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Scarlett Johansson is suing another author of a bestselling French novel for featuring a fictional character that resembles her. In a legal action, the American actress is challenging writer, Gregoire Delacourt, and his publisher JC Lattes, after he described a character in his novel as being her “doppelganger”, or exact double, the Independent reported. The case, if it comes to court, is expected to make legal and literary history.

The author is insisting that the comparison is meant as a compliment and tribute to Johansson’s beauty. The 28-year-old actress is demanding compensation and damages from the publisher for the “breach and fraudulent use of personal rights” and is also seeking to ban all foreign translations and film adaptations of the book.

The book in question, La premiere chose qu’on regarde (The First Thing We Look At), was published in March. Meanwhile, Delacourt told the newspaper Le Figaro that he is “stupefied” that Johansson has taken legal action, but he is convinced that she has not even read the book, which has so far appeared only in French.

Jennifer Aniston and her fiance Justin Theroux have finally moved into their dream mansion in Bel Air, LA. The former ‘Friends’ star has reportedly splurged 13.5 million dollars on the house excluding the 8 million dollars she paid for the renovations done on the mid-century mansion in 2012, the Sun reported.

The extensive new constructions include a retractable roof, a 1,600sq ft wine cellar and a special margarita fountain. The spacious pad also has a million-dollar Korean clay spa for the actress and a man cave, fully equipped with top-of-the-range gadgets, for Theroux.

Indo-Canadian porn actress Sunny Leone wishes she can someday dance a la Bollywood’s dancing diva Madhuri Dixit. While shooting an episode of dance reality show ” Jhalak Dikhhla Jaa 6″, where Madhuri is one of the judges, Sunny shared her desire. “I love dancing on Bollywood songs and I love Madhuri-ji’s ‘Dola re dola’ (from ‘Devdas’).

I wish I can dance like Madhuri one day,” Sunny said. Sunny sizzled in a black outfit as she shot for the episode for the show. On the big screen, she was last seen in item number “O Laila” in Sanjay Gupta’s “Shootout At Wadala”. Sunny made her Bollywood debut with “Jism 2”. She will also be seen in Ekta Kapoor’s production “Ragini MMS 2”.

Actress Deepika Padukone, who has teamed up with superstar Shah Rukh Khan yet again after a gap of six years for action-comedy ‘Chennai Express’, says she trusts him very much personally as well as professionally. The model-turned-actress made her debut opposite Khan in ‘Om Shanti Om’ in 2007 and was directed by Farah Khan.

The film saw her in a double role. “It was glad to be working with him again. He has become my very good friend today. He is someone I trust personally and professionally. I am sure he will always be there for me whenever I need him,” Deepika told . ‘Chennai Express’ directed by Rohit Shetty and produced by Gauri Khan under her production banner Red Chillies Entertainment will release on August 8. “It was lot of fun working on the film. It was a great experience.

Rohit is known for making comedy films and this film as well has turned out to be very entertaining. It is very different from what he has done. I am quite excited about its release,” Deepika said. The film is the story about a man’s journey from Mumbai to Rameswaram and what happens during the journey. The 27-year-old would be seen next in Sanjay Leela Bhansali’s much talked about film ‘Ram Leela’, which is said to be an adaptation of Shakespeare’s epic love story Romeo and Juliet, set in violent times.

“Every director is a task master as they all churn out the best from us. They want to make a good film,” Deepika said on Bhansali’s hard ways on the film sets. Deepika has been paired opposite Ranveer Singh for the first time in this film and gossip mills are already abuzz with their close equation. About his co-star Ranveer, she said, “He is a fabulous actor, he is very talented. It was a great experience working with him. He is a great co-star, a great person and nothing else. “People create hype when the film is about to release. People should understand it is all about onscreen chemistry. I don’t feel the need to go and clarify things to people.

Who is Sonali Bendre’s real life hero? The actress calls her mother her hero for raising three daughters with very limited resources and giving them wings despite being not so educated. She admits this kind of heroism is not so uncommon in the country. “My mother has done a great job with her kids,” the 38-year-old actress said in a group interview.

“The daily struggle of raising three daughters with a very limited income, yet seeing to it that they get a good upbringing, giving her daughters the wings even after not being so educated – that person is my hero,” Bendre added. Having said that, she feels that “this kind of heroism is in most of the women in India because they all are doing that.” Hailing from a middle-class family, Bendre entered filmdom through ads and later rose on the firmament with her work in Sarfarosh, Zakhm, and Duplicate.

After playing a successful innings, she tied the knot with filmmaker Goldie Behl and settled down. Mother of a seven-and-a-half-year-old son, she has an immense respect for women who balance family and work. “I had the luxury of making a choice (whether to work or not). All the women don’t have this luxury and I really don’t know how they do it. If I had to do everything on my own, I would have fallen apart,” she confessed. “I have an immense amount of respect for women who leave their kids and go to work, because they have to. They don’t have a choice. I couldn’t have done that,” she added

Cast: Yolande Moreau, Alexandra Lamy, Isabelle Nanty, Antoine de Caunes, Michel Boujenah
Direction: Pascal Hérold
Genre: Animation
Duration: 1 hour 21 minutes

STORY: The classic Cinderella story is given a cowboythemed, Wild West style makeover. This time, it is Cinderella who does the rescuing, along with a group of friends. MOVIE REVIEW: This is probably the most extreme deviation from the classic Cinderella tale that you will have seen so far. Made by the French (its original French title is Cendrillon au Far West), with English overdubbing in curious accents, this avatar of Cinderella is no cowering wallflower.

She’s a cowgirl who swaps the ball gown for a pair of jeans. Life is fairly humdrum for everybody until she hops on an actionpacked quest to save the mother of a prince who has been kidnapped by a group of gorilla pirates. Another big change – the glass slipper here is a missing tooth. And there’s no fairy godmother; here, Cinderella has a simpering shaman to help her with the bits involving magic. The rendering and colours, though saturated, are several pegs below the kind of top-notch work that lovers of the animation genre expect to see in films these days.

The animals are all anthropomorphic and yet, it’s not easy to figure out who is what. For example, Cinderella looks like a talking dog with pigtails that rides what seems to be an ostrich. The pirates, dressed in seafaring garb, operate in what looks like an arid desert and for some reason mariachi music seems to permeate most of the film. It’s a puzzling combination that does not sit right. While creative adaptations to fairytales are all very well, this one is just too much of an aggregation of parts that does not make up a wholesome whole.

Penelope Cruz is set to play Bond girl – at 40. With this, she would become the oldest actress to take on the role, taking the title from Brit Honor Blackman who was 39 when she starred as ‘Pussy Galore’ in 1962’s gold finger, the Sun reported.

Cruze, who is ready to give birth to her second child, will start work on the follow-up next April.

Kelly Brook has tweeted a busty bikini image from her recent holiday to Tobago with Danny Cipriani. In the picture, the ‘Piranha 3D’ star is seen hiding her eyes behind sunglasses and a baseball cap making sure that she captures her famous cleavage in the frame, the Sun reported.

Her boyfriend, Ciprialso uploaded a picture that features the rugby ace in swimming trunks and a mask and snorkel, showing off his tattooed left arm in the process.

Keeps aside a chunk of dates for the much-awaited sequel to the Abhishek- John starrer Dostana Buzz was that Dostana2 has traded its desi girl Priyanka Chopra for Katrina Kaif. Now there are the telltale signs of rumours turning into reality. Katrina, who is shooting for Siddharth Anand’s Bang Bang with Hrithik Roshan, has not signed any other film yet.

It is assumed that she is keeping her dates open for Tarun Mansukhani’s sequel to the 2008 hit. The film is likely to go on floors in late October. The preproduction of the film has already started. A source told us, “Katrina wants to be a part of this heroine-centric film. It will give her a lot of scope to perform. The actress is waiting for the final nod from the producers. She has not allotted any dates between October and January to any other filmmaker.” The much-awaited sequel to Dostana has been in the making for a long time.

Initially there were reports that the script had not shaped up to Karan Johar’s liking. Then there was also the long-drawn casting process, and other than Abhishek and John, no one else had been finalised. Katrina according to reports has been showing her eagerness to take up the project. Other than Bang Bang and Dhoom 3, she has not signed up any new film yet. In the off chance that Kat does not do the film, at least it would not be for the lack of dates or initiative on her part.

Actress Amanda Bynes says she will sue the New York Police Department (NYPD) after she was arrested last week and charged with many unfair things. The 26-year-old was last week charged in court with attempted evidence tampering, reckless endangerment and marijuana possession, after being arrested at her New York City apartment. However, Bynes insists she did nothing wrong and was unfairly targeted by police, reports contactmusic.com.

In a lengthy rant on Twitter, she wrote: “For once and for all, this is the last thing I’ll say about the mistaken arrest. I’m suing NYPD for illegally entering my apartment, lying about drugs on me and lying about me tampering with non existent drug paraphernalia, then I’m suing for being put into a mental hospital against my will, then locked up overnight for coming home after a facial and working out with my trainer like the good girl that I am. I’m allergic to alcohol and drugs and don’t partake in any of the above.”

“I’m so offended by all of this but so proud to not be a drug or alcohol user. I don’t need to talk about this anymore.” “My lawyer and I are taking this offense so seriously! Everything they did was against the law and the judge saw that there was no drugs on me or proof of any type of bong or mental illness (I was so offended to even be taken to a mental hospital and they would not let me call my lawyer until the next day after being in jail all night, then I went to court and was immediately released because the judge saw that I was wrongly arrested,” Bynes said.

Cast: Vin Diesel, Dwayne Johnson, Paul Walker, Michelle
Rodriguez, Luke Evans, Tyrese Gibson, Ludacris, Jordana
Brewster, Gina Carano
Direction: Justin Lin
Genre: Action
Duration: 2 hours 11 minutes
STORY: Dom (Diesel) and Brian (Walker) are in Rio, living it up after bringing down a drug kingpin in the franchise’s previous instalment. They’ve left crime behind, only to be drawn back by the promise of finding alive a loved one (Rodriguez as Letti) they’d thought was dead. But to get to her, they have to hit the streets again. This time, in London. MOVIE REVIEW: We catch up with Dom and his crew as they cool their heels after pulling off their ‘Rio Heist’ and bringing down Braga. Dom has moved on but still pines for Letti.

Brian’s become a family man and father to a baby boy. Agent Hobbs (Johnson) offers a deal: find and bring Owen Shaw, a mercenary trained in vehicular warfare, to justice in return for information on Dom’s thought-dead love and grudgingly, full pardons for his crew, so they can return home to the US. As they embark on a mission for their own purposes, the “family” of speed demons soon finds themselves up against Shaw, an enemy that’s “in the game” and relies solely on “precision and planning” to carry out their assignments.

Letti has lost her memory and we see her become a pawn in Shaw’s game for most of the film. Is the family reunited again? Clocking in at over two hours, the film is filled with all the high-octane speed chases and close combat scenes we’ve come to expect from the franchise. And while it doesn’t disappoint in the outrageously and shamelessly fun bang-em-cars, road rage and the cheesy humour departments, it does drag by taking “detours” and selfdiscovery trip subplots that could easily have been done without.

Lin’s at the helm for the fourth time and the confidence (and over-indulgence, thereof) shows. The girl-on-girl fight scenes are actually more kick-ass than the ones with the guys. Of the supporting cast, Ludacris has the best lines. The new characters impress. That being said, this one’s purely for fans of the franchise and action junkies alike.

Courteney Cox and her husband David Arquette’s divorce was finalized on Tuesday in a Los Angeles Superior Court, according to reports. The couple announced their split in 2010, but it took them almost 2 years to actually file divorce papers – filing it on the same day in June 2012, the New York Daily News reported.

They pair wanted joint custody of their only child, 8-year-old daughter Coco. The divorce proceedings were cordial and the couple are still on friendly terms. The former ‘Friends’ star said on ‘The Ellen DeGeneres Show’ in January that Arquette is her best friend in the world and she loves him. Arquette told People magazine that Cox is incredible and he loves her, too, adding that she is an amazing and a beautiful person.

Actress Tisca Chopra, who played the role of a mother in ‘Taare Zameen Par’, says she wants to essay a negative character. Her stunning performance as mother of a dyslexic child in Aamir Khan-directed Taare Zameen Par (2007) won her all-round praise and numerous honours, including a National Award.

“Now I want to do something different. I want to play a baddie,” Tisca said. She will be yet again playing the role of mother in ‘Ankur Arora Murder Case’, an upcoming Bollywood thriller directed by Suhail Tatari and written by Vikram Bhatt.”I was frightened to do this film. Initially, I was little skeptical. I couldn’t forget that the child has died in this film…I used to get scared at this thought and would wake up at 2 AM,” Tisca said.

After her debut film as a producer, Preity Zinta is now just looking forward to donning the actor’s hat. Preity, who has been traveling and working non-stop for the past two years, wants to take it slow for a while.

“After producing a film, now I want to just chill. I want to go on the set, put on make up and go give my shot. After being involved with everything right from postproduction to editing, now I am looking forward to just acting,” she says.

Cast: Leonardo DiCaprio, Tobey Maguire, Carey Mulligan,Joel Edgerton, Elizabeth Debicki, Amitabh Bachchan
Direction: Baz Luhrmann
Genre: Drama
Duration: 2 hours 24 minutes.

Story: Jay Gatsby conquers poverty and becomes ‘great’ – but is he good enough for elegant Daisy, married to aristocratic Tom?

Movie Review: Right up, Baz Luhrmann’s The Great Gatsby (TGG) is Hollywood’s Devdas. Jay Gatsby (DiCaprio) and Daisy (Mulligan) fall in star-crossed love. Poor and ambitious, Gatsby reinvents himself, but Daisy’s won by aristocratic, womanizing Tom (Edgerton). Jay arrives in 1920s New York, abuzz, as Daisy’s cousin Nick Carraway (Maguire) notes, with a ‘golden roar’. Stocks and skyscrapers are shooting up, prohibitions and morals crashing down. Suddenly-rich Gatsby becomes NY’s newest celeb, throwing his fantastic (Disney-inspired?) mansion open for amazing parties, befriending Nick hoping he’ll bring Daisy back to Gatsby’s life. Which Nick does – but does the party end in whimpers or bangs? Luhrmann’s take on F. Scott Fitzgerald’s classic novel is a beautiful bash – that lasts too long. On the upside, the music’s super and the 3D – decorating dinners to orgies, advertisements gliding silkily along a taxi – stunning. Add DiCaprio, perfect as the golden, mysterious, toffee-hearted Gatsby, to Maguire – that most wry of observers, the loner at the party – and you’re swept away by the mood. Other performances fit like icecubes – Mulligan conveying Daisy’s soft, deadly uncertainties, Debicki dashing as ironic golf-star Jordan, Amitabh Bachchan shining as gangster Meyer Wolfsheim in a sharp little role, witty as he echoes Gatsby’s deceptions about his folks – “all sadly dead now” – frightening when he shows off the tooth hanging around his neck.

Edgerton begins with OTT-bluster but ends puncturing Gatsby with wounding bluntness. DiCaprio and Edgerton’s duel unpeels the glitter’s ugly core – pre- Depression America was brutally snobbish, ‘old money’ trumping ambitions, everyone romping with corruption, yet few paying.

Luhrmann captures all this from inside a shimmering cocktail glass. His Gatsby is greedily gorgeous and occasionally sags, luxuriating in a 3Dtheatric too many. Still, it showcases Fitzgerald’s drama with flair – a society dancing on a knife’s edge, where everyone drank and romanced too much, but you also heard an odd, wistful sigh – maar daala.

She is well over 30, but Gul Panag is glad that she can still comfortably slip into a pair of shorts which she used to wear when she was sweet 16. “Found a pair of shorts at parents’ home from when I was 16 (highwaisted and all).

Still fit in them comfortably,” posted the “Dor” actress on microblogging site Twitter. The former beauty queenturned- actress and adventure enthusiast is fit, and has maintained herself well over the years.

The famous German beauty is visiting home sweet home. Claudia Ciesla is travelling to Germany to spend some time with family. Away from the Mumbai heat, she will be enjoying the breezy climate of Germany and having great time with her family. “Due to the packed schedules I don’t get much time to be with my family.

So as and when I get time to squeeze out from my schedule and meet my family, I just snatch the chance and travel home. It’s always fun to meet family and to go around with my sisters. This time I am here for 2 weeks and will continue to have a blast here.” says Claudia.

Eva Longoria, who had a major wardrobe malfunction at the Cannes red carpet on Saturday, poked fun at her own embarrassment by flaunting her knickers in a sheer laced see-through dress on Sunday. “Here’s my dress for tonight! No wardrobe malfunctions tonight!!!” the Mirror quoted her as tweeting.

The 38-year-old actress was left exposed at Cannes, when she lifted her dress off the wet ground to reveal that she wasn’t wearing any underwear.

Lindsay Lohan has been sued for 5 million dollars by a clothing company, DNAM The erratic behavior of the actress made it difficult to promote and sell her 6126 leggings line for which the company is demanding 5 million dollars, Radar Online reported. The company’s lawsuit states that Lohan’s leggings suffered in sales because the buyers were reluctant to associate themselves with her drugaddled image.

However Lohan’s business partner, Kristi Kaylor, has denied any such allegations and said that The DNAM countersuit against 6126 misrepresents the facts. She further said that the company is aware of the fact that it is in breach of the 6126 licensee agreement, and this suit is clearly nothing more than a transparent defense maneuver. She added that DNAM is trying to get out of honoring its financial obligations.

Actress Jennifer Aniston is using yoga to destress ahead of her wedding day. The 44-year-old is reportedly getting married to actor Justin Theroux in August. “Yoga kind of helps you prepare for everything, honestly,” eonline.com quoted her as saying. “It’s like meditation. It sort of just allows anything that’s coming at you at the end of the day to be kind of doable,” she added.

Cast: Riz Ahmed, Kate Hudson, Liev Schreiber, Kiefer
Sutherland, Om Puri, Shabana Azmi
Direction: Mira Nair
Genre: Thriller
Duration: 2 hours 12 minutes

STORY: The film is a gripping adaptation of Pakistani author Mohsin Hamid’s acclaimed novel on conflicting ideologies and a search for identity, beyond religion.

REVIEW: Can you be who you really are when the world around you forces you to believe otherwise? 9/11 changed the West’s perception of Islam forever. While various films have had the unsettling issue as a backdrop, Mira Nair’s riveting adaptation goes way deeper. Its sensitive yet unsubtle narrative succeeds at retaining the book’s ambiguity, as well as raising pertinent questions on Islamic fundamentalism, emigration and USA’s interference in Pakistan. Nair captures the finer nuances of the thought-provoking tale with great conviction. Hard-working immigrant Changez Khan (Riz Ahmed) is happy living his American dream. Confident and talented, he’s considered as a promising financial analyst at the renowned Wall Street business valuation firm, Underwood Samson. While he’s busy climbing the corporate ladder and finding love in Erica (Hudson), an artist, the twin towers are attacked. As a Muslim in the US, the act of extreme violence not only shatters hopes of Changez’s bright future, but also makes him question his ideologies, objectivity and identity. The beauty of the film lies in the depiction of its protagonist’s unspoken words, suppressed emotions and unwavering beliefs. The incredibly talented Riz Ahmed enables the film to deconstruct the meaning of ‘fundamentalism’, which forms the core of the story. What leaves you in awe of the adapted screenplay is its brilliantly drawn parallels between Changez’s personal, political and social situation. You feel his pain, vulnerability, denial, inner turmoil and psychological conflict. The film keeps you thoroughly engaged, even in parts where the pace drops a bit. While the film is more of a thriller, it doesn’t cease to be a human drama, thanks to sublime supporting performances from Kate Hudson, Liev Schreiber, Kiefer Sutherland, Om Puri, Shabana Azmi and Meesha Shafi. The music is soulful. Songs like Kangna, Bijli Aaye ya na aaye help build the mood. Cinematography is impressive and in sync with Nair’s trademark style of storytelling. Poignant and relevant, the film will Pakistan differently.

Angelina Jolie’s doctor has written the details of the actress’ double mastectomy with the aim of helping women understand the preventive treatment. Dr Kristi Funk wrote that just four days after the 37-year-old star underwent her mastectomies, she was pleased to find Jolie in good spirits with bountiful energy, and saw her working with freshly assembled storyboards on her walls for the next movie that she is about to direct, the Guardian reported. Funk asserted in her blog that all the while that Jolie spoke, six drains were dangling from her chest, three on either side, fastened to an elastic belt around her waist.

The Oscar-winner got both her breasts removed on February 16 at the Pink Lotus Breast Centre in Beverly Hills, California, to reduce her breast cancer risk from 87 percent to 5 percent. Despite her fame and constant hounding by media, her treatment remained a secret until Tuesday, when she herself chose to reveal about it in a New York Times article. She approved Funk’s account of her treatment to help women at high cancer risk and to help them understand what is involved if they choose to undergo surgery rather than regular scans and preventive drugs as a way of managing their risk.

Actress Parineeti Chopra says if she has an option to flirt with someone in Bollywood, it would be the current heartthrob Ranbir Kapoor. Mesmerised by the young Kapoor scion, the actress calls him “one of her favourite actors of the current generation”. “If I had to choose (whom to flirt with in Bollywood) then it would be Ranbir Kapoor,” said Parineeti, who made her debut with 2011 film “Ladies vs Ricky Bahl” and later featured in political thriller “Ishaqzaade”. The 24- year-old was talking at a launch. As far as films are concerned, she is busy shooting for “Hasee Toh Phasee” with Sidharth