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David Korda, the British film producer and financier who hailed from a family of notable filmmakers including his father Zoltàn Korda, has died. He was 87.

Korda’s death was disclosed Nov. 16 by film historian Charles Drazin via social media. Korda died Sept. 18 at Cromwell Hospital in London following a battle with cancer, according to Drazin who wrote a 2011 biography of Korda’s uncle, producer-director Alexander Korda. News of David Korda’s death was first reported by the Hollywood Reporter.

Korda’s father was the director of films such as 1939’s “The Four Feathers” and 1951’s “Cry, the Beloved Country.” His mother was actress Joan Gardner, known for roles in such films as 1934’s “The Scarlett Pimpernel” and 1937’s “Dark Journey.” His uncle Alexander Korda founded London Films, owner of British Lion Films, which produced the 1933 feature “The Private Life of Henry VIII” and 1949’s “The Third Man.” His uncle Vincent Korda...

David Korda, a prominent member of the Korda family movie dynasty who served as a producer and important film financier in a show business career that spanned more than 60 years, has died. He was 87.

Korda, chairman of the British company Film Finances Ltd., died Sept. 18 at Cromwell Hospital in London, author, editor and film historian Charles Drazin told The Hollywood Reporter. He had been in poor health after a battle with cancer.

Korda’s parents were Zoltan Korda, director of the Ralph Richardson-starring epic The Four Feathers (1939), and actress Joan Gardner (Dark Journey, The Scarlet Pimpernel).

One of his uncles was Alexander Korda, the founder of London Films, the owner of British Lion Films, a producer of such classics as The Private Life of Henry VIII (1933) and The Third Man (1949) and the first filmmaker to receive a knighthood. Another uncle, Vincent Korda, was a painter and Oscar-winning art director.

A full year has passed since Hunter Schafer and Dominic Fike ended their brief relationship, but the actress is still grappling with the impact of their time together. During a recent appearance on the Call Her Daddy podcast, the 25-year-old revealed that while they split amicably, she was left “fundamentally changed” by the experience of being cheated on for the first time.

“It’s part of my truth, but that fundamentally changed me as a person. And it was this whole process of realizing that cheating has nothing to do with you at all,...

Content warning: This post discusses drug use.

Sam Levinson's "Euphoria" can feel like it takes place in another dimension. But as Dominic Fike explained in a July 5 interview with Zane Lowe for Apple Music, the lines between the show's iridescent universe and real life were actually quite blurred. "I was a drug addict and coming on to a show that's mainly about drugs, is very difficult," he said. Fike portrays Elliot on the show, a character who also struggles with drugs.

Knowing this, Levinson made sure the now 27-year-old musician had access to a "sober coach" to provide support whenever he needed. Unfortunately, this proved to be unsuccessful, with Fike saying he still filmed many of his scenes while high. "I was so f*cked up during a lot of that show. It was really bad," he said. Eventually, the crew noticed his offscreen behavior and had to take action.

Dominic Fike almost lost his role as Elliot on Euphoria due to his drug usage. The singer, who released his new album Sunburn Friday, July 7, spoke to Apple Music about his struggle with addiction and how it nearly cost him his role on the HBO show.

“I was a drug addict and coming on to a show that’s, you know, mainly about drugs, is very difficult,” Fike told Zane Lowe. “Sam [Levinson], the director and writer, got me a sober coach, somebody to be there all the time. It did not work.

It’s Friday, Friday, gotta get down on Friday — especially when it’s New Music Friday! We’re breaking down this week’s best new tracks to keep on your radar.

New Music Friday – July 7th, 2023

Taylor Swift – “Castles Crumbling (Taylor’s Version) (From The Vault)”, plus Speak Now (Taylor’s Version) (Album)

Raw Alejandro – “Playa Saturno”

The Weeknd, Jennie, & Lily-Rose Depp – “One Of The Girls”

Txt & Jonas Brothers — “Do It Like That”

FendiDa Rappa & Cardi B — “Point Me 2”

Other noteworthy releases include Dominic Fike — “Sunburn”, Party Next Door – “Resentment”, Fifty Fifty and Kalii – “Barbie Dreams”, Anne-Marie – “Trainwreck”

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Rita Ora – You & I (Album)

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Rita Ora’s third studio album, You & I is set for release on July 14th, 2023.

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Dominic Fike opens up about his sobriety battle while filming “Euphoria”.

In a wide-ranging conversation with Zane Lowe for Apple Music — to promote his second studio album, Sunburn, out July 7— the actor and singer delved into his struggles with addiction and taking drugs while filming the popular drama series.

“I was a drug addict and coming onto a show, you know, mainly about drugs is very difficult,” Fike, 27, told Lowe, revealing that Sam Levinson, the director and writer, even got him a sober coach.

Read More: Dominic Fike Admits He Took A Bunch Of ‘Shrooms Before ‘Euphoria’ Audition

“Somebody to be there, you know, all the time,” Fike explained, noting that it “did not work because I was, you know [high].

“I was so f**ked up doing a lot of that show,” he elaborated. “It was really bad.”

Dominic Fike (Elliot) in “Euphoria” season 2. — Photo: Courtesy of Warner Bros. Discovery...

Dominic Fike may be busy promoting his new studio album “Sunburn,” due July 7, but he’s already looking ahead to filming “Euphoria” Season 3 — with what sounds like some mixed feelings.

“You know how sometimes when you want to change, you need to refresh your whole friend group? Feels like moving backwards on that front,” Fike said in a Los Angeles Times interview published Thursday when asked about the project, which is currently scheduled for a 2025 airdate.

The remark came in the interview while discussing his experience filming while under the influence and dating his “Euphoria” costar Hunter Schafer. He told the paper he is now sober and single.

In 2022, “Euphoria” Season 2 marked a mainstream Hollywood breakout for Fike, who previously was better known as a musician. Created by Sam Levinson and starring Zendaya along with Schafer, the series’ second season introduced Fike as Elliot, a teenage drug addict and enabler...

French-Argentinian actress Anais Weill and Spain’s Dariam Coco are set to star in Spanish-u.K. sci-fi thriller series “Border Station.”

Top Spanish indie producer-distributor Vertice 360 is teaming with Madrid’s Anacaona Productions and London-based Born Wild to co-produce the project, which is at development stage.

The six-episode, one hour TV drama was created by Born Wild founder Anthony Alleyne (“Sunburn”). Anacaona’s Vianessa Castaños has been tapped to serve as showrunner and lead writer, alongside France-based author Geoff Dupuy-Holder (“Dark Sense”).

A historical spy thriller, with time-travel elements, “Border Station” will follow Beatriz (Dariam Coco), a struggling black jazz singer from Zaragoza who feels her luck is about to change when she’s booked to perform at an opening ceremony of the Canfranc International Station.

A strategic point during WWII, set in the Spanish Pyrenees, near the French border, Canfranc was frequented at that time by Nazi, Francoist...

Dominic Fike channels his inner Joker in the music video for “Ant Pile,” the second single from his forthcoming studio album Sunburn, out July 7. Moving slightly too quickly with an edge of unease, the singer takes a stroll down memory lane while recounting a pivotal childhood encounter. In a torn-up shirt that reads “Rescue Squad” beneath gaping holes in the layered fabric, Fike clicks through a PowerPoint filled with clips representing his Florida upbringing.

“First grade/Somebody tied you to an ant/And that wasn’t even the worst day...

Shawn Mendes and Camila Cabello may have been seen kissing over the weekend at Coachella, but they’re apparently “not back together.”

Mendes and Cabello called it quits in November 2021 after first sparking romance rumours in June 2019.

They were caught on camera sharing a kiss at the Indio, California music festival. However, an insider has told Page Six fans shouldn’t expect them to rekindle their romance anytime soon.

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— luna (@gngsweet) April 15, 2023

“Shawn and Camila remain friends with a lot of love and history between them, but they aren’t dating again,” the insider told the publication.

“They’ve stayed in touch since their breakup and decided to meet up at Coachella since they were both going.”

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The source admitted that “one thing led to another as the night progressed,...

Sylvan Esso straddle the line between pleasure and pain on their surprise new song, “Sunburn,” which dropped Wednesday at midnight. It’s the electronic pop duo’s first new music since 2020’s Free Love.

“Sunburn, blistering… but it felt so good,” Amelia Meath sings over Nick Sanborn’s pulsating production.

The song is a study in contrasts, detailing the exhilaration of pursuing pleasure and pushing the envelope — and surviving the consequences later. As the band explained in a statement: “’Sunburn’ is: eating candy til you’re sick; riding your bike...

‘The Yellow Ceiling’ tells the story of nine former students at Spain’s Lleida Theatre who filed a complaint against two of their teachers for sexual abuse.

Italian sales company The Open Reel has unveiled three new additions to its Cannes Marché slate, including Isabel Coixet’s latest film The Yellow Ceiling.

The feature documentary, produced by Miss Wasabi Films, tells the story of nine former students at Spain’s Lleida Theatre who filed a complaint against two of their teachers for sexual abuse.

The Open Reel’s slate also includes Eleonora Veninova’s debut Things Unsaid. This North Macedonian...

Eiff has also launched four new film curating initiatives.

The UK’s Edinburgh International Film Festival (Eiff), which is running August 12-20, has unveiled four new film curating development programmes alongside six projects selected for its Talent Lab Connects.

Talent Lab Connects which launched in 2019 is open to Eiff Talent Lab alumni and their collaborators to develop a feature film or serial drama project. The event runs from April to December.

The six projects are: Robin Haig’s Drover’s Road, Kevin Pickering’s Before I Wake, Tessa Joffe’s Punzel, Jack King’s Sunburn, Lynsey Murdoch’s The Computer...

Charles Grodin had a 60-year career in Hollywood, ranging from guesting on 1950s TV Westerns to playing opposite such big-screen and TV stars as Robert De Niro, Warren Beatty, Goldie Hawn, Dustin Hoffman, Steve Martin, Jill Clayburgh, Farrah Fawcett, Cybill Shepherd, Marlo Thomas, Martin Short, Louis C.K. and, well, Miss Piggy.

The Emmy-winning actor, who died today at 86, had more than 70 credits on his résumé — from films including The Heartbreak Kid, Heaven Can Wait and Sunburn in the 1970s through The Lonely Guy and The Woman in Red to action-buddy classic Midnight Run, legendary flop Ishtar and the canine-infused Beethoven pics. He also starred in the 1986 primetime-soap spoof miniseries Fresno, won an Emmy for co-writing 1977’s The Paul Simon Special and fronted his own short-lived talk show.

Steve Martin, Albert Brooks Pay Tribute To Charles Grodin; Marc Maron Praises “Cranky Comedic Genius”

From his straight-man magnificence to leading-man panache and talk-show-guest brilliance,...

Charles Grodin, best known for the neurotic comic wit he demonstrated in such films as “The Heartbreak Kid,” “Heaven Can Wait” and “Midnight Run” and for his role in the “Beethoven” movies, died Tuesday at his home in Connecticut. He was 86.

The New York Times reported that his son said he died of bone marrow cancer.

After getting his start in television, Grodin graduated to both leading and character roles in motion pictures, usually portraying the exasperated urban neurotic. His dry, understated sense of humor also made him a perfect talkshow guest, and later, host of his own cable show. Grodin also wrote plays and books.

The wry 1972 comedy “The Heartbreak Kid,” written by Neil Simon and directed by Elaine May, highlighted Grodin’s trademark neurotic befuddlement, and won him a Golden Globe nomination. But it was one of the few successful films in his career in which he was center stage.

Actor Charles Grodin, who charmed audiences with his droll, understated and awkward humor in such films as The Heartbreak Kid, Midnight Run and the Beethoven movies, has died. He was 86.

Grodin died Tuesday of bone marrow cancer at his home in Wilton, Connecticut, his son, Nicholas, told The New York Times.

Grodin invigorated Neil Simon’s Seems Like Old Times (1980) when he portrayed an ambitious D.A. whose wife (Goldie Hawn) and life are distracted and disrupted when her ex-husband (Chevy Chase) plops into their straight-laced marriage.

On the flip side, the Pittsburgh native brought a duplicitous guile to a positive character in Sunburn (1979),...

Actor Charles Grodin, who charmed audiences with his droll, understated and awkward humor in such films as The Heartbreak Kid, Midnight Run and the Beethoven movies, has died. He was 86.

Grodin died Tuesday of bone marrow cancer at his home in Wilton, Connecticut, his son, Nicholas, told The New York Times.

Grodin invigorated Neil Simon’s Seems Like Old Times (1980) when he portrayed an ambitious D.A. whose wife (Goldie Hawn) and life are distracted and disrupted when her ex-husband (Chevy Chase) plops into their straight-laced marriage.

On the flip side, the Pittsburgh native brought a duplicitous guile to a positive character in Sunburn (1979),...

NCIS fans can find some solace in the fact that when the CBS drama returns from its six-week holiday break, it will deliver a double-header that brings back a familiar face and then resolves an ongoing mystery.

CBS has revealed that when NCIS resumes Season 18 on Tuesday, Jan. 19, the first episode — titled “Sunburn” and directed by cast member Rocky Carroll — turns McGee and his wife Delilah’s Bahamian vacation into a high-stakes mission when a case the team is tracking (of a dead escape room manager) has ties to the island they’re on. Also in that 8/7c episode, Gibbs...

American DJs and production duo The Chainsmokers and Dutch DJ Martin Garrix will be headlining the Sunburn 2019 electronic dance music festival.

They will perform at the three-day music fest, which will be held from December 27-29. The event is being organised in association with Klassique Events Goa.

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Grammy Award-winning musical duo Andrew Taggart and Alex Pall of The Chainsmokers found success with their viral hit "#Selfie". They are also known for hits such as "Don't let me down", "Closer", "Paris", and "Something just like this".

Garrix is popular for "Animals", "Proxy", "Helicopter", "Wizard", "Turn up the speakers" and "Virus".

Sunburn started in 2007 as a three-day music festival in Goa. The venue of the festival's 10th edition in 2016 was shifted from Goa to Pune due to several reasons, including pending dues.

The fest will be return to Goa this year, after...

Three winners were announced on Sunday evening for the ninth edition of Locarno’s First Look, the festival’s initiative to showcase films in post-production: Milica Tomović’s “Celts,” Filip Martinović’s “Telenovela Greyscale in Color” and Marta Popivoda’s “Resisting Landscapes.”

First Look offers a potential springboard onto the international market, having previously hosted breakout projects such as Alejandro Fernandez Almendras’ “To Kill A Man,” an eventual Sundance World Cinema grand jury winner; Mantas Kvedaravicius “Parthenon,” premiering at Venice’s Critics’ Week this year; and Vicente Alves do Ó’s “Sunburn,” later picked up by international sales, distribution and production company The Open Reel.

This year the section hosted six works in progress – five documentaries and one fiction – from Serbia selected by Film Center Serbia. Four of the six were directed by helmed by women directors. Each work in progress was introduced by its producer to world sales agents...

History, memory, and female-driven stories mark some of the main themes in the six Serbian films selected for Locarno’s First Look, a pix-in-post strand that represents one of the high points of the mid-summer festival on the shores of Lake Maggiore.

The competitive showcase this year highlights an industry that has become increasingly prolific in the past decade. Thanks in large part to an uptick in government funding, which has opened the door for more international collaborations, it’s also grown in scope and ambition. “The industry itself, in terms of production power, it’s growing,” said First Look project manager Markus Duffner. More importantly, he added, young Serbian producers are “rapidly growing in terms of international industry experience.”

As part of its partnership with Locarno, Film Center Serbia selected six projects – including five documentary features – with all but one in post-production. Four of the six films are helmed by female directors.

Argentinian Lgbt drama premiered in Rotterdam’s Deep Focus strand.

London and Philadelphia-based distributor Tla Releasing has picked up mutliple territories to José Celestino Campusano’s Argentinian drama Men Of Hard Skin (Hombres De Piel Dura) from Compañia De Cine.

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The film premiered at this year’s International Film Festival Rotterdam (Iffr) and is set to have its European premiere at BFI Flare in London later this month.

Tla has taken UK, North America, German-speaking territories, French-speaking territories, and south-east Asia on the film, and is planning some theatrical play.

The company specialises in releasing Lgbt entertainment. Men...

As surely as the seasons will change, Luke Bryan can be counted upon to hit the road during the warm weather months. This year is certainly no exception, with Bryan launching his newly announced Sunset Repeat Tour in late spring.

Taking its name from the 2018 Number One hit “Sunrise, Sunburn, Sunset,” the trek will launch May 31st in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, with Cole Swindell, newcomer Jon Langston and DJ Rock supporting. As of this announcement, dates are scheduled through October 12th, when Bryan is set to play Raleigh, North Carolina. Of note,...

The Open Reel sells film to Tla Releasing for key territories.

With the 2018 Tallinn Black Nights Film Festival now underway in the Estonian capital, Official Selection title Sunburn has scored key territory deals.

Torino-based sales agent The Open Reel has sold the film to Philadeliphia-based Tla Releasing for North America, UK and Ireland, France and French-speaking Territories.

Sunburn has its world premiere in Tallinn on Thursday, November 29.

Directed and written by Vicente Alves do Ó, the Portugese psychological drama follows four friends in their 40s who meet for a weekend by the pool. When a sudden call disrupts the quietness of the hot countryside,...

Sales company to diversify operations with UK distribution arm.

UK sales and production outfit Moviehouse Entertainment is diversifying its operations with the launch of a distribution arm that will specialise in releasing music documentaries.

Moviehouse Music Distribution will work across theatrical, DVD releases and additional merchandise. The first title will be Teddy Pendergrass: If You Don’t Know Me, the story of the Philadelphia-born singer who looked set to become one of the biggest R&B artists of all time until a tragic accident changed his life. Pendergrass was the first male African American artist to record five consecutive platinum albums in the Us,...

Moviehouse Entertainment has boarded “Sunburn” and is kicking off the international sales effort at Afm. The deal comes as work gets under way on a sequel to the British-produced horror movie.

Anthony Alleyne wrote, directed and produced “Sunburn” through his Born Wild banner, alongside Lee Cooper’s Proper Charlie Prods.; they working on the sequel. “Sunburn” film follows a young American backpacker following a friend who has ventured ahead of him to rural Spain. He soon realizes something is wrong while on the trail of his erstwhile companion.

“We set out to make something different, something that would be a fresh take on the genre, and here instead of the dark being where danger lurks, it’s the light,” said Alleyne.

“We’re delighted to have secured a deal with Anthony and Lee on ‘Sunburn’ for our Afm lineup,” added Moviehouse managing director Gary Phillips. “It’s a smart and...

Whether you grew up in the city or the country, you probably hung out with a group of similarly aged kids. You usually played games, explored, and occasionally got into a bit of mischief. The movies exploited that sensing of bonding and belonging nearly a hundred years ago when slapstick king Hal Roach created and produced the long-running series of short comedies called “Our Gang” (when they were sold to TV in the 50’s they were packaged under a new title “The Little Rascals: since teen gangs were the stuff of parental nightmares). In the late 1930’s, the “Dead End Kids were “B” movie staples right into the 50’s when they morphed into “The Bowery Boys”. More recently filmmakers have used the multi-kid format usually in a nostalgic setting. The 50’s were the backdrop for The Lords Of Flatbush and The Wanderers, the next decade had American Graffiti and The Sandlot.

After a relatively fallow 2017, European sales companies at Busan’s Asian Film Market, which runs Oct. 6-9, appear to be headed back to the halcyon days of 2016, despite the damp weather conditions. Statistics from European Film Promotion (Efp), a constant presence at the market since 2006 via their Europe Umbrella business hub for European sales companies, tell the tale.Europeans Get Back to Business at the Asian Film Market

At the 2016 market, 27 European companies represented 105 films, of which 48, or 45.71%, were sold across Asia. These included “Night of a 1000 Hours,” sold by Germany’s Picture Tree Intl., and “Porto,” sold by Poland’s New Europe Film Sales. In 2017, 30 companies represented 119 films, of which 47, or 39.49%, were sold to Asian territories, including “Bpm (Beats Per Minute),” sold by France’s Playtime, and “The Insult,” repped by fellow French outfit Alpha Violet.

In 2018, reflecting what has been a strong year for European cinema, there are...

Locarno, Switzerland — Brit Richard Billingham’s “Ray & Liz,” “A Family Tour,” from Chinese exile Ying Liang, Chilean Dominga Sotomayor’s “Too Late to Die Young” made some of the very early running in main competition at the 71st Locarno Festival, which saw a slew of negotiations kick off, and some deals go down, at its packed Industry Days which wrapped Monday.

The films world premiered at Europe’s biggest mid-summer film meet as Meg Ryan, Antoine Fuqua, Ethan Hawke and France’s Bruno Dumont rolled into town. Ryan talked of her new career as a director, producer, announcing a new project, half-hour comedy “The Obsolescents”: Fuqua, at Locarno for “The Equaliser 2,” talked intelligently about how to empower black filmmakers in Hollywood; Hawke, here to present “Blaze,” will receive the 2018 Excellence Award; Dumont, world premiering feature/series “Coincoin and the Extra Humans,” maybe the best received of Piazza Grande offerings to date,...

Announced at Locarno, Vicente Alves do Ó’s “Sunburn,” (“A golpe de sol”) participating at this year’s Portugal-focused Works in Progress event, is to be sold by international sales, distribution and production company The Open Reel, with Portuguese distribution handled by Nos.

Shot in a 2:35 widescreen format, “Sunburn” is a deeply personal examination by Alves do Ó of the way in which people from our past can stick with us, and an experiment in what can happen when they re-enter our lives. It also works hard to combat gay stereotypes that often weigh down other similarly-themed stories.

In it, four friends enjoy a weekend in a luxurious cabin in the dry Portuguese countryside. As the sun beats down on their well-maintained, now middle-aged bodies, each receives a call from the same former lover David. It seems that after years away in Brazil, he is back, and will be...

The latest movies from three of Portugal’s most prominent production houses – Ukbar’s “Sunburn,” beActive’s “Gabriel” and O Som e a Furia’s “Breeding Ground” – feature in this year’s Locarno First Look showcase, a pix-in-post strand which marks one of the biggest attractions for sales agents and distributors at Europe’s largest mid-summer film event.

They are joined by three more doc-features, like “Breeding Ground”: Terratreme’s “Campo,” “Blue Breath,” from Bando a Parte, and Entre Imagen’s “Earth.”

A prestige First Look Jury is comprised by SXSW film head Janet Pierson, San Sebastian Festival director José Luis Rebordinos, and new Vienna Film Festival director Eva Sangiorgi.

First Look also serves as an introduction to key producers, talents and trends in a national cinema, and as springboard for broader international reach.

The First Look showcase catches Portuguese cinema at a contradictory time. Abroad, for a country of just 10.2 million inhabitants,...

Graphic novel “Under,” about mutant creatures lurking in the sewers beneath a major U.S. metropolis, is coming to the big screen, with Franco-Belgian comics powerhouse Media Participations Group, Titan Comics, and U.K. producer Born Wild bringing the project to life.

“Under” was created by prolific French writer Christophe Bec and his regular illustrator and collaborator, Stefano Rafael. It is published by Le Lombard, which sits within Media Participations Group’s stable of comic book publishers alongside the likes of Dargaud, and is represented by Mediatoon.

Set in the near future in the city’s vast sewer complex, which have become a war zone complete with mutant spiders and crocodiles, disgraced former detective Jericho leads a subterranean police force attempting to preserve a semblance of order. Sandra Yeatman, a young female scientist, embeds herself with Jericho’s team, to his disdain, and they battle to stop the underwater carnage from spreading above ground.

What I love about country music is that it pairs well with all different kinds of moods, from melancholy to mmm-hmm, let's get it on! If you are looking for a sexy playlist for a date night at home or en route to special evening out, we've got just the thing! These 15 sexy country songs are brand spankin' new in 2018 and range from sultry tunes about everyone's go-to libido enhancing beverage, tequila, to anthems that celebrate a man's love for a woman to easy-on-the-ears songs that make the perfect soundtrack for intimacy and ballads by undeniably sexy singers like Keith Urban and Blake Shelton. Enjoy!

"Coming Home," Keith Urban and Julia Michaels "Drowns the Whiskey," Jason Aldean and Miranda Lambert "Say Something," Justin Timberlake and Chris Stapleton "The Difference," Tyler Rich "Woman Amen," Dierks Bentley "Shoot Me Straight," Brothers Osborne "Tequila," Dan + Shay "Sunrise, Sunburn, Sunset," Luke Bryan "Cry Pretty,...

Joan Collins in 'The Bitch': Sex tale based on younger sister Jackie Collins' novel. Author Jackie Collins dead at 77: Surprisingly few film and TV adaptations of her bestselling novels Jackie Collins, best known for a series of bestsellers about the dysfunctional sex lives of the rich and famous and for being the younger sister of film and TV star Joan Collins, died of breast cancer on Sept. 19, '15, in Los Angeles. The London-born (Oct. 4, 1937) Collins was 77. Collins' tawdry, female-centered novels – much like those of Danielle Steel and Judith Krantz – were/are immensely popular. According to her website, they have sold more than 500 million copies in 40 countries. And if the increasingly tabloidy BBC is to be believed (nowadays, Wikipedia has become a key source, apparently), every single one of them – 32 in all – appeared on the New York Times' bestseller list. (Collins' own site claims that a mere 30 were included.) Sex...

Director of the mystical road movie Vanishing Point

Vanishing Point was one of a crop of existential road movies in the early 1970s – the others included Two-Lane Blacktop and Electra Glide in Blue – which quickly gained cult status. Its director, Richard C Sarafian, who has died aged 83, never made another film that struck such a resounding chord with audiences, countercultural or otherwise. No matter: the appeal of Vanishing Point was enduring enough to make him a noted, even influential, figure. Quentin Tarantino thanked Sarafian in the closing credits of his own four-wheeled thriller, Death Proof (2007), and the Scottish band Primal Scream signalled their admiration for Vanishing Point by naming a 1997 album after the movie. "It's always been a favourite of the band," said the singer Bobby Gillespie. "We love the air of paranoia and speed-freak righteousness."

This 1971 film concerns the Vietnam veteran Kowalski (played by Barry Newman after the studio overruled Sarafian's first choice,...

Farrah Fawcett did not make the cut for this year's In Memoriam tribute during last night's Academy Awards telecast ... leaving many scratching their heads.Despite appearing in such classics as "Sunburn," "Saturn 3," "The Cannonball Run" and "Dr. T and the Women," Fawcett was passed over for more household names ... like Michael Jackson. An Academy spokesperson told the AP, "Every year it's an unfortunate reality that we can't include everybody." ...

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What was once old always becomes new again. Right now the upper management at ABC are close to ordering a pilot for a new casting of Charlie's Angels, the classic 1970s action-adventure hour-long series beloved by little girls and older boys for completely different reasons.

When it came out in 1976, Angels was an instant hit and cemented Farrah Fawcett (then called Fawcett-Majors due to her nupitals with Six Million Dollar Man star Lee Majors) as the last poster queen. While Ff only starred in the show for a season before trying to play her cards as a movie star (Saturn 3? Sunburn? Man, it's pretty bad when you're only decent big screen performance from the 1970s was in Logan's Run), the show proved to have legs enough for a six season run. Drew Barrymore dusted it off and McG reimagined the concept slightly more tongue-in-cheek for the Charlie's Angels movies...

After a long battle with cancer actress Farrah Fawcett passed away earlier this morning at the age of 62. At the time of her passing she was with actor Ryan O'Neal, her longtime companion, and best friend Alana Stewart. Fawcett's fight against cancer had made headlines since she was diagnosed in late 2006 and went public with her battle with the disease.

In the 1970s Fawcett reached a level of fame that few actresses ever attain and became the defining sex symbol of that era. After being cast in the hour-long action show Charlie's Angels the blonde-haired former model found herself not just on the covers of magazines but also girls' dolls, toys, lunch boxes and even a worldwide bestselling poster that featured her smiling in a red bikini. She also shocked the world of entertainment when she announced that she would be leaving Charlie's Angels after starring it in for only one season.

The camera loved her. Men drooled over her and women wanted to look like her. She was the pin-up girl of the '70s—the blonde bombshell whose lovely visage hung on the walls of teenage boys across North America in one of the most famous posters of the decade. The classic image of Farrah Fawcett wearing a red swimsuit (pictured at left) sold 12 million copies around the world. But today, the woman who entered our collective consciousness 35 years ago as a lovely television pop idol, is dead at 62 after a fierce and much-publicized battle with cancer.

Fawcett was catapulted to worldwide fame in 1976 when she starred alongside Kate Jackson and Jaclyn Smith in the Aaron Spelling series Charlie's Angels. Fawcett played Jill Munroe, who, together with Sabrina Duncan (Kate Jackson) and Kelly Garrett (Jaclyn Smith), worked for a detective agency and received their assignments via speaker-phone from an unseen boss,...