Oscar Winner Judi Dench Hints Her 60-Year Film Career Might Be At An End

Ambika Mod is not prepared to be a footnote in 2024. After hustling through improv and a breakout turn in BBC miniseries This Is Going to Hurt, this year saw her biggest hit yet — the lead role of Emma Morley in Netflix’s adaptation of David Nicholls’ novel One Day. Paired with Leo Woodall’s Dexter Mayhew, Mod sensitively plays Emma’s loves, wins and failures over 20 years. As a twenty-something figuring out her place in the world, Mod’s own journey has overlapped with Emma’s more than once. Here, she talks about growing up, growing old and wishing people would focus less on her race.

It’s hard to imagine about anyone other than Mark Harmon playing the role of Special Agent Leroy Jethro Gibbs on NCIS, but he almost didn’t play the role!

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Marta Balaga “Memoir of a Snail,” directed by Oscar winner Adam Elliot – and voiced by “Succession” star Sarah Snook – has debuted a teaser ahead of its premiere at Annecy. Australian theatrical release, via Madman, is set for Oct. 17.

You won’t believe how many of your favorite Hollywood stars have been involved in some of the most dramatic soap opera plots of all time!

Hayden Christensen landed one of the most iconic roles of all time when he was cast as Anakin Skywalker in the Star Wars prequel series.

Patrick Frater Asia Bureau Chief “Memoir of a Snail,” directed by locally-born, Oscar-winning director Adam Elliot, has been set as the opening title of the Melbourne International Film Festival. The festival runs Aug.

Lately, the news over at Pixar has been more about cost-cutting and focusing on established brands. Not necessarily the stuff you’d hope to see from one of the most creative studios on the planet.

The first Muslim International Film Festival (MIFF) ended this weekend in London with Amjad Al Rasheed’s debut feature Inshallah A Boy taking the best feature gong while veteran documentarian Asif Kapadia picked up the festival’s honorary Trailblazer Award. 

Judi Dench is suggesting that she may have already retired.

Nicola Coughlan, who is currently gracing our screens as Penelope Featherington – aka Lady Whistledown – in the third season of Netflix's hit series Bridgerton, has left fans amazed by her glowing skin that has her looking much younger than her 37 years.The Irish actress has just shared some of her beauty secrets and favourite products in a YouTube video for Vogue, and it's safe to say we want everything she's using. In the video, Nicola demonstrates her skincare and everyday make-up routine, which includes a glossy red lip, a cult classic brow gel and a very affordable face serum.

Bruce Willis’ legacy is only stronger. The “Die Hard” star retired from acting in March 2022 following his aphasia diagnosis and has stepped away from public life. However, his daughter, Rumer Willis, is enjoying her time following his footsteps in the industry and has shared updates about how he is doing. Rumer has a residency in June at the Café Carlyle in New York City, where she will sing songs from her debut album, ‘Rebel Days.’ The 35-year-old artist stopped by Today With Hoda & Jenna, where she opened up about her life.

Deadline.The Tony winner, 89, was diagnosed with advanced macular degeneration in 2012 and has since been open about her ongoing vision loss.AMD is a common condition and the leading cause permanent and rapid loss of vision in older adults, according to the National Institutes of Health.A study from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention found that in 2019, 19.8 million Americans aged 40 and older were living with AMD.During an appearance on “The Graham Norton Show” last year, Dench admitted that she has been finding it harder and harder to read scripts and learn her lines — adding that it used to be something she found very easy.“It has become impossible and because I have a photographic memory,” she said at the time. “I need to find a machine that not only teaches me my lines but also tells me where they appear on the page.”Her photographic memory often came in handy when memorizing scripts.“I used to find it very easy to learn lines and remember them,” she said.

The Mirror, Dench denied that she had any upcoming projects when asked by a journalist. “No, no.

Simon has a strong twitch that drives him to shake his head, meaninglessly. He sometimes dribbles. The way he looks out at the world from under his brows, especially when people are talking to him, suggests he can’t quite keep up with what they’re saying. When he meets a group of young people from a local daycare center for the intellectually disabled, he naturally falls in with them. He befriends Pehuen Pedre (playing a version of himself) on the top of a mountain, where the group has walked and gotten into difficulties in high winds. When they all manage to get down and back on the bus, Simon gets on board with them. This is where he belongs. 

Disney Legend Richard M. Sherman, half of the Academy Award-winning songwriting team of the Sherman Brothers with his late brother, fellow Legend Robert B. Sherman, died today at Cedars-Sinai Medical Center in Beverly Hills at 95 from age-related illness.

Kelly Rowland stole many red carpet headlines from this year’s Cannes Film Festival, with a visible confrontation with a female security officer as she made her way up the famous steps and into the Palais.

It has been a big week for the beloved 1964 musical, The Umbrellas Of Cherbourg at the Cannes Film Festival where it won the 1964 Palme d’Or and went on to international acclaim and five Oscar nominations, plus served as one of the key inspirations for Damien Chazelle’s Oscar winning La La Land.

Jon Burlingame Polish composer Jan A.P. Kaczmarek, who won a 2004 Oscar for “Finding Neverland,” died Tuesday in Krakow, the Polish Music Foundation announced. He was 71 and had suffered from Multiple System Atrophy (MSA) in recent years.

Woo Ming Jin has wrapped principal photography on his latest film, “The Fox King,” the producers revealed at the Cannes Film Festival. Set in a coastal Malaysian town in the early 2000s, “The Fox King” tells the story of Ali and Amir, inseparable fraternal twins with a telepathic bond. The brothers are forced to fend for themselves when their father abandons them after remarrying a younger bride.