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Actress Rhonda Fleming, star of Hollywood’s Golden Age, has died at the age of 97, her secretary has said.

Actress Rhonda Fleming, star of Hollywood’s Golden Age, has died at the age of 97, her secretary has said.

Natalie Oganesyan editorRhonda Fleming, star of the 1940s and ’50s who was dubbed the “Queen of Technicolor” and appeared in “Out of the Past” and “Spellbound,” died Wednesday in Santa Monica, Calif., according to her secretary Carla Sapon.

Somewhere between the transcendent Alfred Hitchcock original and a total misfire lies Ben Wheatley’s shiny new “Rebecca.” An innocuous adaptation of the 1938 novel by Daphne Du Maurier, the latest Net-flick should reignite debate over the reasons why certain properties are exhumed while others aren’t. For something like Hitch’s 1940 classic, a decent justification might be that the new version fleshes out latent meanings in a more satisfying way—the queer relationship between Mrs.

Peter Debruge Chief Film Critic“Last night I dreamt I went to Manderley again,” begins both Daphne du Maurier’s 1938 best-seller “Rebecca” and nearly every adaptation of the Gothic novel that has followed, including Alfred Hitchcock’s atmospheric 1940 best picture winner. With accolades like that, why reboot “Rebecca”? Well, as the opening line itself suggests, one can and does return to the film’s tragi-romantic estate, shrouded in fog and mystery as it is, as often as one pleases.

Matt Donnelly Senior Film WriterDirector Jennifer Kaytin Robinson is returning to Netflix for her next directorial effort, Variety has learned exclusively.Following the breakout success of her first feature, the anthemic breakup tale “Someone Great,” Robinson returns with a new project she’ll direct, produce, and has co-written, titled “Strangers.”Inspired by Alfred Hitchcock’s “Strangers on a Train,” the dark comedy will follow unlikely cohorts Drew (an alpha, “It” girl) and Eleanor (beta, alt

Jazz Tangcay Artisans EditorParamount Pictures senior VP of archives Andrea Kalas and her team have been bringing the studio’s vast back catalog into the digital age. Titles such as “King Creole” (1958), starring Elvis Presley; Alfred Hitchcock’s “To Catch a Thief” (1955), with Cary Grant and Grace Kelly; and “Breakfast at Tiffany’s” (1961), starring Audrey Hepburn and George Peppard, were among the films restored and released.Sept.

There’s another adaptation coming to Netflix and it could be one of their most glamorous yet.One of the most iconic novels of all time is getting a modern reboot, Daphne du Maurier’s Rebecca.The streaming giant describes the remake as a ‘mesmerizing and gorgeously rendered psychological thriller’, but you can make your mind up about that yourself.Why not watch the new trailer for Rebecca, starring Lily James and Armie Hammer.The iconic filmmaker Alfred Hitchcock first tackled the novel in 1941

Leave it to an audacious filmmaker like Ben Wheatley to put forth a new adaptation of the novel Rebecca here in 2020. Obviously, the most famous adaptation is the Alfred Hitchcock version from 1940, which might have intimidated many a storyteller.

told Empire. “That genre-jumping thing is something I’ve had in my own work, and the connection made sense.”“Rebecca” has been adapted numerous times for the stage and screen, most notably in Alfred Hitchcock’s 1940 Oscar-winning film.

Every Tuesday, discriminating viewers are confronted with a flurry of choices: new releases on disc and on-demand, vintage, and original movies on any number of streaming platforms, catalog titles making a splash on Blu-ray or 4K. This biweekly column sifts through all of those choices to pluck out the movies most worth your time, no matter how you’re watching.

Rebecca, which officially has a deeply unsettling trailer ahead of its Oct. 21 Netflix premiere.Rebecca, a new adaptation of Daphne du Maurier's 1938 novel (which was also famously adapted into a 1940 movie by Alfred Hitchcock), stars Lily James stars as a woman who makes the very relatable move of falling in love with Armie Hammer.

Rebecca has just been released — watch it below.Wheatley is remaking Alfred Hitchcock’s 1940 film of the same name (which won the Oscar for Best Picture in 1941). Both films are based on the gothic novel by Daphne du Maurier which was written in 1938.

A new film adaptation of the classic novel Rebecca is heading to Netflix later this year and the first look has been released!

The first look at the Netflix adaptation of Alfred Hitchcock’s “Rebecca” is here and the pictures will make your imagination run wild.

Tom Grater International Film ReporterHere’s a first look at Ben Wheatley’s Rebecca, the adaptation of Daphne du Maurier’s Gothic novel that was previously turned into a classic film by Alfred Hitchcock in 1940.Lily James and Armie Hammer lead the cast this time out, playing the aristocratic widower Maxim de Winter (Laurence Olivier in Hitchcock’s version) and his new wife (previously Joan Fontaine), with Kristin Scott Thomas as Mrs Danvers.Netflix has dated the film for a global bow on October

An unnerving mystery is at the heart of “The Bay Of Silence”, a new thriller that dives deep into marriage and grief with plot twists worthy of Alfred Hitchcock.

Imagine the scene, you’re driving past the Mediterranean under the cloudless sapphire blue skies of the French Riviera with Cary Grant by your side.Okay, so it might not be possible to recreate that famous Hitchcockian scene entirely, but whoever buys this 1954 Sunbeam Alpine MK1 will have a better chance than most.A version of the classic rally car - famously featured in Alfred Hitchcock’s classic thriller To Catch A Thief - is going up for auction.The car gained iconic status after Grace Kelly

Variety Staff Follow Us on TwitterA treasure trove of Hollywood memorabilia is going up for auction next month including the helmet Tom Cruise wore in 1986’s “Top Gun” playing Pete “Maverick” Mitchell, the cars Leonardo Leonardo DiCaprio and Brad Pitt drove as Rick Dalton and Cliff Booth in “Once Upon a Time in Hollywood” and the camera Alfred Hitchcock used during filming of 1958’s “Vertigo.”Los Angeles- and London-based Prop Store will auction off more than 850 items during a live auction on

looks like a haunted mansion out of the 19th century. The character of Mrs.

You can’t keep a good man locked down.

We’ve just heard from the folks at StudioCanal that they are to release the classic 1988 thriller The Vanishing on the home formats in June.

Tippi Hedren is still a big cat enthusiast at age 90. Hedren, the actress who shot to fame thanks to her roles in Alfred Hitchcock's "The Birds" and "Marnie," has been known for housing dozens upon dozens of felines at her animal sanctuary in California over the years.

Prolific French actor Michel Piccoli, well known for his memorable performances in seminal European movies “Le Mépris (Contempt)” and “Belle De Jour,” has died aged 94 his family has confirmed to French media.

Like comedy or horror, "thriller" is a genre of entertainment that's meant to provoke a physical response in the viewer. In this case, you're supposed to feel stress. A great thriller will raise your blood pressure and make you forget to breathe. In the same way you watch a family drama to make yourself cry, you watch a thriller to feel controlled anxiety.

The other day I spoke with my great old friend Norman Lloyd, and I do mean great and I do mean old. As an actor, Norman’s credentials stretch back to the Federal Theater days of the mid-1930s — he’s the last surviving member of Orson Welles’ legendary 1937 Mercury Theater production of Julius Caesar — and he made his Hollywood debut as the villain who falls to his death from the top of the Statue of Liberty in Alfred Hitchcock’s 1942 Saboteur.

Last month, Eminem dropped his latest album, Music to Be Murdered By—which borrows its title from Alfred Hitchcock’s album of the same name. In a new episode of Crook’s Corner, the Shady Records head revealed how he decided to base his LP around Hollywood’s “Master of Suspense.”

1917, which is basically winning ALL of the awards at the moment is a technical jaw-dropper, a film that is designed to look like one continuous shot for its entire running time. Of course, it isn’t all just one shot, but a number of extended scenes – some running for many, many minutes, all cleverly spliced together.

Eminem just unleashed his latest album, Music to Be Murdered By, where he aims his pen at everyone from Nick Cannon to Machine Gun Kelly to Joe Budden. As it turns out, there’s a conceptual framework for his lyrical bloodlust, as the LP draws from Hollywood’s “Master of Suspense,” Alfred Hitchcock.