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  • Jessica Chastian to play Princess Diana

    Jessica Chastian to play Princess Diana

    MUMBAI: Jessica Chastain will play the late Diana, Princess of Wales in a romantic biopic titled Caught in Flight, according to movie blog Thompson on Hollywood.

    Chastian follows Meryl Streep who played Margaret Thatcher earlier or Anne Hathaway who played Jane Austen.

    Caught in Flight will depict a secret two-year affair the princess had with heart surgeon Dr Hasnat Khan from 1995, that would be presented as a “love story between a princess locked in a tower and an ordinary man”.

    The script of the film has been written by The Libertine‘s Steven Jeffreys and would be directed by Oliver Hirschbiegel.

    The film‘s pre-production will start in March 2012 under British production company Ecosse Films while it will be shot in Pakistan, Angola, the South of France and Paris.

  • Hollywood Foreign Press grants $10,000 to IFFLA

    Hollywood Foreign Press grants $10,000 to IFFLA

    MUMBAI: The Hollywood Foreign Press has given a grant of $10,000 to the Indian Film Festival of Los Angeles (IFFLA) for promoting cultural exchange through films, Totally, the organisation gave away grants amounting to $1.5 million to film-related organisations and charities.
     
    The organisations that were awarded grants in the same category as IFFLA were American Cinematheque and FilmAid International.
     
    Leonardo DiCaprio accepted a cheque for $350,000 on behalf of the Film Foundation, founded by Martin Scorsese for the preservation and restoration of classic films.
     
    Others who accepted donations include Mark Wahlberg, Gerard Butler, Hugh Dancy, Jessica Chastain, Kevin Bacon, Lea Michele, Taylor Lautner, Elizabeth Olsen, Yoshiki and Jim Sturgess.

  • PVR prepones release of The Tree of Life

    PVR prepones release of The Tree of Life

    MUMBAI: Going back on its earlier announcement that it would release Terrence Malick‘s The Tree of Life in August, PVR has now confirmed that it will release the film on 29 July all over India.


    Starring Brad Pitt, Sean Penn and Jessica Chastain, the film deals with the questions of the origin and the meaning of life.


    The American film won the Palme d‘Or at the 64th Festival de Cannes this year where it received mixed reactions from the audience and the press at Cannes.


    The Tree of Life happens to be the fifth film of Terrence Malick in his filmmaking career that spanned four decades.