DHAKA: Star power and Oscar aspirations are reigning at the box office, where the space adventure ‘Gravity’ and the Somali pirate docudrama ‘Captain Phillips’ are holding off all comers.With $31 million over the weekend according to studio estimates on Sunday, ‘Gravity’ topped

DHAKA: Actor James Franco is set to make his Broadway debut in a new production of ‘Of Mice and Men’.The 35-year-old will play one of the lead roles in the stage production, based on John Steinbeck’s classic 1937 novel.In the play, Franco will star alongside British actor Chris

The legendary talk show host Oprah Winfrey is hoping to raise funds for her Oprah Winfrey Leadership Academy Foundation College Fund by selling collectables from her homes from all over the United States.The Fund benefits graduates of her school for girls in Africa as they try to get into

DHAKA: A Shakespearean play will be produced in the dialect of Sylhet. British-Bangladeshis along with UK diasporas will perform in the play.The UK wing of Bishwa Sahitya Kendra will arrange a two-week workshop to begin from October 24 in London in producing the play.The play will be

DHAKA: Hollywood star couple Brad Pitt and Angelina Jolie have reportedly signed a pre-nuptial agreement worth 200 million pounds.The couple, who raise six children together, are planning to marry over Christmas and Pitt, 49, has had his lawyers draw up a 101-page document which states

The Warner Bros. astronaut adventure directed by Alfonso Cuaron and starring Sandra Bullock and George Clooney landed in the top spot at the box office for the second weekend in a row, according to studio estimates on Sunday, The Straits Times publishes the report on Monday.‘Gravity’

DHAKA: Nationalist political party Maharashtra Navnirman Sena has asked London-born singer of Indian-Pakistani origin Adnan Sami to leave the country immediately as his visa has expired.The MNS Film Wing chief Amey Khopkar called Sami, 44, to the party office in the afternoon and spoke to

DHAKA: Telefilm ‘Bhalobasar Rong Bodol’, written by Manas Pal and directed by Kaysar Ahmed, will be aired on Channel-i on the occasion of Eid-ul-Azha.The telefilm, to be performed by DA Tayeb, Nawshin and Hillol, will be telecast at 12:05pm on the sixth day of the Eid.In the story,

DHAKA: David Duchovny and Gillian Anderson say they`re game for a third X-Files movie.The actors participated in media events in New York on Saturday marking the 20th anniversary of the TV premiere of The X-Files, The Straits Times publishes this report on Sunday.Duchovny says ‘all the

DHAKA: Indian filmmaker Ram Gopal Varma says ‘Satya’ in the title of his next film ‘Satya 2’ should only be interpreted as a pseudonym.He doesn’t want the audience to consider the forthcoming movie as a sequel to his 1998 crime thriller.He says ‘Satya 2’ is about the

DHAKA: Michael Douglas has admitted he lied about having throat cancer.The Hollywood actor recently spoke to Samuel L Jackson as part of ‘Male Awareness Week’ on ITV’S ‘This Morning’, reports contactmusic.com.Douglas revealed his battle with tongue cancer and not throat cancer,

DHAKA: Michael Douglas has admitted he lied about having throat cancer.The Hollywood actor recently spoke to Samuel L Jackson as part of ‘Male Awareness Week’ on ITV’S ‘This Morning’, reports contactmusic.com.Douglas revealed his battle with tongue cancer and not throat cancer,

DHAKA: Oscar winner Jamie Foxx has been tipped to tackle the life of civil rights icon Martin Luther King, Jr. in a new Oliver Stone biopic.The Ray star is reportedly in talks to take the lead in the DreamWorks/Warner Brothers production, which will document King, Jr.’s life from his

DHAKA: Indian police said on Thursday they had filed a case against Miss Universe for conducting an unauthorised footwear fashion shoot at the Taj Mahal which was slammed as an ‘insult’ by the monument’s caretaker.Twenty-one-year-old American Olivia Culpo, wearing a long

DHAKA: Dhaka’s Star Cineplex premiered James Cameron’s spectacular epic movie ‘Titanic’ in 3D at Basundhara City Shopping Mall on Panthapath.This 3-hour and 14 minute movie, a 3D conversion of ‘Titanic’ was released Tuesday evening.Worldwide released on April 4 in 2012, this

DHAKA: Telefilm ‘Tobuo-Bhalobasi’ will be aired on the occasion of upcoming Eid-ul-Azha on Ekushey Televison.The telefilm, performed by Amin Khan and Kusum Sikder, is scripted by Rudra Mahfuz and directed by Sakhawat Hossian Manik.‘It is a nice romantic telefilm. Its story is very

DHAKA: Seven years after being named Esquire magazine’s sexiest woman alive, Scarlett Johansson has earned the title for a second time.Johansson, who also won in 2006, is the first woman to get the honour twice. Last year’s winner was Mila Kunis.Johansson jokingly tells the magazine

DHAKA: The Sandra Bullock-George Clooney space drama ‘Gravity’ flew to the top of the box office in its debut weekend.The Warner Bros. adventure opened with US$55.55 million in North American ticket sales, according to studio estimates on Sunday.Alfonso Cuaron directs the film, which

DHAKA: Dhaka’s Star Cineplex will screen James Cameron’s spectacular epic movie ‘Titanic’ in 3D at Basundhara City Shopping Mall on Panthapath.This 3-hour and 14 minute movie, a 3D conversion of ‘Titanic’ will be released at 5:00pm on October 8.Worldwide released on April 4 in

DHAKA: Halle Berry joins the list of Hollywood A-listers who are returning to the small screen for a recurring role, as she is set to star in CBS drama ‘Extant’.This will be the first time the 47 year-old has returned for a television role since 1991 from her run in the American soap