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To replace Helena Bonham Carter as the Queen’s sister on the fifth season of the show, the 64-year-old actress will star opposite Imelda Staunton who has been confirmed to play Elizabeth II.
Jul 2, 2020
AceShowbiz – Actress Lesley Manville has been cast to play Princess Margaret in the final season of hit series “The Crown”.
The 64-year-old will replace Helena Bonham Carter as the Queen’s sister on the fifth season of the show, while Imelda Staunton has already been confirmed to play Elizabeth II, picking up the royal role from Olivia Colman.
The younger Princess Margaret was portrayed by Vanessa Kirby on series one and two.
Manville and Staunton are old acting colleagues, having appeared alongside each other in “Vera Drake” and the “Maleficent” films for Disney, while Manville has also won acclaim for her recent roles in “Phantom Thread” and “Hampstead”.
“The Crown”‘s fourth season is expected to air later this year, but there’s no fixed production start date or release for season five.
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The ‘BH90210’ actress reveals she is teaming up with co-star Jennie Garth to work on ‘something’ to celebrate the upcoming 30th anniversary of the television show.
Jul 2, 2020
AceShowbiz – Tori Spelling has teased “Beverly Hills, 90210” fans that she and co-star Jennie Garth have “something in the works” to mark the upcoming 30th anniversary of the show.
Last year (19), the majority of the original cast of the teen sitcom reunited for a reboot titled “BH90210”, but it was cancelled after just one season. And while Tori has admitted she wishes “it had gone on longer,” she’s now looking forward to marking a big 90210 anniversary later this year.
“October is actually the 30-year reunion of the day the show first premiered,” she told Entertainment Tonight. “We have to do something. Jennie (Garth) and I do have something in the works and we are in pre-production.”
In the meantime, Tori is enjoying watching reruns of the original series alongside her five children. But she admitted there’s certain aspects of the series that her kids watch in disbelief.
“It’s funny, my kids watch it and they’re like, ‘Oh the fashion! You dress just like us!'” she laughed. “And it’s like, ‘No, you dress just like us!'”
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The contestants are expected to perform on an outdoor stage at a drive-in theater that allows the judges to watch the performances while social distancing.
Jul 2, 2020
AceShowbiz – “America’s Got Talent” has resumed production on an outdoor stage to allow judges Simon Cowell, Sofia Vergara, Heidi Klum, and Howie Mandel space to watch performances while socially distancing.
Just six episodes of the popular TV talent show had been completed before filming ground to a halt during the audition stage in mid-March (20) as the coronavirus pandemic began, but series creator Cowell was determined to find a way to allow successful contestants the opportunity to compete as normal and continue shooting season 15.
Production picked up again last week (ends26Jun20) ahead of “America’s Got Talent” live episodes, with the show moved out of its usual location at Los Angeles’ Dolby Theatre to an outdoor set-up in Simi Valley, California, where officials designed a stage to look like a drive-in movie theatre.
The first post-shutdown instalment will feature the four judges entering the venue in separate cars, before taking their seats in socially-distanced director’s chairs, as they make their picks for the Judge Cuts segment, which has been reduced from the usual four episodes to just one, airing in the U.S. on 28 July (20).
Meanwhile, the production plan’s new safety precautions also include mandatory face masks for everyone on set when not talking on camera, individuals handling their own microphones, and crewmembers sticking to their specifically assigned areas throughout shooting to prevent intermingling between different teams.
Officials have yet to decide where the live shows will be filmed, but producers are reportedly trying to find a way to include an audience of some sort during the episodes, which are due to start on 11 August, according to TheWrap.
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The runaway slave movie ‘Emancipation’ marks the largest film festival acquisition in history after being bought by Apple bosses for more than $120 million.
Jul 2, 2020
AceShowbiz – Apple Studios bosses have won the bidding war for Will Smith and Antoine Fuqua’s new runaway slave film “Emancipation”.
The $120 million (£96 million)-plus deal, brokered during the Cannes Virtual Market, marks the largest film festival acquisition in history and lands Apple chiefs the world rights over rivals at Warner Bros.
The deal closed on Tuesday night (30Jun20), according to Deadline, and the film will now premiere in theatres and on Apple TV+.
It will be produced by Apple Studios, alongside Smith, Fuqua and their associates at Westbrook Studios and Fuqua Films.
The film is inspired by an 1863 photo, titled “The Scourged Back”, which features the bare back of a slave, scarred by deep whip marks delivered by a plantation boss.
Fuqua says, “The photograph was the first viral image of the brutality of slavery that the world saw, which is interesting, when you put it into perspective with today and social media and what the world is seeing, again. You can’t fix the past, but you can remind people of the past and I think we have to, in an accurate, real way.”
Production is scheduled to begin in early 2021.
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The executive producer of the Sandra Oh-fronted show has responded to backlash over the lack of writers of color working on the award-winning television series.
Jul 2, 2020
AceShowbiz – “Killing Eve” executive producer Sally Woodward Gentle has promised to improve diversity on the show’s writing team after criticism over the lack of writers of colour working on the show.
A post on Twitter by a writer, Kayleigh Llewellyn, which showed that every season four writer on a final day Zoom call was white, sparked a backlash against “Killing Eve” producers, who have been praised for giving women major creative roles and casting Asian-American Sandra Oh as the title character.
According to Britain’s NME website, Gentle addressed the issue during a recent SeriesFest virtual panel, “Killing Eve: Behind the Lens”, promising to do better and hire a more diverse team going forward.
“The make-up of the room should be more racially diverse than it is, and we’re really aware of that and I take full responsibility for it,” she said. “You look at that room and it’s full of brilliant female writers, we’ve got a really strong LGBTQ contingent, but it’s not good enough and we need to do better.”
The show’s boss added that the criticism, which came as the Black Lives Matter protests highlighted racial injustice across the world, has provoked much “soul-searching” among her team.
“We’ve all had long talks and lots of soul-searching and we can come up with excuses, we can come up with platitudes, we can talk about the people that we’ve spoken about in the past, but we’ve got to do better. All of our writers know we’ve got to do better,” Gentle explained.
“But also, the production from the ground up – the entire production – we’re looking at in terms of how we can make concrete change, because it’s incredibly important to us and it’s got to be change that lasts and is effective. I think this is an extraordinary moment, and we’ve got to make a difference. It’s not good enough.”
Oh, who stars as Eve, had previously told Variety magazine during a chat with Kerry Washington, “The development of people behind the camera is very slow in the U.K. Sometimes it would be me and 75 white people.”
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