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If you think Slumdog Millionaire placed Rubina Ali on the map, wait until the advertising agencies coming knocking on her door. It has been reported that Ali has been paid more than the Oscar winning film for a drinks commercial with Hollywood superstar Nicole Kidman.

According to the nine-year-old slum dweller’s father, the money Rubina is receiving for doing the ad is more than the total she got for the film.

“The Slumdog Millionaire people haven’t kept all their promises despite all the media attention. We have no information about the supposed trust fund and the 21pound-a-month that they were giving for her studies has stopped coming,” the Telegraph quoted Rafiq Ali as saying.

“The money she is receiving for doing this ad is more than the total she got for Slumdog,” he added.

He hopes that Rubina’s rising profile could lead to a better life for the family.

(Source) Thai Indian News

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I am very excited for Nicole Holofcener because she’s going to be filming her next movie very soon with her muse, Catherine Keener, who starred in all of Holofcener films. Other actors casted in her latest movie venture include Amanda Peet, Oliver Platt and Rebecca Hall.

I have to brag and say I have interviewed Holofcener twice. I find her to be a very insightful and endearing director, someone you can trust.

The movie is untitled but focuses on a woman (Keener) and her husband (Platt) who live next door to an elderly woman whose New York apartment the couple owns. Keener and her husband essentially are waiting for the elderly woman to die so they can reclaim the apartment but run into interference from — and then form a relationship with — the woman’s granddaughters (Peet and Hall.)

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