New Delhi: Seventy-two-year-old Har Prakash, popularly known as Guinness Rishi, holds four Guinness world records, while 17 of his feats have found place in the Limca Book of Records. Now, this Dheerpur Colony resident is all set for yet another accomplishment. Rishi plans to contest as an independent candidate in the upcoming Delhi civic polls to set a record of polling nothing. However, he won't contest from the ward where...
03:53 PM, Mar 22, 2012
Los Angeles: Interview with Kirk Baxter and Angus Wall for The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo Q. Coming at The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo is a completely different movie from 'The Social Network'. What were some of the challenges in cutting this kind of movie? A. [Kirk Baxter] Its length. A. [Angus Wall] Yeah. The screenplay was much, much longer than 'The Social Network' so there's...the proportional amount of...
06:33 PM, Feb 27, 2012
Los Angeles: Speech by Kirk Baxter and Angus Wall for the film The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo Kirk Baxter: We weren't expecting this. Angus: No Kirk Baxter: I'd like to thank the Academy. Angus Wall: We're missing some very important people up here with us: primarily David, who's not here tonight, but Can and Steven Zaillian and Scott Rudin. Kirk Baxter: There's the Roons.miss the black tonight. [Points at...
05:01 PM, Feb 27, 2012
New Delhi: The names of Academy Awards winners are a closely guarded secret until the envelope is opened during the Oscar night. But Google, armed with its search statistics takes a go at predicting the winners at the 84th Annual Academy Awards. The search engine giant has closely analysed the search trends over the last three years to identify indications that point towards the actual winners who took the gold...
01:47 PM, Feb 25, 2012
The Oscar nominees for the Best Actress include Rooney Mara for 'The girl with the dragon tattoo'. ...
04:03 PM, Feb 22, 2012
Los Angeles: Vanity Fair unveiled the cover of its annual Hollywood issue on Tuesday, featuring 'fresh stars of 2012' who were chosen for the impact they made through movies, including Oscar nominees Rooney Mara and Jessica Chastain. "We're looking for actresses who are doing great work on the screen. And if they're young and beautiful, well that doesn't hurt either," wrote Vanity Fair features editor Jane Sarkin in an email...
11:52 AM, Feb 01, 2012
New Delhi: All those waiting for the release of The Girl With The Dragon Tattoo in India are going to be disappointed. As reports go " the India release of this crime novel turned movie " has been cancelled. The Girl With The Dragon Tattoo is the first book of the Millennium Series by Stieg Larsson has been turned in to a movie starring Daniel Craig and Rooney Mara. Directed...
03:16 PM, Jan 29, 2012
Beverly Hills: Martin Scorsese's Paris adventure 'Hugo' leads the Academy Awards with 11 nominations, among them best picture and the latest director slot for the Oscar-winning filmmaker. Also nominated for best picture Tuesday: the silent film 'The Artist'; the family drama 'The Descendants'; the Sept. 11 tale 'Extremely Loud & Incredibly Close'; the Deep South drama 'The Help'; the romantic fantasy 'Midnight in Paris'; the sports tale 'Moneyball'; the family...
07:24 PM, Jan 24, 2012
Rajeev Masand brings to you two fresh Oscar nominations this week - 'The Girl With the Dragon Tattoo' and 'The Ides of March'. ...
09:24 AM, Jan 21, 2012
Los Angeles: Stieg Larsson's novel 'The Girl With the Dragon Tattoo', about computer hacker Lisbeth Salander, is getting a graphic makeover by Vertigo. The company is planning to publish a graphic novel based on the original in November. The first book from the best-seller trilogy has already been adapted on the big screen in Hollywood, starring Bond actor Daniel Craig and Rooney Mara in lead roles. The series also has...
01:31 PM, Jan 14, 2012
New York: Sony Pictures is reportedly planning to go ahead with the sequels of Stieg Larsson's best-selling trilogy despite the poor box office performance of Daniel Craig starrer 'The Girl With The Dragon Tattoo'. Directed by 'Social Network' helmer David Fincher, the film was billed as the next big thing but failed to live up to the expectations of the audiences. However, the studio is moving on with the next...
01:48 PM, Jan 10, 2012
Los Angeles: When director David Fincher decided to make a film of 'The Girl With the Dragon Tattoo,' Hollywood was abuzz with who might play the starring role of abused, vengeance-seeking computer hacker Lisbeth Salander. Would it be an A-list actress like Scarlett Johansson or Natalie Portman, or someone completely unknown to audiences? For Fincher, the Oscar nominated director of 'The Social Network,' the answer was never clear cut. Little...
03:37 PM, Dec 23, 2011
Los Angeles: Actor Daniel Craig has said though 'The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo' was a serious film, he had fun shooting for it. Craig insists that the shoot was defined by moments of lightheartedness. In many ways, he notes, the darker the material, the more frequent the fun. "The more serious the subject matter the more likely you are to have fits of giggles, just from the very nature...
12:03 PM, Dec 22, 2011
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