Category: ENTERTAINMENT

Actor Taapsee Pannu on Monday said she has started filming her upcoming sports drama “Rashmi Rocket”. Set in Kutch, Gujarat, “Rashmi Rocket” stars Pannu in the title role of a gifted athlete and is directed by Akarsh Khurana, who helmed Irrfan Khan’s “Karwaan”. Pannu took to Instagram and shared a picture of herself on a race track. “Let’s do this! #RashmiRocket,” the 33-year-old actor wrote. The film, backed by producer Ronnie Screwvala’s banner RSVP, began filming last week. The movie’s shoot was previously set to commence earlier this year but…

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Hollywood star Johnny Depp will no longer play Gellert Grindelwald in Warner Bros’ “Fantastic Beasts” franchise after he lost his libel case against a UK newspaper. Depp had sued News Group Newspapers, publisher of The Sun, and the newspaper’s executive editor, Dan Wootton, at London’s High Court over an April 2018 article that called him a “wife beater”, accusing him of assaulting his ex-wife Amber Heard. After a contentious summer trial that made global headlines for weeks, Judge Andrew Nicol on Monday dismissed the suit, saying that what the paper…

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“Frozen” stars Kristen Bell and Jonathan Groff are set to reunite for upcoming original musical feature “Molly and the Moon”. According to Deadline, the movie hails from “How I Met Your Mother” creators Carter Bays and Craig Thomas, who have written the script and will be directing the project. Bell and Groff, who earlier starred as Princess Anna and Kristoff, respectively, in the “Frozen” series, will play an expectant couple who sing to their unborn child; the film also takes viewers inside the womb as the unborn girl utilizes her…

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Actor Hilarie Burton is joining her real-life husband Jeffrey Dean Morgan in the cast of long-running series “The Walking Dead”. The 38-year-old actor will play the role of Lucille, the wife of villainous Negan, portrayed by Morgan in the show. According to Entertainment Weekly, Burton will have guest-starring role for the newly added bonus episodes of season 10, which will premiere in 2021 on AMC. Sharing the news, the actor tweeted on Tuesday, “Been pretty hard to keep this a secret. But I love working with @JDMorgan. I love watching…

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“Sons of Anarchy” alum Kim Coates will play the lead role in the psychological thriller “Neon Lights”. According to Deadline, the movie will also feature Coates’ daughter Brenna Coates, marking their first on-screen outing. Rouzbeh Heydari will helm the upcoming indie feature from a screenplay by Dana Abraham, who will also star in the movie. The story is about a tech tycoon with anger management issues who goes on a retreat only to witness guests disappear one by one. Coates will also produce the movie along with Abraham. The project,…

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Comedy series “Ted Lasso”, starring Jason Sudeikis in the titular role, has secured a third season order at Apple TV Plus. According to The Hollywood Reporter, the development comes as the series is gearing up to return to production in January in London on its second season. Sudeikis portrays Lasso, an idealistic all-American football coach, who despite having no soccer coaching experience at all, is hired to manage an English football club. The show debuted on the tech giant’s streamer on August 14 and was renewed for a second run…

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Hollywood star Scarlett Johansson will topline Apple and A24’s upcoming sci-fi drama “Bride”. Sebastian Lelio, the director of Oscar-winning movie “A Fantastic Woman”, will helm the movie, being touted as a “genre-bending feature”, according to The Hollywood Reporter. The story is about a woman created to be an ideal wife — the singular obsession of a brilliant entrepreneur. “When she rejects her creator, she’s forced to flee her confined existence, confronting a world that sees her as a monster. It is on the run that she finds her true identity,…

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“Normal People” breakout Daisy Edgar-Jones will headline the upcoming drama movie “Where the Crawdads Sing”. Based on author Delia Owens’ 2018 novel of the same name, the film hails from Reese Witherspoon’s production company Hello Sunshine. The story takes place in the mid-20th century South and centres on Kya, a young woman who is abandoned by her family and has to raise herself all alone in the marshes outside of her small town. However, when her former boyfriend is found dead, Kya is thrust into the spotlight, instantly branded by…

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Universal Pictures will wraps its long-running action franchise “Fast and Furious” with two back-to-back instalments, to be directed by Justin Lin. The franchise, led by Vin Diesel, has so far produced nine films since the debut of the first “Fast and Furious” movie in 2001. According to Variety, Diesel will return for the new movies along with the core cast of Michelle Rodriguez, Tyrese Gibson, Chris ‘Ludacris’ Bridges, Jordana Brewster, Nathalie Emmanuel and Sung Kang. Lin has so far directed four films in the series — “The Fast and the…

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