A Chinese tourism company is suing Paramount Pictures and a producer of the movie “Transformers: Age of Extinction” saying they had failed to show the company’s logo in the movie. Like other Hollywood filmmakers, Paramount has been eager to cash in on robust box-office Continue Reading
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The past week for “Weird Al” Yankovic has been a little weird by the standards of the curly-haired, accordion-playing, oddball master of pop music parody. The 54-year-old singer of such songs as “Eat It,” a culinary spoof on Michael Jackson’s 1983 hit “Beat It” and “Amish Paradise,” the send-up of rapper Coolio’s Continue Reading
Police have not identified the suspect or said why he carried out the attacks, Xinhua added. Police in China have arrested a man on suspicion of castrating or partially castrating four patients at a nursing home, state media said on Thursday, the latest scandal to hit the country’s medical sector. Doctors discovered on Tuesday that three men at […]Continue Reading
Noah Baumbach’s “While We’re Young” and Ed Zwick’s “Pawn Sacrifice” will be among the world premieres at this year’s Toronto International Film Festival, one of the top movie showcases and a favored platform to unveil Oscar contenders. The festival on Tuesday announced about 60 titles, including many of the Continue Reading
Michael Douglas is more accustomed to playing dashing leading men and corporate types, so he took a deep breath when offered the role of an ornery widower with a second chance for love in the romantic comedy “And So It Goes.” The film reunites the Oscar-winning actor with director Rob Reiner, who both worked together […]Continue Reading
Son of an advocate and having graduated in Electronics Engineering, Tovino says that Engineering was never his cup of tea. “I had always dreamt to be a part of the magical celluloid, but never had I thought that I would become an actor”, says the latest heart-throb of M-town. He has been a part of […]Continue Reading
Karl Albrecht, the man credited with bringing discount stores to Europe with the no-frills Aldi supermarket chain, died aged 94 last Wednesday, Aldi said in a statement. Publicity-shy Albrecht co-founded privately held Aldi with his brother Theo after World War Two and seventy years later was ranked by Forbes as Germany’s richest person with a […]Continue Reading
Many of the world leaders are demanding an investigation after a Malaysian airliner was shot down over eastern Ukraine in which all of the 298 people on board were killed. One of the U.S. officials said that Washington is strongly suspecting a surface to air missile which brought down the Malaysia Airlines Boeing 777 which […]Continue Reading
Oscar winning director Ron Howard said on Wednesday he will produce and direct an authorized feature-length documentary about the Beatles, covering the Fab Four years touring from 1960 to 1966.The as yet untitled film will be made with the cooperation of Paul McCartney, Ringo Starr, Yoko Ono Lennon and Olivia Harrison. It is scheduled to […]Continue Reading
Singer-songwriter Sia, the writing talent behind several pop hits, on Wednesday grabbed her own No. 1 spot on the weekly U.S. Billboard 200 chart for the first time with the album “1,000 Forms of Fear,” according to figures from Nielsen Sound Scan.In its debut week, “1,000 Forms of Fear,” sold 52,000 copies, the lowest sales […]Continue Reading



















