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New label to promote electronic dance music

Sony Music Entertainment and Tencent Music Entertainment Group on Wednesday announced the launch of electronic dance music label Liquid State.

Tom Hardy gets tattoo designed by DiCaprio

Actor Tom Hardy has got "Leo knows all" inked on his bicep two years after losing a bet with Leonardo DiCaprio who designed it.

Google partners L&T for 150 Wi-Fi hotspots in Pune

Tech giant Google today said it has partnered with Larsen & Toubro to set up 150 'Google Station' Wi-Fi hotspots in Pune as part of Pune Smart City Development Corporation Ltd's Smart City project. The US-based firm already has a partnership with RailTel, under which Wi-Fi Internet services are provided at over 270 railway stations in the country. "Potentially, three million Punekars can now get online within seconds, to message friends, pay bills, shop online, watch music videos and do millions of other things at locations all around the city," Google said in a statement. Google said these hotspots will be available at public places like gardens, hospitals and police stations, helping people get access to free Wi-Fi. "Our aim with Google Station is to bring fast Wi-Fi to more users in more places within India. We built Google Station to be both the highest-quality and easiest Wi-Fi service for users and the easiest for partners to deploy," Google Station Product ..

Tencent forms electronic dance music label with Sony

HONG KONG (Reuters) - Tencent Music Entertainment Group, the music arm of Tencent Holdings, on Wednesday announced with Sony Music Entertainment that they are forming a new music label, marking Tencent's first move into having its own music label.

Bollyboom Holi Bash 2018 offers seven-hour musical gala

Bollyboom Holi Bash 2018, a seven-hour gala with eco-friendly organic colours and electro-music, will see artistes like Amaan Nagpal, Omen, Hannah Shine, Ali Merchant, Siana Catherine, Progressive brothers and Rohit Gida perform here on March 2.

Weinstein uses emails from Affleck, Messick to deny claim

Disgraced Hollywood producer Harvey Weinstein has gone public with emails from Rose McGowan's former manager and actor Ben Affleck as evidence to deny claims of sexual misconduct levelled by the actress.

Dubbed Hindi versions of southern films look fake: Muntashir

Bollywood lyricist-writer Manoj Muntashir says the dubbed versions of films of some well-known southern stars did not meet with much success in the north Indian markets as the translations looked fake. Muntashir has been responsible for dubbing in Hindi both the installments of "Baahubali". The writer believes the film worked in Hindi because he just didn't "loosely translate" the script, that was originally in Tamil and Telugu. He says he made sure the Hindi dialogues find resonance with viewers. "Since a long time, films from the south have been dubbed in Hindi and released in the Hindi circuits, but they all failed miserably. And these were films of biggies like Rajinikanth sir, Mamooty, Chiranjeevi... "It's fake because when you are watching a high intensity drama of Rajinikanth in a theatre, neither is the lip-sync matching, nor the sentiment, it just doesn't connect," Muntashir told PTI in an interview. He is now geared up for the release of the Hindi version of ...

Jackie Shroff to star in Gujarati remake of 'Ventilator'

National Award-winning Marathi film "Ventilator" is all set for a Gujarati remake with Bollywood actor Jackie Shroff in the lead role. The film, to be produced by Irada Entertainment, will mark Shroff's debut in Gujarati cinema. He will reprise the role of filmmaker Ashutosh Gowariker from the original. "Finally, I have been cast in a film in my mother tongue Gujarati. I hope I will live up to it," Shroff said in a statement. "Ventilator" was produced by actor Priyanka Chopra. The movie revolves around an ailing senior member of a family who is being put on the ventilator just days before the popular Ganpati festival leading to varied degrees of speculation and panic amongst the clan he belongs to. The remake is written by Niren Bhatt, a renowned Gujarati scriptwriter and the story is co-written by Karan Vyas. The film will be directed by Umang Vyas. Rajesh Mapuskar, director of the original "Ventilator" has joined hands with makers for creative direction and ...

Jay Z: Changed behaviour saved my marriage

Jay Z spoke about his marriage to Beyonce Knowles and how he managed to mend it after his infidelity.In an interview with CNN, Jay Z said that they chose to fight to stay together instead of parting ways, post their marriage issues.Jay Z had been known to not keep his marriage vows sacred to Beyonce and was caught cheating.Moving past their issues, the couple has been putting on a united front at public events. Recently, they were seen together along with their daughter, Blue Ivy at Grammy awards 2018.A website quoted him as saying, "The best way to apologise for infidelity is to have 'changed behaviour'".Disturbed by his infidelity, Beyonce took refuge in music and her 2016 visual album, 'Lemonade' was said to be inspired by that phase.Jay Z's own latest album, '4:44' is also believed to be inspired by his cheating.During his interview, he said, "If you haven't experienced love and you don't understand it, if you don't have the tools to move forward, then you are going to have ...

Low and sick: Swara on Agnihotri's ire

Swara Bhasker has condemned filmmaker Vivek Agnihotri as "low and sick" after he suggested the actress take a trip to Bastar, Chhattisgarh to understand "how the 'real vagina'" feels like.

'Step up' comment taken out of context, says Grammy chief

Recording Academy president and CEO Neil Portnow says his comment that women need to "step up" was taken out of context and does not convey his beliefs.

Brandon Routh joins 'Anastasia' movie cast

"Superman Returns" star Brandon Routh has joined the cast of live-action "Anastasia" movie. He joins previously announced Emily Carey as Anastasia and Amiah Miller to perform the role of Megan. Routh will essay the role of Czar Nicholas in the Blake Harris-directed film, according to The Hollywood Reporter. Set in 1917, the film tells the classic story of Anastasia Romanov escaping through a portal when her family is threatened by Vladimir Lenin, and finding herself in the year 1988, befriended by a young American girl.

Pancholi faces abetment charges in Jiah Khan suicide

The trial in actress Jiah Khan's suicide is expected to begin in mid February after a Mumbai court framed charges against her boyfriend and Bollywood actor Sooraj Pancholi for abetting the 2013 death.

Nobody dare misbehave with women on my set: Shah Rukh Khan

Superstar Shah Rukh Khan, known for his chivalrous attitude, says nobody has dared to misbehave with a woman on his film sets.

Here's nerve-wrecking trailer for horror movie 'Hereditary'

The first trailer for a brand new horror movie 'Hereditary', which is being touted as 'one of the scariest movies of this generation' has finally landed and it surely is not for the faint hearted.The trailer starts with camera zooming into, what looks like a doll-house and eerie music in the background makes you realise from the start that it is going to get spooky as the footage moves forward.As the clip moves forward, Ellen, the matriarch of the Graham family, passes away and as soon as she does, her daughter's family begins to unravel cryptic and increasingly terrifying secrets about their ancestry.In the footage, we see a pigeon being beheaded, a person on fire, and a swarm of ants crawling over a motionless person.The best thing about this trailer is that it's cleverly misleading in all the right ways, so even if you think you're being spoiled about a plot point, you're probably not.The film stars Toni Collette and Gabriel Byrne as the parents of a family dealing with ...

'Black Panther' premieres with standing ovation

From being called as a 'cultural phenomenon' to the 'best Marvel movie', 'Black Panther' seems to have taken everyone by storm.So, it was nothing unusual for the director Ryan Coogler to be treated like a king, isn't it?According to the Hollywood Reporter, the director earned a sustained standing ovation when he took the stage to introduce the cast of his Marvel Studios film, including his leading man Chadwick Boseman.The cast also included Michael B. Jordon, Lupita Nyong'o, Danai Gurira, Martin Freeman, Daniel Kaluuya, Letitia Wright, Winston Duke, Angela Bassett, Forest Whitaker, Andy Serkis and Sterling K. Brown.Even the stars could not stop praising the director, the film's lead actor Chadwick Boseman, who essays the role of superhero 'Black Panther', said that he is willing to put himself through sickness in order to get the right thing on the screen."He's a very, very honest director. He'll tell you what he believes in. You trust what he's saying, because he lives it, he's ...

Caviezel in talks play Jesus in 'Passion of the Christ' sequel

Actor Jim Caviezel is in negotiations to reprise his role as Jesus Christ in the upcoming sequel to Mel Gibson's "The Passion of the Christ". Gibson would presumably both produce and direct the project, according to The Hollywood Reporter. The actor, 49, first played thirty-something-year-old Jesus 14 years ago. Gibson had hinted last year that the film might not be released until late 2019 or early 2020, "because it's a big subject." The original "Passion of the Christ" was released by Newmarket Films in 2004 and earned USD 612 million worldwide on just a USD 30 million production budget.

Grammy chief regrets 'women need to step up' remark

Recording Academy president/CEO Neil Portnow has sort of apologised for his "women need t step up" comment, saying he was not as articulate as he should have been. Portnow's remark prompted angry social media posts from musicians such as Charli XCX, Sheryl Crow and others. "Sunday night, I was asked a question about the lack of female artist representation in certain categories of this years Grammy Awardss. Regrettably, I used two words, 'step up,' that, when taken out of context, do not convey my beliefs and the point I was trying to make," he said in a statement to Variety. Portnow said the recording industry must recognise that women who dream of careers in music face barriers that men have never faced. "I regret that I wasn't as articulate as I should have been in conveying this thought. I remain committed to doing everything I can to make our music community a better, safer, and more representative place for everyone." While the award ceremony was high on diversity .

Takes courage to helm a film of magnitude of 'Padmaavat': Ranveer

Actor Ranveer Singh, who is currently riding high on the success of his latest release "Padmaavat", says it takes immense courage to direct a film of such a magnitude.

Diljit Dosanjh wants to be part of cooking reality show

Diljit Dosanjh is busy judging his popular singing reality show "Rising Star" but he wishes to do a culinary reality show someday and he likes to cook. "I would like to try... maybe a cooking reality show. I cook, I try making new dishes. Also, I cook from recipes that our grandmothers used to make," Dosanjh told PTI. The actor judges live singing reality show "Rising Star" along with Shankar Mahadevan and Monali Thakur. The trio are back with the season two, which airs on Colors. The show provides a platform to budding singers from across India to participate in a competition, where they are judged by the viewers to qualify for further rounds. "It was a live show and so the engagement with viewers was from day one. It clicked well with the audience, who I think were the real judges. This time we have more talented singers. And then there is new tagline 'Uthao Soch ki Deewar'," Dosanjh said. "Our show is very real. We have contestants singing live in front of the audience