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essay for Air Mail recently, noting that Universal Pictures would only pay for the film if Roberts was involved.Zwick then jetted off to London with Roberts so she could do chemistry reads with actors who were in the lead to play loverboy himself, William Shakespeare.The “Erin Brockovich” actress was desperate to star alongside Daniel Day-Lewis in the flick; however, the “My Left Foot” actor had already pledged to shoot 1993’s “In the Name of the Father.”Zwick recollected that Roberts had gushed to him about how “brilliant, handsome and intense” Day-Lewis was at the time. “Don’t you think he’d be perfect? … I can get him to do it,” Roberts reportedly told the producer.The “Mystic Pizza” star even asked her assistant to send two dozen roses to the “There Will Be Blood” star, along with a card that read: “Be my Romeo.”But once Day-Lewis had told Zwick and Roberts’ team that he was fully committed to “In the Name of the Father,” their chemistry read was canceled.Roberts still went through with the casting process, now having been paired with Ralph Fiennes.

EXCLUSIVE: Dermot Mulroney (Scream VI) and Rachel Griffiths (The Wilds) are the newest additions to the cast of the untitled romantic comedy from director Will Gluck (Easy A) that Sydney Sweeney and Glen Powell are leading for Sony.

Blake Lively and Kourtney Kardashian, BaubleBar's affordable jewelry has been spotted on numerous stars. Now during the brand's Semi-Annual Friends and Family Event, the best-selling ring worn by Julia Roberts and Jennifer Aniston is majorly marked down just in time for spring. When Julia Roberts sported BaubleBar's beloved Mini Alidia Cubic Zirconia Ring set on the red carpet a few years back, fans and fashion forecasters alike took notice.

Zack Sharf Digital News Director Gwyneth Paltrow won the Oscar for best actress thanks to her role in “Shakespeare in Love,” but it was Julia Roberts who was originally courted for the role of Viola de Lesseps. Producer Edward Zwick recently published a first-person essay for Air Mail about the the making of “Shakespeare in Love.” The director behind “Glory” and “Legends of the Fall” championed the film from the beginning, coordinating with Marc Norman on the original script and getting famed playwright Tom Stoppard to come onboard to do a re-write. Zwick also bore witness to Julia Roberts joining and abandoning the project in spectacular fashion. According to Zwick, Universal Pictures only agreed to put down money for the film when Julia Roberts expressed interest in starring in the lead role. As Zwick wrote, “The mere possibility of having the ‘Pretty Woman’ wearing a corseted gown got the studio excited enough to cough up the dough. Ten weeks later I was back in London, where a xeroxed copy of Stoppard’s first draft was waiting in my fancy hotel room.”

teaser for the “Peter Pan” remake — which drops on streamer Disney+ Apr. 28 — shows the British actor, 50, remarkably well-disguised in full costume and heavy makeup.

Last year, Karina Longworth’s hit Hollywood podcast You Must Remember This looked at the Erotic ‘80s. Longworth is now delving into the same topic of sex in film and TV across the 1990s for the next season.

A rom-com icon! Richard Gere’s career skyrocketed in the ’80s with his breakout role in American Gigolo and he has since become a critically acclaimed actor over five decades.

Brent Lang Executive Editor “Your Place or Mine” is the story of two best friends named Peter and Debbie who slowly come to realize that they are a perfect match. The film, which debuted on Feb. 10, is a bit of a throwback to the glory days of rom-coms, a period in the 1990s and early aughts when Julia Roberts, Sandra Bullock, Matthew McConaughey and other spunky stars met cute to the delight of moviegoers. And that’s not just in the casting of Reese Witherspoon and Ashton Kutcher, veterans of the genre, in the two central roles, or that “Your Place or Mine” was written and directed by Aline Brosh McKenna, who previously penned “27 Dresses” and “The Devil Wears Prada.” “What we always intended to make was a really premium romantic comedy that would resonate with an audience that wanted to watch a movie that would bring them joy,” says Lauren Neustadter, president of film and TV at Hello Sunshine, Witherspoon’s media company. “People love Reese and Ashton in this type of movie, so that’s an exciting thing to see them together.”

John Oliver started off Last Week Tonight roasting Fox News for the second week in a row. The HBO Max host showed started off by noting that Donald Trump and U.S. Secretary of Transportation Pete Buttigieg attended the train derailment in Ohio.

Naman Ramachandran For a solid decade, the U.K. contributed some of the most iconic floppy-haired lotharios, airport dashes and front-door confessions in romcom history. Films such as “Four Weddings and a Funeral” (1994), “Notting Hill” (1999) and “Love Actually” (2003) basically invented such hallmarks of the genre. But in the last decade, the global-facing British romcom has all but disappeared from cinemas. Richard Curtis, the brains behind the aforementioned hits as well as the “Bridget Jones” adaptations, says the heavy lifting keeping romcoms alive has largely been carried out in the television ranks. The writer cites examples such as the BBC’s “Gavin & Stacey” and “Fleabag” and Channel 4’s “Catastrophe” as “blazing examples.”

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Owen Gleiberman Chief Film Critic Quick, what do the following movies have in common? The cheesy middle-aged rom-com “Ticket to Paradise,” the curmudgeon-finds-his-heart-of-gold drama “A Man Called Otto,” and “80 for Brady,” a road comedy about four octogenarians girl-tripping their way to the 2017 Super Bowl. All three are built around those once larger-than-life entities known as movie stars (Julia Roberts and George Clooney in “Paradise”; Tom Hanks in “Otto”; Jane Fonda, Sally Field, Lily Tomlin and Rita Moreno in “Brady”). All three are solid mid-level hits at the domestic box office (“Ticket to Paradise” made $68 million, “A Man Called Otto” has grossed $60 million and “80 for Brady” is chugging its way to the $50 million yard line). That’s a fact that many have taken note of at a time when the most savory offerings of the awards season (“Tár,” “The Fablemans,” “The Banshees of Inisherin”) starkly underperformed at the box office.

Young love: f ull of promise, ignorant of reality?   Valentine’s Day featured some of Hollywood’s biggest stars — and even set the stage for some real-life romance.

Green envy! Britney Spears looked fabulous in a glitzy mini dress.

Hulu may want to start work on a sequel to its 2021 documentary The Housewife and the Hustler about Real Housewives of Beverly Hills star Erika Jayne and her estranged husband Tom Girardi.

EXCLUSIVE: Sources tell us that former Warner Bros President of Production and Development Courtenay Valenti is nearing the end of her vetting process at Amazon Studios/MGM and is now negotiating her deal at the studio for a top film position.

EXCLUSIVE: Laura San Giacomo, recently seen in NCIS & Barry, has signed with Stewart Talent for representation.

and are slated to star in a body-swap comedy for Amazon from the writer/director of Hulu's Palm Springs, reports. There aren't yet many details about the film—including a title or a release date—but the cast and concept alone are enough to have us all in.Here's everything we know so far about the Julia Roberts and Jennifer Aniston body swap comedy:Who's in it: Julia Roberts, fresh off a return to her rom-com roots in 2022's Ticket to Paradise, and Jennifer Aniston will star in the currently untitled comedy. In 2016 Roberts and Aniston both appeared in the film Mother's Day.

EXCLUSIVE: Amazon Studios has won a heated auction among four other studios and streamers for a Julia Roberts and Jennifer Aniston comedy vehicle. The untitled body swap comedy was pitched last week by Max Barbakow, who will write and direct the film. LuckyChap Entertainment, the production label of Margot Robbie, Tom Ackerley and Josey McNamara, will produce alongside Roberts and her Red Om Films banner, Aniston’s Echo Films, and Barbakow. He is best known for directing Palm Springs, the Andy Samberg-Cristin Milioti 2020 comedy won by Neon and Hulu at Sundance for a then-festival record sum. The comedy is based on his original pitch.

The White Lotus star and recent Golden Globe Award winner Jennifer Coolidge continues her winning streak: Harvard-based Hasty Pudding Theatricals has named her the recipient of its 2023 Woman of the Year Award.

Every year, Netflix does this thing to lay out its upcoming 12 months’ worth of films. It’s like this massive flex, where the streamer released a three-minute trailer with nothing but stars and big-name filmmakers, proving, well, that it loves to spend money on films.

Pretty woman! Julia Roberts was the epitome of timeless glamour at the 2023 Critics’ Choice Awards.

That ‘90s Show and Night Court after 17 and 31 years, respectively, in new incarnations this week. (That ’70s Show ran until 2006, with Night Court signing off in 1992.) In the case of That '90s Show, (it originally aired on Fox), with O.G.

—the 45-year-old opted for a sheer, illusion Oscar de la Renta gown, complete with matching face mask. For her hair and makeup, went with sleek chignon and her signature natural vamp.Chastain's stunner of a gown was adorned with a sequined web pattern that spiraled in concentric circles toward her waist.

EXCLUSIVE: Once again, working under the Guild’s restrictive rules for inclusion among nominees for the WGA Awards for Best Original and Adapted Screenplays, several leading Oscar contending screenplays are AWOL on the official WGA ballot sent to eligible voting members this morning.

just found out that she is related to another person who is very famous on this planet (no, it's not , although that would be iconic). The Oscar-winner is distantly related to star (and three-time Oscar nominee) Edward Norton. Roberts and Norton discovered they are connected in the season premiere of Finding Your Roots with Henry Louis Gates Jr, which aired on Tuesday, January 3.

CBS’ broadcast of the 45th annual Kennedy Center Honors — which recognized George Clooney, U2, Tania León, Gladys Knight and Amy Grant — took home a Wednesday night ratings win for the network.

What a moment! George Clooney was caught by surprise when his pal Julia Roberts took the stage at the 2022 Kennedy Center Honors in a dress covered with his pictures.

EXCLUSIVE: Usually content to let their logo on the front end of films speak for them, Working Title partners Tim Bevan and Eric Fellner spoke to Deadline in a prolific moment and a series of anniversaries that go beyond the 20th for their holiday classic Love Actually. They reached 30 years together at a company that turns 40 next year. The duo scored a big hit in the George Clooney-Julia Roberts romantic comedy Ticket to Paradise, and have Matilda the Musical playing in UK theaters, and opening on Netflix elsewhere for Christmas, with the Lena Dunham-directed Catherine Called Birdy released by Amazon and The Swimmers by Netflix. After playing the Toronto and Zurich festivals, it has ranked near the top of Netflix’s most watched films globally since its release.

Greetings from the movies corner of the pop culture world. You remember movies, right? All of three years ago, the brightest and the best offerings shined on the big screen. (Your diverse 2019 offerings included universally acclaimed hits such as Once Upon a Time in Hollywood, Knives Out and Parasite.)

The Golden Globes TV nominations from the Hollywood Foreign Press Association this morning were as surprising as they were … exclusionary.

Harry and Meghan, the Netflix docuseries about the Duke and Duchess of Sussex's departure from royal life, gave us plenty to talk about, from Harry's in a spouse to . Still, it wasn't as jaw-dropping as many had thought. That may change this week when part two premieres. More pressing is tonight's season two finale of The White Lotus, in which we'll finally find out who died and what's in store for .

While the rest of the world can’t get enough of Friends, Matthew Perry hasn’t tuned in for a rewatch yet!

Best friends for life! Julia Roberts turned her love for pal George Clooney into a fashion statement at the 2022 Kennedy Center Honors on Sunday, December 4.

wore a gown plastered with pictures of BFF 's face. Clooney was one of the honorees at the event, so this kind of makes sense, I guess. The gown—a fitted number with a full skirt and small train—is a custom Moschino creation from creative director Jeremy Scott.

Guest after guest at the Kennedy Center Honors told reporters of the spirit of bipartisanship at the ceremony, what with the presence of President Joe Biden, Chief Justice John Roberts and congressional leaders of both parties.