LONDON: ‘Harry Potter’ author J.K. Rowling’s life story is to be turned into a movie. Rowling – who went from being a single mother receiving state benefits to being worth an estimated $804 million following the worldwide success of the schoolboy wizard franchise – will be portrayed in the film by actress Poppy Montgomery, known …
NEW YORK: Perry Moore, an executive producer of the fantasy movie series ‘The Chronicles of Narnia’, committed suicide in his New York City apartment. He was 39. His death was from an overdose of pain-killers, the New York Daily News reports. Moore wrote ‘Hero’, a novel about a young gay superhero, and also served as …
MUMBAI: He might be flying in private jets but there was a time when Amitabh Bachchan used to gatecrash weddings and travel in trains without a ticket. Big B, who is shooting for ‘Aarakshan’ and is becoming quite nostalgic about his college days. “We were talking on set about college and university days and how …
MUMBAI: Actress Priyanka Chopra got into a heated verbal argument with a man in Delhi while promoting her just released film ‘7 Khoon Maaf’. He was out to rattle her. The incident happened Tuesday evening at the recording of an interactive interview. A man, apparently from Punjab, piped in to accuse her of ‘not being …
THIRUVANANTHAPURAM: The great grandmother of Malayalam Cinema has passed away. Aranmula Ponnamma died Monday at a private hospital in Thiruvananthapuram. She was 96 years old. Ponnamma had a surgery after she fell down and had a back injury two weeks ago. Her body is expected to be moved to her house in Jagathy. Her final …
In an interesting development, one of the much acclaimed movies in recent times ‘Pranchiyettan and the saint’ has completed 160 days. The movie is continuing in a lone theatre in Thrissur to become the biggest running Mollywood movie in the last five years, surpassing record by ‘Happy husbands’ which ran to 150 days in a …
The Madras High Court has lifted the stay put on the release of ‘Kavalan’ responding to a case filed by J K Saravanan, proprietor of Tantra films from Singapore. In his petition J K Saravanan had alleged that producer Romesh Babu had promised overseas rights of the film to him for Rs five crore and …
GOA: The young superstar of Malayalam film industry, Prithviraj is very excited these days after shooting the climax scene of his upcoming film ‘Urumi’, which involved more than 150 stuntmen, over 100 horses, more than 1000 extras and multiple cameras. Prithivarj says that the climax scene of ‘Urumi’ is the most massive one in Mollywood …
Shruthi Haasan, daughter of Kamal Haasan is one of the most promising young actors to have emerged in the last few years. The latest Buzz in Mollywood is that Shruthi has been approached by director Rajeev Kumar to do a Malayalam film. Rajeev is one of Kamal’s closest associates and has done Chanakyan many years …
KOZHIKODE: Mired in a match-fixing controversy, tainted Pakistani fast bowler Mohammed Asif who was to debut in a Malayalam film has now been dropped from the movie, according to its director Kaithapram Damodaran Namboothiri. Namboothiri told mediapersons on Tuesday that now he just can’t go ahead with the project with Asif. “He has to be …
