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The Band Baaja Baaraat actor is a huge fan of the British rock band and she's flying to London to see the Chris Martin gang playing live! Anushka Sharma deserves a break! After juggling films, endorsements, TV commercials and fashion shoots, the 24-year-old is now flying to London to relax a bit.

Mumbai, May 27: Tannishtha Chatterjee feels Indian films still have a long way to go when it comes to getting recognition in the international arena.

Prithviraj Sukumaran has a sizeable fan club in the city, thanks to 'Mozhi', 'Vellithirai' and Mani Ratnam's 'Ravanan'. And he is back after a brief absence with the Tamil verison of the big budget historical movie, 'Urumi', which he has jointly produced with Santosh Sivan and Shaji Natesan.

New Delhi, May 26: Most Hindi TV shows are shot in Mumbai's Film City, but the makers of "Madhubala...Ek Ishq, Ek Junoon" went a step ahead and shot its 10 initial episodes at Hyderabad's world-famous Ramoji Film City.

Karachi, May 26: Veena Malik has started working on the Kannada version of Bollywood smash hit 'The Dirty Picture', insisting that the film is packed with glamour and sentiments that will provide her with an opportunity to showcase her talent.

By Subhash K. Jha, Mumbai, May 26: Veteran actor Naseeruddin Shah is delighted to team up with Bollywood diva Madhuri Dixit in Vishal Bhardwaj's "Dedh Ishqiya", and says he is looking forward to their working together.

Bollywood filmmaker Kunal Kohli has made Shahid Kapoor and Priyanka Chopra's characters in his forthcoming film Teri Meri Kahaani switch religious identities during the narration.

Mumbai, May 26: With Indian cinema celebrating its glorious 100 years, Bollywood seems to be charged up for the event.

New Delhi, May 25 : Rajkumar Hirani and Rituparno Ghosh are among the filmmakers scheduled to hold master classes at the third edition of the Indian Film Festival in Melbourne June 11-22. Designer Sabyasachi Mukherjee will host a workshop too.

New Delhi, May 26: Hollywood may have wiped out the "whole world's indigenous film industry" but Bollywood has held up, giving room to talent from all over the globe, says Dibakar Banerjee, the maker of acclaimed films such as "Khosla Ka Ghosla" and "Oye Lucky! Lucky Oye!" Stating that Bollywood had not buckled under Hollywood pressure, Banerjee ... (more)

Tim Cagney, deputy CEO of the British Film Institute, was in Cardiff to outline the company's draft five-year plan, New Horizons, detailing proposals for investing Lottery support for UK films.

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Jonathan Romney hails the Tolstoy-esque simplicity of Sergei Loznitsa's possibly bleak, certainly slow In the Fog - and the meta-Troma invention of Ashim Ahluwalia's Miss Lovely One Tweeter in Cannes complained today about critics automatically using the words 'slow' and 'bleak' as terms of approval.

Speaking about his character, he told the Daily Mail newspaper: 'Harold's a cross between two guys Robert De Niro has played in Martin Scorsese films, 'The King of Comedy' and 'Taxi Driver'. 'Think of 'Taxi Driver' as a Bollywood movie and 'Harold's Harem' is somewhere where all those - 'The King of Comedy', 'Taxi Driver' and 'Bollywood' - meet.' ... (more)

"La Pirogue" portrays the treacherous world of people smuggling, which has seen hundreds of would-be migrants lose their lives trying to enter Europe in recent years.

At the same time his remarkable eloquence, media-savvy methods and formidable connections with the entire film industry irrespective of who's sparring with whom makes this undeniably charming filmmaker, chat show host and stylist an inevitable brand name.

Janet Jackson, Alec Baldwin and Adrien Brody have brought a touch of Hollywood glamour to the south of France for amfAR's Cinema Against AIDS gala.

This is big, dumb fun that knows it's big, dumb fun and enthusiastically embraces its big, dumb, fun nature.

Shorecrest and Shorewood students received Awards of Excellence at the Northwest High School Film Festival held May 22 at the Cinerama Theater in downtown Seattle.

Mumbai, May 24 : The third edition of the Mumbai International Queer Film Festival, 'Kashish' aimes at providing a forum to the Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual and Transgender community through the medium of cinema, in a nation where homosexuality still carries a heavy social stigma.