LOS ANGELES, (Reuters) – Three-time Oscar winner Daniel Day-Lewis is retiring from acting, his spokeswoman said on Tuesday, ending a storied movie career that includes performances in “Lincoln” and “Gangs of New York.” Day-Lewis, 60, the only man to have won three best actor Oscars, gave no reason for his decision, calling it private.
By Shamya Dasgupta Bangalore (BBC) “Don’t do a horror film unless you’re the monster. Horror audiences come to see the villains, and they come back again when those villains are in the sequels,” wrote The Economist magazine, listing things an actor should never do.
LOS ANGELES, (Reuters) – Three-time Oscar winner Daniel Day-Lewis is retiring from acting, his spokeswoman said on Tuesday, ending a storied movie career that includes performances in “Lincoln” and “Gangs of New York.” Day-Lewis, 60, the only man to have won three best actor Oscars, gave no reason for his decision, calling it private.
NORRISTOWN, Pa., (Reuters) – A Pennsylvania judge on Saturday declared a mistrial in Bill Cosby’s sexual assault case after the jury said it could not reach a verdict, but prosecutors vowed to retry the case and the disgraced entertainer still faces a slew of civil lawsuits.
(Reuters) Bollywood actor Sushant Singh Rajput devours books and always carries one to give him company in between interviews and promotions.
LOS ANGELES, (Variety.com) – Different weekend, similar story: “Wonder Woman” is box office royalty. The Warner Bros. and DC Comics standalone will have earned $57.2 million from 4,165 theaters by the end of its second weekend, putting it solidly in first place.
LOS ANGELES, (Variety.com) – “Wonder Woman” is officially a box office hero. The Warner Bros. and DC Comics film appears to have delivered on massively high expectations — as of the Sunday morning the super hero film is looking at a $100.5 million domestic opening weekend from 4,165 locations.
(Reuters) – The owners of a Mexican hotel using the name Hotel California on Wednesday said a trademark infringement lawsuit by the Eagles, whose song “Hotel California” is arguably the band’s most famous, should be dismissed.
OXON HILL, Md., (Reuters) – Ananya Vinay of Fresno, California won the Scripps National Spelling Bee yesterday, taking home a $40,000 cash prize after 12 hours of picking her way along a precarious lifeline of consonants and vowels.
LOS ANGELES, (Reuters) – CNN fired comedian Kathy Griffin from its annual New Year’s Eve broadcast yesterday after she drew strong criticism for posing in photographs holding up the likeness of a bloody, severed head resembling U.S.
LOS ANGELES, (Reuters) – The “Saturday Night Fever” dance floor where John Travolta captured the 1970s disco craze is going up for sale next month and could fetch up to $1.5 million, the auctioneers said yesterday.
LOS ANGELES, (Reuters) – “Grease” actress and singer Olivia Newton-John said on Tuesday that her breast cancer has returned and spread to her lower back.
LOS ANGELES, (Reuters) – “Grease” actress and singer Olivia Newton-John said on Tuesday that her breast cancer has returned and spread to her lower back.
LOS ANGELES, (Variety.com) – Disney’s “Pirates of the Caribbean: Dead Men Tell No Tales” is sailing into first place at the domestic box office this weekend, but the story the numbers dictate is not one of swashbuckling heroics.
LONDON, (Reuters) – Actor Roger Moore, who earned international fame playing British secret agent James Bond in seven movies, died of cancer yesterday at the age of 89, his family said.
