A fifth generation will carry the Paul Walker name, after the late actor’s brother, Cody, named his newborn son to honour the “Fast & Furious” star.
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“What Can I Do? My Path From Climate Despair to Action.”“I do have a ton of respect for her, but I think the secret in our friendship, speaking from my point of view is from the minute I knew her, I knew her,” Steenburgen said. “Like, I feel like I didn’t know the little girl Jane, but I sort of do. And I feel like I know her throughout time.
I do.”“And she is a person that I aspire to be,” Fonda interrupted, pointing to Steenburgen, who let out a “wow.” Fonda continued with a grin. “Although, I’d have to go back in time because she’s a good 10 years younger than me.”The charismatic cast, the fun story and the gorgeous sites combined make for quite a feel-good movie. But feel-good movies frequently lack good character arcs.
But in “Book Club 2,” each character starts someplace and then evolves noticeably. And the message it communicates: how you feel at 50 or 60 or 70 is how you felt when you were 25.“When I was a young woman in the ‘70s…I met actresses who were a generation ahead of me. And for a lot of them, they were no longer being offered anything.
They weren’t working,” Steenburgen said. “I love that (writer/director/producer) Bill Holderman and (writer/producer) Erin Simms wrote a film in the first place about four women who are not young, who are not talking about how much of a geezer they all are, but they’re just enjoying life and, and going for things that scare them and taking chances. And then he wrote a second one and put it in Rome!…I have three daughters and I don’t want them to feel like their 70s are not gonna be fantastic.”Judging by Steenburgen, 70, and Fonda, 85, those years are better than just “fantastic.”“I’ve been to all the places that we went to in this movie.
A fifth generation will carry the Paul Walker name, after the late actor’s brother, Cody, named his newborn son to honour the “Fast & Furious” star.
Paul Walker name, after the late actor's brother, Cody, named his newborn son to honor the star.Cody and his wife, Felicia, welcomed their third child on April 30 in Arizona. According to, Cody confirmed that the baby boy's name pays tribute to his late brother. The couple named the boy Paul Barrett «Bear» Walker, who weighed in at 7 pounds, 4 ounces at birth.According to the outlet, the couple arrived at the name some 24 hours after Felicia gave birth.«This November will mark 10 years since we lost my brother, Paul, and I just felt now was the appropriate time,» Cody tells .Cody and Felicia are also parents to a 5-year-old daughter and 2-year-old son.A post shared by Felicia Walker (@feliciakwalker)The name Paul runs deep in the family, with Cody telling People that Paul Walker «goes back four generations.»«My brother, Caleb, and I are both done having children.
TV presenter Cat Deeley has gushed over her husband Patrick Kielty on Instagram.The pair first encountered each other while working on talent show Fame Academy between 2002 and 2003. Cat, now 46, was married to businessman Mark Whelan at the time, but after the split, things turned romantic with Patrick.They then tied the knot in Rome 11 years ago.
CANNES (Reuters) - Renowned Italian director Nanni Moretti both directs and stars in "A Brighter Tomorrow," which premiered worldwide on Wednesday and is his ninth film to compete for the Cannes Film Festival's top prize. So far he has come home with the Palme d'Or only once - more than 20 years ago, with "The Son's Room" in 2001.
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Actor Ray Stevenson – known for films including King Arthur and Punisher – has died at the age of 58, his representatives have confirmed.The Northern Irish actor died on Sunday (21 May), though no further details were immediately made available. He starred in multiple television shows including as soldier Titus Pullo in the BBC/HBO series Rome from 2005-2007, and will be appearing in upcoming Star Wars spin-off Ahsoka.
Reaction was swift and heartfelt to the news that actor Ray Stevenson, best known for his performances in RRR, Thor, Vikings, Rome, Divergent and multiple Star Wars series, has died at 58.
Actor Ray Stevenson – known for films including King Arthur and Punisher – has died at the age of 58, his representatives have confirmed.
Ray Stevenson, the Irish actor who played the villainous British governor in “RRR”, an Asgardian warrior in the “Thor” films, and a member of the 13th Legion in HBO’s “Rome”, has died. He was 58.
many hit films, such as 2011’s adventure movie “The Three Musketeers,” in which he played Porthos, and “Thor,” in which he took on the role of Volstagg.He also starred in “Kill the Irishman” in 2011 as lead Danny Greene, a mobster who ignited a “turf war” in Cleveland in the 1970s, and the evil governor in the 2022 Oscar-winning film, “RRR.”Stevenson was born in Lisburn, Northern Ireland, on May 25, 1964, on a British army base. His father was a pilot in the UK’s Royal Air Force.Since he was young, Stevenson had always wanted to be an actor, his bio on IMDb reads, but wasn’t sure it would be possible.
, the 20-year-old daughter of actors Michael, 78, and , 53, joined her parents on the red carpet at the film festival for the premiere of Jeanne du Barry in a stunning white gown. Michael Douglas also received the Honorary Palme d'Or for lifetime achievement, and his documentary, Michael Douglas, The Prodigal Son, is screening at the festival. Carys's white Elie Saab gown is made out of a sheer lace fabric, with some netting detail at the skirt.
Rebecca Rubin Film and Media Reporter Disney’s “Guardians of the Galaxy Vol. 3″ was victorious again at the domestic box office, adding $60.5 million in its second weekend of release. Ticket sales dropped by 49% from its debut, marking an impressive hold… at least for a superhero movie. Across more than 30 Marvel entries, only “Black Panther” (45%) and “Thor” (47%) have had stronger second weekend holds. By comparison, recent Marvel movies such as “Ant-Man and the Wasp: Quantumania,” “Doctor Strange in the Multiverse of Madness” and “Thor: Love and Thunder” declined by nearly 70% in their sophomore outings. Those are brutal falls, even for movies that debuted to more than $100 million. Those entries were reminders that Marvel may remain critic-proof in terms of opening weekends, but they’re no longer immune to quickly falling back down to Earth.
Book Club: The Next Chapter stars Jane Fonda, Candice Bergen, and Mary Steenburgen, who chatted with Metro Weekly about the new sequel to their 2018 hit comedy, written and directed by Bill Holderman.The screen legends were missing their girl Diane Keaton, who rounds out the quartet portraying four longtime best friends, who, this time out, jet off to Italy for a bachelorette adventure. Yet they still basked in the glow of their collective thrilling adventure shooting the film throughout Rome, Venice, and Tuscany.The gorgeous Italian scenery, and local color — like homegrown legend Giancarlo Giannini, featured in a supporting role — proved enchanting offscreen as well as in the film.“It was never stressful because you were always in a gondola, sort of coasting along,” recalls Bergen.
Vin Diesel is teasing a potential 12th “Fast and Furious” film.
Fast X” held a star-studded Road to Rome premiere featuring Vin Diesel, Michelle Rodriguez, Tyrese Gibson, John Cena, Charlize Theron, Helen Mirren, Rita Moreno and a host of other talents prancing on a red carpet rolled out in the Forum’s Temple of Venus with the real Colosseum as a backdrop. The social media embargo expired after the Rome premiere, and people who were lucky enough to see “Fast X” a week ahead of its U.S. premiere on May 19 are calling it “stupidly entertaining,” a “visual spectacle” and that it puts the franchise “back on track.” Others are praising Jason Momoa’s performance as the main villain, but there are also some “clunky elements” to the movie.
There may be a little more gas left in the tank for the “Fast And Furious” franchise. Variety reports that Vin Diesel teased at the world premiere of “Fast X” in Rome that the new film may not be the penultimate one in the series.
Zack Sharf Digital News Director The “Fast and Furious” franchise might not be ending as quickly as fans previously thought. The upcoming “Fast X” is being billed by Universal Pictures as the beginning of the end of saga, which kicked off in 2001. The plan has long been to split the finale into two films, “Fast X” and the upcoming 11th installment, but franchise mastermind Vin Diesel let it slip at the “Fast X” world premiere in Rome that the finale might actually be spread across three films instead, which means a surprise 12th “Fast and Furious” movie might be on the way. Variety has reached out to Universal Pictures for comment. “Going into making this movie, the studio asked if this could be a two-parter,” Diesel said. “And after the studio saw this one, they said, ‘Could you make “Fast X” the finale, a trilogy?'”
Nick Vivarelli International Correspondent It’s 7:30 a.m. on a sunny May morning in Rome on a side street outside the studios of Italian state broadcaster Rai. A live audience standing behind metal fencing is watching a lithe group of nuns, one with a mustache, who slowly creep out from a row of white closet doors. They start dancing, hugging and pirouetting to a ballad belted out by a young Tuscan pop singer. Then the dancers, dressed in Catholic sisters garb, begin playing basketball. Welcome to “Viva Rai 2!,” Italy’s answer to America’s morning shows. It’s a local ratings phenomenon conceived and conducted by volcanic Sicilian megastar Rosario Fiorello, who is breathing new life into Italian television at a time when doomsayers are sounding the death knell of public TV around the world.
Carole Horst “Those About to Die,”AGC Television’s upcoming gladiator series from Roland Emmerich, stars Anthony Hopkins and boasts a cast drawn from across Europe and the Middle East. It’s also financially innovative. Rather than rely on a single, deep-pocketed streamer to write the check for the pricey series, budgeted at $145 million for the first season, AGC adopted a split rights structure: U.S. rights are licensed to Peacock, European rights to HEP, the Herbert Kloiber Sr./Constantin joint venture, and AGC International distributing in the rest of the world. AGC chairman and CEO Stuart Ford takes pride in proving the naysayers wrong with financing for the project set in ancient Rome and based on Daniel P. Mannix’s book of the same name.