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
Los Angeles: Woody the cowboy, Buzz Lightyear and their 'Toy Story' pals are back on the big-screen in a new adventure. The voices of Tom Hanks, Tim Allen, Michael Keaton, Joan Cusack and other stars are featured in a 'Toy Story' short film that runs before the Pixar Animation sequel 'Cars 2', which debuts in U.S. theaters Friday. 'Toy Story: Hawaiian Vacation' has Hanks' Woody, Allen's Buzz, Cusack's Jessie the...
11:32 AM, Jun 21, 2011
London: Actor Tom Hanks will make a guest appearance in American television comedy series "30 Rock" that comes on NBC. "I'm on '30 Rock'!" Hanks conformed the news on microblogging site Twitter. The 54-year-old is one of the growing number of A-listers to make a cameo on the show created by Tina Fey. Earlier Whoopi Goldberg, Susan Sarandon, Matt Damon, Jennifer Aniston and Oprah Winfrey featured in it, reports dailystar.co.uk....
02:54 PM, Mar 29, 2011
Actor Tom Hanks plays Larry Crowne in the comedy also starring Julia Roberts and directed by Hanks himself. ...
03:50 PM, Mar 21, 2011
London: Actor Matthew McConaughey says he gave $100 to Tom Hanks for indirectly 'babysitting' his son. "My son's main thing is 'Toy Story'! I mean, daily. And so I run into Tom Hanks and I slip him $100. He says, 'What's that for?' And I say, 'Trust me, I owe you a lot more than that for the amount of time you've been babysitting Levi'," McConaughey has been quoted as...
02:05 PM, Mar 19, 2011
London: Veteran actor Tom Hanks is in talks to star in Oscar winning filmmaker Kathryn Bigelow's new film Sleeping Dogs. This will be her first directorial venture since she won the Oscar for The Hurt Locker. She has once again teamed up with writer Mark Boal for the project. Hanks is the latest in the number of actors being lined-up for a role in the film after Leonardo DiCaprio, Sean...
12:27 PM, Oct 07, 2010
London: Hollywood actress Sandra Bullock is reportedly in talks for a role in a film adaptation of the book "Extremely Loud and Incredibly Close". The 46-year-old star who this year won the Best Actress Oscar for her role in
The Blind Side is in talks alongside Tom Hanks to star in the project, an adaptation of the 2005 novel by Jonathan Safran Foer, reports
contactmusic.com. The film tells the tale...
12:50 PM, Aug 24, 2010
They will promote the film in Delhi, Mumbai and Bangalore ...
01:30 PM, Jun 16, 2010
Find out who tops the list with an earning of £43.3 mn last year. ...
04:49 PM, Jun 15, 2009
Go in without any expectations and perhaps you will be engaged. ...
11:37 PM, May 29, 2009
The big release this Friday is Dan Brown's
Angels and Demons. ...
02:20 PM, May 29, 2009
