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London, Aug 7 (IANS) Hollywood actor George Clooney and his fiancé Amal Alamuddin have reportedly obtained a marriage license here.

Washington, Aug 7 (ANI): ‘Fifty Shades of Grey’ actor, Jamie Dornan, has signed his next project ‘The Siege of Jadotville.’ The 32-year-old Irish actor, who would be portraying a U.N. commander in the film, which is to be helmed by first-time director Richie Smyth and produced by Alan Moloney, said that he admired both Smyth and Moloney, and was really looking forward to the work with them, the Hollywood Reporter reported. Smyth added that he thought Dornan to be the perfect man to play the lead as Commandant Quinlan and was really excited to start working with him.

London, Aug 7 (ANI): Naomi Watts has revealed that she was never affected by the Hollywood plastic surgery pressure. The Australian actress asserted that she was really just feeling her way and self-consciousness just pervaded because this was an industry town, the Daily Express reported. The 45-year-old actress added that there were days when she felt victorious about the fact that she got so far without plastic surgery but there were a million days when she look in the mirror and thought about going ahead with the plastic surgery.

New York, Aug 6 (IANS) Noted novelist and documentary maker Nikhil Chandwani has become the first Indian author to win “Conspiracy Novel of the Year” award from the American Literary Forum Society. Chandwani bagged the prestigious award for his book titled “Coded Conspiracy” and documentary “Escape from Kenya”. At 21, Chandwani is also the youngest to win the American the award announced Aug 4. Conceived while directing his travel show “Song of the Open Road”, “Coded Conspiracy”, Chandwani said, was a result of his unswerving passion for writing.

London, Aug 06 (ANI): Lily James will play the lead role in the upcoming Burr Steers’ movie ‘Pride and Prejudice and Zombies’. According to Deadline Hollywood, the ‘Downton Abbey’ actor will star as Elizabeth Bennet, who is a kung-fu expert dedicated to wiping out the zombie menace in the quiet village of Meryton, the BBC reported. The big screen adaptation of Seth Grahame-Smith’s novel of same name focuses on the romantic entanglements created by Jane Austen in the original between different social classes in 19th century England but with a new subplot in which the story takes place as the dead rise from the grave. Natalie Portman was originally cast in the lead role but she now just remains on board as a producer.

Mumbai, Aug 6 (IANS) The tragic Komagata Maru incident, whose 100th anniversary falls this year, is finally going to unfold on the big screen as part of a co-production treaty signed between India and Canada. Confirming these details, a source from Canada said, “It (‘Komagata Maru’) would now be a $22 million Indo-Canada production to be directed by an A-lister from Hollywood.” “It will have one top Indian actor playing a Sikh. One top Japanese actor and one Hollywood actor, besides many other prominent actors from India, Canada and the US.” Komagata Maru was a Japanese ship hired by a Malaysia-based wealthy Sikh Gurdit Singh in 1914 to forcibly bring 376 Indians, mostly Sikhs, into Canada to challenge racist laws of that time.

London, Aug 06 (ANI): A new study has revealed that Hollywood films still do not completely reflect diversity in US. It was found that in 2013, Hispanic actors played only 4.9 percent of speaking parts in movies, despite making up more than 16 percent of the population and Black actors were cast only in 14.1 percent of roles and 17 percent of films had no black speaking characters, the BBC reported. It was also found that if a film had a black director, more black actors were likely to be involved.