Big bucks at play

It’s a game that will run on money, high stakes, star players and glamour. The BCCI-backed Indian Premier League is all set to roll out high-powered cricket that could possibly change the nature of the game. But will spectators pay for this form of cricket, asks Abhijit Chatterjee
It is something akin to the mahurat of a Bollywood film. The stage has been set. The team owners are ready, the superstars are in place (with their pockets overflowing even though the shooting is yet to start), and the infrastructure is perfect.

• Billion-dollar baby

• Quote shoot

Europe reigns at Oscars
Hollywood took a backseat at the 80th Academy Awards which saw European stars walk away with most of the honours, says Ervell E. Menezes
This time it was the European stars who scored over the Hollywood ones at the Oscars night or the 80th awards of the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences. France’s Marion Cotillard, who won the Best Actress (though now they call them actors) Oscar for her depiction of the legendary Edith Piaf in La Vie En Rose, was in ecstasy as she received the award, and British actor Daniel Day-Lewis knelt on one knee to take the Oscar from last year’s winner Helen Mirren (also British), who tapped him on the shoulder with the Oscar.

Return of Star Wars
George Lucas is reportedly planning to take the first three or four episodes of his new Star Wars animated television series and combine them for a full-length animated theatrical feature. According to TheForce.Net and Action-Figure.com, the animated theatrical feature will be released in September, reports Moviehole.