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Tibetan film maker flees China, takes refuge in US
A Tibetan film maker who spent six years in jail for denouncing repression in Tibet in a documentary, fled China and has arrived in San Francisco, according to the group Filming for Tibet, which organised a campaign to support his work.
Branagh wants to be villain in next James Bond film
Actor Kenneth Branagh says he would love to play the villain in the next James Bond movie.
Overwhelming, satisfying: Katrina on 'Tiger Zinda Hai' success
Katrina Kaif is on cloud nine over the record-breaking run of her latest release "Tiger Zinda Hai", calling it an "overwhelming and extremely satisfying" feeling. The 34-year-old actor, who reprised her role as super-spy Zoya opposite Salman Khan's Tiger in the Ali Abbas Zafar-directed film, said she is glad the audiences loved the film. "It feels incredible. When we set out to make 'Tiger Zinda Hai', we knew that we had a very good script in hand and Ali has done an outstanding job in translating the script to a mind-blowing film that is entertaining audiences of every age-group and across the nation. "As an actor, I always want to be part of movies that audiences thoroughly enjoy and the feedback that I'm getting from audiences is overwhelming and extremely satisfying," Katrina said in a statement. The sequel to the 2012 movie has raced past 173-crore in barely five days. It recorded the biggest ever single day collection in the history of Bollywood by earning 45.53 ..
India, Pak, Lanka authors pen stories of love across cultures
Top writers from India, Pakistan, Sri Lanka and Bangladesh have come together with a bunch of stories that celebrate love across cultures and love that defies barriers and threats. Stories of cross-border love and bonding by authors such as Selina Hossain (Bangladesh), Taha Kehar (Pakistan), Aditha Dissanayake and Daya Dissanayake (both Sri Lanka), Balraj Khanna (India) and Paola Martani (Italy) are included in the fifth anniversary edition of the quarterly The Equator Line magazine. The first issue of The Equator Line (TEL) in 2012 titled "India: Waiting for a New Helmsman" had on its cover a caparisoned elephant, its howdah empty, outside a red- sandstone fort. Author Robert Hutchison wrote about the evolution of Mussoorie, its ups and downs, since the colonial days. Indian entrepreneurs successfully doing business in many obscure corners of the world were also featured in the issue. "The response was mixed - the younger the reader the stronger the approval. The older
Sequels, spin-offs and remakes dominate Bollywood in 2017
It was a bad year for Bollywood, both in terms of creativity and box office, as big superstars failed to bring in the money and the films that clicked with the audience were based on the tried-and-tested formula of sequels and spin-offs. Originality is the lifeline of any creative industry but 2017 proved to be a year that the filmmakers would want to forget as it was populated with big-budget disappointments like Salman Khan's "Tubelight", Shah Rukh Khan's "Jab Harry Met Sejal" and Sanjay Dutt's comeback "Bhoomi". Younger stars such as Varun Dhawan did work with the audience but the films -- "Badrinath Ki Dulhania" and "Judwaa 2" -- were either a sequel or a spin-off. Rohit Shetty, the master of masala entertainment, recovered from the "Dilwale" setback to deliver a hit with "Golmaal Again", his fourth in the franchise. Akshay Kumar started his year with a sequel "Jolly LLB 2" and the not-so successful "Baby" spin-off in "Naam Shabana". Remaking films from different ...
Laura Dern gets cosy with basketballer
Actress Laura Dern got cosy with basketball player Baron Davis, who is yet to finalise his divorce with actress Jordana Brewster's sister Isabella.
Bono reveals what he learned from 'almost dying'
U2 singer Bono's inspiration for his latest album "Songs of Experience" came from a near-death experience.
Rohan Sippy forays into TV with show on scamsters
"Bluffmaster" director Rohan Sippy is debuting in the television space by producing a show titled "Khan No. 1", which will showcase stories of scams and cons inspired by true events.
Jacqueline 'connects' with franchises
Actress Jacqueline Fernandez, who has featured in franchise films like "Housefull", "Murder", "Judwaa" and "Race", says she really connects with them.
New actors made fashion a more relatable conversation: Designer Priyanka Modi
Designer Priyanka Modi feels that in a film fanatic country like India, it is obvious that the most "venerable fashion icons" comes from films. She also feels that newer crop of actors made fashion a more relevant and relatable conversation in today's time.
I'm too dangerous to helm a 'Star Wars' movie, says Ridley Scott
He maybe be one of the greatest directors on the planet, but filmmaker Ridley Scott has revealed that Disney will never allow him to helm a brand new 'Star Wars' movie.According to Contactmusic.com, the 80-year-old director feels that Disney would be too restrictive in his creative freedom for him to want to take a flick in the franchise on.He also shared that he'll be "too dangerous" for the role of director on a 'Star Wars' entry."I think they like to be in control, and I like to be in control myself. When you get a guy who's done a low-budget movie and you suddenly give him USD 180 million, it makes no sense whatsoever," noted Scott.The 'Alien: Covenant' director went on to say that the reshoots needed if he was on board would cost "millions" on top of his "heavy" fee.Scott explained, "You know what the reshoots cost? Millions! Millions. You can get me for my fee, which is heavy, but I'll be under budget and on time. This is where experience does matter, it's as simple as that! It .
Vin Diesel beats out Dwayne Johnson as 2017's highest grossing actor
Hollywood actor Vin Diesel has defeated his 'Fast and Furious' co-star Dwayne 'The Rock' Johnson to be named this year's top grossing actor.The 'XxX: Return of the Xander Cage' actor's movies made USD 1.6 billion globally, according to Forbes, which made its annual list of highest grossing actors by using Box Office Mojo to tally up the global ticket sales of 2017 movies by major actors.Diesel's 'Fast And Furious' co-star Johnson came in second; The Rock, whose releases this year have so far pulled in USD 1.5 billion with 'Jumanji: Welcome To The Jungle' still out in cinemas.'Wonder Woman' star Gal Gadot came in third after her films, also including 'Justice League', made USD 1.4 billion globally.Emma Watson took fourth place thanks to the smash hit 'Beauty And The Beast', while Johnny Depp came in at fifth.Tom Holland, Chris Pratt and Chris Hemsworth make up the top 10 finishing seventh, eighth and ninth respectively.Here's the full list of highest-grossing actors in 2017:1) Vin ..
Permanent gallery required for depicting hist of Bengali
Renowned film director Goutam Ghosh says a gallery should permanently showcase the history and evolution of Bengali films as it has not been chronicled properly. As a part of the initiative, the recent exhibition at the Kolkata International Film Festival 2017, showcasing vintage cameras and other studio equipment used in Bengali cinema along with other archival materials should be permanently kept in a prominent gallery, Ghosh suggested. "The proposed exhibition will show how our films evolved over the years but a lot more needs to be done," the 'Sankhachil' director said adding he will talk to the state government about it. There should also be consistent research to track the entire history of Bengali cinema for the authentic documentation of films made in the last century, Ghosh said at the launch of a platform 'Bangla Cinema 100', yesterday evening. Ghosh said on the 100th year of Indian cinema in 2013, the Ministry of Culture had restored 80-100 Indian films ...
Farhan to perform at folk music, wildlife conversation fest
Actor-filmmaker-singer Farhan Akhtar is set to perform at the second edition of Ranthambore Festival, which is a folk music and wildlife conversation event.
'DaasDev' to release on February 16, 2018
The Valentine's week next year will see Sudhir Mishra's "DaasDev" -- a reverse take on the original "Devdas" classic love saga -- hit the screens.
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Short films finding new space in showbiz: Pallavi Joshi
Short films are coming into their own in the growing space of digital entertainment, says actress Pallavi Joshi.
Kardashians seek to dismiss Blac Chyna lawsuit
The Kardashian family has asked a judge to throw out model Blac Chyna's lawsuit against them.
Literature: Honouring diverse experience, reviving old stories and sad adieus (2017 in Retrospect)
It was another glorious year for literature with its top prizes honouring the universality and diversity of human experience, a glittering abundance of compelling reads -- including one revisiting a half-century-old classic -- by established masters, emerging talent and gifted debutants, and a refreshing lack of controversy that convulsed other fields of culture, especially mass entertainment.
'Blade Runner 2049' was 'way too long': Ridley Scott
Ridley Scott has said the film "Blade Runner 2049", a sequel to 1982 sci-fi classic, was "too long". In an interview, Scott was asked about the Denis Villeneuve-directed film, which featured actors Ryan Gosling and Harrison Ford in the lead roles. The original "Blade Runner" had a run time of one hour and 57 minutes, while the "Blade Runner 2049" stretched over two hours and 40 minutes. "I have to be careful what I say," Scott said at first, before adding, "It was f**king way too long. F**k me! And most of that script's mine," Scott told Vulture. Hampton Fancher, who wrote the original "Blade Runner" with David Peoples, received the screenplay credit for the sequel along with Michael Green. "I sit with writers for an inordinate amount of time and I will not take credit, because it means I've got to sit there with a tape recorder while we talk. "I can't do that to a good writer. But I have to, because to prove I'm part of the actual process, I have to then have an endless