Saturday, 27 February 2016

Judy Greer to star in workplace comedy

Source: Variety
Judy Greer has been tapped to star in an untitled workplace comedy pilot from Fox that hails from writer Laura Steinel. The comedy will center around Jane (Greer), who is stuck between managing her human resources department as well as the new CEO, who harbors big ambitions for the New Jersey plastics plant.
The comedy is Greer's latest small-screen gig; her FX series “Married” was cancelled after two seasons. She's also had smaller TV and film roles on “Mom”, “Mad Love”, “Love & Money”, “Miss Guided”, Marvel's “Ant-Man” and “Jurassic World”.
Greer is the latest female star to topline a Fox pilot this season, joining the likes of Niecy Nash in buddy cop comedy “The Enforcers” and Kylie Bunbury, who will play a female baseball player in the network's drama project “Pitch”.

Selena Gomez surprises concertgoers

Source: Billboard
Selena Gomez surprised concertgoers with a performance of her song “Nobody” at LA's Belasco Theatre on Thursday evening.
The 23-year-old singer joined Young & Free, a Christian band and youth movement from Sydney, Australia's Hillsong Church, during their scheduled stop at the downtown concert venue while on their Youth Revival tour.
Gomez was welcomed to the Hill Street stage by loud cheers from the audience to perform the song alongside Young & Free's band members, an attendee told The Hollywood Reporter. She could be seen lifting her arms in the air and encouraging the audience to sing along.
In October, the singer replied on Twitter to a questioning fan who asked what inspired her to write the song on her Revival album. “God,” Gomez replied, adding “'Nobody' is about Him.”

Bollywood welcomes back 'Munnabhai'

When Bollywood actor Sanjay Dutt walked to freedom emerging from a prison in western Indian city of Pune on Thursday after serving out his jail-term in a deadly bomb blast case, he saluted the soil outside the prison gate and the prison itself before boarding a vehicle. Among a handful of persons waiting for him were his wife Mannayata and director-producer Rajkumar Hirani, the man whose “Munnabhai MBBS” starring Dutt was a superhit movie.
56-year-old Dutt's salutations were reciprocated in equal measure by the entire Hindi film industry who welcomed him back into mainstream life saying a grand second innings awaits him on the big screen.
Bollywood insiders say the film industry hopes to ride on Dutt for big bucks from films starring him, and new projects have already been lined up.
The first film that will come out is an action-thriller directed by Siddharth Anand, who had made “Bang Bang” starring Hrithik Roshan and Katrina Kaif. The new film, to be shot across six countries, is expected to go on the floor this summer.
Hirani has already confirmed that he is working on another sequel — the third one — to “Munnabhai MBBS.” Hirani is also making a biopic on Dutt, which has Ranbir Kapoor in lead role.
Besides, filmmakers Vidhu Vinod Chopra and Umesh Shukla, maker of “Oh My God”, also plan to make films featuring Dutt.
Director Rohit Shetty says Dutt has a certain role etched out for him in films and it is a matter of time when he will be flooded with offers.
  Bollywood grapevine is also buzzing that veteran Subhash Ghai and Sanjay Gupta are also planning sequels to “Khalnayak” and “Kaante” with Dutt.

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