Hollywood News

By admin • September 3rd, 2010

1000wordPhoto The beauty from Barbados, Rihanna, will forever be young and beautiful now that she has been sculpted in wax for the Madame Tussads museum in Washington, D.C. The ‘Rude Boy’ singer’s wax double is dressed in black lace corset, fitted jacket, skinny pants and black silk heels, by Balmain, which was donated by Rihanna [...]

“One fifth of Pakistan is underwater, thousands of people died in the initial flooding and the threat of disease now looms for 20 million affected people.” These are the words of Angelina Jolie, UN Goodwill Ambassador, actress and full-time philanthropist. Angelina Jolie, who has donated $ 100,000 to UNHCR for flood relief work in Pakistan, [...]

Never mind Justin Beiber and never mind Lady Gaga. Here’s the King of Pop, Michael Jackson. He’s posthumously beat out every recording artist to become the most-downloaded musician of all time, based on sales data from Nokia. Michael managed to surpass Elvis Presley, Lady Gaga and a horde of the world’s most popular recording artists [...]

Julia Roberts explains how her character’s pursuit of joy in new film Eat Pray Love echoes her own John Hiscock There is a room upstairs in Julia Roberts‘s home in Malibu that she calls her “little quiet room”. It is there that she keeps her personal oddments, sewing machine, her knitting basket and where she [...]

So the fierce on-screen werewolf with the ripping muscles and the incredible 6 pack is actually a frail and delicate little teenager in real life? Apparently so. Recently,Taylor Lautner has shown his childish side by suing a trailer company for causing him ‘emotional distress.’ Lautner’s father Dan ordered a customised $300,000 personal trailer for his [...]

LOS ANGELES: Hollywood mega star Tom Cruise has called upon his fans using social networking to give donations for the people affected by unprecedented floods in Pakistan. Tom Cruise’s message appears on Twitter in which he said: “People of Pakistan, our thoughts R with U.” He appealed for sending 10 dollars by phone by texting [...]

NEW YORK: Hollywood star Angelina Jolie has pledged to “do what she can” for flood-ravaged Pakistan. The Oscar-winning actress, 35, was asked what she would do in her role as goodwill ambassador for the United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees (UNHCR) as she promoted her new action thriller, Salt, in London’s West End. “I’m doing [...]

Actress Emma Thompson receives a star on the Walk of Fame for her contribution to the entertainment industry in  Hollywood, California. Every year hundreds of thousands of people stroll down the Walk of Fame looking for the names of their favorite stars. Among the tourists are also aspiring entertainers who hope they too can make [...]

Julia Roberts, the Hollywood actress, has disclosed that she is a practising Hindu who goes to temple to “chant and pray and celebrate”. The 42-year-old, who married the cameraman Daniel Moder in 2002, said the couple worship at temple together regularly with their three children. She added that she hopes to be reincarnated as “something [...]

Mel Gibson and Oksana’s domestic fight has been doing rounds in the media for a while now. Now some progress in the case… Mel Gibson and Oksana Grigorieva cleared in the investigation by the Department of Children and Family Services. The two accused each other of child abuse allegations during their ongoing custody battle. Gibson [...]

Her personal life may have been in turmoil for the last few months with a messy divorce, but things on the professional front couldn’t be brighter for Sandra Bullock. The actress has been named the highest paid female actor in the world after earning a mighty 56 million dollars in the past 12 months. Sandra, [...]

British comedian Russell Brand was severely injured in a car accident in New York where he filming his latest movie, Arthur. Brand’s Lamborghini was ploughed by a truck as he was returning from the film set. Though Brand escaped with cuts and bruises, his car was totaled and the truck had hit him from the [...]

Daniel Kreps Rolling Stone Lady Gaga scored a record-shattering 13 nominations for the 2010 MTV Video Music Awards, including two nods apiece in the Best Female Video, Best Collaboration, Best Pop Video and Video of the Year categories. Eminem racked up the second-most nominations with eight, including Video of the Year and Best Hip-Hop Video [...]

It’s a darn shame. Daniel Craig makes for one hell of a James Bond. He played it superbly in the brilliant Casino Royale and  the OTT Quantam of Solace. But now it seems Daniel’s brand of James Bond is in limbo. Apparently Daniel Craig is starring in the Hollywood adaptation of The Girl with the [...]

Hollywood’s been hit with a craze of singing tunes. Where some singers are simply turning to acting, others like Joaquin Phoenix have called it quits in pursuit of a more satisfying musical career. Yawn. Anyway, the latest actor to join ranks of actors-who-also-sing is Mrs Chris Martin, Gwyneth Paltrow. According to E! Online, she has [...]

“I would love to get into comedic movies,” Rihanna had told MTV Asia last year. “As well as action. I love action. I would love to play a badass one day.” With dozens of pretty badass videos under her belt already, it is little wonder that Rihanna is venturing into acting. Though little is known [...]

There was a wonderful time when all these Disney stars were best friends with each other, and did not have a life outside the Disney realm. It seems like that time was ages ago as some of the  Disney kids went haywire: Vanessa Hudgens was one of the first to break our hearts when some [...]

Summer is a strenuous time for Hollywood with all the big budget and celeb heavy movies vying for viewers. But no worries  for Dark Knight director Christopher Nolan after proving his mettle with his work on the Caped Crusader, Warner Bros. gave him the free reign to create the movie he had been working on [...]

Faris Husain Zimbabwe Mail World Cup 2010 song ‘Waka Waka (This Time for Africa)’ written and performed by Colombian-born singer Shakira is stirring copyright controversies. Initially, it aroused some consternation among some Africans, especially those in the music world, why was an African artiste not chosen to do a song for a World Cup hosted [...]

When we heard that Disney stars, Joe Jonas and Demi Lovato broke up, we thought it would be one of those ugly ones where they never speak to each other again, like Taylor Swift and Joe, where Taylor told the whole world that he dumped her in a twenty second phone call. Boo hoo. However [...]

People usually say that life begins after 40. In showbiz, the life is sucked out of your career as soon as you leave your 30′s. No more pretending you’re middle aged. You’re just old now. However we have one gorgeous actress who does not take this view. Catherine Zeta Jones has turned forty last September [...]

And the summer weddings continue. Orlando Bloom and Miranda Kerr have officially tied the knot. The couple had been dating since 2007 and announced their engagement in June, but had kept the plans for the wedding a secret. Well, we know now why, they just pulled a Carrie Underwood and Megan Fox and went and [...]

In an interesting turn of events Ashton Kutcher has taken it upon himself to expose the lies of certain actors about their performances in movies. Ashton says the likes of Angelina Jolie and Tom Cruise are “full of bulls**” for claiming they do all their own stunts. The actor – who stars alongside Katherine Heigl [...]

We all know that Mel Gibson is going through some pretty hard times right now. Recently another woman Violet Kowal  accused Mel of abusing her. As if it isn’t enough that his ex girlfriend Oksana Grigorieva has gone public about his angry tirades against her, and has even released audio tapes over the internet that [...]

Dear dear, Lindsay Lohan really never does learn. After all the warnings the judge gave her to clean up her act, she didn’t listen.  And now, look where our favourite mean girl is? In a horribly unflattering orange uniform in jail. However we do sympathize with Lindsay, it seems too high a price to pay [...]

Vanity Fair Rich Cohen “No, I’m not pregnant,” Angelina Jolie tells Vanity Fair from the set of her movie in Venice, Italy. Perhaps in the future? “We’re not opposed to it. But we want to make sure we can give everybody special time. They’re kids now, and can play together, but they’re going to need [...]

In 2003 Sandra Bullock took out a restraining order at a Los Angeles court to protect her from Thomas James Weldon, who had been “obsessed” with the actress. However the order expired in 2009 and Sandra got it renewed a few days ago because it looks like even though it’s been seven years, the stalker [...]

We all knew that when Kara Dioguardi became the fourth judge of American Idol, one of the four would be gone next year. Our intuition proved to be correct, and Paula left the show the following year over a dispute with the directors. Rumour has it that while Simon Cowell was getting paid $100 Million [...]

A couple of months ago Megan had told us that she had no plans of getting married and she was going to stay engaged for  a very long time. Then suddenly we heard that she had flown off to Hawaii, and had come back very much married to her long time fiancé Brian Austin Greene. [...]

Maybe Amy Winehouse is trying to cover up that whole embarrassing incident where security stopped her from meeting  Prince Harry at a concert with some positive publicity, or maybe the news is actually genuine. Our sources tell us the Rehab singer is moving in with her boyfriend Reg Traviss! Amy Winehouse started dating the film [...]

If there is a list of the most loud mouthed teenage singers, Miley Cyrus should probably top the list. It seems that she has an opinion about absolutely everything that threatens to outshine her. A couple of months ago she claimed that she “just didn’t get the Bieber fever. What’s so great about him?” Then [...]

LOS ANGELES: Oscar-winning actress Angelina Jolie is planning to direct her first film in the Balkans. She will also play a leading role in the movie, a love story set in the Bosnian war. Jolie will visit Serbia in August to discuss planning of the film and scout locations, local media reported. In the film, [...]

We all know Mel Gibson is facing serious accusations of domestic violence against his Russian girlfriend, especially when an  audio recording of him abusing her verbally has surfaced on the web. Besides the atrocities Mel has uttered, he is rumoured to be having an affair with another woman. We all remember when Christian Bale went [...]

Looks like Lil Wayne‘s not doing too shabby in jail! The pop star was incarcerated earlier this year for carrying a loaded gun  on a tour bus in Manhattan. However it seems that life has not changed drastically for the star, being in jail and all. Sure he doesn’t get to wear his choice of [...]