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  • Screenwriter Sterling to make Shakespeare Goes Bollywood

    Screenwriter Sterling to make Shakespeare Goes Bollywood

    MUMBAI: In what look like a breakthrough of sorts, screenwriter Sam Sterling‘s Shakespeare Goes Bollywood aims to bring the stars of Bollywood and Hollywood together?

    The film‘s story follows a Bollywood ‘icon‘ arriving in London who, against all odds, wins the lead role in Shakespeare‘s Romeo and Juliet at Stratford-Upon-Avon. While the star brings Bollywood to Shakespeare, he also makes it his mission to return Shakespeare to its ‘spiritual‘ home Bollywood. “After all, if Shakespeare was alive today, he would be writing for Bollywood,” quipped Sterling in a statement.

    It is said that Sterling was prompted to adapt one of the characters for Brad Pitt after reading an article in which the star pointed out that he would love to work in Bollywood.

    “It‘s all so exhilarating – who would have ever thought that one day leading Hollywood stars as Tom Cruise, Hugh Jackman, Brad Pitt, amongst others have reportedly expressed their eagerness to act in a Bollywood movie?” he added.

    Hollywood stars including Jean-Claude Van Damme, Kristen Stewart and Catherine Zeta-Jones have evinced interest in working in Bollywood.

  • The Twilght Saga notches $ 97.5 mn; stands tall even is second week

    The Twilght Saga notches $ 97.5 mn; stands tall even is second week

    MUMBAI: Even after dropping 51 per cent from its opening-round gross, The Twilight Saga: Breaking Dawn — Part 2 still stood strong in the foreign theatrical circuit for the second consecutive weekend drawing $97.5 million from some 13,500 locations in 73 overseas territories.
    The fifth and final film based on Stephenie Meyer‘s series of novels about a young woman (Kristen Stewart) in love with a vampire (Robert Pattinson), has reached an international tally of $350.8 million, about $80 million less than the franchise‘s all-time offshore box-office champ, last year‘s The Twilight Saga: Breaking Dawn — Part 1 ($430.9 million).
    Breaking Dawn Part 2 — held the top spot in most major markets although it dropped to No. 2 in Australia and in Russia. It stood at No. 3 in South Korea (finishing third after a pair of local-language titles).
    The film generated $15.2 million from 765 sites in Germany opening while the film‘s Austria debut managed to accumulate $1.8 million.

  • Mila Kunis frontrunner for Fifty Shades Of Grey role

    Mila Kunis frontrunner for Fifty Shades Of Grey role

    MUMBAI: Mila Kunis, who was recently crowned as the sexiest woman alive by a magazine, has emerged as the frontrunner to play the lead female role in the movie adaptation of novel Fifty Shades Of Grey by E.L. James.
    The 26-year-old actor‘s girl-next-door charm has put her to the top of the list of actresses in contention to play Anastasia Steele, who is lured into an S and M lifestyle by older billionaire Christian Grey, it is understood.
    Emma Watson and Kristen Stewart are also being favoured to star in the big screen adaptation of the best-selling novel.
    Ryan Gosling and Ian Somerhalder are popular choices to play the mysterious businessman Christian Grey.

  • Dejected Robert Pattinson plans to quit Hollywood

    Dejected Robert Pattinson plans to quit Hollywood

    MUMBAI: Feeling dejected following revelations that his ex-girlfriend Kristen Stewart cheated on him with director Rupert Sanders, Robert Pattinson is planning to quit Hollywood.
    “Rob has always had a love-hate relationship with his career. He loves earning millions from acting, but he hates the constant intrusion into his private life,” it has been said.
    “He has more than enough money to live very comfortably for the rest of his life. Quitting Hollywood is something he has talked about. When he found out Kristen had cheated, he opened his eyes – people in showbiz just aren‘t very nice,” said a friend of Pattinson.

  • Kristen Stewart stripped of Snow White sequel

    Kristen Stewart stripped of Snow White sequel

    MUMBAI: Universal Studio has reportedly laid-off Kristen Stewart from the sequel of Snow White and the Huntsman.

    Reportdely, the studio Universal has decided to cut out Snow White from the script and focus purely on the Huntsman.

    However, it is yet not clear whether or not Rupert Sanders will direct the film or not though he‘s certainly on the short list.

    The studio is currently exploring options to continue the franchise,” a Universal spokeswoman has been quoted to have said.

    The 22-year old Stewart is planning to get under loads of assignment in order to get over her split from Pattionson whom she dated for three years but it‘s rumoured that she decided to call it quits.

    While she struggles to get back on track, Pattinson, 26, is going from strength-to-strength. He is busy promoting his new film Cosmopolis.
     

  • Forbes names Kristen Stewart as highest-paid actress

    Forbes names Kristen Stewart as highest-paid actress

    MUMBAI: Among the current actresses of Hollywood, Kristen Stewart has been named Hollywood‘s highest-paid actress in Forbes magazine‘s annual list earning as much as $34.5 million last year. She narrowly beat Cameron Diaz who earned $34 million.
    Kristen‘s earnings came from her $12.5 million salary plus profit share for both instalments of The Twilight Saga: Breaking Dawn Parts I and II, and also her role in Snow White and the Huntsman. On the other hand, Cameron‘s earnings came from her salaries for Bad Teacher, The Green Hornet and What to Expect When You‘re Expecting, it is learnt.

    Sandra Bullock was placed third in the list for the $25 million she earned for her upcoming film Gravity as well as the profits she is still making from 2009 film The Blind Side.
    Angelina Jolie follows at number four with $20 million and Charlize Theron with $18 million is at the fifth slot.

  • Sequel of Snow white in offing

    Sequel of Snow white in offing

    MUMBAI: After the original collected $55 million at the US box in the opening weekend, a sequel of Snow white and the Huntsman has been announced.

    Kristen and Chris will return in the sequel although it is unclear if there will be a role for Charlize Theron‘s evil queen, it has been reported.

    David Koepp has been commissioned to write the new script, which will pick up after the events of the first movie.

    It is also not clear whether Rupert Sanders, who has directed part one, will wield the megaphone for the part two of the film.

  • Snow White displaces MIB 3

    Snow White displaces MIB 3

    MUMBAI: Kristen Stewart-starrer Snow White and the Huntsman overtook Men in Black 3 (MIB3) by making $ 56.3 million in its first weekend. Incidentally, Men in Black 3 was at the number one last week.
     
    The third installment of Men in Black film franchise, pulled in an estimated $ 29.3 million while The Avengers also fell to the Number 3 spot adding approximately $ 20.3 million to its overall domestic gross.
     
    Earning a better-than-expected domestic gross, the Rupert Sanders film enabled Universal Pictures claim a victory after its last film Battleship met with a bad fate.
     
    “It‘s a big relief. From the get-go, the filmmakers, the cast and the studio conveyed how very unique this movie was and that its appeal would go beyond the usual Snow White audience,” president of distribution at the studio Nikki Rocco has reportedly said.
     
    Other than Snow White, Ridley Scott‘s 3D sci-fi spectacle Prometheus grossed $ 35 million at the box office.

    At the fourth place was Battleship that raked in an estimated $4.8 million in its third weekend while Sacha Baron Cohen‘s The Dictator is still behind the action, sci-fi film with approximately USD 4.7 million.

  • Censor Board passes The Twilight Saga: Breaking Dawn without cuts

    Censor Board passes The Twilight Saga: Breaking Dawn without cuts

    MUMBAI: The Censor Board has cleared The Twilight Saga: Breaking Dawn (Part – 1) without a single cut, but given it an ‘A‘ certification.

    The film has a love sequence between Robert Pattinson and Kristen Stewart, the protagonists of the vampire movie.

    PVR Pictures is marketing and distributing the film in India.

    PVR Pictures president Kamal Gianchandani said, “Though we would have loved to have a ‘U‘ certification as it would have given us a large prospect, we are very happy that the film has been passed without a single cut.

    “We were apprehensive on one of the love making sequence of the movie which was already making news in the international media circle which was recorded without a single cut. We are happy to present the movie in totality to the Indian audience.”

    The movie had seen a bumper box office opening at the international box office with the opening day collection of $283.5 million. It will release in India on 25 November.