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- Robert Redford may join 'Captain America'
- Five jailed in Britain over movie tax scam
- Oscars date later next year, to avoid Olympic clash
| Robert Redford may join 'Captain America' Posted: 26 Mar 2013 02:32 AM PDT Deadline.com has announced that legendary actor and director Robert Redford is in talks to star in Marvel's next superhero movie. This would be Redford's first big Hollywood blockbuster since Tony Scott's Spy Game in 2001. The 76-year-old is apparently eyeing the part of a leader in SHIELD, a government organization responsible for monitoring the presence of superheroes on Earth. In Captain America: The Winter Soldier, Chris Evans will reprise his role as Steve Rogers, who has become a genetically modified soldier. Sebastian Stan, Samuel L. Jackson, Toby Jones and Hayley Atwell, who featured in the first film in 2011, will also be back. Scarlett Johansson and Cobie Smulders will represent the Avengers. The cast of Anthony and Joe Russo's movie will also include Anthony Mackie and Franck Grillo as The Falcon and Crossbones. Captain America: The Winter Soldier will be released on 4 April 2014 in North America. (Relaxnews) |
| Five jailed in Britain over movie tax scam Posted: 25 Mar 2013 09:19 PM PDT LONDON: Five people were jailed for more than 20 years in Britain on Monday for pretending to make a Hollywood blockbuster to secure millions of pounds in tax breaks from the government. They had told tax inspectors that their film, Landscape of Lives, had a budget of 19.6 million (23 million euros, $30 million) and involved veteran British actor Jeremy Irons. To lend credibility to the scam, an innocent writer was hired to pen the script and he was told it would be filmed in Egypt and would star Omar Sharif, Southwark Crown Court in London heard. In fact, only seven minutes was ever shot and the footage, filmed in a flat at a cost of just several thousand pounds, was of "completely unusable quality", the court heard. The fraudsters used fake documents to apply for special tax breaks for the film industry, submitting or preparing to submit claims worth 2.78 million, although they only received 800,000. When they were arrested, the team hastily arranged for a different film entitled Landscape of Lies to be made on a shoestring in an attempt to cover the scam. It was released on DVD in 2011. "This was an extraordinary scheme created to attack the public purse," said Sue Patten, head of fraud at the Crown Prosecution Service. "The defendants put in claims on a ghost film called Landscape of Lives with the sole intention of criminally exploiting a tax relief system designed to support the UK film industry." There was no suggestion that Irons or Sharif were involved, or that the actors who did take part knew anything of the fraud. Bashar Al-Issa, a 34-year-old former Iraqi national who is now British, orchestrated the scam and was sentenced to six and a half years in jail for cheating the public revenue. Aoife Madden, a 31-year-old British and Irish actress, was sentenced to four years and eight months. Two other members of the scam, Pakistani national Tariq Hassan and Iraqi national Osama Al Baghdady, were given four-year terms, while another, Ian Sherwood, received three and a half years. Madden had pleaded guilty while her co-conspirators were convicted in a trial earlier this month. -AFP |
| Oscars date later next year, to avoid Olympic clash Posted: 25 Mar 2013 06:28 PM PDT LOS ANGELES: The Academy Awards will be held on Sunday, March 2 next year, later than usual to avoid clashing with the Winter Olympics, organizers and insiders said Monday. The Oscars are usually held on the last or next to last Sunday in February, but that would compete for TV audiences with the Feb 6-23 Winter Olympics in Sochi, Russia. The later date for the Oscars - the climax to Hollywood's annual awards season - will also allow for a more relaxed nomination and voting period, after some complaints this year, according to industry journal Variety. Voting for nominees will run from December 27-January 8, with nominations announced on January 16. Final voting will start on February 14 and end on February 25, said the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences. Organizers were criticized this year over the limited time Academy voters had to consider late-season releases. There were also some teething troubles with online voting, introduced for the first time. The March date for the Oscars means that the Golden Globes, Tinseltown's next most high-profile awards show, will be held on January 12, while the Grammys are tipped to be held on January 26, according to Variety. In 2015 the Oscars will be held on February 22, back in its more traditional slot, the Academy announced. -AFP |
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