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SIR BEN KINGSLEY: "Acting is not a game, it is a very hard work" Eyebite Tv Presents: For SIR BEN KINGSLEY, acting is not a game, it is a very hard work. The "Hugo" actor said so at the 27th Santa Barbara International Film Festival. Sir Ben Kingsley attended the festival to present director Martin Scorsese with the American Riviera Award. For more entertainment videos and licensing information, please visit eyebite.tv From: EyeBiteTV Views: 0 0 ratings Time: 00:31 More...Read Full Story

Geo436: Production on writer/director Gavin Hood’s Ender’s Game movie is slated to begin by February 2012; hence why casting for the sci-fi literary adaptation is fully under-way, with Asa Butterfield having already snagged the lead role, Hailee Steinfeld  on the verge of securing a pivotal part, and well-renowned veteran stars like Harrison Ford being eyed to portray one of the film’s important (adult) supporting characters. Reports are in that a different important grown-up (side) role...Read Full Story

Okay, things are officially getting interesting in the world of Ender’s Game . THR is reporting that Ben Kingsley has joined the film’s cast, and will star opposite his Hugo counterpart Asa Butterfield, as a “legendary war hero presumed to be long dead.” Gavin Hood will direct from a script that he also wrote. Hailee Steinfeld is also connected to the project [...]Read Full Story

Find out what these celebrities were called before they were famous By Amanda Greene   from WomansDay.com It’s not uncommon for stars to change their names before making it big. Whether to avoid confusion (one comedian’s birth name was Albert Einstein) or to add that special star quality (another famous heartthrob upgraded from Archie Leach), swapping out given names is a time-honored Hollywood tradition. Read on to see if you know which well-known stars have given the term “name dropping” a...Read Full Story

British Oscar-winning actor Ben Kingsley got his star on Hollywood's Walk of Fame Thursday, a milestone in his long acting career he said he never suspected of achieving. "Dear friends, standing here today amongst you is one of the many things I thought growing up in England that would never happen to me and it has and I'm thrilled," Kingsley, 66, said at the unveiling ceremony attended by his wife, fellow actor Bruce Willis and around 100 admirers. The unveiling of the 2,410th star on the...Read Full Story

The great stage actor Ben Kingsley is now mainly known amongst young people for appearing in The Love Guru , Thunderbirds , Prince of Persia: The Sands of Time and Lucky Number Slevin . Now there’s a depressing thought. Whilst he’s never stopped getting decent roles — he was good in Scorcese’s recent Shutter Island , for example, and of course there was that role in British crime classic Sexy Beast — Kingsley has also done enough dreck in the last few years to earn himself a trophy cabinet’s...Read Full Story

Though the days of metal-plated armor and charging horses have long since passed, Sir Ben Kingsley believes he is fighting his own valiant battle. "I am a champion of my industry, and I'm fighting the committee," the Oscar-winner said, pitting his long-held ideals against the current (and, in his opinion, troubled) state of Hollywood. So he's taking the battle into own hands, ramping up the production slate of his 5-year-old production company SBK-Pictures. It's an apt time for Kingsley to...Read Full Story

LOS ANGELES (Hollywood Reporter) - Ben Kingsley returns to theaters on Friday with Disney's "Prince of Persia: The Sands of Time." The day before, the Oscar-winning "Gandhi" will get his first star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame. WHAT WAS THE MOST CHALLENGING PART OF MAKING "PRINCE OF PERSIA"? Ben Kingsley: Horses make me very nervous. It's not that I don't really like horses but rather they don't like me. I did have to do some riding and then I was in a full suit of black armor -- and then it...Read Full Story

British actor Ben Kingsley has urged film bosses to stop hiring actors with too many personal issues - because their problems hinder their big-screen performances. The You Kill Me star fears actors take on roles to distract them from their real-life problems when they should be dealing with their foibles away from film sets. Read more!Read Full Story

  Native News                             Missoulian.com Friday, April 10 2009   Investors sought for film about Native sisters By JODI RAVE of the Missoulian   The Indian burial ground bears the names of Wyandot people who died in Kansas in the mid-1800s, names such as Lewis Greyeyes, Cora Zane, John Cornstalk, Daniel Peacock, Catherine Bearskin, Eliza Conley.

   It took 65 years and three Native sisters to keep the Wyandot buried after the cemetery was illegally purchased by Kansas City...Read Full Story