When Sam Taylor-Johnson started working on her Amy Winehouse biopic, Back to Black, she asked screenwriter Matt Greenhalgh to listen to one of Winehouse’s tracks, “Tears Dry on Their Own,” before he started writing. “I kept saying in those early days, ‘I feel like this song is our path to understanding her,’ ” Taylor-Johnson says.
In the deceptively upbeat single about Winehouse’s tumultuous relationship with her on-again, off-again love, Blake Fielder-Civil, she sings, “It’s my responsibility/And you don’t owe nothing to me.
In April 2021,it was announced that Kristen Wiig and Annie Mumolo, who co-wrote Bridesmaids and co-starred in Barb and Star Go to Vista Del Mar, would be writing a Disney live-action musical comedy centering on evil stepsisters Anastasia and Drizella from Cinderella.
Two years later, Mumolo finally gave an update on the project at Monday night’s premiere of Joy Ride, in which she is also featured. “Well, you know, sometimes you get fired,” Mumolo told The Hollywood Reporter, then clarifying that the two are “currently on hold” while another writer has been brought on to take a stab at the story.
I’m not embarrassed to admit that I consume all kinds of rom-coms: the good, the not-so-good, the somewhere-in-between. (I draw the line at anything that stars Ashton Kutcher. Hollywood: Please put Pedro Pascal on your rom-com leading-man shortlists. Many thanks in advance.) Anyway, I’ve sensed a shift of late. A change in the vibe. A subtle, faintly nostalgic perfume in the air: It’s not overpowering, like the glossy rom-com-a-minute marketplace of the 1990s and early aughts, but still bright and warm and mood-boosting.
Jan Berenstain, who with her husband, Stan, wrote and illustrated the Berenstain Bears books that have charmed preschoolers and their parents for 50 years, has died. She was 88.
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Berenstain, a longtime resident of Solebury in southeastern Pennsylvania, suffered a severe stroke on Thursday and died Friday without regaining consciousness, her son Mike Berenstain said.
The gentle tales of Mama Bear, Papa Bear, Brother Bear and Sister Bear were inspired by the Berenstain children, and later their grandchildren.
Bill Paxton, an Emmy-nominated actor whose four-decade career included roles in such films as Aliens, Twister and Titanic as well as TV shows Big Love and Hatsfields & McCoys, has died due to complications from surgery. He was 61.
Paxton’s family on Sunday released a statement saying, “A loving husband and father, Bill began his career in Hollywood working on films in the art department and went on to have an illustrious career spanning four decades as a beloved and prolific actor and filmmaker.
It’s rare for a marketing executive shuffle to inspire the kind of coverage that hit when Netflix confirmed that chief marketing officer Bozoma Saint John was exiting the streamer after less than two years in one of Hollywood’s buzziest and most demanding marketing jobs.
After the publication of congenial statements from both sides — “I’ve loved working with Boz and have been inspired by her creativity and energy,” said Netflix co-CEO Ted Sarandos, with Saint John adding, “It’s been a transformative two-year experience for which I will always be grateful” — came reports of behind-the-scenes friction.
Cole Brings Plenty, an actor in Paramount+’s 1923 who was reported missing earlier this week, has died. He was 27.
The sheriff’s office in Johnson County, Kansas, shared in a news release that deputies were called to Homestead Lane at approximately 11:45 a.m. Friday in reference to an unoccupied vehicle. Authorities said they were searching the area when they “discovered a deceased male in a wooded area away from the vehicle,” who was later identified as Cole.
Janet Wright, the actress best known to Canadians as the long-suffering matriarch Emma Leroy on the WGN America comedy Corner Gas, has died. She was 71.
Canadian broadcaster CTV, which developed and aired the long-running Corner Gas sitcom in Canada, confirmed Wright’s death to the Hollywood Reporter. No cause of death was given, but Wright had been ill for some time before she passed away on Monday morning in Vancouver.
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Emmet McDermott is a journalist and film producer based in New York City, whose projects include Netflix’s 'White Hot: The Rise & Fall of Abercrombie & Fitch' and Hulu’s 'Queenmaker: The Making of an It Girl.' He is a former news editor and writer at The Hollywood Reporter.
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