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Priyanka Chopra In Forbes List: Who Is The First-Ever Actress To Enter The Highest-Paid Lists?

BY Sanjana Chakraborty On

The Forbes list of highest-paid actors and actresses is an annual affair, which goes on to feature your favourite top stars irrespective of how their film/TV show fared that year.It’s hard to trace back to the first ever actress who was paid more than the actor, let alone get paid equally.  The Hollywood pay gap debate gained steam when in 2015, actress Patricia Arquette turned her Oscar acceptance speech into a call for wage equity for women. “To every woman who gave birth, to every taxpayer and citizen of this nation, we have fought for everybody else’s equal rights.

Kamal Haasan, Rajinikanth At DMK Event; Dileep’s Fresh Bail Plea; Taylor Swift’s Testimony

BY Sanjana Chakraborty On

Malayalam actor Dileep, arrested in connection with a case of plotting the abduction and sexual assault of an actress in February, moved the Kerala High Court seeking bail.  The actor in his fresh plea today submitted that the scenario has completely changed and he is not the kingpin of any criminal conspiracy or even a participant therein.

Eye On The Prize: 2017 Oscar Predictions

BY Sanjana Chakraborty On

In La La Land, Chazelle makes up for the slight, unexplained vacuum in his previous film, and leaves the audience with a poignant ending, that strangely doesn’t feel poignant at all.While La La Land’s cinematography was dreamy, and transported us to that world of all things shiny and glamorous in Hollywood, Lion’s story relied on its cinematography, with the lead character Saroo (Sunny Pawar and Dev Patel), tracing his way back home.

BAFTA 2017: All You Need To Know About The Winners And The Speeches

BY Sruthi Sahasranaman On

La La Land has swept some of the major award categories at the 70th British Academy Film Awards (BAFTA). However, the evening saw many winners, a far cry from the La La Land domination critics had expected to happen. Lion and Manchester by the Sea got their share of limelight at the Bafta. One film that surprisingly went unnoticed is Moonlight. 

La La Land Dominates Critics Choice Awards

BY Aswathy Gopalakrishnan On

Writer-director Damien Chazelle’s La La Land won eight awards at the 22nd Annual Critics’ Choice Awards on Sunday. The musical, starring Ryan Gosling and Emma Stone, won in a number of major categories, including Best Director, Best Picture, Best Original Screenplay, and Best Original Song. It also won awards for Production Design, Cinematography, Editing, and Score. La La Land is one of the frontrunners for this year’s Oscars.

Negative Reviews For Suicide Squad Triggers Petition To Shut Down ‘Rotten Tomatoes’

BY Sanjana Chakraborty On

The site, unlike other review aggregators like Metacritic. com, tends to skew more toward traditional media, with many internet-based fan and press outlets seldom represented. According to ComicBook. com, there’s a perception that Marvel Studios have more success with traditional critics because they’ve ‘cracked the code’ to making action films into commendable superhero stories.

Emmy 2015 Nominations Out

BY Vandhana On

This year’s Emmy nominations are a mix of established series and new ones. Louie, Modern Family, Parks and Recreation and Veep were nominated in the Comedy category alongside newer series like The Unbreakable Kimmy Schmidt and Transparent. Cult favourite Orange is the New Black made it to the Drama category alongside entrenched favourites – Downton […]

#TimesUp: Over 300 Women In Hollywood, Including A-Listers Launch Campaign To Fight Sexual Harassment

BY Silverscreen India Staff On

The year 2017 ended with women in Hollywood coming forward and sharing their stories of sexual harassment and abuse and propelled the #MeToo campaign where women from all walks of life came forward to share their tales of combating harassment, abuse, sexism and misogyny in all forms. But the fight has not ended here.