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Clooney’s ex ‘happy’ for him, Alamuddin

August 26, 2014 0

Los Angeles, Aug 26 (IANS) Actor George Clooney’s ex-girlfriend Elisabetta Canalis is pleased he has found happiness with Amal Alamuddin. The 35-year-old dated the Hollywood star for 18 months until their split in 2011, and she is “happy” for her ex-boyfriend, who is getting married to Alamuddin, reports femalefirst.co.uk. The Italian actress is set to tie the knot with Brian Perri in September – the same month Clooney is getting hitched.

Hip hop mogul Suge Knight has ‘lost a lot of blood’ – family

August 25, 2014 0
Suge Knight, a controversial figure in the world of music is shown at his desk August 8, 2001 in Los..

By Dan Whitcomb LOS ANGELES (Reuters) – Hip hop mogul Marion “Suge” Knight, who was shot and wounded at a Los Angeles nightclub over the weekend, was resting at a local hospital but had “lost a lot of blood,” his family said on Monday. Knight, 49, was struck by bullets early on Sunday morning when a gunman opened fire at a club in West Hollywood during a party in advance of the MTV Music Video Awards across town at The Forum in Inglewood. Knight, best-known as the co-founder of Death Row Records, home to such rap stars as Dr Dre, Tupac Shakur and Snoop Dogg, suffered multiple gunshot wounds but was expected to survive, the Los Angeles County Sheriff’s Department said in a written statement. “The family of Suge Knight ask that you keep Suge in your prayers and to stray away from the negativity portrayed by the media,” Knight’s family said in a statement posted on his Facebook page.

Detectives seek witnesses in Suge Knight shooting

August 25, 2014 0

WEST HOLLYWOOD, Calif. (AP) — Los Angeles County detectives are reviewing security camera footage and seeking witnesses to a shooting at a packed nightclub that injured three people, including Death Row Records founder Marion “Suge” Knight.

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Emmy Award winning costume designer roped in for ‘Mohenjo Daro’

August 25, 2014 0

Mumbai, Aug 25 (IANS) Indian filmmaker Ashutosh Gowariker has roped in Oscar-nominated and Emmy Award-winning international costume designer April Ferry to put her creative forces together for his mega project “Mohenjo Daro”. Ferry will design costumes for the lead actors Hrithik Roshan and Pooja Hegde as well as for the entire cast of the film, a love story set during the Indus Valley Civilzation. “I am really thrilled to be working with Ashutosh Gowariker.

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Awards for my Hollywood, Bollywood films unique: Param Gill

August 25, 2014 0

New Delhi, Aug 25 (IANS) US-based film director Param Gill, whose Hollywood project “Last Supper” and Bollywood venture “DOA: Death Of Amar” won multiple honours at the recently concluded San Francisco Global Movie Fest, finds awards motivating. Gill was awarded $100,000 as the winner of the best director (world cinema) title for “Last Supper”, which was also bagged the best of fest (world cinema) title. The dramedy (drama-comedy) also helped Eddie Griffin and Najarra Townsend win the best actor and actress respectively, and Ludmil Kazakov was feted with the best editor award. For “DOA: Death Of Amar”, his first Bollywood film starring Rajeev Khandelwal and Zarine Khan, Gill got the audience choice award.

‘Cool’ Emmys newcomers spotlight television’s changing landscape

August 25, 2014 0
Thornton poses at the Television Academy's Performers Peer Group cocktail reception to celebrate the 66th Primetime Emmy Awards in Beverly Hills

By Eric Kelsey LOS ANGELES (Reuters) – Three television upstarts and a field of film stars could shake up the annual Primetime Emmy Awards on Monday in a validation of the television industry’s move toward sophisticated, long-form storytelling. Led by HBO’s bayou crime mystery “True Detective,” FX’s snowy psychological miniseries “Fargo” and Netflix’s online-delivered jailhouse comedy “Orange Is the New Black,” a new breed of TV has headed to the top of the establishment class. “We have a lot of sexy newcomers,” said Tom O’Neil, the editor of awards handicapper Goldderby.com. “It’s not just the same old slapstick comedy show with a new face.” Together, the three shows have picked up 42 nominations and reflect the growing clout of unorthodox storytelling – from Netflix giving audiences an entire season at once to “True Detective” and “Fargo” as anthologies with new casts and stories each season.