Pop star Justin Bieber, who had a video chat with Pakistani activist Malala Yousafzai, now wants to meet the 17-year-old in person, reports India Today. Yousafzai hit headlines in 2012 when the Taliban shot her in head for championing girls’ rights to an education. The youngster survived the attack and went on to set up ... Read more
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Transformers: Age of Extinction rules US box office
Transformers: Age of Extinction has topped the North American box office and scored the biggest opening weekend of the year so far, reports BBC Online. The fourth installment in Michael Bay’s franchise took $100m (£58.8m) despite generally poor reviews from critics. It also added another $201.3m (£118.2m) from 37 international territories, including $90m (£52.9m) in ... Read more
Stewart dropped from Snow White and the Huntsman 2
Kristen StewartKristen Stewart has been dropped from Snow White and the Huntsman 2, reports India Today. The actress – who played the iconic fairy tale character in the original movie in 2012 – is said to have been axed from the sequel as it takes a new angle under director Frank Darabont. According to The ... Read more
YouTube to launch paid music service, may block Adele
YouTube is planning to block the videos of artists like Adele and the Arctic Monkeys after several record labels refused to sign up to its new subscription service, reports Hindustan Times. The Google-owned online media site will start blocking videos ‘in a matter of days’, Robert Kyncl, YouTube’s head of content and business operations, was ... Read more
McConaughey honoured for True Detective
Oscar winner Matthew McConaughey has picked up another best actor award, this time for his performance in HBO’s True Detective, reports BBC Online. The actor was honoured at the fourth annual Television Critics’ Awards, which saw Breaking Bad take home the coveted best drama honour. He credited television with ‘raising the bar for character-driven drama’. ... Read more
Jennifer Lopez says no to retirement
Jennifer Lopez has no plans of bidding adieu to music when she will grow old, reports Indian Express. Singer Jennifer Lopez has no plans of bidding adieu to music when she will grow old. Lopez, 44, said she won’t be bowing to pressure to consider retirement as she grows older because she is determined
Aniston sees confidence coach
Actress Jennifer Aniston has reportedly been attending sessions with a confidence coach ahead of actor George Clooney’s wedding as she fears she will run into her ex-husband Brad Pitt at the celebrations, reports India Today. Aniston, who is engaged to Justin Theroux, is said to be nervous of coming face-to-face with Pitt and his fiancée ... Read more
Goethe-Institut observes WED with film screening
Goethe Institut is observing World Environment Day, which fell on June 5, through screening of six films at the Berlin Hall of the institut in Dhanmondi, Dhaka. As a part of the screening session, today Thilo Ewer’s ‘They Will Come to Town’ will be screened. The film is about the alarming global warming effect on ... Read more
Helen Mirren wins Glamour Icon award
Dame Helen Mirren won the Icon award at the annual Glamour Women of the Year Awards in London on Tuesday night, reports India Today. The Oscar-winning actress, 68, was thrilled to be presented with the prize by Ryan Reynolds, with whom she is currently filming The Woman In Gold, and used her moment on stage ... Read more
Whitney Houston’s biopic to be released in 2015
Late singer Whitney Houston’s biopic focussing on her relationship with her husband and singer Bobby Brown will be premiered in 2015, reports India Today. Angela Bassett will make her directorial debut with the film titled Whitney Houston, which will follow the late star’s rocky relationship with Brown, reports eonline.com
Cannes glitterati step up for AIDS charity gala
Sharon Stone showed up in a daring dress, John Travolta flew in on his plane, and even Eurovision winner Conchita Wurst made an appearance to support the Cannes film festival’s largest charity ball to raise money for AIDS research, reports India Today. At the 21st annual event organised by amfAR, the Foundation for AIDS Research, ... Read more
Jolie may turn politician
In addition to being an Oscar winning film star and mother to six children, Angelina Jolie is a notable humanitarian – supporting a number of children’s charities, lobbying the US government with human rights interests and being a special envoy for the U.N. High Commissioner for Refugees (UNHCR) – and says one day she could ... Read more
Godzilla tramples US, UK box office rivals
Monster movie Godzilla has topped the US box office with the second biggest opening of the year so far, beating The Amazing Spider-Man 2’s debut, reports BBC. The 3D film took $93.2m (£55.4m), putting it just behind Captain America: The Winter Soldier, which took $95m (£56.4m) when it opened in April. The film has also ... Read more
Cate Blanchett plays jokester at Cannes
Cate Blanchett had plenty of witty replies, a couple on the saucy side, as she answered sometimes wacky questions during a Cannes news conference for the upcoming How to Train Your Dragon 2, reports India Today. The two-time Oscar-winner got most of the questions at Friday’s event, which also included stars America Ferrera, Jay Baruchel, ... Read more
Stewart makes directorial debut
Twilight star Kristen Stewart is all set to make her directorial debut with the music video of Take Me to the South, reports India Today. Helming the video of Take Me to the South, which is a song of her friend Sage Galesi’s country-rock band Sage plus the Saints, has helped Stewart, 24, realise her ... Read more
Matthew McConaughey talks up next film in Cannes
Oscar-winner Matthew McConaughey has dropped into the Cannes Film Festival to promote his next film Sea of Trees, with director Gus Van Sant, reports BBC Online. The Dallas Buyers Club star said the script, which sees him play an American who travels to Japan to kill himself, gave him ‘the chills’. ‘It was the best ... Read more
Lady Gaga to auction car for charity
Lady Gaga will auction off her prized Rolls-Royce Cormiche III convertible later this month for charity, and the vehicle could fetch up to $50,000, reports India Today. The 29-year-old star’s prized ride – believed to be the only car she owns – will be sold at auction later this month, and could fetch between $30,000 ... Read more
Hugh Jackman doing good after cancer treatment
Hugh Jackman insists he’s doing well after receiving treatment for skin cancer again last week, reports India Today. The ‘Wolverine’ actor – who also had cancerous cells removed in November – believes he’s ‘fixed’ after undergoing a procedure to remove a Basel Cell Carsinoma (BCC) from the side of his nose last Friday (09.05.14). When ... Read more
Shakira pens FIFA World Cup song again
Singer-performer Shakira, who made the world dance to the tunes of her song ‘Waka waka’ during the 2010 FIFA World Cup, has recorded a new number for the official World Cup to be held in Brazil this time, reports India Today. The star, who is dating Spain defender Gerard Pique, has penned ‘La La La’, a ... Read more
Scarlet Johansson expecting her first child
Scarlett Johansson is going to be a mom. The 29-year-old actress is pregnant with fiance Romain Dauriac’s baby and she is reportedly already five months along in the pregnancy. The news came as a shock because she came to Cesar Film Awards in Paris on February 28 without the signs that she was pregnant. Wearing ... Read more