Jodie Foster makes movies to understand her feelings.The actress-turned-director is “fascinated” by depression, a subject she explores in new movie ‘The Beaver’, and says working on films about challenging subjects help her to deal with her own problems better.She explained: “I think depression is fascinating, there was a lot of depression in my family. Making movies about people in spiritual crises helps me to come to terms with my own spiritual crisis.”My way of organising my feelings is to make movies out of them and see problems from all points of view.”The former child star also admitted she is only attracted to directing films which Read the full story

The Weinstein Company has announced that Scary Movie 5 will launch in cinemas in April 2012.Earlier this year, it was confirmed that the studio were planning a fifth instalment in the long-running horror spoof franchise.Despite the announced release date, it is still unknown whether stars Anna Faris and Regina Hall will reprise their roles as Cindy Campbell and Brenda Meeks respectively.The franchise’s last entry Scary Movie 4 took $41 million at the US box office upon its release in April 2006, and went on to gross around $91 million domestically.The studio also announced that Patrick Lussier’s rebooted Halloween 3D will be released on Read the full story

Logan Lerman will reportedly return for a second film instalment based on the Percy Jackson teen fantasy series.According to the Los Angeles Times, studio Fox 2000 has exercised its option to have Logan Lerman reprise his role as the titular character in the second entry.First film Percy Jackson and the Olympians: The Lightning Thief was released last year, taking $89 million domestically and $137 million internationally, but received a lukewarm reception from critics.In addition to Lerman’s return, the studio has also hired Diary of a Wimpy Kid director Thor Freudenthal to helm the film, while The Lightning Thief director Chris Columbus Read the full story

The first image of Tom Cruise as fictional rock star Stacee Jaxx has surfaced online.Cruise himself tweeted a link to the image, taken from the actor’s upcoming appearance in Adam Shankman’s big-screen adaptation of the Broadway musical Rock of Ages.In the image, Cruise appears topless in tight black jeans sporting a long glam rock hairstyle, as well as several fake tattoos.Cruise’s role in the film will require him to perform the Jon Bon Jovi track ‘Wanted Dead or Alive’, and Shankman has insisted that he will be performing his own vocals.The 48-year-old Misson: Impossible star is joined in the film by Russell Brand, Catherine Zeta- Jones, Malin Read the full story

Karisma Kapoor’s comeback film Dangerous Ishq has been described as “the biggest challenge of her career.”Supernatural thriller Dangerous Ishq is director Vikram Bhatt’s second 3D film, and follows the successful Haunted.According to IANS, Kapoor will play five different characters in five different time periods. The film will depict significant historical events including the partition of India and the assassination of prime minister Indira Gandhi.Speaking to The Times of India, Bhatt said: “Karisma’s character will go back in time to four different eras, including the role in present time, so it’s a total of five roles. The story opens in 1498 and Read the full story

Emma Watson has revealed that she was apprehensive about kissing her Harry Potter co-stars Daniel Radcliffe and Rupert Grint while filming Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows.The actress explained that she felt more nervous when she had to embrace Grint because she “didn’t know what he was thinking”.Talking about her alter-ego Hermione Granger kissing both Radcliffe and Grint, who play Harry Potter and Ron Weasley respectively, Watson told OK: “I just had to remind myself I am an actress, I am Hermione, this is a role but it was really hard. We just have so much history together. They are like my brothers.”Dan and I could sort of have a laugh Read the full story

Akshay Kumar has signed on to play the lead in new Indo-Canadian production Breakaway.The film, which will be made by the actor’s Hari Om Productions, also features stand-up comedian Russell Peters and actor Camilla Belle. “The movie is a full action, colorful, humourous, heart-felt musical. The setting is an obstacle-strewn love story with a dramatic quest for the hero,” a statement revealed.”It’s also a keenly observed cross-cultural drama in the same classification as Bend It Like Beckham and Slumdog Millionaire with a hero caught between a family’s traditional expectations and a dream to make it big in the national sport of an Read the full story

JK Rowling has just launched a new Harry Potter website and is teasing a major announcement next week. Is there a new Harry Potter book in the works?Attention all Harry Potter fans: The announcement you’ve been praying for may very well be forthcoming! JK Rowling has just launched a new website and is teasing a major Harry Potter announcement! The website, PotterMore.com, is currently a placeholder page featuring two owls. Click on either owl and you are brought to Rowling’s YouTube account, where the Harry Potter announcement is teased with a countdown to next week and the blurb, “The owls are gathering… Find out Read the full story

Star Wars’ Yoda has been voted the best screen puppet of all time. The beloved Jedi Master saw off competition from other characters including Kermit The Frog and Zippy in a poll by U.K. movie library LoveFilm – held to mark the release of The Beaver, in which Mel Gibson communicates through a hand puppet. The Kim Jong Il marionette from Trey Parker and Matt Stone’s 2004 comedy Team America: World Police was runner-up, while lovable muppet Kermit came third. Zippy from classic British TV show Rainbow – voiced by the late Roy Skelton – was in fourth place, while Sesame Street’s Elmo was also a favorite.  LoveFilm editor Helen Cowley says, “It is clear Read the full story

Minissha Lamba has said that male actors are better at comedy than female stars.The actress will next appear in romantic comedy Bheja Fry 2, in which she plays a reality television show producer who takes an awkward would-be singer under her wing.Lamba told Mid Day: “It is rightfully so [that there are more comedy roles for men] as men can perform a variety of jokes that don’t look nice on women.”Like obvious sexual nature or double meaning jokes, it does not look nice when women are cracking it.”Lamba will soon start production on Joker, which co-stars Sheyras Read the full story