Stephen Gaghan Remembers The Horrible Moment He Learned Of Heath Ledger’s Death

Ferne McCann was left stunned when her six-year-old daughter Sunday recently asked her: “Am I famous?” Sunday has featured in Ferne's ITV reality shows ever since her mum fell pregnant and started filming Ferne McCann: First Time Mum. “When she asked me, I felt really uncomfortable,” admits Ferne. “Even though Sunday has been in the public eye ever since I was pregnant, we have arrived at this chapter now and this one really stopped me in my tracks.

Greg Rutherford, the retired Olympian who was a favourite to win Dancing On Ice, has shared a video of the moment he suffered a serious injury during rehearsals. The accident forced him to withdraw from the ITV competition as he needed stitches.

EXCLUSIVE: The Bear creator Christopher Storer is shooting Season 3 of the 10-time Emmy-winning show in Chicago, but he’s lined up a big feature project at Warner Bros: the big-screen take of Amor Towles’ The Lincoln Highway.

Matt Reeves‘ The Batman 2 is no longer opening on Oct. 3, 2025 –a new launchpad for Comic Book movies– rather Oct. 2, 2026. We hear the new date is due to the aftermath of the dual strikes.

Margot Robbie appeared in her first movie back in 2009, and in less than 15 years she’s landed starring roles in some of the era’s biggest blockbusters.

Matthew Perry's ex-girlfriend and former assistant Kayti Edwards said 'having children was a big part of his dream' after bumping into him in the months before his tragic death.The actor, best known for his role as Chandler Bing, was found lifeless in his hot tub at his LA home on 28 October 2023. Despite no signs of foul play or drug paraphernalia at the scene, the coroner later determined that he died from the severe effects of ketamine. Kayti Edwards shared her last memories of the Friends star with The Mirror before his death last October.The last time she saw him was in Malibu, when he was engaged to Molly Hurwitz.

Jimmy Kimmel is set to host and Scorpio king Ryan Gosling will take to the stage to perform his existential bro-anthem “I’m Just Ken.” Gosling is nominated in the Best Supporting Actor category for his role in the blond blockbuster “Barbie.” Despite critical acclaim, the film’s director Greta Gerwig, and star, Margot Robbie were notably excluded from the Best Director and Best Actress categories — thereby proving the point of the movie they made. In 2024, we’ll be celebrating the tenth anniversary of Aquarius John Travolta’s abject butchering of Idina Menzel’s name — and, we’re told, the public debut of Bradley Cooper and Gigi Hadid’s relationship.If the zodiac signs themselves were winners in academy categories, we’d place our bets that Aries wins Best Live Action Short Film, as they go hard and but not for long.

Max George has been forced to pull out of an upcoming role for medical reasons. The singer was due to make his stage debut on the adaption of the late Kay Mellor’s TV series The Syndicate.

Austin Butler has revealed to NME that he drew inspiration from Gary Oldman and Heath Ledger for his performance in Dune: Part Two.Butler plays the role of Feyd-Rautha, the villainous nephew of and heir to Baron Vladimir Harkonnen (Stellan Skarsgård), in Denis Villeneuve’s new film.When asked if there were any classic movie bad guys that he took a lead from while preparing to play the role, Butler said that it was the broad career work of the two stars that motivates him.“I’ve always been inspired by Gary Oldman in many of his roles,” he said. “Léon: The Professional, or True Romance, or The Fifth Element.”“And you know, we’ve talked about Heath Ledger a lot, the sense of play that he had.

Jaden Thompson Indigenous stories aren’t always told with the care, nuance and authenticity they deserve in Hollywood, and, more often than not, their stories aren’t told at all. While “Killers of the Flower Moon” has certainly prompted discourse within indigenous communities about who should tell what stories, the Osage Nation Congress has unanimously endorsed the creative contributions that Lily Gladstone and Scott George made to the film. The tribal governing body recently passed bills expressing support for their roles in Martin Scorsese’s historical epic.

Elsa Keslassy International Correspondent At last year’s Cannes Film Festival, Leonardo DiCaprio, Harrison Ford and Scarlett Johansson hit the red carpet to premiere their latest big movies. But Hollywood may have a much lighter presence at the 2024 edition of one of the world’s most notable film festivals.

Heath Ledger‘s friend has shared new details regarding the circumstances surrounding the late actor’s death.Ledger, who is perhaps best known for his role as the Joker in Christopher Nolan’s The Dark Knight, died in January 2008 after overdosing on prescription drugs. He was 28 years old.Now Ledger’s friend Stephen Gaghan, a director and writer, has said Ledger’s father Kim had told him that Ledger’s body was found with a script for his film.The Oscar-winning director had been working towards making an adaptation of Malcolm Gladwell’s 2005 novel Blink and was hoping to cast Ledger in the lead role.

Over 15 years after his death, new details are still emerging about Heath Ledger.

A Playboy model has spilled the beans on Leonardo DiCaprio, saying he's got strange habits in bed and isn't great at kissing. Model, Hieke Konings, 22, told everyone she kissed the 49 year old actor at a secret club in Los Angeles. However, the stunner wasn't too impressed as she dished on the kiss: "It was okay, but definitely not the best I've had." Detailing the moment, Hieke claimed she was called over to Leo after they locked eyes and spoke for a while before kissing,reports The Mirror Online.

“The Dark Knight” star died of an accidental overdose, and director Stephen Gaghan claimed on a recent podcast appearance that the Australian actor had other aspirations at the time. During an episode of the “Developmental Hell” podcast, a spin-off of Malcom Gladwell’s “Revisionist History” show, Gaghan said he had an idea in the early 2000s to turn Gladwell’s book, “Blink: The Power of Thinking Without Thinking,” into a movie. But after Ledger’s death, “I just had to put a pin in it,” he said.

While 2000’s “The Tipping Point” was writer Malcolm Gladwell‘s first book, it was 2005’s “Blink” that put him on the map. And the bestseller, all about the adaptive unconscious, captured the public’s imagination so much that Gladwell and screenwriter Stephen Gaghan had plans to make the book into a feature film.

After watching Jennifer Lopez’s new documentary, you probably wouldn’t be far off in thinking her s**t list grew by a TON of names!

As Timothée Chalamet’s “Wonka” has quietly crossed the $600 million mark worldwide—a remarkable figure given the film wasn’t a box office smash but clearly had great sustained longevity theatrically—the actor is starring down his next lead role in Denis Villeneuve’s “Dune: Part Two” (read our review) It’s a film whose hype is so large at the moment it suggests it could best that “Wonka” record, but we’ll see if it has the same kind of four-quadrant appeal.

Zack Sharf Digital News Director Timothée Chalamet first revealed in September 2022 that his “Don’t Look Up” co-star Leonardo DiCaprio once gave him brief but essential career advice: “No hard drugs and no superhero movies.” DiCaprio has never gone down the comic book movie route, and it’s a path Chalamet has also avoided so far despite the majority of his contemporaries signing up for Marvel and DC films in recent years. Is Chalamet still committed to DiCaprio’s advice? In a recent interview with The New York Times while on the press tour for “Dune: Part Two,” Chalamet said the door on starring in comic book movies is not completely shut the way it might be for DiCaprio.

Timothée Chalamet and Denis Villeneuve have said that they spoke to each other in French on the set of their new film, Dune: Part Two.The pair were speaking to the The New York Times to promote the new film, which is the second part of the adaptation of Frank Herbert’s 896-page sci-fi novel, and the writer of the interview noted that they were speaking in French each other when they arrived. Villeneuve is from Quebec, the French-speaking area of Canada, while Chalamet is a dual American and French citizen.“It was the way that we were able to find intimacy in the chaos.