Saudi Arabia Audiences Grow as Local Comedies Succeed

Dirty Dancing actress Jennifer Grey has spoken about the “bar fights” troublesome ex fiancé Johnny Depp got into back when they were a couple in her new book. Johnny, 58, is currently in the middle of a defamation lawsuit against ex wife Amber Heard, 36, after he sued her for $50 million following her claims he abused her in a Washington Post op-ed, to which she has countersued for $100 million.

Ben Affleck and Jennifer Lopez were not at the Met Gala last night and it looks like they stayed on the west coast instead.

Jennifer Grey is set to have the time of her life once more in the sequel to 1987’s “Dirty Dancing.”Lionsgate held a presentation at Cinemacon in Las Vegas yesterday where they announced the new flick alongside old clips from the romance drama.“Jennifer Grey returns to Kellerman’s in the next chapter,” a voiceover said. Kellerman’s was the Catskills resort where Grey’s character Frances “Baby” Houseman and her family vacationed when she met and ultimately fell in love with dancing and Patrick Swayze’s Johnny Castle.

Nobody can keep Baby in the corner.

Nick Vivarelli International CorrespondentLast December, during the inaugural Red Sea Film Festival in Jeddah, Saudi Arabia, Vox Cinemas announced plans to produce 25 Arabic movies with budgets under $10 million over the next five years.Variety spoke to Ignace Lahoud, CEO of Majid Al Futtaim Leisure, Entertainment and Cinemas, which owns Vox, about how this aligns with the company’s wider commitment to boost the region’s burgeoning film industry while also making Vox less dependent on Hollywood. The following has been edited for length.What is a big takeaway from the Saudi market so far?Interestingly, what we are seeing is that some of the big Hollywood blockbusters in recent months maybe did not perform up to expectation for a country like Saudi.

If you’re a fervent fan of Jodi Kantor and Megan Twohey’s book, She Said, about their New York Times investigation into Harvey Weinstein’s history of alleged sexual assault, get ready for the movie.

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Madonna‘s ‘Express Yourself’.Grey and Broderick started dating in 1986 after meeting on the set of Ferris Bueller’s Day Off. Grey then bagged the role of Baby in Dirty Dancing, catapulting her to new heights of stardom in Hollywood.

Ellen Pompeo finally has something to say about her former co-star Katherine Heigl‘s infamous call out about the working conditions on set of Grey’s Anatomy. 

Kelly Rizzo has moved out of the home she shared with her late husband, Bob Saget. In an Instagram Q & A Wednesday, Rizzo, 42, confirmed she has moved and gave an update on how she’s been since Saget’s unexpected death Jan. 9.  "So, yes, I moved — you figured it out," Rizzo said in an Instagram video after reports surfaced that she was selling her Brentwood home.  Bob Saget's widow Kelly Rizzo revealed she moved out of the house she shared with her late husband three months after his death.

Jennifer Grey skyrocketed to fame after starring alongside Patrick Swayze in 1987’s "Dirty Dancing" – but after two nose jobs, she was shunned by Hollywood. The actress revisited her rhinoplasty, which left her unrecognizable to some, in her upcoming memoir "Out of the Corner," which hits bookshelves on May 3. "I spent so much energy trying to figure out what I did wrong, why I was banished from the kingdom," the actress told People magazine on Monday.

Patrick Carlin, a comedy writer and performer who was a major influence on his younger brother George Carlin, died April 16 at Kaiser Permanente hospital in Hollywood. He was 90.Carlin’s death was confirmed by Kelly Carlin, his niece and daughter of George Carlin.