Month: October 2022

The new trailer for Netflix’s upcoming Addams Family series ‘Wednesday’ was revealed during New York Comic Con, giving viewers their first look at the roles which Christina Ricci and Fred Armisen will play.  In the show’s official trailer, Armisen will portray Uncle Fester and Ricci will play Nevermore professor Miss Thornhill.

Armisen appeared as a surprise guest at Comic Con and confirmed he shaved his head for the role: “I shaved my head because this was like a role as soon as I heard about it I was like ‘Oh, I gotta be Fester.’ I really wanted to do it, and I wanted to do it right and not like have like a bald cap or anything. So, I just shaved my head and I was proud to do it. And tonight I’m going to do it again,” Armisen joked.

Series stars Jenna Ortega, Luis Guzmán, Gwendoline Christie and showrunners Alfred Gough and Miles Millar also teased their characters, with Ortega promising: “It’s its own different reality … and it’s very special and very odd.”  She added: “I think having gone through the teenage experience myself [was] incredibly informative. I think any teenager can relate to the wanting to create an identity outside of your family or kind of being thrown out into the world for the first time on your own and wanting to be independent.”

Take a look at the trailer for ‘Wednesday’ – here.

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Legendary actress of the stage and screen Angela Lansbury has passed away at the age of 96. Lansbury’s family released a statement saying: “​​The children of Dame Angela Lansbury are sad to announce that their mother died peacefully in her sleep at home in Los Angeles at 1:30 AM today, Tuesday, October 11, 2022, just five days shy of her 97th birthday. In addition to her three children, Anthony, Deirdre and David, she is survived by three grandchildren, Peter, Katherine and Ian, plus five great grandchildren and her brother, producer Edgar Lansbury. She was proceeded in death by her husband of 53 years, Peter Shaw. A private family ceremony will be held at a date to be determined.”

Born in London, the actress was perhaps best known for playing Jessica Fletcher on the long-running CBS investigative television series Murder, She Wrote for 12 seasons.  Along with starring in Murder, She Wrote, Lansbury was also known for her portrayal of Mrs Potts in Beauty and the Beast, Miss Eglantine Price in the Disney film Bedknobs and Broomsticks, Mrs. Eleanor Shaw Iselin in The Manchurian Candidate, Aunt Adelaide in Nanny McPhee, and Mrs. Van Gundy in Mr. Popper’s Penguins, among others. She also originated several Broadway leading roles in musicals such as Sweeney Todd and The King and I.

Lansbury’s work in film and TV landed her six Golden Globe awards, 15 Emmy Awards nominations and three Oscar Awards nominations. In 2013, Angela received an Honorary Award at the 2013 Governors Awards.

Lansbury is survived by her brother Edgar Lansbury; her three children, Anthony, Deirdre and David; her three grandchildren, Peter, Katherine and Ian; and her five great grandchildren.

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Actress Kaley Cuoco, 36, and her boyfriend, actor Tom Pelphrey, 40, are expecting their first child together.  The couple announced that Cuoco is pregnant with a baby girl in separate Instagram posts on Tuesday.

Cuoco shared a series of photos on her page, including the an inside of a cake with pink frosting to reveal they are expecting a girl, as well as pictures of her baby bump, and a shot of the couple holding up a positive pregnancy test. Cuoco wrote, “Baby girl Pelphrey coming 2023 beyond blessed and over the moon… I you @tommypelphrey!!!”

On Pelphrey’s page, the Ozark actor shared some of the same photos, writing, “And then it was even MORE BETTER. . Love you more than ever @kaleycuoco ”

Cuoco shared at the premiere of her new movie ‘Meet Cute’ that she and Pelphrey met at the season premiere of Ozark in April.  The couple confirmed their relationship in May, and made their first public appearance at an event together later in the month. The pair then appeared together in public again on the red carpet at the 2022 Emmy Awards, where both were nominated for Emmys this year.

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Selena Gomez acknowledged World Mental Health Day on Monday, Oct. 10 by sharing on Instagram a trailer for her upcoming Apple TV+ documentary “Selena Gomez: My Mind & Me,” set to be released Nov. 4.  In the Instagram caption, Gomez writes:  “Every breath, a breakthrough. In honor of #WorldMentalHealthDay I wanted to share the trailer for my documentary ‘Selena Gomez: My Mind & Me.’  November 4 on @AppleTVPlus”

Gomez puts her mental health front and center in the documentary, and according to a press release, “Selena Gomez: My Mind & Me” follows the actor and singer’s “six-year journey into a new light.”  Gomez is heard narrating the trailer’s opening moments, saying, “Just be who you are, Selena. No one cares about what you’re doing. It’s about who I am, being okay with where I am. I am grateful to be alive.”

Take a look at the trailer for ‘My Mind and Me’ – here.

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Jared Leto will star as Karl Lagerfeld, the iconic fashion designer, in a new biopic.  Lagerfeld, whose career spanned more than 50 years, died in Feb. 2019, and is best known for his role as artistic director of Chanel.  The project has been endorsed by the Karl Lagerfeld fashion house.

Leto will also produce the film, along with Emma Ludbrook, through their production vehicle, Paradox. The project is still in early development, and a filmmaker is not yet attached to direct.  Also serving as executive producers on the film are three of Lagerfeld’s long-time allies:  Pier Paolo Righi, chief executive officer of the Karl Lagerfeld house since 2011; Caroline Lebar, SVP of image and communications at Karl Lagerfeld, and Sébastien Jondeau, who was Lagerfeld’s personal assistant and bodyguard.

Leto said in a statement to Women’s Wear Daily that the movie will likely explore the designer’s “multitude of relationships.”  Said Leto: “Karl had a career that spanned 50-plus years so both personally and professionally he was close to a number of people. I can say we are going to home in on key relationships that convey different parts of his life.  Karl has always been an inspiration to me.”  The actor also described Lagerfeld as a “true polymath, an artist, an innovator, a leader and, most importantly, a kind man. When we came together with the Karl Lagerfeld team, we immediately shared a creative vision of doing a respectful ode to Karl while pushing the artistic boundaries of what a biopic can be.”

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