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Jane Lapotaire, star of “The Crown” and “Downton Abbey,” has died. She was 81 years old. The Tony Award-winning actress passed away on March 5, and a spokesperson for the Royal Shakespeare Company confirmed the sad news on Thursday. The cause of death has not been made public. “We are saddened to hear of the passing of Jane Lapotaire,” the statement began, according to The Sun. “She is truly a wonderful actress. Her RSC credits include Piaf, for which she won a Tony and Olivier Award, and Gertrude, opposite Kenneth Branagh, in Adrian Noble’s Hamlet.” Jane Lapotaire, star of The…
Documentary festival Visions du Lille has announced the 31 projects selected for this year’s VdR-Industry platform, marking the first program overseen by Sabine Fayou Cantillo, the newly appointed industry director who succeeded Alice Bergin. For Fayou Cantillo, the move felt like a natural fit. Prior to joining the festival team, she experienced events from the other side of the industry, serving as Associate Director of Programming at Chicken & Egg Films. “This nonfiction festival was a festival that I was fortunate and happy to be a part of as an industry representative during my previous role at Chicken and Egg…
Eminem’s longtime DJ Lord Shear has died at the age of 52. The legendary hip-hop icon, whose real name was Steve Watson, passed away on Wednesday. His death was announced on Shear’s Instagram page the same day, but the cause of death was not disclosed. “We are heartbroken and saddened by the loss of Lord Shear,” the memorial read, along with three photos of the late SiriusXM host. “He was more than a voice on the radio. He was a strength, a friend, and a family member to many of us.” Lord Shear (pictured during an album release party in…
The Alternativa Film Festival, part of a global non-profit film initiative aimed at supporting emerging filmmakers from the Global South, has named Colombian actress and producer Natalia Reyes to chair its upcoming jury in Medellin, Colombia. It also announced a lineup of approximately 30 feature films and shorts, including “Belen,” which won Argentina’s Best International Feature at the 98th Academy Awards, and “A Useful Ghost,” the acclaimed debut feature from Thai director Ratchapoum Boonbunchachochk. The traveling festival began in Kazakhstan in Central Asia in 2023 and expanded to Indonesia in Southeast Asia in 2024. In addition to screenings, talks, and…
Billy Joel is on the mend after a “horrifying” battle with the rare brain disease normal pressure hydrocephalus (NPH). “He has regular physical therapy and is doing very well,” Joel’s daughter Alexa Ray told The Hollywood Reporter in an interview published Thursday. “He has lost weight because he is on a diet.” She added, “I’m so proud of him. He’s so brave, so resilient, so committed to being healthy and active. He’s a fighter. He’s always been a fighter, and he talks about how life is like a battle in the documentary.” Alexa Ray Joel shared a positive health update…
Jio Studios and B62 Studios are bringing Ranveer Singh’s Durandal back to theaters in an unusual international re-release from March 12, a week before its sequel Durandal: The Revenge releases on March 19. The Bollywood blockbuster will be screened in around 500 screens around the world, including 250 locations in India from March 12 and 250 internationally from March 13. The re-release will allow audiences to see both films in the series back-to-back in theaters. International re-releases of Hindi films remain a rarity, confirming the strong global demand for the franchise. The re-release will occupy 185 screens in North America…
“Survivor 50” star Q Burdett claimed castmate Angelina Keeley only cared about making good television on the show. “What annoyed me about Angelina wasn’t that I actually called anyone out. But I targeted her because she didn’t really do much during camp. And I felt like a lot of what she would do was done for the cameras and television,” Burdett exclusively told Page Six after her elimination on Wednesday’s episode. The 31-year-old real estate agent said Keeley, 36, flaunted her antics on numerous occasions, including during the original Tribe’s mock fashion show and during the immunity challenge in episode…
The Family Guy spinoff series Stewie has been ordered by Fox for two seasons. The new animated series aims to premiere on FOX during the 2027-2028 season, with next-day streaming on Hulu and international streaming on Disney+. The official synopsis for “Stewie” reads: “After graduating from his old kindergarten, Stewie is enrolled in a new kindergarten that is not necessarily the best. There’s a 75-year-old class turtle who has half-baked theories about the subject. Stewie is miserable, the other kids are miserable, even the turtles are miserable… until Stewie starts developing his own kindergarten.” A collection of trusted devices that…
Gwyneth Paltrow, pictured at the 2019 Met Gala, spoke about her “love-hate” relationship with the Anna Wintour-led event. Getty Images Gwyneth Paltrow isn’t treating the Met Gala like a costume party. The Goop founder looked back at some of her all-time favorite red carpet looks, took a few turns on the steps of the Metropolitan Museum of Art, and brushed off her negative feelings about the event (I have a love-hate relationship with the Met Ball, which is well-documented), she wrote. “I would never go to the Met Ball wearing a hot dog costume or anything, you know?” she said.…
Bonnie Timmerman, the pioneering American casting director known for changing the face of Hollywood film and television by imposing diversity and discovering talent in abundance, will be honored at Italy’s Biograph Festival, a unique event dedicated to celebrating human life on film. In the mid-1980s, Timmermann broke new ground by playing a diverse actor in Michael Mann’s television series “Miami Vice,” and later co-starred with Mann in “Manhunter,” “Heat,” and “The Insider.” Her long casting list includes “Trading Places,” “The Best Kid,” “Dirty Dancing,” “Bull Durham,” “Armageddon,” “Black Hawk Down,” and most recently, “The Roofman,” directed by Derek Cianfrance. In…