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‘Moonsoon Wedding’ will soon be a Broadway musical

Those who enjoyed Mira Nair’s hit movie ‘Monsoon Wedding’ have something more to look forward to. The filmmaker has started working on a Broadway musical version of her film. The musical will feature an Indian cast and will combine circus acrobatics, aerial acting, theatre, music and dance.

The filmmaker said ’she was glad to be back [...]

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Monsoon Wedding soon to be a Broadway musical

Film-maker Mira Nair has started working on a Broadway musical version of her 2001 crossover hit ‘Monsoon Wedding’ that will combine circus acrobatics, aerial acting, theatre, music and dance and will feature an Indian cast.

The film-maker said ’she was glad to be back to crossover movies after her Hollywood sojourn’.

‘The stage [...]

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MCAVOY LOVES HIS PALE AND SKINNY LOOKS

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JAMES MCAVOY is convinced his pale and skinny appearance is the key to his success – because he looks so different from other famous actors.

McAvoy’s first major movie role came in 2005’s The Chronicles of Narnia: The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe, and he went on to win a string of high profile [...]

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Twilight studio to distribute Roman Polanski’s ‘The Ghost Writer’

London, Dec 14 (ANI): Despite the furore surrounding Roman Polanski’s arrest, the director’s latest film, ‘The Ghost Writer’, will not suffer.

His latest project will be distributed by the studio behind the hit Twilight franchise, reports the Daily Star.

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POLANSKI’S FILM PICKED UP BY TWILIGHT STUDIO

The furore surrounding ROMAN POLANSKI’s arrest hasn’t hindered his latest film project – the movie will be distributed by the studio behind the hit TWILIGHT franchise.

The Rosemary’s Baby auteur is currently under house arrest after being taken into custody by Swiss authorities in September (09). He is waiting to see whether the country will extradite [...]

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Gerard Butler prepares to launch own perfume line

London, Nov 21 (ANI): Gerard Butler is all set to join the ranks of celebs who have their own fragrances in the market.

The Scottish star feels he is the only one left who has not launched a scent.

“I need a perfume. I need to tell my publicist to get on that. He’s not got me [...]

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Gerard Butler wants to launch fragrance line

London, Nov 20 (IANS) Scottish actor Gerard Butler is keen to launch his own fragrance.

The ‘300′ actor is convinced he’s the only actor without his own cosmetics line, and he too wants a piece of the action, reports express.co.uk.

‘I need a perfume. I need to tell my publicist to get on that. He’s not got [...]

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David Beckham, Ewan McGregor team up for Unicef’s ‘photo pledge’ campaign

London, Nov 20 (ANI): Soccer star David Beckham, Ewan McGregor and Cat Deeley have teamed up for Unicef ‘photo pledge’ campaign in a bid to raise awareness on children’s rights.

They have been asked to choose photographs from their visits to deprived countries for the ‘photo pledge’ campaign marking [...]

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Older addicts prone to suicidal thoughts: Scottish study

London, November 20 (ANI): Older generation of drug addicts is prone to suicidal thoughts, a new Scottish study suggests.

The suicide rate in Scotland among drug addicts above the age of 35 is apparently more than what records claim.

The Scottish Drugs Forum (SDF) insisted that there is an increase in suicide cases among the older addicts, [...]

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Gerard Butler voted ‘Best British Actor in Hollywood’

London, Nov 20 (ANI): Gerard Butler has topped a new list of the ‘Best British Actors in Hollywood’.

The 40-year-old Scottish actor beat Christian Bale and Daniel Day-Lewis to the title in a poll of more than 1,000 British films fans by online DVD and games rental service Lovefilm.

Oscar winner Kate Winslet, one of only two [...]

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Will Ferrell tops Forbes list of Most Overpaid Actors

Washington, November 19 (ANI): Will Ferrell has ranked first in the Forbes magazine’s most overpaid actors list.

The ‘Elf’ star apparently earns one dollar for every 3.29 dollars his films make.

Seemingly, Ferrell’s film ‘Land of the Lost’, which grossed 65 million dollars worldwide after a 100-million-dollar price tag, helped him move to the top spot.

Meanwhile, Tom [...]

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Nicole Kidman admits she’s “terrified” of singing

Melbourne, Nov 2 (ANI): Actress Nicole Kidman says she’s terrified of singing and has to be coaxed into it.

The Oscar winner, who has previously released duets with her Moulin Rouge! costar Ewan McGregor and British singer Robbie [...]

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Clooney’s Men Who Stare at Goats ‘based on real US army experiments’

London, Oct 23 (ANI): It has emerged that actor George Clooney’s new movie ‘The Men Who Stare At Goats’, which portrays soldiers in Iraq attempting to kill goats only by staring at them, is based on real US military experiments.

According to the Daily Mail, Project Jedi was a top-secret military project to create a breed [...]

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Ewan McGregor finds Polanski’s arrest “strange”

Washington, Oct 20 (ANI): Actor Ewan McGregor has become the latest celeb to join the tirade against the imprisonment of famed filmmaker, Roman Polanski, thirty two years after he sexually assaulted a teenaged girl.

The Rosemary’s Baby director, who had fled the US on the heels of a sentence award, was sent to a Zurich jail [...]

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Polanski completing ‘The Ghost’ in jail, says pal

Washington, Oct 14 (ANI): Incarcerated filmmaker Roman Polanski is completing his latest movie The Ghost in jail, his friend Robert Harris has revealed.

The 76-year-old has been behind bars in Zurich, Switzerland since 26 September (09), when he was detained in connection to a 1977 child sex crime.

However, Harris, who penned the screenplay of the film, [...]

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