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Kim K’s game rakes in $700K per day

August 1, 2014 0

London, August 1 (ANI): Kim Kardashian’s latest game, which was mired in controversy, makes 700,000 dollars a day. According to Doug Creutz, an analyst at Cowen and Company, if the sales of the game continue to grow at the current rate, it will make 200 million dollars within a year and enter the same league as Candy Crush, the CNN reported. The game, ‘Kim Kardashian: Hollywood’, from Glu Mobile allows the user to create an avatar and indulge in wearing expensive clothes and going to photo shoots and “hob-nobbing with celebrities” to move up the ranks from the E List to the A List.

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Weight issues – when Hollywood movies went wrong

August 1, 2014 0

Los Angeles, Aug 1 (IANS) Depictions of weight gain or loss we see in Hollywood movies are rarely true to life, and yet we believe them. Here’s a list things movies get wrong when it comes to weight, reports huffingtonpost.com: * Weight loss happens in the blink of an eye: “Rocky” training montage convinces you that dramatic body transformations happen instantanly. For the third “Bridget Jones” installment, Renee Zellweger famously opted against gaining the weight she had put on for the first two movies, in consideration of her health. * Losing weight is the end of the story: It’s true that it’s not sexy to talk about excess skin.

Congress oks VA, highway bills, not border measure

August 1, 2014 0
On the last day before Congress takes a five-week summer recess, House Minority Leader Nancy Pelosi, D-Calif., checks her watch for a scheduled vote after speaking to reporters on Capitol Hill in Washington, Thursday, July 31, 2014. Yesterday, Republicans pushed through legislation to launch a campaign-season lawsuit against President Barack Obama, accusing him of deliberately exceeding the bounds of his constitutional authority, Democrats have branded the effort a political charade and an effort by top Republicans to mollify conservatives who want Obama to be impeached. (AP Photo/J. Scott Applewhite)

WASHINGTON (AP) — Congress ran full-tilt into election-year gridlock over immigration Thursday and staggered toward a five-week summer break after failing to agree on legislation to cope with the influx of young immigrants flocking illegally to the United States.

Congress races to finish VA, highway bills

July 31, 2014 0
On the last day before Congress takes a five-week summer recess, House Minority Leader Nancy Pelosi, D-Calif., checks her watch for a scheduled vote after speaking to reporters on Capitol Hill in Washington, Thursday, July 31, 2014. Yesterday, Republicans pushed through legislation to launch a campaign-season lawsuit against President Barack Obama, accusing him of deliberately exceeding the bounds of his constitutional authority, Democrats have branded the effort a political charade and an effort by top Republicans to mollify conservatives who want Obama to be impeached. (AP Photo/J. Scott Applewhite)

WASHINGTON (AP) — Congress ran full-tilt into election-year gridlock over immigration Thursday and staggered toward a five-week summer break with no agreement in sight on legislation to cope with the influx of young immigrants flocking illegally to the United States.

‘Godfather of Makeup’ Dick Smith dead at 92

July 31, 2014 0
In this publicity image released by Warner Bros. Entertainment, Linda Blair portrays a possessed Regan MacNeil in a scene from, "The Exorcist." Dick Smith, the Oscar-winning make-up artist who amused, fascinated and terrified moviegoers by devising unforgettable transformations for Marlon Brando in "The Godfather" and Linda Blair in "The Exorcist," died Wednesday, July 30, 2014 in California of natural causes. He was 92. (AP Photo/Warner Bros. Entertainment)

NEW YORK (AP) — Dick Smith, the Oscar-winning “Godfather of Makeup” who amused, fascinated and terrified moviegoers by devising unforgettable transformations for Marlon Brando in “The Godfather” and Linda Blair in “The Exorcist” among many others, has died. He was 92.

Figure in ’80s payola probe faces NY gambling case

July 31, 2014 0
Figure in '80s payola probe faces NY gambling case

He’s been one of the nation’s most influential record promoters, the producer of an Oscar-nominated movie, a defendant who successfully fought racketeering charges in a high-profile payola case, and an …

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Christopher Nolan, J.J. Abrams help save Kodak film from shutting down

July 31, 2014 0

Washington, July 31 (ANI): Major Hollywood studios have recently struck a deal with Kodak film that will allow it to remain alive in the industry with the help of leading filmmakers like Christopher Nolan, J.J. Abrams, and Quentin Tarantino among others. Jeff Clarke, Kodak’s CEO, said that after extensive discussions with filmmakers, leading studios and others who recognize the unique artistic and archival qualities of film, they intend to continue production, the Hollywood Reporter reported.