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Gallery: 'I'm not looking for the sexiest woman, I'm looking for the girl next door. . . ' The stars who were unbelievably considered to be too beautiful for Hollywood (BANG Showbiz)“It’s so rewarding to just see that life was so simple at one point.

Selena Gomez is reportedly bringing back the 1980s classic "Working Girl." Gomez, 30, is tied to the reboot, according to multiple reports.  The actress has paired up with 20th Century as a producer to bring new life to the 1980s classic, Deadline first reported.The script will be written by Ilana Pena and the remake will find a home on Hulu. A representative for Gomez did not respond to Fox News Digital's immediate request for comment. "Working Girl" is getting a reboot.

Working Girl, we lit-er-ally couldn't contain ourselves. So what's going on? Well, according to a report, the multi-hyphenate is developing a Working Girl remake for the production company with Diary of a Future President creator Ilana Peña adapting the script.

Rebecca Rubin Film and Media Reporter20th Century Studios is looking to revive “Working Girl” with the help of Selena Gomez.Gomez is in final negotiations to produce a reboot of “Working Girl,” the Mike Nichols-directed comedy starring Sigourney Weaver, Melanie Griffith and Harrison Ford.Ilana Pena, who created the Disney+ series “Diary of a Future President,” is adapting the screenplay for the film, which is eyeing a release on Hulu. A director has not been announced.Casting has not been set, and it’s unclear if Gomez will star in the “Working Girl” remake in addition to serving as a producer.

John Panzarella will be this year’s recipient of the Location Managers Guild International’s Lifetime Achievement Award. It will be presented at the ninth annual LMGI Awards, which are returning live to the Los Angeles Center Studios on August 27.

J. Kim Murphy Jennifer Hudson has achieved the rarified status of EGOT with her Tony win for producing “A Strange Loop.”The awards gauntlet lingo of “EGOT” refers to individuals who have won an Emmy, a Grammy, an Oscar and a Tony over the course of their careers in entertainment.

George Shapiro, the deeply respected talent manager, producer and co-founder of Shapiro/West & Associates, died Thursday evening of natural causes at his home in Beverly Hills. He was 91.

NEW YORK -- Could it be the curse of the Scottish play? Daniel Craig's return to Broadway in a new version of “Macbeth” has been temporarily halted after the actor contracted COVID-19.Wednesday's matinee and evening performances were canceled when the James Bond actor tested positive. In a tweet late Saturday night, the show said all performances were canceled through Thursday “due to the detection of a limited number of positive covid test results within the company.”Craig stars in a revival of Williams Shakespeare's tragedy, with Ruth Negga making her Broadway debut playing Lady Macbeth.“Macbeth” is playing the Longacre Theatre, with an opening set for April 28.

NEW YORK -- Could it be the curse of the Scottish play? Daniel Craig's return to Broadway in a new version of “Macbeth” has been temporarily halted after the actor contracted COVID-19.Wednesday's matinee and evening performances were canceled when the James Bond actor tested positive. When he'll returns was not immediately known, but protocols indicate it could be several days at least.Craig stars in a revival of Williams Shakespeare's tragedy, with Ruth Negga making her Broadway debut playing Lady Macbeth.“Macbeth” is playing the Lyceum Theatre, with an opening set for April 28.

Jackson’s box office total is estimated at $27bn. Despite this, Jackson, 73, had never won a single Oscar, not even for his celebrated performance as a hit man in Pulp Fiction. The Academy finally awarded him an honorary Oscar on Friday, as part of the annual Governors Awards, which mark lifetime achievement in film and in humanitarian efforts.

noted on Twitter upon hearing of Hurt’s death at the age of 71, “Hurt always seemed profoundly uncomfortable being a good-looking leading man, which may be one reason that his performance in ‘Broadcast News’ is absolutely perfect — he understood that he was playing someone who was miscast.”Before making his way to the screen, Hurt had already established his bona fides on the New York stage, taking on challenging roles ranging from Hamlet to the gay paraplegic Vietnam veteran in Lanford Wilson’s “Fifth of July.” (Even after achieving big-screen fame, Hurt returned to Broadway as part of the company of David Rabe’s “Hurlyburly” in a legendarily explosive production directed by Mike Nichols.) He hit the ground running in Hollywood: Hurt managed to survive the tempestuous creation of his first film, 1980’s “Altered States,” even as screenwriter Paddy Chayefsky took his name off the film and original director Arthur Penn (who hired Hurt in the first place) was replaced by Ken Russell.Hurt and Sigourney Weaver made an appealing couple in “Eyewitness” (1981), a thriller that was vastly overshadowed by “Body Heat” in the same year. Lawrence Kasdan’s noir throwback paired Hurt and Kathleen Turner to scorching effect, turning this intense and serious actor into the kind of sex symbol he was never particularly interested in becoming.

Marc Malkin Senior Film Awards, Events & Lifestyle EditorThe Film Independent Spirit Awards returned as a live, in-person event on the beach. The traditional blue carpet was rolled out for this year’s indie superstars, who gathered under a tent on the beach in Santa Monica for this year’s festivities on March 6. Hosted by Megan Mullally and Nick Offerman, the awards’ honorary chairperson was Kristen Stewart.Here’s a look at what the cameras didn’t catch inside the show.1. COVID protocolsGuests had to provide proof of full vaccination and a negative COVID test taken within 48 hours of the awards.

Tony Walton, one of the most prolific, honored and celebrated designers of sets and costumes on Broadway and in Hollywood, has died. He was 87.

Cate Blanchett (Nightmare Alley, Don’t Look Up) has been named as the latest recipient of Film At Lincoln Center’s Chaplin Award.

Joe Otterson TV ReporterThe upcoming FX limited mystery series “The Retreat” has added 10 new cast members, Variety has learned.Clive Owen, Harris Dickinson, Alice Braga, Jermaine Fowler, Joan Chen, Edoardo Ballerini, Raul Esparza, Pegah Ferydoni, Ryan J. Haddad and Javed Khan have all joined the series.

The last time Andrew Garfield was shortlisted for Leading Man was in 2016 for his role as true-life pacifist hero Desmond Doss in Mel Gibson’s war drama Hacksaw Ridge. His performance in Lin-Manuel Miranda’s tick, tick… BOOM! could not be more different. In this stylized, unconventional biopic, he stars as Jonathan Larson, a playwright working in musical theater who died in January 1996 on the morning of the biggest day of his life—the first preview of his Broadway hit Rent. Many expected tick, tick… BOOM! to tell the story of that artistic and commercial triumph, but no—it tells instead of the myriad failures that Larson experienced, with dogged determination, in the run-up.

“Why can’t he learn how to give a better speech?” With the State of the Union address looming next month, Joe Biden’s Hollywood critics and supporters increasingly ask that question as they see his approval ratings tank even as his policies gain favor.

Cynthia Nixon knows that not all fans are enjoying Miranda Hobbes' journey on the HBO Max reboot,. But the 55-year-old actress and producer on the series is loving her character's awakening. «It’s interesting that people, I don’t know, I think some people are not loving seeing these characters off kilter, but I love it,» Nixon shared on Wednesday's . She added that she feels that characterizing Miranda's sexual awakening as a «mid-life crisis» does the character a disservice. «You reach a moment, when you put a negative spin on it you call it a mid-life crisis, right? But out of crisis come really productive things,» she explained.

Rachel Nichols, 48, has been one of the leading female voices in sports journalism for years. After growing up in Potomac, Maryland, she’s covered a wide variety of sports including the NHL, NFL, and NBA.

August: Osage County,” starring Meryl Streep and Julia Roberts. That flick’s awkward dinner scene — a laugh riot onstage because live theater audiences need to pierce discomfort with noise — was a letdown, too.Then I thought of Letts’ titanic Broadway turn as George in “Who’s Afraid of Virginia Woolf?,” another small play that found a visceral, successful life on screen in 1966 thanks to director Mike Nichols.

Marc Malkin Senior Film Awards, Events & Lifestyle EditorI was covering the red carpet for a tribute to Mike Nichols years ago when Cher arrived. She took some photos but strolled by reporters hoping — to no avail — for an interview.Feeling courageous — or maybe more desperate — I yelled out as loud as I could, “Cher!” She turned around.

Brent Lang Executive Editor of Film and MediaNevertheless, she persisted.Elaine May, who turns 89 on Wednesday, has enjoyed a late career resurgence, earning a Tony Award for her work in Kenneth Lonergan’s play “The Waverly Gallery” and directing an acclaimed documentary on her friend and frequent collaborator Mike Nichols for American Masters.

Oscar-nominated actor George Segal died today from complications due to bypass surgery. He was 87.

director Mike Nichols is now on the market for $26 million. The property is on the same block as Madonna’s mega mansion.

Jazz Tangcay Artisans EditorThe legendary Ann Roth is looking like a frontrunner for the costume design Oscar for her costumes for “Ma Rainey’s Black Bottom.”With over 130 film and television credits, Roth is set to make Oscar history beating out the late Christopher Plummer as the oldest nominee, should she land the nomination.Roth has worked with Meryl Streep, George C. Wolfe, Scott Rudin, Sidney Lumet, Neil Simon, Mike Nichols and Todd Black.

Gordon Cox Theater EditorThere are plenty of juicy backstages tales from both Hollywood and Broadway in “Mike Nichols: A Life,” the new biography of director-producer-performer Mike Nichols. And the juiciest of them, according to author Mark Harris, come from the stage.Listen to this week’s “Stagecraft” podcast below:“We think so often of movie star excess, and wild misbehavior on movie sets,” said Harris, speaking on the new episode of Stagecraft, Variety‘s theater podcast.

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Natalie Portman is very thankful for her special, very appropriate relationship with Mike Nichols.

Natalie Portman is remembering the late Mike Nichols in a new biography written by Mark Harris.

their stunning, modernist Los Angeles home, “Malcolm & Marie” has the stylized appearance of “Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf,” as well as the cocktails and shouting matches.But if Edward Albee's scathing play and Mike Nichols' scalding screen adaptation used the anger and pain of a boozing couple to burrow brutally into marriage, the domestic fury of writer-director Sam Levinson's millennial melodrama is glossier and sexier but of far less substance.

“Mike Nichols: A Life,” by Mark Harris (Penguin Press)Inspiration and talent don't always travel together. How many young men and women electrified by director Elia Kazan's Broadway productions of “A Streetcar Named Desire” in 1947 and “Death of a Salesman” in 1949 went on to achieve their own success in the performing arts?One who did was a teenage Mike Nichols, whose career in the theater and in film would rival Kazan's in critical and popular acclaim.

Adam B. Vary Senior Entertainment WriterWhen the American Film Institute announced that it was giving its 2010 Lifetime Achievement Award to Mike Nichols, the event instantly became the hottest ticket in town.

Marc Malkin Senior Film Awards, Events & Lifestyle EditorIn the 49 times that Grammys have been awarded for comedy album or performance, the list of winners is all-male but for a few exceptions: Lily Tomlin, Whoopi Goldberg, Kathy Griffin and Elaine May, who shared the award with Mike Nichols.Tiffany Haddish is hoping her name will be added to the list of female winners when the 63rd Grammys are handed out on Jan. 31.

Actress Victoria Racimo, who starred in John Frankenheimer’s 1979 horror sci-fi film Prophecy and Mike Nichols’ 1973 The Day of the Dolphin, died Nov. 29 in Williamsburg, Virginia. She was 69.