George Clooney to make film on phone-hacking. George Clooney is to make a film about the News of the World phone-hacking scandal, the Hollywood star has announced. The actor and director will base the movie on ‘Hack Attack’, the recent book on the affair by Nick Davies, the British Guardian journalist who helped break the story. Mr Clooney, the son of a journalist who has had his own recent run-in with the British press, will produce the film with Grant Heslov but won’t act in the movie, US websites reported. It will be made by the pair’s Smokehouse production company.
Mr Clooney said: “This has all the elements, lying, corruption, blackmail, at the highest levels of government by the biggest newspaper in London. “And the fact that it's true is the best part. In July, Mr Clooney severely criticised the Daily Mail for a story, later withdrawn, that the mother of his fiancee, Amal Alamuddin, objected to their marriage on religious grounds. Ian Edmondson former News of the World executive admits phone hacking.
Former journalists Greg Mskiw and Neville Thurlbeck were both jailed for six months each, while James Weatherup and Dan Evans received a suspended sentences. Glenn Mulcaire the former private detective who was paid more than £100,000 by the News of the World to hack voicemails, also received a suspended sentence, having already spent time in jail following a previous conviction in 2006. Mrs Brooks, the former chief executive of News International, was aquitted of all charges. Opening the case against him, Mark Bryant Heron QC, said police had seized evidence suggesting Edmondson had tasked Mulcaire to hack phones more than 300 times. Among those who were hacked were former Home Secretary, David Blunkett and celebrities Jude Law and Sienna Miller. The court heard that other victims included Sir Paul McCartney, Calum Best and Kerry Katona.
Edmondson will be sentenced at a later date. Kristen Stewart and Nicholas Hoult to star in romantic 1984 remake. Adds Doremus of his sixth film: "It's about love in a world where love really doesn't exist anymore. " Written by Nathan Parker (Moon), Equals is the first film Doremus will direct that he didn't write himself. "I trust Drake's process and I know we will do something really natural and real," said Stewart. "But I told Drake, 'Don't expect that I am going to be able to do this. It's too hard.' Jennifer Lawrence, who appeared in 2011's Like Crazy and is reported to be in a relationship with Hoult, also read Parker's script, Doremus said.
"It's a love story of epic, epic, epic proportion," added Stewart. This week, the actress heads to the Sundance Film Festival in Park City, Utah, where she'll star in writer-director Peter Sattler's soldier film Camp X-Ray. Google could face $100m lawsuit over celebrity photo hack. It might be time for Google to lawyer up. According to Page Six, the company is being threatened with a $100 million lawsuit for allegedly failing to remove the hacked nude images of over a hundred female celebrities and "profiting from the victimization of women". Top Hollywood lawyer Marty Singer, who represents over a dozen of the women who were targeted in the hack, has accused Google of "blatantly unethical behavior". Private photographs from actors, models and singers such as Jennifer Lawrence and Rihanna were stolen and posted on 4chan, Reddit and Imgur.
The hacking scandal prompted women like Lena Dunham to speak up for the victims, stating that "when you look at these pictures you are violating these women again and again". Singer has written a strongly-worded letter to Google that states that the company failed "to act expeditiously, and responsibly to remove the images, but in knowingly accommodating, facilitating, and perpetuating the unlawful conduct. I Dressed Like an Idiot at London Fashion Week to See How Easy It Is to Get Street Snapped. The author having her photo taken at London Fashion Week Anyone with a smartphone and a pair of socks can be a fashion blogger. Put some clothes on, take a photo of yourself, upload it to Instagram (tagged with #OOTD for easy clarification) and follow it up with a picture of some ladybird nail art or a bottle of aloe vera juice.
There you go: you did it! You're basically Susie Bubble! If you really want, you could always round that off with a vlog of your latest Primark haul and a £10 lipgloss giveaway, and you'd be well on your way to 8,000 Twitter followers and a paid Mooncup banner ad. However, that side of fashion blogging is essentially just pointing your iPhone at a mirror. Ahead of London Fashion Week, I set myself a challenge: spend £10 a day on the three dumbest outfits I could put together - one each for Friday, Monday and Tuesday - and see if I could get papped by one of those people.
On top of Henry's roof, the wind in my fur, I looked the worst I'd ever looked in my life.