Jared Leto has promised to shave off his beard if the new album by his band Thirty Seconds to Mars becomes a chartbuster in the US.
The 46-year-old actor and his music group are set to release their new LP, 'America', later this week.
Leto took to Instagram where he shared his old picture with a stubble and wrote, "So should I shave this beard or what? NUMBER ONE ALBUM AND I'LL CHOP!!! (sic)''
The "Suicide Squad" star previously said that the band's new record could be their ''last album'' for a while.

Jared Leto pledges to shave off beard if new LP tops charts

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Veteran actor Mark Hamill said he was ''surprised'' when "Star Wars: The Last Jedi" was panned by both fans and critics.
The 66-year-old actor, who reprised his role as Jedi Master Luke Skywalker in the eighth installment of the hit sci-fi franchise, said he understood the mixed reaction of the audiences as they are "so invested" in the characters.
''And I love that about (it). I was surprised that there was some backlash to it, but I get it, because I'm a fan too. It's hard not to feel a sense of ownership, because they're so invested in (the characters). I totally get that. Because yeah, I feel a sense of ownership with Luke, but he's really not mine. I'm the host body, but it doesn't belong to me.
"The investment I totally get, because yeah, when I'm making the film there's nothing more important. I question everything, I want it to be the best it can be. But once it's finished, it doesn't belong to me anymore, it belongs to the public. I'm more interested in what they think about .

Mark Hamill was surprised at 'The Last Jedi' backlash

Jay-Z has a lot of good things to say about fellow rappers Snoop Dogg and Eminem.
While he complimented Snoop Dogg for his "great voice", the rapper heaped praises on Eminem for having "amazing cadence" when he appeared on David Letterman's new show, "My Next Guest Needs No Introduction".
"You can have a great voice, and you can just almost say anything. He (Snoop Dogg) can say, 'One, two, three and to the four.' It's like, 'Oh, my God.' It just sounds good, right?"
"Or, you can be someone like Eminem, just have amazing cadence, almost like the syncopation," he added doing an impression.
"You almost become this percussion inside the music. There's multiple ways to be really good. Some people just have it all," Jay-Z can be seen saying in the trailer of the Netflix show, according to US Today.
Last year, Eminem had said he was impressed how "Empire State of Mind" hitmaker has managed to ''stay relevant'' over the years without compromising on his originality.

Jay-Z praises Snoop Dogg, Eminem on Letterman's show

Producer JD Majethia, who is coming back with his hit show "Khichdi", says it is difficult to make sequels but the team has worked hard to tickle the funny bone of the audience once again.
One of the most popular shows of Indian television, "Khichdi" will go on air from April 14 on Star Plus.
The news comes after Majethia brought back his another cult show "Sarabhai Vs Sarabhai", on streaming service Hotstar last year.
"Sequels are not easy as they have already set the benchmark. Both Aatish Kapadia (director) and I took a call that if we are bringing "Sarabhai..." and "Khichdi" again, we will have to work hard a lot on the script.
"Initially when the promo of "Khichdi" was out, there was nervousness. Once we got a positive response from the audience, the nervousness went away," Majethia told reporters here at the press conference.
"Khichdi" follows the story of the Parekhs, a middle-class Gujarati family that lives in an old mansion.
A bunch of cameo appearances by actors such as ...

Sequels not easy as shows have already set benchmark: JD Majethia on 'Khichdi 3'

Veteran actor Shabana Azmi today said she is following in the footsteps of legendary poet her father Kaifi Azmi by providing employment opportunities to people from small towns and villages.
The 67-year-old actor said, who runs Mijwan Welfare Society (MWS), said through the NGO, which was founded by her father, they concentrate on rural areas to bring about holistic economic development in the country.
"My father believed that India's remarkable economic progress can only be meaningful if it reaches rural India, where 80 per cent of the population lives, but is denied access to opportunity.
"His prophetic words have become my mantra in the work that I do with the weak and the dispossessed. When Kaifi saheb embarked on the journey alone, Mijwan (a village in Uttar Pradesh) did not even figure on the map of India. Today, Mijwan is known all over the world," Azmi said in a statement here.
PVR has joined hands with the NGO and would screen a 60-second-long video which narrates the ...

My father's words have become my mantra in work I do: Shabana Azmi

Linkin Park fans have a chance to collect around 200 pieces of gear used by the music group throughout its 17-year-long career.
A portion of the sales will be donated to Music for Relief, an Entertainment Industry Foundation (EIF) programme founded by the band in the wake of the 2004 Indian Ocean tsunami, Spin magazine reported.
The items to go under the gavel include the keytar featured in the "What I've Done" video to a theremin used by Mike Shinoda.
Other key pieces of equipment include the Amplivox S602M Megaphone LP's lead guitarist Brad Delson used on tour in 2011 and a sticker-covered road case.
Techno Empire's Reverb.com store will start selling the gear from tomorrow onwards.
"Throughout the last 13 years, Linkin Park fans have been incredibly generous supporters of Music for Relief, truly enabling our mission to help survivors and communities in the wake of natural disasters," Whitney Showler, EIF VP of operations, said in a statement.

Nearly 200 pieces of Linkin Park's gear to be sold for charity

Eminent veteran film and theatre director Vijaya Mehta will be honoured with the Lifetime Achievement Award at the upcoming Mahindra Excellence in Theatre Awards (META) Festival, for her contribution towards the current film and theatre scenario.
Mehta, who founded the theatre group Rangayan with famous playwright Vijay Tendulkar and actors Arvind Deshpande and Shreeram Lagoo, is known for introducing Bertold Brecht and Eugene Ionesco into Marathi theatre.
"Her decision to step out of the normal scope of theatre made her a leading figure in the experimental theatre of the 60s," Jay Shah, Cultural Outreach, Mahindra & Mahindra Ltd, said at the annual event announcing the 13th edition of the META awards.
Mehta's style of creating something "out of the ordinary" contributed a lot to the current film and theatre scenario, he added.
Previous recipients of the award include Zohra Sehgal, Badal Sarkar, Khaled Chowdhary, Ebrahim Alkazi, Girish Karnard, Heisnam Kanhailal, Ratan Thiyam and ...

META lifetime achievement award for veteran director Vijaya Mehta

Hollywood action star Dwayne Johnson, who recently opened up about his secret battle with depression, has encouraged people, especially men, to share their experiences.
The 45-year-old star said men have a predisposition to keep their feelings bottled up due to the fear of shame in the society, which is not healthy.
"Got tons of responses to this. Thank you. We all go through the sludge/sh*t and depression never discriminates. Took me a long time to realize it but the key is to not be afraid to open up.
"Especially us dudes have a tendency to keep it in. You're not alone," Johnson tweeted alongside the link to his interview in which he first talked about depression.
"Jumanji: Welcome to the Jungle" actor said he first went through a bout of depression at the age of 15, when he saw his mother trying to commit suicide, months after they were evicted from their apartment.

Dwayne Johnson urges men to speak up about depression

The Bombay High Court today declined to grant any interim relief to Bollywood actors Ranveer Singh and Arjun Kapoor over an FIR filed against them and other film personalities for using "obscene" and "abusive" language during a comedy event 'AIB Knockout' in 2015.
A bench of Justices R M Savant and Sarang Kotwal directed the actors' lawyer to seek the assent of the Acting Chief Justice V K Tahilramani's court for the matter to be heard along with two other related pleas.
One of these two pleas were filed by comedian Rohan Joshi of AIB, a comedy collective, seeking that a related FIR against him be quashed.
The other plea is a Public Interest Litigation (PIL) filed by a law teacher from the city.
The PIL seeksaction against the organisers and participants of the show, and also urges the HC to direct the state authorities to issue guidelines to monitor such programmes on YouTube and similar video networks.
The actors, meanwhile, urged the court to direct, by way of an interim relief, ...

AIB Knockout: HC refuses interim relief to Ranveer, Arjun

Blumhouse Production's supernatural-thriller "Truth or Dare" is set to release in India on April 20.
Universal Pictures India is releasing the film in the country.
Directed by Jeff Wadlow ("Kick-Ass 2"), "Truth or Dare" features actor Lucy Hale of "Pretty Little Liars" fame and Tyler Posey of "Teen Wolf".
The film revolves around a group of friends who decide to play the game of truth or dare. Little did they know that this harmless game was about to turn deadly when someoneor rather something a supernatural entity begins to possess each member of the group and punishes them for lying or turning down the dare.
The movie also features Violett Beane, Hayden Szeto, Landon Liboiron, Sophia Taylor Ali and Nolan Gerard Funk.

'Truth or Dare' to release in India on April 20

Rupert Murdoch's 21st Century Fox today proposed selling rolling TV channel Sky News to Disney in order to finally seal control of pan-European satellite broadcaster Sky.
Fox -- which for a long time has sought to buy the 61 percent of British pay TV giant Sky that it does not already own -- has also offered to ring-fence the 24-hour news channel instead, it said in a statement, as it looks to allay concerns over Murdoch's increasing media influence.
Britain's Competition and Markets Authority (CMA) regulator provisionally ruled earlier this year that Murdoch's planned takeover was not in the public interest and that a deal would hand him too much power in swaying public opinion.
"We believe that the enhanced firewall remedies we proposed to safeguard the editorial independence of Sky News addressed comprehensively and constructively the CMA's provisional concerns," Fox said in a statement on Tuesday.
New York-listed entertainment titan Fox has already bid 11.4 billion pound for the ..

Fox says Disney may buy Sky News in fresh takeover twist

Supermodel Tyra Banks has revealed that she underwent a nose job when she was a young model due to "cosmetic slash medical" reasons.
The "America's Next Top Model" host recalled to Today's Hoda Kotb that she had unknowingly broken her nose when she was three.
Banks said her aunt had noticed the deformity, but as the model did not have any breathing issues at the time, she did not consult a doctor.
"Cut to years later, I'm constantly scratching my nose and it was kind of growing sideways," she added.
She further said that while she was working on the ramp, a make-up artiste told her that her nose felt strange, which made Banks seek a medical opinion.
She finally decided to fix her nose with surgery.
"So it was cosmetic slash medical," Banks added.
The mogul first revealed about her plastic surgery in her new book co-written with her mother Carolyn London, "Perfect Is Boring".

Tyra Banks opens up about her secret nose job

John Abraham's "Parmanu The Story of Pokhran" is set to release on May 4.
Directed by Abhishek Sharma, the film also features Diana Penty and Boman Irani and is produced by John's production house, JA Entertainment.
"Much in line with India's journey to becoming a nuclear power, our film's journey to its release has also had its own ups and downs. However, it is perhaps a befitting tribute to the true heroes of our nuclear program- our army and our scientists, that Parmanu is  releasing in the same month as we are celebrate 20 years of Operation Shakti- India's nuclear test explosions in Pokhran in May 1998.
"We are extremely proud of the film and what it stands for and can't wait to take it to our audience on 4th May, 2018," JA Entertainment's spokesperson said in a statement.
The release date comes after the news of a fallout between John's JA Entertainment and co-producers KriArj Entertainment.

'Parmanu The Story of Pokhran' to release on May 4

Actor Millie Bobby Brown, the breakout "Stranger Things" star, is getting a huge pay raise for the show's third season.
Millie's initial contract with streaming giant Netflix called for her to make USD 250,000 per episode in season three. But according to TMZ, her salary would now be as high as USD 350,000 per episode, which would put her on par with Stranger Things' adult stars, Winona Ryder and David Harbour.
Netflix has segregated the cast into three tiers. Adult actors Winona Ryder and David Harbour have been placed in the Tier A and both of them will be making USD 350,000 per episode.
The group of the young actors -- Finn Wolfhard, Gaten Matarazzo, Caleb McLaughlin, and Noah Schnapp -- have been placed in the Tier B and will get USD 250,000 per episode.
The Tier C consists of teenage actors Natalia Dyer, Charlie Heaton and Joe Keery, and they will be pocketing a sum of USD 150,000 per episode.
Millie was missing from all the three tiers when the makers announced the pay hike for .

Millie Bobby Brown gets huge raise for 'Stranger Things 3'

Actor Lara Pulver revealed she almost reunited with her "Sherlock" co-star Benedict Cumberbatch in "Patrick Melrose".
The 37-year-old actor, who played Irene Adler in the BBC One series, said director of the forthcoming series had approached her about the possibility to play Cumberbatch's wife in the new show.
Things, however, did not come to fruition as both of them agreed that the established chemistry between the actors would have interfered with the new project's plot line.
"Well, the director of Ben's 'Patrick Melrose' project did call to ask about me playing his wife, but we both decided it wouldn't work. When you've already been seen in a relationship together on such a large scale..." she told The Telegraph.
Cumberbatch plays an aristocratic philanderer struggling with substance abuse in the Sky Atlantic series.
Pulver also wrote off the possibility of her comeback on "Sherlock".
"She's not in any more of the books, and how could you top that episode (where Irene greets ...

Pulver almost reunited with Cumberbatch in 'Patrick Melrose'

The Punjabi remake of "Singham" is all set to be released next year, with Parmish Verma in the lead.
Actor Ajay Devgn, who starred in the Hindi version of the 2010 Tamil film "Singam" featuring Suriya, announced the news on Twitter on his 49th birthday.
"Punjab da sher (Tiger of Punjab)," wrote the actor and tagged Parmish, and producers of the film Kumar Mangat Pathak and Abhishek Pathak.
Ajay, who is presenting the movie, also shared the poster.
Parmish also took to social media to thank the actor for the opportunity.
"Dreams Do Come true, Thank you @ajaydevgn sir, it's an honour, and a Very Very Happy Birthday. #Blessed, (sic)" he tweeted.

'Singham' Punjabi remake to release next year

Abhay Deol was determined to create his own identity when he made his debut over a decade ago but coming from a film family, the actor says he was conflicted about fame.
Abhay says people initially expected him to follow in on the footsteps of his uncle Dharmendra and cousin Sunny Deol but he chose alternative cinema over commercial projects to assert his individuality.
"I feel my advantage of coming from a film family is -- having seen fame up close, having seen the industry so close and how it works, I was not enamoured by fame.
"I wasn't looking to be a star, I just happened to love acting, I was a reluctant actor. So I was like how do I manage this without taking in the frenzy of becoming a star," Abhay told PTI in an interview.
Abhay, who made his debut with Imtiaz Ali's "Socha Na Tha", says he remained doubtful about fame even when it came knocking at his door.
The 42-year-old actor says he "ran away" when "Dev D", directed by Anurag Kashyap, became a cult hit as he felt its ...

I was a reluctant actor: Abhay Deol

Ranveer Singh, who recently suffered a shoulder injury, today said that he was on the path to recovery and is concentrating on coming back "stronger".
The 32-year-old actor took to Twitter to thank fans for their wishes and revealed that he sustained a "labral tear" in his left shoulder during a football match.
"Thank you for the good wishes everyone. I'm good. It's just a labral tear in my left shoulder. I intend to come back stronger... Love you all," Ranveer wrote.
A spokesperson for the "Padmaavat" star yesterday said in a statement that he would not perform at this year's IPL opening ceremony as doctors had strictly advised him against overstraining his shoulder.
Ranveer, however, will continue shooting for his next "Gully Boy".
"Ranveer will continue to shoot for 'Gully Boy' as per its shooting schedule which is not physically strenuous since only performance-based talkie scenes are left to be shot," the statement had added.
The actor is also working in Rohit Shetty's cop film ..

I intend to come back stronger: Ranveer Singh on injury

Megastar Amitabh Bachchan recorded a song for his upcoming film "102 Not Out" despite "medical procedures".
The 75-year-old actor took to Twitter and his official blog to share the pictures from the recording studio.
"The world of music knows no boundaries and no rest. Despite late hours and medical procedures. 102NotOut  there is an additional song now. I mean, how can production push a non-singer to these limits.... BAADDUUMMBAAAA," Bachchan tweeted.
On his blog the actor said music for him is "the essence of life".
"Music... the softness of life, the luminosity in the dark caverns, the quintessence and embodiment epitomising 'that strain again ..', pulling at imagined threads that intertwine every pore," he wrote.
Billed as the most unusual father-son story, "102 Not Out" is based on playwright Saumya Joshi's popular Gujarati play of the same name.
Umesh Shukla has helmed the project, which also stars Rishi Kapoor.
The film features Bachchan as a 102-year-old man and Kapoor will ...

Big B records song of '102 Not Out' despite 'medical procedures'

Country singer Jessie James Decker and husband Eric Decker welcomed their third child together on Saturday, March 31.
The singer made the announcement on Instagram.
"Forrest Bradley Decker born March 31st weighing 9lbs. We are so in love she captioned a photo with her newborn.
Jessie and the NFL star announced they were expecting third baby in October.  Later that month, she revealed they were expecting a son.
Forrest joins older siblings Vivianne, four, and Eric Jr (aka "Bubby"), two.

Jessie James and Eric Decker welcome third child

Veteran action star Arnold Schwarzenegger has announced he is "back" after open-heart surgery.
The 70-year-old former governor of California took to Twitter to inform his fans about his health.
"It's true: I'm back! I went to sleep expecting to wake up with a small incision and woke up with a big one - but guess what? I woke up, and that's something to be thankful for. Thank you to the doctors and nurses. And I'm truly filled with gratitude for all of the kind messages," Schwarzenegger tweeted.
His spokesperson, Daniel Ketchell, said on Twitter on Friday that Schwarzenegger "underwent a planned procedure to replace a pulmonic valve that was originally replaced due to a congenital heart defect in 1997."
He said Schwarzenegger's pulmonic valve was "successfully replaced" and that the star "is currently recovering from the surgery and is in stable condition".
The spokesperson also said that "steroids have nothing to do with this."
Schwarzenegger, a former Mr Universe and Mr Olympia, had .

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