Stephanie Phillips Named Focus Features EVP Of Publicity; Dani Weinstein Exiting Studio

Blake Lively shocked Ben Affleck while the pair was filming the 2010 movie . The film, which was directed by Affleck, took place in the Oscar winner's hometown of Boston, Massachusetts. During a Tuesday interview on, Affleck recalled taking co-star Lively around his old stomping grounds, and noted that the alum had a very surprising reaction. "I took Blake Lively, who was terrific in, and she was really eager to learn from the people and wanted to go around and do research," he recalled.

Sweet Valley. The project is led by producers Josh Schwartz and Stephanie Savage, who are also behind The O.C., Gossip Girl, and . Schwartz and Savage aren’t the only faces from the Gossip Girl reboot joining Sweet Valley. The adaptation will be written by Ashley Wigfield, who also serves as a writer-producer on HBO Max’s reboot.

Joe Otterson TV ReporterBrooke Bowman has been promoted to executive vice president of drama development and programming at Fox Entertainment.She succeeds Charlie Andrews in the role, with Andrews exiting the company. The parting with Andrews is said to be on good terms, with his contract simply coming to an end.Bowman was previously senior vice president in the Fox drama department.

Sentate candidate Dr. Mehmet Oz for his recent comments suggesting Dr.

Dr. Mehmet Oz is making a big career change.

Celebrities went all out this holiday season with their outdoor Christmas lights displays. Jeff Bezos, Kim Kardashian, Jamie Foxx, Kourtney Kardashian and others decorated their oversized California homes with tons of bright lights.

Academy Awards favorites and provide a boost to newly released or upcoming movies. Also making the AFI top 10 were: Sian Heder's “CODA,” Denis Villeneuve's “Dune,” Reinaldo Marcus Greene’s “King Richard,” Paul Thomas Anderson's “Licorice Pizza,” Guillermo del Toro's “Nightmare Alley,” Lin-Manuel Miranda's “tick, tick...

Rose McGowan’s lawsuit against Harvey Weinstein has been dismissed by a judge in California.  According to court documents viewed by Fox News Digital, Judge Otis D. Wright in the central district of California dismissed McGowan’s case with prejudice on Dec.

Nick Vivarelli International CorrespondentSaudi Arabian stand up comedian, actor, writer and producer Hisham Fageeh in 2013 posted a satirical video on YouTube titled “No Woman, No Drive” that became the country’s most popular YouTube video and probably helped the movement to strike down Saudi’s ban on female motorists in late 2017.

Jordan Moreau Jay Jay Phillips, a heavy metal musician who appeared on the reality competition show “America’s Got Talent,” has died, his band announced. He was 30.Phillips’ band, Mettal Maffia, made the announcement on Tuesday that the keyboard player had died.

Brent Faiyaz is laying out the less-sunny side of what a relationship with him is really like on "MERCEDES," the Maryland artist's latest single. In the brooding, gently psychedelic song produced by Faiyaz and his Sonder collaborator Atu, Faiyaz describes how the fancy baubles like the song's titular car can't conceal the lonely nights and paranoia over being used that come with being an R&B superstar.

UPDATED: Dr. Anthony Fauci confirmed today that the first case of the Omicron variant of Covid-19 had been identified in the U.S. The presidential advisor said the case was identified in California and the patient had recently arrived via airplane from South Africa. Fauci said that the person had been vaccinated and their symptoms were mild. It was unclear whether the person had taken a booster shot or not.

J. Kim Murphy administratorJimmy Kimmel offered an impassioned defense of Dr.

Matt Donnelly Senior Film WriterLongtime Warner Bros. Pictures PR executive Stephanie Phillips is headed to Focus Features.Phillips has been named executive vice president of publicity at the Universal-owned speciality label.

disgraced movie mogul Harvey Weinstein — used the image on “untold thousands of consumer products.”Zaheda claimed that violated a contract that limited use to promoting the film at the time of its release in 1994.Zahedi — who was paid $10,000 to take the photo of Thurman depicting character Mia Wallace — was once gifted an action figure of Wallace in 2015 that had packaging with his picture on it and was given a pair of socks with his photo on them in 2019 — eventually prompting him to file

It’s been quite a while since Todd Field has released a new film. Fifteen years, actually.