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  CANNES was setting up for Wednesday’s (May 15) big opening film, The Great Gatsby, with Amitabh Bachchan due to put in an appearance both at a press conference and later at the red carpet gala screening. In the Cannes market, the posters were projecting the Indian films that will be shown in the next […]

  INDIA is the ‘guest country’ at this year’s Cannes Film Festival which runs from May 15-26, as the country marks 100 years of feature film production. Interestingly, it was the French, who introduced moving picture to India, when the frères Lumiere made an appearance at the Watsons Hotel, Bombay on July 7, 1896 and […]

INDIAN movie actors and a new wave of directors are on a mission at the Cannes film festival – to show that their industry, which turns 100 this year, is more than just Bollywood.   The largest Indian contingent to date is on the French Riviera at the world’s leading cinema showcase to promote the […]

        INDIAN American director M Night Shyamalan, who has made supernatural thrillers such as The Sixth Sense and The Lady in the Water, is hoping that the upcoming sci-fi Hollywood film After Earth will reveal another dimension to his storytelling style. Shyamalan does not believe that he has been pigeonholed as the horror director, but he […]

TELEVISION talk show queen Oprah Winfrey was named the most powerful celebrity in the world on Wednesday (June 26) as Forbes.com released its annual list of the top movers and shakers in the entertainment industry.   Winfrey, 59, who was ranked in the top spot despite her signature daytime television show Oprah ending its 25-year […]

A NEW Hollywood film starring Dev Patel as Srinivasa Ramanujan will put the spotlight on the Indian math genius best known for his work on the theory of prime numbers. Ramanujan, who died in 1920, was considered one of the brightest minds in mathematics, despite his lack of a formal education. Patel, who caught Hollywood’s […]

      By Suman Bhuchar    Grace of Monaco, the opening film at the 67th Cannes Film Festival, is due to go on general release in the UK on 6 June.   This biopic of Hollywood star, Grace Kelly and her marriage to Prince Rainier 111 of Monaco (played here by Nicole Kidman and […]

FORMER pop star and model turned fashion impresario Victoria Beckham has come top in a yearly ranking of Britain's 100 best managers for her "finely tuned business acumen". The list also include two Indian Britisher brother-sister duo Amit and Meeta Patel, who own a pharmaceutical business. "Victoria Beckham, formerly known as Posh Spice is queen […]

'SLUMDOG Millionaire' star Dev Patel and Nicole Kidman are set to star in 'Lion', a new drama produced by The Weinstein Co. The drama, based on the memoir 'A Long Way Home' by Saroo Brierley, follows a street kid from Calcutta (Patel) who is taken in and adopted by a couple in Australia, according to […]

AFTER negotiating a salary equal to her male co-star for her upcoming movie, Hollywood actress Charlize Theron has called on other women to take a stand when it comes to equal pay.   Theron said she was outraged when leaked Sony emails showed a gap in what male and female actors were paid for the […]