Hollywood

Madonna seeks to adopt baby girl Mercy in Malawi

The 4-year-old would be a sister for David, whose adoption by the U.S. pop star aroused controversy, and comes from the same orphanage…

Hollywood

Katherine Heigl says she’ll stay if ‘Grey’s’ will have her

Katherine Heigl said Friday she’s ready to stay with “Grey’s Anatomy” and the decision rests with the show.
Attending a studio party to mark the ABC medical drama’s 100th episode, Heigl said it’s premature to think her…

Item Girls

Chinese Oscar winner happy despite lack of audience

Yang and partner Thomas Lennon won the Oscar in 2007 for “The Blood of Yingzhou District,” which tells the story of traditional Chinese family obligations colliding with the fear of AIDS in impoverished Anhui province, and the fate of those left behind.

Yet it has never been officially released in China nor shown on state television, and probably never will be, due in part to its sensitive subject matter.

Fashion

Nicole Kidman joins star-studded Woody Allen film

Australian screen icon Nicole Kidman has joined an all-star cast being put together for an upcoming Woody Allen film, Daily Variety reported on its website.Oscar-winner Kidman, 41, is to join a cast which includes Antonio Banderas, Josh Brolin, Anthony Hopkins …

Bollywood

Filmy Girls are busy in Politics

“Gulaal,” directed by Anurag Kashyap, is an acerbic comment on caste- and region-based politics that promote competitive parochial interests, often undermining India’s secular democratic structure.

The film uses student politics entangled with a covert rebellion against the government by an erstwhile princely community to highlight the pulls and pressures on democracy from growing regional aspirations and discontent.

Bollywood

Nandita Das sees ‘no reason’ to screen ‘Firaaq’ for Modi

‘I totally disagree with those who say the film is pro-Muslim. If I make a film on the Jews and their suffering will I be expected to present the other side’s version? What can I do if there’s no ‘other side’? What happened to Muslims in Gujarat was not a communal riot, it was a carnage. My film is not pro-Muslim. It’s pro-humanism. Period. And if some people or political …

Hollywood

Cinema world’s tribute to Natasha Richardson

Actress Dame Judi Dench told the BBC: “She had an incredibly luminous quality that you seldom see, and a great sense of humor … I thought she was a really great actress.”

Movie

Watchmen Star Cast

Malin Åkerman as Laurie Jupiter / Silk Spectre: Jessica Alba and Natalie Portman were originally considered for the role, but Snyder felt that they were too well known to be playing such a serious part. Åkerman described her character as the psychology and the emotion of the film due to being the only woman among the men. The actress worked out and trained to fight for her portrayal of the crimefighter. Åkerman’s latex costume and wig, which often …

Movie

Watchmen the Superhero Movie

Watchmen is a 2009 superhero film directed by Zack Snyder. Based on the 1986-1987 comic book limited series Watchmen by Alan Moore and Dave Gibbons, the film adaptation stars Malin Åkerman, Billy Crudup, Matt Frewer, Matthew Goode, Carla Gugino, Jackie Earle Haley, Stephen McHattie, Laura Mennell, Jeffrey Dean Morgan and Patrick Wilson. Set in an alternate-history 1985, Watchmen follows a group of former vigilantes as tensions heighten between the United States and the Soviet Union while an investigation of an apparent conspiracy against them …

Bollywood

SRK in mafia flick Xtreme City

Hollywood legendary screenplay writer Paul Schrader is making an English flick with Mumbai’s mafia world as its backdrop and SRK has given his nod for starring in the flick.

Schrader who has written Taxi Driver and American Gigolo, has collaborated with Mushtaq Sheikh and Anubhav Sinha,to make the mafia flick titled Xtreme City, and is going to be made with a budget of USD 10 million.

Schrader recently said, “Spending time in India and working with a Read Full Story …