Elizabeth Banks very nearly took a tumble as she presented the award for Best Visual Effects at the 2023 Oscars on Sunday night.
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Elizabeth Banks has a special memory of the late Ray Liotta.
Banks directed Liotta in “Cocaine Bear” before he passed away in his sleep in May 2022 at age 67.
Despite the actor playing the film’s real villain, a drug dealer trying to recover his stash, in the movie, she insists he’s a softie in real life.
Banks tells People of his part in the flick, “Ray just came so joyfully into it the whole time.”
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The movie-maker insists her favourite memory of him is “one he wouldn’t even know that I saw.”
Liotta was joined by his fiancée Jacy Nittolo during filming in Ireland, and Banks says she saw a cute moment between the pair while staying in Dalkey; a suburb in Dublin.
She tells the mag, “It’s beautiful. The main street is called Castle Street because there’s a castle on it, along with pubs and a wine shop. And it was just so charming.
“And I was sitting in a cafe one night after work, and I saw Ray walking the street with his fiancée, Jacy. They were holding hands. They were clearly coming from dinner. They looked like teenage lovers.”
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Banks says the cute moment “is the image that I have of him,” adding: “Not from set or playing the character, but of him just living his best life in Ireland on this beautiful night, walking on this street with a woman that he loved.”
Nittolo has been sharing an array of tributes to Liotta on Instagram, with her sharing a sweet photo montage on Dec. 18 to mark what would have been his 68th birthday.
She wrote, “‘The goal isn’t to live forever, the goal is to create something that will.’
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Elizabeth Banks very nearly took a tumble as she presented the award for Best Visual Effects at the 2023 Oscars on Sunday night.
Accidents happen! Elizabeth Banks tripped on stage at the Oscars as she walked on stage to present the award for Best Visual Effects.
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Tim Gray Senior Vice President All five best-actor contenders this year are first-time Oscar nominees. Two are newbies, so that’s not surprising. But among the veterans, Colin Farrell is long overdue, after a 25-year career marked by breadth, daring and risk-taking. In Searchlight’s “The Banshees of Inisherin,” Farrell meets all the criteria for an Oscar win: There’s not a false note in the performance, it’s very different from what you’ve seen him do, and you can’t imagine anyone else playing the part. In person, Farrell is 180 degrees from Padraic. In a long conversation, he didn’t dwell on the movie, yet all roads led to Inisherin: Farrell spoke of a sense of community, of family, of friendship and the power of art — all topics addressed in the film.
Neighbours fans can officially get excited as some more soap favourites will officially be returning to the revived show, set to premiere later this year. Fans of the long-running Aussie soap were left devastated when it was announced in February 2022 that Neighbours was coming to an end after a 37-year run, with a tear-jerking final episode aired on Channel 5 later that year.
Outer Banks recently returned for its third season, and has now been renewed for a fourth on Netflix.The hit drama centres on two groups of teenagers – the Kooks and the Pogues – as they search for a lost treasure in the community of Outer Banks in North Carolina.Most of the action focuses on the Pogues, who are led by charismatic leader John B (Chase Stokes) as they embark on a mission to find his missing father, where the come across a treasure map.Season one was released in April 2020, and season two followed in July 2021, before the third season was released on February 23 this year.Season three of the show sees the characters “once again caught up in a race for the treasure, quite literally running for their lives.“They’re broke and far from home, they can’t trust anyone, Ward (Charles Esten) and Rafe (Drew Starkey) are hungry for revenge, and there’s a ruthless Caribbean Don who will stop at nothing to find the bounty,” the synopsis continues.“Was the treasure ever within their reach? Or was it all a trap to stop them once and for all? Either way, it’s the Pogues against the world – and the only way out is together.”A release date for season four has yet to be confirmed, though it likely won’t be arriving on Netflix for a while.Given the gap of over a year and a half between seasons two and three, the likelihood is that season four will be released between spring and summer 2024 at the earliest.The show’s official Twitter account confirmed that a fourth was on the way on February 17 this year, writing: “RENEWED FOR SEASON 4, BABY!”RENEWED FOR SEASON 4, BABY!
Netflix's hit series, , is back with season 3 and a whirlwind adventure as the Pogues chase clues toward a city of gold and navigate their romances and friendships along the way. Stars Chase Stokes (John B.), Madelyn Cline (Sarah Cameron), Rudy Pankow (JJ), Madison Bailey (Kiara), Jonathan Daviss (Pope), Carlacia Grant (Cleo) and Austin North (Topper) all return for a season of love, hardship and sunsets in Outer Banks, North Carolina. Ahead of season 3's release, ET's Cassie DiLaura sat down with the show's stars to discuss filming, the explosive plot and — of course — all the drama-filled romances that make the Netflix series a can't-miss for viewers. The third installment of sees the show's lead characters, John B and Sarah Cameron, test the boundaries and the trust within their relationship. When the couple was stranded on «Poguelandia» island, their relationship came easy. However, when John B. is reunited with his father, he begins to hide things from Sarah.
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Kerry Katona has shared a rare snap with her 14 year old son Max as they enjoyed some time together in Turkey - and fans can't get over how alike they look. Kerry, 42, who recently sparked a heated debate after revealing how often she changes her bed sheets, is currently enjoying a family holiday with her fiancé Ryan Mahoney, her sister Lynsey and the rest of her brood Lilly, 20, Heidi, 16, and DJ, eight.Taking to Instagram, the Atomic Kitten singer - also mum to 21 year old Molly who lives in Ireland - posted a sweet photo with Max and wrote alongside: "Me and my boy @maxkatona5," with three love heart emojis.
Honoring her dad. Ray Liotta’s daughter, Karsen, paid tribute to her late father while celebrating his posthumous star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame.
Ray Liotta was just honored with a posthumous star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame and his daughter Karsen was on hand to accept!
Ray Liotta's family and famous friends gathered on Friday to pay tribute to the late actor as he received a posthumous star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame.The actor died in his sleep on May 26, 2022, while in production on an upcoming film,, in the Dominican Republic, but he was aware of the Walk of Fame honor prior to his death.Liotta's daughter, Karsen, spoke at the ceremony, and she shared exclusively with ET's Will Marfuggi how much the honor meant to her father. «It was a huge honor for him and he was proud of himself, as me and my whole family were,» she noted. «I know it was definitely very special to him and it was a monumental moment in his career.»The proud daughter also said her dad would have been «surprised» by the outpouring of support following his death.«I mean, of course everybody loved him, but he didn't look at his life and his work as if everybody's watching all the time,» she explained.
Owen Gleiberman Chief Film Critic The last time a movie was marketed with a this-sounds-so-wretchedly-over-the-top-not-to-mention-insane-it-could-almost-be-fun low/high concept, the results, to put it kindly, were mixed. “Snakes on a Plane,” which sounded like a title that Don Simpson scrawled in white powder on a table at 4:00 a.m., was a movie that wore its brain-deadness on both lapels. But 17 years ago, that title inspired mountains of online chatter, to the point that the filmmakers incorporated bits and pieces of the obsessive fan gabble into the movie, most famously the Samuel L. Jackson line, “I have had it with these mothefuckin’ snakes on this motherfuckin‘ plane!” The result was that “Snakes on a Plane” felt like the first piece of brazen Hollywood schlock that was crowdsourced. The audience went in thinking: It may be trash, but it’s our trash.
The title says it all. Just like Snakes On A Plane was about just that, the new horror comedy Cocaine Bear is about a 500 pound bear on a jihad after coming upon a ton of cocaine dropped into rural Georgia on a drug run gone wrong. The bear ingests the coke and soon you have a beast roaring out of control devouring whatever human comes on to his path. It is all not to be taken seriously, but fortunately director Elizabeth Banks (Charlie’s Angels, Pitch Perfect 2) is smart enough to give audiences hungry for a ‘Jaws’ in the wilderness, some nice scares mixed in with the laughs plus a bit more bang for their buck than just a marketable title.
Todd Gilchrist editor On Feb. 24, Ray Liotta is set to receive a star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame, just shy of a year since his death at the age of 67. The honor comes the same week as the release of “Cocaine Bear,” the sensational based-on-a-true-story film directed by Elizabeth Banks in which he plays a character she describes as “a gangster … but he’s also an unfit grandpa as well.” That characterization also encapsulates the breadth of his accomplishments on both film and TV as an actor, which range from mobsters and tough guys to loving fathers — and plenty in between. Ahead of the ceremony, Banks tells Variety that she cast Liotta after remembering her experiences working with him on the 2011 film “The Details.”