The unique and specially modified Silver Aston Martin DB5 coupe created in 1964 for  the James Bond movies went under the hammer today in an auction held by RM Auctions and Sothebys in London all in a good cause. The car was only driven in the movies Goldfinger and Thunderball by the Sir  Sean Connery [...]

Filming of the two Hobbit movies will stay in NZ after the Government completed negotiations with Warner Bros executives which will see production get underway in the New Year. The outcome will see changes made to the country’s labour laws and the movie company will get increased tax breaks of about $33 million. At a [...]

It  came as no surprise when Sir Peter Jackson announced UK actor Martin Freeman is to head the cast  of  The Hobbit movies to play Bilbo Baggins .  For some time now it has been known that Freeman was Jackson’s preferred actor for the role. Freeman became well known for his character Tim in the [...]

The Tribune de Geneve announced the death on Monday 11 October 2010 of Australian Diva Dame Joan Sutherland at her home in Switzerland.  Her husband Richard Bonynge and their son Adam were with her.  She is also survived by her daughter-in-law and two grandchildren. Dame Joan was 83 and had been ill for some time. [...]

The Social Network, the film about Mark Zuckerberg who founded Facebook in 2003 reveals him to be currently the world’s most famous,reluctant and youngest billionaire. Zuckerberg’s Facebook started out by scandalising Harvard University and its female undergraduates.   Following a break up with his girlfriend he hacked into databases at the halls of residence and [...]

Nine year old Beatrice Delap, a budding pirate, thought her classmates needed the help of an expert to organize a mutiny at her school Meridian primary school in Greenwich. So she put pen to paper and wrote to Captain Jack Sparrow, aka actor Johnny Depp, who was in the neighborhood at the Old Royal Naval [...]

Actor Tony Curtis died, on Wednesday 29 September at his Nevada home, from cardiac arrest at age 85. Born in 1925 in New York to Hungarian immigrant parents he joined the Navy in WW11 after the bombing of Pearl Harbor and served on the submarine tender USS Proteus. Following his discharge after the war  he [...]

On Thursday 30 September the Spanish masterpiece of Miguel de Cervantes “Don Quixote de la Mancha” was launched on YouTube by The Royal Spanish Academy the official guardians of the Spanish language. The Academy has done a deal with Google whereby the 17th century novel will be promoted globally in over thousands of  live book [...]

Production of the films of The Hobbit based on the fantasy novel by J.R.R. Tolkein and prequel to the Lord of the Rings trilogy continues along its bumpy road.   The Hobbit films are set for release in December 2012 and December 2013 but are yet to get the official go-ahead from MGM studios, which holds [...]