Lena Waithe-Produced 'The 40-Year-Old Version' Lands at Netflix

A young secretary and aspiring writer's coming of age in the New York literary world of the 1990s is the subject of My Salinger Year, based on the successful 2014 memoir by Joanna Rakoff.French-Canadian writer-director Philippe Falardeau, whose Monsieur Lazhar was nominated for an Oscar and who also directed the Reese Witherspoon vehicle The Good Lie, tackles the material with more enthusiasm than efficiency, as his protagonist has to figure out what she wants out of life on both the

From the moment he read Joanna Rakoff’s memoir about literary New York, Philippe Falardeau knew his eighth movie, My Salinger Year, would be his first with a female protagonist."I’ve never been as excited about one of my films, because it’s told from a woman’s perspective," says the Quebec director, who rose to prominence with the Oscar-nominated classroom drama Monsieur Lazhar in 2011.Now Falardeau, 52, finds himself opening the Berlin Film Festival with this Margaret Qualley and Sigourney

NEW YORK (Reuters) - New York jurors on Tuesday will begin deliberating the fate of former Hollywood producer Harvey Weinstein, who is on trial for rape in a case that has become a milestone for the #MeToo movement.

James allegedly attacked the woman during a visit to a Youth Detention Center.

Actor Lynn Cohen, best known for her role as Magda on HBO's Sex and the City, died Friday morning, her representative confirmed to The Hollywood Reporter. She was 86.Cohen began her acting career in regional theater, appearing on New York stages since the late 1970s.

NEW YORK (Reuters) - New York prosecutors told jurors that Harvey Weinstein abused his power and pushed back against claims by the former Hollywood producer’s defense team that his accusers were not credible.

Sex And The City actor Lynn Cohen passed away at the age of 86 in New York, according to her manager Josh Pultz. The veteran actress who starred in over numerous shows and films was best known for her role as Magda the housekeeper in the popular HBO series Sex And The City. As per reports, Lynn had appeared in 13 episodes between 2000 and 2004 and reprised her role in the Sex and the City movie in 2008 as well as in its sequel in 2010.

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With two very funny and very experienced Hollywood heavyweights leading the cast, it should come as no surprise that the feeling on the set of Searchlight's Downhill was one its young star Julian Grey described as "so much fun."Working with Will Ferrell and Julia Louis-Dreyfus meant improv was a daily occurrence, a prop or two may have broken in the name of art and keeping a straight face was a real test of dramatic will, Grey explained on the SVA Theater red carpet for the film's New York

Hollywood producer Jon Peters feels like an “old fool” after calling off an engagement to wed Pamela Anderson.

Trouble. Lindsay Lohan’s father, Michael Lohan, was arrested for allegedly assaulting his estranged wife, Kate Major, in New York on Monday, February 10, Us Weekly can confirm.

Harvey Weinstein is being currently tried for rape and sexual misconduct in New York’s Manhattan courtroom. The latest update about the trial is that the disgraced producer’s defence team called psychologist and memory expert to the witness stand in an attempt to discredit all the allegations level against him by his accusers during the hearing, Page Six reported.

Johnny Depp is set to produce an upcoming doc about legendary Irish folk-punker (and his friend) Shane MacGowan.

NEW YORK — A lawyer for movie producer Harvey Weinstein on Monday aggressively questioned a onetime aspiring actress who said she was raped by the film producer, asking if she had a relationship with him to advance her career.

Netflix is in negotiations to buy the worldwide rights to Radha Blank’s semi-autobiographical comedy “The 40-Year-Old Version,” sources have confirmed.

He was first arrested and charged back in 2015.

Writer-director Radha Blank’s coming-of-age-in-your-40s tale is a love letter full of more love letters. It’s a love letter to the people of pre-gentrified Harlem (she’s a New York native), to old-school hip hop, to struggling artists, to young people with big dreams and to black women who dare to live life out of the box.