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Publisher: Ubisoft
Developer: Ubisoft Montreal
Genre: Historic Action Adventure
Release Date: Mar 9, 2010 (more)
ESRB: MATURE
Minimum System Requirements
[*] Operating System: Windows ® XP / Windows Vista
[*] Processor: Intel Core 2 Duo 2.8 GHz or AMD Athlon X2 Dual-Core 5200 +
[*] RAM: 1 GB (Windows XP) / 1 GB (Windows Vista)
[*] Hard disk space: 8 GB
[*] Sound device: compatible with DirectX
[*] Video Card: compatible with Direct X 9.0c, 512 MB

Even as Daniel Day-Lewis prepares for his deep-dive portrayal of Abraham Lincoln in director Stephen Spielberg's long developing biopic about the sixteenth President of the United States, another actor is possibly gearing up for Honest Abe — though his take is sure to be significantly bloodier.

The Wrap reports that Eric Bana is circling the title role in "Abraham Lincoln: Vampire Hunter," an adaptation of Seth Grahame-Smith's historical horror fiction novel for 20th Century Fox. Timur Bekmambetov is directing the project with Tim Burton on board as a producer.


The report is quick to note that Bana hasn't landed the presidential role just yet — for now, he's simply "scheduled to meet with" Bekmambetov and is "certainly in contention for the part."


The title pretty much tells you everything you need to know about "Abraham Lincoln: Vampire Hunter." The story, authored by the same man who wrote "Pride and Prejudice and Zombies," details Lincoln's secret life as a vampire slayer training under the tutelage of Henry Sturges, a benevolent bloodsucker who takes Abe under his wing after a live-saving encounter.


Bana's potential as Lincoln might not seem obvious at first, but the Australian actor has only a one-inch height difference with the 19th century leader; physically, he's a lock. Not only that, but Bana is well accustomed to both big budget fare as well as smaller, more dramatic projects. 


Those sensibilities will doubtlessly come in handy for whoever plays Lincoln, as the part requires gravitas in the thick of a vampire-strewn landscape. Bana could handle that in spades, if the part is his to take.

Early life

New Delhi: Akshay Kumar loves playing the quintessential Bollywood hero and though he would like to experiment more with his roles, the actor is not ready to leave the sphere of commercial cinema.

Standing tall at 5’8”, a lovely peaches n cream complexion, and an hour-glass figure, the beautiful and elegant Katrina Kaif stands apart and is not one to go unnoticed. Not surprisingly the modeling world rolled down the red carpet for her, movie offers are pouring in, and she is linked with one of the hottest and most controversial Khans of Bollywood. 


Roots


Katrina Kaif, a name now familiar to Indian movie-goers, was born on 16 July 1984 in Hong Kong. Her parents are both British citizens, while her father is a Kashmiri who later acquired British citizenship. She lived in Hawaii before moving to UK and is now setting up a home and career in India.


Katrina has been Salman Khan’s long term girlfriend. Despite several speculations about the couple’s break-up, all seems well.


On the Runway
Kaif’s first taste of modeling happened in Hawaii when she was 14 and was part of a jewelry campaign. Thereafter, she continued modeling in London. In India, there was no dearth of offers and she appeared in ads for Veet, Lakme, LG, Samsung to name a few. She was also the face of Lakme India Fashion Week 2005. She took the number one spot in FHM India's 100 Sexiest Women in the World poll and also won the Best Female Style Icon at the IIFA Awards.


Katrina was chosen to represent Barbie in India.


On to the Big Screen


Kaif, while in London, was spotted by Kaizad Gustad and was cast in his 2003 release Boom, which sank without a trace. Movie offers initially trickled in owing largely to her unfamiliarity with Indian languages. The very next year, in 2004, she played the part of Princess Malliswari in the Telugu movie Malliswari. She had another Telugu film, Allari Pidugu in 2005, along with two Hindi movies, Ram Gopal Verma’s Sarkar and as one of Salman Khan’s love interests in David Dhawan’s Maine Pyaar Kyun Kiya. Both movies did well at the box office. She won the Stardust Breakthrough Performance Award for Maine Pyaar Kyun Kiya. She co-starred with Akshay Kumar in Humko Deewana Kar Gaya, in 2006. Besides this she was a part of a Malayalam movie Balram Vs Taradas. 


Five releases marked 2007. Her movie Namaste London with Akshay Kumar, was one of the year’s top hits, for which she did her own dubbing. The other three movies were Apne with the Deols, David Dhawan’s Partner with Salman Khan and Govinda and Welcome, all of which performed well at the box office. She also put in a special appearance in Nanhe Jaisalmer. 


In 2008, we caught her in two blockbusters-the racy Race and Singh Is Kinng. She walked away with the British-Indian Actor Award at the Zee Cine Awards (2008). She played a small part in Hello, based on Chetan Bhagat’s One Night At A Call Center. Yuvvraj with Salman Khan didn’t do well.


She continued to amp up her skills in 2009. Her performances in both New York and Ajab Prem Ki Ghazab Kahani were praised. She had a small role in Blue. She was seen with Akshay Kumar in De Dana Dan. The movie saw a decent run in the theaters.

Sheila ki Jawaani got Katrina Kaif her the tag of the Sexiest women in the world by a UK based media house and now this lass is leaving no stones unturned to promote Tees Maar Khan which is releasing soon in theaters, so much so that she made up with ex Salman Khan to promote the film in Big Boos 4 as she feels that she owe it to Sheila Ki Jawaani.


Bigg Boss 4 inmates are in for a surprise as the team of Tees Maar Khan would be promoting their film on the sets of Bigg Boss and if sources are to be believed Barbie Doll Katrina Kaif would enter into the house of the Bigg Boss 4. Sheila Ki Jawaani shot Katrina into the limelight this year as everyone got to see the wild part of Katrina Kaif. Now as she would enter the house of Bigg Boss 4 everyone would go berserk.


The girls in the house of the Bigg Boss meanwhile are preparing their item numbers. On one hand Shweta Tiwary and Dolly Bindra would done the Munni act and on the other hand Sheila would be played by Veena and Seema Parihar. This would be a fun episode as everyone would want to see how the yesteryear couple Salman and Katrina would behave on screen and how would the Bigg Boss inmates behave having the real Sheila amidst them.

Emma Watson was born in Paris, France to Jacqueline Luesby and Chris Watson, English lawyers who lived in France at the time; she has a younger brother named Alex. She lived in Paris until age five, then moved with her mother and brother to Oxford, England. 

Watson attended The Dragon School, a private preparatory school, until June 2003, when she moved to Headington School, a private all-girls school in Oxford. In June 2006, Watson sat GCSE examinations in 10 subjects, achieving eight A* and two A grades. She is studying for her Advanced Subsidiary (AS) levels in Dance, Art and English literature. 

Watson is an avid sports player and her musical interests (as of Spring 2005) include singing, hip hop, blues, and classic rock, including Eminem, Eric Clapton, U2 and Nelly Furtado. 

She has said that she feels her celebrity status is partly responsible for her not having a boyfriend, stating: "Guys are either intimidated by me, or they have defences up, or they like to take the piss out of me." Watson was ranked number 98 in the FHM 100 Sexiest Women in the World 2007 list. 

Prior to her role in the Harry Potter films, Emma Watson's acting experience was limited, consisting only of minor roles in school plays, including Arthur: The Young Years and The Happy Prince. Other school activities included the Daisy Pratt Poetry Competition, in which, at the age of seven, she won first place for her year. 

Emma Watson was eleven years old when Harry Potter and the Philosopher's Stone-titled Harry Potter and the Sorcerer's Stone in the United States-was released. She has since appeared in all subsequent Potter films: Chamber of Secrets (2002), Prisoner of Azkaban (2004), and Goblet of Fire (2005), and has finished filming Order of the Phoenix. Despite reports saying she refused to sign a contract to appear in the final two Potter installments, her committment to the final two films was confirmed in late March 2007 by Warner Brothers. At the time she said "I could never let Hermione go--she is my hero! I love her too much and love what playing her has meant to me. I am excited and honoured to be finishing what I started and playing her in all seven of the films." (Daniel Radcliffe's involvement in the last two films had been confirmed earlier that month.) 

At age fifteen, Emma became the youngest person to appear on the cover of Teen Vogue magazine until the appearance of Willa Holland. She also served on a jury, along with Pierce Brosnan, Kenneth Branagh, and Samantha Morton, to select the 2004 teen-aged filmmakers' "First Light" for the Film Award ceremony in Leicester Square in London. She also played Hermione in The Queen's Handbag, a special mini-episode of Harry Potter in celebration of Queen Elizabeth II's 80th birthday.