Leonardo Di Caprio
and Michael Mann make 'Public Enemies' (Go
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Washington:
Hollywood actor Leonardo DiCaprio will team up with
director Michael Mann in a movie adaptation of Bryan Burrough's
bestseller "Public Enemies: America's Greatest Crime Wave
and the FBI 1933-34". The plot traces the rise of the FBI
during the time when U.S. government was trying to stop
the 1933 crime spree headed by gangsters. According to Eonline
DiCaprio will produce as well as star in the action flick.
Shyamalan's
'The Village' gave Sigourney Weaver nightmares (Go
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Singapore:
Hollywood actress Sigourney Weaver has revealed that
playing a village elder in Manoj Night Shyamalan's latest
film "The Village" was not a pleasant experience as she
got nightmares for months after she first read the script.
According to The Straits Times, Weaver, 54, said that she
was troubled on a subconscious level and sympathized with
the parents in the movie because they kept trying to protect
their children. 'I think my subconscious was so traumatised
by all the details in the script. It had something to do
with the fact that these people were trying to live safely
and quietly. And these children had to live with that fear,'
the "Alien" actress was quoted as saying. 'I sympathize
with the parents in the story. As a parent, you keep trying
to outline dangers to your children,' she added. Weaver
also confessed that what made matters worse was the fact
that she had been asked to keep the script strictly confidential
and was not even allowed to discuss it with her husband.
`Glamour'
beats FHM to claim No.1 position (Go
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London:
Popular and glossy magazine 'Glamour' has broken through
the 600,000 circulation barrier to become Britain's best-selling
women's monthly. According to the Independent, three years
after its launch, 'Glamour' has stolen the No.1 title from
another popular magazine, FHM. New figures from the Audit
Bureau of Circulation revealed that 'Glamour' recorded an
average circulation of 605,747 between January and June
this year. On the other hand, FHM, famous for its pictures
of pretty girl- next-door types, saw its circulation fall
to 573,713. Glamour's publisher Simon Kippin strongly feels
that that the key to the magazine's continued success is
content rather than size. "In the end, content, what's between
the covers, will out. As we've seen from all the competition
who are unashamedly imitating us, nothing comes close,"
the report quoted Kippin as saying.
'Final
Days' to capture Kurt Cobain's final hours (Go
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London:
A new film "Final Days," which has been directed by
"Good Will Hunting" director Gus Van Sant, will capture
the last few hours of music legend Kurt Cobain, before he
died of a gun shot. According to Ananova, the film, which
is to be released next year and will star "The Village"
actor Michael Pitt, is a semi documentary. However, the
film does not try to find the answers to the rockers mysterious
death, it just narrates the incidents that took place prior
to his death. The "Smells Like Teen Spirit" singer's mysterious
death had caused quite a sensation when he was found dead
in his Seattle home with a gunshot wound to the head on
April 8, 1994. "There are a lot of hypotheses about what
happened, but I don't know of any full eyewitness account,
just tiny momentary ones. Everyone has a different opinion,
but there's not one true, authoritative account. He was
just kind of missing," the report quoted Van Sant, as saying.
"There are a lot of little things that happen that add up
to not so much the story as much as the environment. He
plays his guitar, he sings a song, a telephone yellow pages
salesman visits him, he watches TV. Things like that are
very large. But there are no answers, no "this is causing
that," Van Sant added.
