Demi Moore,Kate Bosworth in The Reasonable Bunch

Demi Moore,Thomas Haden Church and Kate Bosworth are starring in The Reasonable Bunch,a comedy about warring exes and battling relatives at a family wedding.

Demi Moore,Thomas Haden Church and Kate Bosworth are starring in The Reasonable Bunch,a comedy about warring exes and battling relatives at a family wedding. Shooting starts this month in New York.

Martin Landau,Ellen Barkin and Ellen Burstyn also are cast in the film,which is being directed by actor Sam Levinson,a son of filmmaker Barry Levinson. The younger Levinson this year made his directing debut on Devil In My Shoes,which also starred Barkin.

Swedish Dragon star lands Sherlock 2

Noomi Rapace,the Swedish star of The Girl With The Dragon Tattoo,has booked her first English-language role: the plum part of the female lead in Sherlock Holmes 2. The Warner Bros. sequel reunites most of the team from last years original: Robert Downey Jr. as Holmes and Jude Law as Dr. Watson. Guy Ritchie is back as director.

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The plot is being kept under wraps,although it is known Holmes will face off against Moriarty. Also making an appearance will be Holmes brother, Mycroft.

Rapaces role is shrouded in mystery although sources say the character may be a French Gypsy. It is unclear if the role is romantic in nature.

Warners is looking to start production later this year.

Rapace,on the strength of her breakthrough performance in the Swedish-language Tattoo and its two sequels,made a well-publicised trip to Los Angeles mid-August,meeting with top producers and directors to discuss her bid for Hollywood stardom. Holmes 2 is the first acting gig to come to fruition from those meetings.

The RJD’s key face and Leader of the Opposition (LoP) Tejashwi Yadav, party supremo Lalu Yadav’s son, will again contest from his stronghold Raghopur.

Amid Mahagathbandhan crisis, RJD unveils list of 143, drops 36 MLAs, focuses on ‘M-Y’

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The RJD, lead player of the Mahagathbandhan, released its full list of 143 candidates for the November Bihar Assembly elections. Its key face Tejashwi Yadav will contest from Raghopur, and 41 sitting MLAs have been renominated. The party has dropped 36 sitting MLAs and fielded young leaders, signaling a bid to consolidate its core Muslim-Yadav vote base. The Congress has fielded 60 candidates.

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