Harry Styles Was In the Running to Star in 7 Movies, but the Roles Went to Different Actors

Ellie Goulding has voiced her thoughts on how #MeToo has made the music industry safer.The #MeToo movement first gained traction in October 2017 after various women came forward with allegations of sexual abuse against Harvey Weinstein, who was later convicted and jailed for two counts of rape and sexual assault in New York in 2020. It led to a reckoning across the entertainment industry, with more women coming forward with their experiences with other powerful male figures.In a new interview on Radio 4, the singer explained that the industry has implemented better protection for younger artists than it had when she first began her career in 2010.

to TMZ, Christmas Day is still special for some of the most infamous faces behind bars, including reality stars, musicians and one disgraced former producer. From Cornish hens to pies, here’s a run down of what some celebrity inmates had on Christmas Day 2023. Kelly, 56, was found guilty of sex trafficking, racketeering, and in 2022, the “I Believe I Can Fly” singer was convicted of three child pornography charges and three charges of enticing a minor.

Marc Malkin Senior Editor, Culture and Events Jeremy Allen White may co-star with Zac Efron in Sean Durkin’s new wrestling drama “The Iron Claw,” but the Emmy-winning “The Bear” actor has something to admit — he has never watched a “High School Musical” movie. “I haven’t seen them,” White says on this week’s “Just for Variety” podcast. “Sorry, Zac.

Harry Styles made his big screen debut as a in 2017′s Dunkirk and has pursued a career as a movie star alongside his music ever since.

Oppenheimer”).During the simultaneous Screen Actors Guild and Writers Guild of America strikes, the sagging box office was boosted, like NFL ratings and the economy of East Rutherford, New Jersey, by Taylor Swift.Marvel Studios, which used to be the surest thing in Hollywood, began to underperform (“Ant-Man and the Wasp: Quantumania”) and then downright flop (“The Marvels”).And DC was revealed to actually stand for Dud Central, with all of the studio’s comic-book films of 2023 (“Shazam! Fury of the Gods,” “The Flash” and “Blue Beetle”) turning out to be financial failures.In a win for Gen Z, studio execs determined Zendaya’s star wattage is so huge now that two of her movies — “Dune: Part 2” and “Challengers” — were delayed a year due to the strikes, so she can promote them to her hoards of fans. And baby boomers were dinged by the big-time tanking of the nostalgic “Indiana Jones and the Dial of Destiny,” starring a now 81-year-old Harrison Ford who schlepped around New York and Europe.Despite all the madness — and a sea of schlock — some excellent films hit theaters this year.

Variety Staff Follow Us on Twitter Darryl F. Zanuck was a legendary figure in Hollywood known for leading a major studio, producing top films and assaulting aspiring actresses in the 1930s. That same decade, the term “casting couch” surfaced to describe the abuse of power by Zanuck and other high-powered men who were the gatekeepers of access to the big screen.

Zack Sharf Digital News Director Quentin Tarantino fans were sent into a frenzy in late 2017 after it was announced that Paramount and “Star Trek” producer J.J. Abrams had accepted Tarantino’s pitch for a new “Star Trek” movie and were working with “The Revenant” screenwriter Mark L. Smith to iron out the script.

Gene Maddaus Senior Media Writer CAA and Disney are fighting back against Julia Ormond‘s claim that they acted as enablers for Harvey Weinstein and failed to protect her from being sexually assaulted. Ormond rose to fame in the mid-90s, appearing in “Legends of the Fall” and “Sabrina.” She has alleged that Weinstein lured her to a business meeting in December 1995, then sexually assaulted her at her apartment in New York.

EXCLUSIVE: Two months after Julia Ormond sued CAA, Disney and Harvey Weinstein for negligence, breach of fiduciary duty, battery and more over a 1995 sexual assault by the now incarcerated Pulp Fiction EP, the uberagency and the Bob Iger-led corporation say they shouldn’t be a part of the suit and want out.

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Ellie Leach was at a school friend's birthday sleepover when she discovered she had secured the part of Faye Windass on Coronation Street. Now 22, the Strictly Come Dancing finalist, from Audenshaw, has already experienced a career that most people could only dream about.

bombshell memoir “Spare” hit the bookshelves this past January — just months before “The Crown” dropped its sixth and final season.Now, actor Dominic West — who played Prince (Now King) Charles on the Netflix royal drama — has revealed that he ran to pick up a copy of the autobiography once it came out.The British star, 54, divulged that he used the Duke of Sussex’s words to impact his performance on the show — calling the book a “gift.”“I bought it immediately, and I think it did slightly affect the way we played that key scene where he wakes Harry up,” the “Wire” actor explained to Variety recently.He went on: “I’ve been reading every newspaper article or journalistic article on him since I got the job.” “In a way, this was a gift that he was in the headlines every day when he was becoming king — like getting irritated by the fountain pen,” West said. “In the cold, formal exterior of this guy, I tried to get those little tells.”The “Affair” alum noted that “Spare” heavily influenced his acting in one particular scene of “The Crown” — the moment where Charles informed Harry that his mother Princess Diana died in 1997 in the early hours of the morning.The “Invictus Games” founder penned in his book about the tragedy: “Pa didn’t hug me.

Soap stars have paid tribute to 'wonderful' Zak Dingle actor Steve Halliwell, who has died at the age of 77.

succumbed to a “brief illness” earlier this week.Braugher’s death on Monday (December 11) was confirmed by his longtime rep Jennifer Allen. Braugher was best known for playing Captain Raymond Holt in the hit NBC comedy Brooklyn Nine-Nine among other roles. He was 61.Now, it has been revealed that Braugher died of lung cancer, per his publicist’s confirmation to Variety.

Brooklyn Nine-Nine and Homicide: Life On The Street actor André Braugher died from lung cancer a few months after he was diagnosed with the disease, his representative confirmed to Deadline Thursday.

controversial moments, but perhaps one of the most infamous is when he wore a Nazi uniform to a costume party.The Duke of Sussex, now 39, donned the outfit in 2005 for a “natives and colonial” party hosted by Prince William’s friend, Olympic showjumper Richard Meade. Harry was 20 at the time.The event was chronicled in the final episode of Season 6 of “The Crown,” with a young Harry (played by Luther Ford) wearing a tan shirt with a swastika symbol.

Colman Domingo and Jacob Elordi have passed each other on the set of the megahit HBO drama “Euphoria” without ever sharing a scene. That’s why Domingo, who won an Emmy for guest actor in the show, describes this conversation as “an overdue coffee” — just without the caffeine kick. As the actors discuss the pressures of portraying historical figures — Domingo embodying Civil Rights leader Bayard Rustin as he plans the 1963 March on Washington in George C.

We’re getting closer to the release of the highly-anticipated movie The Iron Claw!

It turns out Prince Harry was invited to his longtime friend’s wedding — but he rejected the offer!