The Notebook (2004)
Emotional romantic story of a poor but passionate young man who is in love with a rich young girl and makes feel her sense of liberation. Sadly they could not meet because of their social differences.
Film cast: Gena Rowlands, James Garner, Rachel McAdams, Ryan Gosling
Director: Nick Cassavetes

United 93 (2006)
Another real life story of United Flight 93, one of the hijacked planes to occur 9/11 but crashed near Shanksville, Pennsylvania after passengers decided to struggle against the four terrorist to take back the control, unfortunately none of them could saved.
Film cast: David Alan Basche, Olivia Thirlby, Liza Colon-Zayas, J.J. Johnson
Director: Paul Greengrass

The Piano (1993)
A woman’s story who loves her piano more than her life, loses her finger but finally receives what she loves most with a new aim of life.
Film cast: Holly Hunter, Harvey Keitel, Sam Neill, Anna Paquin
Director: Jane Campion

The Reader (2008)
A teenage boy and matured woman get involved in intimate physical relationship but one day the woman disappears leaving no words for the boy. They meet after eight years in a Nazi war crime trial.
Film cast: Kate Winslet, Ralph Fiennes, Jeanette Hain, David Kross
Director: Stephen Daldry

Selena (1997)
A true story of Selena Quintanilla-Perez (a singer) topped the heights despite belonging from cult status, but could not get peace and comfort in her life.
Film cast: Jennifer Lopez, Edward James Olmos, Jackie Guerra, Jon Seda
Director: Gregory Nava

Schindler’s List (1993)
It was based on a real story of World War II during Hitler regime a German businessman Oscar Schindler managed to save over 1100 Jews. His name is immortal in human history for his courageous.
Film cast: Liam Neeson, Ben Kingsley, Ralph Fiennes
Director: Steven Spielberg

Recently Beijing based DMG Entertainment has signed a partnership with Walt Disney and Marvel Studios to produce Iron Man III to be released in May 2013.

Reportedly Chinese associate will invest $1 billion investment in the Hollywood film industry as Chine Film Group Corp’s chairman Han Sanping confirms, “The reported $1 billion investment in the future of film will bring Chinese elements to the international film market, and Chinese culture will be better presented to the world.”

Meanwhile it was not publicized by the company but source says that it will boost new life in Hollywood film industry as they will get cash investment as well as a huge China market for their forthcoming movies. So it’s a win-win offer for them. Meanwhile China will learn excellent movie marketing practices and new technical skills.

Apparently China has given films like ‘Crouching Tigers Hidden Dragons’ to the world but it lacks the global attention. This is the reason China is keen to set new alliances with World’s best entertainment industry’s leaders so it can sale Chinese films.

According to this alliance movie industry’s giant will help China to setup a joint venture studio in Shanghai and 15 IMAX (or 3D) films will be added to the annual quota of 20 foreign films a year as the government policies.

Titanic and Avatar fame director James Cameron has also expressed his interest in China though he wants to maintain her independence while making a film. China has a censor policy to condemn things on the name of anti-state so Cameron thinks it would kill his creativity thus he is not confirm right now to start a project.

It is also mentionable that earlier above joint venture Chinese films had been appreciated by the critics such as ‘Crouching Tigers Hidden Dragons’ ‘Hero’, ‘Lust Caution’, etc. Therefore it can be expected that this will infuse new blood in both film industry and will provide chances to see some good quality movies to the global viewers.

But she is not only the star who seeks guidance from the star. Apart her, there are dozens of celebrities who believe in astrology and use to consult to a psychics or astrologer however many of them don’t like to keep it secret. Let’s have a look on these celebrities.

Robert Downey Jr.
The Iron Man and Sherlock Holmes star is known for his successful struggle against his drug addition problem. He is a regular believer of astrologer and received guidance from astrologer Steven Forrest’s book ‘Yesterday Sky’. It helped him to overcome from the addiction and to regain his confidence as Iron Man.

David Cloverdale
Member of The Whitesnake is known for his faith in mystic science more than other band members. There is one interesting case with him while he refuse to visit in a flight in the midst of the 2006 because of Mercury retrograde, surprisingly the news got fire on the airport and soon there was nobody to travel through flight except few peoples including his own band members.

Anna Nicole Smith
Known for her unconventional lifestyle Anna Nicole Smith was a great fan of celebrity astrologer Maria Shaw. She accepted in publicly she is regular client of Maria Shaw and use to consult while faces problems in life even she also confessed that she believes in ghosts.

Shirley MacLaine
Oscar winner veteran actress does not only accept her affection towards astrology but is also promoting it on her personal websites. She has also written a book ‘Out on a Limb’ in 1983 in which she openly discussed about reincarnation and her past lives. In spite she was criticized for her views, she did not leave her work and is spreading the words continuously.

Other Celebrities
According to sources Richard Gere and Halle Berry have visited the Men-Tsee-Khang Astrology department (a charitable institution run by Dalai Lama) in Dharamshala to know their future and after death life. Besides it Madonna and Brittany Spears have express their interest in Kabbalah mystic astrology, Sylvester Stallone’s mother Jackie is an astrologer, Billy Thornton use to consults with her mother who is a psychic and predicted his 1997 Oscar win.

Whitney proved herself correct as autopsy report says that her death was a combined effect of drugs, stress and occurring. Till today it was assumed that some accident caused singer’s death but medical reports indicates she was in influence of marijuana, Xanax and Benadryl a lethal combination of drugs.

It made her unconscious and she fell down in bath tub having 93.5 degrees hot water. Whitney Houston accidentally drowned in hot water meanwhile heart disease added another reasons to block blood supply in her arteries, rest was done by cocaine.

Apparently dozens prescription drug bottles found in her hotel suite furthermore autopsy report also found signs of cocaine and paraphernalia, both played major role in her mysterious death.

Before her death Grammy Award winning singer was making necessary preparation for evening party where she was supposed to perform. Her assistant left room for some market work and she was taking bath. Reportedly while assistant returned back to hotel, she found her lying dead in bath tub.

OWN (Oprah Winfrey Network) a joint venture of Discovery communication and the chat show host was launched in January 2011 since then it is struggling to survive. It is also mentionable that recently TV administration has lay off 1/3 jobs of total staff though they were adjusted in sister companies or associated organizations.

She said that she wanted to join cable network seriously as an entrepreneur, sadly it could not go smooth. “The idea of creating a network was something that I’d wanted to do. Had I’d known that it was this difficult, I might have done something else,” she said in breakfast show ‘This Morning”.

Winfrey said, she assumed everything would go well nevertheless it did not occur. It proved itself as a mistake or wrong decision.

“Launching when we really were not ready to launch, it’s like having the wedding when you know you are not ready and you are walking down the aisle, and you are saying, ‘I don’t know… maybe we should have postponed it,” talk show queen added.

Scarlett Johansson
She commenced her acting career at 9 with notorious bomb in 1994. Later she appeared in few more movies like Manny & Co., The Horse Whisperer, soon she grabbed critic’s attention for her role in ‘He’s Just Not That Into You’ and ‘Iron Man 2’.

Christian Bale
He debuted in Hollywood at tender age of 12 with Steven Spielberg. As a young actor he earned name and fame for his leading role in ‘Batman’ and ‘Terminator: Salvation.’

Drew Barrymore
She belongs to a family who is in Hollywood for generations. At age of 5 Drew appeared first time on silver screen though she could not maintain it for long. After struggling personal problems for a long time she is counted in Hollywood’s leading actresses.

Natalie Portman
Natalie left impressive impact on viewer in her first film ‘The Professional’ in 1994 while she was only 12. She appeared in other movies like ‘Star Wars series’ meanwhile she completed her degree in psychology from Harvard in 2003. Recently she has won Academy Award for her performance in ‘Black Swan’.

Angelina Jolie
Jolie began her career at the age of 6 with a short appearance in ‘Looking to Get Out’ in 1982 with her real life father Jon Voight. In teenage she joined Lee Strasberg Institute but did not work as actor and spend more time in modeling. At 24 she won her first Oscar for ‘Girl Interrupted’ and today she is one of most powerful lady in Hollywood.

A close source told confirming the news, “Yes, the studio is in talks at present and we are hoping to bring him down on March 22.” According to reports Cameron is keen to visit Taj Mahal at Agra and other Indian cities including Mumbai.

The producer-director renowned for Hollywood’s most successful films like ‘Avatar’, ‘Titanic’ and ‘The Terminator’ wants to produce a film based on Indian mythology. Might be he would talk with Mumbai filmmakers too to commence new project.

News are also that Oscar-winner Titanic’s co-producer Jon Landau may accompany James Cameron in his trip to India still it has not been confirmed by the studio or authorities.

Hollywood star was there to support Sudanese protestors against Sudan’s president, Omar al-Bashir for his policies against newly independent South Sudan.

50 year old Clooney was arrested with his journalist dad Nick (78) and Martin Luther King III, son of the civil rights leader with 15 protestors after avoiding repeated warning from police.

“The Sudanese government must stop randomly killing its own innocent men, women and children,” Clooney says.

“We need humanitarian aid to be allowed into the Sudan before it becomes the worst humanitarian crisis in the world – immediately.” He added.

Post release, actor shares his experience, “It’s actually a humiliating thing to be arrested, no matter what you do, but I’m glad to be standing here with my father.”

Earlier to participate in protest George Clooney met President Obama to intervene to stop cruelty against humanity in Sudan.

Yet it was first arrest of Oscar winning actor, he hopes it will be last too. Her mom Nina also felt proud on this son’s action in support of Sudanese population, “I’m extremely proud of him.”

Lauren Gottlieb the winner of the American dancing reality show ‘So You Think You Can Dance’ and hearts of America with her dancing skills is debuting in Bollywood. She was approached by director Remo D’Souza which she accepted for her first film ‘ABCD’ (AnyBody Can Dance) to begin her acting career.

Lauren’s debut film ‘ABCD’ is first ever 3D dance film produced and directed by Remo D’Souza. In the movie she is playing character of leading girl Rhea who is a talented and determined dancer but has her own problems. Throughout the film she tries to break surrounding pressures to get free from barrier and to do what she likes. It is a story about a girl looking for her own passion and love towards dance.

While Lauren was asked what she thinks about dancing styles of Bollywood, she says, “I’ve come to find out Bollywood is a mix of every style. It’s so impressive to watch a Bollywood routine and find influences of hip hop, jazz, salsa, jive and tango (just to name a few) along with the signature Bollywood style. I can tell the dancers and choreographers have done their homework and use influences from dance styles all over the world to incorporate into their dance vocabulary.”

It seems Bollywood can’t leave its attraction for imported beauties instead Indian girls, however most of them went completely failure except Yana Gupta, Let’s wait and watch how she will perform on box office.

Best Actress Nominee
Judi Dench, 72 – Notes on a Scandal

Best Actor Winner
Henry Fonda, 76 – On Golden Pond

Best Actor Nominee
Richard Farnsworth, 79 – The Straight Story
Clint Eastwood, 74 – Million Dollar Baby
Morgan Freeman, 72 – Invictus
Frank Langella, 71 – Frost/Nixon
Melvyn Douglas, 69 – I Never Sang for My Father

Best Supporting Actress Winner
Peggy Ashcroft, 77 – Passage to India
Ruth Gordon, 72 – Rosemary’s Baby
Margaret Rutherford, 71 – The V.I.P.s
Helen Hayes, 70 – Airport
Josephine Hull, 67 – Harvey
Ethel Barrymore, 65 – None But the Lonely Heart

Best Supporting Actress Nominee
Gloria Stuart, 87 – Titanic
Ruby Dee, 83 – American Gangster
Jessica Tandy, 82 – Fried Green Tomatoes
Eva La Gallienne, 82 – Resurrection
Ann Sothern, 79 – The Whales of August
May Whitty, 77 – Mrs. Miniver
Edith Evans, 77 – The Chalk Garden
Gladys Cooper, 76 – My Fair Lady
Edith Evans, 76 – Tom Jones

Best Supporting Actor Winner
Martin Landau, 66 – Ed Wood

Best Supporting Actor Nominee
Ralph Richardson, 82 – Greystroke the Legend of Tarzan Lord of the Apes
Hal Holbrook, 82 – Into the Wild
Christopher Plummer, 80 – The Last Station
Paul Newman, 78 – The Road to Perdition