The Cuban Institute of Cinematographic Arts and Industry has invited American director Steven Spielberg for a festival showing eight of his films, including "E.T.," "Raiders of the Lost Ark" and "Jaws" to audiences across Cuba. He will meet Cuban filmmakers and visit the International School of Film and Television, which trains students from around the world in the moviemaking arts. After his Cuba tour, Spielberg will ramp up for the premiere of "Catch Me if You Can". The action-comedy, starring Leonardo DiCaprio and Tom Hanks, is slated to hit theaters on Christmas day. -GoogleNews.com

Subhash Ghai announced two films on the occasion of the 21st anniversary of Mukta Arts at a puja ceremony in Mumbai. Ghai himself will direct the first film which stars Dilip Kumar and has music by A.R. Rahman, while the other project will be directed by Abbas-Mustan. -Indiafm.com

Sravanthi Movies is going to start its next venture 'Maghamasam' in December in the direction of Ramana. Its a remake of a  Bengali film of 80's and is remaking it as Maghamasam. -Idlebrain.com

Telugu film "Gemini" the remake of the Tamil film Gemini has turned out to be a colossal flop for its producers Suresh Productions and AVM. The failure of Gemini is also a major blow for Venkatesh -Sifymovies.com

Kausalya, who was said to be in love with a film director, has gone to act in Malayalam movies, because of lack of offers in Tamil. After a long gap, she is now pairing with Karthik in the Tamil film, "Muthalaam Santhippil -Dhinakaran.com

Simran, South Indian dream girl is going to act in a Malayalam movie 'Kochu Kochu Santhoshangal' directed by Sibi Malayil. The hero of the movie will be Kalidasan S. -Galatta.com

Bharathiraaja, has sued Radhika for Rs 5 crore for the derogative comments that she had made on Sun TV about him which was telecast during Rajnikanth’s fast in Chennai. Radhika had commented on the channel that Bharathiraaja has sold out to Chief Minister J.Jayalalithaa and he has received a huge sum of money from her. -Chennaionline.com

Magesh, the music director of the film "Aalavanthaan" dies of cancer. He has wife and a son -Webulagam.com

Celeb family this week:

Suvalakshmi with husband

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