Hollywood couple Mila Kunis, Ashton Kutcher engaged: reports

LOS ANGELES | Hollywood stars Ashton Kutcher and Mila Kunis are engaged to be married, according to U.S. Weekly and the E! entertainment news website.

The two, who have been dating for about two years, appeared together on the popular television sitcom “That ’70s Show.”

Photographs on the US Weekly and E! websites taken of Kunis on Thursday in Los Angeles show her sporting a large diamond ring on her left hand.

Kutcher, 36, is divorced from actress Demi Moore. He appears in the TV sitcom “Two and a Half Men” and starred last year in the movie “Jobs.”

Kunis, 30, appeared in the movies “Ted” in 2012, “Black Swan” in 2010 and “Forgetting Sarah Marshall” in 2008.

She was the longtime girlfriend of actor Macauley Culkin.

Representatives for Kunis and Kutcher did not immediately respond to requests for comment.

source: interaksyon.com

Hollywood stars turn out for China’s new Cinema City

QINGDAO | Nicole Kidman, Leonardo DiCaprio and John Travolta on Sunday added their star power to the glitzy inauguration of the ambitious “Qingdao Oriental Movie Metropolis”, billed as China’s answer to Hollywood.

China’s richest man Wang Jianlin and his conglomerate Wanda Group have poured 50 billion yuan ($8.3 billion) into the sprawling complex in the city of Qingdao. Construction has already started but the complex will only be operational from 2016.

Wang told a lavish and star-studded ceremony that the development was part of China’s bid to ramp up its “cultural power” on the world stage.

Sprawling across 376 hectares (900 acres) on the outskirts of the eastern port city famous for its beer, the “Movie Metropolis” will have 20 studios including what is billed as the world’s largest.

It should produce “at least a hundred films a year”, according to the Wanda Group, which says it has reached preliminary agreements to ensure that 30 foreign films will be shot there each year.

Local film stars were joined on the red carpet by some of the stars of Hollywood — the institution Wang is looking at rivalling.

Kidman and others were joined by fellow A-listers Catherine Zeta-Jones and Ewan McGregor, while Chinese cinema stars Zhang Ziyi and Xu Zheng were also in attendance.

Apart from the complex on display Sunday, the development will also feature a vast public space with a waxworks display, an exhibition centre including a 3,000-seat theatre and a shopping centre with seven hotels.

source: interaksyon.com

Tom Cruise, Katie Holmes eye settlement — reports

NEW YORK - Tom Cruise and Katie Holmes were seeking ways to settle their divorce as the Hollywood stars entered the second week of a widely followed custody battle that has put their young daughter and the Church of Scientology in the media glare.


Celebrity website TMZ.com, citing an unnamed source, reported that Holmes, 33, and Cruise, 50, are negotiating visitation, child support and a property settlement. People magazine made similar claims and said the estranged couple wishes to avoid airing marital issues in court.

Attorneys for Cruise and Holmes did not return requests for comment on Sunday, but Holmes was photographed a day earlier entering her attorney's office in New York.

In a move that Cruise's spokeswoman said left the "Mission: Impossible" star "deeply saddened," Holmes filed divorce papers in New York in late June, ahead of last week's U.S. Independence Day holiday, citing irreconcilable differences.

According to her attorneys, Holmes is seeking sole custody of their 6-year-old daughter, Suri, and much speculation has surfaced that Holmes wants to raise the young girl outside the Church of Scientology, of which Cruise is a key member.

Cruise flew back to Los Angeles from a film shoot in Iceland early last week, and since then has remained publicly quiet about the divorce. His attorney, Los Angeles-based Bert Fields, has said Cruise wants to remain private.

Cruise and Holmes married in 2006 and have been enthusiastically followed by celebrity watchers, who dubbed the pair "TomKat." Holmes' divorce filing shocked their fans because their marriage seemed to be on solid ground. — Reuters

source: gmanetwork.com