Entertainment

Star-studded action spectacle Pathaan has earned Rs 667 crore gross worldwide in eight days, said production house Yash Raj Films (YRF) on Thursday. Directed by Siddharth Anand, the globetrotting espionage thriller was released globally in Hindi with dubbed versions in Tamil and Telugu on January 25. It stars Shah Rukh Khan, John Abraham and Deepika Padukone. According to YRF, on ...

Michael Jackson’s 26-year-old nephew, Jaafar Jackson, will play the King of Pop in the planned biopic “Michael” to be directed by Antoine Fuqua. Lionsgate announced Jackson’s casting Monday for the film being produced by Oscar-winning “Bohemian Rhapsody” producer Graham King. Jackson is the second-youngest son of Jermaine Jackson, Michael’s brother. He’s put out music of his own; in 2019, he ...

Sharmeen Akhee, an actress on the small screen, suffered burn injuries in an explosion in the bathroom of a make-up room at a shooting spot in the capital on Saturday. The explosion occurred from electrical sparks in the bathroom of the shooting spot near Pallabi police station in Mirpur on Saturday afternoon, leaving her seriously injured, UNB reports. She was ...

The multiverse-skipping sci-fi indie hit “Everything Everywhere All at Once” led nominations to the 95th Academy Awards as Hollywood heaped honors on big-screen spectacles like “Top Gun: Maverick” and “Avatar: The Way of Water” a year after a streaming service won best picture for the first time. Daniel Scheinert and Daniel Kwan’s “Everything Everywhere All at Once” landed a leading ...

A year after a streaming service won Hollywood’s top honor for the first time, big-screen spectacles are poised to dominate nominations to the 95th Academy Awards on Tuesday. Nominations will be announced 8:30am EST from the academy’s Samuel Goldwyn Theater in Beverly Hills, California. They will air live on ABC’s “Good Morning America” and be livestreamed on Oscars.org, Oscars.com and ...

Athiya Shetty and KL Rahul are set to get married today (January 23) in an intimate ceremony at Suniel Shetty’s Khandala farmhouse. Ajay Devgn gave a “special shout-out” to Suniel Shetty and his wife Mana Shetty on their daughter Athiya’s wedding. He also wished Athiya and KL Rahul “a blissful married life”. On Twitter, the veteran star shared a picture ...

Ashraful Hossain Alom alias Hero Alom has filed two writ petitions with the High Court seeking its directive to allow him as an independent candidate for the upcoming by-elections to Bogura-4 and Bogura-6 constituencies. In his petitions, Hero Alom prayed on Monday to the HC to direct the EC to accept his nomination papers and allow him to contest the elections ...

New movies like “Plane” and “House Party” were no match for “Avatar: The Way of Water” and the killer doll horror “M3GAN” at the box office this weekend. The two holdovers topped the charts again according to studio estimates Sunday. In first place for the fifth weekend in a row was James Cameron’s “Avatar” sequel, which added an estimated $31.1 ...

The 21st edition of the Dhaka International Film Festival (DIFF), one of the longest-running cultural festivals in the country, officially began in the city Saturday, with 252 films set to be showcased from 71 countries till January 22. Foreign Minister AK Abdul Momen inaugurated the festival as chief guest, while civil aviation and tourism secretary Mokammel Hossain and popular West ...

The huge success of “Avatar: The Way of Water,” James Cameron’s sequel which is approaching $2 billion at the global box office, proves that “movies are back with a resurgence” after the pandemic, the Canadian director said. “We’ve had a year to see that this resurgence isn’t just a fluke, or just one film,” Cameron told AFP this week in Los ...