[ItzToday.com] Singer Rihanna to marry Matt Kemp soon

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• Singer Rihanna to marry Matt Kemp soon
• Aishwarya Rai to walk for Manish Malhotra
• Socialite Kim Kardashian happy being single
• Salman Khan's 'Dabangg' a big hit in Pakistani
• 'Raajneeti' screenplay goes to Oscar archives
• Actress Lindsay Lohan's father threatens her lawyer
• 'Paan Singh Tomar' to be premiered at Abu Dhabi film fes

Singer Rihanna to marry Matt Kemp soon Posted: 27 Sep 2010 05:04 AM PDT Singer Rihanna is eager to marry her boyfriend, baseball player Matt Kemp. The Umbrella hitmaker is said to be inspired by her best friend and singer Katy Perry, who will be getting married to fiance Russell Brand next month. "Rihanna adores Matt. She can't imagine life without him," newsoftheworld.co.uk quoted a source as saying. "Ri's really involved with the wedding because she's one of Katy's best friends. "She wants that same sort of happiness. They want a formal engagement next year and won't take long to get married," the source added.

Aishwarya Rai to walk for Manish Malhotra Posted: 27 Sep 2010 04:55 AM PDT Bollywood star Aishwarya Rai will be walking the ramp for designer Manish Malhotra at the upcoming third edition of the HDIL India Couture Week. "Beautiful Aishwarya is going to be the showstopper at my couture week show," Malhotra posted on micro-blogging site Twitter. The designer, who has worked on Aishwarya's looks for the mega-budget "Endhiran" and "Action Replayy", is known to have given makeovers to many actresses, including Karisma Kapoor and Rani Mukerji. He will be opening the couture week, starting Oct 6-10. The designer says he will be showcasing 55 different outfits and emerald will be the dominant colour in his collection.

Socialite Kim Kardashian happy being single Posted: 27 Sep 2010 04:50 AM PDT Socialite Kim Kardashian says she is happy being single and doesn't need a man for the fulfilment. The reality TV star - who has previously dated soccer players Reggie Bush and Cristiano Ronaldo in the past - believes she could be content on her own but thinks she will one day find love because it makes life "more entertaining". "I feel like I don't need a man, but I'm also such a hopeless romantic. I really think that having someone makes everything more entertaining. I don't think you need a guy to make you happy but it's nice to have one," said Kardashian. The 29-year-old beauty - who has just split from Dallas Cowboys football player Miles Austin - is planning to be single for the foreseeable future but if she meets 'Mr. Right' she will make time for dates, reports contactmusic.com. "I'm happily single and having fun. But I think everybody can make time for someone they really like. I'm dating or I'm trying to. I just want to keep it a bit quieter and move private than previous relationships," she said. "I would just take falling in love a bit slower these days. And I've got so much more going on, being single means I can concentrate more on myself," she added.

Salman Khan's 'Dabangg' a big hit in Pakistani Posted: 27 Sep 2010 04:46 AM PDT The footfalls at Pakistani cinema halls went down when Indian movies were banned during the Eid period, but Salman Khan-starrer "Dabangg" has created a buzz and moviegoers are once again thronging the theatres. Produced by Salman's younger brother Arbaz Khan, the funny cop drama with a catchy storyline and enchanting music has not only enthralled audiences in India but also witnessed an overwhelming response in Pakistan. Rizwan, a booking clerk at Cinestar cinema in Lahore, said the movie was released in Pakistan Sep 17, a week after its India release, and "families have started returning to the cinemas for Indian movies. The cinema hall is more than 70 percent full during all 'Dabangg' shows." Ever since then president Pervez Musharraf lifted more than four decades of a ban on Indian movies three years ago, the Pakistani cinema halls have got a new lease of life. The lack of competition and the declining standards of local movies have created a huge vacuum for movie lovers, which is now being filled by Indian movies. The dwindling film industry in Pakistan produces only a handful of low-budget movies every year and fails to garner a satisfactory response at the box office due to poor quality. Arif Khan, owner of Gulistan cinema, said: "The cinema-going culture has been revived ever since Indian movies started screening in local theatres. Hardly 8-10 movies have been produced in Pakistan during the first nine months of 2010 while 25-30 Indian movies have released during the intervening period," he said. Khan said a couple of Pakistani movies were released on Eid last year and generated a rush during the holidays. "However, as soon as the holidays ended, the trend again went down," he recalled. This year too the government did not allow the screening of Indian movies on Eid in a bid to give breathing space to the local industry. "Had Indian movies run simultaneously with Pakistani flicks on Eid, I am sure the rush would have been diverted to the Indian hits," Khan said. "Other than 'Dabangg', 'Once Upon A Time in Mumbaai', 'I Hate Luv Storys' and 'Housefull' have also fared well at the box office in the recent past," he stated. A booking clerk in DHA cinema said: "The ticket prices ranged between Rs.300 and Rs.500 for Indian movies, relatively high considering almost half the rates for Pakistani movies, but that failed to dent the eagerness of the public." Several cinema houses have been built in posh localities to cater to the taste of the masses after the revival of Indian movies. "The revival of cinema in Pakistan has to be credited to Indian movies," Arif said adding that the debate on whether it should have been allowed in the first place had more or less settled down after seeing the response. There were more than 50 cinemas in Lahore, considered the cultural capital of Pakistan, but the number has gone down to just 14 because the remaining were converted to shopping malls and restaurants due to poor business.

'Raajneeti' screenplay goes to Oscar archives Posted: 27 Sep 2010 04:39 AM PDT Director Prakash Jha is elated after the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences approached him to acquire the copies of the screenplay of his hit political thriller "Raajneeti" for their permanent core collection. "I'm very happy and honoured that the Academy has requested me for the screenplay of 'Raajneeti'. Though Hindi cinema has its own tradition and form, it is always nice to be recognised internationally," Jha said in statement. Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences is the world's premier movie-related organization and is best known for its annual Oscar awards celebration. The scripts in their collection are made available to all for research purposes only and in the premises of their reading room. Inspired by epic Mahabharata, "Raajneeti" is a political saga on northern India's murky electoral politics which gives a rare insight to the power equation and strained relationship within a political family made up of ensemble cast including actor Ranbir Kapoor, Katrina Kaif, Arjun Rampal, Manoj Bajpayee, Ajay Devgn, Nana Patekar and Naseeruddin Shah among others "Anjunm Rajabali and I had worked very hard on the screenplay of 'Raajneeti'. It took us several drafts and many years of work to come to the final screenplay of the film. It's nice to know that that effort has not gone waste and we have been blessed with commercial as well as critical acclaim," said Jha. "The script is the fulcrum of a film and I hope in the coming years in India we further strengthen this aspect of filmmaking," he added. Other Indian screenplays to have made it to the Oscar archives include "Rock On!!", "Heroes", "Lagaan", "Devdas", "Munnabhai M.B.B.S.", "Kal Ho Naa Ho", "Chak De! India", "Sarkar Raj" and "Gandhi My Father".

Actress Lindsay Lohan's father threatens her lawyer Posted: 27 Sep 2010 04:33 AM PDT Actress Lindsay Lohan's father Michael is reportedly threatening her lawyer. According to the sources, Michael left a voicemail and texts on Shawn Holly Chapman's phone threatening to "blow you out of the water", reports tmz.com. He also threatened to "dig up dirt" on Shawn, as well as Lindsay's business manager, Lou Taylor. Michael left two text messages on Holley's phone Friday after the court hearing, telling her she should do Lindsay a favour and quit. In another text, Michael claimed Holley and Taylor were destroying the Lohan family. He lost his cool at the Bev Hills courthouse Friday morning after Judge Elden Fox threw Lindsay in jail. Fox's decision was reversed later that day after Holley filed an appeal, and Lindsay got out of jail same night. Michael said, "It's true. I said those things ... but it's spun. I wasn't knocking Shawn for working all those hours ... I was knocking the fact that I told them to do this [send Lindsay to rehab] a long time ago. Just now they're listening."

'Paan Singh Tomar' to be premiered at Abu Dhabi film fes Posted: 27 Sep 2010 03:58 AM PDT UTV's production venture "Paan Singh Tomar", about the soldier-athlete who went on to become a bandit, will have its world premiere at the Abu Dhabi Film Festival, starting Oct 14. Randall Wallace's "Secretariat" starring Diane Lane and John Malkovich will open the fest and Indian filmmaker Murli Nair's "Virgin Goat" will be screened in the competition section. The complete line up for the festival was announced here Monday at a press conference at the Abu Dhabi Theater. "The Festival as a whole has three big competitions for features. When I say big, I mean they have 14 or 15 films each with very generous prizes of $100,000 for all the major awards. They are for narrative features, documentary features and a new competition called New Horizons, which is open to fiction and non-fiction features by first- and second-time directors from all over the world," said Peter Scarlet, executive director of the Abu Dhabi Film Festival, in a statement. "This year first- or second-time directors of documentary or narrative features have the chance of winning a $100,000 prize, just as much cash as in the other feature competitions. So the access to prizes for young filmmakers is no different than last year," he added. In the New Horizons section, films like Iranian movies "Orion" by Zamani Esmati and "Gesher" by Vahid Vakilifar, two New York-based films "Furious Force of Rhymes" by Joshua Atesh Litle and "Bill Cunningham New York" by Richard Press, which connect city's music and fashion to the rest of the world in very unusual ways, will be showcased. "Adrian Brody, the youngest winner of a best actor Oscar will be on hand for the American independent film, "Wrecked" by Michael Greenspan, and there's an equally impressive line-up of films by new talents from Egypt, France, Iraq, Lebanon, Syria, Turkey and the UAE. "The selection also includes one of the most surprising and unexpected new films we've seen all year, 'Slackistan' by Hammad Khan, a Pakistan-UK co-production," said Scarlet. Feature competition titled Narrative Competition will have movies like director Wang Bing's Chinese movie "The Ditch"; Olivier Assayas' Carlos, about the notorious terrorist, featuring a remarkable performance by Edgar Ramirez; "In a Better World" by Danish filmmaker Susanne Bier; French film "Potiche" by François Ozon; and Russian movie "Silent Souls" by Aleksei Fedorchenko "Until a couple of days ago, we thought we had three very strong Arab documentaries. But then we got the upsetting news that the Iraqi filmmaker Mohamed Al-Daradji, who has a very strong film called 'In My Mother's Arms', had run into a technical hitch and the film was not going to be ready in time, leaving us with only two Arab documentaries. "That is why we decided to change the rules of the Documentary Competition this year and include three films about the Middle East made by filmmakers from outside the region. We thought, let's try having all five of them compete against each other. They happen to be three films about Palestine, from Norway, the Netherlands and Germany," said Scarlet.

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