'The House': Film Review

Amy Poehler and Will Ferrell try to pay for their kid's college with a homemade casino in Andrew Jay Cohen's directing debut.

A couple of desperate, super-square parents embrace their inner badass in The House, turning a friend's abode into a full-service casino to raise around five hundred grand in a few weeks. Sound unlikely? You don't know the half of it. Having penned two surprisingly funny parents-gone-wild hits with writing partner Brendan O'Brien (Neighbors and its sequel), Andrew Jay Cohen makes his directing debut with this variation on the theme. But the third time is anything but charmed for this luckless effort, which is unlikely to return even close to what producers expected when they teamed Will Ferrell and Amy Poehler with the successful screenwriters.

It's telling that Warner Bros. is sneaking this release out sans critics' screenings despite its well-liked stars: This House will likely collapse under its word-of-mouth burden.

Where Neighbors stars Rose Byrne and Seth Rogen played new parents, comically unsure they were equipped to care for a newborn, Poehler and Ferrell's Kate and Scott Johansen are old hands, the kind of sweet dorks who believe they're their daughter's best friends and may actually be right. Much in the picture's first half-hour puts one in mind not of the earlier films' rite-of-passage friction but of "why isn't this funny?" star vehicles about middle-aged misbehavior like 2010's Date Night. It might help, this time around, if we believed an ounce of the setup.......

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'Spaceballs' 30th Anniversary: The Schwartz Has Been With Us Since June, 1987! | THR

30 years after its release Mel Brook's epic space comedy 'Spaceballs' hit theaters in June of 1987, 10 years after the release of 'Star Wars.' Despite initial mixed reviews it has become an iconic Brooks comedy featuring the knockout cast of Rick Moranis, John Candy, Bill Pullman, Joan Rivers, Daphne Zuniga and Mel Brooks himself!

Dancer Shakti Mohan wants to choreograph a song for Bhansali's film

Ace dancer Shakti Mohan keen to choreograph a song for Padmavati director Sanjay Leela Bhansali’s film.

Expressing her dream popular contemporary dancer Shakti Mohan said that she wants to choreograph a song for maverick filmmaker Sanjay Leela Bhansali’s film.

Shakti did a brief appearance in the title song of Farah Khan's Tees Maar Khan, and she was seen shaking a leg in the song -"Aa Re Pritam Pyaare" from Akshay Kumar-starrer "Rowdy Rathore". She also co-assisted noted choreographer Vaibhavi Merchant for "Kamli" song in Aamir Khan starrer "Dhoom 3". 

"I am looking at doing choreography. I am doing shows with A R Rahman and International Indian Film Academy (IIFA) Rocks, doing live shows I am getting into the choreography world which is new to me. I would love to choreograph a song for Sanjay Leela Bhansali... that's my dream. He met my sister once and told her how great dancer I am. I was overwhelmed to hear that," Shakti said.

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“Priyanka Chopra Is The Next Rekha” : Suneel Darshan | Lara Dutta | Ek Haseena Thi Ek Deewana Tha

Suneel Darshan in this exclusive Interview with Bollywood Hungama's Content head Faridoon Shahryar talks about his past works, Priyanka Chopra and Lara Dutta. Interesting he compares Priyanaka Chopra to Rekha in her younger days and has a lot of positive things to say about the two actresses. Must Watch!

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Rocket and Groot | Desperate Measures | Official Disney XD UK

Rocket is faced with a tough choice between credits and friendship!

No, Gal Gadot Isn’t Making 46 Times Less Than Henry Cavill

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A viral, misleading stat about Henry Cavill’s Man of Steelsalary doesn’t say as much about the Hollywood gender wage gap as it seems.

It was a jaw-dropping stat that swiftly went viral Tuesday morning: Gal Gadot, the magnetic star of the summer hit Wonder Woman, was paid just $300,000 for a movie that had already made $573 million worldwide. Meanwhile, Henry’s Cavill had been paid $14 million—46 times as much!—for his own first outing as Superman in Man of Steel.

It would be perfectly indicative of the gender pay gap that lingers in Hollywood . . . if it were at all true. As the Elle article that sent the stat viral said itself, Cavill’s $14 million earnings include bonuses for box-office performance, while Gadot’s $300,000, per a 2014 Variety report, is just the base salary for each movie she’s made thus far in the DC Universe. Though the details of Cavill’s reported $14 million could not be verified, a source with knowledge of studio negotiations on franchise films told Vanity Fair, “It certainly isn’t for one picture. That’s insane.”........

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VICEROY'S HOUSE: 'I've Never Set Foot in India' Clip - IN CINEMAS NOW. Based on a True Story

The End of an Empire. The Birth of Two Nations. Based on a True Story. IN UK CINEMAS 3RD MARCH 2017

Directed by Gurinder Chadha, VICEROY’S HOUSE tells the true story of the final months of British rule in India.

Viceroy’s House in Delhi was the home of the British rulers of India. After 300 years, that rule was coming to an end. For 6 months in 1947, Lord Mountbatten (played by Hugh Bonneville), great grandson of Queen Victoria, assumed the post of the last Viceroy, charged with handing India back to its people. 
The film’s story unfolds within that great House. Upstairs lived Mountbatten together with his wife (Gillian Anderson) and daughter (Lily Travers); downstairs lived their 500 Hindu, Muslim and Sikh servants. As the political elite - Nehru, Jinnah and Gandhi - converged on the House to wrangle over the birth of independent India, conflict erupted. A decision was taken to divide the country and create a new Muslim homeland: Pakistan. It was a decision whose consequences reverberate to this day.
The film is deeply personal to the director Gurinder Chadha, whose own family was caught up in the tragic events that unfolded as British rule came to an end. Her film examines those events through the prism of a marriage - that of Dickie and Edwina Mountbatten - and a romance - that between a young Hindu servant, Jeet (Manish Dayal), and his intended Muslim bride, Aalia (Huma Qureshi). The young lovers find themselves caught up in the seismic end of Empire, in conflict with the Mountbattens and with their own communities, but never ever giving up hope…-

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War for the Planet of the Apes | A Father Becomes Legend | 20th Century FOX

In War for the Planet of the Apes, the third chapter of the critically acclaimed blockbuster franchise, Caesar and his apes are forced into a deadly conflict with an army of humans led by a ruthless Colonel. After the apes suffer unimaginable losses, Caesar wrestles with his darker instincts and begins his own mythic quest to avenge his kind. As the journey finally brings them face to face, Caesar and the Colonel are pitted against each other in an epic battle that will determine the fate of both their species and the future of the planet.

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Adam West, Straight-Faced Star of TV's 'Batman,' Dies at 88

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The actor struggled to find work after the campy superhero series was canceled, but he rebounded with voiceover gigs, including one as the mayor of Quahog on 'Family Guy.'

Adam West, the ardent actor who managed to keep his tongue in cheek while wearing the iconic cowl of the Caped Crusader on the classic 1960s series Batman, has died. He was 88.

West, who was at the pinnacle of pop culture after Batman debuted in January 1966, only to see his career fall victim to typecasting after the ABC show flamed out, died Friday night in Los Angeles after a short battle with leukemia, a family spokesperson said.

West died peacefully surrounded by his family and is survived by his wife Marcelle, six children, five grandchildren and two great-grandchildren.

“Our dad always saw himself as The Bright Knight and aspired to make a positive impact on his fans' lives. He was and always will be our hero,” his family said in a statement.

After struggling for years without a steady job, the good-natured actor reached a new level of fame when he accepted an offer to voice the mayor of Quahog — named Adam West; how’s that for a coincidence! — on Seth MacFarlane’s long-running Fox animated hit Family Guy.

On the big screen, West played a wealthy Main Line husband who meets an early end in Paul Newman’s The Young Philadelphians (1959), was one of the first two humans on the Red Planet inRobinson Crusoe on Mars (1964) and contributed his velvety voice to the animated Redux Riding Hood (1997), which received an Oscar nomination for best short film.....

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Walk the Cannes 2017 red carpet with Deepika Padukone

Priyanka Chopra interview with Comedy Central

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'Dead Poets Society' Opened on This Day in 1989 | THR

Dead Poets' society which scored star Robin Williams his second Oscar nomination opened in

 theaters on this day in 1989.

Wonder Woman - Gal Gadot Interview - Warner Bros. UK

“Wonder Woman” is released in cinemas around the world next summer when Gal Gadot returns as the title character in the epic action adventure from director Patty Jenkins. Before she was Wonder Woman, she was Diana, princess of the Amazons, trained to be an unconquerable warrior. Raised on a sheltered island paradise, when an American pilot crashes on their shores and tells of a massive conflict raging in the outside world, Diana leaves her home, convinced she can stop the threat. Fighting alongside man in a war to end all wars, Diana will discover her full powers…and her true destiny.

Joining Gadot in the international cast are Chris Pine, Connie Nielsen, Robin Wright, David Thewlis, Danny Huston, Elena Anaya, Ewen Bremner and Saïd Taghmaoui. Jenkins directs the film from a screenplay by Allan Heinberg and Geoff Johns, story by Zack Snyder & Allan Heinberg, based on characters from DC Entertainment. Wonder Woman was created by William Moulton Marston. The film is produced by Charles Roven, Zack Snyder, Deborah Snyder and Richard Suckle, with Rebecca Roven, Stephen Jones, Wesley Coller and Geoff Johns serving as executive producers. Warner Bros. Pictures presents, in association with RatPac-Dune Entertainment, an Atlas Entertainment/Cruel and Unusual production, “Wonder Woman.” The film is scheduled for release on June 2, 2017, and will be distributed worldwide by Warner Bros. Pictures, a Warner Bros. Entertainment Company

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Priyanka Chopra talks about Quantico, Baywatch, and upcoming projects

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