Archive: March 2009 (131-140 of 349)

Mar 20 2009 10:57 PM ET

Natasha Richardson: Loved ones gather in New York for wake

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Categories: In Memoriam, Movies, Television

After Broadway dimmed the marquee lights last night to pay tribute to film and stage star Natasha Richardson, actor Liam Neeson held a wake for his late wife today in New York, reports People.com. Uma Thurman, Diane Sawyer, and Richardson’s mother, Vanessa Redgrave, were among those attending the private viewing of Richardson’s body at the American IrishHistorical Society on Manhattan’s Upper East Side. Richardson, 45, died Wednesday from a brain injury she sustained in a freak skiing accident on Monday.

More on Natasha Richardson:
Natasha Richardson dies at age 45
Broadway dims lights for Natasha Richardson
Natasha Richardson: Amy Sedaris, Helen Mirren among stars paying tribute
Liam Neeson’s film projects in limbo after wife’s death
Natasha Richardson autopsy confirms ski accident as cause of death
Natasha Richardson: Career retrospective (photo gallery)
Natasha Richardson: A critical appreciation by Lisa Schwarzbaum

Mar 20 2009 06:34 PM ET

Broadway dims lights for Natasha Richardson

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Broadway theaters dimmed their lights last night in tribute to stage and screen actress Natasha Richardson, who died this week from a head injury suffered in a skiing accident, People reports. Theaters dimmed their lights for one minute at about 8 p.m.Liam Neeson, Richardson’s husband, and Vanessa Redgrave, her mother,were among those in attendance. Funeral service arrangements were not announced.

Mar 20 2009 02:21 PM ET

President Obama signs new book deal

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Categories: Books

President Obama has signed a $500,000 book deal, but don’t expect a new memoir to hit shelves. The deal, which was inked five days before his inauguration, guarantees that Obama will pocket $250,000 to adapt his 1995 autobiography, Dreams From My Father, for younger readers (the other $250,000 will be given to the publisher). This new deal brings the Audacity of Hope author’s total book profit — including royalties — to more than $8 million.

Mar 20 2009 01:55 PM ET

Liam Neeson's film projects in limbo after wife's death

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Categories: Movies

Liam Neeson’s current — and future — film projects are on hold as the Irish-born actor mourns the tragic death of his wife, Natasha Richardson. According to Screen Daily.com, Neeson’s current project, Atom Egoyan’s film Chloe, will continue production, working around the actor’s scenes as much as possible. The Hollywood Reporter adds today that negotiations for a future project, the Joel Silver-produced thriller Unknown White Male, are on hold. Neeson was interested in the film, to be directed by Jaume Collet-Serra (House of Wax), but only early negotiations had begun. Also, another movie, After.Life, that Neeson had recently completed filming is in post-production but has not yet acquired domestic distribution.

Mar 20 2009 11:35 AM ET

Mary J. Blige to star in next Tyler Perry movie

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Categories: Movies, Music

Mary J. Blige will join Taraji P. Henson in Tyler Perry’s next Madea film, I Can Do Bad All by Myself, according to Variety. Based on Perry’s 1999 play of the same name, the Lionsgate film is the story of a woman, played by Henson, fighting to hold on to her husband, not knowing that he has moved in with her sister. The five-time Grammy winner, last seen on screen in a 2007 episode of Ghost Whisperer, will play a singer and friend of Henson’s character. Perry costars as Madea, and the film is due Sept. 11.

Mar 20 2009 09:45 AM ET

'Twilight' director Catherine Hardwicke to helm 'If I Stay'

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Categories: Movies

EW first broke news of Twilight director Catherine Hardwicke’s plan to reunite with Summit Entertainment, and now Variety reports that it’s official: She’ll direct an adaptation of the buzzy young-adult novel If I Stay, which hits shelves April 2. The book, by Gayle Forman (Sisters in Sanity), centers on 17-year old musician Mia who, after a violent car accident, finds herself watching her damaged body taken from the wreck. She must decide whether or not she has the will to live. Earlier this week, it was reported that Hardwicke was also in talks to helm an adaptation of author James Patterson’s young-adult fantasy series Maximum Ride.

Mar 20 2009 09:45 AM ET

Michael C. Hall, Rainn Wilson, Sarah Silverman cast in 'Peep World'

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Categories: Movies

The cast for Occupant Films’ indie film Peep Show is steadily growing: Dexter‘s Michael C. Hall and Ben Schwartz have been cast to star in the dysfunctional family flick, while two other actors, Rainn Wilson and Sarah Silverman, are in negotiations. The Ringer director Barry Blaustein has signed on to direct Show, which revolves around a family that gets in a fight after one writes a novel inspired by them.

Mar 20 2009 09:45 AM ET

'American Idol' producer sued

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Categories: Television

Three employees who worked for shows like American Idol, The Janice Dickinson Modeling Agency, and Osbournes: Reloaded filed a class-action lawsuit in L.A. against the shows’ producer, FremantleMedia North America. In the suit, the former employees claimed FreMantleMedia overworked them and did not pay them overtime, among other allegations.

Update: Jonathan Biddle, the plaintiff’s attorney, tells EW.com: “We think ultimately a jury will see that there’s no Hollywood glamour for the below-the-line people that work on shows like American Idol and these shows where the [workers] are grossly underpaid.”

Mar 20 2009 09:36 AM ET

Elle Macpherson cast on CW pilot

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Categories: Television

Supermodel Elle Macpherson has been cast on the CW’s pilot of Beautiful Life, a drama about a group of models sharing an apartment in New York City. Macpherson will play Claudia, the head of their modeling agency and a former model who is "still in great shape and runs her business with the efficiency and toughness of a dictator," according to the Hollywood Reporter.

Mar 20 2009 03:30 AM ET

'90210' actor Tristan Wilds to star in WWII flick

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Categories: Movies, Television

Tristan Wilds, who plays Dixon Wilson in the CW’s 90210, has been cast in the war drama Red Tails, according to The Hollywood Reporter. The motion picture was written by John Ridley and chronicles the true story of the 332nd Fighter Group, an elite, all African-American unit of escort pilots. George Lucas is an exective producer. Wilds also starred in HBO’s critically-acclaimed drama The Wire.

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