Wayne Shorter dead: Grammy-winning jazz legend was 89

Chrissy Teigen and John Legend are one of Hollywood's best-loved couples. The pair are proud parents to Luna, six, Miles, four, and two-month-old, Esti, and fans often praise their sweet interactions on social media and brand them 'couple goals.' In fact, EGOT-winning artist John, 44, proved how down-to-earth he and Chrissy are as parents when he appeared on The Jennifer Hudson Show last month.

Peter Werner, an Oscar-winning director known for his work behind the camera on such TV series as “Moonlighting,” “A Different World” and “Law & Order: SVU,” has died at age 76.His brother Tom Werner, co-founder of The Carsey-Werner Company, said via an email to The Hollywood Reporter that Peter died Tuesday morning in Wilmington, North Carolina, of a torn aorta. Born in New York on Jan.

Legendary basketball player Willis Reed has sadly passed away at the ago of 80.

A total power couple! Kieran Culkin and wife Jazz Charton made a rare red carpet appearance together at the season 4 premiere of Succession.

Watching Jesus Revolution surge past $45 million in ticket sales for Lionsgate—matching or besting The Fabelmans, The Banshees Of Inisherin, Tár, Women Talking and Triangle Of Sadness, combined—it finally seems safe to say it. The faith-based audience is back.

John Hopewell Chief International Correspondent With an International Panorama spangled by gems  – think Spain’s “Apagón,” Sweden’s “Blackwater,” and Canada’s “Disobey” and “Little Bird” – Series Mania also weighs in this year with one, if not the, strongest and most mouthwatering of international competitions in its history.  Including the opening and closing series, Amazon’s “Greek Salad” and Netflix’s “Transatlantic,” nearly all the global streamers have titles in the lineup, from Apple TV+’s “Drops of God” and Paramount+’s “Fleeting Lies.” The lineup also features some A-List international writing talents, such as the U.K.’s Jack Thorne and Israel’s Ron Leshem and Amit Cohen, whose “The Virtues” and “No Man’s Land” rank among the most memorable of recent Series Mania competition titles, and closing the festival, out of competition, “Unorthodox’s” Anna Wenger.”Fleeting Lies” also represents one of the first series from Pedro and Agustín Almodóvar’s El Deseo label in Madrid, opening series “Greek Salad” Cedric Klapisch’s first works a TV series creator.

Lance Reddick, best known for his work on The Wire and the John Wick movie franchise, has died. He was 60.

Chrissy Teigen and John Legend's eldest daughter, Luna Stephens, has charmed the world with her latest display of responsibility and maturity. The proud mom shared how their six-year-old daughter has stepped up to look after her younger siblings while they were out of the house.  Chrissy and John left their children in the capable hands of their daughter LunaPosting the adorable moment on Instagram on Wednesday, Chrissy captioned the pictures: "Told Luna to look after the house while I was gone and she did really well."WATCH: John Legend revealed how his and Chrissy Teigen's children really feel about their baby sister Esti The first image shows Luna cradling her baby sister Esti Maxine, while the second picture shows her walking younger brother, Miles, four, in the rain making sure he is using his umbrella correctly.  Luna cradling her baby sister Esti The next set of pictures sees Luna baking cupcakes with Miles and later proudly displaying the finished product to the camera.The post delighted fans with many singing Luna’s praises.

Didi Conn was sent a sweet gift by her 'Grease' co-star Dame Olivia Newton-John just weeks before her death. The 71-year-old actress - who played Frenchy in the 1978 movie-musical - has revealed the pair kept in touch over the years and they had a poignant chat when Olivia was being treated for a broken leg in hospital shortly before she lost her battle with cancer. Didi explained the kindly star even sent her an orchid from her hospital bed after hearing she also hadn't been well, telling New York Post column PageSix: "We spoke like once a month or so.

Mark Schilling Japan Correspondent Japanese author Oe Kenzaburo, the winner of the 1994 Nobel Prize in Literature, has died at age 88. His date of death, ascribed to old age, was March 3. A total of six films have been made from Oe’s work, most recently the 2001 “Gibier d’élevage,” a reworking of “The Catch” by Cambodian director Rithy Panh. Born in 1935 in Ehime Prefecture on the island of Shikoku, Oe began writing while still a student of French literature at the University of Tokyo. Not long after graduating in 1957, he published “The Catch,” a novella about a Black American airman who finds himself captured by rural Japanese villagers in the waning days of the war. It won the prestigious Akutagawa Prize and was made into a 1961 film by Japanese Nouvelle Vague auteur Oshima Nagisa.

Halle Berry and Jessica Chastain are doing double duty at the 2023 Oscars!On Sunday, ET's Nischelle Turner and Kevin Frazier spoke to the pair on the red carpet at the 95th Academy Awards, where Chastain revealed that they are presenting the Oscars for both Best Actor and Best Actress  -- the latter of which would've been Will Smith's job had the now infamous Oscars slap not occurred. «I've been so excited since they told me we were gonna present together,» Chastain gushed before revealing which category she and Berry would be presenting. «Best Actor and Actress,» she continued. «I'm a little nervous, because I'm not as graceful as she is. And the whole thing -- we have to walk by ourselves.

Jessica Chastain has opening on Broadway in her second show!

Searchlight Pictures has set a July 14th release date for the ensemble musical comedy Theater Camp, which it acquired out of the 2023 Sundance Film Festival for around $8M with a theatrical guarantee.

EXCLUSIVE: We hear that Apple has won a multiple studio bidding war for Cin Fabré’s novel Wolf Hustle about a young Black woman’s ascent in the male dominated Wall Street. Till filmmaker Chinonye Chukwu is adapting as a feature, directing and producing under her Where’s the Fire banner alongside Entertainment 360.

Naman Ramachandran Janchivdorj Sengedorj’s “The Sales Girl” (Mongolia), Asif Rustamov’s “Cold As Marble” (Azerbaijan), Ken Kwek’s “#LookAtMe” (Singapore) and Nader Saeivar’s “No End” (Iran) were among the winners at the  Vesoul International Film Festival of Asian Cinema on Tuesday. “The Sales Girl,” which played at Busan and won awards at the New York and Osaka Asian film festivals, won the Golden Cyclo, the festival’s top honor awarded by the international jury. “Cold as Marble,” which has played at Talinn Black Nights and the Goa festivals, took home three awards, including the grand jury prize and the Marc Haaz and Netpac jury prizes.

Clayton Davis Senior Awards Editor Will Cate Blanchett fulfill the awards prophecy of winning an Academy Award every nine years? The two-time Academy Award winner of “The Aviator” (2004) and “Blue Jasmine” (2003) is a favorite to possibly win her third for Todd Field’s psychological drama “Tár,” in which she plays a lesbian conductor who begins to lose her grip on power and reality. On this week’s episode of the Variety Awards Circuit Podcast, we sit down with Blanchett to discuss her work stunning transformation into Lydia Tár. In addition, she talks about working with co-star Nina Hoss and more. Listen below: From Focus Features, “Tár” is set to a rhythmic beat of classical orchestration, marking writer and director Todd Field’s return to the director’s chair, 16 years after “Little Children” (2006) and 21 years after his debut “In the Bedroom” (2001).

pic.twitter.com/MRVfXhaz8TShorter released several solo albums, efforts that allowed him to fuse jazz with other music like Latin, Rock ‘n’ Roll, funk and R&B. It was these explorations that led to the creation of perhaps his most well-known group, Weather Report.Weather Report’s album Heavy Weather went platinum in 1977, making a rare appearance (for a jazz record) on U.S.

his 13th GRAMMY. He was 89.In a statement released by Shorter's reps, the musician died on Thursday in Los Angeles surrounded by his loving family.The last few years of Shorter's life were filled with creativity, including the realization of his opera, , written in collaboration with Esperanza Spalding, which played to widespread critical acclaim across the country in 2020, and the 2018 release of his GRAMMY-winning triple album and graphic novel, .Born in 1933 in Newark, New Jersey, Shorter had a career that spanned six decades.

Wayne Shorter, the saxophonist and composer who was a major figure in the development of modern jazz, died Thursday at a Los Angeles hospital. He was 89.

Elsa Keslassy International Correspondent Music Box is unveiling the trailer for “Revoir Paris,” a French drama boasting a Cesar-winning performance by Virginie Efira. The movie, which bowed at Cannes’ Directors Fortnight and played at Toronto, will have its New York premiere on June 23 at Film at Lincoln Center and IFC Film Center. A meditation on healing, the film tells the story of Mia (Efira), a married translator who survived a mass shooting in a Paris restaurant, and feels haunted by the trauma, yet unable to recollect memories of the tragic attack. Determined to reconstruct the sequence of events and reestablish a sense of normalcy, Mia finds herself repeatedly returning to the bistro where the shooting happened. In the process she forms bonds with fellow survivors, including banker Thomas (Benoît Magimel) and teenager Félicia (Nastya Golubeva). Efira, who just won a Cesar Award for her role in the film, stars opposite Magimel, the Cesar-winning actor of “Pacifiction,” as well as Grégoire Colin (“Both Sides of the Blade”) and Golubeva (“Annette”).