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That Time Gal Gadot Faced Controversy Over Her Casting as Cleopatra—Here’s How She Responded to the Backlash! ( Photo Credit – Instagram )

Gal Gadot‘s casting as Cleopatra sparked controversies on race and representation in Hollywood. Her 2020 announcement resulted in excitement and echoed criticism from past portrayals, notably Elizabeth Taylor’s in the 1963 Cleopatra—while Netflix’s Queen Cleopatra faced backlash over its casting choices.

The anticipation surrounding Gadot’s Cleopatra was palpable. Teaming up with filmmaker Patty Jenkins and screenwriter Laeta Kalogridis, she wanted to tell Cleopatra’s story from a woman’s perspective. The project saw delays, but Gadot remained optimistic. She told Flaunt, “It’s a big task. I don’t want to [rush] making it— it needs…so much thought and care because it’s Cleopatra.” Her commitment to portraying the queen with the depth she deserved was evident.

However, the project was in development limbo, losing...

The Savoy Hotel is a five-star hotel located in London. This hotel is committed to crafting a uniquely British experience, as evidenced by the food offered and the style of architecture. Upon visiting their website, you can tell the uniqueness of their identity means alot to them: in an attempt to flesh this out, they have an entire tab dedicated to “Savoy Experiences.” While there are many things to gush about that carve out a distinct sense of self for this hotel, perhaps the most notorious and distinct thing of all is that it was the Queen’s favorite hotel. Artists and famous elites alike have also enjoyed spending time here. As one would guess, this garnered it another nickname amongst the British people: London’s most famous hotel.

That fact alone should be enough to tantalize someone into booking a stay at the Savoy, but I’ll continue to provide some more facts anyway.

Exclusive: Fremantle has taken global rights on the BBC’s Roger Moore feature doc.

My Life as Roger Moore gives an exclusive behind-the-scenes look at the charismatic Bond star and will air on the BBC later this year. It takes viewers back to a golden age of cinema, tracing Moore’s unlikely rise from a young knitwear model to an era-defining icon, while showing how Moore refined his persona as a debonair, seasoned man-about-town, and finally won his breakthrough role as Bond. Beyond Bond, the documentary explores Moore’s life as an A-List star, friends with the Sinatra family, as well as Tony Curtis, Elizabeth Taylor and countless other Hollywood legends. Fremantle is also selling a BBC doc about Hollywood leading lady Taylor at MIPCOM this week, which is produced by Kim Kardashian.

Behind-the-scenes shows about actors have been performing well recently, with Still: A Michael J. Fox Movie and...

In 2002, Aaliyah played Akasha, the first vampire, in the film Queen of the Damned. Critics generally disliked the film, but she spoke about her excitement to take on the role, describing it as a “dream” part. It provided a chance to establish herself as an actor and, she said, she loved vampires. She explained why she sometimes felt like the creatures in her real life.

Aaliyah said she sometimes felt like a vampire

While Aaliyah was a major star, she didn’t want to sacrifice any of her privacy. She said she had even been this way before fame.

“I’ve always been mysterious,” Aaliyah told Vibe Magazine in 2001. “My mother and father always used to ask me, ‘What are you thinking, what’s going on?’ There are times when I don’t understand myself, you know what I mean?”

Her desire for privacy began to make her feel like a vampire.

Peter Yates' "Bullitt" is one of the most stylish cop flicks ever made. Those multi-screen opening credits designed by the great Pablo Ferro, that jazzily urbane Lalo Schifren score, those wildly cool outfits donned by Steve McQueen at the height of his laconic sexiness (some inspired by the suits sported by real life detective Dave Toschi) –- it's a stone groove punctuated by spasms of violence and, of course, a raucous car chase through the hilly streets of San Francisco. It's so ineffably pleasurable, you don't mind that the narrative is a sketchily plotted afterthought. Who needs an intricately structured story when you're watching, as Quentin Tarantino wrote in his book "Cinema Speculation," "one of the best directed movies ever made?"

You throw on "Bullitt" for the 1968-ness of it all (it's the apolitical flip-side of the coin to Haskell Wexler's roiling docudrama "Medium Cool"), as well as the...

Those who were driving through the intersection of Highland and Fountain in Los Angeles in the early 2000s got to know Tommy Wiseau very, very well. It was at that intersection that Wiseau chose to buy a billboard for his then-new film "The Room," and it featured a rather unflattering closeup of the man, staring directly into the camera, one of his eyes half-closed. The billboard stayed up for five straight years, costing Wiseau $5,000 a month.

It worked, though. Enough Angelenos drove past the billboard to become curious about "The Room" and seek out a screening at the Sunset 5 theater nearby. Those who saw it in those early days were utterly baffled. "The Room" is an intense infidelity drama about an all-around good guy named Johnny (Wiseau) whose fiancée Lisa (Juliette Danielle) instigates an affair with Johnny's best friend Mark (Greg Sestero). The film, however, is so weirdly scripted and...

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Al Pacino’s career has been one of legend, with the Oscar, Emmy and Tony winner widely considered to be one of the greatest actors of all time. But in his new memoir, “Sonny Boy,” Pacino admits that while he found success in Hollywood, he was paying the price with his personal life, writing openly about his battles with drugs and alcoholism, his troubled relationships, and his mother’s mental health.

Jennifer Lopez has no problem finding relationships, but as her marriages have shown, it’s maintaining relationships that seem to be the challenge. A renowned celebrity matchmaker took a closer look at Lopez’s dating history to try to find the cause of her break ups.

Celebrity matchmaker explores Jennifer Lopez’s dating history Jennifer Lopez | Lionel Hahn/WireImage

Lopez’s dating history has been well documented in the spotlight. Of the men she’s dated in her life, the singer has married four of them. Her shortest marriage was with former waiter Ojani Noa, who she wedded from 1997 to 1998. Her longest was with Marc Anthony, who she was with between 2004 to 2014. Even Lopez once commented on this cycle of falling in love only to end up heartbroken again, which she chalked up to her own mistakes.

“Everybody has seen that I make mistakes. I rush in, I get swept...

“More effort than it’s worth” possibly represents the harshest 5 words that can be strung together in the English language. For a film, that statement guarantees an immediate death sentence. In the case of Antonio Banderas’ The 13th Warrior, it spelled the extinction of an entire genre: the Muslim hero archetype.

Antonio Banderas (as Ahmad ibn Fadlan) and Vladimir Kulich (as Beowulf) in The 13th Warrior [Credit: Touchstone Pictures, Walt Disney Studios Motion Pictures]

In the film’s critical and commercial failure, Antonia Banderas finds a sense of comfort and familiarity with his daughter Dakota Johnson whose 2024 film, Madame Web went through somewhat of a similar treatment. Both films represent a central character destined for a greater purpose who is uprooted from their established life and thrown into a mission against a foreign enemy.

The similarity between the two films is more than skin-deep. Both films also burned millions of dollars...

Although the title suggests it, Lonely Planet is not some outer-space sci-fi adventure, not even remotely. Perhaps it could have been called something more evocative of its tried and true genre, but writer/director Susannah Grant (Erin Brockovich) has crafted a somewhat standard and certainly familiar romantic drama about two people facing up to new self-revelations as they meet, talk, and finally hook up at a writers retreat in beautiful and remote Morocco. This kind of thing hinges completely on aligning with its stars, and with Laura Dern and Liam Hemsworth passing the chemistry test with flying colors, Grant gets an ‘A’ for casting and placing them in an irresistible location that doubles as travelogue. What more do we need?

This is the kind of grown-up romdram Hollywood used to regularly serve up for adults and Grant isn’t reinventing the wheel here. There is oddly some comfort in the...

An icon of British film beloved by all who worked with her, Dame Maggie Smith sadly passed away last month. For generations, she was a force to be reckoned with playing an incredible array of roles over her long career on stage and screen. With two Academy Awards, five BAFTAs, four Emmys, three Golden Globes, a Tony, and countless nominations, she was loved by both audiences and critics around the world. Enter Our Heroine, Stage Right Maggie Smith was born in Essex to Margaret Hutton and Nathaniel Smith. As many do, Smith started on stage in 1952. At just 17, she made her debut with the Oxford University Dramatic Society playing Viola in a production of Shakespeare’s ‘Twelfth Night’ at the Oxford Playhouse. She played in many productions with Oxford University, including ‘Cinderella’ (1952), ‘Rookery Nook’ (1953), ‘Cakes and Ale’ (1953) and ‘The Government Inspector’ (1954). In 1956, she made her first appearance on Broadway at...

The Real Housewives of Beverly Hills Season 14 will be here soon, and Jennifer Tilly has given a little tease to keep fans entertained until the premiere.

Jennifer has appeared on Rhobh before but has never played a prominent role.

In previous seasons, Jennifer popped in for a quick lunch or chat with her bestie, Sutton Stracke.

Season 14 of The Real Housewives of Beverly Hills will see Jennifer in a friend role, interacting with more of the cast than ever before.

Jennifer knew the assignment, too, revealing that she gets down and dirty with the ladies regarding the drama.

When speaking with Us Weekly, Jennifer addressed her Rhobh debut and the Season 14 landscape the other night.

Jennifer Tilly calls her Rhobh debut ‘dynamite’

Over the weekend, Jennifer attended the launch of the Rebecca Vallance x Nicky Hilton Holiday Collection hosted by MyTheresa. The event took place at the Hilton home, with...

In the final episode of Elizabeth Taylor – Rebel Superstar, Elizabeth Taylor’s life is still hectic as she enters her seventh marriage and moves to Washington DC. However, her struggle to adapt to life as a senator’s wife is compounded by her growing addiction to painkillers and alcohol. Concerned family members take action, and an […]

Elizabeth Taylor – Rebel Superstar: Final Episode...

It looks like business as usual at Brentwood’s Country Mart.

Laptops and lattes sit on every table at Caffe Luxxe’s patio. Around the corner, a woman corrals two teens near luxury décor shop Hudson Grace. “Let’s go to Goop real quick,” she declares loudly in directing them toward a pitstop at Gwyneth Paltrow’s curated store. The pastry counter at Farmshop has a queue four deep, though the lunch rush is winding down. One wouldn’t be surprised to see Country Mart regulars like Larry David or Jennifer Garner on a quiet, sunny Wednesday afternoon like this.

The quietude of the scene belies the tumult that occurred here just days before. A few feet from Diesel Bookstore’s entrance, this reporter is scanning a window display when a Diesel staffer approaches from a courtyard nearby. “Can I help you?” he asks. Forgive the direct approach, he adds,...

Project Angel Food's annual Angel Awards returned on Saturday, Sept. 28, to honor six-time Emmy Award winner, five-time NAACP Image Award winner, Golden Globe winner, Debbie Allen Dance Academy and Debbie Allen Middle School founder and philanthropist Debbie Allen with the Humanitarian Angel Award, while Emmy-nominated actor Matt Bomer received the 2024 Angel Award.

Additionally, L.A. Care Health Plan and its CEO, John Baackes, was awarded the Sheryl Lee Ralph Legacy Award. The event, held at Milk Studios in Hollywood while construction is underway on Project Angel Food’s Chuck Lorre Family Foundation Campus, featured a performance by multi-platinum, Grammy-nominated singer Deborah Cox. Funds raised from the Angel Awards will support the organization’s operating costs, as Project Angel Food prepares and delivers more than 1.5 million medically tailored meals each year to people living with life-threatening illnesses at zero cost.

Actress and comedian Loni Love kicked off the event and...

Paris Jackson is opening up about her late dad Michael Jackson‘s close friendship with Elizabeth Taylor.

Paris, 26, appears in the new BBC docu-series Elizabeth Taylor: Rebel Superstar, and in the first episode, Paris explained why she believes that the “Thriller” superstar chose the movie icon to be her godmother.

Keep reading to find out more…“I think because I was growing up in the spotlight,” Paris explained, via People. “There’s definitely a part of him that knew that we would have a very similar experience.”

“I was homeschooled and because of that, I don’t know what it was like to be around other kids my age,” Paris added. “Hanging out with adults, all the time. And I think it was just the same for her.”

Also in the episode, Paris reflected on growing up as the daughter of one of the most famous people in the world.

Although Nicole Kidman recently accepted the American Film Institute’s Life Achievement Award in recognition of her four-decade acting career, there is no indication that her life’s work is anywhere near finished. Indeed, according to Gold Derby’s racetrack odds, the 56-year-old is well on her way to picking up her sixth Oscar nomination for her lead performance in the critically acclaimed “Babygirl,” which would make her the 13th AFI honoree to subsequently earn film academy recognition in a competitive category.

The fact that Kidman’s life achievement award was presented by her pal and costar, Meryl Streep, is quite fitting given that she’s the only woman to go from being an AFI recipient to an Oscar contender. Since receiving the AFI honor in 2004, she has racked up a whopping eight bids, including a successful one for “The Iron Lady” (2012). A previous champ for “Kramer vs. Kramer” (1980) and...

It’s understandable that most movie and TV fans remember Maggie Smith for her dynamic work in the “Harry Potter” films and “Downton Abbey.” More recent and far more widely seen in their time, they are worthy examples of her outstanding work.

But unknown to even some of the most knowledgeable cinephiles is most of her screen work before the 1980s beyond her two Oscar wins (Best Actress for “The Prime of Miss Jean Brodie” and Supporting Actress for “California Suite”). Her passing at 89 represents a chance to look back at not only roles that conveyed her later brilliance but also, in some cases, present a broader range than what became the standard — though always with nuance and distinctiveness — Maggie Smith role of later years.

When reviewing her film career until at least 2008, it’s critical to remember that she was first and foremost a stage actor. She joined Laurence Olivier...

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Marilyn Monroe’s Intricate diamonte bracelet from How to Marry a Millionaire (1953). Images courtesy of The Hollywood Museum.

Founded in 1928 by Eugene Joseff, Joseff of Hollywood has been providing jewellery rentals to movie studios since the Golden Age of Hollywood. Joseff often worked in tandem with studio costume designers. When censors opposed the cut of Lana Turner’s gowns in the 1948 The Three Musketeers, Joseff designed a brooch to strategically place on the costume. It made the censors happy and gave a regal air to Plunkett’s costumes. The brooches were among the Joseff lots that came up for auction back in 2017.

Though portions of the collection have come to auction in the past, remarkably, Joseff has maintained over 200,000 pieces in their ‘Studio Collection’. A source once reported that up to 85% of the jewellery seen on the silver screen at the height of movie glamour throughout the...

Kyle Richards did not look pleased to attend the premiere of The Holiday Exchange on September 26, 2024. The 55-year-old attended the LGBTQ romance’s opening night in Burbank, California, with two of her daughters. But the spark was missing from The Real Housewives of Beverly Hills star’s eyes.

Kyle Richards, Kathy Hilton, and Kim Richards at a holiday event in 2023 | Amanda Edwards/Getty Images

One day earlier, on Wednesday, September 25, 2024, Kyle experienced a dispute with her older sister, Kim Richards. The altercation allegedly involved Kim’s sobriety, indicating that the 60-year-old may have relapsed after giving up alcohol years ago. According to People, the LAPD reported to an Encino, California, home owned by Kyle. Kim was staying at the house prior to the incident.

Kyle Richards and Kim Richards during a 2017 reunion episode of ‘The Real Housewives of Beverly Hills’ | Nicole Weingart/Bravo/NBCU Photo Bank/NBCUniversal via Getty Images

Earlier this month,...

Dame Maggie Smith was many things. Hilarious and tragic. Elegant and aloof. Enchanting and deadly serious. Most will attribute their appreciation of her multiple-generation spanning career to roles in the “Harry Potter” or “Sister Act” franchises or perhaps “Downton Abbey,” which elevated her fame to a level she often spoke disdainfully of. For Smith was not an actress who was in it for the red carpets or accolades — though she received many, including two Oscars, five Baftas, four Emmys, and a Tony — but rather treated acting as a sturdy profession, one that required of her the utmost presence while on set or stage.

Beginning her career in the early 1950s, she played Viola in William Shakespeare’s “Twelfth Night” at The Oxford Playhouse, followed later by roles in “As You Like It” and “The Merry Wives of Windsor” at London’s famed Old Vic theater. She rose to prominence on...

On Friday 27 September 2024, BBC Two broadcasts Elizabeth Taylor: Rebel Superstar!

Fame Season 1 Episode 1 Episode Summary

The upcoming episode titled “Fame” of “Elizabeth Taylor: Rebel Superstar” on BBC Two promises to explore a significant turning point in Elizabeth Taylor’s life. This episode focuses on her early years as a young actor, when her life was closely managed by the studio system. Viewers will get a glimpse into the pressures and expectations that shaped her early career.

After a challenging first marriage, Elizabeth Taylor makes a bold decision to take control of her own life. This episode highlights her journey towards independence and the choices she makes to define her own path in the entertainment industry. It showcases her transformation from a studio-controlled star to a woman who embraces her freedom.

The episode features insights from notable figures in the industry, including Dame Joan Collins, Sharon Stone, and Kim Kardashian. These...

Dedicated to the support of AIDS research, AIDS prevention, treatment, education and the advocacy of sound AIDS-related public policy.

amfAR’s annual Cinema Against AIDS gala has been an important and successful fund-raising event for the Foundation since 1993, generating more than $22 million for essential AIDS research. Past events have been hosted by Dame Elizabeth Taylor, Sharon Stone, Demi Moore, and Sir Elton John.

The gala has seen impromptu performances by stars such as Sir Elton John, Robin Williams, Natalie Cole, Liza Minnelli, Sheryl Crow, Ringo Starr, Lionel Richie, Macy Gray, Shirley Bassey, and Milla Jovovich. The 2006 live auction, conducted by Harvey Weinstein and Sharon Stone, raised $2 million, bringing the event’s fundraising total to $4 million.

Celebrity supporters

American Foundation for AIDS Research has 250 known supporters, including Elton John, Bill Clinton, and Sting

Areas of work HealthAIDS & HIV Read more about American Foundation for AIDS Research's work and celebrity supporters. Related...

She despised hypocrisy and was fiercely loyal to her friends, while navigating the pressures and pleasures of being the world’s biggest star. Chris Wilding discusses the legend and legacy of the mother he loved

Chris Wilding is a shy man approaching 70. As a little boy, he was also shy. He used to get embarrassed when his mother turned up at school for parents’ day. Everybody made such a hoo-ha about it. There she would be, in her furs and finery, done up to the nines. She was so famous and infamous, sexy and scandalous, and he would never hear the end of it. And yet to him she was just Mom.

Elizabeth Taylor was the world’s best-known actress, becoming a global celebrity at 12 after starring in National Velvet. By the age of 35, she had won two Oscars, first for playing sex worker Gloria Wandrous in the 1960 film BUtterfield 8,...

The ‘rebel superstar’ was decades ahead of her time, a new three-part series produced by her protégé Kim Kardashian shows

Elizabeth Taylor’s life has traditionally been portrayed as a torrid soap opera. A tale of sex and scandal: eight marriages while dripping in diamonds and battling addiction. But a new documentary tells a different story – and Kim Kardashian is helping rewrite the script.

Elizabeth Taylor: Rebel Superstar, a three-part series that airs on BBC2 from Friday, reframes its subject not just as a double Oscar-winner but as a business mogul and trailblazing activist who rewrote the rules of fame.

Kate Winslet is in her “life is too short” era, and we all here for it. Known for speaking her truth, the Oscar-winning actor has been making headlines while promoting her upcoming biopic Lee, in which she portrays renowned photojournalist Lee Miller. Winslet’s viral comments have included pushing back when a crew member had advised her to suck in her stomach to hide her “belly rolls” during a topless scene and subsequently dismissing her reaction being hailed as “bravery.”

In an interview during History Channel’s History Talks at the Academy Museum of Motion Pictures on Saturday, Winslet continued speaking her mind on the topic.

“I quite like making statements. And actually, I have to say, I’m at the point where I’m just like, You know what? Life is too short,” she said onstage. “But it is one thing that’s been happening to me quite a lot recently,...

Most people, born in or after the 1970s, have grown up watching the films of Steven Spielberg. As a definitive storyteller and the most influential director in Hollywood, Spielberg has unbridled access to the fantasies and imaginations of children and adults alike through films like Jaws, Indiana Jones, Jurassic Park, and E.T. But even legends of such great standing can sometimes have a peevish trait.

Steven Spielberg with Tom Cruise on War of the Worlds [Credit: Warner Bros. Pictures]

Colin Farrell, on his part, has no qualms about putting up with the extreme likes and dislikes of legendary men like Spielberg as long as he earns a memorable experience out of it. The actor, who has been at the heart of an incredulous Hollywood controversy (re: Elizabeth Taylor) and headlined some of the best films and television projects, reveals what it means to meet one’s childhood hero.

Colin Farrell...

This Friday, September 27, 2024, at 9:00 Pm on BBC Two, viewers can tune into the highly anticipated premiere of Elizabeth Taylor: Rebel Superstar, with Season 1, Episode 1 titled “Fame.” This new documentary series takes a closer look at the life of the legendary actress Elizabeth Taylor, exploring her rise to stardom and the challenges she faced along the way.

In this episode, audiences will see how Elizabeth’s early career was tightly controlled by the studio system. Despite her immense talent, her personal life was often overshadowed by the demands of Hollywood. After a tumultuous first marriage, she bravely decides to break free from these constraints and live life on her own terms. This pivotal moment marks the beginning of her transformation into a true icon of independence and strength.

The episode features insights from fellow stars like Dame Joan Collins, Sharon Stone, and Kim Kardashian, who share their thoughts on Elizabeth...

It’s been 16 years since Christine Jeffs’ last feature, the seriocomic Amerindie sleeper “Sunshine Cleaning,” with Amy Adams and Emily Blunt. Her new feature “A Mistake” hews back to her 2001 debut, “Rain,” in that it is set in her native New Zealand and adapts its script from a Kiwi author (in this case Carl Shuker’s fifth novel). Though not a knockout, the director’s return affirms her knack for intelligent adult drama, here hinging on issues of medical ethics and bureaucracy — Elizabeth Banks plays an Auckland surgeon whose reputation and career are threatened when a patient dies after what had been anticipated as a routine procedure. Quiver Distribution is releasing the Tribeca-premiered film to 100+ U.S. theaters this Friday.

The distractingly named Elizabeth Taylor (Banks) is a highly regarded specialist, woken from a nap during one long night-shift by an emergency: A patient previously discharged as having minor ailments...

Exclusive: The BBC’s Kim Kardashian-produced Elizabeth Taylor doc series launches next week and we’ve got an exclusive clip to wet the whistle.

“My love for Elizabeth is just number one to me,” Kardashian, who was the last person to interview the Hollywood superstar when she was alive, says in the clip. “The way I envision her is just everything.” Watch the full clip above.

The series from Super/Man: The Christopher Reeve Story producer Passion Pictures, which is being sold by Fremantle, will reveal how one of the acting world’s most well known stars created the blueprint for modern celebrity. It will will take a deep dive into Taylor’s craft and technique as an actor, while going on to spotlight her work becoming a billion-dollar businesswoman, activist and advocate.

Deadline revealed earlier this year that Chris Wilding, Taylor’s son, will be interviewed for the...

Exclusive: Filming has wrapped in Wales on Mr. Burton, the upcoming biopic about the man who inspired screen legend Richard Burton.

Independent Entertainment has sold UK and Ireland rights to Icon Film Distribution, which will release the film theatrically in 2025 to coincide with the centenary of Burton’s birth.

As we first revealed, the film will tell the true story of the relationship between Welsh schoolmaster Philip Burton and a wild young schoolboy called Richard Jenkins. The latter dreamed of becoming an actor, but his ambitions were in danger of being derailed by a combination of family trouble, the pressure of war, and his own lack of discipline. Mr. Burton recognized the raw talent in his pupil, and made it his mission to fight for him, becoming his tutor, strict taskmaster and eventually his adoptive father. Actor Burton would go on to be nominated for seven Oscars and was well...

Recently, The View has been heavily focused on the political arena heating up around Americans. But moderator, Whoopi Goldberg slips away from the rising temperatures by bringing up one couple that has sadly been cooling down. She mentions a hot topic of rocky long-term love between Ben Affleck and Jennifer Lopez. Furthermore, she sticks her nose in the middle of the business “Bennifer” have been up to lately.

‘Bennifer’ Is Back!

First, The View moderator, Whoopi Goldberg dives into the topic of estranged couple Ben Affleck and Jennifer Lopez. Undeniably, America has witnessed the on-again-off-again saga of “Bennifer” since December 2001. Sadly, they decided marriage wasn’t the best fit for them and are in the pursuit of divorce. However, Whoopi evenly explains that Ben and Jennifer were photographed together over the weekend kissing and holding hands. During the discussion of “Bennifer’s” family brunch, Whoopi points the conversation toward Sunny Hostin...

Is Colin Farrell married?

Colin Farrell is an accomplished actor. As anyone watching Sunday night’s Emmy Awards can attest, he is also one of the handsomest actors on the planet.

He’s had some complex relationships — a few got downright messy — over the years.

But is he married at the moment? Asking for a friend, of course.

Colin Farrell speaks onstage during the 76th Primetime Emmy Awards at Peacock Theater on September 15, 2024. (Photo Credit: Kevin Winter/Getty Images) Is Colin Farrell married?

In 2000, Colin Farrell met Amelia Warner, a singer and a fellow actor. Their relationship was fairly brief — from July of 2001 through November of that same year.

There was speculation, however, that the two had covertly married. No one has ever been able to prove this claim, however.

Both actors were fairly young at the time. Farrell himself has acknowledged that the couple were “too fast, too young,...

Will there be room for two Oscar winners from the same movie this awards season?

Pedro Almodóvar’s exciting melodrama “The Room Next Door” is riding high after winning the prestigious Golden Lion at the Venice Film Festival, and Sony Pictures Classics is preparing for an aggressive awards campaign for the film. Variety has learned exclusively that the movie’s two Oscar-winning stars, Julianne Moore and Tilda Swinton, will be positioned for lead actress consideration in the upcoming awards season. In addition, co-star John Turturro is set to campaign for his first Oscar bid in the best supporting actor category.

The film is adapted from Sigrid Nunez’s novel “What Are You Going Through” and tells the story of two women — war correspondent Martha, played by Swinton, and author Ingrid, portrayed by Moore — who reunite after many years under emotionally charged circumstances. The nuanced performances and intimate narrative have garnered critical acclaim.

Lots of actors get their starts on soap operas and we’re taking a look at all of the famous actors who appeared on General Hospital before getting their big breaks elsewhere.

General Hospital has been airing on ABC since 1963 and just celebrated its 61st anniversary on April 1, 2024.

While many of the actors on the show have remained in their roles for decades, many celebs got their start on the soap opera and eventually broke into the world of film and primetime television.

Stars like James Franco, Chandra Wilson, Elizabeth Taylor, and more have had guest arcs on General Hospital after they were already famous, so we’re not including them here.

Browse through the slideshow to see all of the actors who were on General Hospital before becoming famous…...

Shonda Rhimes, Michelle Monaghan, Chloe Fineman and Camila Alves McConaughey were among the front-row attendees for the debut of Wes Gordon’s Spring 2025 collection for Carolina Herrera — each is a terrific example of the smart, stylish women who have loved this label since Mrs. Herrera founded her house in 1981.

Gordon, who signed on as the brand’s creative director in 2018, remains an outstanding custodian of the Herrera DNA, which he balances with his thoughtful attention to detail and an aesthetic that appeals to chic fans in every age bracket (that latter feat is much harder than it sounds, but every CEO of a heritage brand will say it’s vital to a brand’s long-term success).

Taking place Monday morning at 28 Liberty Street in New York’s Financial District, Gordon said his Spring 2025 collection was all about precision and balance. “When there are too many tricks and too much noise,...

Regarding celebrity romances, specific names come to mind as repeat offenders in a constant quest for lasting love. However, as Jennifer Lopez files for divorce from Ben Affleck, she may now be in a category of women whose yearning for a happily ever after leads them to marry again and again. Who’s had more husbands: Jennifer Lopez, Kim Kardashian, or Elizabeth Taylor?

Kim Kardashian was married 3 times Kim Kardashian and Kanye West in 2020 | David Crotty/Patrick McMullan via Getty Images

Kim Kardashian comes in third place when it comes to tying the knot. She has been married three times.

She married Damon Thomas in 2000 at the age of just 19. At the time, Thomas was a decade her senior. Kardashian’s marriage to Thomas lasted four years.

Then, in 2010, Kardashian began dating basketball player Kris Humphries. They married in August 2011 in a lavish ceremony filmed for the family’s E!

Celebrity divorces last longer than celebrity marriages, and perhaps afford the public more sheer entertainment. Hearing about the clashing of egos, the mutual narcissism, the profligacy — it all makes us rather relieved to be living our littler, more anonymous lives.

“It’s easy to get into a marriage,” a Californian lawyer said, rubbing his hands with glee, “and very difficult to get out of one.” Love curdles into hatred, and soon enough it’s like the Wild West.

Currently, Ben Affleck and Jennifer Lopez, who said “I do” two years ago in Las Vegas, are hiring their attack dogs, i.e. their expensive attorneys, to argue about ownership of a $60 million-plus house in Beverly Hills, which has twelve bedrooms and twenty-four bathrooms.

Affleck earned $38 million last year — Jennifer might want a piece of that. Will she keep the $5 million engagement ring? There is much additional community property – a “bachelor pad” in Brentwood,...

Norman Spencer, the British producer, production manager and screenwriter who worked alongside famed director David Lean on films including Blithe Spirit, Great Expectations, The Bridge on the River Kwai and Lawrence of Arabia, has died. He was 110.

Spencer died Aug. 16 in Wimbledon three days after his birthday, the European Supercentenarian Organisation announced.

Apart from Lean, Spencer produced Joseph L. Mankiewicz’s Suddenly, Last Summer (1959), starring Elizabeth Taylor, Montgomery Clift and Katharine Hepburn; Richard C. Sarafian’s Vanishing Point (1971), the car chase movie that starred Barry Newman; and Richard Attenborough’s Cry Freedom (1987), starring Denzel Washington.

Spencer was Lean’s unit manager on the ghost comedy Blithe Spirit (1945), based on the Noël Coward play, and served as his production manager on his adaptations of Charles Dickens’ Great Expectations (1946) and Oliver Twist (1948).

He produced Lean’s The Passionate Friends (1949) and the Hepburn-starring, Venice-set Summertime (1955); worked on a rewrite of the script for...

BBC Arts introduces a biographical series that provides a unique perspective on the life of Elizabeth Taylor. Through personal recordings and interviews with her inner circle, the series uncovers Taylor’s extraordinary journey as an actress, a free-spirited individual, a successful entrepreneur, and a dedicated activist. Sharon Stone, connected to Taylor through their shared HIV/AIDS advocacy, […]

BBC Arts Presents Elizabeth Taylor: Rebel Superstar...

In the 1980s, Rob Lowe and Michael J. Fox used their celebrity status to draw attention to political causes. However, they likely didn’t expect their involvement in a star-studded environmental event to get them pulled over. The young actors were busted for smoking pot out of the open hatch of a Greyhound bus filled with a who’s who of famous faces.

Rob Lowe confessed his youthful misdeeds with Michael J. Fox

In an interview with Ted Danson for the podcast Where Everybody Knows Your Name With Ted Danson and Woody Harrelson (Sometimes), Rob Lowe confessed his youthful misdeeds. Lowe said the incident occurred when he and Michael J. Fox participated in a celebrity environmental rally.

Lowe, Fox, and other famous 1980s celebrities traveled on a Greyhound bus to promote a state measure to protect drinking water from toxic materials. At the same time, Lowe and Fox decided to...

On Sunday night on the island of Lido — amid the goings on of the 81st Venice Film Festival — amfAR, The Foundation for AIDS Research, held its annual gala. The World Gold Council, the Red Sea International Film Festival, Chopard, Campari and the San Clemente Palace Kempinski Hotel made the night possible, along with the support of Uber, Boroli Wines and Rumor Rosé, as the event took place at Hangar Nicelli.

Guests arrived in gowns and black tie attire to the airport by boat and took photos on the blue carpet, then enjoyed the cocktail hour with a bar by Campari. Attendees also posed with photos at the amfAR photo booth, and socialized around the art that would be auctioned off at the gala.

Swizz Beatz, honoree Mohammed Al Turki and Zac Efron

Julian Lennon told The Hollywood Reporter at the event that he’s “always wanted to be able to...

The story of Giancarlo Parretti, the flamboyant Italian waiter-turned-financier who bought MGM in 1990 and was ousted and indicted when his takeover deal for the Hollywood studio collapsed, is in early stages of getting the big screen treatment.

Independent Los-Angeles-based film producer Niels Juul has tracked down Parretti, now 82, and living in the lap of luxury in a palazzo in his native Orvieto. Juul is at the Venice Film Festival shopping a screenplay for the Parretti biopic titled “The Lion of Orvieto.”

The “Lion of Orvieto” is penned by TV comedy writer Michael O’Rourke, who has worked with Sacha Baron Cohen on “Da Ali G Show” but has also written several unproduced dramas. “Lion” is based on extensive research and an unpublished book containing in-depth interviews with Parretti.

Raised in an orphanage before being adopted at the age of 6, Parretti’s ascent into high-stakes financial wheeling and dealing started when he...

[This article was originally published in 2017. It has been updated in August 2024.]

70mm is back! Thanks to Paul Thomas Anderson, Quentin Tarantino, and Christopher Nolan, one of the oldest and grandest traditions in Hollywood is making a comeback after years of financial setbacks and near-extinction. As Nolan has said many times, shooting in 70mm proved an immersive and more textured experience than any other form of cinema.

Due to the costly nature of film and theaters’ lack of 70mm projectors, it’s been quite a challenge to get to a place where Tarantino and Nolan can make entire features using 65/70mm, but the preservation of film is turning in their favor.

Below, we’ve gathered 20 of the most essential 70mm film releases. From Stanley Kubrick to William Wyler and David Lean, it’s clear shooting in 70mm is mandatory for any epic filmmaker.

With additional editorial contributions from Zack Sharf.

“Oklahoma!” (1955)

Fred Zinnemann’s film adaptation of the 1943 stage musical was the...

Known as Hermione, the brightest witch of her age, Emma Watson became an overnight sensation when Harry Potter and the Philosopher’s Stone was released in 2001. But what most don’t know is that her journey to stardom was almost derailed by the very thing that made her famous.

As a child actor, Watson was thrust into the spotlight at just nine years old. While the Harry Potter movies catapulted her to global fame, it also took a toll on her mental health. The actress almost quit the industry while filming for the last few movies. It took a great deal of strength and her passion for the project for her to continue with it, despite feeling immensely burnt out.

The price of fame: growing up in the spotlight

Emma Watson‘s journey in the entertainment industry began when she was just nine years old. She landed the role of Hermione Granger...

A casualty of last year’s strikes, movie event long associated with celebrity is expected to be star-studded affair once again

• Peter Bradshaw’s picks of the 2024 edition

It is hard to think of the Venice film festival without recalling glamorous images of couture-clad stars walking down the red carpet or kicking back in the sun.

From Jean Cocteau enjoying an aperitif on an idyllic waterfront palazzo, to Paul Newman catching a water taxi and Elizabeth Taylor going barefoot on the beach, the world’s oldest film festival has long been associated with celebrity and decadence.

In news that should come as no surprise considering the latest strife in the world of Bennifer 2.0, Jennifer Lopez has filed for divorce from Ben Affleck.

TMZ reports that Jennifer Lopez made the move to file her official split from Ben Affleck on August 20th, which turns out to be the second anniversary of their more formal wedding (having wed in Las Vegas the month prior). Traditionally, the second anniversary gift is cotton, which is appropriate since the two are sleeping under separate sheets now.

Lopez and Affleck got married in August 2022, a full 20 years after they first made tabloid headlines and were branded the “it couple” of the century. While that romance resulted in plenty of late night fodder and constant paparazzi attention, even worse, it gave us Gigli…Now, we here at JoBlo.com aren’t normally ones for conspiracy theories, but there might be a link between that...

It was genuinely nice seeing two middle-aged stars reunite 18 years after their wedding was called off. But it didn’t last

All Hollywood stars embarking on a romance secretly hope for just one thing: official condemnation from the Vatican. When it emerged that Elizabeth Taylor and Richard Burton were having an affair on the set of Cleopatra, the Holy See issued a letter describing Taylor as “an avaricious vamp who destroys families and devours husbands”.

When news of Jennifer Lopez and Ben Affleck’s divorce broke today, two years after they married and two decades after they first fell in love, entertainment reporters began invoking Burton and Taylor, another celebrity couple who famously separated and reunited. Baylor – as no one called them – married in 1964, divorced in 1974, remarried in 1975 and divorced again less than a year later. But Bennifer – who were never condemned by a pope, but did earn the first...

"Mistakes may always happen. And I'm not trying to hide anything." Quiver Distr. has revealed an official trailer for an indie drama titled A Mistake, a medical thriller from filmmaker Christine Jeffs (of Sunshine Cleaning from 2008). This premiered at the 2024 Tribeca Film Festival a few months ago, and it's getting a theatrical release in September. A gripping cinematic adaptation of the best-selling novel, A Mistake delves into the perilous aftermath of surgeon Elizabeth Taylor's split-second medical decision, unfolding a thrilling exploration of the fatal ripple effects triggered by a single human error. After a new scheme to publicly report surgeons' performance, a gifted surgeon's life is thrown into disarray as her colleagues begin to close ranks, and even her partner who is a nurse at the hospital turns her back on her. Elizabeth Banks stars as surgeon Liz Taylor, with Mickey Sumner, Richard Crouchley, Simon McBurney, Fern Sutherland, Rena Owen,...

Bob Weatherwax, who trained dogs who played Lassie as a member of the famous family that also taught Hollywood hounds a thing or two in The Thin Man (Asta), The Wizard of Oz (Toto) and Old Yeller (Spike), has died. He was 83.

Weatherwax died Thursday at a Veterans Administration facility in Olyphant, Pennsylvania, his son, Robert Weatherwax, a former animal trainer for films and television shows, told The Hollywood Reporter.

Bob Weatherwax was the son of Rudd Weatherwax, the original owner and trainer of Pal, the collie introduced to moviegoers in the MGM classic Lassie Come Home (1943), starring Elizabeth Taylor and Roddy McDowall.

His grandfather, W.S. Weatherwax, was an actor and animal trainer in the silent era, and his cousin, Ken Weatherwax, played Pugsley Addams on The Addams Family.

Bob Weatherwax served as an animal trainer under his dad on the CBS/syndicated Lassie series that aired from 1954-74 and...