Gena Rowlands Has Alzheimer’s Disease, Says Her Son and ‘The Notebook’ Director Nick Cassavetes

Zack Sharf Digital News Director Austin Butler revealed in a video interview with BuzzFeed that he unsuccessfully auditioned to play Peeta in “The Hunger Games” franchise. The role ultimately went to Josh Hutcherson, who starred in four “Hunger Games” movies between 2012 and 2015 opposite Jennifer Lawrence as Katniss and Liam Hemsworth as Gale.

Zack Sharf Digital News Director Comic book movie fans have more or less assumed that Marvel’s upcoming “The Fantastic Four” will be a 1960s-set superhero story thanks to the illustrated posters the studio has put out on social media for the tentpole. Now that fact is being confirmed by Marvel Studios president Kevin Feige. Speaking on “The Official Marvel Podcast” (via EW), Feige revealed “The Fantastic Four” will be a 1960s period piece set in New York City.

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Zack Sharf Digital News Director Sheryl Crow recently spoke to the BBC and slammed artificial intelligence being used in the music space to bring back the vocals of dead artists. She specifically called out Drake for using AI to recreate the voice of late rapper Tupac on his Kendrick Lamar diss track “Taylor Made Freestyle” in April. The song was ultimately pulled after Tupac’s estate threatened to sue Drake.

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Gena Rowlands, the legendary actress known for her role as the dementia-stricken Allie in The Notebook, is now in the "full" grip of Alzheimer's disease. Her son, Nick Cassavetes, who directed the 2004 romantic drama and is himself a renowned filmmaker at 65, shared the heartbreaking health news with Entertainment Weekly during the film's 20th anniversary celebrations on Tuesday, 25 June.

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Gena Rowlands was heartbreaking in the iconic 2004 romance film The Notebook — but there’s no way she could have known it was going to be her future. Fans will remember the legendary actress played the older version of Rachel McAdams’ character, Allie Hamilton. She was spending her elder years in a retirement home while dealing with Alzheimer’s. Now, a decade later, Gena herself is sadly living with the disease IRL — just like her character in the movie.

The Notebook and A Woman Under The Influence, is living with Alzheimer’s disease, her son Nick Cassavetes has confirmed.He revealed the news in an interview with Entertainment Weekly, where he discussed the particularly unusual situation he is in, having directed his mother as a woman with dementia in 2004’s The Notebook.Rowlands, who is considered a legend of screen acting, is now 94, and according to her son, she has been living with the condition for the last five years.Cassavetes was giving the interview to mark the 20th anniversary of the romantic drama, in which Rowlands plays the older version of Rachel McAdams’ Allie. James Garner and Ryan Gosling played the older and younger versions of her partner Noah.“I got my mom to play older Allie, and we spent a lot of time talking about Alzheimer’s and wanting to be authentic with it, and now, for the last five years, she’s had Alzheimer’s,” he said.

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Can you believe it’s the 20th anniversary of the release of The Notebook, starring Ryan Gosling and Rachel McAdams!?

aspects of the beloved romantic drama The Notebook has seemingly come true. 93-year-old Gena Rowlands, who played the dementia-stricken older version of in the 2004 hit, is dealing with Alzheimer's disease, according to her son Nick Cassavetes, who also directed the film."I got my mom to play older Allie, and we spent a lot of time talking about Alzheimer's and wanting to be authentic with it, and now, for the last five years, she's had Alzheimer's," Cassavetes told . "She's in full dementia.

Alzheimer’s disease. Her son Nick Cassavetes, who directed the beloved 2004 rom-com, revealed his mom’s diagnosis to Entertainment Weekly on Tuesday. Rowlands’ character in the film had dementia.

Actress Gena Rowlands has been diagnosed with Alzheimer’s disease, her son, director Nick Cassavetes, has revealed.

Gena Rowlands, whose stellar roster of film roles includes performances in A Woman Under the Influence, Faces and Gloria, has Alzheimer’s disease and is “in full dementia,” her son Nick Cassavetes says.

Zack Sharf Digital News Director Scarlett Johansson confirmed to ComicBook.com that she is, in fact, headlining the next “Jurassic World” movie, which is being directed by “Rogue One” and “Godzilla” filmmaker Gareth Edwards from a script penned by David Koepp. The screenwriter is returning to the dinosaur franchise after having penned Steven Spielberg’s “Jurassic Park” (1993) and “The Lost World: Jurassic Park” (1997). “I am an enormous ‘Jurassic Park’ fan,” Johansson said.

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Zack Sharf Digital News Director Matthew McConaughey recently told Glen Powell as part of an Interview magazine discussion that “it was scary” quitting Hollywood for two years when all that was being offered to him early in his career was romantic-comedy films. McConaughey was a king of the genre thanks to films like “The Wedding Planner,” “How To Lose A Guy In 10 Days,” “Failure To Launch,” “Fool’s Gold,” and “Ghosts Of Girlfriends Past,” nearly all of which grossed over $100 million at the worldwide box office. But the more rom-coms McConaughey made the less Hollywood wanted him starring in anything else.

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