Nancy Green-Keyes, a casting director, agent and film producer whose many credits include The Notebook and Rush Hour, died January 17 at UCLA Hospital in Santa Monica of acute respiratory failure following a brief illness. She was 68.
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Meredith Woerner Deputy Editor, Variety.com Inspired by a recent screening of Netflix’s animated series “Blue Eye Samurai,” “Game of Thrones” creator George R. R. Martin penned a new blog post praising the work of Amber Noizumi and Michael Green.
And while he was in a sharing mood, Martin decided to drop news about his own up-and-coming animation aspirations. “‘Blue Eye Samurai’s’ very much its own thing, and it is magnificent,” Martin wrote. “Even if you don’t normally watch animation, give it a try.
It’s terrific. If you like my own stuff, I think you’ll love it.” The writer then pivoted to his current work. “As it happens, HBO and I have our own animated projects, set in the world of ‘A Song Of Ice & Fire.’ None of them have been greenlit yet, but I think we are getting close to taking the next step with a couple of them.” The father of Westeros revealed that he previously had four animated series pitches in development with HBO.
Variety broke the “Game of Thrones” animated series news back in 2021, and Martin went even further revealing that there were several writers rooms, scripts and outlines created, unfortunately, two out of the four projects were “shelved,” as Martin phrased it. While he continues to toil on the two remaining animated projects, Martin also dropped the news that his earlier announced Sea Snake series would be pivoting to animation as well. “We have moved ‘Nine Voyages,’ our series about the legendary voyages of the Sea Snake, over from live action to animation.
Nancy Green-Keyes, a casting director, agent and film producer whose many credits include The Notebook and Rush Hour, died January 17 at UCLA Hospital in Santa Monica of acute respiratory failure following a brief illness. She was 68.
The Chase presenter Bradley Walsh is beloved by fans for bantering back-and-forth with the formidable Chasers - however, star Darragh Ennis has revealed that the quiz host does not spend much time with his fellow co-stars outside of filming. The Dublin-born quiz whiz joined The Chase in 2020 alongside the rest of the brainy line-up - Paul Sinha, Mark Labbett, Anne Hegerty, Jenny Ryan and Shaun Wallace. Darragh, 43, spoke to OK! in an exclusive interview ahead of tonight's celebrity edition of Beat the Chasers and explained that the Chasers don't socialise a lot with Bradley - or one another - off the show.
EXCLUSIVE: A new single-camera comedy series is in the works at Fox from Denis Leary, Jack Leary and Joel Church-Cooper.
Leo Barraclough International Features Editor September Film has acquired all rights for Belgium, the Netherlands and Luxembourg for “In the Land of Brothers,” which has its world premiere at the Sundance Film Festival in the World Cinema Dramatic Competition section. The film is written and directed by Iranian filmmakers Raha Amirfazli and Alireza Ghasemi. Alpha Violet is handling world sales.
There are few people who could ever understand what life is like as a Queen-in-waiting, but the Princess of Wales appears to have found a confidante in Mary, the new Queen of Denmark. Following the recent shock abdication of Queen Margrethe after a reign of more than five decades, Kate, 42, will have been keen to lend her support to close friend and “muse”, Mary, 51, who is married to the new King Frederik X.
House Of The Dragon will arrive.Smith, who plays Daemon Targaryen in the Game Of Thrones prequel, opened up about the new series of the show while on The Zoe Ball Breakfast Show this week (January 12).Back in November, the first teaser trailer for House Of The Dragon season two was released and while it was confirmed that the new season would premiere in “early summer” 2024, there is still no firm date set for its release.When asked by Radio 2 presenter Ball when fans can expect the new season of the show to arrive on screens, Smith said: “August, I think… this summer, yeah.”He also gave an update on where work was up to on the show. “I’ve not seen any of it yet, but we finished it last year.
Michaela Zee A new “Star Trek” film is in the works at Paramount with “Andor’s” Toby Haynes on board to direct and Seth Grahame-Smith penning the script, Variety has confirmed. While plot details are being kept under wraps, the upcoming feature is an origin story that is set decades before 2009’s “Star Trek,” and is an expansion of the “Star Trek” universe. J.J.
Meredith Woerner Deputy Editor, Variety.com SPOILER ALERT:This recap contains spoilers for Part 1 of “The Real Housewives of Salt Lake City‘s” reunion episodes, now airing on Bravo, and streaming on Peacock on Jan. 10. Decked out in a set that was part Bermuda Triangle and part Utah snow storm, the cast of “The Real Housewives Salt Lake City” — Heather Gay, Lisa Barlow, Meredith Marks, Whitney Rose and Angie Katsanevas — convened to take stock of the show’s fourth season, and to face off with the newly minted reality TV supervillain Monica Garcia. For the first time since the big-beach reveal in the Jan.
“Chameleon.”Boy George has no shame about transforming his physique at the age of 62.The British singer opened up in his new memoir, “Karma,” about getting a tummy tuck and taking the weight loss drug Mounjaro.The Culture Club band member said the cosmetic procedure was “the most painful thing” he ever underwent.The “Love Is Love” singer also revealed he had three hair transplants between 2015 and 2018, just before tightening up his belly.Following the tummy tuck, George “went on tour straight after with Cyndi Lauper with the blood bag attached.”George explained that he went under the knife after losing 98 pounds due to the metabolic balance diet and needed to get rid of his extra skin.“When anyone asks about my scar I say I had twins by Cesarean. I’ve never had Botox, though, and I might be the only person in show business with my own face,” he wrote.
reportedly turned down the gig. And, former Globes hosts Tina Fey and Amy Poehler reportedly said they were done. So, the job fell to Jo Koy.“This is my childhood dream,” Koy, 52, told USA Today.“I’m now living something that I would watch as a kid, something that indirectly inspired me to do what I do, seeing everyone from Bob Hope to Billy Crystal to Whoopi Goldberg [host] … Now, I’m in the captain’s seat and I’m loving it.”He told Variety about his plans, “I’m going to poke fun, but I want to do it in a way where we’re still celebrating.
Mean Girls is coming soon, and the final trailer is here!
It’s almost to the point where revelations of more “Game of Thrones” spinoffs being in development isn’t even really newsworthy anymore. We’re starting to lose track of all of the announcements about what is getting made, what is in development, and what is just an idea in terms of ‘Thrones’ spinoffs at this point.
“Ain’t gonna let nobody make me take my chair home. God made me. I belong here. I got a right to a seating’s the place. The only time you can take my chair is when I die and go to heaven. Until then I’m fighting.”
Coldplay frontman Chris Martin has spoken about why he believes eco-friendly tours make “business sense” in the music industry.The British band embarked on their ‘Music Of The Spheres‘ tour last year with a renewed focus on environmental sustainability.The new initiatives included cutting direct emissions by 50 per cent compared to their last tour in 2016 and 2017, using 100 per cent renewable energy and having solar installations at every venue.
George Clooney‘s new movie The Boys in the Boat, which he directed and does not star in, has been released in theaters everywhere.
Tom Hanks is opening up about working with Meg Ryan!
Victoria Wood fans were delighted on Saturday night as the late comedy legend returned to TV screens on BBC 2 with a repeat of her much-loved Christmas special Victoria Wood with All the Trimmings. The sketch show features an array of famous faces, but fans were quick to comment how many of them are no longer with us.
see the official ranking of the best ITYSL sketches here). There was also “Break Point,” the docu-series that followed the lives of relatively new tennis champions as they set out to win match after match on the road. The candid conversation from the athletes paired with the stunning shots from the court would make any tennis newbie a fan.
EXCLUSIVE: In a tense moment during the protracted SAG-AFTRA strike when guild negotiators weren’t talking to studios/streamers as film workers faced home foreclosures with no paychecks for six months and no end in sight, George Clooney led other top A-listers in offering to uncap dues and contribute $150 million over three years to guild coffers to help qualify more actors for health benefits and other things. While he has long enjoyed the spoils of an above the line life, Clooney has never forgotten the struggling showbiz underclass he was part of before ER changed his life.
George Clooney doesn’t want to don the bat suit with the rubber nipples again. Of course, we kind of know this, as Clooney has been self-deprecatingly dissing his own performance in “Batman and Robin” and the movie itself, seemingly ever since it came out in 1997.