film with Bollywood megastar Amitabh Bachchan.
	"I would love to work to with Amitabh Bachchan. Who would not? He is a living legend. He is amazing and I would like to make a movie with him, which has elements of both India and England, basically a cross-cultural film. That would be interesting," Webber told PTI in an interview.
	The director is in India to judge the International Competition section at the ongoing Mumbai Film Festival with filmmakers Mahamat Saleh Haroun, Ritesh Batra and Ron Mann.
	Webber said Bachchan and other Bollywood stars like Shah Rukh Khan enjoy huge popularity in England.
	"There is a big Indian community in England, so we all know about Bollywood actors and they are really famous."
	Webber is looking forward to watching some Bollywood films as he is not well acquainted with ...

I would love to direct Amitabh Bachchan: Peter Webber

Noel Gallagher will not write an autobiography because it would be a "load of homework".
	The former Oasis star has revealed he has turned down offers to put his life story into words because he doesn't have the inclination to put the events of his life on paper, reported Contactmusic.
	"I've been offered to do it a couple of times, but I read autobiographies and think, 'That is like a proper load of homework'. And it is, it's a lot of homework. I struggle to write the words for a song, never mind my life story... I would just think, 'I don't mean any of that'," he said.
	However, Gallagher, 47, admits he would be tempted to put pen to paper if he really needed the money.
	"I guess if I've ever got literally no money left and nothing better to do I'd probably consider it. I would do it for 750,000 pounds. But I struggle sending texts, you know what I mean?," he said.

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