LAHORE: The Central Board of Film Censors (CBFC) of Pakistan and Punjab Film Censor Board (PFCB) held full board meetings on Monday regarding the release of upcoming Indian film Raid. The Sindh Film Censor Board (SFCB) has cleared the film already and Distribution Club, a film distribution company, has purchased the rights for Raid as…
MUMBAI: With an upwards of INR6 billion tied up in future film projects, Bollywood is practically shuddering at the possibility that Salman Khan might end up spending five years in jail for being found guilty in a 1998 blackbuck poaching case on Thursday. Needless to say, film-makers across India are waiting with bated breath for the verdict of the…
LOS ANGELES: The raggedy doll will be back to haunt people as the third part of Annabelle movie is in the works. New Line is expanding the profitable The Conjuring universe with a third Annabelle movie that will open on July 3, 2019, reports Variety. PHOTO: HOLLYWOOD REPORTER Gary Dauberman, who has written the scripts for two demon…
After the soaring success of her first Bollywood project, Hindi Medium, opposite acclaimed actor Irrfan Khan, Saba Qamar’s career knows no bounds. Saba Qamar’s ‘Hindi Medium’ opens big in China She aced her role as Fouzia Batool and Kanwal Baloch in slain social media star Qandeel Baloch’s biopic Baaghi, for which she received several accolades and hefty praises, and…
Steven Spielberg’s Jurassic Park released in June 1993 and changed Hollywood forever. Adapted from Michael Crichton’s best-selling book from 1990, the film starred Sam Neill, Laura Dern, Jeff Goldblum and Richard Attenborough in the lead roles and proved to be a true-blue blockbuster in every sense of the word: An entertaining popcorn flick with eye-popping…
Mahira Khan is quite active on social media and frequently does #AskMahira sessions on Twitter to interact with her fans. And this time, it was long overdue! After a long gap, the Raees actor took to Twitter to keep good on her promise as she chatted with fans and opened up about her recent venture 7 Din Mohabbat In,…
Scarlett Johansson is once again at the center of what is shaping up to be another casting controversy. Re-teaming with her Ghost in the Shell director Rupert Sanders, Johansson is set to star in a feature called Rub & Tug – a true-life story of Jean Marie Gill who was assigned female at birth. She later assumed the…
Firecracker. That’s most likely what comes to mind when there’s talk about Bollywood’s heartthrob Ranveer Singh. His I-don’t-give-a-damn attitude, his uproarious personality, his loving relationship with ladylove Deepika Padukone and lastly, his claim of being a complete outsider in the Indian film industry definitely made him the talk of the town. But is his quirky personality, his…
LONDON: The London Film Festival said on Thursday it was championing female directors, as half of the official competition films were made by women. Around 38% of the films screened across the whole festival are directed by women, up from 24% last year. The 62nd London Film Festival, which runs from October 10 to 21,…
FLORIDA: Burt Reynolds, the mustachioed heart-throb of 1970s cinema who won acclaim in Deliverance and a host of awards later in his career for Boogie Nights, died on Thursday, his family announced. The famously suave 82-year-old, a huge box office draw at his peak who had a reputation as a hard-drinking playboy, reportedly suffered a heart…
