Michaela Zee Marcia de Rousse, who played Dr. Ludwig on the HBO original series “True Blood,” died in Altadena, Calif., on Saturday from a long illness, her agency told Variety. She was 70.
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Fresh off its world premiere at the Berlinale earlier this year, Rebecca Miller‘s “She Came To Me” arrives in theaters next month. And for Miller’s first narrative feature in eight years she crafts a tale about every artist’s worst nightmare: a creative block, and the unlikely sources one needs to disentangle from it.
READ MORE: The 100 Most Anticipated Films Of 2023 “She Came To Me” stars Peter Dinklage as opera composer Steven Lauddem, who suffers the first major writer’s block of his career just weeks before the deadline of his latest commission, a big comeback opera. Continue reading ‘She Came To Me’ Trailer: Peter Dinklage, Anna Hathaway & Marisa Tomei Star In Rebecca Miller’s Film On September 29 at The Playlist.
.Michaela Zee Marcia de Rousse, who played Dr. Ludwig on the HBO original series “True Blood,” died in Altadena, Calif., on Saturday from a long illness, her agency told Variety. She was 70.
No Crying in Baseball: The Inside Story of ‘A League of Their Own’: Big Stars, Dugout Drama, and a Home Run for Hollywood,” by Erin Carlson, out now (Hachette Books). And Davis wasn’t even the second choice for the now-classic movie, which tells the story of the All-American Girls Professional Baseball League, a real-life professional women’s baseball league that existed during World War II.Seemingly every young actress in Hollywood wanted to be part of the movie, including Sean Young — who showed up to auditions in an “antique Yankees uniform.” Courteney Cox, Cindy Crawford, Sarah Jessica Parker, Tatum O’Neal, Brooke Shields, Marisa Tomei, Kyra Sedgwick, Robin Wright and even Marla Maples all vied for roles. Farrah Fawcett also wanted in, despite being in her 40s by then.“When you see a movie in which all the leads are women and all the men are supporting parts, you want to be in it,” said Lori Petty, chosen to be Dottie’s kid sister, Kit.
Brent Lang Executive Editor Vertical is shifting the theatrical release of Rebecca Miller’s romantic comedy “She Came To” by a week. The film, which stars Peter Dinklage, Anne Hathaway and Marisa Tomei, will open on Oct. 6 instead of Sept.
Anne Hathaway has no fashion regrets.
Marisa Tomei is well known for her long hair, but in the mid-1990s, she reignited the pixie cut trend.
Zack Sharf Digital News Director The upcoming “Hunger Games” prequel movie “The Ballad of Songbirds & Snakes” may not feature Jennifer Lawrence as Katniss Everdeen, but it does feature her longtime franchise director Francis Lawrence behind the camera. Francis Lawrences directed every “Hunger Games” sequel and is back for the Lionsgate prequel, which features “West Side Story” breakout Rachel Zegler in the lead role of Lucy Gray Baird, a tribute from District 12 who is mentored by a young Snow (Tom Blyth) for the 10th annual Hunger Games. “Katniss was an introvert and a survivor,” Lawrence told Empire magazine about the big difference between Katniss and Lucy.
Anne Hathaway is opening up about her evolving sense of style.
As Daisy Ridley waits to reprise her role as Rey in the “Star Wars” universe, she’s broadened her horizons with work like “Sometimes I Think About Dying.” For her next feature, she stars opposite Ben Mendelsohn for the tense survivalist thriller, “The Marsh King’s Daughter.” In Neil Burger‘s latest, Ridley play a woman with a secret past who ventures into the wilderness she left behind to confront the most dangerous man she’s ever met: her father (Mendelsohn).
The first trailer for the upcoming movie She Came to Me has been released ahead of the film’s theatrical release next month.
Neon has expanded their marketing ranks by tapping A24 vets Alexandra Altschuler as VP Media and Don Wilcox as VP Marketing.
Elsa Keslassy International Correspondent Deauville American Film Festival will forge ahead with its honorary tributes to stars such as Natalie Portman, Jude Law, Peter Dinklage and Joseph Gordon-Levitt despite the fact that they won’t be in attendance due to the SAG-AFTRA strike. The festival’s artistic director, Bruno Barde, told Variety ahead of the event’s press conference on Thursday that he empathized with actors and writers who are on strike to “protect themselves against the dangers of artificial intelligence.” “AI has always existed in cinema and it’s now posing a threat to screenwriters, set designers, dubbers and, of course, to actors whom we’re using the image of.
Coleen Rooney has finally spoken out about her 'Wgatha Christine' scandal, including telling how she came up with her now-famous social media post. The 37-year-old left social media in a frenzy back in 2019 when she accused Rebekah Vardy of leaking information about her private life to The Sun.
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Oppenheimer marked the sixth time Cillian Murphy starred in a film directed by Christopher Nolan following The Dark Knight trilogy, Inception and Dunkirk.
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Zack Sharf Digital News Director Cillian Murphy’s decades-long collaboration with Christopher Nolan hit a new peak with “Oppenheimer,” his first leading role in a Nolan feature that has garnered him the best reviews of his career and Oscar buzz for best actor. “Oppenheimer” follows Murphy’s supporting turns in three Batman films, “Inception” and “Interstellar.” Recently asked by The Independent if there were any Christopher Nolan movies not featuring Cillian Murphy that he wished he could’ve starred in, Murphy selected the director’s 2014 space epic “Interstellar.” “I adore ‘Interstellar’ just because I find it so emotional,” Murphy said. “I remember seeing it in the cinema when I had little kids.
Fantastic Fest is back for its 18th edition featuring 29 world premieres, 24 North American premieres and 18 U.S. premieres. The festival will again possess Alamo Drafthouse South Lamar in Austin, TX from September 21-28. Badges are available now.
Gene Maddaus Senior Media Writer SAG-AFTRA announced Monday that it will no longer grant interim agreements to independent projects that were written under a Writers Guild of America contract. The union has already given permission for 207 independent projects to continue to film during the strike, including ones with stars like Jason Bateman, Anne Hathaway and Matthew McConaughey. SAG-AFTRA argued that the agreements supported the strike because they involved independent producers who agreed to all of the union’s demands.
“We all have our stories; they aren’t there to pull us down, they’re there to push us forward.” Often, we push forward by reflecting on our own lives, taking in the world around us, and attempting to understand the human condition. It is clear that Paul Middleditch is an artist that does just that; as the director from New South Wales, Australia, pulls from his youth in his new film “Uproar.” READ MORE: TIFF 2023: Lulu Wang’s ‘Expats,’ Shawn Levy’s ‘All The Light’ & More Lead Primetime Programme Set in New Zealand in the early 1980s, the film follows Josh Waaka, a 17-year-old who is trying to discover who he is.
THIS EPISODE WAS RECORDED PRIOR TO THE ACTORS’ STRIKE.