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Been wanting to work with Prithviraj for 6 years: Isha Talwar
Actress Isha Talwar, who will soon be seen in Prithviraj Sukumaran-starrer Malayalam film "Ranam", says she had been wanting to work with the actor for six years, since the time she entered the film industry.
Ben Affleck takes down his body shamers
Actor Ben Affleck took to social media to take down a magazine, which body shamed him in an article titled "The Great Sadness of Ben Affleck".
I never make movies for the sake of technology: Spielberg
Three-time Academy Award winner Steven Spielberg says he doesnt make movies for the sake of technology but uses it to tell a "better story".
Amitabh honoured to work with Chiranjeevi
Megastar Amitabh Bachchan says he is honoured to work with superstar Chiranjeevi for "Sye Raa Narasimha Reddy".
Gender inequality behind microphone widening in male-dominated Bollywood
Singers like Shibani Kashyap and Mahalakshmi Iyer feel that although more women-oriented films are now being made in Bollywood, there has been a drop in the number of female solo songs. This, at a time when there is no dearth of women vocalists in the industry.
Amber Heard to star in 'Gully'
Actor Amber Heard has come aboard the cast of indie drama "Gully". The "Justice League" star joins Charlie Plummer, Alice Eve, Kelvin Harrison Jr, Jacob Latimore, and Jonathan Majors in the project. The film will be directed by Nabil Elderkin while the script has been penned by Marcus Guillory, according to The Hollywood Reporter. It follows three disaffected teenagers, all victims of childhood trauma, who are running a hedonistic riot. Heard will play the role of Plummer's mother in the film. The project will be produced by Brad Feinstein, Tom Butterfield, Ben Pugh, Corey Smyth and Alex Georgiou. Joseph F Ingrassia, Gabriela Revilla Lugo, Andy Brunskill and Kweku Mandela will serve as the executive producers. Heard, 31, will be next seen in "Aquaman", where she will reprise her "Justice League" role of Mera. The film will hit the theatres in December this year.
Final script draft of 'Bharat' locked, says director
Director Ali Abbas Zafar says the final script draft of the upcoming Salman Khan starrer has been locked.
'X-Men: Dark Phoenix' to go in for major reshoots
"X-Men: Dark Phoenix" will be going for some major reshoots as the release of the mutant action film has been pushed back to February 14, 2019. Directed by Simon Kinberg, X-Men franchise writer-producer, the movie was scheduled to be released on November 2 this year. Sources told The Hollywood Reporter the change in release date is responsible for the reshoots. The movie was in the postproduction stage and according to insiders it had come in slightly underbudget. Some sources, however, said that the third act would need some rework, hence the reshoots. "Dark Phoenix" is Kinberg's first directorial and rumour has it that he is yet to pen anything. But one insider expects the shoot to cost under USD 10 million. The reshoots are believed to take place in late summer or early fall.
Evan Rachel Wood, Gina Rodriguez join heist film from Miranda July
Actors Evan Rachel Wood, Richard Jenkins, Gina Rodriguez will star in a new heist film. To be directed by Miranda July, the film is about a woman named Old Dolio, whose life is turned upside down when her parents, amateur con artists, invite an outsider to join their biggest heist yet. The cast also includes Debra Winger, who will play the mother of Wood's character, Old Dolio. Jenkins will play her father, while Rodriguez is portraying a woman who learns of the family's secrets. The project will be produced by Annapurna and Brad Pitt's Plan B Entertainment while Youree Henley is the co-producer, reported Variety. July is best known in Hollywood for 2005's "You and Me and Everyone We Know", which she wrote, starred in and also directed. Wood is currently gearing up for the second season of her hit HBO show "Westworld", which will begin next month. Jenkins was recently nominated at the Academy Awards in the Best Supporting Actor category for his role in Guillermo del Toro's "The Shape .
Ben Affleck talks about his 'garish' back tattoo
Hollywood star Ben Affleck has responded to a recent New Yorker article which suggested that he was depressed and said he is "doing just fine". The New Yorker article, titled "The Great Sadness of Ben Affleck", had also talked about the 45-year-old actor's large back tattoo of a phoenix, which it called "garish." @NewYorker I'm doing just fine. Thick skin bolstered by garish tattoos, Affleck wrote on Twitter, making light of his bearded look. Affleck was recently seen flaunting the tattoo while training alongside his "Triple Frontier" co-stars, Charlie Hunnam, Garrett Hedlund and Oscar Isaac, in Hawaii. The massive tattoo, featuring a colourful phoenix spreading its wings, was first seen in December 2015, when Affleck was working on the set of "Live by Night". The star reportedly got the tattoo, which symbolises rebirth, after then-wife Jennifer Garner filed for divorce after 10 years of marriage. The pair share children Violet, 12, Seraphina, nine, and Samuel, six. Affleck, 45, had ..
Will announce actress of 'Baaghi 3' within a month: Sajid Nadiadwala
Producer Sajid Nadidawala has said that his team will finalise and announce the lead actress for "Baaghi 3" within a month.
Sean Penn chides #MeToo movement in new book
In his debut novel, Oscar-winning actor Sean Penn has criticised the #MeToo movement, which has highlighted sexual harassment and abuse around the world.In the epilogue of the fictional novel titled 'Bob Honey Who Just Do Stuff', Penn seemed to defend Louis C.K. and Charlie Rose, who faced allegations of sexual misconduct, reports E! Online."Where did all the laughs go? / Are you out there Louis C.K.? / Once crucial conversations / Kept us on our toes / Was it really in our interest / To trample Charlie Rose? / And what's with this 'Me Too'? / This infantilizing term of the day... / Is this a toddler's crusade? / Reducing rape, slut-shaming, and suffrage to reckless child's play?"The poem was quick to draw backlash on social media. One user tweeted, "I have a PhD in poetry and would like to say that Sean Penn's poem is terrible in form as well as content""while ya'll joke tweeting about crazy ol sean penn, don't forget his well-documented history of abuse & violent behavior ...
Barrymore 'survived' Carrie Fisher's parties
Actress Drew Barrymore loved visiting late actress Carrie Fisher and is "proud" that she survived her famous parties.
Sony's TriStar Television head Suzanne Patmore Gibbs passes away
Suzanne Patmore Gibbs, the head of Sony Pictures TV's TriStar Television died suddenly at the age of 50.According to Hollywood Reporter, the top executive posts at Sony TV, ABC and Touchstone TV, passed away at Cedars-Sinai Medical Center in Los Angeles, due to complications following a hernia surgery."Today we lost an amazing and wonderful member of the SPT family. This is a shock to all of us, and we are heartbroken," SPT president Jeff Frost and co-presidents Chris Parnell and Jason Clodfelter wrote in a note to the company staff announcing the news.The note added, "All of us at Sony Pictures Television were touched by Suzanne's passion and friendship. She was a wonderful colleague and friend to all who worked with her. She will be greatly missed and our thoughts and prayers are with her family and friends during this difficult time."Patmore Gibbs had been serving as the head of Sony imprint TriStar Television since the division was relaunched in May 2015.She was the person, who ...
Rahul Singh's 75 roles in a show
Actor Rahul Singh says he has played 75 roles in the show "Kya Haal Mr. Paanchal", and all the characters are close to his heart.
Won't take a long gap for next project, says Rani Mukerji
With her latest film "Hichki" is earning box office numbers and winning hearts of many, Bollywood actress Rani Mukerji says that she will gear up for her next film soon instead of taking another break.
Shooting of biopic of legendary actor N T Rama Rao begins
Top Telugu actor N Balakrishna today launched shooting of a biopic on the life of his legendary father N T Rama Rao here. Balakrishna would play the role of his father in the film titled 'NTR'. Rama Rao, who stormed to power in nine months after forming the Telugu Desam Party in 1982, was popularly known as NTR. Vice President M Venkaiah Naidu, who had an association and friendship with NTR, was present on the occasion when the shoot formally began. Rama Rao was famous for his portrayal of mythological characters like Rama, Krishna and Duryodhana. Speaking on the occasion, Naidu said NTR had spread the glory of Telugus all over the world. Recalling his association with NTR, he said the legend had created history. NTR would have a permanent place in history, he said. It was only appropriate that NTR's son has chosen to tell the story of his father, he said. The film, produced by Balakrishna and others, would be directed by popular Telugu director Teja. Teja said they would .
'Hichki' was supposed to be male-centric: Sidharth P Malhotra
"Hichki" director Sidharth P Malhotra today revealed that the film, which stars Rani Mukerji in the lead, was initially supposed to be male centric. The film, which released last Friday, featured the actor as a teacher with Tourette's Syndrome. Sidharth said he was living and breathing the script for nearly five years before he narrated it to producer Aditya Chopra, Rani's husband. Back then, Aditya was busy with his directorial "Befikre" and suggested he narrate the story to Maneesh Sharma. The director said things changed when Maneesh came up with the idea of flipping the script around. "Maneesh called me and said, 'What if we change the character to female? Because it was always a male centric film, never female centric'. For five years, I was looking for heroes in my mind. At that point I was like, 'Where did the heroine (angle) come from?' "But I went back and thought about it, looked at the script and finally made the changes. Today we are celebrating the success," Sidharth told
Hope Nolan's India trip highlights cause of film preservation: Dungarpur
Filmmaker-archivist Shivendra Singh Dungarpur will host renowned filmmaker Christopher Nolan for three days and he hopes the director's trip to India will draw attention to the cause of film preservation and restoration. Nolan, known for modern classics such as "Memento", "The Prestige", "Inception" and the Dark Knight series, may be one of the most innovative and visionary filmmakers of the current generation but he has his feet firmly planted in tradition, being one of the last directors to shoot on photochemical film when rest of the world has gone digital. He has often spoken about restoring old film reels and, in fact, is slated to present the 70mm print of Stanley Kubrick's masterpiece "2001: A Space Odyssey" at the Cannes Film Festival to mark the movie's 50th anniversary. Dungarpur has been at the forefront of restoration efforts in Indian cinema and even made a film, "The Celluloid Man", on Indian archivist PK Nair but the filmmaker feels the film industry here is still ...
Glad my marital status didn't matter to the audience: Rani
Actor Rani Mukerji is happy that the audience accepted her film "Hichki" and did not let her marital status come in the way. The 40-year-old actor said the film's success is a clear indicator that it does not matter if the actor is married or "is a mother". This is her first film after the birth of her now two-year-old daughter, Adira. "It (success) means a lot to me because I was coming back after a baby, so obviously there were so many questions. I am happy you accepted me with open arms and have told me very categorically that my marital status, the fact that I am a mother, doesn't bother you," Rani told reporters. "What you really want is (for) me (to do) good content films. Thank you so much for all the love," she added. The film, which released last Friday, featured the actor as a teacher with Tourette's Syndrome. "Hichki" is directed by Sidharth P Malhotra and backed by Maneesh Sharma and producer Rani's husband Aditya Chopra. When asked what are her future plans, the actor ...