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Allegedly, First Lady Jacqueline Bouvier Kennedy made really good waffles. I say “allegedly” not because the waffles attributed to her in various cookbooks aren’t objectively good; they’re actually wonderfully airy and crisp, thanks to an innovative technique involving whipped egg whites and baking powder. But did she ever actually cook or consume the waffles? Does it matter? Didn’t she do enough for her country, between being the exceptionally tolerant wife of a blatantly randy president, the widowed mother of small children expected to bear up beautifully in public after her husband was murdered before her eyes,...

An intimate portrayal of the First Lady Jackie is a “searing and intimate portrait” of one of the most important and tragic moments in American history, seen through the eyes of the iconic First Lady, then Jacqueline Bouvier Kennedy (Natalie Portman). Jackie places us in her world during the days immediately following her husband’s assassination. Known for her extraordinary dignity and poise, here we see a psychological portrait of the First Lady as she struggles to maintain her husband’s legacy and the world of “Camelot” that they created and loved so well. Jackie will be released in cinemas on 20 January 2017.

Jackie is a searing and intimate portrait of one of the most important and tragic moments in American history, seen through the eyes of the iconic First Lady, then Jacqueline Bouvier Kennedy (Natalie Portman). Jackie places us in her world during the days immediately following her husband’s assassination. Known for her extraordinary dignity and poise, here we see a psychological portrait of the First Lady as she struggles to establish her husband’s legacy and the world of “Camelot” that she created and loved so well.

Jackie unites award-winning director Pablo Larraín (Neruda, No) with Academy Award®-winning actress Natalie Portman as they re-imagine the private side of one of the most profound moments of the 20th Century.

Jackie opens in St. Louis on Wednesday, December 21st.

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“Jackie” screenwriter Noah Oppenheim’s interest in former first lady Jacqueline Bouvier Kennedy began early. “I’ve been obsessed and fascinated with her since was a little kid,” the screenwriter told TheWrap founder Sharon Waxman Monday after a screening of Pablo Larrain‘s Oscar contender. “My mother was a huge admirer of Jackie Kennedy. When I visited my grandmother’s house when I was 6 years old, I found this box in her room of newspapers and magazines from that week in 1963 that she had saved. That launched a lifelong interest in the Kennedys and Jackie in particular.” The Chilean director’s film,...

Open in five theaters, Fox Searchlight’s biopic “Jackie” posted the strongest per screen average of the weekend by far with $55,000, for an estimated total of $275,000. That beats second place returning title “Lion,” which posted $17,176 on average from seven locations for a total of $120,234 for The Weinstein Company title. Also Read: 'Moana' Rides to Top of Box Office Again With $28.4 Million “Jackie” stars Natalie Portman in what’s being billed as an intimate portrait of the iconic first lady, Jacqueline Bouvier Kennedy. The film currently has an 86 percent on Rotten Tomatoes and has put Portman firmly in the...

There are few things more deflating than the prospect of yet another Great Man biopic, a genre that's prone to cause even the best directors to stumble. The resulting films are often too rambling, too unfocused, too unnecessary—either misguided passion projects or empty stabs at “respectability.” In that respect, Jackie (Chilean director Pablo Larraín's second foray into biopic territory this year, after Neruda) sets itself apart. Centering on Jacqueline Bouvier Kennedy (Natalie Portman) and largely confining its focus to the hours and days following her husband’s assassination in 1963, it’s less a biopic and more an intimate refraction of a national tragedy. And although somewhat uneven, it remains an intriguing, if frustrating affair—both a plunge into history and myth and a look at its creation, the manner by which “one brief shining moment that was known as Camelot” became embedded into a national consciousness.Opening at...

And now we’ve arrived at the end of the calendar year. As the final push for year-end viewing continues at a furious pace, some of the last unknown films of 2016 will finally make their way to audiences. To help focus your viewing choices, here is a list of films opening throughout the coming weeks, separated into categories of wide and limited runs. (Synopses are provided by festivals and distributors.)

If you’re interested in what still might be in a theater near you, check out our November Release Guide. For those curious what 2017 might bring, you can also visit our calendar page, which has releases through the beginning of the new year.

Happy watching!

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Often referred to as the “most unknown of the known women of the 20th century,” Fox Searchlight and director Pablo Larraín will soon cast light on the late, great Jacqueline Kennedy Onassis through Jackie, a buzzworthy biopic that is expected to fire Natalie Portman directly into the race for Best Actress in a few weeks’ time.

Set soon after JFK’s harrowing assassination in 1963, by the time Larraín’s long-in-development feature opens, we’re introduced to the former First Lady at her absolute lowest. Pushed to the brink by the sheer gravity of the situation – a country in mourning, Camelot, and the loss of her charismatic significant other – a new wave of stills have emerged today to showcase Portman’s intricate, complex performance in all its Oscar-tipped glory.

Some are from behind the scenes, and you’ll notice in one image that archival footage of Jackie Kennedy...

After portraying Jacqueline Bouvier Kennedy for the increasingly acclaimed film Jackie, Natalie Portman reveals that she came away admiring the former first lady for the strength she displayed throughout her life.

“I loved that she defined herself as a wife primarily, but then lived a life that was very counter to that, where she was her own woman so strongly,” Portman told People at the Hollywood premiere of the film Monday at the American Film Institute’s AFI Fest 2016. The Oscar-winning actress, 35, portrays the grieving, traumatized first lady as she searches for the inner strength to move forward in the...

Jacqueline Kennedy was just 34 when her husband was elected President of the United States. Elegant, stylish, and inscrutable, she instantly became a global icon, one of the most famous women in the world, her taste in fashion, décor and the arts, widely admired.

Then, on November 22, 1963, while on a campaign trip to Dallas, John F. Kennedy is assassinated – Jackie’s pink suit is showered in her husband’s blood. As she boards Air Force One back to Washington, Jackie’s world – including her faith – is completely shattered. Traumatized and reeling with grief, over the course of the next week she must confront the unimaginable: consoling their two young children, vacating the home she painstakingly restored, and planning her husband’s funeral. Jackie quickly realizes that the next seven days will determine how history will define her husband’s legacy – and how she herself will be remembered.

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Fox Searchlight has released the teaser trailer for their upcoming film Jackie, starring Oscar winner Natalie Portman as Jacqueline Kennedy. Lrm reviewed the film at this year's Tiff, which you can read by clicking Here.

The film Jackie is a searing and intimate portrait of one of the most important and tragic moments in American history, seen through the eyes of the iconic First Lady, then Jacqueline Bouvier Kennedy (Natalie Portman). Jackie places us in her world during the days immediately following her husband's assassination. Known for her extraordinary dignity and poise, here we see a psychological portrait of the First Lady as she struggles to maintain her husband’s legacy and the world of "Camelot" that they created and loved so well.

Check out the new trailer below.

Jackie will hit theaters on December 2, 2016.

Two of the most enveloping and visually striking films I’ve seen all year are Pablo Larraín‘s Neruda and Jackie, both of which arrive in theaters next month. Today brings a new trailer for the latter, the Natalie Portman-led biopic of First Lady Jacqueline Kennedy, recounting the days after JFK was assassinated. This new preview opens up more of what the director captures here, and notably how she interacts with the people closest to her (and American public at large) during these harrowing few days.

We said in our review, “It’s one of three films to be released by the prolific director in 2016 (alongside El Club and Neruda), as well as his first to be made in the United States and English. Such changes in surroundings might have thrown a lesser director off, or at least compromised their style, but Larraín’s conviction, signature moves, and leftward-leaning...

dick clark productions announced today that Academy Award-winning actress Natalie Portman will be honored with the “Hollywood Actress Award” for her role in “Jackie” and artist Janelle Monáe will receive the “Hollywood Spotlight Award” for her breakout role in “Hidden Figures.” Additionally, the cast of the film “Gold,” including Academy Award-winning actor Matthew McConaughey, Golden Globe Award-nominated actress Bryce Dallas Howard, Golden Globe Award-nominated actor Edgar Ramirez and Golden Globe Award-winning actor Stacy Keach will receive the “Hollywood Ensemble Award” at the 20th Annual “Hollywood Film Awards® Presented by Virginia Black.” The awards ceremony, celebrating its 20th anniversary as the official launch of the awards season®, will be hosted by actor and comedian James Corden, and will take place at the Beverly Hilton Hotel in Beverly Hills, on November 6, 2016. The Hollywood Film Awards honors some of the most acclaimed films and actors, as well as previews highly anticipated films and talent for the upcoming year.

So many goodies in the cinemas candy store this upcoming Awards Season! Oh,boy, oh boy.

It’s “Good Movie Season” when we get Hollywood heavy-hitters (both top popcorn entertainment and Oscar wannabees), and the best of the film festival circuit, most recently from Toronto. Many films will have an awards qualifying run in 2016 and open officially in 2017.

While we have not seen some of these (although we have seen some trailers), some movies are sure to disappoint. That said, here is Wamg’s list of highly-anticipated films, both big blockbuster entertainment and seriously meaty cinema.

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Doctor Strange – Nov. 4

The Sherlock supreme becomes the sorcerer supreme as one of the founding Marvel comics heroes finally arrives in the Marvel “movie-verse”.

While other Marvel Studios flicks have explored the worlds of hi-tech, Norse mythology, and space opera, director Scott Derrickson guides us through the realms of magic.

Fox Searchlight’s Jackie has joined this year’s slate of AFI Centerpiece Galas at the 2016 fest. Directed by Pablo Larrain, Jackie, starring Oscar winner Natalie Portman, will screen on Monday, November 14, at the Tcl Chinese Theatre. The film, which debuted at the Venice and Toronto film festivals, is an intimate portrait of Jacqueline Bouvier Kennedy, portrayed by Portman, which takes us into the iconic First Lady’s world during the difficult days immediately following…...

Fox Searchlight’s big awards season contender will screen at the festival on November 14.

Natalie Portman stars as Jacqueline Bouvier Kennedy in the days immediately before and after the assassination of President John F Kennedy.

Chile’s Pablo Larraín directed the film from a screenplay by Noah Oppenheim. Juan De Dios Larraín, Darren Aronofsky, Mickey Liddell, Scott Franklin and Ari Handel produced. The festival runs from November 10-17.

Lucasfilm announced on Friday that Donald Glover will play the young Lando Calrissian in the untitled Han Solo Star Wars film directed by Phil Lord and Christopher Miller. Alden Ehrenreich was previously cast as Han Solo. The film is scheduled to open in 2018.Manchester By The Seaproducers Matt Damon Kimberly Steward, Lauren Beck, Chris Moore and Kevin J. Walsh have joined the line-up at the Producers Guild Of America’s 3rd Annual Produced By: New York Conference, set to run on October 29.HBO Europe has acquired Slovakia’s Oscar...

Keep up with the always-hopping film festival world with our weekly Film Festival Roundup column. Check out last week’s Roundup right here.

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– “3-D Auteurs,” a 19-day, 34-film festival spotlighting stereoscopic movies by some of history’s most distinguished directors, will run at Film Forum November 11 – 29. The festival spans 3-D’s earliest days (including some turn-of-the-century films by pioneer Georges Méliès) to the present, and represents virtually every genre, including Westerns, Film Noir, and Science Fiction. Hollywood’s first big 3-D craze (sometimes called 3-D’s “golden era”), intended to offset the threat of television, came in the early 1950s, with such movies as Hitchcock’s “Dial M For Murder,” André De Toth’s “House of Wax” and Jack Arnold’s “Creature From the Black Lagoon” (all included in the series).

Hollywood produced roughly 50 movies in the process from 1952 to 1954, before fizzling out and being overtaken by...

The schedule for the 25th Annual Whitaker St. Louis International Film Festival (Sliff) has been announced and once again film goers will be offered the best in cutting edge features and shorts from around the globe. The festival takes place November 3-13, 2016.

Sliff kicks off on November 3 with the opening-night selection St. Louis Brews, the latest home-brewed documentary by local filmmaker Bill Streeter, director of Brick By Chance And Fortune: A St. Louis Story (read my interview with Bill Here)

According to Sliff, the festival will feature more than 125 filmmaking guests, including honorees: Actress Karen Allen (Raiders Of The Lost Ark, Animal House), director Charles Burnett (Killer Of Sheep, To Sleep With Anger), winner of the Cinema St. Louis Lifetime Achievement Award; and director Steve James (Hoop Dreams).

Full information on Sliff films, including synopses, dates/time, and links for purchase of advance tickets is available on the Cinema St.

In theaters on December 2, watch the first teaser for Jackie starring Natalie Portman.

Jackie is a searing and intimate portrait of one of the most important and tragic moments in American history, seen through the eyes of the iconic First Lady, then Jacqueline Bouvier Kennedy (Natalie Portman). Jackie places us in her world during the days immediately following her husband’s assassination.

Known for her extraordinary dignity and poise, here we see a psychological portrait of the First Lady as she struggles to maintain her husband’s legacy and the world of “Camelot” that they created and loved so well.

Directed by Pablo Larraín (No; Neruda) and written by Noah Oppenheim, Jackie also features Peter Sarsgaard, Greta Gerwig, Billy Crudup and John Hurt.

Oppenheim’s original script won Best Screenplay at this year’s Venice International Film Festival.

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The last 24 hours have seen the release of three trailers for upcoming movies, including a brand new (and unexpected) thriller from Jordan Peele, and two powerful looking dramas. Come inside to check them out!

Sometimes, movie news likes to land all at once, with multiple things hitting at the same time. Such was the case with these three trailers, so instead of spreading them out over a few articles, I thought it'd be easier to lump them all together...Especially considering these are the first trailers for all three films. Let's start out with something unexpected:

Get Out comes as a big surprise being written and direted by Jordan Peele (Key & Peele). No one knew he was making this movie, let alone a thriller that seems at odds with his normal wheelhouse. Either way, it looks kinda neat, even if the trailer gives away most of it.

In Universal Pictures’ Get Out,...

Jackie is a searing and intimate portrait of one of the most important and tragic moments in American history, seen through the eyes of the iconic First Lady, then Jacqueline Bouvier Kennedy (Natalie Portman). Jackie places us in her world during the days immediately following her husband's assassination. Here we see a psychological portrait of the First Lady as she struggles to maintain her... Read More...

Revealing enough but not too much is this first teaser trailer for Pablo Larraín’s Jackie, for me, one of the best films of the year. Natalie Portman stars as the widowed First Lady, Jacqueline Bouvier Kennedy, in the days following her husband’s assassination. In addition to being a bold psychological portrait, it’s also a clear-eyed dissection of the Camelot myth, referenced here, ironically, through Richard Harris’ singing.

Fox Searchlight has released the teaser trailer for their upcoming film Jackie, starring Oscar winner Natalie Portman as Jacqueline Kennedy. Lrm recently reviewed the film at this year's Tiff, which you can read by clicking Here.

Back during the Toronto International Film Festival, one of the most talked about films seemed to be Jackie — a film set days after the assassination of John F. Kennedy. Sure, that event has had more than its fair share of adaptations, but this one follows the effect the murder had on the First Lady, the titularJackie.

While one would expect a film based on a well-worn like this to be rather traditional in its approach, from everything I’ve read, this one gives the subject matter a mores personal touch. By all accounts, Portman gives a tour de force performance that’s expected to make her a shoo-in for a Best Actress nomination at the coming Academy Awards.

It’ll be hard for me to read, hear, type, or say the title of Pablo Larraín‘s new film without hearing ’60s-era Scott Walker and a charging backing band, but most have been kind enough for me to think Jackie can stand on its own. Most of the praise for his Natalie Portman-led biopic of First Lady Jacqueline Kennedy has concerned its lack of resemblance to the typical story-of-a-great-figure mold, critics having noted its formal boldness. You’ll get a taste of that in the first preview, which Fox Searchlight have released in advance of its December opening.

If one would like to preserve surprise and instead get a more subjective sense of Jackie‘s greatness, read our review. As we said, “It’s one of three films to be released by the prolific director in 2016 (alongside El Club and Neruda), as well as his first to be...

Fox Searchlight Pictures Presidents Nancy Utley and Stephen Gilula announced today that the company has acquired Us rights to Jackie, directed by Pablo Larraín (No; Neruda) and written by Noah Oppenheim, from Ld Entertainment. The film stars Academy Award winner Natalie Portman, Greta Gerwig, Billy Crudup, Academy Award nominee John Hurt, and Peter Sarsgaard. Jackie is produced by Juan De Dios Larraín, Darren Aronofsky, Mickey Liddell, Scott Franklin, and Ari Handel. The filmmaking team includes cinematographer Stéphane Fontaine (Rust And Bone), editor Sebastián Sepúlveda (The Club), production designer Jean Rabasse (The Dreamers), costume designer Madeline Fontaine (Amelie) and music by Mica Levi (Under The Skin). The film is scheduled to open on December 9, 2016. Oppenheim?s original script won Best Screenplay at this year?s Venice International Film Festival. “Pablo Larraín’s “Jackie” is a daring, one-of-a-kind cinematic portrayal of a beloved icon. Led by an indelible performance from Natalie Portman...

Searchlight sets December 9 release date for well-received Venice and Toronto drama.

Fox Searchlight is understood to have paid in the high seven figures for Us rights to Pablo Larrain’s well-received Venice and Toronto drama Jackie, securing a strong awards contender at a time when Oscar prospects for The Birth Of A Nation remain unclear.

The studio has set a December 9 date for the film, which won best screenplay honours on the Lido and garnered raves for Natalie Portman as former First Lady Jacqueline Bouvier Kennedy.

Searchlight exercised its first and last rights position, which entitled the studio to a first option to buy and the ability to match any offer from a competing buyer.

The deal was brokered by Fox Searchlight’s executive vice-president of business affairs Megan O’Brien and senior vice-president of acquisitions and co-productions Ray Strache, and CAA, which also packaged and arranged the film’s financing, and [link=nm...

When Jaclyn Smith covered People in October 1981, she had a secret - she was expecting! Smith reveals on the next episode of People's List that she had just found out that she was pregnant with first child, son Gaston Richmond, when she posed for the cover in glam '80s sparkles. "This was the best time of my life," she shares while revisiting the issue. She adds, "Everything was bigger than life, including my hair."Of the 1980s, the now-70-year-old - who also has a daughter, Spencer Margaret - explains, "everything was bigger than big." When Smith appeared in the issue,...

When Jaclyn Smith covered People in October 1981, she had a secret – she was expecting!

Smith reveals on the next episode of People's List that she had just found out that she was pregnant with first child, son Gaston Richmond, when she posed for the cover in glam '80s sparkles.

"This was the best time of my life," she shares while revisiting the issue. She adds, "Everything was bigger than life, including my hair."

Of the 1980s, the now-70-year-old – who also has a daughter, Spencer Margaret – explains, "everything was bigger than big."

When Smith appeared in the issue, she...

Natalie Portman as Jacqueline Kennedy: 'Jackie.' Natalie Portman as Jacqueline Kennedy in 'Jackie' Notwithstanding the box office-friendly Thor movies, which revolve around Chris Hemsworth in the title role, Natalie Portman has yet to have a star vehicle as impactful as Darren Aronofsky's Black Swan, which earned her the Best Actress Academy Award nearly five years ago. Who knows, perhaps Pablo Larraín's Jackie will be one such vehicle; the biopic following U.S. First Lady Jacqueline Kennedy in the days after President John F. Kennedy assassination is slated for a 2017 release. The image above is the official “first look,” initially posted at Deadline.com. Also in the Jackie cast: Peter Sarsgaard as Robert Kennedy, Max Casella, Beth Grant, and Greta Gerwig. Darren Aronofsky and Juan de Dios Larraín are the two credited producers, while Noah Oppenheim (The Maze Runner, The Divergent Series: Allegiant) is the credited screenwriter.

Once a sex symbol, always a sex symbol. Certainly in Jaclyn Smith's case, at least. The original Charlie's Angels star is celebrating her 70th birthday today and whatever it is she's doing... It's working. Smith, who covered many a bedroom wall alongside fellow poster girls Farrah Fawcett and Kate Jackson in the 1970s, is still pretty pinup-worthy as far as we're concerned. After Charlie's Angels wrapped its six-year run in 1981, Smith became a fixture on the small screen in TV movies—she was nominated for a Golden Globe for her title role in Jacqueline Bouvier Kennedy—and she had a cameo in 2003's Charlie's Angels: Full Throttle. She also famously turned into a...

National Geographic Channel chose today — which would have been the diamond wedding anniversary of Jacqueline Bouvier Kennedy and John Fitzgerald Kennedy — to announce the premiere date for its JFK assassination movie. Anyone else creeped out by that? Anyway, Killing Kennedy, based on the book of same name by Bill O’Reilly and Martin Dugard, will premiere on Sunday, November 10. It’s timed to the 50th anniversary of the assassination. Killing Kennedy will be released globally in 171 countries, in 48 languages. NatGeo’s first original feature, Killing Lincoln, premiered in February to a crowd of 3.4 million, which made it the most-watched program in the network’s history. Killing Lincoln also was based on a book of same name also by O’Reilly and Dugard. (Watch an exclusive clip from Killing Kennedy after the jump.) Rob Lowe, who plays JFK in the Nat Geo flick, called the Kennedy family our nation’s royalty...

National Geographic has scored a pretty good casting coup for its upcoming original movie "Killing Kennedy": Rob Lowe and Ginnifer Goodwin will star as John and Jacqueline Kennedy.

The film has also signed Michelle Trachtenberg, late of "Gossip Girl," to play Marina Oswald, Lee Harvey Oswald's wife.

"Killing Kennedy" is based on the best-selling book by Bill O'Reilly and Martin Dugard that chronicles the events leading up to JFK's assassination on Nov. 22, 1963. It focuses on Kennedy and Lee Harvey Oswald (who has yet to be cast) and key events in their lives that led them both to Dallas that day.

Kelly Masterson ("Before the Devil Knows You're Dead") is writing the script for the movie, which Nelson McCormick ("Touch," "Southland") will direct.

Lowe ("Parks and Recreation," "Behind the Candelabra") joins a long list of actors who have played John F. Kennedy over the years, among them Greg Kinnear...

Betty Hofstadt Draper Francis. That’s a lot of names — as many as Jacqueline Bouvier Kennedy Onassis, as many as Sterling Cooper Draper Pryce. And this season, Betty has felt like several different people at once. In the season premiere, she somehow achieved the moral high ground in an interaction with a gaggle of dirty hippies, and then immediately ceded the moral high ground, dying her hair brown for vague-but-definitely-weird reasons. When Martin Luther King was shot, she was a nagging ex-wife on the phone to Don (drunk as usual) and a chastising mom for Bobby (unusually sentient). When husband...

Criminal Minds has announced a major casting move.

Jeanne Tripplehorn will join the CBS drama as a series regular on season 8, coming on board as “a new profiler,” according to producer Erica Messer. “Her character will be introduced in the premiere.”

Tripplehorn helped anchor HBO's Big Love for five seasons; earned an Emmy nod for her portrayal of Jacqueline Bouvier Kennedy in Grey Gardens; and appeared most recently on multiple New Girl episodes.

Her casting is meant to offset the loss of Paget Brewster, who exited after Criminal Minds Season 7.

Jeanne Tripplehorn will join Criminal Minds on CBS this fall as a series regular.

Tripplehorn replaces Paget Brewster, who left the procedural drama this year after seven seasons. “We’re thrilled to have Jeanne Tripplehorn join our team as a profiler,” said Executive Producer Erica Messer in a statement. “Her character will be introduced in the premiere. It’s an exciting way to start season 8.”

For five seasons, Tripplehorn starred in HBO’s Big Love. She also played Jacqueline Bouvier Kennedy in the HBO film “Grey Gardens,” for which she was nominated for an Emmy Award in 2009. More recently, she...

With The Kennedys recent 10 Emmy nominations, including Best Miniseries (and another 10 noms from Canada's Gemini Awards), many have been revisiting the 8-part mini series that held so much controversy in the U.S.

An answer of sorts may have come in today's news that a series of secret audio tapes made by Jacqueline Kennedy are to be made public in a TV special. Reportedly, Caroline Kennedy released the tapes, which are set to air on ABC, also owned by A&E Television Networks. In reporting the story, the Scottish Daily Express says:

It is believed that Caroline, 53, agreed to release the tapes to ABC after pleading with the network to drop an embarrassing, £15million mini-series about the Kennedys that was due to air on its History Channel.

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The Kennedys | John F. Kennedy | Caroline Kennedy | Jacqueline Bouvier Kennedy...

Today's Challenge: Along with sharing a first name, Tom Wilkinson and Tom Skerritt have both played Joe Kennedy Sr. — in The Kennedys (premiering April 3 on ReelzChannel) and Jackie Bouvier Kennedy Onassis, respectively. Can you find their movie connection?

Our first Facebook movie game, ClusterFlick, plays off that old "six degrees of separation" theory — you know, the one that has a certain Kevin at the center of the Hollywood universe. It's easy to play, but not so easy to win. The goal is to use the major cast of movies to get from Point A to Point B in the smallest number of moves.

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Tom Skerritt | Tom Wilkinson | The Kennedys | Jacqueline Bouvier Kennedy...

She had to know what she was in for.  You don't sign up to play a 20th-century icon like Jacqueline Bouvier Kennedy Onassis and not expect to get judged, especially when your version of the legendary first lady takes amphetamines! Find out when you get to fully judge Katie Holmes as Jackie when The Kennedys miniseries, starring Mrs. Tom Cruise, Greg Kinnear, Barry Pepper and Tom Wilkinson finally premieres on the Reelz Channel, plus get the official episode-by-episode rundown of what Kennedy family scandals are re-revealed in this retelling of the family saga: Want More? Follow @JenniferArrow on Twitter The first two hours of the eight-hour miniseries will...

Contrary to circulating report, Katie Holmes will not visit the William McKinley High on the upcoming season of "Glee". Representative for the 31-year-old has slammed rumor suggesting that the actress best known as Joey Potter of "Dawson's Creek" is negotiating for a guest role on the hit musical comedy series, simply telling Gossip Cop the story is "not true."

The National Enquirer was the one which brought up in the first place the possibility that the wife of Tom Cruise will be a future guest star on the series. The friendship the Rachel Dawes of "Batman Begins" has with show creator Ryan Murphy as well as cast member Dianna Agron has reportedly led to the talks.

"Katie is finalizing a deal to join the cast for a limited story line next season," a source told the tabloid over the casting posibility. "Katie's film career has stalled, and she's desperately needs a career boost.

It's one trendsetter channeling another! The first snaps of fashionista Katie Holmes starring as Jacqueline Bouvier Kennedy in the History Channel miniseries The Kennedys are out, and we have to admit that the actress, dressed in full costume, does a pretty damn good imitation of the real thing. In a bouffant 'do, blue shift dress, classic pearls and a faux baby bump, Katie's copied the late first lady and fashion icon's style perfectly! So what do you think: Is Tom's better half pulling this off? And are you excited to see the miniseries? Weigh in below!

Even as both of them are portraying Jacqueline Bouvier Kennedy Onassis in two different projects, American actress Rachel Weisz does not think a rivalry will develop between her and Katie Holmes.“She’s a fantastic actress, she will be fabulous. It’s not a competition. I’m surprised more people haven’t played her so far. It seems strange there haven’t been many versions. But it’s great she has the opportunity to play her as well,” Weisz said. The actress will star in the big-screen drama, to be directed by husband Darren Aronofsky, which chronicles the days immediately following President John F ...

Although Rachel Weisz and Katie Holmes will both be playing Jacqueline Bouvier Kennedy Onassis in two different projects, Weisz says don't expect a rivalry to develop between the two stars. "She's a fantastic actress," Weisz, referring to Holmes, told People at Thursday's Nydg's Rx Haiti benefit in New York. "She will be fabulous." With the possibility of critics comparing and contrasting their performances, Weisz insists, "It's not a competition. I'm surprised more people haven't played her thus far. It seems strange there hasn't been many versions. But it's great she has the opportunity to play her as well." The 2006 Oscar...

History Channel will bring Camelot to the smallscreen, by dramatizing the Jack and Jackie Kennedy years on the channel. Actor Greg Kinnear will portray President John F. Kennedy and Katie Holmes is cast as First Lady Jacqueline Bouvier Kennedy. Barry Pepper is to play Robert Kennedy and Tom Wilkinson has taken the role as Kennedy patriarch Joe Kennedy Sr. "The Kennedys" will run as an eight-hour scripted miniseries on History in 2011. Kinnear and Holmes starred opposite each other in the 2000 feature "The Gift." "The Kennedys" will explore the personal relationships between the Kennedy brothers and their overbearing politically astute father. Jon Cassar will direct. History notes that Steve Gillon, Ph.D., is the lead historical advisor for...

Caro Jones, a casting director for television, film and theater for more than four decades, died Sept. 3 in Los Angeles following a 14-year battle with multiple myeloma. She was 86.

Jones cast more than 1,000 TV shows, pilots, movies of the week and miniseries and worked on films including two from director John Avildsen: best-picture Oscar winner "Rocky" (1976) and "Save the Tiger" (1973) with Jack Lemmon in one of his two Academy Award-winning turns.

Jones began her career as an assistant casting director for the Theatre Guild in New York for its live television production "The United States Steel Hour." One of her first office assistants was Les Moonves, now president and CEO of CBS Corp.

On the dramatic anthology series, which ran from 1953-63 on ABC and CBS, Jones worked with many actors who were just starting their careers -- Johnny Carson, Carroll O'Connor, Geraldine Page, Rip Torn, George C. Scott,...