Christo Jivkov Dies: ‘The Passion Of The Christ’ Star Was 48

Duane Earl Poole, a writer and producer for Aaron Spelling, Hanna-Barbera and Sid & Marty Krofft whose credits include Hart To Hart, The Love Boat, The Smurfs and Electra Woman and Dyna Girl, died of cancer on April 1 in Studio City, CA. He was 74.

Michel Dimopoulos, former director of the Thessaloniki International Film Festival, has died. He was 74.

Netflix has given a series order to a new supernatural mystery from executive producers Matt and Ross Duffer titled The Boroughs, created by Jeffrey Addiss and Will Matthews.

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Cocaine Bear, or see limbs, heads, and a face torn off by Nicolas Cage’s Prince of Darkness in Renfield. Funny thing is, those films actually elicit laughs by flaunting gruesome violence that, while outlandish and in some cases flat-out gross, fits the circumstances and gonzo energy that rules those joints from start to finish.Audiences for the seemingly breezy mob action-comedy Mafia Mamma (★★☆☆☆), however, might really not expect to see Toni Collette — starring as suburban American mom Kristin, tapped to succeed her deceased Italian grandfather as the head of a Calabrian crime family — plunge a stiletto heel into some guy’s eye, then wriggle the heel around in the socket good and deep before gouging the eyeball out and watching it roll across the floor.Director Catherine Hardwicke, of Twilight and Thirteen fame, working from a script by TV writers Debbie Jhoon and J.

John David Washington (BlacKkKlansman) is set to star opposite Honorary Oscar winner Samuel L. Jackson (Pulp Fiction) in The Piano Lesson — a Netflix film adaptation of August Wilson’s classic play, which will mark the feature directorial and screenwriting debut of his brother, Malcolm Washington. Pic’s starry ensemble will also include Ray Fisher (Rebel Moon), Danielle Deadwyler (Till), Michael Potts (Ma Rainey’s Black Bottom) and Corey Hawkins (The Tragedy of Macbeth).

Jung Chae-yul, the South Korean actor who pivoted from modeling in 2016 to take part in reality series Devil’s Runway before finding greater success in the South Korean comedy Zombie Detective, was found dead at her home Tuesday. She was 26.

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EastEnders stars Natalie Cassidy, 39, and Heather Peace, 47, have been spotted running together in north London as they continue their training for the London Marathon. The actresses, who play Sonia Jackson and Eve Unwin in the soap respectively, have signed up to compete in the annual race in honour of Dame Barbara Windsor. The duo, who will be joining the likes of Stacey Slater star Lacey Turner, Tanya Franks, Jake Wood and Adam Woodyatt, will be running to raise money for Alzheimer's Research UK.

You never want bad films to happen to great actors, but every once in a while one of your favorites inevitably turns up in an unfortunate and miscalculated clunker. Sadly, Catherine Hardwicke’s “Mafia Mamma” is that movie for Toni Collette.

Peter Debruge Chief Film Critic In her own home, Italian American working mom Kristin Balbano Jordan (Toni Collette) is hardly the boss. When her deadbeat hubby isn’t cheating on her, he calls the shots, and her independent-minded son can’t wait to leave for college. At work, her male colleagues undermine her every idea. What Kristin doesn’t realize is that it’s not her destiny to be a doormat. Far from it. Come to find, she’s next in line to run Italy’s well-connected Balbano clan, and though Kristin couldn’t have imagined she was heir to an organized crime family, taking charge amounts to an offer she can’t refuse. A fun fish-out-of-water farce with “Godfather” DNA and a clever female-empowerment kick, “Mafia Mamma” makes inspired use of Collette, who’s never better than when playing women we oughtn’t to have underestimated. Here, using stiletto heels to brutally stab a rival clan’s top assassin, first in the crotch and then in the face, demonstrates that Kristin’s better suited to the job than her enemies could have imagined. While such a graphic scene may come as a shock in a movie that’s more “Under the Tuscan Sun” than “Scarface” (“He had bits of his scrotum stuffed in his eye socket,” reports Monica Bellucci as Bianca, Kristin’s seen-it-all consiglieri), it more than proves that Donna Balbano deserves some respect.

Elizabeth Hubbard, who earned eight Daytime Emmy nominations for her indelible performance as trouble-making businesswoman Lucinda Walsh on CBS’ As The World Turns, died over the weekend. She was 89.

Star Wars spin-off Ahsoka – check it out above.Created by The Mandalorian’s Jon Favreau and Dave Filoni, the series follows former Jedi knight Ahsoka Tano (Rosario Dawson) as she investigates an emerging threat to the galaxy following the fall of the Empire.The trailer, which debuted at Star Wars Celebration in London on Friday (April 7), also shows co-stars Natasha Liu Bordizzo as Sabine Wren, Mary Elizabeth Winstead as Hera Syndulla and Ray Stevenson as Baylan.There’s also an appearance from Genevieve O’Reilly as Mon Mothma in hologram form, who reprises her role from Andor. Other cast members confirmed to appear include David Tennant as Huyang and Eman Esfandi as Ezra Bridger.Hayden Christensen was previously confirmed to reprise his role as Anakin Skywalker aka Darth Vader in the series, although it’s unclear in what capacity.

EXCLUSIVE: After playing formidable and unique young women in The Last Of Us and Game Of Thrones, Bella Ramsey has found her next potentially memorable role as the star of period drama Monstrous Beauty.

"The Passion of the Christ" star Christo Jivkov has died at age 48. Kaloyan Bozhilov, a cinematographer at Red Carpet Films, which is a production company Jivkov co-founded, confirmed the sad news to Fox News Digital. "Unfortunately, the news is true.

Chris Pratt is recalling the moment he laid eyes on his future wife, Katherine Schwarzenegger, and the «perfect plan» that brought them together. «There was a moment in my life where I was really struggling and felt really broken,» the actor said in a new interview on. «For me, my own journey of finding a higher power and leaning on that and feeling like, 'Please save me,' and feeling saved. And shortly later meeting the woman of my dreams.

The Passion Of The Christ producer, director and co-writer Mel Gibson is mourning Christo Jivkov, one of the stars of his 2004 blockbuster, who died Friday night in Los Angeles after a long private battle with cancer. He had just turned 48.

, died in Los Angeles after a long battle with cancer, Deadline reports. He was 48.In addition to, Jivkov, who was born in Bulgaria, starred in the 2001 film .

EXCLUSIVE: VMI Releasing has picked up North American rights to the fantastical WWII drama Freaks vs. the Reich (formerly Freaks Out), which won eight awards at the Venice Film Festival in 2021, including the Grafetta d’Oro for Best Film, and went on to land six David di Donatello Awards from the Academy of Italian Cinema the following year. The second feature from director Gabriele Mainetti (They Call Me Jeeg) will bow in theaters and on digital on April 28th.