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Angelina Jolie is set to star in a biopic about Maria Callas, the renowned and influential opera singer for director Pablo Larraín.The script currently titled “Maria,” was written by Steven Knight (“Spencer,” “Peaky Blinders,” “Eastern Promises”).The biopic, based on true accounts, will tell the tumultuous, beautiful and tragic story of the world’s greatest opera singer, relived and reimagined during her final days in 1970s Paris.“I take very seriously the responsibility to Maria’s life and legacy. I will give all I can to meet the challenge,” Jolie said in a statement.

Sarah-Sofie Boussnina (The Colony), Shalom Brune-Franklin (The Tourist), Faoileann Cunningham (The Northman), Aoife Hinds (Normal People) and Chloe Lea (Foundation) have joined the cast of HBO Max’s Dune: The Sisterhood (wt), from Legendary Television. They join previously announced leads Emily Watson, Shirley Henderson and Indira Varma.

Sure, Warner Bros. Discovery is cleaning house and canceling a number of TV shows and streaming films coming to HBO Max.

Lea Michele has a new hairstyle!

Elsa Keslassy International Correspondent Sydney Gallonde, the French producer of Make It Happen Studio, is set to re-team with MGM TV Intl. Productions on a biopic of Eugene Bullard, one of the first Black American military pilots who was also a boxer and a jazz musician. Gallonde has acquired the book rights to Claude Ribbe’s biography of Bullard, which shed light on the man’s heroic life and drew headlines on French media across the country when it was published in 2012. Like many Black American entertainers such as Josephine Baker, Bullard left America for Europe and France in 1914 to escape racial segregation, lynchings and prejudice. The young and adventurous man, who was born in Georgia, eventually settled in Paris looking for a better life and worked at a music hall. When WWI erupted, Bullard enlisted in France’s Foreign Legion along with other foreign volunteers, becoming one of the few Black combat pilots during the war. He then volunteered for the French Air Service and later became a flight fighter for the French Army. 

The Weeknd is joining the likes of Michael Myers and Dracula at Halloween Horror Nights, where «Blinding Lights,» «Heartless» and other chart-toppers drown out the screams from park guests in . To get all the behind-the-scenes details, ET spoke with John Murdy, executive producer of HHN at Universal Studios Hollywood, who worked closely with The Weeknd, whose real name is Abel Tesfaye, to create a “surreal living nightmare filled with grotesque characters and themes” inspired by his music and short films. “Abel had a very specific idea. He wanted to focus on what he would refer to as ‘the universe of ,’” Murdy explains.

Nick Vivarelli International Correspondent On a cobblestone-paved square in the ancient town of Tivoli, north-east of Rome, in late September, a large crew is prepping to shoot a key scene in Italian period drama “La Storia,” which will be pubcaster RAI’s biggest event show next year. Based on a bestselling novel by the late great Elsa Morante – whom “My Brilliant Friend” author Elena Ferrante often cites as her primary literary reference – “La Storia” is set during the final years of World War II and its immediate aftermath in Italy. The eight-episode series, being unveiled by Beta Film to buyers at Rome’s MIA content market, stars Italian A-list actor Jasmine Trinca – who earlier this year was a member of the Cannes jury – as Ida, a single mother of two sons, who hides her Jewish heritage and fights against poverty and persecution.

EXCLUSIVE: Michael Beach (Dahmer: Monster), Joshua Colley (Senior Year) and Lindsey Gort (All Rise) have joined the cast of Dead Boy Detectives, HBO Max’s upcoming drama series based on the DC Comics characters created by Neil Gaiman, in key recurring roles. The series hails from The Flight Attendant’s Steve Yockey, Doom Patrol’s Jeremy Carver, Berlanti Productions, and Warner Bros. Television. Beach, Colley and Gort join series stars George Rexstrew, Jayden Revri and Kassius Nelson.

Did you know that Justin Timberlake is a longtime friend of Hallmark star Nikki DeLoach?

Jared Leto announced Wednesday his plans to star in and produce a biopic charting the life and career of legendary fashion designer Karl Lagerfeld. Better yet, the project has backing from the late Chanel icon’s fashion house via “trusted confidants” Pier Paolo Righi, Caroline Lebar, and Sébastien Jondeau, who will partner as Executive Producers of the film.

EXCLUSIVE: In a highly competitive situation, Imagine Kids+Family has landed the filmed content rights to Ali Standish’s upcoming multi-book series The Improbable Tales of Baskerville Hall, which tracks the imagined origins story of Sir Arthur Conan Doyle’s fictional characters, for development as a TV series that builds an integrated Arthur Conan Doyle universe spanning all his works.

Jared Leto is set to star in film about the acclaimed fashion designer Karl Lagerfeld with Leto co-producing with Lagerfeld’s House of Karl Lagerfeld. Leto will produce alongside his partner, Emma Ludbrook, through their production company Paradox.

Blonde, the Marilyn Monroe biopic, premiered on Netflix and it took the second spot on the charts. The Ana de Armas-starring movie got an 11-minute standing ovation when it was screened at the Venice Film Festival.

EXCLUSIVE: Jennifer Hillier’s novel Little Secrets is being adapted for the small screen.

Blonde, taking to TikTok to call out the film for adding to society's obsession with "fetishising female pain".Watch Below: Emily Ratajkowski on Marilyn Monroe biopicDirected by Andrew Dominik, Blonde has been hit with an onslaught of backlash over its depiction of Monroe's life, glorifying the exploitation of the movie star—and all women—in Hollywood and in her personal life.Ratajkowski stands with those slamming the film, heading to her TikTok to share the many other women in Hollywood who have had their struggles and pain glamorised and glorified."So I’ve been hearing a lot about this Marilyn Monroe movie, Blonde, which I haven’t seen yet, but I'm not surprised to hear it’s yet another movie fetishising female pain, even in death.""We love to fetishise female pain.""We love to fetishise female pain. Look at Amy Winehouse.

Addressing her criticism. Emily Ratajkowski did not hold back about the Marilyn Monroe biopic Blonde — even though she didn’t have a chance to see the project for herself yet.