One week to win your land

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There is only one week remaining for a lucky patron to claim a plot of land at Indian Lakes, in Orlando. It is simple, one lucky person attending the Entertainers Concert put together by Meit Shah at the Osceola Heritage Park in Orlando on March 11, can win themselves a plot of land at Indian Lakes in Orlando courtesy Cricket Council USA (CCUSA). The cricket body led by Mahammad Qureshi has partnered with Shah and is gifting one lucky patron the land which has been preferred by many people. The…

Disney Ends The Popular 20th Century Fox Brand

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COURTESY BY: https://www.bolnews.com/ Walt Disney has re branded one of the renowned names in the entertainment industry; 20th Century Fox. The news comes after the legendary House of The Mouse has re branded one of its TV studios as 20th Television. The move follows the re branding of the 85-year-old company 20th Century Fox as 20th Century Studios in January. The 20th century Fox has produced superhit movies, including Titanic and Avatar. Disney has last year accomplished a $71.3bn (£54.7bn) deal to purchase Rupert Murdoch’s Fox media assets. According to…

Amitabh Bachchan tests positive for Covid-19, admitted to hospital

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COURTESY BY: https://www.hindustantimes.com/ Actor Amitabh Bachchan has tested positive for the coronavirus. He has been admitted to hospital. “I have tested CoviD positive .. shifted to Hospital .. hospital informing authorities .. family and staff undergone tests , results awaited .. All that have been in close proximity to me in the last 10 days are requested to please get themselves tested !” he wrote on Twitter.

Scaled-down Toronto Film Festival plans virtual red carpets and drive-in screenings

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COURTESY BY: https://www.hindustantimes.com/ The Toronto International Film Festival, one of the leading launching pads for fall movies and Oscar contenders, on Wednesday announced plans for a smaller 2020 edition with virtual red carpet premieres and drive-in screenings. The Toronto festival, held annually in early September, is typically a sprawling city-wide affair that hosts between 250-400 feature-length films and the debuts of many of the fall movie season’s top releases. Due to the pandemic, organizers said that this year’s festival will be contingent on the go-ahead from Ontario health officials. But for now,…

How the pandemic has temporarily overthrown the tyranny of box office

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COURTESY BY: https://www.hindustantimes.com/ The box office has always been the great leveller in Bollywood. A producer once told me that any polarisation within the industry on religious lines would necessarily be superficial because the deity they worship is success. On the flip side, you could be the biggest name, the most adored face, but fail back-to-back and you’d quickly see your star begin to dim. Years ago, I was talking to Farah Khan about gender politics in the business and she jokingly added that industrywallahs didn’t care who was behind the camera,…

Indian Film Festival of Melbourne rescheduled to October due to Covid-19 pandemic

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COURTESY BY: https://www.hindustantimes.com/ The Indian Film Festival of Melbourne (IFFM) has announced that the 2020 edition has been pushed ahead, with dates rescheduled from August to October due to the ongoing coronavirus pandemic. IFFM 2020’s program will be devised in line with public health guidance, with plans for a compact schedule taking place over a week from October 30 to November 7. “The festival is retaining the Short Film Competition and the popular dance competition (to be held on October 31, pending easing of restrictions) but the much anticipated IFFM Awards Gala…

Shah Rukh Khan to provide aid to child who tried to wake up dead mother at train station, says ‘I know how it feels’ to lose a parent

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COURTESY BY: https://www.hindustantimes.com/ Actor Shah Rukh Khan’s Meer Foundation has pledged support towards the child from the viral Muzaffarpur railway station video. The toddler’s video of him pulling on his dead mother at the station went viral amid the migrant exodus crisis. Meer Foundation shared a picture of the child with his grandparents and said it will be looking after his well-being. “#MeerFoundation is thankful to all who helped us reach this child, whose heart wrenching video of trying to wake his mother disturbed all. We are now supporting him and he is…

Rejected Avengers Endgame sequence reveals Robert Downey Jr sendoff you’ve never seen. Until now

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More than a year after its release, the design firm Exception Perception has revealed unused versions of the end credits sequence for Avengers: Endgame. Marvel fans would recall that the sequence paid special tribute to the six original stars of the franchise, Robert Downey Jr, Chris Evans, Chris Hemsworth, Scarlett Johansson, Mark Ruffalo and Jeremy Renner. The sequence in the film showed a brief montage of the actors’ journeys in the series, and juxtaposed their names with their signatures, while Alan Silvestri’s music played in the background. On its website, Exception Perception has written…

Scarface actor Geno Silva dies at 72

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COURTESY BY: https://www.hindustantimes.com/ Actor Geno Silva, best known for his role in the 1983 crime drama Scarface, has died. He was 72. Silva passed away on May 9 at his home here of complications from frontotemporal degeneration, a form of dementia. His family shared the news of his demise, reports hollywoodreporter.com. During his four-decade career, Silva also featured in Luis Valdez’s Zoot Suit (1981), Robert Towne’s Tequila Sunrise (1988), Steven Spielberg’s Amistad and The Lost World: Jurassic Park (both released in 1997), David Lynch’s Mulholland Drive (2001) and F. Gary…