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PAXTON HAS BIG PLANS FOR TWISTER SEQUEL

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Actor BILL PAXTON is eager to make a sequel to TWISTER – 14 years after the tornado action film was released.

The star has taken a break from Hollywood in recent years to focus on his hit U.S. TV series Big Love, but he’s keen to relaunch himself as a movie star and is convinced [...]

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SPIELBERG TAKES ON WORLD WAR I

STEVEN SPIELBERG is teaming up with BILLY ELLIOTT writer LEE HALL to take a World War I novel to the big screen.

The Hollywood icon has bought the rights to Michael Morpurgo’s 1982 book Warhorse, which follows the relationship between a boy and his horse in the backdrop of the Great War.
Spielberg has recruited [...]

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Spielberg to adapt World War I novel into movie

London, Dec 18 (IANS) Hollywood filmmaker Steven Spielberg is set to bring a novel based on the World War I to the big screen.

The Oscar winner has bought the rights to Michael Morpurgo’s 1982 book ‘Warhorse’, which follows the relationship between a boy and his horse in the backdrop of the war, reports hollywood.com.

‘From the [...]

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SPIELBERG DUMPS HARVEY

STEVEN SPIELBERG has walked away from his planned remake of classic JAMES STEWART movie HARVEY amid rumours he could not find a major star willing to take on the lead role.

The legendary director has spent the last six months developing the project, reportedly asking Tom Hanks to take on the part of Elwood P. [...]

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Steven Spielberg quits ‘Harvey’ remake project

London, December 05 (ANI): Director Steven Spielberg has decided to step out from the remake of classic movie ‘Harvey’ after failing to find a Hollywood A-lister to play the lead role.

Late actor James Stewart had made the character of Elwood P. Dowd famous in the 1950 film.

But, in the current project, top actors including [...]

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Peter Jackson says Spielberg’s ‘Tintin’ ‘exists in a very rough state’

London, Nov 25 (ANI): Peter Jackson, who is co-producing Tintin with Steven Spielberg, says the movie is almost made but “exists in a very rough state” at present.

“Tintin is great. It’s made. The movie is cut together and now [we] are turning it into a fully-rendered film,” the BBC [...]

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Hugh Jackman to fight robots in Spielberg movie

London, Nov 24 (IANS) Hollywood star Hugh Jackman has signed up to fight robots in a new Steven Spielberg movie.

The 41-year-old is to star in Spielberg’s new sci-fi ‘Real Steel’, which tells the story of a futuristic boxing industry where robots take over from real fighters, reports imdb.com.

The big budget blockbuster is the first project [...]

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Low-budget horror film Paranormal Activity “spooked out” Steven Spielberg

London, November 01 (ANI): Steven Spielberg recently got so scared while watching new film ‘Paranormal Activity’ at his California house that he put the DVD of the film in a garbage bag vowing not to let it in his house again, it has emerged.

The [...]

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Drew Barrymore once shared her deep secrets with E.T.!

Washington, Oct 20 (ANI): American actress Drew Barrymore has revealed that she used to share her secrets with extraterrestrial character E.T. in-between takes on the set.

Barrymore, 34, had made her first big screen break at the age 6 in the blockbuster hit, and even though she knew he was a fake, she still preferred his [...]

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Spielberg ‘plans to conquer Broadway stage with TV show’

London, September 26 (ANI): Steven Spielberg is set to work his magic on television with a series documenting the development of a Broadway musical.

The acclaimed director was said to be in talks with Marc Shaiman and Scott Wittman for the yet-to-be-titled show.

The series will reportedly cover every detail of the musical’s preparations, including the script-writing [...]

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Sean Connery to return as Henry Jones in ‘Indiana Jones’ movie

Washington, Sept 19 (ANI): Veteran actor Sean Connery is likely to return as Professor Henry Jones in the fifth ‘Indiana Jones’ movie.

The Oscar winner had turned down the chance to reprise his role as the father of the daredevil archaeologist, played by Harrison Ford, in last movie ‘Indiana Jones and the Kingdom of the Crystal [...]

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Steven Spielberg, Robert Redford to go head to head with Lincoln biopics

Washington, Sept 16 (ANI): Steven Spielberg will continue work on his new movie based on the life of Abraham Lincoln, even as Robert Redford is making another biopic on the former American President.

Spielberg insists his film will be quite different from Redford’s version.

It is reported that Spielberg’s film tilled Lincoln will have the American [...]

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Hindus urge Hollywood academy to introduce “Best Bollywood Film” category at Oscars

Nevada (US), Aug.16 (ANI): Hindus have asked the American Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences to introduce a new award category of “Best Bollywood Film” for films made in India.

Rajan Zed, a leader of the Indian American community here, said in [...]

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