Amazon’s ‘The Lord of the Rings’ reveals more key Tolkien characters

Then and now! Fans may remember Ashlee Holmes Malleo as Jacqueline Laurita‘s daughter on Real Housewives of New Jersey, but she’s made quite a name for herself over the years.

Sharing her story. Real Housewives of New Jersey alum Ashlee Malleo has been diagnosed with bipolar disorder.

Billie Lourd and her husband Austen Rydell stepped out to support their friend Andy Cohen at his pride party!

Actress Mary Mara is dead after an apparent drowning on Sunday, June 26. The Law & Order: Special Victims Unit alum was 61.

Character actor Mary Mara, known for her work on ER, Law & Order: SVU, and Nip/Tuck, and dozens of other TV shows and films, drowned Sunday in the St. Lawrence River in Cape Vincent, NY, according to New York State Police. She was 61.

Sharon Stone revealed she lost nine children through miscarriages. Stone, 64, commented on an Instagram post shared by People.The post was regarding an interview the outlet had with Peta Murgatroyd about a pregnancy loss she recently suffered. "We, as females don't have a forum to discuss the profundity of this loss.

Sharon Stone has her own difficult past with miscarriages, and now she’s opening up about them to help other women feel less alone.

Sharon Stone revealed she suffered nine miscarriages.

Marc Malkin Senior Film Awards, Events & Lifestyle EditorAccording to Chris Pratt, his voice performance as Mario in the upcoming feature adaptation of the Super Mario Bros. video game will be “unlike anything you’ve heard.”Variety got the chance to catch up with Pratt at the Wednesday night premiere of his new Amazon Prime Video series “The Terminal List” (more on that later!) to talk about finding his voice for the film, which co-stars Charlie Day as Luigi.There’s been much internet discussion over Pratt’s casting in the animated film as the Italian plumber despite his non-Italian background, with critics expressing concern that his accent could potentially be offensive.

Todd Spangler NY Digital EditorGood news for verbose Twitter users: The social network is testing out a new feature that will let people go over the 280-character limit in a single piece of content.With the new feature, called Notes, users can include text — up to 2,500 words — as well as photos, videos and GIFs in posts that can be written, published and shared on Twitter. The Note card will show up in the Twitter timeline as a tweet that contains a preview of what’s in the longer post.The company said it has launched a public test of Notes with a small group of writers from the U.S., U.K., Canada and Ghana, according to a company rep.

Robin Roberts can usually expect the star to wish them a good day everyday with her signature "Morning Message," but unfortunately they had to do without her inspiring speeches as she stepped away from GMA to spend time with family.MORE: Robin Roberts takes relaxing break from GMA for family timeThe news anchor was spending a well-deserved vacation in Key West, Florida, alongside her longtime partner Amber Laign, and she came back with a health update concerning her.Though fans are surely happy that Robin got some much-needed rest, they were also not shy about expressing how happy they are to see her return to their screens.WATCH: Robin celebrates incredible career milestoneMORE: Gayle King endearingly credits Robin Roberts for entertaining her during her Covid journeyAs the morning show host said the familiar words: "Good morning… thank you, for being with us for the morning message and prayer," it was of course like she'd never left.Her message was inspiring as ever, as she opened up about overcoming difficult challenges and not feeling defeated.She insisted: "When you declare, 'I will arise,' forces of darkness tremble, and angels get to work.

Lego Con it was announced that eight new character packs would be coming to the Lego Super Mario range this August.READ MORE: ‘Sunday Gold’ preview: London falling in this dreary dystopia2022’s Lego Con took place on June 18 and had a host of announcements, including sets for Doctor Strange, Avatar and Minecraft as well as build challenges and a preview of the Ninjago TV show finale, but one of the most exciting announcements for fans was the arrival of eight new characters to the Lego Super Mario universe.During a feature where the two hosts, Alice and Didier, gave themselves 90 seconds to find all of the new characters available amongst a sea of standard Lego bricks, it was revealed that the Blue Shy Guy, Red Yoshi, Purple Toad, Waddlewing, Nabbit, Hammer Bro, Toady and Baby Yoshi would be coming to the Nintendo Lego series in the form of the Series 5 Character Packs.Just announced at #LEGOCON, the latest #LEGO Super Mario Character Packs are on the way! Get playing with Nabbit, a Hammer Bro, Baby Yoshi and more!Learn more: https://t.co/3Qhv2e8bdN pic.twitter.com/3fjuq7fiYX— Nintendo of America (@NintendoAmerica) June 18, 2022Each pack will contain a mystery buildable character with Action Tag, and a small build to use as a display stand.

Marc Malkin Senior Film Awards, Events & Lifestyle EditorWelcome to this week’s “Just for Variety.”Patrick Schwarzenegger can’t reveal any details about his work in the upcoming spinoff of Amazon’s “The Boys” — no, he won’t confirm reports that he’s playing a character named Golden Boy — but he admits that he has shown his father, Arnold Schwarzenegger, photos from the set.“He looked at me and he was like, ‘What the fuck are you filming?’” Patrick tells me on this week’s episode of the “Just for Variety” podcast. “I was like, ‘It’s this show called ‘The Boys.’ … You have to watch an episode to understand it, or else I can’t articulate what happens in it.”“The Boys” producers reached out to Schwarzenegger for the spinoff after meeting him years ago when he auditioned to play the character of Homelander on the original series.

Even though the Sony sequel Spider-Man: Across the Spider-Verse doesn’t come out for another year, the movie has been a press tour which fired off with 15 minutes being shown at CinemaCon in late April and now another 15 minutes at the Animation festival Annecy this morning.

"I've talked a lot about New York tonight" Alicia Keys stated to the packed out, high energy crowd at the AO Arena after singing New York City and Empire State of Mind. "Now I want to talk about Manchester."

Today on Crew Call, The Afterparty architects Phil Lord and Christopher Miller discuss how they took what was a feature concept at TriStar over ten years ago and turned into a Rashomon comedy series for AppleTV+.