Censors in China have edited out 40 minutes of content from 'Cloud Atlas' before its release next week. ...
01:00 PM, Jan 24, 2013
You must remember Robin Williams from his 1993 film Mrs Doubtfire. Williams, playing the role of a father desperate to keep his kids facing a nasty divorce, agreed to dress up as an old woman, Mrs Eugene Doubtfire, who was to be the kids' nanny. The makeup took four and half hours to apply every day before shoot and is still talked about as the most amazing thing anyone has...
05:55 PM, Nov 05, 2012
Los Angeles: It took three weeks, but 'Argo' finally found its way to the top of the box office. The Warner Bros. thriller from director and star Ben Affleck, inspired by the real-life rescue of six U.S. embassy workers during the 1979 Iranian hostage crisis, made nearly $12.4 million this weekend, according to Sunday studio estimates. 'Argo' had been in second place the past two weeks and has now made...
11:25 AM, Oct 29, 2012
Maybe if you're 20 years old and high in your dorm room with your friends, the platitudes presented in 'Cloud Atlas' might seem profound. Anyone else in his or her right mind should recognize it for what it is: a bloated, pseudo-intellectual, self-indulgent slog through some notions that are really rather facile. Ooh, we're all interconnected and our souls keep meeting up with each other over the centuries, regardless of...
12:53 PM, Oct 27, 2012
This week two Hollywood films hit theatres including Tom Hanks starrer 'Cloud Atlas' and Mark Wahlberg's 'Ted'. Inspired by the novel of the same name, 'Cloud Atlas' stars Tom Hanks, Halle Berry, Hugh Grant and Susan Sarandon. Based on the premise of action and reaction, the film explores how individual lives impact one another over different periods of time - the past, the present and the future. A comedy, 'Ted' ...
10:49 AM, Oct 26, 2012
New Delhi: Hollywood actress Halle Berry says the plot of her upcoming film 'Cloud Atlas', which revolves around the subject of reincarnation, resembles elements of Indian mythology. "Most of the main characters are the reincarnations of the same soul through the six stories shown in the movie," Berry said in a statement. "It almost resembles the Indian mythology so much; where there was Lord Rama, who came as the seventh...
05:57 PM, Oct 20, 2012
Toronto: Cult novel Cloud Atlas was once considered unfilmable. For some movie critics, it still is. The adaptation of the philosophical book by Britain's David Mitchell premiered at the Toronto International Film Festival to sharply divided reviews, suggesting the complex storylines and ambitious plot structure did not always connect with audiences who had not read the novel. With a budget that reportedly topped $100 million, and an all-star cast of...
07:03 PM, Sep 10, 2012
Toronto: The Toronto film festival opened with action movie Looper starring Joseph Gordon-Levitt, but it was Twilight star Kristen Stewart who attracted the biggest buzz on the red carpet at the star-studded festival scattered with Oscar hopefuls. Anticipation was high for one of the world's premier film festivals that coming off Venice helps mark the beginning of Hollywood's awards season. Filmmakers see it as crucial launching pad and Toronto has...
02:42 PM, Sep 07, 2012
New Delhi: Director Larry Wachowski, of the Matrix trilogy fame, has apparently undergone a sex change operation and now calls herself Lana, according to media reports. Wachowski introduced her new persona in the trailer of his latest film 'Cloud Atlas'. "Hi, I'm Lana," Wachowski said in the video. The sex change comes after nearly a decade of hormone therapy, reported the AOL website. The Matrix trilogy with his brother Andy...
06:25 PM, Jul 31, 2012
New Delhi: The first extended trailer of Tom Hanks and Halle Berry's 'Cloud Atlas' was released to much excitement among fans of the epic drama, based on a 2004 novel by the same name by British author David Mitchell. A scene from the trailer shows Berry in a red sari and wearing the red and white bangles that married women from north India wear. Mitchell had won the British Book...
04:46 PM, Jul 27, 2012
