Red carpet premiere of 'Spy Kids 4' held in LA

LOS ANGELES: The red carpet premiere of 'Spy Kids 4' was staged in Los Angeles in which actress Jessica Alba and the director of the movie Robert Rodriguez among various personalities were also present.

The movie is the fourth in the Spy Kids franchise, but the first time Alba has had a role.

She plays the part of retired spy Marissa, who is thrust back into action along with her two step children, played by Rowan Blanchard and Mason Cook, after maniacal Timekeeper (Jeremy Piven) attempts to take over the world.

Extravagant premiere of ‘Harry Potter’ held in NY

NEW YORK: Cast and crew members of the "Harry Potter" movies reflect on their ten years in the series.

On the final big red carpet screening of the last Harry Potter movie, cast and crew members speak their minds about their ten-year ride with the boy wizard.

Cast and crew of the final Harry Potter installment, "Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows Part 2" braved the heat to walk the final major red carpet for the series -- the North American premiere at Lincoln Center in New York on Monday (July 11).

Welcomed by hordes of screaming Potter-fanatics, the stars graced the massive red carpet to take pictures and hand out their final autographs to fans as Harry, Hermione and Ron.

In a night filled with nostalgia, the stars took their time to speak about the past ten years with the series.
Radcliffe who is in the lead role of boy wizard Harry Potter, when asked what he would miss the most.
"So I will that, and I will also miss the crew the cast everything about what was my day to day life for ten years," he added

Director David Yates was at the helm of the last four Potter movie adaptations, and said that the red carpet event did not feel like an ending.

In the final episode Harry finally faces off with his arch enemy Lord Voldemort, and it will tie lose ends from the previous films including the the romantic relationship between Hermione and Ron. In the film the two finally share a kiss, which was a hard thing to do for both the actors according to actress Emma Watson who is in the role of Hermione Granger.

More than 400 million copies have been sold around the globe, making Rowling the first billionaire author and providing a huge support base upon which the films were built.

But for many fans the adventures of Harry Potter had a deep impact on their personal lives, such as Yarineth Pena, who spent 12 hours in the heat to catch a glimpse of her heroes.

But not all is coming to an end as Rowling has recently unveiled Pottermore, a website allowing fans to interact with the characters and storylines, and will finally retail the stories as ebooks exclusively on the site.

The movie opens in some countries on July 13, and in the key British and U.S. markets on July 15. (Reuters)

Geo’s bold and beautiful ‘Bol’ premieres in Lahore

LAHORE: In a similar vein as when Napoleon Bonaparte said, ‘give me good mothers and I’ll give you a good nation’, Shoaib Mansoor has proved true through “Bol” his own version of this saying, ‘give me a good script and good cast and I’ll give you a great movie’.

Proving to be the biggest event of the year, the premiere of “Bol” was a festival of stars, glitz, glamour and epic achievement at the Cinestar Thursday. Notables from not just the film and fashion industry but all walks of life showed up to witness the exquisite work put together by the team crafting “Bol”. Senator Shafqat Mahmood, Geo TV CEO Mir Ibrahim Rahman, Geo TV President Imran Aslam, eminent journalist and diplomat Maleeha Lodhi, performing arts icon Nighat Chaudhry, renowned poet Wassi Shah, film producer Hassan Askari, filmstar Ghulam Mohiyyudin, pop icon Ali Zafar, TV sensation Umaima and Rashid Khawaja were some of the many who showed up to be the first to watch the much anticipated Geo production.

“Bol”, is set among apparently ordinary characters and is a celebration of innovative movie making which manages to draw all flavors of entertainment, storytelling and a lasting impact of morals and social conduct.

As if unfazed by the culture of fear and conservativeness woven intricately in the present day Pakistani society, Shoaib Mansoor has yet again shown character and perseverance in telling a story that makes a bold social statement against stereotypical pressure groups who believe in imposing their brand of life on others.

Challenging the culture of preconceived judgments about everyday characters, the writer has expressed how titles associated with individuals based on profession and status become insignificant when the test of time is more of an opportunity rather than crisis for those who shine through their humane values.

While character played by every actor in the movie seemed engorged deep within there natural selves, they contributed to the treatment and grip of the movie in a befitting manner. Mahira although a rookie in the world of silver-screen, has surfaced as an exciting prospect and a great find for the industry which is short in supply of such talent.

The movie seeks to fix responsibility of the everyday crisis and the bigger catastrophes of life in a concrete manner yet leaves a lot of judgment to its audience to ponder upon. Promoting freedom of thought and snubbing all ideologies based on tunnel vision, “Bol” assumes a position more than just a movie in the present circumstances and in addition to raising a lot of questions regarding our social norms, it asserts a liability, on all who watch it, of doing our part to create a positive change instead of sitting it out apathetically.

‘Morning Glory’ red carpet premiere

LONDON: Rachel McAdams was met with a rapturous response as she hit the red carpet in Berlin last night for the premiere of Morning Glory Dazzling fans as she made her entrance at the Berlin premiere, Rachel had opted for full-on drama in a black and scarlet Grecian-style Michael Kors gown matched with a bold red lip.

While she turned redhead for her part in Morning Glory, the Notebook-famed starlet debuted newly blonde locks for the `film's premiere last night, worked into a dramatic twisted up-do.

Rachel was joined by co-stars Harrison Ford and Diane Keaton, who play rival presenters in the new comedy about a struggling morning TV show.

The Green Hornet premiered

LOS ANGELES: Helping to fight bad guys and rid the world of crime clearly appears to have done wonders for Cameron Diaz.

The actress looked in the best shape of her life as she arrived at the premiere of her latest film in Hollywood last night.

She posed for the cameras as she walked into Grauman's Chinese theatre and showed off a very trim figure which looked toned and lean in her fitted red Azzaro dress.

Diaz, who looked tanned from her New Year's holiday to Mexico with baseball star boyfriend Alex Rodriguez, has always boasted a slimline figure since she shot to fame in The Mask in 1994 aged 21.

But Diaz, 38, looked like she could still pass for a woman in her twenties with her stunning figure giving any younger counterpart a run for their money.

She demanded the flashbulbs' attention in her asymmetrical Azzaro dress and nude Casadei shoes as she joined her co-stars for the screening.

The Green Hornet is a superhero film, based on the fictional character created by American writer Fran Striker for radio in the 1930s.

Written by and starring Seth Rogen, the Knocked Up star plays Britt Reid, the son of wealthy newspaper publisher James Reid- played by Tom Wilkinson - who inherits his father's media empire when he dies.

He teams up with his father's assistant Kato, played by Jay Chou, to become a masked crime fighting team, that, with some extra help from new secretary Lenore Case, played by Diaz, battles Russian criminal Benjamin Chudnofsky, played by Christoph Waltz, who controls the city's criminal underworld.

And most of the cast were in attendance last night, including Taiwan-born Chou, 31, and Edward Furlong, 33, who is better known for his role as John Connor in Terminator 2.

Then 14, he is now 33 and looked all grown up as he smiled for the cameras at the premiere of the film, in which he plays Tupper, one of Chudnofsky's minions.

The film is released on Friday in the US and UK and is available in 3D after having its release date pushed back from its original date of July 9 last year.

And Rogen said he found the action scenes quite tough to film.

He said: 'We tried to use as few visual effects as possible. So there's a lot of cars crashing through buildings and explosions and stuff, and I just had to try to not look as terrified as I was for the most part.

'In the action scenes, what you have to be most conscious of is not getting blown up or run over by a car. It can be dangerous.'

No One Killed Jessica premiere in Mumbai

MUMBAI: The makers of No One Killed Jessica seem to be confident of their product. Unlike most Bollywood films that are premiered just a day before the release date, the film was shown to the critics and film fraternity three days before it is to be released world wide. And as expected, it turned out to be a star-studded event.

Yes, it was celebrity galore at No One Killed Jessica premiere. Big actors like Amitabh Bachchan, Rekha and Shabana Azmi attended the premiere besides the cast of the film Rani Mukherjee, Vidya Balan and Myra Karn. Actress Kalki Koechlin and filmmakers like Yash Chopra, Madhur Bhandarkar, Shekhar Kapoor and Dibaker Banerjee also graced the premiere of the film.

No One Killed Jessica is based on model Jessica Lal's murder case. Produced by Ronnie Screwvala and directed by Raj Kumar Gupta, the film has Rani playing the role of a reporter and Vidya playing Jessica's younger sister Sabrina. It is set to hit the theatres tomorrow, January 7.