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Twilight Is BACK!
And There Are 5 Movies on the Way!

Lionsgate has announced that they're teaming up with Facebook, the Women In Film organization (which encourages emerging female talent in the entertainment industry), and crowdsourcing platform, Tonal - as well as Meyer herself - to put the Twilight series back in front of cameras! Five short movies will be made and posted to Facebook, where fans will select a grand prize-winning filmmaker who will get a whopping cash prize and some great career opportunities!

Lara Dutta planning a comeback

Former Miss Universe Lara Dutta decided to turn her attention towards production with 'Chalo Dilli', a rather out of the box comedy film starring Vinay Pathak in the lead. The actress, who was getting prepped for the sequel of the same titled 'Chalo China', will now star in the film produced by her husband and sports legend Mahesh Bhupathi which also will mark her comeback in the film industry. The film in question tentatively titled 'Abhi Nahi To Kabhi Nahi' is said to be a quirky family drama and Lara Dutta will be seen playing the role of a small town girl and daughter of veteran actor Pankaj Kapur. Lara Dutta has been on a maternity break for about three years now.

Mahesh Bhatt to remake 'Maaya' as 'Murder 4'!

Filmmaker Mahesh Bhatt Thursday announced that he will be producing the Telugu remake of “Maaya” in Hindi as Murder 4. “Remaking Telugu movie MAAYA produced by @madhurasreedhar in Hindi as MURDER 4 to be directed by @neelakanta18 @joshmevandana (sic),” Bhatt tweeted last week. Filmmaker Neelakanta,
who helmed the Telugu version, will also be directing the Hindi remake. He'll be making his Bollywood debut with the project. “Maaya”, which featured Harshvardhan Rane in the lead, was about extra sensory perception. The cast for the remake, which will be jointly produced by Madhura Sreedhar, is yet to be finalized.

'Hugh' Almost Wolverined His 'Jackman' Off!

The world would have been a much sadder place if Hugh had sliced his 'Jackman' off with Wolverine's mighty adamantium claws! The beloved Aussie actor has revealed that he almost lost his own personal 'wolverine' while he was trying to conceal his modesty on the set of X-Men: Days Of Future Past. The 45-year-old star gave us all a very important lesson in why razor sharp claws aren't ideal for shielding your genitals when he told talk show host Graham Norton that: “There was a very intense first scene and I insisted on a closed set, I ran round the corner and all the female members of the crew were gathered there. I tried to cover myself and cut my inner thigh - it was just the inner thigh thankfully! The metal claws had to go - you can't have bits and pieces flying off.”

The New Fantastic Four is Coming!

Miles Teller, who is playing Reed Richards/Mr. Fantastic of the new cast of Fantastic Four (coming in 2015), thinks we're actually going to love the movie! Teller has been in a lot of different films recently. You may have seen him in 21 & Over, That Awkward Moment, or even The Spectacular Now. Basically, he's been in a mixture of good and bad films (including the upcoming Whiplash, which is getting universal acclaim at the moment). “It's different in every way. All those actors were a lot older, their characters were in different places. The tone of this film is completely different: We don't have Michael Chiklis in a big Styrofoam thing, and I think that [a more grounded approach] is what people are into — X-Men: First Class is doing that. You're dealing with these characters but you're making them real people in how they exist day-to-day. People wanted it to be taken more seriously than the kind of Dick Tracy, kitschy, overly comic-book world,” said the actor.

Rani Mukerji at Durga Puja celebrations

Rani Mukerji and cousins turned up at the North Bombay Sarbojanin Durga Puja this year at hote Tulip Star in Juhu, a western Mumbai suburb, on September 29. Dressed in a fiery red sari, Mardaani actress Rani Mukerji celebrated her first Durga Puja since her wedding with Aditya Chopra. The star is seen here with the magnificent idol of the goddess.

Doctor Strange
Joaquin Phoenix Out, Ethan Hawke In?

And just when we thought Joaquin Phoenix was an inch away from officially being inked to a contract to play our Sorcerer Supreme! The rumor mill has turned and spit out another rumor about the Doctor Strange casting recently. Take this latest rumor with a grain of salt! Regardless, the latest name being thrown into the ring is none other than 90s heartthrob and current indie flick darling, Ethan Hawke. The site claims that Hawke was formally offered a contract and the actor accepted over the weekend, and now it's down to talking brass tacks.

I am weak-hearted and can't judge others Shah Rukh Khan

Bollywood 'badshah' Shah Rukh Khan prefers to avoid being judgemental about others. He says he doesn't like to judge shows and competitions because he considers himself “weak-hearted”. The actor, along with the team of his forthcoming film 'Happy New Year', will soon don the hat of a judge for a one-of-a-kind reality show 'Dil Se Naachein Indiawaale', to be aired today on Zee TV. It's a promotional initiative for his film, but that doesn't change the fact that SRK hates to judge. “I am very weak-hearted. I'm a bad judge and I'm not judgmental about others,” Shah Rukh said during a press conference. His forthcoming movie is a heist drama, also starring Deepika Padukone, Abhishek Bachchan, Boman Irani, Sonu Sood and Vivaan Shah. Directed by Farah Khan, the film will be Bollywood's big Diwali release this year.