Alfred Sole Dies: ‘Alice, Sweet Alice’ Horror Film Director, Prolific TV Production Designer Was 78

Selome Hailu Pop! Six! Squish! Uh-uh! Cicero … Tax credits!The 2002 film “Chicago” brought the stage musical and the song “Cell Block Tango” to the big screen.It also helped revolutionize the industry. When the Rob Marshall-directed movie debuted to critical and commercial success, Chicago Mayor Richard M.

Billy Watson, a child star who was one of the famed Watson Family, the only acting family that has their own star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame, died February 17 of natural causes at age 98 in a Spokane, Washington hospital.

Tony Walton, one of the most prolific, honored and celebrated designers of sets and costumes on Broadway and in Hollywood, has died. He was 87.

Khloe Kardashian, 37, was a little “sleepy” on March 2 but made sure to take the time to work out. The Keeping Up with the Kardashians star shared new black and white clips of herself working up a sweat in a gym to her Instagram story and looked incredibly fit. The beauty had her hair down and showed off her plump lips while looking at the camera in one clip.

Carole Horst The 14th annual ReelAbilities Film Festival: New York kicks off April 7 and runs  through April 13 as a hybrid with both in-person and virtual events. ReelAbilities is dedicated to promoting awareness and appreciation of the lives, stories and artistic expression of people with disabilities.The 2022 edition boasts a dozen features and more than 25 shorts, plus post-screening discussion, presented by Pfizer, and other events aimed at opening dialogue and discussion.“The Specials” (pictured above), starring Vincent Cassel, Reda Kateb, Helene Vincent and Brian Mialoudama opens the festival.

Starring the late Oscar- and BAFTA Award-winning actor Cloris Leachman, the Breaking Glass Pictures film “Jump Darling” premieres in theaters March 11.

The Ukraine invasion is costing Russia on the home front as well as in combat.

EXCLUSIVE: Police officer turned video game writer and technical director Morley Nelson (MIB: Alien Crisis, The Walking Dead: Survival Instinct) is currently in production in Minnesota on Uncontained, a horror-thriller that he is directing from his original screenplay.

Blink and you might miss it. Pete Davidson made a small update to his social media presence after returning to Instagram — and some fans think he subtly threw shade at Kanye West in the process.

EXCLUSIVE: Sharon Stone (The Flight Attendant, Ratched) has optioned the rights to Lisa Barr’s upcoming novel Woman on Fire, inking a deal to produce and star in a film adaptation.

EXCLUSIVE: As it approaches the launch of its free, ad-supported streaming service, Chicken Soup for the Soul has set content deals with Kin and Reel One Entertainment and lined up a slate of originals.

K.J. Yossman Fresh from appearing in Netflix hit Adam McKay’s “Don’t Look Up,” Mark Rylance’s latest big screen outing is “The Outfit,” in which he stars as Leonard, a 1950s tailor. It is a role that could not be more dissimilar to the fictional megalomaniac billionaire Peter Isherwell, whom Rylance plays in McKay’s disaster movie.Written and directed by Graham Moore, the Oscar-winning scribe behind “The Imitation Game,” “The Outfit” sees Rylance star as a Savile Row tailor who has fled across the Atlantic to escape his tragic past.

LOS ANGELES -- Film scholar Jacqueline Stewart makes a rich contribution to TCM for Black History Month, leading discussions about “Selma” with its star, David Oyelowo, and highlighting the work of Oscar Micheaux and other pioneering filmmakers.The result is both celebratory and thought-provoking.“Our programing runs all the way from the 1920s to 2014, almost a century of African American filmmaking,” Stewart said. “We see the same kinds of themes, a call for racial justice.

EXCLUSIVE: Producer Janet Zucker (Fair Game, Friends with Benefits) has optioned the film rights to Cynthia Pelayo’s International Latino Book Award winner Children of Chicago for Zucker Productions, with producer Tony Eldridge (The Equalizer films) for Lonetree Entertainment.

Fashionista alert! North West may just be 8 years old, but she’s already making her mark on the Hollywood style scene. It turns out that the elementary schooler is responsible for selecting her and her siblings’ oh-so stylish outfits for the family’s Vogue photo shoot. 

North West now has stylist on her resumé. The young daughter of Kim Kardashian and Kanye West helped to style herself and her siblings for her mom's recent photo shoot. The 40-year-old makeup mogul covered the March issue of the fashion magazine and in the cover story, there were several images of her with her kids — North, Saint, 6, Chicago, 4, and Psalm, 2. Kim revealed that the images with her children were «styled by North.» In the shots, Nori is wearing a white T-shirt and ripped jeans.

Flume will return to North America for his first tour dates in nearly three years this April, in support of his forthcoming album ‘Palaces’.Flume had previously been announced as part of the 2022 Coachella line-up in April, as well as Bonnaroo and New York City’s Governors Ball this June. Headlining shows for the producer have now been announced that are largely based around these festival dates.