Stop the Presses: Vanity Fair has released its list of Hollywood’s Top 40 Highest Earners and while Avatar lensman James Cameron predictably rose to the top of the heap — with an estimated annual salary of $257 million — you may be surprised to learn that Twilight’s Kristen Stewart banked more than Jennifer Aniston and [...]
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James Cameron tops Hollywood rich list
February 3rd, 2011 |
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Acclaimed filmmaker James Cameron has reportedly topped a list of Hollywood’s top earners of 2010 after taking home a staggering $257 million last year. The “Avatar” director earned the estimated figure for writing, producing and directing the 3-D blockbuster, reports contactmusic.com. Actor Johnny Depp followed with earnings of $100 million. Steven Spielberg is third with [...]
Steven Spielberg “Gleeâ€-Inspired TV Series On NBC “Smashâ€
January 25th, 2011 |
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NBC is developing an hour-long pilot for a new Glee-esque series called Smash, a TV musical based on an idea by iconic lensman Steven Spielberg, who will be executive producing the whole shebang. Any new copycat show that tried to compete with Glee generally wouldn’t have a snowball’s chance in Hades of eclipsing its awesomeness [...]
Daniel Day-Lewis to play Abraham Lincoln in Spielberg film
November 20th, 2010 |
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Daniel Day Lewis is set to play Abraham Lincoln in an upcoming biopic to be directed by Steven Spielberg. Variety reported that the director, who first signed on for DreamWorks” “Lincoln” in 2001, has announced that Day-Lewis has signed on for the lead. Five years ago Spielberg seemed close to bringing the film in front [...]
Robert De Niro Golden Globe Awards 2011 Lifetime Achievement Prize
November 10th, 2010 |
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Robert De Niro will receive a Lifetime Achievement Award at next year’s Golden Globe Awards. De Niro will receive the Cecil B. DeMille honor at the Golden Globes on Jan.16, actor Kevin Spacey announced at a news conference on Tuesday. The Goodfellas icon is being celebrated for his contributions as a director, producer, and as [...]
Harrison Ford ‘would love’ to do another Indiana Jones flick
November 9th, 2010 |
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Harrison Ford has revealed that he is ready to do another Indiana Jones film. The 68-year-old actor said he would jump at the chance of reviving the action adventure series with producers George Lucas and Steven Spielberg, reports the Daily Telegraph. “If there”s something that the three of us can agree on then I”d love [...]
Morgan Freeman to get lifetime achievement award
October 13th, 2010 |
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Oscar winner Morgan Freeman is set to be honoured with a lifetime achievement award. He will receive the award from the American Film Institute (AFI) on 9 June. AFI chair Sir Howard Stringer called Freeman “an American treasure” who brought a calm authority to his roles, “whether playing a prisoner, a president or God.” Freeman, [...]
Meet the courtroom artist who sketched MJ, LiLo and Paris Hilton
October 11th, 2010 |
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Hollywood courtroom artist Mona Shafer Edwards has spent the last three decades in the company of celebrities, murderers and rapists using her artistic skills to bring trials to life. And now her drawings have been collected into a compendium of her life”s work in the courts of Los Angeles called Captured! Inside The World Of [...]
“Jersey Boys†Movie
October 7th, 2010 |
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Broadway’s Jersey Boys is headed to the big screen, Entertainment Weekly reports. Graham King’s GK Films — the producer of the Oscar-nominated film The Departed — has purchased the film rights to the 2006 Tony Award winner for Best Musical and will adapt the story of of how Frankie Valli, Bob Gaudio, Tommy DeVito and [...]
The 20 Best Cartoon Intros
September 23rd, 2010 |
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For a cartoon, almost everything rests on the introduction. It’s got to be exciting, short, and introduce new watchers to the premise of the show. If you can pull them in with the opening, hopefully they’ll stay for the entire thing, which is why the intro often looks much, much better than the actual cartoon. [...]
“Catch Me If You Can†Musical Opening In 2011
September 21st, 2010 |
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Unless this production finds a way to incorporate Leo DiCaprio dancing in spandex, we’re not sure we’re interested! What will they think of next? How about Catch Me If You Can: The Musical?From the producers behind the Broadway hit Hairspray comes a singing-dancing stage adaption of Steven Spielberg’s 2002 true crime film, which featured baby-faced actor [...]
Sean Connery Quitting Acting
August 25th, 2010 |
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Sean Connery has graced the silver screen for the final time. The Scottish-born Oscar-winner has announced his retirement from professional acting mere months after he was formally charged with tax evasion in Britain. Connery — who celebrates his 80th birthday today — does not believe he will ever act again because his days in business [...]
Steven Spielberg joins fight to save UK Film Council
August 13th, 2010 |
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Hollywood movie mogul Steven Spielberg has joined other stars in the fight to save the UK Film Council (UKFC) from the axe. A letter sent from his DreamWorks Studios to Chancellor George Osborne, has expressed “concern” at the Government decision to dissolve the council, reports the Daily Star. The UKFC, which was established to develop [...]
Steven Spielberg heads Down Under to shoot new dino show
August 11th, 2010 |
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Academy-Award winner Steven Spielberg is ”heading Down Under” to shoot a new dinosaur epic for the small screen. The director, renowned for his Jurassic Park movies, will work with the extinct reptiles again in ”Terra Nova” – an expensive series that will see scientists return to prehistoric Earth. Spielberg has chosen southeast Queensland in Australia [...]
Avatar would have been ‘terrible’ if it was live-action, says James Cameron
August 11th, 2010 |
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Hollywood filmmaker James Cameron thinks that his mega sci-fi hit movie ‘Avatar’ would have been a box office disaster if it was live-action. The 55-year-old director used motion-capture technology for most of the scenes in the sci-fi epic. Instead of coating actor Zoe Saldana’s, who played blue-skinned alien Neytiri of the fictional Na’vi race, skin [...]