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behind beloved character Keeley Jones—has added some more ingredients to the Olivia Wilde salad dressing drama.While the rest of us were preparing for , Hazell took to her Instagram Story to share another excerpt from Nora Ephron's Heartburn—the same book Wilde quoted on her own Instagram Story after broke. How about a dash of context? On October 17, and s former nanny gave an interview with detailing a dramatic fight between her employers. According to the anonymous nanny, the incident ended with Sudeikis laying underneath Wilde's car to stop the director from delivering a salad with her “special dressing” to . In response, Sudeikis and Wilde—who have been embroiled in a over their two children—put their differences aside to release a condemning the interview.

When Harry Met Sally… has revealed that the film was originally supposed to conclude with a much more emotionally downbeat ending.Rob Reiner, who also helmed This is Spinal Tap, The Princess Bride and Stand By Me, has revealed the reason for the last-minute switch to the classic 1989 romcom’s finale in a new podcast interview.During an appearance on CNN’s Who’s Talking with Chris Wallace, Reiner disclosed that the original script, which was written by the late Nora Ephron, did not see Harry (Billy Crystal) and Sally (Meg Ryan) getting hitched at the end.“I had been married for 10 years,” said Reiner. “I had been single for 10 years, and I couldn’t figure out how I was ever going to be with anybody, and that gave birth to When Harry Met Sally…”“I hadn’t met anybody, and so it was going to be the two of them seeing each other after years, talking, and then walking away from each other,” he continued.Reiner had been married to fellow film director Penny Marshall (Big, Awakenings) from 1971 to 1981, but had been single for several years before making this film.In the end, the film concluded with Harry running towards Sally at a New Year’s Eve party and spilling out his love for her.

The ending of When Harry Met Sally was not how it was initially conceived, and director Rob Reiner is opening up about what changed his mind.

Zack Sharf Digital News Director Kate Hudson appeared on “The View” and reflected on the recent 20th anniversary of her iconic romantic comedy “How to Lose a Guy in 10 Days.” The genre has lost much its box office dominance in the decades since Hudson first linked up with Matthew McConaughey to the tune of $105 million at the domestic box office and $177 million worldwide. For comparison’s sake, the just-released rom-com “Anyone But You,” starring Sydney Sweeney and Glen Powell, has earned a decent $38 million and counting worldwide.

Zack Sharf Digital News Director Julia Roberts is an icon of the romantic-comedy genre, but there’s one famous rom-com the Oscar-winner happened to turn down: Nora Ephron’s 1998 classic “You’ve Got Mail.” Roberts revealed the scoop during a recent appearance on Bravo’s “Watch What Happens Live.” Ephron’s film memorably paired Tom Hanks and Meg Ryan in the story of business rivals unaware they are falling in love with each other online. “You’ve Got Mail” marked the third Hanks-Ryan romantic comedy after “Joe Versus the Volcano” (1990) and “Sleepless in Seattle” (1993), the latter title also being directed by Ephron.

Todd Gilchrist editor “Sleepless in Seattle,” “Punch-Drunk Love” and four more films from Columbia Pictures will make their 4K Ultra HD debut Feb. 13, 2024, via Sony Pictures Home Entertainment. Columbia Classics 4K Ultra HD Collection Vol.

At the end of Meg Ryan‘s beguiling and grown-up new romantic comedy What Happens Later, a simple dedication card shows on screen that says “To Nora.” And for star, director and co-writer Ryan, that says it all. After an eight-year absence from the screen, Ryan has returned, both in front of and behind the camera, to a genre that made her a huge star thanks also in large part to the late great Nora Ephron, whose trio of collaborations with Ryan — When Harry Met Sally (directed by Rob Reiner), Sleepless in Seattle and You’ve Got Mail — truly defined what a joyful experience a romantic comedy could be when in the right hands.

Courtney Howard Meg Ryan not only dazzles before the camera in “What Happens Later,” but behind it as well, as director and co-writer. Through the prism of one former couple’s relationship woes, this effervescent, enlightened romantic comedy explores our innate need for reconciliation within ourselves and with each other. It’s a delight to welcome Ryan back to the silver screen after an extended hiatus, and in the genre she helped rejuvenate alongside filmmakers like Rob Reiner and Nora Ephron (to whom this film is touchingly dedicated).

Meg Ryan is “enchanting.” It’s hard to think of a better word to describe her than the one Nora Ephron usedin the “You’ve Got Mail” script — a word repeated four times in the first 30 minutes of the 1998 film. My ears perk up when Ryan uses it now, nearly 25 years later. We’re sitting across from each other in a suite at the Four Seasons hotel in Beverly Hills, meeting to speak about her new film — her first in eight years.

Nothing says autumn vibes like spending time in the quaint town of Stars Hollow, Connecticut, with Rory (Alexis Bledel), Lorelai (Lauren Graham), Luke (Scott Patterson), and the rest of the quirky citizens. Whether you’re watching Lorelai down countless cups of coffee as she banters with everyone, or Rory as she’s torn between Dean (Jared Padalecki) and Jess (Milo Ventimiglia), or kitschy townwide festivities (such as the 24 hour “dance-a-thon,”) there’s an endlessly cozy fall feel to the show – starting right from the opening credits. Where to stream: Netflix.

Entertainment Weekly of the movie. “For that reason, [What Happens Later] sort of evolves the rom-com genre just a little bit.

Sophia Scorziello editor Rom-com darling Meg Ryan returns to her throne with David Duchovny for Bleecker Street’s upcoming love story “What Happens Later.” Based on Steven Dietz’s play “Shooting Star,” the film follows two old flames who, after bumping into each other when their flights get snowed in, spend the night in an airport reliving the past. In addition to her lead role, Ryan served as director and co-writer.

long-awaited reunion with — drumroll, please — Aidan Shaw (John Corbett). But, in classic Carrie fashion, she makes a few wrong turns along the way. When Aidan asks her to Valentine’s Day dinner, Carrie, Miranda and Charlotte dissect his email (a la Nora Ephron) for clues as to whether Carrie’s former fiancé is flying solo these days.

long-awaited reunion — drumroll, please — with Aidan Shaw (John Corbett). But, in classic Carrie fashion, she makes a few wrong turns along the way. When Aidan asks her to Valentine’s Day dinner, Carrie, Miranda, and Charlotte dissect his e-mail (à la Nora Ephron) for clues as to whether Carrie’s former fiancé is flying solo these days.

in July. While the list of titles getting deleted from Netflix in July is not as long as usual, it will be hard to let some of these go.

Tom Hanks turned down the lead role in When Harry Met Sally, his wife Rita Wilson has revealed.The Oscar-winning actor was approached to play Harry by writer Nora Ephron but despite appearing in further rom-coms such as You’ve Got Mail and Sleepless In Seattle that she wrote, he snubbed the 1989 movie because he could not relate to the idea of the character being depressed after his divorce.He had recently divorced his first wife Samantha Lewes at the time.“People probably don’t know this, but Tom was offered when Harry Met Sally and he turned it down because he was going through a divorce and he was very happy to be not married,” Wilson said during an appearance on iHeartPodcast’s Table For Two With Bruce Bozzi.She continued, “And so he could not understand that a person going through a divorce would have anything other than just like, ‘I’m so happy’.

Robert Gottlieb, the legendary editor at Simon & Schuster, Alfred A. Knopf and The New Yorker who helped shape the work of many of the world’s greatest writers over the past six decades, has died, according to Knopf and The New Yorker. He was 92.

Tom Hanks turned down “When Harry Met Sally” because he was happily divorced and couldn’t relate.Hanks, 66, and Meg Ryan, 61, almost had a rom-com trio after starring in 1993’s “Sleepless in Seattle” and 1998’s “You’ve Got Mail,” both written and directed by Nora Ephron.But Hank’s wife Rita Wilson, 66, revealed that the “Forrest Gump” star declined the offer to star alongside Ryan in 1989’s “When Harry Met Sally” — also written by Ephron — because he couldn’t relate to the character of Harry Burns being depressed post-divorce.“People, probably don’t know this, but Tom was offered ‘When Harry Met Sally’ and he turned it down because he was going through a divorce and he was very happy to be not married,” Hank’s current wife said on the “Table for Two With Bruce Bozzi” podcast.“And so he could not understand that a person going through a divorce would have anything other than just like, ‘I’m so happy.’ But I loved that script,” Wilson continued.Hanks and his first wife Samantha Lewes got married in 1978 when Hanks was 21 years old and eventually divorced in 1987.

SPOILER ALERT: These interviews contain spoilers from the Season 6 “Black Mirror” episodes “Joan Is Awful,” “Mazey Day” and “Beyond the Sea,” now streaming on Netflix. Back after a four-year hiatus, the long-awaited sixth season of “Black Mirror” opens — fittingly — with “Joan is Awful,” an exploration of the dubious inner workings of a fictional streaming service called Streamberry. Streamberry, which bears more than a passing resemblance to “Black Mirror’s” IRL producing partner Netflix, co-opts users’ lives to create AI-driven, CGI-rendered semi-fictional dramas without its subjects’ consent. Kind of like, say, “Inventing Anna” (which had the consent of the eponymous Anna Delvey, but not her erstwhile BFF Rachel Williams, who sued the streamer for defamation last year) or “The Crown” or “The Tinder Swindler” or “Narcos” or… you get the gist.

Uzo Aduba is expecting her first child!The celebrated actress debuted her burgeoning baby bump while she walked the red carpet at the 2023 Tony Awards at the United Palace Theater in New York City on Sunday.The alum — aptly decked out in a bright orange Christian Siriano suit ensemble — unbuttoned her suit jacket to give fans a better look at her burgeoning bump while she also cradled her stomach as she posed for snapshots and smiled.Aduba, 42, also posed for some sweet, beaming pics with her filmmaker husband, Robert Sweeting.The dad-to-be was all smiles as well, as he looked dapper in a traditional tuxedo that was the perfect complement to his ladylove's glow.Aduba first revealed that she and Sweeting had tied the knot in secret in September 2021, on their 1st anniversary.«When you realize you want to spend the rest of your life with somebody, you want the rest of your life to start as soon as possible,» Aduba captioned a pic from her wedding day, quoting Nora Ephron's iconic line from the Billy Crystal-Meg Ryan rom-com   «For some, it feels like we wait our whole lives for our someone,» she shared.

Alison Herman TV Critic The Apple TV+ comedy “Platonic” is a reunion of the 2014 movie “Neighbors” (and its 2016 sequel “Neighbors 2: Sorority Rising”), again pairing stars Seth Rogen and Rose Byrne with the writer and director Nicholas Stoller. But “Platonic” also models itself after another, more enduring classic: Nora Ephron’s “When Harry Met Sally,” a film explicitly referenced in the pilot of “Platonic” and the greatest work of art drawn from the essentially trite question of whether (straight) men and women can be friends. In “Neighbors,” Rogen and Byrne played spouses. In “Platonic,” they’re long-estranged besties who rekindle their codependent bond. As premises go, it’s a thin one. Ephron’s opus is now 34 years old, and even “When Harry Met Sally” was less seriously engaged with the idea of friendship between the sexes than using the setup as a showcase for Ephron’s wit, Meg Ryan’s charm and Ryan’s chemistry with Billy Crystal. “Men and women don’t really hang out with each other at our age,” says Sylvia (Byrne), a former lawyer who’s now a stay-at-home mother of three. Her argument is half-hearted, unconvincing and immediately dismissed by her husband Charlie (Luke Macfarlane), who encourages Sylvia to get in touch with craft brewer Will (Rogen) in the wake of his divorce. 

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STILL, including fellow '80s icon Meg Ryan.On May 4, the actor made a rare public appearance at the star-studded event, posing for a photo with fellow guests, including Fox, Denis Leary, , Bill Murray, and Joan Jett. Other attendees included , , , and Matthew Broderick. The documentary, which premieres on May 12, unpacks the Back to the Future star's decades-long career as well as his ongoing battle with Parkinson's disease.

When Greg Brockman, the president and co-founder of ChatGPT maker OpenAI, was recently extolling the capabilities of artificial intelligence, he turned to “Game of Thrones.”

Sam Heughan has revealed he watched iconic rom-coms for the first time after thinking they 'weren't for him' in preparation for his new movie.

Straight out of a romantic comedy! Brooke Shields and husband Chris Henchy‘s first meeting sounds like something out of a Nora Ephron screenplay — and their relationship has been thriving ever since.

Francisca Alegria is an award-winning filmmaker who’s short film “And the Whole Sky Fit in the Dead Cow’s Eye” received the award for Best International Fiction Short at Sundance Film Festival. Her debut feature “The Cow Who Sang A Song Into the Future” premiered at Sundance Film Festival in 2022 and was supported by the 2017 Sundance Institute Screenwriters and Directors Lab along with the Catalyst Forum.Rita Baghdadi is an Emmy award-winning documentary filmmaker known for the intimacy of her bold, character-driven films.

Happy Valentine’s Day. I can’t offer you chocolate or flowers or a love note from a Hemsworth brother. But I can offer you a swath of escapist movies to suit or soothe your mood. Take two of these and tweet me in the morning.

Spike Lee will be this year’s recipient of the WGA East’s Ian McLellan Hunter Award for Career Achievement.

Get ready, Swifties, because Taylor Swift is going to become a filmmaker!

Taylor Swift talks about her dreams to make a feature filmAfter her short film directorial debut earlier this year, Swift is taking “baby steps” towards making a feature film.Watch: Taylor Swift's MidnightsI think that it has fluctuated over time. I’ve always really loved certain films during certain phases I was in musically. I made an album called 1989 and I would watch John Hughes’ movies.

Julie Powell, a chef and blogger whose year-long project to cook each recipe of Julia Child’s groundbreaking cookbook Mastering the Art of French Cooking became a best-selling memoir that was adapted by Nora Ephron into the hit 2009 film Julie & Julia, died of cardiac arrest Oct. 26 at her home in Upstate New York. She was 49.

Julie Powell, the food writer known for her Julia Child recipe blog, has died. She was 49.

Jason Sudeikis‘ exes have something in common — their reading habits!

The salad dressing scandal continues. Jason Sudeikis’ ex Keeley Hazell shared the same recipe excerpt as his ex-fiancee, Olivia Wilde, did just one day prior — only with her own annotations that seemingly threw shade at the Don’t Worry Darling director.

Olivia Wilde has shared her salad dressing recipe in response to her former nanny's bombshell interview. In an interview with the Daily Mail earlier this week, the former nanny claimed that the actress/director had started dating her Don't Worry Darling leading man Harry Styles before breaking up with her fiancé, Ted Lasso star Jason Sudeikis. The nanny also claimed that the actor was "brokenhearted" upon discovering Olivia making a salad for Harry.