Actress Emma Watson says she had doubts about her acting career as she was intimidated to come out of the shadow of her character Hermione Granger played in the ‘Harry Potter’ series.
The 23-year-old ‘Noah‘ star did a year-long course at Oxford University in 2011 after the completion of ‘Harry Potter’ series, reported Daily Mirror.
Hollywood heartthrob Bradley Cooper and his model girlfriend Suki Waterhouse are reportedly still dating despite rumours suggesting that they broke up.
The ‘Hangover’ star had recently fuelled rumours of a break up from the British model but apparently the couple are still very much in love with each other, reported E!Online.
“Bradley and Suki are very much a couple,” the source said.
Singer-songwriter Christina Perri says she had to work hard on her second album ‘Head or Heart’, which released today.
The 27-year-old ‘A Thousand Years’ singer took a year and over two months to write her second album, reported Hollywood Reporter.
Swedish DJ Avicii is on the road to recovery after an operation to remove his appendix and gallbladder.
The 24-year-old DJ, whose real name is Tim Bergling, announced last week that he was pulling out of Miami’s Ultra Music Festival because of stomach pains, reported BBC online.
He was admitted to hospital in the US, and later told he had a gall bladder problem and ruptured appendix.
Actress Jennifer Aniston admits she wears minimal make-up in summers in order to keep her skin fresh and healthy.
The 45-year-old ‘Friends’ star uses less moisturiser in summer, reported People magazine.
“Summertime I wear the least amount, if any, make-up. I use a great moisturiser. If anything, I put a little concealer here and there, a little rose on my cheeks, dust with bronzer.
That’s summertime,” Aniston said.
Mammootty is all set to play the role of Cheraman Perumal, the first legendary ruler of Kerala.
A news report here quoted Mammootty as saying that a movie maker has approached him to make a movie on Perumal’s life and play the lead role in it.
Perumal, the 6th century AD ruler, died in Oman following an ailment during his return journey to Kerala after a pilgrimage to the holy city of Makkah.
Actor-politician Shatrughan Sinha’s daughter actress Sonakshi has found a unique way to campaign for her father’s re-election to Patna Sahib Lok Sabha seat.
Though Shatrughan’s elder son Luv has been giving father company during his campaign, daughter Sonakshi is not finding time for it because of her shooting commitments and thus has taken up the social media for the purpose.
Well known French singer Mina Agossi has revealed she is impressed with the voice of legendary singer Lata Mangeshkar and wants to meet her.
“I am highly impressed with melody queen Lata Mangeshkar and I feel excited and thrilled listening to her songs. She is legendary and I would be happy to meet her if I get a chance,” the 42-year-old singer told PTI.
Agossi is in the city to take part in a jazz concert tonight.
Filmmaker and social activist Ashoke Pandit is all set to receive the Kashmir Gaurav Samman, which will be given to him by All India Kashmiri Samaj.
The filmmaker had produced and directed the hit TV show ‘Filmi Chakkar’ that starred actor Satish Shah and actress Ratna Pathak Shah.
“Receiving the ‘Kashmir Gaurav Samman’ by All India Kashmiri Samaj in Delhi. Thanks for all your love and affection,” Ashoke tweeted.
Megastar Amitabh Bachchan and actor Akhsay Kumar are all set to walk the ramp dressed in apparels designed by under-privileged women of Mizwan village for Shabana Azmi‘s charity fashion show.
Bachchan, 71, and 46-year-old Akshay will be joined by many other Bollywood stars for the event, which is slated to take place on April 1 in Mumbai.
South superstar Rajinikanth‘s daughter Soundarya, who is making her directorial debut with the much-talked about film ‘Kochadaiiyaan‘, says it is an animated film but not a cartoon movie.
“I bring my dream to you all. We have used technology that is mostly used in Hollywood films. It is a photo-realistic motion capture technology. Unfortunately, animation is not understood here. ‘Kochadaiiyaan’ is an animated film but not a cartoon film. It is first humble step.
Bollywood actress Kangana Ranaut struggled her way down the ramp in her floor-sweeping gown as she brought the curtains down of the Wills Lifestyle India Fashion Week (WLIFW) Autumn/Winter 2014.
Kangana, 27, who is known for her role as a supermodel in Madhur Bhandarkar’s ‘Fashion’, looked uncomfortable and even stopped at the middle of the runway to manage her black body-hugging off-shoulder gown designed by grand finale designer Namrata Joshipura.
Superstar Rajinikanth, whose next film ‘Kochadaiiyaan‘ is set to take 3D films a step further in India, with its ground-breaking photo-realistic motion capture technology, says that he is not all tech-savvy.
This kind of technology, a first in an India film, has been used in Hollywood blockbuster films like ‘Avatar‘.
“I had come here (Mumbai) for ‘Robot’ which was one of its kind film.
Bollywood megastar Amitabh Bachchan launched the Hindi trailer of Tamil superstar and close friend Rajinikanth‘s upcoming film ‘Kochadaiiyaan‘ here.
Bachchan, 71, alongwith the South legend launched the trailer here late last night at a suburban multiplex.
Directed by Rajinikanth’s daughter Soundarya, Kochadaiiyaan is a hi-tech 3D film with photo-realistic motion capture technology also known as performance capturing technology, a first of this kind being produced in India.
Actress Sonam Kapoor says her father, noted actor Anil Kapoor, is proud of her achievements but wants her to do better work and has even expressed his desire to direct her.
“He thinks I need to work harder and do better work. He is proud of me, but he keeps telling me to focus and work hard and not to space out in between (take break) as this is the time to work out.
Actor Orlando Bloom says he is feeling that his career would take a major leap in near future.
The 37-year-old actor, who split from Miranda Kerr last year, said he had been feeling “rudderless” since some days, reported Daily Mirror.
“After a period of feeling a little rudderless, I feel like I’ve set a course again.
Fantasy series ‘Once Upon a Time in Wonderland’ will not be returning for a second season.
The show’s whose 13th and final episode of its season will air next week, is believed to have struggled to secure high ratings, reported Variety.
The ABC Studios series was based on the Lewis Carroll novel ‘ Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland’.
A French-Canadian actress convicted of stalking Hollywood actor Alec Baldwin has been freed from prison after serving less than six months of a seven-month sentence.
Genevieve Sabourin was released from Rikers Island in New York, reported Contactmusic.
“Ms Sabourin is ready to move on with her life and put this all behind her,” her attorney, Todd Spodek, said.
A letter written by the late Beatles star John Lennon to producer Phil Spector has sold at an auction for 53,000 pounds.
Lennon penned a letter titled ‘A Matter Of Pee’ in the 70s and it was sold by London auction house Cooper Owen to a private collector, reported Daily Express.
Bollywood megastar Amitabh Bachchan and actress Katrina Kaif have been invited for the annual Literary and Cultural Conference to be held in Lahore, organisers said.
According to a report in Dawn newspaper, Bachchan, 71, and Kaif are among the many foreign dignitaries, who may attend the event organised by the Lahore Arts Council.
The organisers are hopeful that both Bachchan and Kaif will attend the proceedings in Lahore.
Actress Suchitra Sen, who passed away in January, has been posthumously given a lifetime achievement award at the inaugural edition of Filmfare Awards East.
The award was accepted by her granddaughters Raima and Riya Sen at a glittering ceremony last night.
Suchitra Sen, best known for films like ‘Devdas’, ‘Aandhi’ ‘Saptapadi’ and ‘Deep Jele Jai’ passed away at the age of 82 in January this year.
Reality TV star Kim Kardashian says she does not recognise herself without make-up.
The 33-year-old socialite recently secured the front cover of the upcoming issue of Vogue magazine with her fiance Kanye West, reported Daily Mirror.
“I feel odd when I don’t wear makeup! I don’t recognise myself,” Kardashian said.
The couple, who are parents to a baby daughter North, enjoy going on movies together.
One Direction singer Harry Styles readily agreed to pay USD 5000 to ‘Emmerdale’ star Matt Healy during a prank.
Healy recently played a prank on the the 20-year-old singer on a radio show, asking Styles if he could lend him USD 5,000 to help him handle a “threatening” situation with two men, reported E! Online.
The singer readily agreed to pay the amount.
A comic book on the story of Nirvana singer Kurt Cobain is up for release next month.
The comic book written by Jayfri Hashim will be available in digital version as well as hard copy on April 2, reported Aceshowbiz.
The book will tell Cobain’s early career and his rise to fame.
It is a part of the publisher’s “Tribute” series which previously featured artists such as John Lennon, Paul McCartney, Jim Morrison and Keith Richards.
Late singer Amy Winehouse will reportedly get a hologram treatment for a world tour.
The ‘Back to Black’ singer will be resurrected as a hologram by billionaire Alki David using 3D computer technology and backing orchestra, reported Contactmusic.
“The most important thing to Amy was the music and I’m sure a lot of people would like to hear her sing again. It depends on what Amy’s fans want as a way to keep her memory alive.
Singer-turned-fashion designer Victoria Beckham says her clothes can be worn by both slim and curvy women.
The 39-year-old designer said some women feel that they need to be slender in order to wear her clothes, reported Contactmusic.
“A lot of women think they have to be slim to wear my clothes, which isn’t at all the case. I’ve dressed Oprah Winfrey, for instance.
It’s a modern-day blockbuster, chock loaded with the aesthetic and acoustic and narrative tics we expect from modern hits: flash-cut problems and hallucinations, prophecies and aged sensible men, predictions of apocalypse and a savior’s increase, computer-generated monsters with galumphing feet and deep voices, brawny guys punching and stabbing each various other, and crowd scenes and floods and circling around airborne perspectives of enormous structures being constructed, scored to tom-toms and men chanting and females wailing.
Yet stand by: this is not the most up to date Wonder Comics legendary. Nor is it a standard-issue messianic sci-fi movie along the lines of “Celebrity Wars” or “The Matrix.” “Noah” is more of a surrealist nightmare calamity picture fused to a parable of human greed and compassion, all based on the bestselling publication of perpetuity, the Bible, primarily guide of Birth.
The result is a flick that is plainly heavily considerate of its source product but likewise at times startlingly deconstructionist, a go-for-broke throwback to Hollywood biblical epics of yore that combines splendour and grace, along with a charitable dollop of goofy overstatement. Audiences might not concur regarding just what they have actually seen when they appear of “Noah.” But there’s no question that Aronofsky has made an enthusiastic, major, even visionary movie, whose super-sized popcorn-movie vernacular may sometimes submerge the story’s additional reflective ramifications, but never sinks them completely.
Amidst such aesthetic busyness, Crowe and Connelly supply remarkably grounded, powerful performances, with Crowe playing Noah initially as a simple, divinely encouraged servant and, at some point, as a wild-eyed activist, and Connelly overflowing with earthy righteousness as his far more steady-eyed other half. Among the most fascinating reshufflings is a main role for Noah’s old forebear, Methuselah, played by Anthony Hopkins in a naughty and altogether persuading turn as a white-haired figure of magical, oracular wisdom.
A lot of “Noah” is so great, and so remarkably performed, that when discordant notes are sounded, they doing this with clanging harshness. Taking ill-advised pages from both 1950s animator Radiation Harryhausen and the existing big-studio predilection for comic-book movies and young-adult teen romances, Aronofsky produces characters and outline that feel extremely out of place– not considering that they don’t appear in Bible but due to the fact that they’re so at odds with the frequently great aesthetic language that animates the rest of the film. (We’ll chalk up Noah’s amazingly innovative outfit of primitive-chic leathers and open-work knits to creative license.).
The most disruptive of Aronofsky’s creations, by far, are the Watchers– fallen angels who wander the busted globe like mournful, stiff-jointed leviathan, apparently hewn from desert rock and looking like stone ‘em, sock ‘em robotics when pressed into sturdy smiting. Every action film nowadays seems to end up being “Transformers,” and regretfully, “Noah” is no different, specifically when it comes time for a last, magnificent showdown in between the Watchers and the approaching forces of misery.
Like interpreters with the millennia, Aronofsky has taken Noah’s quest all the best to heart, refined it via his own particular aesthetic and moral creative imagination and develop a narrative that feels heavily personal, extensively mythological and cannily commercial all at the same time. That feels nearly ideal for “Noah,” which eventually welcomes audiences to form their very own meanings, whether they’re about sacrifice and accordance, stewardship and solution or the sustaining amusement value of an impressive experience that, thousands of years on, still handles to amaze.
Eminent Malayalam filmmaker Shaji N Karun has been selected for this year’s International Film Festival of Innsbruck (IFFI) prize.
The award is being given to commemorate 100 years of Indian Cinema, a release said here today.
Karun, known for his globally acclaimed movies like “Swam”, “Vanaprastham” and “Kuttysrank”, will receive the honour at a function in Innsbruck on June 2, it said.
Bollywood actor Saqib Saleem has denied reports that screen diva Sridevi is going to make a special appearance in his upcoming film ‘Hawaa Hawaai‘.
Saqib, who will be seen in a prominent role in the Amole Gupte’ directed out-and-out masala film, said the name of the film has been derived from Sridevi starrer iconic song ‘Hawaa Hawaai’ from 1987 hit ‘Mr India’.
Yesteryear veteran director P Ramdas, who introduced the neo-realistic wave in Malayalam cinema during the 1950s through his path breaking movie “Newspaper Boy”, has passed away at a hospital here.
Ramdas (83) died following age-related ailments yesterday.
He is survived by his two sons, family sources said.
Bollywood starlet Rakhi Sawant has said she wants up to wake up Members of Parliament from their sleep to look into the issues of common man.
“I want to contest the Lok Sabha election to wake up the MPs from their deep sleep. Political leaders are sucking blood of the people,” Rakhi, who is going to contest the Lok Sabha election from Mumbai North-West constituency, told reporters here yesterday after offering prayers at the Saibaba temple.
Designer Pia Pauro showcased her autumn-winter collection inspired by Scottish glam rock on day three of Wills Lifestyle India Fashion Week here.
The embroideries and prints that were seen in the clothes were drawn from tudor roses, which are traditionally used on stain glass windows in the Medieval Churches.
“William Morris was an important artist of that period and our embroiders are inspired by his paintings,” Pia said after the show.
Actress Katrina Kaif has denied being approached to star opposite Shah Rukh Khan in Rahul Dholakia’s ‘Raees’.
There was a buzz that both the stars will be seen together again in the Farhan Akhtar production after ‘Jab Tak Hai Jaan‘.
“I don’t know where this news has come from. There is no such discussion like that till now. There are three films ‘Bang Bang‘, ‘Phantom‘ and ‘Jagga Jassos’ that I am doing right now.
Grammy-winning rapper Pharrell Williams has turned fashion designer with sports brand Adidas and will create a line for the brand this year.
The ‘Happy’ hitmaker will be teaming up with the brand to design a fresh new collection of sports apparel made with his own Bionic Yarn fabric, which is a savvy cloth created from plastic debris found in oceans, reported Huffington Post.
Dishkiyaoon, the name itself suggests that shouldn’t take the film seriously! Sanamjit Singh Talwar heads the same way as Bollywood-gangster-films went a decade back.
If one suspects the origin of the unusual drama played in Sanamjit’s browse through make this flick, the solution could be his ignorance of a person existing in the name of Ram Gopal Varma, the man that developed the fad of ‘gangstar flicks’ or even wrote an obituary for it too.
However much like Split Van Winkle, Sanamjit Singh Talwar comes back with an impressive bust, placed in the exact same Mumbai underworld which is now non-existent, with a humanly impossible set of superstars who can not act. Harman Baweja, Sunny Deol, Ayesh Khanna, an over behaving Prashanth Narayanan – yes, casting takes the cake.
Really, you cannot possibly understand the globe in which such movies take place. It resembles reading a comic, however right here points are not appealing considering that it relies on be a boring comic. The film tells the tale of Viki (Harman Baweja), who tells how he gets into the world of gangsters and how badly he wishes to go to the leading of his game.
A film consists of card board personalities, Dishkiyaoon falls short to excite. On the top of that, celebrities like Harman Baweja makes things even worse. I do not know why these from the office actors can not pause and review some publications on acting and go to some acting workshops abroad? Why are they hell bent on providing a fabricated efficiency in every motion picture they get by opportunity?
The screenplay, created by the director himself, has no appropriate emotional hook anywhere to make audience feel considering it. Instead, it merely drags and bore audience to death. The film winds up an additional try in introducing a glossy film, without element.
Singer Lily Allen says she would love to be like rapper Kayne West.
The 28-year-old ‘Hard Out Here’ singer, who named her latest album ‘Sheezus’, which is inspired from the title of West’s ‘Yeezus’ record, wants to be like the star, reported Contactmusic.
“I’m totally for Kanye, he’s cool, he’s Yeezus, I’d like to be anything like him,” Allen said.
The singer is currently visiting the US to promote her new music.
Actor Orlando Bloom said he inspires his three-year-old son to live his dream.
The 37-year-old ‘Pirates of the Caribbean star’, who split from his wife of three years Miranda Kerr last year, said being a father to his son Flynn is his first priority, reported Contactmusic.
Actress Jennifer Aniston has revealed that her actor fiance Justin Theroux is the reason behind her weight gain.
The former ‘Friends’ star recently revealed that she has put on a couple of pounds due to Theroux, 42, who is an amazing cook, reported People magazine.
“Like, hello! Carbonara. It’s a killer. The last couple of years since meeting this man have made me gain a couple extra pounds. But it’s all worth it,” she said.
Superstar Aamir Khan has written a letter to the Election Commission (EC) clarifying that he is not endorsing any particular political party, including the Aam Aadmi Party (AAP).
Apparently, it was brought to Aamir’s notice that a social campaign doing the rounds that he was supporting AAP.
Some candidates of AAP allegedly took to twitter and used Aamir’s image in one of their campaign posters, claiming that the 49-year-old ‘Dhoom 3‘ star was supporting their party.
Singer Robin Thicke says he and Paula Patton are much happier now since she announced their separation last month.
The ‘Blurred Lines’ hitmaker had earlier dedicated an emotional song to Paula, 38, at one of his concerts in a bid to win her back, reported People magazine.
“We’re both doing well. We’re both very happy right now, much happier,” he said.
“My music is very honest about what I’m going through and my songs are about my life.
Sunny Deol, who has decided to direct the much awaited film ‘Ghayal Returns’, says he is completely focused on the project, and other films can wait for the moment.
“I will be directing ‘Ghayal Returns’. I can’t say anything other than that because that is the only film I am doing right now. My complete focus is on this film and everything else will happen only after this film,” Sunny said.
‘Ghayal Returns’ is a sequel to the 1990 film ‘Ghayal’, featuring Sunny with Meenakshi Sheshadri and Raj Babbar.
Asked if he plans to take a break from acting after his son Karan makes his debut, he said: “(As an actor) I will never take a backseat. I am here to work and I will always be working.” Read more on msn.
Sugandha Ram, who plays the lead in Santosh Shivan’s ‘Inam‘, which releases Friday, says that the cinematographer-filmmaker follows an organic process of filmmaking.
“The kind of environment Santosh sir provides for his actors is very organically engineered. I know he has a massive body of work where there is a lot of commercial stuff, but when he shoots his own films, the process is very organic,” Sugandha told us.
“In his films, there is not a massive setup. You don’t have to wait for hours for one shot. You are working almost throughout the day and you’re living out the story almost in a linear manner just as it happens in the script. Therefore, it automatically pushes you in places that are very real,” she said.
Sugandha, who enjoys this kind of filmmaking, doesn’t like the trappings of an actor.
“I don’t like sitting in a vanity van. I don’t like applying lot of make-up. I don’t like to have the trappings of an actor because they get in the way of your performance. It also somewhere disconnects you from the people on the sets,” she said.
“For instance, I want to know what my set designer is doing. I like to be involved with my unit because it gives you the feeling that you are doing something together and not in isolation of each other. All this makes it very real, organic and I enjoy being part of it,” Sugandha added. Read More On MSN
Filmmaker Suseenthiran, known for movies such as ‘Aadhalal Kadhal Seiveer‘, will soon float a new production house in association with cinematographer Madhie and art director Rajeevan.
“Suseenthiran, Madhie and Rajeevan who have worked together for films such as ‘Naan Mahan Alla’ and ‘Pandiya Naadu‘ have decided to take their friendship to new heights by floating a new production house,” read a statement from Suseenthiran.
“The trio plans to announce their maiden project and will focus on backing good cinema,” added the statement.
While Madhie has worked on films such as ‘Punnagai Desam’, ‘Paiyaa’ and ‘Shaitan’, Rajeevan has worked on the art direction in projects such as ‘Vaarnam Aayiram’, ‘Ayan’ and ‘Vinnaithaandi Varuvaaya’.
Meanwhile, Suseenthiran is busy with his next Tamil directorial ‘Jiiva’ starring Vishnu Vishal and Sri Divya.
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Buoyed by the overwhelming response to the recently released Tamil romantic drama ‘Cuckoo‘, its makers Fox Star Studios and The Next Big Film presented the film’s director Raju Murugan with a Renault Duster SUV as a token of appreciation.
“A gesture of appreciation from Fox Star Studios and The Next Big Film to Director Raju Murugan, who gave us the commercially successful film ‘Cuckoo’ and who also made us proud,” read a statement from production house The Next Big Film.
‘Cuckoo’, which released March 21, is the love story of a visually impaired couple. The film has been adjudged a hit at the box office.
The unanimous verdict about the film has been that it never forced the audience to sympathize with the lead characters and helped them create an emotional bond.
Dinesh and Malavika Nair played the lead visually challenged couple in the film, which has music by Santosh Narayanan.
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Shilpa Shetty has expressed her desire to re-work her two-heroine action film project starring her and Bipasha Basu.
“I wanted to make an action film with two heroines. I was going to make it with Bipasha and me before my debut home production film ‘Dishkiyaoon‘. It went too over budget. This was four years ago,” Shilpa, 38, said.
“Bipasha had also liked the script… She wanted a final draft. When I was working that time if this was made into Rs 20-25 crore then it would have been viable. But the budget went upto Rs 40-50 crore. That time, we did not have films like ‘Fashion’. It was a scary time,” she added.
But she does want to revive the project. Read more on msn.
Arnold Schwarzenegger has promised that the new ‘Terminator’ movie will be full of surprises.
The actor is reprising his role as the robot in the highly anticipated ‘Terminator: Genesis’. Schwarzenegger was just 37 when he first played the character in the classic 1984 movie but now, at 66, he says the story is still in context, reported MTV online.
“The way that the character is written, it’s a machine underneath. It’s this metal skeleton. But above that is human flesh. And the Terminator’s flesh ages, just like any other human being’s flesh. Maybe not as fast. But it definitely ages,” Schwarzenegger said.
The actor said that the action sequences were more taxing on his body.
“Sometimes it does get more difficult when you’re 66 years old and doing this kind of action, versus when you’re in your 30s or in your 40s,” he said.
“Terminator deals a lot with time travel, so there will be a younger T-800, and then what that model does later on when it gets reprogrammed, and who gets a hold of him. So it will be all kinds of interesting twists in the movie, but I feel so good,” he added.
‘Terminator: Genesis’, also starring Emilia Clarke and Jai Courtney, is due for release on July 1, 2015.
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Kevin Spacey will play former British Prime Minister Winston Churchill in a new biopic which will tell the story of how Churchill defended Britain against Hitler.
The 54-year-old actor will portray the former British prime minister in ‘Captain of the Gate’, said Hollywood Reporter.
The film will tell the tale of how the popular wartime leader – who was prime minister of Britain from 1940 to 1945, and again from 1951 to 1955 – stood against British parliament to defend the country from Nazi tyrant Adolf Hitler in World War II.
The movie will be financed for around USD 20 million and will be produced by Sierra/Affinity.
StudioCanal, which is behind the recent hit Liam Neeson film ‘Non-Stop‘, is also in talks to come on board as a producer.
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Shooting for ‘Jal‘ in Rann of Kutch was a journey full of hardships, but for Purab Kohli, the experience turned out to be a memorable adventure.
“We shot in (almost) 50 degree celsius, faced dust storms, worked on characters far separated from our real selves…but throughout all this time, I never looked at them as hardships. In fact, it was an adventure,” Purab told us.
Directed by first-timer Girish Malik, ‘Jal’, releasing April 4, also features Kirti Kulhari and Tannishtha Chatterjee.
Praising the director, Purab said that it hardly felt like he was debuting with the movie. Read more on msn.
Bradley Cooper is rumoured to play the lead in the next ‘Indiana Jones’ film.
The ‘Hangover’ star might replace actor Harrison Ford in the famous movie series, reported Huffington Post online.
However, sources close to the production have denied the reports saying that Cooper, 39, is not under consideration and there are no plans to reboot the franchise with another actor.
The adventure series, which was created by director Steven Spielberg, starred Harrison Ford as the lead in all four films.
However, the next movie in the franchise has been a topic of conversation for many years since it was always assumed that Ford, 71, would be its star but due to his age, many are unsure whether the actor would be fit enough for the role.
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Pharrell Williams says his latest album “G I R L” is an ode to the fairer sex, whom he credits for helping him climb the success ladder.
The prolific singer accomplished a great deal in everything he dived in, be it music, production or designing.
“My album “G I R L” is an ode to woman. I have all types of fans in terms of demographics, but women have been distinctively a strong force and huge inspiration for me,” Williams, 40, told us in an email interview.
“Essentially they’re my bosses. They have been so good to me. One cannot argue that they have paid for everything I have. They’ve been so good to me and consistent. I’m totally imperfect but they have never left my side,” he added.
Williams’ record-breaking upbeat number “Happy” may have lost the Oscar in the original song category to Idina Menzel‘s “Let It Go”, but the smash hit took the industry by surprise after it became the first song in 57 years to climb the top spot in the UK charts for about three times.
The rapper was so elated with the chart success of “Happy” that losing an Oscar did not affect him much.
“There is no way that I am disappointed on losing out! “Happy” has been topping all music charts. It’s been heard across 175 countries. It’s number one in 60 countries. The entire experience was incredible,” he said.
However, composing “Happy” for animation film ‘Despicable Me 2‘ wasn’t an easy task. The song also features in “G I R L”, which is the rapper’s second album.
“The song came from ‘Despicable Me 2′. We were working on a pivotal moment in the film where the protagonist of the movie was happy about this girl. So after they did the scene they wanted the music for it. It took me 9 different songs for that one scene to get to “Happy”,” he said.
“When I thought how to make a guy so happy about his feelings, I found the answer in the question itself! After so many attempts to get that perfect song for the situation, it feels great to see “Happy” topping music charts,” he added.
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