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Yahoo
19-03-2025
- Entertainment
- Yahoo
Glenn Close turns 78: a look back
Actress Glenn Close, known for her roles in "Fatal Attraction," "Dangerous Liaisons," "101 Dalmatians," "Damages," and "Hillbilly Elegy," turns 78 on Wednesday. Here's a look back at her career through the years.
See - Sada Elbalad
11-03-2025
- Entertainment
- See - Sada Elbalad
"Cruel Intentions" Canceled after One Season
'Cruel Intentions" long journey to TV has ended rather brutally. The 'Cruel Intentions' TV series at Amazon Prime Video has been canceled after just one season. The series originally debuted on the streamer in November 2024. It served as a TV update to the 1999 film of the same name, which was itself based on the classic novel 'Dangerous Liaisons.' A TV show based on the movie was set up at IMDB TV (a.k.a Freevee) in 2021 before being formally ordered at Prime Video in late 2023. The Amazon series starred Sarah Catherine Hook, Zac Burgess, Savannah Lee Smith, Sara Silva, John Harlan Kim, Khobe Clarke, Sean Patrick Thomas, and Brooke Lena Johnson. Sara Goodman and Phoebe Fisher served as co-showrunners, writers, and executive producers. Neal H. Moritz and Pavun Shetty of Original Film also executive produced along with Roger Kumble. Moritz produced the original film, which was written and directed by Kumble. Bruce Mellon along with Andrea Iervolino and Monika Bacardi of Iervolino & Bacardi Entertainment were producers. The series was produced by Sony Pictures Television, Amazon MGM Studios, and Original Film. Per the official description, the show 'follows the elite students of Manchester College, a Washington, D.C.-adjacent university, where reputation means everything, fraternities and sororities are the gold standard, and two ruthless step-siblings, Caroline Merteuil (Hook) and Lucien Belmont (Burgess), will do anything to stay on top of the cutthroat social hierarchy. After a brutal hazing incident threatens the entire Greek Life system, they'll do whatever is necessary to preserve their power and reputation – even if that means seducing Annie Grover (Smith), the daughter of the Vice President of the United States. Hearts will be broken, loyalties will be tested, and secrets will be revealed in this modern-day royal court that is Manchester College.' Amazon does not typically release viewership information regarding their shows, so it is difficult to gauge exactly how many people tuned in to 'Cruel Intentions.' However, the series failed to make an appearance on the Nielsen Top 10 Streaming charts and also failed to find much love with critics. On Rotten Tomatoes, the series held a 24% critical approval rating with 10 reviews counted. Prior to this version of the show, NBC ordered a pilot for a followup to the movie in 2016 with Sarah Michelle Gellar, one of the movie's original stars, attached to reprise her role as Kathryn Merteuil. However, it ultimately didn't make it to series. Prior to that, Fox's attempted a 'Cruel Intentions' prequel series, which was canceled before making it to air. Three episodes of that show were eventually assembled to become the direct-to-video movie 'Cruel Intentions 2' in 2001. In 2004, Sony Pictures produced a second direct-to-video sequel, 'Cruel Intentions 3.'
BBC News
21-02-2025
- Entertainment
- BBC News
Peter Capaldi: I've come back to music again after 40 years
You would think the star of Doctor Who and The Devil's Hour would be used to time looping back upon as Peter Capaldi prepares to launch his first album with indie label Last Night From Glasgow, it's hard not to hear the echoes of the music he played in the city in the late 70s and early a student at Glasgow School of Art, he fronted punk band The Dreamboys in a line-up which included another actor on drums, Craig Ferguson."Like a lot of kids in the 70s, I was in a band," he says. "As long as you were committed to the idea, it was quite easy to do. You borrowed instruments, you borrowed an amp, recorded yourself live and took a cassette round local pubs to persuade them to listen, and give you a gig."Glasgow was a great city to be in, full of places to play and there were so many great bands around. I remember seeing Simple Minds but we were never that successful and we all went our separate ways." Music was always a passion but it was acting which took precedence as Capaldi moved to London and appeared in a string of films including Local Hero, The Lair of the White Worm, Dangerous Liaisons, and television shows such as The Thick of It and Dr Who, where he famously launched into a guitar solo in his first episode as the Time Lord."I was never a great player, I didn't spend all that time writing and I wasn't the guy who brought a guitar to a party and got everyone to sing songs but I was always keen on it," he that changed a few years ago when he met Robert Howard - aka Dr Robert of the 80s band The Blow Monkeys."He's fantastic, he IS the guy at the party with the guitar," he says."He has a beautiful voice and he can play anything and he encouraged me to play, and then to start writing stuff, just to see where that would go."The result was Capaldi's first album St Christopher, released in 2021, and that set in motion a return to Glasgow for the latest release, Sweet Illusions. Dr Robert had signed to a small Glasgow indie label which was set up by Ian Smith in Night From Glasgow takes its name from a line in ABBA's song Super Trouper – "I was sick and tired of everything, when I called you last night from Glasgow."Ian, despite not working in the industry before then, was similarly fed-up with the way musicians were treated."The music industry doesn't care about musicians, it's all about making a profit. We wanted to change that," he enlisted 60 friends to give £50 each to establish a not-for-profit business. Their focus was primarily unsigned artists who were paid fairly and retained their intellectual since added a strand called Past Night From Glasgow, which reissues older albums. Their first was Glasgow band The Bluebells' 1984 debut album now have around 100 artists signed to the label, with a turnover of half a million pounds a year."We're not commercial, we don't pursue profit and any money we do make is put back into grassroots talent," Ian says. Peter Capaldi may not be a grass-roots performer but his music has intrigued customers in LNFG's headquarters and shop in the Hidden Lane quarter in the Finnieston area of Glasgow."We've been playing it in the shop most days," Capaldi says. "People seem to recognise the voice, but they can't place the singer. I say, if you can guess, you can have a free copy. Someone guessed Bob Dylan, but no-one has got it right so far."Capaldi is happy for his music to be enjoyed, without album cover for Sweet Illusions - from which Bin Night will be the first single - features Peter at a bus stop in London, thinking about home."I've come back to music again after 40 years, so it seems apt that's in Glasgow.""I'm not doing this to become a pop star. I'm not hoping to change my career. It's just something that I really enjoy. I take it seriously in the sense that I work at it and try and develop it as a craft but I don't expect to be at the Emmys, or to be in the charts."He may not have any say in that. Sweet Illusions is due for release on 28 March and with the first run of 1,200 albums already earmarked, it's likely to score highly in both the UK vinyl and Scottish charts. The Tranent pressing plant is on standby for another order. Capaldi says he's already working on another album, carving time in his acting career to write songs."When I was making the film The Suicide Squad in Atlanta I was there for three-and-a-half months so with all that down time, I just wrote songs," he says. "And they were all terrible but it gave me a start and while I was there, I was able to go to Nashville and that was brilliant. It was like coming home."I think I just picked up where I left off 40 years ago. I often have visions of these characters in this rain-drenched, neon-lit city where there are proto Goths hanging on street corners looking for something to do. It's clearly inspired by the Glasgow I knew 40 years ago."And while he's a reluctant pop star, he is enjoying performing live again."We did a gig about a month ago because I hadn't done a gig for 40 years. I just wanted to see what that was like, if I could still do it, if I could even do it."Stand in front of a band, play in time, stay in tune. But it seemed to work, we enjoyed it."We were asked to play at the Belladrum Festival at the end of July, and I hope we can do a few other gigs too."He adds: "I know I confound people in the music business."I've been approached by a few record companies once they know someone off the telly is making music, but there are obligations attached to that which I don't want to have."I want to do what I want to do, and I want to be true to whatever my music is and that's about keeping it in a certain controllable scale."I don't want to be a pop star. If people like the record, I'm thrilled and that's a reward because it's something I never expected to happen to be making music."Sweet Illusions is due for release on 28 March
The Independent
19-02-2025
- Entertainment
- The Independent
John Malkovich shares why he constantly turned down ‘gruelling' Marvel films
John Malkovich has criticised Marvel for the lack of money that was being offered to him to appear in one of their films, admitting that he turned down multiple roles as a result. The 71-year-old will make his debut in the MCU this year appearing as an as-yet-unnamed character in Fantastic Four: The First Steps but according to the man himself, he could have starred in a film much earlier if the pay was better. 'The reason I didn't do them had nothing to do with any artistic considerations whatsoever. I didn't like the deals they made, at all,' the Dangerous Liaisons actor told GQ. 'These films are quite gruelling to make,' Malkovich added. 'If you're going to hang from a crane in front of a green screen for six months, pay me. 'You don't want to pay me, it's cool, but then I don't want to do it, because I'd rather be onstage, or be directing a play, or doing something else.' After shooting the new Fantastic Four movie, Malkovich appeared to have a more positive outlook on Marvel's methods saying that it's 'not that dissimilar to doing theatre' because 'you imagine a bunch of stuff that isn't there and do your little play'. The Con Air star also said he was keen to work with director Matt Shakman again, having previously collaborated with him on the 2014 crime drama Cut Back. Malkovich's experiences with Marvel paychecks would appear to be in contrast with some of the franchise's biggest stars. Robert Downey Jr is reportedly being paid a huge amount of money to return to Marvel as Doctor Doom in Avengers: Doomsday. The Oscar winner's fee for returning to the MCU was allegedly revealed in August by Variety, who reported that the actor will be paid upwards of $80m (£62.7m) to play the villain. The report states: 'For Downey, who helped catapult Marvel into a money-printing machine thanks to his turn as Tony Stark in the first I ron Man film in 2008, his deal also is filled with perks that include private jet travel, dedicated security and a whole 'trailer encampment' for the newly minted Oscar winner.' Marvel boss Kevin Feige reportedly also secured Avengers: Infinity War and Avengers: Endgame directing duo the Russo brothers with an $80m (£62.7m) payday. According to the outlet, Downey Jr will cost Marvel 'significantly more'.
BBC News
14-02-2025
- Entertainment
- BBC News
Harwich's Electric Palace cinema visited by Sir Stephen Frears
An award-winning film director has visited one of the UK's oldest cinemas as part of the venue's ongoing fundraising Stephen Frears attended a screening of his film Dangerous Liaisons at the Electric Palace cinema in Harwich on Thursday, followed by a question and answer session with the said the independent Essex venue, which opened in 1911, was "absolutely stunning" and urged local film lovers to support cinema is trying to raise £50,000 for a new projector, and a further £25,000 for other improvements to the Grade II* listed building. "I can see that staying at home and seeing films on the telly is less effort, but I only see films in cinemas," said Sir Stephen, whose CV includes the films The Queen and Philomena."I love going to the cinema and I'm completely committed to it."Particularly nowadays with everything being so corporate… [the Electric Palace] is really important. This is so modest and heroic." Cinema chairman Deb Perkins said she was delighted to welcome Sir Stephen to the said its single screen would be replaced in March thanks to sponsorship from the Harwich Haven Perkins hopes further fundraising will future-proof the cinema so it can be enjoyed by the next generation of film lovers. The history Travelling showman Charles Thurston first opened the Electric Palace in 45 years later, Mr Thurston, who also owned three cinemas in nearby Dovercourt which have since closed, decided to shut up shop in Harwich. The building had been owned by the town council, which according to former chairman David Looser, wanted to demolish the building in the 1970s to make way for a car keen to save the historical cinema, retired architect Andrew Carden and GP Chris Strachan leased the building for three years and eventually bought the freehold after restoring it to its former Electric Palace reopened under the pair's leadership in 1981. In 2018, the cinema closed temporarily for repairs to its ceiling at a cost of £ having survived two world wars and a global pandemic, it is owned by the Harwich Electric Palace Trust and is run mostly by Looser, now the cinema's technical manager, first got involved in the venue in 1975."I was single at the time, had time on my hands, and it looked like a fun thing to get involved in," he said."I love the place and it's such a big part of my life." Follow Essex news on BBC Sounds, Facebook, Instagram and X.
