Hollywood

Rihanna and UNICEF come to the aid for the Philippines

UNICEF Supporter Rihanna helped kick-off the campaign and raise awareness of UNICEF’s work in the Philippines via social media. She also made a $100,000 d...

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Women successful yet sidelined in film writing and directing

A new study for the BFI finds that UK independent films were more likely to be profitable if they had women in key backstage roles, yet the gender is still under-representedEm...

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Leonardo DiCaprio Foundation donates $3 Million to Tiger conservation

On the third anniversary of the historic Global Tiger Summit the Leonardo DiCaprio Foundation has awarded a $3 million grant to World Wildlife Fund (WWF) f...

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Muffin Top Movie: Reclaiming the Female Image

Are we still in 1954? No, this is 2013, yet female directors are only 4 percent of the Hollywood equation. In fact, for the last five years, there have been fewer women in fro...

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Reality TV star Kim Kardashian is selling her clothes on eBay to help raise money for the victims of Typhoon Haiyan

The ‘Keeping up with the Kardashians’ star has put a selection of items on the auction site in order to raise money for the non-profit organisation International M...

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Beyonce and Goodwill partner to help jobless workers

Beyonce and Goodwill have joined hands to help the jobless workers in North America. Their efforts have seen them accumulate 27,000 pounds of clothes. The #BeyGood initiative ...

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Syd Field, whose books on screenwriting became set texts for many aspiring film writers, has died at the age of 77

Famous for outlining the “three act” structure used by many screenplays, the author and lecturer died of haemolytic anaemia at his Beverly Hills home. Field was t...

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German supermodel Heidi Klum has put some of her most coveted clothing up for sale on Fashion Project.com, with all profits benefitting amfAR ((The American Foundation for AIDS Research)

The 40-year-old has donated several of the dresses that she wore to the Mercedes Benz Fashion Week to the latest Fashion Project saleat massively discounted prices. Fashion P...

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Walt Disney Company Sets an example for everyone to see when it comes to being there for a cause

The Walt Disney Company announced today that it will donate half-a-million dollars to Save the Children and The American Red Cross to support victims of the recent tragedy in ...

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Sharon Stone kicks off crowd funding campaign for online middle east peace academy

YaLa’s Israeli-Arab Peace Institute, to be launched in the beginning of 2014, will be the first of its kind: an online academy where Israelis, Palestinians, and Arabs fr...

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ALTERNATIVE ENTERTAINMENT: THE MUSICALITY OF NARRATIVE FILM

"Exploring the harmony between emotions and cinema, where musicality takes precedence ov...

December 4 2024

BOLLYWOOD: BOLLYWOODS SHAKY AFFAIR WITH THE KISS?

The evolution of kissing in culture and Bollywood, cinematic awkwardness, and the challe...

December 3 2024

THOUGHT FACTORY: A CLOSE ENCOUNTER WITH BELA BHATIA

Championing justice, Bela Bhatia’s inspiring work in conflict zones, and her book ...

November 30 2024