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I would be honoured to play Cleopatra, says Jolie

Washington, July 22 (ANI): Angelina Jolie has said that she would be honoured to play the Queen of the Nile in an upcoming new biopic.
“I would be honoured” to play Cleopatra in an upcoming new biopic,” UsMagazine.com quoted Jolie as saying during the ‘Salt’ premiere in Hollywood.
But Jolie, 35, also said: “We haven”t gotten the [...]

Mickey Rourke to play gay rugby star in new movie

London, July 19 (ANI): American actor Mickey Rourke is set to play the role of gay British rugby star Gareth Thomas in a new biopic.
Rourke thought Thomas would be the ‘perfect model’ for a movie after reading a report about him ‘coming out’.
Rourke and Thomas met for dinner after Rourke appeared as a guest on [...]

Sylvester Stallone won’t play Edgar Allen Poe in biopic

London, July 16 (ANI): Sylvester Stallone has admitted that he will not play his one-time dream role of Edgar Allen Poe in a big-budget biopic, for he thinks he is the wrong man to play the horror writer.
Stallone revealed that he’’s still very much involved in plans to make a Poe movie, which he has [...]

Barbara Walters in talks for TV biopic?

London, July 15 (ANI): American broadcast journalist Barbara Walters is reportedly in negotiations to bring her life story to the small screen in a documentary.
According to the New York Post, Walters is in talks with TV executives at HBO to adapt her best-selling memoir, Audition, into a TV documentary.
Her representative Cindi Berger confirmed that there [...]

Naoko Mori got drunk to film nude scenes in John Lennon biopic

London, June 24 (ANI): British actress Naoko Mori has confessed that she got drunk to film all the nude scenes in the new BBC drama ‘Lennon Naked’.
The Japanese-born actress is playing Yoko Ono alongside Christopher Eccleston, who plays Beatles legend John Lennon, in the BBC Four film.
Former Torchwood star Naoko, 34, said that she was [...]

Kate Winslet to play Austrian abductee in Bernd Echinger’’s biopic?

New York, June 18 (ANI): ”The Reader” star Kate Winslet is being considered for the role of Natascha Kampusch, who was kidnapped in Austria when she was ten years old, in a new biopic.
According to the Guardian, German filmmaker Bernd Echinger will direct the movie, reports the New York Daily News.
Echinger is determined to cast [...]

Bollywood’s Hitler biopic with Indian twist

London, June 9 (ANI): Bollywood filmmaker Rakesh Ranjan Kumar is making a romantic biopic on Hitler, titled ‘Dear Friend Hitler’.
The film is based on the Nazi ruler’s relationship with his long-term mistress, Eva Braun.
“It will be a romance but not in the typical sense,” the Times quoted Kumar as saying.
He added that the film “aims [...]

No Botox in Naomi Watts” life, say experts

Melbourne, June 6 (ANI): Naomi Watts is still at her youthful best even as the actress has stepped into the fourth decade of her life. Could this be the work of a surgeon’’s knife or Botox? No, say experts.
“I”ve looked at a lot of pictures and I don”t think there’’s anything that would [...]

Liam Gallagher promises not to get into films

London, May 15 (ANI): Former Oasis singer Liam Gallagher, who is working on new film ‘The Longest Cocktail Party’, claims he will never get completely absorbed into films.
However, the rock star, whose new production company, In 1,is backing the movie, admitted that he could not let go an opportunity to be part of the biopic [...]

Cannes’ LiLo ‘snub’

New York, May 13 (ANI): Lindsay Lohan has been trying to swing a free trip to the Cannes film festival to wrangle money for her new Linda Lovelace biopic, ‘Inferno,’ but no one’’s willing to pay for her, it has emerged.
“She’’s been asking around, but hasn”t had any takers,” the New York Post quoted a [...]

Coming soon: Bruce Lee biopic

New Delhi, May 12 (ANI): A biopic about late action hero Bruce Lee is to be made to mark his birth on November 27 of this year.
Shooting of ‘Bruce Lee’ is expected to begin at the end of June and the film is scheduled for release before November 27, reports M1905.com.
The biopic will revolve around [...]

Madonna “cried and cried” watching ex Penn in ‘Milk’

Washington, May 4 (ANI): Madonna wept as she watched Milk – the movie in which her ex-husband Sean Penn played the role of homosexual politician Harvey Milk.
The singer said the biopic reminded her of the gay friends she has lost to AIDS, reports Contactmusic.
In an interview with the film’’s director Gus Van Sant in the [...]

Scarlet Johansson interested in playing Courtney Love on-screen

London, May 03 (ANI): Actress Scarlet Johansson has confirmed her interest in playing Courtney Love in biopic of the rocker’s late husband Kurt Cobain.
Moviemakers are currently thinking of an idea to bring Nirvana frontman’s life story to the big screen with the help of his widow, Love, who will act as a project adviser, reports [...]

Hefner wants Downey, Jr. for his biopic

London, Apr 28 (ANI): Playboy boss Hugh Hefner is convinced that Robert Downey, Jr. is the only actor who can play him on the big screen.
And the tycoon told the Hollywood star just that when they met on the red carpet at the Iron Man 2 premiere in Los Angeles, reports The Daily Express.
Hefner says, [...]

Courtney Love wants Ryan Gosling or James McAvoy for Kurt Cobain role

London, April 21 (ANI): Courtney Love has two men in mind to possibly play her late husband, Nirvana frontman Kurt Cobain, on the big screen.
Last week, the Hole rocker dismissed reports she wanted Twilight hunk Robert Pattinson to play Cobain, reports the Daily Express.
And now Love has suggested either Ryan Gosling or Scottish star James [...]

Matt Damon to play U.S. Senator Robert F. Kennedy

London, Feb 25 (ANI): Actor Matt Damon is in talks to star in a new biopic about late U.S. Senator Robert F. Kennedy.
According to Deadline Hollywood Daily, Damon, 39, is considering the role in the untitled project with Seabiscuit director Gary Ross, reports the Daily Star.
The website reports the movie will be based on Evan [...]

Shaam to play Rajashekar Reddy

Shaam to play Rajashekar Reddy

Popular Tamil actor Shaam, who kickstarted his career in Telugu with his astounding performance as a villain in Ravi Teja starrer Kick, is receiving more offers in Telugu these days. The Tamil hero recently signed a Telugu film titled Veedu Manavade to be directed by Netaji under the banner of Annam Films International.
The latest we [...]

Irrfan Khan encounters real life dacoit drama!

Sampurn, Bollywood Trade News Network
Irrfan Khan recently was shooting for Tigmanshu Dhulia’s PAAN SINGH TOMAR in the jungles of Dholpur when he was left stunned on realizing that dacoits had raided a village very near to their shooting locale.
A unit source reveals, ”Our whole crew had to face a harrowing time but were given [...]

Abhishek in Barjatyas’ Next

The last film which came out of the Barjatya camp was Ek Vivaah…Aisa Bhi, which released last year. The makers are now busy working on their next film, which will see them departing from their usual family drama genre.
The Barjatyas next is supposedly a historical biopic to be directed by Satish Kaushik. It will star [...]

Guru Dutt’s life story continues to inspire filmmakers

Mumbai, Feb 15 (IANS) Guru Dutt is a name that evokes awe and a sense of romance and tragedy. Besides being a master filmmaker, his personal life also holds an endless appeal for directors, two of whom are eager to bring his life story to the big screen.
The two filmmakers – Rakeysh Omprakash Mehra and [...]