DHAKA: ‘Spectre’ will be the title of the 24th official James Bond film, its makers have announced. Director Sam Mendes revealed the title at a launch event at Pinewood Studios in Buckinghamshire, where principal photography is due to begin on Monday. Daniel Craig will play 007 for

DHAKA: The Embassy of Switzerland in Bangladesh, in cooperation with the Goethe Institut Dhaka, will organize a three-day Swiss Film Festival from December 7 in city.Three Swiss films will be screened at the Goethe-Institut Auditorium in Dhanmondi during the festival. The festival

DHAKA: A crime drama set in 1980s New York has been named film of the year by the influential National Board of Review. JC Chandor’s ‘A Most Violent Year’ also picked up acting awards for its stars Oscar Isaac and Jessica Chastain from the New York-based collective of film

DHAKA: US singer Lady Gaga has revealed in a radio interview on The Howard Stern Show that she was raped at 19.Host Stern had quizzed her during the Tuesday interview about the meaning behind her 2013 song ‘Swine’, to which she replied:‘I went through some horrific things that

DHAKA: PSY’s “Gangnam Style” has been viewed so many times now that YouTube had to upgrade its system in order to display it properly. That’s because the infectious dance hit has been watched more than the maximum number able to be displayed under a 32-bit integer system or

DHAKA: Eminent artist Mustafa Monwar commented that late artist Qayyum Chowdhury was the first successful cover artist in Bangladesh.He told banglanews while came to pay his tribute to the deceased artist at Fine Arts Institute of Dhaka University on Monday.Mustafa Monwar further said

DHAKA: Actress Priyanka Chopra says she had no clue that her apartment in Mumbai was being used to run a sex racket.‘When we rent properties, we don’t go and check what is happening in the bedroom. I had no knowledge about what is happening there,’ the actress, who was in New

DHAKA: Star Wars fans got their first glimpse on Friday of the space saga’s long-awaited new film – including a controversial new-look lightsaber – but still have to wait a year for the movie itself. ‘There has been an awakening. Have you felt it?’ a gravel-voiced narrator

DHAKA: Jennifer Lawrence's song is catching fire. As if being the Mockingjay wasn't enough, Lawrence is adding Top 40 recording artist to her resume. Lawrence's rendition of "The Hanging Tree" in "The Hunger Games: Mockingjay - Part 1" has now reached No. 29 on the U.K. charts,

DHAKA: Actor Manoj Bajpayee says he is looking forward to working with Tabu in his upcoming film and calls her a ‘wonderful actress’. ‘I am excited to work with Tabu. She is a wonderful actress,’ the actor told the media, report The Times of India. ‘I will start shooting with

DHAKA: Actress Katie Holmes thinks she is a ‘risk taker’ like her vigilante elementary school teacher character in her latest movie ‘Miss Meadows’. The 35-year-old also says that she enjoys challenging herself with risky roles as she talked about her love for adventure, reports

Dhaka: Crime novelist PD James, who penned more than 20 books, has died aged 94, report BBC.Her agent said she died "peacefully at her home in Oxford" on Thursday.The author's books, many featuring sleuth Adam Dalgliesh, sold millions of books around the world, with various adaptations

DHAKA: The maiden version of ‘Cocacola-Channel-i Band Fest’ will be held on the television channel’s premises in city’s Tehgaon area.A total of 16 music bands will participate in the daylong festival on December 1.The festival will begin at 11:05am and continue till 5:00pm.The

DHAKA: A Pakistan court on Tuesday sentenced the owner of the country’s biggest media group to 26 years in prison for broadcasting a show it said was blasphemous.The morning show broadcast live on Geo TV in May featured Pakistani starlet Veena Malik dancing with her new husband

DHAKA: Universal Pictures are to make a film based on the life of Apple co-founder Steve Jobs, following Sony Pictures’ departure from the project last week. The studio is reported to have paid more than $30m for the title, according to the Hollywood Reporter, reports the BBC. Michael

DHAKA: Boy bands bested pop’s leading ladies in the top award categories at the American Music Awards on Sunday, but the women delivered the most high-octane performances including a Crazy Horse-style derriere-flaunting number by Jennifer Lopez and Iggy Azalea.Chart-topper Taylor

DHAKA: Bangladesh Documentary Council, in cooperation with Dhaka Art Center will screen ‘Grizzly Man’.The Documentary, made by world famous German director, Werner Herzog, will be screened at 5:30pm on November 28 at Dhaka Art Center auditorium in city’s Dhanmondi area.The

DHAKA: With no other new wide releases at USA box office this weekend, the Lionsgate franchise film The Hunger Games: Mockingjay Part 1 is poised to have the biggest opening of the year. The third entry in the massively successful Hunger Games franchise opened at 4,151 theaters across

DHAKA: Honduras beauty queen Maria Jose Alvarado was fatally shot as she tried to escape her sister’s jealous boyfriend, police and reports said on Wednesday, hours after the siblings were found dead beside a river.Alvarado, 19, who had been due to fly to London to compete in the

DHAKA: Hollywood A-lister Angelina Jolie says she plans to give up acting after a ‘few more’ films and switch her focus to directing.Jolie walked the red carpet in Sydney with husband Brad Pitt this week at the premiere of her new movie, World War II epic ‘Unbroken’, which was