Los Angeles: Tom Hanks and Emma Thompson are lined up for a film on the behind-the-scenes drama while making the Disney classic 'Mary Poppins'. The film, titled 'Saving Mr Banks', has a script by Kelly Marcel detailing how Walt Disney spent 14 years coaxing PL Travers, the Australian author of Mary Poppins, in order to adapt her books about the magical nanny. Travers resisted for so long because she feared...
12:02 PM, Apr 11, 2012
New Delhi: Directed by Stephen Daldry, Extremely Loud And Incredibly Close is a touching movie that recalls the horror of 9/11 and the aftermath where all America still struggles to deal with the pain of losing the ones they loved. The movie hits theatres on March 2. The movie stars Tom Hanks, Thomas Horn, Sandra Bullock, Zoe Caldwell, Dennis Hearn, Julian Tepper, Caleb Reynolds, John Goodman, Max von Sydow, Stephen...
06:54 PM, Mar 01, 2012
Los Angeles: Even the hundreds of photographers, TV cameras and webcams around the Hollywood & Highland Center can't capture every starry moment of Sunday's 84th annual Academy Awards. Celebrities reunite on the red carpet, mingle during commercial breaks and experience impromptu star-crossings in the wings - and we've got our eyes and ears trained on those moments. From arrivals to after-parties, here's a running account of what you didn't see...
06:37 AM, Feb 27, 2012
Los Angeles: The Academy Awards are a big deal - even to A-listers. That's why a parade of stars came through the theater at the Hollywood & Highland Center Saturday to run through their lines and prepare to address their peers in front of a worldwide audience of millions. Muppet rehearsal: Even celebrities of the felt variety took time to practice their lines. Though Kermit the Frog and Miss Piggy...
04:21 PM, Feb 26, 2012
Los Angeles: After starring in a bunch of films and making some small screen projects, Tom Hanks is now working on a web series. The 55-year-old actor's production company Playtone has teamed up with Reliance Entertainment to produce 'Electric City' which will be streamed on internet giant Yahoo before heading to more traditional outlets, Ace Showbiz reported. The 90-minute animated sci-fi series will be broadcast online in 20 segments, each...
02:07 PM, Jan 10, 2012
Miami: NASA is questioning whether Apollo 13 commander James Lovell has the right to sell a 70-page checklist from the flight that includes his handwritten calculations crucial in guiding the damaged spacecraft back to Earth. The document was sold by Heritage Auctions in November for more than USD 388,000, some 15 times its initial list price. The checklist gained great fame as part of a key dramatic scene in the...
08:51 AM, Jan 07, 2012
Washington: Forrest Gump's oft-imitated line, "My momma always said, Life was like a box of chocolates. You never know what you're gonna get" will be immortalized among the nation's treasures in the world's largest archive of film, TV and sound recordings. The Library of Congress on Wednesday announced that 1994's smash hit 'Forrest Gump' starring Tom Hanks was one of 25 films chosen to be included this year in the...
11:39 AM, Dec 28, 2011
Los Angeles: Hollywood star Tom Hanks is producing a World War II drama based on Erik Larson's book, which is set in the world of Hitler's Germany. Universal studio and Hanks' Playtone have bought the rights of Larson's non-fiction best-seller 'In the Garden of Beasts' to produce. Hanks is also eyeing the project as a potential starring vehicle, the Hollywood Reporter said. The book tells the true tale of William...
01:28 PM, Nov 29, 2011
Los Angeles: Business owners touted promotions Wednesday aimed at cashing in on the upcoming closure of part of heavily traveled Interstate 405, while city officials sought to assure the public that they were ready for the effects of a possible traffic nightmare during what's being dubbed "Carmageddon" in freeway-dependent Southern California. Beginning Friday evening, authorities will begin shutting down a 10-mile segment of the freeway for 53 hours so crews...
01:08 PM, Jul 14, 2011
Los Angeles: They last appeared together in 2007 film Charlie Wilson's War and now Julia Roberts has teamed up with Tom Hanks again in his directorial venture Larry Crowne, and she is all praise for his multi-tasking abilities. "Tom gives 100 percent in every department all day long. He's happy. He's buoyant. He's present. It's mind-boggling that this is his second time directing, and he has it down. He can...
01:52 PM, Jul 11, 2011
Los Angeles: Quoting from "The King's Speech," the Oscar-winning movie about his great-grandfather, Prince William projected his royal voice on Saturday to woo the Hollywood power crowd in a bid with wife Kate to promote young British talent. He in black tie, she in a pleated lavender Alexander McQueen gown, the young newlyweds set a tone of classic elegance for the most high-profile event in their three-day visit to the...
07:56 PM, Jul 10, 2011
Emraan Hashmi is back with 'Murder 2' and Salman Khan's first production 'Chillar Party' releases this week. ...
09:58 AM, Jul 08, 2011
London: Actor Tom Hanks says he wrote his new movie Larry Crowne because he wanted to explore the way a man's life can change after returning to education. Hanks, 54, has directed, acted and co-written Larry Crowne, the story about a man who suffers a crisis when he loses a job and his marriage fails. "I wanted to do a story about a guy in his 50s who goes to...
01:14 PM, Jun 29, 2011
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