Margaret Riley Dies: ‘Bombshell’ Producer & Lighthouse Management Partner Was 58

Jem Aswad Executive Editor, Music Just two days after performing with Usher during the Super Bowl Halftime show, Grammy-Oscar-Emmy winner H.E.R. has announced that she’s signed with Lighthouse Management and Media for management across all areas of her career. She will be managed at the company by Aleen Keshishian and Zack Morgenroth.

Spike Lee and Denzel Washington are reportedly teaming up for the fifth time to reimagine Akira Kurosawa’s 1963 crime drama High And Low.The pair, whose previous projects include Malcolm X, He Got Game and Inside Man, will begin filming the adaptation in March. The original film is based on Ed McBain’s novel King’s Ransom and stars Toshiro Mifune as a wealthy man who is forced to pay the ransom money for his employee’s kidnapped son.In 2008, it was reported that Martin Scorsese would be developing a remake of the story, but the project never went ahead.Lee has previously spoken about his admiration for Kurosawa, claiming that his 1986 comedy She’s Gotta Have It was influenced by the Japanese director’s 1950 drama Rashomon.The remake of High And Low will be released in cinemas by A24 before heading to Apple TV+ (as reported by The Guardian).Alan Fox, a former college basketball player and model turned playwright, will write the script.

America Ferrera, Carey Mulligan and Kerry Washington stepped out for a Chanel cocktail and dinner event held on Wednesday evening (February 7) in New York City.

“Kobe picked the pose you’re about to see,” said Vanessa Bryant at the unveiling of the statue honoring her late husband today, “so if anyone has any problems with it, tough sh*t.”

18 years after their last collaboration, director Spike Lee and Denzel Washington, one of the legendary filmmaker/lead actor duos, are teaming up again. This time, it’s for a remake of Akira Kurosawa’s classic crime thriller, the 1963 Japanese police procedural crime “High And Low,” which originally starred Toshiro Mifune.

major role in the rise of Nirvana, died on Jan. 18 at her West Seattle home after several years living with frontotemporal dementia, a progressive neurological disorder, her family confirmed.

There are few talent-representative partnerships in Hollywood that have lasted a career. CSI creator Anthony Zuiker had that with manager Margaret Riley, most recently a partner at Lighthouse Entertainment, who died Tuesday of ovarian cancer at age 58.

Ethan Coen’s first feature-length narrative feature outside of work with his brother Joel Coen isn’t even out yet (“Drive-Away Dolls”), but the filmmaker is already charting his next movie. The dark comedy, “Honey Don’t!,” will star Margaret Qualley, Aubrey Plaza, and Chris Evans.

EXCLUSIVE: Ahead of Focus Features‘ February 23rd release of Drive-Away Dolls, the road-trip caper marking her first collaboration with Academy Award winner Ethan Coen, Margaret Qualley has been set to star in Honey Don’t!, the filmmaker’s latest for the same studio.

Margaret Qualley returned to the runway and walked in the Chanel Haute Couture Spring/Summer 2024 fashion show held at Grand Palais Éphémère on Tuesday (January 23) in Paris.

As shocking as it may seem to people who are having trouble admitting they’re old (myself included), Denzel Washington’s post-apocalyptic action film, “The Book of Eli,” is turning 14 this year. Yes, that means there are kids who will attend high school this year that were born the same year ‘Eli’ was released.

David Gail, who played Shannen Doherty’s fiancé on Beverly Hills 90210 and Dr. Joe Scanlon on General Hospital spinoff soap Port Charles, has died at 58, according to a post from his sister and numerous reports.

Benedict Fitzgerald, best known as the screenwriter of The Passion of the Christ, died at home in Marsala, Sicily after a long illness on January 17, 2024. He was 74 and no cause of death was given by his family.

Kerry Washington is responding to people who are curious about why she tends to go for “political work.”

Zack Sharf Digital News Director Kerry Washington joined the Variety Studio presented by Audible at the Sundance Film Festival, where she is an executive producer on the documentary “Daughters.” The movie centers on four girls in Washington D.C. as they prepare for a Daddy Daughter Dance with their incarcerated fathers. “People always ask me why I’m drawn to political work,” Washington said about boarding the documentary.

Veteran talent agent Scott Manners, who most recently was partner at Artists & Representatives, passed today in Los Angeles after a brief battle with ALS. Manners, who was 68, died peacefully, surrounded by his family, the agency said.

“And Just Like That …” for being a “waste of airtime” as widely unpopular character Che Diaz.The non-binary actor, 48, implied on Instagram Tuesday that they were being fired from the Max series because of their pro-Palestinian politics, including their participation in several pro-Palestinian marches.“While they give awards away, casting directors and agents are making blacklists of actors and workers who post anything in support of Palestinians in Gaza to ensure they will not work again,” they wrote, in part.Ramirez recently participated in a Palestinian protest in Brooklyn, waving a transgender flag, and also took part in the Jan. 13 March for Gaza in Washington, DC.But a source close to “And Just Like That …” told the Daily Mail that Ramirez was “on the chopping block since last season” because of Che, a comedian and podcast host who was in a relationship with Miranda (Cynthia Nixon) that busted up Miranda’s marriage to Steve Brady (David Eigenberg).Che and Miranda later split in Season 2 of the Max series.“Sara was not fired because they support Palestine and the cease fire,” the source told DailyMail.com.“Sara was fired because Che brought nothing to the show anymore.

Gregg Goldstein When you’ve spent the most memorable years of your career battling gods and single-handedly defeating an army, what’s left for a warrior to do? For “Xena: Warrior Princess” star Lucy Lawless, the answer was making her directorial debut with a doc about a fellow New Zealand icon, daredevil CNN war camerawoman Margaret Moth. Her spellbinding feature, “Never Look Away,” which premieres Jan. 18 at Sundance, was selected for the fest’s World Cinema Documentary Competition.

Martin McCallum, a British theatrical producer whose work on more than 500 Broadway and West End shows saw his participation in some of the most successful stage productions in modern theater history, died January 14 in Sydney, Australia. He was 73.

Michaela Zee Tom Shales, a Pulitzer-winning television critic at the Washington Post who spent nearly 40 years at the publication, has died. He was 79. Shales died Saturday at a hospital in Fairfax County, Va., from complications due to COVID-19 and renal failure, his caretaker, Victor Herfurth, told the Washington Post.